Episode 109

## Date

Sunday, 7/12/2020, 3:00 pm

**Length:** 1:09:42

## Title

**The Day There Wasn’t A Super Secret Surprise Guest, But Josh Confounded With Questions About Roy Orbison’s Dad And Twins Numbering Three Before Mary Moved Us With A Serious Sunday Sermon**

## Link

Facebook Video: https://facebook.com/698873050675329

## Noteworthy Details

Regular Episode

**Location:** Living Room

**Secret Surprise Special Guest:** N/A

## Episode Description

* RPM end of episode prime number day clothing show and tell
* RPM end of episode moving message about 7IS ending soon

## Quotes and Taglines:

* Josh: Mary says there are many R.E.M. requests. … Is Mike G. watching today, Mike G. in Philly? I think he’s a R.E.M. fan. He has a theory that the entire premise of the 7th-Inning Stretch and the series — the 100-plus episodes — that the whole point of it is for us to reunite R.E.M. // Mary: Is it? // Josh: That’s what he thinks. I don’t think that’s going to happen. // Mary: Josh, you should have told me that 109 days ago if that was the goal… // Josh: No, I don’t think it was the goal. // Mary: Mike should have told us that then. // Josh: He did… // Mary: Does Chloe Jr. know this? I’m very confused here right now. // Josh: I think Mike wants it, but it’s impossible. They have repeatedly said that they will never, ever, ever, ever, ever reunite. // Mary: Guys, I’ve got the ability to put people’s names on sticky stars, but that’s not in our skill set to reunite R.E.M. // Josh: It’s literally impossible. It’s not in anybody’s skill set. Even their manager can’t reunite them. // Mary (in a slightly dejected tone): Oh yeah. // Josh: That said, we can still enjoy their rich, voluminous, excellent back catalog and celebrate their Hall-Of-Fame career. They are inducted in the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall Of Fame. How’s this song go?
* “Key change! That song does have a key change, doesn’t it?” (on Stand by R.E.M.)
* Josh: “Guys, my mom sent cookies. // Mary: “Holy… there’s like a whole bakery in this house.” // Josh: “There’s a lot of cookies, all different varieties, shapes, sizes, colors, flavors, textures. It’s a cotton-pickin’ cookiepalooza up here.”
* “I don’t wanna do anything that’s gonna sacrifice the cookies…” (RPM)
* “I definitely remember the chorus and maybe the bridge, not too sure about the verse. Let’s find out. Let’s find out together.” (on Back In The High Life Again)
* “I don’t remember the verse. Oh yeah, I just remembered it.” (on Back In The High Life Again)
* “I’m afraid to play this, honestly. But maybe I’ll try it, I don’t know. I’m not gonna sing the lyrics, that’s for sure. This is a family show, you guys.” (on Darling Nikki)
* “Sometimes people ask me to play Billy Joel songs because they want to see me squirm…”
* Mary: We’re moving to our exciting end of the regular daily 7th-Inning Stretch, so usually when I’m in this outfit and I’m on the street and I’m meeting people, my question after I’ve built up a little bit of relationship is I ask people, ‘Where is your hope?’ H-o-p-e, that’s the question I always come back to. And you can answer it any way you want to. And I know there are so many people who are watching who have found their hope in this respite of the 7th-Inning Stretch. That in the midst of crisis and everything is changing, there has been this solid 7th-Inning Stretch. At 3 o’clock — 4 o’clock on Sundays — there’s been this reliable thing that you can go to. // And I know that part of people’s hope in the 7th-Inning Stretch is that there will be joy, there will be wackiness in the midst of so much terrible stuff going on the world. That you can show up and there’s gonna be giggly and there’s gonna be laughter and there’s gonna be this power. And that you have hope because it might get really serious, but even if it get really serious, Josh is gonna swoop in and he is gonna play the perfect song that is gonna get inside of you and it’s gonna feel amazing. // There is this fear that just because the 7th-Inning Stretch isn’t gonna be every single day, that that’s gonna affect people’s hope. But that’s not true, guys. Hope is still there. Joy is still there. Just because you won’t hear us saying that we love you every single day doesn’t mean we don’t love you. It just means you’re not gonna hear it every day. So we’re gonna enjoy the crap out of the time that we have left and I am also going to be mindful of the fact of thinking about, ‘Where is my hope?’ It’s there. We just have to find it, and we have time to find it together. // And now Josh is gonna close us (out) and it’s gonna be a perfect song and it’s gonna be amazing because that’s what we do. Ok, thank you. Happy Prime Number Day! // Josh: That was all terrific, except the part where you guaranteed them — twice — that I’m gonna play the perfect song. I apologize in advance for never having played the perfect song. I’ve played songs that are perfect, but I’ve never played the perfect song. And I don’t intend to start right now.

## Hatter or No-Hatter?

* Hatter (last minute)

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