Appendix V.2

38

## Date

Saturday, 12/26/2020, 12:00 pm

**Length:** 2:41:03

## Title

**The Day It Was Boxing Day And There Was A Not-Surprise, Not-Secret Popup Episode In Which Josh Played An Emmet Otter Suite And Chatted With Branford Marsalis And Dawn Sutter Madell About Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom — And More**

## Link

Facebook Videos:

* https://facebook.com/230081741840181

## Noteworthy Details

Special Episode

**Location:** Living Room

**Secret Surprise Special Guest:** Branford Marsalis and Dawn Sutter Madell

## Episode Description

* Boxing Day Episode
* [Placeholder]

## Quotes and Taglines:

* “Sometimes I play mashups on this show and they’re slightly mashup-y, but they’re more medley-y than mashup-y. But that was a true mashup where the songs were, like, played simultaneously one on top of the other…” (on Our World/Brothers mashup from Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas)
* “Today is a secret surprise special pop-up episode, although it’s not a secret and it’s not a surprise, so I’m calling it a special non-secret, non-surprise pop-up episode, Appendix V.2.”
* Conversation (regarding the show’s nine-monthiversary)
	+ **Mary:** Nine months, nine months is like the…
	+ **Josh:** It’s like the gestation period of a human.
	+ **Mary:** So we should have it figured out by now, I guess. We’ve, like, created this thing and…
	+ **Josh:** Has it been gestating this whole time and now we’re giving birth?
	+ **Mary:** Yeah!
	+ **Josh:** Or did we give birth on the first day?
	+ **Mary:** Ohhhh…
	+ **Josh:** Because this was not, like, the typical human birth, right? This show is not a human. I think our gestation period was, like, the 20 minutes we spent deciding to do the show and figuring out how to set up a camera. Then we gave birth to the show.
	+ **Mary:** Oh, right.
	+ **Josh:** Now the show is nine months old, so it’s able to fit into those nine-to-12-month size onesies. Except it’s not a human.
	+ **Mary:** So are you saying that the gestation time of a Facebook Live, global pandemic crisis respite broadcast is 20 minutes?
	+ **Josh:** Well, for us it was. Some people spend years planning their show before they launch it. We’re not that smart.
	+ **Mary:** And to be fair, 10 minutes of that was moving the furniture around. Because, at that time, we hadn’t had the organ plugged in. We actually had to find an extension cord to plug it in.
	+ **Josh:** And four minutes was, like, watching the tutorial of how to do a Facebook Live. We had to watch that video on the Internets.
* “I would like to get back to hugs. I miss hugs so much. Remember when I promised I would hug everybody? I don’t regret it, you guys. I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat thinking about it, but a few weeks ago I said on this show that if you are ever at Fenway Park and you come find me… Don’t, like, try to bust through security or anything. Do it appropriately, like give me a heads up maybe a couple days beforehand. Be like, ‘Hey, I’m gonna be at Fenway on Thursday,’ — send (it to) me on Twitter, that’s the best way to reach me — and I’ll be, like, ‘Great. Go to this spot, tell this person that Josh sent you and then you can come over and you can say hi, we can chat — if I have time, if I’m not super busy, we can chat — and if you want a hug, I’ll exchange a hug with you.”
* “Where do we go from here? We’re two hours and seven minutes into a 19-minute show.” (after long interview/chat with Branford Marsalis and Dawn Sutter Madell)
* “Oh, if I had trademarked all my worst ideas, I’d have a lot of bad trademarks.” (on suggesting the notion of a Bluetooth toaster or hairbrush as a gift for a teenager)
* “That’s a long song for a short song, right? How long’s that song, five and a half minutes? Wouldn’t it be a great song if it was, like, 2:40? But then after a certain point, you’re just like, ‘Yeah, I get it. I’ve heard this section already — several times.’” (on Last Christmas by Wham!)
* “I only played one request today, I think, but it still was a long-ass show.”

## Baseball Card of the Week

* J.R. Richard (1981 Fleer), Vida Blue (1981 Fleer) and Lee Smith (1982 Donruss) — the three best Louisiana-born players in Josh’s card collection (same as Appendix V.1)

## Album of the Week

* Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Ugetsu (same as Appendix V.1)

## Hatter or No-Hatter?

* No-Hatter

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