44. Karaoke, Dippin' Sauce, Landlines, Golden Gate Bridge, Bagels, Goats, Cadbury Creme Eggs, Carpets

In this lightning (and wife-ening) episode, Phil & Jake are joined by Beth & Ali to rapid-fire rank karaoke, dippin’ sauce, landlines, the Golden Gate Bridge, bagels, goats, Cadbury Creme Eggs and carpets on the List of Every Damn Thing.

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SHOW NOTES:

We mention many of our favorite karaoke songs, including “Last Christmas” by Wham! (we don't cite it specifically, but Jake also likes George Michael’s “One More Try”), “Easy Lover” by Philip Bailey & Phil Collins, “Dream A Little Dream of Me” by The Mommas & the Poppas, “To Be With You” by Mr. Big, “Bernadette” by the Four Tops and “Blow the Whistle” by Too $hort.Dimples is a San Francisco treasure. If you like karaoke, overpriced drinks, open gambling, a weird sex-work vibe and possibly indoors cigarette-smoking, go there.Ali doesn’t mention the song “Last Resort” by name when she brings up Papa Roach in honor of Beth’s hometown of Stockton, CA. The band is actually from about sixty miles away in Vacaville, CA, but hey what’s the difference really?We mention “Cherry Pie” by Warrant, but not as an acceptable karaoke song. Also, “November Rain” by Guns ‘n’ Roses has way too much instrumentals to be a good karaoke song. Even the radio edit.Phil tells a story about a former student teaching him to mix hot sauce and butter, which is the recipe for buffalo wing sauce (usually made with Frank's Red Hot sauce).When Jake refers to Phil’s mom having a “Bucky Walter” in her home, he’s trying to use Boontling, the local dialect of the small town of Boonville, CA. It looks like he misuses the term, though, as a “Bucky Walter” is specifically a payphone (he should've said “Walter Levi”).“Breaking Up Was Easy in the 90s” is a country song that Phil listens to when he goes to the hardware store.The paint color of the Golden Gate Bridge is neither golden nor red. It’s international orange.Here’s a brief video with some clips of the GG Bridge “singing” (as described in the episode by Jake and Ali).If you’re in Petaluma, CA and have a bagel-hankering, go to The Bagel Mill.The Marble Rye is the king of bagels. It's made by dividing the dough into two piles and mixing cocoa powder into one pile! Strange that it doesn't taste like chocolate.When Jake & Beth inexplicitly exclaim “Cram!” they’re referring to the comedy of Tony Baker.Googling teaches us that goats are, in fact, ungulates.We discuss the use of goats in religion. In Islam it's traditional at the end of Ramadan to slaughter a goat and donate it to the needy. Phil didn't know the word off the top of his head but it's Qurbani and it comes from a story about Abraham. In non-majority Muslim places there's not really a framework for donating and the needy aren't expecting goat meat. The scapegoat is a different story from Hebrew tradition in which there were two goats and one was sacrificed while the other one was marked up to carry all of the sins and let go into the wilderness. We're not religious but it seems like the scapegoat got off easy (although it does carry the burden of guilt) which is the opposite of how we'd always understood the expression.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
steroids * sex * puns * Christmas trees * pancakes * Saturday Night Live * Mendocino County * Japan * mayonnaise * aioli * artichokes * onions * rye bread * Popeye’s chicken * glitter * 5G towers * nail clippers * generation ships * zipper jeans * Top Ramen * Robin Williams Tunnel * Jersey Shore * “Midnight Train to Georgia” by Gladys Knight & the Pips * the Eiffel Tower * Watchmen comic *