Episode 93

dylan discusses 19th century urban legend Edward Mordrake. broti teaches us all how to moonwalk

recapped by Kevin on 1/17/2023

## Episode Summary

### Introduction

* "Um hello"
* It's another Wednesday and Dylan had COVID, the big famous one
* Dylan's brother is identified as a listener to this show
* COVID is kinda the moment, in addition to Zendaya
* Dylan's COVID takeaways
	+ Never thought about her lungs, they are IN there
	+ When they get angry, they want to get out
	+ Dylan temporarily forgot there are two lungs
* Broti realizes that the two of them really need their organs
	+ Dylan asks for organ bids, but restricts it only to organs Broti can lose which really seems to limit the fun of this game
* "What's this podcast about?"
	+ Broti was thinking about this recently and came up with Rodney Dangerfield and monkeys
	+ Monkeys = East Coast (Finance), Rodney Dangerfield = West Coast (Show Business)
	+ Exactly, case closed
* Somewhat ironically D&B give Rodney Dangerfield quite a bit of respect and have a nice riff about his wife
	+ Broti solicits locations Rodney came from, nothing weird y'all cause it's Realism Wednesday
* Dylan reveals she played video games and they hurt her neck
	+ The pressure of bee-killing really made her tense
	+ Dylan and Devon were playing It Takes Two which I do recommend
* Dylan reminds us that Lecture Hall does not support Men Being Gross(R) but does think that Jerry Seinfeld's teen girlfriend was so cool
* Broti realizes that Lecture Hall is a show about nothing, but not in a good way
* Broti did karaoke while Dylan had COVID
	+ She sang Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe"
	+ She probably rapped
	+ She really wants to do a crowd pleaser
	+ Dylan says she is a bad singer so she leans in on performance
* What else can be said about Niko?
	+ He's very chivalrous lately, protecting Broti from a confused dog
	+ He knows he is Greg's pet but also thinks Broti is his pet
	+ Dylan tries to ruin Broti's story but its probably because she is jealous

### Mailbag

* Dylan says she still has COVID or at the very least still feels crazy
* David asks about AI Art
	+ Broti has a really deep answer or at least makes it sound like she does
	+ Dylan is incredulous about the cost of it and also thinks it is very sad
	+ Broti reveals that Dylan paints presidential portraits
	+ Dylan thinks that everyone wants to look like Lil Michaela
* LinkedIn Hall
	+ Is this anything? Lincoln LinkedIn?
	+ Broti says that she and her friend made a LinkedIn for Lincoln but clearly there wasn't much there
	+ Dylan suggests a LinkedIn for actors that is not IMDB
	+ Dylan thinks Facebook is a combination of LinkedIn, Airbnb, and IMDB. She is so tired.
* Horror movie questions from Evan Again
	+ Dylan's favorite movies she's never seen are Indiana Jones, or Star Wars, or most movies
	+ Broti's are Die Hard, The Matrix, Men in Black
	+ Dylan thinks Broti would have a good time watching The Matrix
	+ Broti is mostly upset that other movies aren't the Mamma Mia movies
	+ Dylan is 65% sure The Wachowskis went to her high school
* Dylan says she was not invited to her 10th high school reunion, probably because she didn't graduate and she also probably would not come, she just wants to be invited
* Dylan wants to make The Wikifeet Movie, a Pixar film
	+ In a warm environment, like New York
	+ Some characters from Happy Feet
	+ Dylan is still working this out
* Political SimCity story from Kate
	+ Dylan wants to see Biden play It Takes Two, even though it would probably kill him (again)
	+ Broti misses when he was just a candidate calling people sport
	+ Dylan reminds us of the iconic Corn Pop, an imaginary person
		- During Broti's riff on how he came up with Corn Pop, she scrambles for a reason to say the word Pop and misses the obvious soda connection and goes for Biden's father's ghost instead
		- Dylan reminisces about the humor of having Biden and Trump as side characters
* K-Hive Appreciation Hall
	+ We won't go there
* Fred's Stuart Little facts
	+ The image of Geena Davis giving birth to a mouse really got me upset here
	+ Dylan reflects on the growth cycle of boys and girls
		- All boys - so little and then 16
		- All girls - become women then go back to children in their 20s
		- Broti thinks the most she was a woman was at 16, but not in the fear sense, more in the womanly shapes
		- Dylan is still becoming more and more scared like a child, but also less woman-shaped?
		- Realism Wednesday really snucks up on you
* Evan Again admits he does not know what Broti looks like, somehow
	+ Broti can't remember what restaurants she has been to
	+ Dylan says listeners should come up and say hi out in the world
	+ Broti receives happiness points every time she is approached
	+ Dylan did the classic The Sims challenge of setting up mean characters and abandoning them
		- Dylan was on her Adam and Eve shit
* Trevor follows up to a previous question and borders on mean
	+ "Are you a Man-Sim?"
* Clown in a Restaurant story from Madeline
	+ D&B realize they had a shared psychosis that clowns are unable to speak
	+ Dylan has only seen pictures of clowns so she thinks they can't speak
	+ Broti recalls her first boyfriend who was not a creepy adult clown despite the way she told the story
	+ Dylan fondly remembers her first crush on a clown at the circus
* Dylan sets up her topic by repeatedly saying it sucks, so here we go

### Dylan's Topic

* Broti admits she knows nothing about Edward Mordrake
* Lecture Hall - The Face on the Back of the Head Has a Podcast
	+ Broti can't decide who is the head on the back of the face
	+ Dylan thinks neither has enough energy to be the back
* Feminism Win
	+ Broti's "Women in Brain Stem" really impresses Dylan
* Dylan mentions twice that Mordrake asked doctors to remove the face but we'll blame that on COVID
	+ Broti's riff mentions "Buckle Fat" which I never want to hear again
	+ Dylan's riff is on celebrities getting demon face removal and she is delighted by the thought
* Dylan tempers our feeling about Mordrake committing suicide by reminding us he didn't exist
* Dylan is delighted by Broti's suggestion that Mordrake and his head perform Sonny & Cher karaoke and now that reddit post makes a lot more sense
	+ "That's a free image to have a good time with"
	+ Dylan desperately begs for someone to recreate this
* Dylan admits that she always laughs when the second half of a duet comes in
* Dylan sort of repeats her entire lecture again but later admits she is just talking about Broti
* Broti has a note - don't build something up without a concrete example
* Dylan lists off a few freaks that were probably more interesting that Mordrake
	+ Woman with the tail of a fish (the Fish Woman of LinkedIn)
	+ A man with the body of a spider (wtf)
		- A priest saw him!
	+ A man who was half-crab (complete with monstrous nippers)
		- D&B agrees this would suck
	+ The Melon Child of Radner
		- His dad is Josh Radner, his mom is the Kool-Aid man
		- Dylan tells the Gushers Watermelon head story but since I'm listening out of order I don't know if this is the first or second time
* Dylan ruins her topic at the end by saying this is scientifically impossible, what a chilling ending
* Fantastic, that's it - now it's time for the dance move we all love

### Broti's Topic

* Broti describes the Moonwalk as kind of an optical illusion
* Broti briefly forgets how years work
* Broti instructs the listeners to get up and practice during her lecture
	+ Broti's description is actually really good, but as usual there is no good chance for riffing here since she's giving a fairly straightforward description of a dance more easily learned visually then verbally
	+ Don't forget to hydrate
* Broti would love to take this to the Calm app
	+ Dylan looks forward to Lecture Hall's first partnership
	+ Broti asks for a channel, which would really suck
	+ Dylan yawn count: 1, and it sounds like Broti catches it around 47:15
* D&B imagine the contentious nature of the Buzz Aldrin/Neil Armstrong relationship
* Broti throws shade on Judy Garland for not performing an effective optical illusion
* Broti yawn count: 2 at 49:20
* Broti continues the confusion of clowns and mimes
	+ Dylan doesn't like mimes because it's too much deceit
* Broti really mangles H R Pufnstuf but let's be honest that is a crazy spelling
* Broti lists some bizarre instances of the Moonwalk to Dylan's enthusiastic agreement
* That's it for Moonwalk?
	+ Dylan reveals that Broti really hyped up what she had to say about this prior to episode start
* Dylan reminds everyone about the Mordrake Sonny & Cher assignment and to donate to Ambria's campaign
* Have a good one