Episode 105

## Date

Wednesday, 7/8/2020, 3:00 pm

**Length:** 1:27:44

## Title

**The Day Some Messy Songs Were Played And Death Cab For Cutie’s Ben Gibbard Zoomed In From Seattle To Talk About Working With The Monkees And Chance The Rapper And Play A Round Of Mariners Trivia**

## Link

Facebook Video: https://facebook.com/284085079500421

## Noteworthy Details

Regular Episode

**Location:** Living Room

**Secret Surprise Special Guest:** Musician Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and Postal Service (supergroup)

## Episode Description

* 26 years ago John Valentin turned an unassisted Triple Play against the Mariners
* Josh's two year old niece had a successfual toilet mission (potty all the time)
* SSSG Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie
* RPM and Josh review the origin of the items on the organ
* The mini fireplace holds the card of the day
* Ben's song "When the sun goes down on your street" gets the perfect song stamp

## Quotes and Taglines:

* “I really wanted to do the one that I don’t know because I have that weird compulsion to make things harder on myself than they need to be.” (on two different Jim Croce requests and deciding to go with Bad Bad Leroy Brown)
* “Great drumming on the Len Zeflin recording of this. Apparently they recorded it in a big…never mind, you don’t care.” (on When The Levee Breaks)
* (after telling us about Rick James’ knob twist in the Party All The Time video) // Mary: I just think sometimes it just takes that little twist. And I say that to announce that Jason Schneider is watching right now and Jason Schneider is the one who, 105 days ago, reached over and turned the knob to say you know, ‘You could go onto Facebook Live and play some songs.’” // Josh: That wasn’t so much a knob twist. In the grand scheme of the universe, yeah, that was like a knob twist. But for you and me, that was like a big bang kind of situation.” // Mary: Yeah, but we didn’t know it was a big bang when it was happening. Or neither does the big bang, though, so might actually be a (different) scenario…” // Josh: If anybody wants to write a science paper for this course, did the big bang know that it was a big bang when it was happening? Or did it know even before it happened that was going to be a big bang? Did it know when it was going to happen? How long did it take after it happened for it to realize what had happened? Big bang…anybody? I know we have some scientists on here who are, like, pfft…music, pfft...baseball, pfft…history, pfft…where’s the science? Big bang, guys. Big bang.” // Mary: 3:30… nap time. // Josh: 3:30, what the heck? // Mary: Whaaat? Nooo… not nap time yet.
* “I will tell you, honestly, it was a big inspiration for me and Mary, to say, ‘Oh, we should do a show and we should try to raise some money.’ If Ben’s dumb enough to do it every day, then so are we. And here we are now, like 15 weeks into that.” (on Ben Gibbard’s early pandemic live streams for charity)
* “We are experiencing that same thing that you had of this community forming and we see people regularly in the chat and they’re getting to know each other and they’re becoming pals and they’re hanging out with each other online outside of this show. They’re having watch parties together for KBO and they’re in all different time zones and they’re planning to go to ballgames together next season. It’s really astonishing — it’s something we definitely did not anticipate — but we’re super happy about it. And I like it because I kind of feel like I don’t have to be in the spotlight for the show. It’s almost like being at a cocktail party and I’m just, like, the guy playing in the corner and everybody else is having a party and talking and eating bean dip or whatever.” (Josh, in conversation with Ben Gibbard)
* “They invited me to join, but Mike (Mills) said only if you’re gonna be real, real serious about it. And I said, ‘I’m sorry. I would love to, but I don’t think my marriage can withstand that level of commitment to a fantasy league,’ basically.” (on indie-rock rotisserie baseball league with Mike Mills, Ira Kaplan, Stephen Malkmus, Scott McCaughey, etc.)
* “It’s like a friggin’ jamberoo around here. We’re in the jamberoo phase…” (on spate of guests on recent episodes)
* “Had to Frankenstein-stitch that thing together a little bit, but that’s OK.” (on Message In A Bottle)

## Hatter or No-Hatter?

* TBD

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