Episode 116

## Date

Sunday, 7/19/2020, 3:00 pm

**Length:** 1:09:27

## Title

**The Day Josh Finally Played Dien’s Song (But Said Not To Tell Him), Caved On Repeated Requests For “Fight Song” And Closed With A Perfect Big Star Song**

## Link

Facebook Video: https://facebook.com/409194123361643

## Noteworthy Details

Regular Episode

**Location:** Living Room

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

## Episode Description

* Reverending
* Our requests fill Josh with Fear and Self Loathing
* Josh tries to deny RPM National Ice Cream Day
* The organ is buzzing
* Josh won't play Fight Song for Mary E. from Boston, but changes course and the crowd rejoices
* Josh causes fight between Yankees and Red Sox
* Big Star's Thank You Friends gets the perfect song car-chunk
* Jessamyn gets two requests in one day

## Quotes and Taglines:

* “It’s Sunday, it’s 99 degrees and we’re just chilling poolside here at 7th-Inning Stretch HQ…”
* “I don’t know if Dien is watching today or not, but our dear friend Dien — he watches the show a lot and he’s requested that song, what, like 22 times, would you say? — and we played it for him today. He’s probably not even watching. Nobody tell him. Let’s just let that be our little secret that we played that song.” (on There Is Power In A Union)
* “What are we looking at here? We’re looking at requests is what we’re looking at. You type them in the chat, Reverend Producer Mary writes them down on stickies, she puts them on my Vision Board, I look at them (and) I am filled with dread and self-loathing.”
* “Wow, who would have thought that this song out of all of them would break my brain. It’s like the straw that broke the camel’s brain.” (on The Heat Is On)
* “It’s on every year, but I think I probably just went to bed early. Or more likely I was probably, like, I can watch this movie with these people singing these musical numbers — these show tunes — or I could go to my room and listen to a Cheap Trick record or a Supertramp record or a Stevie Wonder record. I think I’m gonna go do that. Sorry, guys.” (on not knowing Climb Every Mountain from The Sound Of Music)
* “I’ll tell you what, viewer Mary E. who may or may not be on The Chat, you can go back and watch yesterday’s Kitchen Sink if you want to see our producer dancing exuberantly to a Rachel Platten song…” (on Mary’s request to hear Fight Song for the second day in a row)
* “Practice pays off, guys. I’ve been playing this organ for, like, half an hour every day for the last 116 days and I’m actually a decent organ player again at this point. Kind of like I was at the end of last baseball season.
* “I’m feeling pretty ready (to go back), yeah. More people are hearing my living-room shows, probably, than are gonna hear my Fenway Park accompaniments.”
* Josh: We have four days left to find a corporate sponsor for this show. Can we do it? That is the burning question on everyone’s mind, everyone being Chloe Jr., our resident hippopotamus. // Mary: She’s got ideas… // Josh: Oh, I know she’s got ideas. Trust me. You know all those meetings with the network execs that you’ve been skipping out of? // Mary: Yeah, I don’t want to go to those. // Josh: I’ve been in those. She’s got ideas. // Mary: Hmm.

## Hatter or No-Hatter?

* TBD

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