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Here we are, everyone. Day two of the TVTL Summer Games. I'm Luke Burbank, your host right over there. My friend and the longest-running co-bro of the program, Andrew Walsh. Hello, Andrew.

Hello, Luke. Here we are again. I'm excited. This is my element, man. I like the energy.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, these have gone from being something that, truth be told, I mildly dreaded. And by that, I mean recording a buttload of extra shows or extra content so as to, you know, have something for the listeners to hear when we go on a little summer break. Like it used to be something where I would just like have it on my calendar and I'd be looking like, okay, that's going to be the day that I just have every single ounce of my creativity and whatever you want to call it just just wrung out of me like a rag. I'm just going to have to get through that and then I can go on vacation. But ever since this summer games and winter games model has evolved and the listeners have submitted these fun quizzes like the one we have today from listener Jake, it's really transformed my relationship with making these shows, these episodes.

Indeed. In fact, this is Jake from Chicago again, a.k.a. close your ears, Luke, the perfect daddy. And of course, Jake in Chicago is also the person who ran who came up with and ran both of the drops of stupider contests, including the one we just wrapped up a few months ago. Do we have to pay Jake? Like, at what point do we start paying people like Jake and Lynn?

Because it feels like it doesn't feel when they unionize. We've got real trouble on our hands. yes all right so i think the truth is i mean i support them unionizing but i just want you to know that at that point the show will become financially unmanageable for us yes they will get paid i will be gone unfortunately yes that's kind of what i'm getting at unfortunately so you andrew there are there are three things in this world that you love genevieve comedy bang bang and the dan lebitard show probably in that exact order wouldn't you say

Yeah, and then like around 10 or 12 is my cats. You're around 24, which is still pretty good. Yeah, well, the weird thing is there's just a bunch of blank space between 24 and 13.

You've got to leave your options open.

Exactly. I'm still a young man. Still a lot of life to live.

There's a lot of other podcast hosts for you to partner up with for a decade.

That's right.

um so uh listener jake knowing this about uh andrew came up with a quiz uh that says uh here's what he says about it i made this quiz for the summer games um i made it with andrew in mind since i know he listens to both comedy bang bang and the dan lebitard show it's 11 questions long i figured with 10 questions one of you would say well show a has five responses and show b has four So it's probably B. Oh, I see. Jake thought that we would be able to intuit the answer to the question by process of elimination or by figuring out how many right answers had already been associated with whichever thing. I'm just curious, Andrew. Eleven questions. I don't know how this is going to time out. Our first show went a little long, but that's what always happens because we've got to explain what the summer games are. We're excited to be doing them. We always go a little long with the Monday show. I was going to ask you, though, because whenever Comedy Bang Bang or Dan Levitard comes up on this program during a normal show, I feel like you and I maybe to some degree have a kind of a reflexive desire to minimize the conversation around the show. A, because they're different podcasts completely, i.e. competitors of ours, and B, because it just feels like, do the listeners really want to hear us explaining why we like this other show? Like, is this a good use of their time? But here we are. This is the Summer Games. These shows, both of them, are shows you have loved very deeply at times in your life. Do you want to take a minute to explain why you love Comedy Bang Bang so much and why you love the Dan Lebitard show so much?

Oh, wow. That's such a hard question. That's such an interesting thing to toss at me. Well, I'll tell you what. I mean, I guess, generally speaking, those shows have, while they're different tonally and they're both in some ways different from TBTL tonally, they all kind of scratch a similar itch to me, which is they're my friends that I hang out with. You know what I mean? They don't know me, obviously, but it's that vibe. When people say they listen to TBTL and it feels like, hey, I'm listening to my friends, it's that kind of, I always call it companionship style podcasting. It's not like here's a limited series where you're going to learn, you know, a lot about the Watergate scandal, which I also really enjoyed that.

series um which by the way uh bagman i'm thinking actually slow burn right slow burn did nixon bag man was about spiro spiro t agno they were both really good i loved i really loved them both but anyway um i love those things too but it's not like hey i'm hanging out with my buddies right like um comedy bang bang is very um the whole thing is improv based and the the format is usually Scott Aukerman the host will invite somebody on the first segment is usually him interviewing somebody who is just being themselves you know maybe a famous person and then the rest of the show is him inviting on ridiculous guests who are people like Paul F. Tompkins and Lauren Lapkus and all kinds of other comedian friends of his who come on the show and play these different characters and then you know Andy Daly has spun off like 17 different characters on that show and anyone could come back at any moment and sometimes he even he'll actually juggle several at once and it's just like it's just so much i don't know it's just so much fun levitard is different it's a little bit more like tbtl where it's people just kind of talking about well it has the sports structure around it but like you really get to know everybody in what they call the shipping container which is like the little studio where all the producers sit pre-covid time and um you just kind of like get to know everybody's rhythms you know like there are people on the dan levitard show who i mean i could rank my favorite actual like members of the dan levitard show i will not do it because it's rude but even the people that you don't like as much it's still fun to listen to them and think why can't you be more like billy or whatever you know what i mean it's like a family

yeah i i think i i've only listened to like one maybe two or three episodes of comedy bang bang and it was on our road trip on the tbtl-a-thon trip you played some for me and i really enjoyed it and i could tell and we talked about it that you were trying to pick one that you thought would most uh appeal to me because you were also worried about that experience of when you're excited about something whether it's a movie tv show podcast and then you try to play it for someone else and it just is always the worst episode of that thing and and in fact i'm sure our listeners can really relate to that yes like that's why it's a absolute miracle when someone says i got my partner listening to the show and now they're into it i'm like how did that happen yeah because you know the first episode of the show of our show that you played for them sucked like it was just the worst

one that's just what the universe does yes I mean I listened to I was you know kind of a peak levitard listening mode when I was on my road trip with Genevieve and she had heard bits and pieces and she like I'd play for her things that I really like like just a random segment somewhere where they're doing the looks like game so she was vaguely familiar with and I talk about the levitard show or at least then I was talking about it constantly um and so she had the experience that a lot of 11s have and then we're on the road together and she's like yeah let's listen to some of those and the whole time I'm like well you understand like this is what he's like this is not as good as it usually is and they're going through something right now and like it's not this kind of not their full cast of characters or whatever I'm like Jeff Passan is filling in for

Tim Kirkton right now but it's better with Tim because everybody says his wrong name when they

address him on the call exactly so anyway um yeah you always try to like you're trying to temper expectations and explain and just eventually though that's why I think for a lot of people in relationships like romantic relationships or what have you like let's just say household relationships I think it's just like with tbtl and these types of things if you just have it on long enough like there are all these reluctant 11s who become 10s because they're just like well I know every sound effect on the sound effect machine before it even arrived like I guess I'm a

now yeah i mean it's it's a little bit of a version of what we were talking about the other day when i started playing that old like qvc tape or whatever technically it was but that basically like you know they were don west selling play trading cards like sports cards and and what i was saying about that was it's amazing to me that that video that's just like a random hour of him just selling you know you could have turned your tv on in 1989 at late at night and it would have just been there on one of the channels now it's got 80 000 views on youtube 80 000 people said i want to watch this again and what i sort of attributed that to is just ubiquity really at some point ubiquity creates familiarity which then creates a strong connection you know like and particularly back when there weren't as many channels or we didn't all have so many different things to watch if you just put something on tv long enough or on the radio long enough And play it enough It becomes familiar and that familiarity By itself has some value to it And that's sort of TBTL probably In people's lives and in the lives of the people They're with because at some point you're just like Okay I've just been I've just been sort of you know I've been waterboarded by this podcast Long enough that I'm now I'm willing to agree

To anything show title

No No, I don't think so. I don't think so.

Well, here's the title of this quiz that Jake has put together. Comedy Bang Bang or the Dan Lebitard Show Character. Now, the plan is for me to administer this quiz to you, Andrew, because you're actually the expert on both of these. There would have been a time when I might have been more the expert on Lebitard, but that was long, long ago. So these are two things you know a lot about right now, and I'm excited to quiz you on this. I will give you a name, and then you will have to tell me if it's Comedy Bang Bang or the Dan Lebitard Show. I actually don't know the answer either until I submit it, and then I will see on the next page how you did. So I think what we should probably do is take a quick break, and then when we come back, we will jump right into this Comedy Bang Bang or Lebitard Show character quiz as part of the Summer Games.

Thank you for being a friend Traveled down a road and back again Your heart is true You're a pal and a confidant I'm not ashamed to say I hope it always will stay this way

I keep waiting for this song to morph into something Levitard or Bang Bang related, but you're saying because those shows are companionship for you?

Yeah, it's the best thing I can think of on the fly. I was like, oh yeah, these guys are my friends. And this, of course, is not the theme song from the Golden Girls. It's not that version. This is the album version by Andrew Gold. Wow.

Wow, because what is it like to be Andrew Gold, who's hopefully still with us, saying like, no, no, no, I sang the Golden Girls theme. I wrote that. And then we go, no, come on, you didn't. That was Rue McClanahan.

Yeah, because it was a woman singing, right?

Yeah, I think that the one on the TV show. But so this is the song that then they picked up to make the theme song for the TV show.

He might have written it for the TV show. That I don't know. But I do know that this is a different version than we heard on the TV show.

There are, like, things that are famous that the person who created them also got pretty well known for having created it. And then there are things that are famous where nobody could name who did it. And that would be a frustrating position to be in. If you're the person at the bar trying to explain, no, no, I wrote the Golden Girls song. They're like, yeah, right. How come I haven't heard of you?

Right, right, right. How was the other guy in Wham?

They're all Andrews, Richly. Yeah, they're all Andrews. It all comes back to Andrew. Everything's coming up Andrew. All right, here we go, Andrew. Comedy Bang Bang or the Dan Lebitard Show character Tim Jerns

That I do know I'm trying to I think that's the fake strength and conditioning coach So that's one thing I didn't mention I actually I haven't looked at this quiz so I didn't realize this either I thought it was going to be like names of people In the shipping container or just people who are

It might be, we're only on question number one

Right, but in this case Tim Jerns is a Fake character possibly played by adam mckay because he plays a lot of characters um who i believe tim jerns is the um over the top strength and conditioning coach from some college who was controversial because he just made his his students do just his student athletes do ridiculous things or maybe it was high school so i'm gonna say lebitard show tim jerns strength and conditioning coach lebitard show yes oh that's

hilarious i was about to make the joke oh you're probably talking about comedy bang bang because It's L.A. It's Adam McKay. It's all funny. No, this is a Levitard thing.

Yeah, Levitard will also do – will have, like, Adam McKay and people on the phone who are doing characters sometimes. And I'm pretty sure this is like this – because, you know, it's the sports world. Uh-huh. Sure. Okay. Here we go.

The Dan Levitard Show. Absolutely correct. Tim Jerns is a character on The Dan Levitard Show played by Adam McKay. Adam McKay. He was the controversial strength and conditioning coach at Southeast Tulsa College.

The Gaza Southeast Tulsa College.

So there you go. You were absolutely right. It's a good bid. You could not have more thoroughly dominated that question on every level. So let's see. My guess is that'll be the best I do, honestly. John Wiener. Oh, that's Stugatz. Or Weiner. Oh, okay.

That's Stugatz. That's Dan Levitard's show.

Oh, my gosh. That's Stugatz's real name. Sure. Hence how he got Stugatz, I think. Let's find out together. Yes, the real name of Stugatz. Because Stugatz is kind of Italian for that whole region of the body, right?

Yeah, I think so. And I think it popped up around. They were watching The Sopranos. Somebody was joking on air. I think it was one of those nicknames that happened really organically on the air. And it was something that the bigwigs at ESPN hated. And I just heard them retake. talking about or like kind of reliving it and talking about it recently and just like saying, yeah, but it's like somebody, somebody on the staff said, I'm less comfortable calling you Wiener than Stugatz.

Well, I mean, you probably know more of the history of that show than I do now. But if I if I remember right, it's interesting how those two got together, Stugatz and Levitard, because Levitard was a writer for the Miami Herald. I think he was, you know, a sports reporter, then became a columnist and was doing local media, kind of like probably not unlike our friend Danny O'Neill, where he's just being interviewed so much on sports radio and he has a flair for it. And Stugatz, I think, was in sales. Stugatz was not in radio. And he wanted to do a show. And he basically was, I think, was kind of ready to be Levitard's producer. Like he identified in Levitard sort of a talent and a knowledge of sports. And so I don't even know if the original plan was for Stugatz to be on air or not But I believe they met up at like a coffee shop on a weekend And Stugatz pitched Levitard on doing a show together

Yeah, because I think I could be wrong about this But I think Stugatz might have actually been a program director at that point too Maybe by way of sales Because I think he had some sales experience too But I think he was programming that station in Florida Because there's like Boog Jambi came out of there And they were talking at some point About, like, a lot of the talent that had actually, like, that Stu Gatz, because he's the butt of the joke. He's, like, the dumb guy on the show. But he actually, as I believe, I believe a program director, actually identified and nurtured a lot of talent, including Levitard.

That's interesting. I could totally see that. And I love, too, for people that don't listen to that show, this is getting even more esoteric. But I think the funny thing is that, yeah, the whole joke is that Stugatz doesn't take his job seriously and that he's a mess up and all these things. But, of course, when you don't have Stugatz there, it's a massive deficit for the show or something. It's like me. People love to take shots at me on this show and point out that I get things wrong a lot and am very bad at my job. But when I'm not here, I think the show is less strong. I do that on purpose. All of my foibles are very intentional to play a character called Luke Burbank. But in real life, I have it very much on the ball.

Yeah, no. I mean, all the emails that I get that say it's better when you're gone, I think that those are sarcastic emails. You can tell.

Yeah. All of the divorces that I go through, those are just for the show. Yes. Thank you. In real life, I've been happily married for 22 years.

It's all content.

To Marta, my wife. All right. Rudy North. Is Rudy North a Comedy Bang Bang character Or a Dan Levitard show character

Okay Rudy North is definitely A Comedy Bang Bang character I'm I think I get the point just for knowing that I'm trying to remember what his bit is Is it Sean Diston who plays him Who's Rudy North Rudy North you're absolutely right is Levitard

No no no Is Bang Bang And Rudy North Full name Rudimentary North You're right by the way that it's Sean Diston So extra points for that Comedy Bang Bang character played by Sean Diston A self-described dirtbag Who used to drive for Postmates And possesses the ability to life swap With people via a throat punch Also known as the Dirtbag Handshake Rudy is also an immortal speedster Born in 1600 He and Scott Ackerman became best friends After years spent in the speed force dimension together

so that's a lot of ridiculousness and in fact recently I think late last year they had an episode where what happens is every time he comes on they add something new and ridiculous to his canon and the last time he was on he had gone to like some sort of canon recovery where he was like addicted to expanding his canon and so he was trying to strip it all away and go back to basics but they kept on accidentally adding more and more ridiculous shit to his bio just like you read

who's Sean Diston do we know him

He's a comedian.

Out there on the commercials and in the things.

You know, you're so much better at recognizing people in commercials, although I did recognize that guy from the Washington State Lottery commercial when we ran into him at the bar the other day. But do a quick Google on Sean Disson and tell me if you recognize his face. I don't know what he'd be best known for. I know him just from being awesome on Comedy Bang Bang, honestly.

Oh, yeah, I recognize his face, but I can't tell you from where. but he must have been in a few things that I've seen because he looks familiar to me. All right, Andrew, you are absolutely dominating. I mean, they're going to make a Last Dance-style documentary about your time doing this quiz, which you will then be the executive producer of, and therefore you can control the narrative because that's just the level of dominance. It's Jordan-esque what's happening here.

Want to play quarters or what?

No, I want to do my impression of Heidi Gardner's. impression of the security guards having his pants losing his pants in a bet to jordan dr ron mcgill oh ron you know this right ron and i know this one he's even even burbanks can get

this one he's the zoologist on the dan levitard show real person that's exactly miami zoo i

believe or not head of the animal expert on the dan levitard show he's quick to remind you that he is not a doctor yeah that is a great bit on that show i mean it's not even a bit it's just a great segment i i would say that the two things that made me love that that particular show in the early days were the tim kirkchen segments um because he's just tim kirkchen is a baseball writer for espn and and also i guess kind of sideline announcer now and he just knows everything about baseball and is so humble and likable and they will do these two bits with him one is where depending on the day sometimes it's more sometimes it's less but every caller will just they'll be like uh you know mike in phoenix and then i'll go like hey tom or you know hey ted or hey everyone will always get his name wrong the callers are in on the joke which is funny and then the other thing is they do this looks like game where does so and so look like you know uh whatever and like famous people in sports and who they look like and they're so funny and tim kirkchen's response because he's just this little just like i don't know the embodiment of sweetness and light him laughing him being unable to continue doing his interview segment because he's laughing so hard at these looks like things that and dr ron mcgill were the two things that

really sold me on that show does pete carroll look like a recent retiree who drives down the highway with his convertible top down and his right hand around the passenger seat i remember that one i'm sure i messed that up a little bit but oh there are such good there you know that the looks likes are good when you don't even know the person but you're still you don't even know what they look like but you're rolling on the ground laughing because there was one about mike price the wazoo

coach that was the one-time wazoo coach that was just i i can't remember off the top of my head but i mean just had me i was thinking about it for days anyway also dr ron mcgill is great how About this character Andrew Bean dip Bean dip A comedy bang bang character Or a Dan Lebitard show character

Bean dip is comedy bang bang And I want to say Lauren Lapkus But I could be wrong about that I think bean dip Is a 13 year old boy Who's played by a female comedian

You are 100% right That bean dip is from Bang bang The comedy bang bang show It's a character Played by I don't know if it's Edie or Eddie Patterson Oh, okay. I guess I'm wrong about that. She is the owner of the W Hotel in Hollywood, and she regularly sells her own kisses.

Oh, yes. No, this is not the 13-year-old I'm thinking of somebody else. This is just a show where you just say things that are funny to me because I listen to a different podcast, and I can't explain why it's funny.

But I'm enjoying it, even though I don't know what any of this means, but it's making me happy. Oh, I wish I could play some bean dip for you, but anyway, another time. All right. You're doing really well, Andrew. You are perfect right now. I've actually lost track. Oh, page 6 of 12. So it makes me think we're halfway through.

Yeah, so I think this is going to—I'm 5 for 5 right now.

Okay. Not to be confused with 5 for Fighting, the band. Oh. I forget what they're— They're very train-like in my mind, as in they sound a little bit like the band Train, but I forget what their big hit was. Maybe we can go out with it. Oh, wait. We're going out with Rock and Gold. Were they on any of the Rock and Gold albums, 5 for Fighting? I don't think so. I'll double-check, though. Okay. Surfer, hockey dude, far away from the mic. Is this a comedy Bang Bang character or a Levitard show? I can tell you this sounds very much like it could be a comedy Bang Bang thing.

But do you know this? This has been going on since the radio days. This is producer Mike on the Levitard show who plays obnoxious surfer hockey guy, and he gets really far away from the mic because he yells. He just yells all of his opinions, passionate about hockey.

He excitedly talks about – you got everything right, including that it was Mike Ryan. He excitedly talks about hockey despite everyone on the show not caring much about hockey. All right, what about Wilhelmina Wonka? Wilhelmina Wonka, is that a Comedy Bang Bang character or a Levitard show character?

Shit, man. I have to admit, I don't think I know this character unless the description.

Almost channeled Jeff Bridges in Lebowski. Well, shit, man. Then I just almost channeled Owen Wilson.

Wow. Do you know that that's a whole thing on Levitard? They do the whole room full of Owen Wilsons, and they're just like, wow, wow, wow, and they all do it over top of each other.

Owen Wilson saying, wow, might win song of the summer this year. Owen Wilson saying, wow, is a big mood online. It is? Oh, my God. It's like everyone doing impressions of Owen Wilson saying, I don't have one. I haven't practiced it, but I think it's probably because it's kind of easy to do. Wow. Wow. No, that's terrible. I'll work on it during the break, and then I'll come back stronger. But there was somebody on TikTok who found a, like, automatic door at an office depot, like the kind that opens for you as you're coming in at the store, and they record it, and it sounds exactly like Owen Wilson saying, wow.

That is so good. It's really a thing. Is this what I think it is here? Oh, wow.

Hey, that's where you look at drawings. There goes pole vaults over the thing. There he goes, and there he is.

I thought it was going to be— Oh, wow. Seven projects. It is a super cut, but it's not fast enough for me. Oh, wow. So this is, I don't know, Mirabella, what is the name? Wilhelmina Wonka. So this sounds like a Willy Wonka. It's got to be Bang Bang.

It's got to be, right? I think educated guest time. And you're right. I feel like I get half a point there because it was just educated guests. That's okay, though. Now, here's the thing. I can't believe I'm going to drag listener Jake because this is an amazing quiz that was just gift-wrapped for me. It doesn't technically say what show it's from. The answer says Wilhelmina Wonka is a character played by Ego Nwoden, who, by the way, I love on SNL. And she's in all those commercials now for, like, Xfinity, where she's jetting around the universe. Actually, I feel like her name is pronounced Ego. That's another thing, Jake, get it together. Jake gave me a pronouncer, and I think the pronouncer is slightly wrong. Anyway, she is the ex-wife of both the Wonka brothers, both of whom were named Willie. That has to be Comedy Bang Bang, right? Yeah, now I found it here.

Wilhelmina Wonka stops by to talk about her past marriages with the two William Wonka brothers. Yes, okay.

So you got that one right, though. And don't – you know what? When I pull an answer out of my booty and I'm watching Jeopardy, I don't dock myself just because I was guessing. I'm proud that my brain had the information somewhere to guess and be correct. So you get your full point for that, my friend. Yeah, take the W for once. How about Tony Ristorantino?

I'll bet you that's what they call that guy Tony who is – I don't know where he came from. Oh, the producer? There's a producer named Tony on Levitard. Was he there in the earlier radio days when you were listening? Because I thought he was a newer character that popped up. I didn't care for him all that much. He disappeared when they switched over Away from ESPN And he just popped back this week I got back to listening this week, Luke After taking a little bit of a hiatus And he's back And I gotta say He's not my favorite He's kind of I said I wasn't gonna rank him

But he's not near the top Now, so you're sure that's not like a That's not like a guy that runs an Italian restaurant Played by Paul F. Tompkins

No, I'm not sure I mean, it could really fit either The only thing is The guy Tony And I feel like now if you are leading me at all I don't want to take it I'm not I don't know the answer

I haven't clicked to that page I'm just curious Tony Restorantino sounds like a character that's made up To be you know some kind of stereotype Like hilarious stereotype of a restaurateur kind of thing

It definitely could be But here's the deal I've listened to a lot of Bang Bang Even though I don't remember Wilhelmina Wonka Which is really going to obviously bug me Now but the thing is this guy Tony Who's on Levitard Show So he's like – one of the reasons I don't – he isn't my favorite is he's kind of like – he's the one who like – I don't know. He just likes – he enjoys the finer things in life or whatever. It's a fine character as I describe it. It just doesn't come off. It was a freaking gabagoo. And like the big joke is that like Stu Gatz has a crush on him because he's so handsome. And he's just like the guy who's always – like he would, you know, he would take you to the finest restaurant. And he would know all of the Italian names for all of the drizzles or whatever drizzles. I don't go to a lot of restaurants. I think I'm confusing that with Sherry's Berry. So anyway, I'm going to say that that is a nickname they gave Tony when he's being kind of obnoxiously restaurante. Okay, here we go.

You're going with Dan Levitard Show. I am. And... Oh! No. I know you're going to think that I looked this up and was just messing with you, but I wasn't. Tony Restaurantino is a comedy bang-bang character played by Paul F. Tompkins. I mean, it definitely sounds like a Paul character. He and his wife, Lucille, played by Lauren Lapkus, are ex-restaurant owners in New Haven, Connecticut. Tony spent many years as a ghost? I don't remember this. All right. So you are now almost perfect. There's just one minor slip up. And that's – I got to give it to Jake, though. These games are fun and interesting when they're not just a total cakewalk.

Exactly. That's why I kind of, when you were saying, you know, you were right. It did sound like a Paul F. Tompkins character, but I was also like, you know what? Let me just stick with, let's keep it interesting here. So, okay.

Okay, next character, Total Cakewalk. Is that a character from Comedy Bang Bang or the Dan Levitard show, Total Cakewalk? This is it. interesting joke because i oh oh i it's not fun when it's a cakewalk at first yeah at first i thought you were just saying this one's a total cakewalk and then i got confused because you kept going okay go brantley aldean brantley aldean god damn it though again my my original thought stands this is interesting it's definitely getting harder as it goes on i don't i don't recognize that i'll take a um educated guess and say levitard again okay we're going with

Levitard, Brantley Aldean is a comedy bang bang character played by Drew Tarver he is part of the popular country duo Memphis Kansas Breeze Harland Haywood played by Carl Tart and an avid lover of pickup trucks

yes I know Memphis Kansas Breeze I would have never known the name of the guy in it yes yes yes or one of the guys in it

One time I was in line at a Taco Bell and I asked how the Memphis, Kansas breeze was. And the guy said, it's literally why I started working here.

What was that? What are you referencing?

That was a Baja Blast joke. Oh, right. It sounds like a weird it sounds like a weird kind of soda product that they'd have at Taco Bell or something.

I think it's I think it's a parody of Florida, Georgia line. Right. I bet. Yeah.

And also Aldean. I wish I would. Dang it. I was going to say Aldean, which is similar in spelling but not exactly the same as Jason Aldean, who's a big country star. So Brantley Aldean is kind of a combo of names that country singers have and existing country singers. And so there you go. All right. Shane Bacalada.

Oh, that's definitely a lebitard show. That's this character, I think, again, played by Adam McKay, who he was the – so during the whole – Dan was very mad at ESPN by the time he was leaving and he was last or before it was announced that he was leaving. But he clearly was mad at ESPN and the whole stick to sports mantra, which had gotten him and, you know, suspended several times because he didn't want to talk to just about sports, but about the culture of sports and its impact on the real world and everything that was going on during Black Lives Matter protests, you know, in the in the summer of 2020. And so anyway, he created this character, I'm pretty sure this Baklavata, who was a sports radio host in some, like in Phoenix or something, who only stuck to sports. And he stuck to sports to such a ridiculous way that he didn't even know what was going on in the world. And it was just like an overblown parody of the stick to sports mantra.

Okay, so here we go. Shane Bacalada Dan Levitard show Survey says You couldn't be more right, my friend Played by Adam McKay Shane is a sports radio host in Arizona He sticks to a policy on his show Of no politics, no news Just sports

It was pretty good Because they don't introduce it Like, you know, they have a lot of people on their show And then suddenly they're in You know, he's interviewing somebody And it takes you a while to be like Oh, God, this is a fake character Like, they do a good job of turning up the turning up the heat on the on the boiling frog so we're down to one i think right i think so

gee labiscuit gee labiscuit comedy bang bang or the dan levitas that i feel like that's got to

be bang bang but i'm kind of embarrassed that there's at least three bang bang ones that i did not know well two so far and i'm adding this one to it um the rest tony restaurante and um And Wilhelm. And Wilhelmina Wonka. Wilhelmina. And then this one, I don't know, but I'm going to say, you know, those are two foods, right? So I'm going to say that's comedy bang, bang.

All right. Here we go. Well, it's one. Oh, it's one food. You mean Guy Le Biscuit? Isn't Guy? Well, I guess biscuit is a food and Guy is a food. Yeah, Guy, I think it's just me trying to be fancy and say Guy, but in a French way. Oh, it's not G-H-E-E. It's G-U-Y. Oh, no. It's not. It's not like the butter. Oh, I see. That would be a way better joke. Oh, wait.

Actually, Guy. Wait, hold on. Guy.

It's too late. You got it right. I'm giving it to you. Okay. All right. Guy Labiscuit, a.k.a. Guy Labiscuit, is a comedy Bang Bang character played by Tim Balz. He is a director best known for the Sexy Moment film series.

This doesn't ring a bell. Where am I when I'm listening to this? How does this not ring a bell? This Sexy Moment film.

Because you subscribe to Bang Bang.

Yeah, and I listen. I mean I don't usually skip them Although it is the type of show where it's a long show And so it's the type of thing where if I have it on In the kitchen and I'm puttering around I can walk in And out or sort of lose the thread at times As my mind wanders but Anyway that sounds fascinating I'll look it up

I also had authorized listener Jake to make up some of these characters Oh good

Up to three characters just to keep it fresh I gotta say I loved that quiz That was so much fun for me Probably not anybody else but that was fun for me man I enjoyed

Thank you.

And, by the way, you did very well. You will, of course, snatch victory from the jaws of defeat or defeat from the jaws of victory, I should say. But I think you did very well, and I was very impressed. And you had that information at the granular level about a lot of those characters. It was really impressive. Well, you know, knowing things about other people's popular podcasts is a skill I have. Next summer, the quiz is, can you name more things about TBTL or about Comedy Bang Bang? That. That would be interesting. Jake, you have your assignment for next summer, I guess. All right, quick break, and then back with a song. So you're picking songs to go out with during the summer games from this McDonald's Rockin' Classics list. Are you rotating between if we're rockin' lovin', rockin' dancin', rockin' whatever?

Yeah, that first song I played yesterday was from Summer Classics because, you know, Those are the songs that really do, I believe, capture the summer spirit. But this next one, I haven't heard it in so long. I think I will still like it. It's by the Dell Vikings, Come and Go With Me. Now, this is off of the Dance and Classics. Oh, yeah, I know this one. Do you know this song?

Sure, sure. Come on, baby. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Come and go with me. Yeah, that's the one. Exactly. I'm just surprised. I love this song. I'm surprised it doesn't get a little too close to your impression of basically the kind of doo-wop you don't like. It makes me laugh every time when I think about you doing it.

Doop, doop, doop.

Girl! That's your best character. Bad doo-wop band. Bad doo-wop act. But so this Del Viking song, if I'm thinking of the same one, it gets a little close to it, but I love it. I'm into it.

How has somebody not done something called Do WAP, W-A-P, where they do the song WAP in a Do WAP style? Oh, I'm sure it's somewhere on the internet. I'm sure it is. There's probably too many places on the internet. So anyway, let's all travel back to 1987. I'm reading Archie comic books in the basement in Valley City. I'm on one of those rocker swing benches that's making a creaking noise, and I couldn't be happier as the Dell Vikings. are playing in my Walkman. All right.

That's how we'll wrap things up today. Thanks for listening. We'll be back here tomorrow with another edition of the TBTL Summer Games. So we will see you then. Until then, have a great Tuesday. Take care of yourselves. And please remember, no mountain too tall. And good luck to all.

We'll be right back. Come, come into my heart Hey, darling, we will never fight I need you, darling, so come go with me

Yes, I need you, yes, I need you

Power out!