S2 Episode 5

## Date

Monday, 2/1/2021, 3:00 pm

**Length:** 2:30:05

## Title

**The Day Josh Exalted In Popping Bubble Wrap And Also Honored Henry Aaron, While Mary Watched A Pot Of Water Boil Before Conducting A Surprise Late Interview With Winter Walk Organizer Ari Barbanell**

## Link

Facebook Videos:

* https://facebook.com/858548571611221

## Noteworthy Details

Regular Episode

**Location:** Living Room

**Secret Surprise Special Guest:** Winter Walk organizer Ari Barbanell Kassirer

## Quotes and Taglines:

* "What was I saying? Oh yeah, respite."
* "Some of our viewers have sometimes said, 'Josh, you should fanfare yourself,' and I don't think I have because I don't like to do that. But what I did at the start of today's show is easily — easily — the greatest thing I have done during this pandemic. And I don't just mean, like, most enjoyable or most fun or most zen, although it was all of those things. But I mean the greatest; like that was my greatest contribution to humanity over the past 10 and half months, wouldn't you say?" (on opening the show with more than five minutes of popping bubble wrap)
* "We would still do this show even if you weren't here, but we wouldn't broadcast it, right? We would just play and sing and tell stories, just the two of us in our living room, and that would be delightful. But you guys are here, so here you are…you're invited."
* "Mary's writing down your requests, the good ones and the bad ones. I play 'em if I know 'em; I don't care if they're good or bad. I do care, but not enough to not play them."
* Conversation:
	+ **Josh:** You're giving me what for about not remembering (what T-shirt I was wearing when Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top complimented me on it). It was 10 years ago...
	+ **Mary:** Josh, you can remember baseball stats from when you were, like, seven. You can remember a song you've heard once before. Sometimes your memory amazes me; what you retain, I can't figure it out. And I've known you for a long time.
	+ **Josh:** Let me put it this way, and I'm not trying to be confrontational with you, but if you had a choice — because there's only so many things that we can remember (the royal we) — to hear that story, which would you rather that I forget, the musician or the shirt? That would be super anti-climactic if I remembered the shirt and not the musician and I was like, 'Oh, who was it? It was some, like, really cool musician.' That would be lame.
	+ **Mary:** That is a very fair point.
	+ **Josh:** I understand the T-shirt is a nice detail, but it's not a make it or break it the way the rest of the story is. I remembered all the make-it-or-break-it details.
	+ **Mary:** I'm gonna just keep noticing what your brain remembers and what your brain doesn't remember.
* "Wow, that was pretty good for never having played that bridge before. I just kept guessing on chords and I kept getting them right. So weird!" (on Marshmallow World by Bing Crosby)
* (RPM) "Aw, cruddy poo. I burned my tongue." (after boiling water and making coffee on the coffee table)
* Conversation (while trying to set up surprise chat with Ari Barbanell):
	+ **Josh:** Should I just give my number out on the show?
	+ **Mary:** I don't think that's a good idea…
	+ **Josh:** Really? OK, fine. You're right. It's a terrible idea. Can you imagine people who watch this show calling me?
* "Should I just, like, start checking my e-mail? Should I go back to work? Should I put in some library, day-job hours here live on the show? It'd be like watching water boil, right — just watch Josh do e-mail…"
* "Guys, I'm very observatory." (commenting that surprise guest Ari Barbanell was probably the least knowledgeable about baseball among recent guests)

## Baseball Card of the Week

* Photo of autographed photos of Henry Aaron and Don Sutton from the collection of Eric Nadel

## Hatter or No-Hatter?

* Immediate Hatter

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