Speaker 1: Weird being way media Nike. Mister Walders.
Speaker 2: Can see that guy with it now, he's an actor that.
Speaker 1: I'm a cant driver. I'm the only camp driver in
Speaker 1: his place.
Speaker 2: Good evening and welcome to night, mister Walters a Taxi podcast.
Speaker 2: I'm HP your co host and with me as always
Speaker 2: as my co host, Father Malone. Father Malone, how are
Speaker 2: you this evening? HB.
Speaker 1: I got a we got a fifty percent chance of
Speaker 1: a sure thing here to now we.
Speaker 2: Are talking Taxi Season two, episode twenty two art work.
Speaker 2: This was written by the Charles Brothers The Pride of Henderson, Nevada.
Speaker 2: This is Glenn Charles and Les Charles, of course, and
Speaker 2: directed by the erstwhile James Burrows reminder, we're doing these
Speaker 2: shows in broadcast order and not in order of filming.
Speaker 2: We opened in the garage as Tony positively bounds in
Speaker 2: Father Blone. He rushes in excitedly. We've seen a few
Speaker 2: times he's rushed in very excited about something lunkheaded, haven't we.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and this reason is the best ever.
Speaker 2: I actually like this setup. He says he's gonna make
Speaker 2: everybody rich rich. I tell you he's got a tip
Speaker 2: on a fight. You see, he can't lose. He overheard
Speaker 2: someone at the gym talking about a fighter named Johnson
Speaker 2: that has a broken hand, but he needs the money,
Speaker 2: so he's still going to fight. And this gets Alex,
Speaker 2: Bobby and even Jim reaching for their wallets. They're slavering because.
Speaker 1: Jim, even Jim, Jim is no stranger of the gambling thing.
Speaker 1: He went and bought a horse with the money he
Speaker 1: won from gambling.
Speaker 2: True, but it's not as if he's an inveterate gambler.
Speaker 2: He goes with the flow. Oh, I think a little bit.
Speaker 1: I just wonder about him enjoying boxing, being the burnout
Speaker 1: hippie that he was, and it is.
Speaker 2: Much, very much a pacifist. You would guess he would
Speaker 2: maybe be opposed to the idea of a blood sport.
Speaker 1: I think, particularly one where he knows one of the
Speaker 1: contestants has a broken hand and he'll be profiting off
Speaker 1: of that.
Speaker 2: Tony asks Slaka if he wants in too. And Elaine
Speaker 2: looking very chic by the way, in a purple jacket
Speaker 2: with a matching scarf. I thought it was a good outfit.
Speaker 2: What did you think?
Speaker 1: I did not like it.
Speaker 2: Because of the blue and purple mix.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did not like that mix and it seemed
Speaker 1: ill fitting on her. And I might be allowing my
Speaker 1: perception of her characterization here to reflect upon the outfit
Speaker 1: because I didn't like. I hate when they make Elaine
Speaker 1: the nag, the mom character of the garage, which is
Speaker 1: what they start out with her here.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree, but we're gonna see. This is an
Speaker 2: art gallery focused episode, and I think when she has
Speaker 2: these art gallery situations, they like to give her a
Speaker 2: little more of an upscale, chic look, and I think
Speaker 2: that's why she looks so so trendy in this.
Speaker 1: I think I wasn't complaining about the trendiness, just the fit.
Speaker 1: It seems not tailored very well. It's too loose. Basically,
Speaker 1: I just want to in skin tight clothes, let's face it. Age.
Speaker 2: When she sees Lata getting involved, that's when her motherly
Speaker 2: instincts come in. But to your point, she becomes a
Speaker 2: bit of a nag, although I will say that in
Speaker 2: this case she's not nagging so much as expressing a
Speaker 2: lot of concern. She doesn't harangue Alex like she's done
Speaker 2: in the past. She doesn't get upset. She just says guys,
Speaker 2: why are you involving Lata? He doesn't have a lot
Speaker 2: of money. He's sending the money back home to his country.
Speaker 2: She seems concerned rather than nagging to what I'm seeing.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, how about this. She's a wet blanket. I hate
Speaker 1: when she's a wet blanket. I'd like for her to
Speaker 1: just go. That's great, guys. I hope you make a
Speaker 1: lot of money and then you know what you should
Speaker 1: do with that money afterwards, invest in art because I
Speaker 1: got a scam going on the side.
Speaker 2: Let's go again. She points out Locke doesn't have a
Speaker 2: lot of money, he doesn't even know what he's betting on,
Speaker 2: and but Tony is undeterred. He's excited. He says, it's
Speaker 2: a sure thing.
Speaker 1: By the way, the other thing is it not even
Speaker 1: the mothering, not the nagging, but constantly treating Lotka like
Speaker 1: he's a child is kind of insulting. He was just about,
Speaker 1: he was just about to go back home and kill
Speaker 1: his former neighbors. He can handle a bet on a
Speaker 1: boxing match. He's not going to bet his life savings.
Speaker 1: They're not going to let him.
Speaker 2: Do that, probably not, but he's here.
Speaker 1: He will even Wheeler would stop him from doing that.
Speaker 2: Sure, he will continue to be the wide eyed nape
Speaker 2: of the group until Simka gets into the picture. I
Speaker 2: think I'd have accepted that.
Speaker 1: I think if Reverend Jim can hang with them, then
Speaker 1: soa can Loca. They're not steering him wrong, and they
Speaker 1: could easily do it with Jim.
Speaker 2: And that is interesting. I wonder why she doesn't advocate
Speaker 2: for a Jim in the same way that she did.
Speaker 1: She did in the exact same way, and then Jim
Speaker 1: ended up winning enough to buy a racehorse.
Speaker 2: That's true. Loca is confused and he asks Alex what
Speaker 2: he would do if he were Laka, and this, I
Speaker 2: gotta say, I love this because it was a nice
Speaker 2: little bit of comedic foreshadowing. I'll call it that. What
Speaker 2: it leads to is Alex doing this little quick impression
Speaker 2: of Laca responding to Elane. Now, it's not the best
Speaker 2: Loca impression that he's always done, but physically I thought
Speaker 2: he did a wonderful job with the mannerisms. And what's
Speaker 2: interesting is Loaca will eventually become Alex during his struggles
Speaker 2: with dissociative identity disorder. Another season or two down the road,
Speaker 2: how did you find I know we talked in the
Speaker 2: last episode about Alex, the many faces of Alex. What
Speaker 2: did you think of his impression of Laca.
Speaker 1: I liked the impression. I thought him launching into it
Speaker 1: felt hacky and sitcomy. The transition there just didn't feel
Speaker 1: it felt forced. Also, the shuffle he does over to Louis,
Speaker 1: or rather to Elaine, made me think of Charlie Chaplin
Speaker 1: more than Laca. So then I was thinking about Laca
Speaker 1: and Charlie Chaplin and their similarities. And then I was
Speaker 1: just that it took me. I guess it took me
Speaker 1: out of the scene. Hb. It was a good impression,
Speaker 1: but it left me elsewhere then focused on the plot,
Speaker 1: So maybe that digression wasn't necessary.
Speaker 2: His his shuffle was a little bit chaplain esque. I
Speaker 2: agree with you there in retrospect, it does look like
Speaker 2: Charlie Chaplin.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I just thought I was charmed by it. And anyway,
Speaker 2: Loca says he's in with the bet and Bobby goes.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2: Wait, okay, what did I miss?
Speaker 1: I've done with this impression? Yet? How much of that
Speaker 1: was a fuck you? To Andy Kaufman? From either the
Speaker 1: writers or the other performers. Also, the line you know
Speaker 1: you can make fun of it, but I know people
Speaker 1: who talk like that is a really good funny line
Speaker 1: that lack of throws back at him after the impression.
Speaker 2: They've gone on record after the fact interviews all the
Speaker 2: actors on Taxi, they've they've talked about what a handful
Speaker 2: Andy Kaufman was, So yeah, I could see that being
Speaker 2: a little bit of gentle ribbing on their part to
Speaker 2: give it back to because he was known for falling,
Speaker 2: you know, falling into these characters and becoming these characters
Speaker 2: like Foreign Man and Elvis and all of this, and
Speaker 2: Tony Clifton of course.
Speaker 1: So yeah, maybe, I mean that might not necessarily be
Speaker 1: So there is precedent on this show of characters impersonating
Speaker 1: other characters. We had Bobby Wheeler doing it for Louis
Speaker 1: at one point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that was first season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the grand tradition of Bobby Wheeler impersonating him,
Speaker 1: will have Alex impersonate Lock. Yet, meanwhile, fuck you, Andy.
Speaker 2: The scene is just a little nothing, but I just
Speaker 2: thought it was clever. Nevertheless, Locke says he's in on
Speaker 2: the bet and Bobby goes to call it in at
Speaker 2: the payphone, but of course, in true taxi fashion, Bobby
Speaker 2: learns on the phone that both fighters are named Johnson,
Speaker 2: so there's no way for them to note which fighter
Speaker 2: is going to be they should be betting on because
Speaker 2: they're both named Johnson. So the sure thing goes out
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, now, you got it. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: odds for each of the fighters, right.
Speaker 2: But I don't think it's as sophisticated as you're thinking
Speaker 2: of it. Now we're talking about some.
Speaker 1: You bed five dollars on each fighter, right, What is
Speaker 1: the ratio of loss to win there?
Speaker 2: You mean if you put an even amount on both.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I put five dollars on both guys. I'm definitely
Speaker 1: gonna lose five dollars, but will I in ten? And
Speaker 1: if so, that's just even money. Right. But if it
Speaker 1: was like a ten to one thing, so you were
Speaker 1: gonna win fifty dollars and then you walk away with
Speaker 1: forty five, that's still a pretty good bet. Could be.
Speaker 2: And Jim actually, as part of a joke, that's exactly
Speaker 2: what he says to do, we should put money on both.
Speaker 2: We have fifty percent odds on a sure thing, so
Speaker 2: he's probably not far off. I guess I don't know
Speaker 2: how the odds would work we're talking about. I mean,
Speaker 2: gambling is still illegal at this point in New York,
Speaker 2: so you've got it's probably some shady bookie who knows
Speaker 2: where he's pulling his odds from or whose odds maker is.
Speaker 2: So it may not be quite as cut and dried,
Speaker 2: but it might have been worth the shop anyway.
Speaker 1: I never just can you just do that across the board?
Speaker 2: Been on both No, because then everybody would do it
Speaker 2: and there'd be no what.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, are there things in place to keep people
Speaker 1: from doing this?
Speaker 2: Like, because I don't think it's as simple as well,
Speaker 2: I will lose my initial bet on the one hand,
Speaker 2: but the other side, because the way the odds work
Speaker 2: the other side, the odds may be terrible, so you're
Speaker 2: not gonna get even money back. You're probably gonna it
Speaker 2: may be you bet a dollar to win fifty cents.
Speaker 2: I just have to assume that if it was that
Speaker 2: easy to do and that and dry, and everybody.
Speaker 1: Would done it, Yeah, and it would all already be
Speaker 1: a corrupted business.
Speaker 2: More so than it already is. So Tony's sure thing
Speaker 2: is out the window. They can't possibly go through with it.
Speaker 2: And Elaine, of course, being to your parlance, the wet blanket,
Speaker 2: she can't help but smile at this turn of events.
Speaker 2: She launches into this speech about how she sees the
Speaker 2: cabbys miss every day on so called sure things, but
Speaker 2: at the art gallery, this is where the art gallery
Speaker 2: comes in. She sees the rich getting richer all the time.
Speaker 2: They were always gambling and they always hit just once,
Speaker 2: and says she wants to see them win for a change,
Speaker 2: and this sort.
Speaker 1: Of Oceans eleven, She's like, putting the team together here,
Speaker 1: we're going for this tittling bullshit. We should be going
Speaker 1: for a big score. We're staking the same risk.
Speaker 2: It's it's fun and that that that way, you're right.
Speaker 2: Because as she's launching into this sort of little monologue,
Speaker 2: like Alex is actually intrigued and he says, well, how
Speaker 2: can they do that? And Elaine replies by well, by
Speaker 2: making intelligent investments. Elaine says, she finds paintings that she
Speaker 2: knows that's the year's But before we go into this,
Speaker 2: I thought Elaine was just working in like a secretarial
Speaker 2: role at the art gallery. Am I mistaken on this, Father.
Speaker 1: Malone, No, you're not. She certainly was an appraiser.
Speaker 2: Well, and that's but she's painting this picture, she says.
Speaker 2: She finds paintings that she knows will go up in value,
Speaker 2: she gets other people to invest in them, and then
Speaker 2: they be rich. To my way of thinking, that she's
Speaker 2: appraising artwork, she's like a broker of art that seems
Speaker 2: a little out of her sphere of influence. I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe it's me.
Speaker 1: You know, people in that position are making a commission
Speaker 1: that would alleviate the need to be a cab driver.
Speaker 2: Even if she's making let's say, let's call it five
Speaker 2: percent commission, right, So five percent. So if somebody makes
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars, right, she stands to make a
Speaker 2: five thousand dollars commission. If my math is right, that's
Speaker 2: good money. Now, that's good money. That's great money in
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty So why the hell is she still driving
Speaker 2: a cab?
Speaker 1: She's not, And I'll right that she has to be
Speaker 1: because the writers have fucked this up, because they should
Speaker 1: have just kept her as a receptionist. And she could
Speaker 1: say something to the effect of listen, I'm not the
Speaker 1: appraiser there, but nine times out of ten I know
Speaker 1: what it is and he doesn't. No one listens to
Speaker 1: me there yet, but I know.
Speaker 2: You're one hundred percent right. They could have very easily
Speaker 2: patched this hole in the logic by saying, I just
Speaker 2: I sit there, I listen, I see what they're they're
Speaker 2: betting on, and I know that they're wrong, and my
Speaker 2: short things are always hitting. But I don't have the
Speaker 2: money to spend the or the clout to make my
Speaker 2: opinion really known. So and that would have actually given
Speaker 2: her the motivation to push forward with this scheme with
Speaker 2: the Cabby's, because then it really is an Ocean's eleven
Speaker 2: type of situation where she's trying to get to get
Speaker 2: ahead just once.
Speaker 1: And it's above board and would only further her career
Speaker 1: there if she proves that, you know, she can play
Speaker 1: with play with them.
Speaker 2: Would have been great. But as it stands, I'm willing
Speaker 2: to overlook it because I liked where this episode is going.
Speaker 2: Alex correctly points out to Elaine that if she does
Speaker 2: it for these people, she could just as easily do
Speaker 2: it for them, or for herself for that matter. Elaine
Speaker 2: backs off At this point, she says that she doesn't
Speaker 2: like to look at art that way. Alex continues to
Speaker 2: try to persuade her, but go work.
Speaker 1: At a museum, That's what he should have said that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, why are you in a fucking art gallery?
Speaker 1: Then why are you dealing with art that's making fucking
Speaker 1: millions of dollars? What are you talking about right now? Eline,
Speaker 1: you don't want to make money at this.
Speaker 2: Well, for all of her professed love of purity of art,
Speaker 2: the fact that she even admits that she's kind of
Speaker 2: played the odds with the art market, so to speak,
Speaker 2: it proves to me that she's not above this at all.
Speaker 2: I think she's just, I don't know, she gets cold
Speaker 2: feet because she doesn't want to prove to the Cabby's
Speaker 2: that maybe she's not shouldn't have quite the cloud that
Speaker 2: she indicates. I don't know, Maybe it's something like that.
Speaker 2: Alex keeps trying to persuade her. She says she doesn't
Speaker 2: want to use art to make money, she loves it,
Speaker 2: and the rest of the Cabbys start plotting how much
Speaker 2: money they could pull together for this scheme, even though
Speaker 2: Elaine's kind of not really into it. Elini's firm. She's
Speaker 2: not doing an end of story. And this is where
Speaker 2: Alex again pulls out the old reverse psychology trick, where
Speaker 2: he sort of stops and says, you know what, I
Speaker 2: think you were just showing off for us, Elaine. You
Speaker 2: don't know people in art, you don't And incredibly, Elaine
Speaker 2: takes the bait almost immediately. Did you notice that she
Speaker 2: doesn't she should understand what Alex is trying to put
Speaker 2: over on her.
Speaker 1: Don't you think she always falls for this?
Speaker 2: She seems to maybe she trusts.
Speaker 1: Again in the next episode she does, so, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is a.
Speaker 2: Thing anyway, Elaine, like I said, she takes the bait,
Speaker 2: and she counters that you know what, I know of
Speaker 2: an opportunity right now that we be a great investment opportunity.
Speaker 2: There's an artist named Max Duffin who must be again
Speaker 2: must be some member of the crew somewhere, and a
Speaker 2: director who's going to be huge. She says, they could
Speaker 2: get a painting at auction for two grand, and by
Speaker 2: the end of the year it'll be worth five grand.
Speaker 2: Now back to my favorite website, amortization dot org. Two
Speaker 2: thousand dollars in nineteen eighty father alone would be worth
Speaker 2: eight thousand in twenty twenty four. That's big money. That's
Speaker 2: a lot of money for them to pull together just
Speaker 2: these caves and five thousand dollars. Let's say the investment
Speaker 2: caps off at five grand return. That would be a
Speaker 2: cool twenty thousand dollars in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Money.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good. Split four or five ways or whatever.
Speaker 2: That's not bad. That is big money.
Speaker 1: That is big money.
Speaker 2: Bobby gets even more excited, saying they could really make
Speaker 2: a fortune if they continue to do this. Elaine says, well,
Speaker 2: not a fortune, maybe one hundred grand apiece, which again
Speaker 2: would be four hundred thousand dollars in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Money can split a month.
Speaker 1: This. We're so close to the end of this season
Speaker 1: that this kind of pointed to a direction that the
Speaker 1: show could be in where they're all trading art while
Speaker 1: driving cabs for an entire season. It could be like,
Speaker 1: you know, taxi and art, and so they mainly cruise
Speaker 1: the museum district.
Speaker 2: Picking up artists and getting on one of the art school.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Alex makes an impassioned plea to a stubborn a Lane
Speaker 2: to try and get her to agree to this caper,
Speaker 2: he breaks out a recitation of a poem called If
Speaker 2: by Rudyard Kipling, which I'm not I can't claim to
Speaker 2: be familiar with Kipling, but but in a funny bit,
Speaker 2: Jim basically takes over the recitation perfectly, much to his
Speaker 2: own surprise, because he wraps up and he says, how
Speaker 2: do I knowle that? So? I thought that was good.
Speaker 2: I loved seeing Christopher Lloyd involved anyway, and it's just
Speaker 2: funny to see him take over this poem that Alex
Speaker 2: is reciting. And Elaine is amused too, because she finally
Speaker 2: decides to help all the caves. Bobby asks if she's
Speaker 2: sure it'll work, and Elaine admits that ghoulishly Duffin is
Speaker 2: an old man in bad health, and when he dies,
Speaker 2: his artwork will go up in value, so it's it. Really,
Speaker 2: this is the definition of a sure thing in her opinion.
Speaker 1: Well remember you forever, Eddie.
Speaker 2: This whole scheme is now piquing Louie's interest, as one
Speaker 2: would expect, and he asks for more details on Duffin's
Speaker 2: health because Louis figures that buying one of Duffin's paintings
Speaker 2: is like betting that he's going to die, which is
Speaker 2: actually kind of the core of Elaine's scheme, right, she
Speaker 2: knows this guy's in bad health. Once he kicks the bucket,
Speaker 2: the paintings in a skyrocket and they'll make money. Simple.
Speaker 1: It's a more refined dead Pool. The original Deadpool. What
Speaker 1: that actually was was people with bet on who was
Speaker 1: going to die that year. That's what a Deadpool actually is.
Speaker 1: Fucked remember that movie The Deadpool.
Speaker 2: Oh with Clint Eastwoods at the Last Dirty Harry movie.
Speaker 1: That is the last Dirty Harry movie, And that's about
Speaker 1: people betting on celebrities who are going to die and
Speaker 1: then somebody actually killing the people on the list. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Liam Neeson was the like this director in that right,
Speaker 2: he's directing music videos. Then he gets killed.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, well is he is? He? I forget?
Speaker 1: I do remember that Jim Carrey is the star of
Speaker 1: the music video lip Sync into Guns N' Roses Welcome
Speaker 1: to the Jungle.
Speaker 2: I remember that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I also remember seeing at the time Slash interviewed about
Speaker 1: the song appearing in the film, and he said, oh, no,
Speaker 1: that's cool, but they had some like fucking dweeb like
Speaker 1: singing the song in the movie.
Speaker 2: One are the all time great comedic actors now slashers
Speaker 2: in the movie. He has a little cameo in The
Speaker 2: dead Pool.
Speaker 1: Have to rewatch the dead Pool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a good movie, But that wasn't like
Speaker 2: they had gotten so far from the notion of Harry Callahan,
Speaker 2: the character the sort of break all the rules. It
Speaker 2: was just a cop movie, but it was good. Right.
Speaker 1: Remember when at the end of the first film he
Speaker 1: throws his badge away and quits the force.
Speaker 2: Good call on the dead Pool because now you say
Speaker 2: Deadpool and everybody just thinks of Ryan Reynolds and the
Speaker 2: character the murk with a mouth, speaking of the mouth's
Speaker 2: big mouths. Louis wants in, but everybody refuses. Louis maintains
Speaker 2: that he's got a bank roll that can help them
Speaker 2: score the painting. Laye calls for a discussion amongst the
Speaker 2: other cabbys. They try to hash out how much money
Speaker 2: they have to pool for this.
Speaker 1: Here's one of my favorite parts of the episode, Alex
Speaker 1: confessing he doesn't have that much money because of all
Speaker 1: the skiing he's been doing.
Speaker 2: I loved it's a nice callback to the last couple
Speaker 2: of episodes where he's actually been you know, he's been
Speaker 2: on his ski trip and he got back and whatever.
Speaker 1: I say that this so yeah. I also put to
Speaker 1: Alex on more even footing with the other cabbies in
Speaker 1: my mind, because in that first season they took pains
Speaker 1: to show how stable he was, that he had a
Speaker 1: reserve of money that he could lend out to people
Speaker 1: if necessary. Now knowing he's basically like everyone else living
Speaker 1: check to check, I'm like, oh, that's I don't know.
Speaker 1: It adds another dynamic to the show.
Speaker 2: I agree, And it even just the notion that he's
Speaker 2: in on all of this betting, and even the Tony
Speaker 2: Sure thing at the very beginning. That to me, I
Speaker 2: think they've done a good job in this season, especially
Speaker 2: bringing him to your point on the same level as
Speaker 2: the rest of the cabbies. He's no longer just this
Speaker 2: unimpeachable voice of reason that they all go to. I
Speaker 2: think he's a more human as a result, and I
Speaker 2: like that about about this season.
Speaker 1: I agree the Daredevil episode had been about Bobby Wheeler,
Speaker 1: who would have cared, but it works because it's Alex Rieger.
Speaker 2: Another great point. All together, they can only come up
Speaker 2: with seven hundred dollars and they need two thousand to
Speaker 2: buy this painting at auction, so reluctantly they take a
Speaker 2: final vote and Louis is in. As we cut the commercial,
Speaker 2: we cut back. We've got a new piece of b
Speaker 2: roll that we haven't seen before. Bottom alone. This one
Speaker 2: was interesting. It's the windows of an art gallery at night.
Speaker 2: Did you look at this to try and figure out,
Speaker 2: like I did, what this actually was in real life?
Speaker 1: I did not. I was leaving. It is not you,
Speaker 1: I'm hp. I'm very busy. Is this. I can't can't
Speaker 1: be freeze framing and zooming in and then doing picture
Speaker 1: searches online for taxi anymore.
Speaker 2: Brother, I've spent far too much time doing this, and
Speaker 2: I don't have any great revelation. I have to say.
Speaker 2: It appears to be the Ryan Gallery r y N Gallery.
Speaker 2: The number on the window is six 't eighty. But
Speaker 2: try as I might, I couldn't find that there was
Speaker 2: information on a Ryan Gallery in the eighties. A lot
Speaker 2: of paintings are praised through this art gallery, but there's
Speaker 2: really not much info that I could find beyond that.
Speaker 1: I against you.
Speaker 2: That's okay.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're even going to see that footage
Speaker 1: every again.
Speaker 2: Probably well, maybe there's I think there's going to be
Speaker 2: more hijinks at the art gallery at some point, so
Speaker 2: maybe we will, maybe we won't.
Speaker 1: But I was always do a weird freeze frame and
Speaker 1: then a zoom into that freeze frame.
Speaker 2: True. I just thought it was a missed opportunity because
Speaker 2: it's rare that you get such a clear view of
Speaker 2: the name of facade or a place they're going to
Speaker 2: visit and a street number. But for some reason, I mean,
Speaker 2: Google just doesn't work anymore. I don't know, but I
Speaker 2: couldn't find any more information on it. It's too bad.
Speaker 2: So we cut inside where a lane. Bobby and Alex
Speaker 2: walk into the auction as a lane signs in side note,
Speaker 2: Elaine is looking very powerful in a blue suit, like
Speaker 2: a power suit, where Alex is wearing kind of a
Speaker 2: light brown suit. Usually he wears the dark brown. We've
Speaker 2: seen him in the dark brown when Zena's parents had
Speaker 2: them over for dinner. That's what he was wearing. He
Speaker 2: looks okay, but somehow father alone, I don't know if
Speaker 2: you notice this, Bobby is looking so slumpy. He's got
Speaker 2: a brown hounds tooth blazer and rust colored tie. Where's
Speaker 2: the fashion plate? No cowboy attire. What's going on with Bobby?
Speaker 1: I know what he is? His Viking helmet out for polishing, Like,
Speaker 1: what is this bullshit?
Speaker 2: His fashion can be hit or miss, but even the
Speaker 2: misses you can see he's grasping for something trendy. There's
Speaker 2: nothing trendy. It's all ill fitting and it just looks.
Speaker 2: It doesn't look good on him at all. It's just very,
Speaker 2: very bad look for him.
Speaker 1: This smack's a Jeff Conaway walks onto the set super
Speaker 1: late and they just go get out there.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Bobby, he remarks about the thrill and co
Speaker 2: into contact with great art, but Elaine tempers his excitement
Speaker 2: by saying the art and lobby is just prints and reproductions.
Speaker 2: It's all pretty much worthless. The real art is in
Speaker 2: the other room, which we'll see in a minute. I
Speaker 2: have things to say about that. Louis and Laca walk in.
Speaker 2: Louis has his customary gray suit pink shirt. Well, Laka
Speaker 2: is in an ill fitting salmon colored suit with huge lapels.
Speaker 2: It kind of looked like do you remember my cousin
Speaker 2: Vinnie When Vinnie's suit got mud splashed on it and
Speaker 2: he had to go the only suit he could find
Speaker 2: was at like the used clothing store or something, and
Speaker 2: it was like a foghorn leghorn kind of a suit.
Speaker 2: It kind of looked like that a little bit, didn't
Speaker 2: Did you notice that?
Speaker 1: Yes, you mean like the Seven Days Man?
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, kind of. Yeah. I guess that's
Speaker 2: ultimately what it is. Well, we're getting to him. Tony
Speaker 2: and Jim stroll in somehow. By the way, Tony is
Speaker 2: the easiest, breeziest of all of them. He's got a
Speaker 2: blue suit, no tie. He looks very cool but sharp.
Speaker 2: I thought he looked sharp now. Jim, however, has made
Speaker 2: his Canadian tuxedo literal. He's got a tie on and
Speaker 2: Bobby asks, well, why didn't you wear the suit? That
Speaker 2: Maybe that's why Bobby doesn't have a suit, because he
Speaker 2: loaned his suit to Reverend Jim to wear, and Jim
Speaker 2: says it didn't fit. But wouldn't you know it, they
Speaker 2: share the same necktie size. So ha ha.
Speaker 1: Here we are besmirching the name of Jeff Conaway when
Speaker 1: it's explained in the episode why he is wearing an
Speaker 1: ill fitting outfit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I don't buy that. I don't buy that.
Speaker 2: Bobby would give his best outfit to Reverend Jim to wear.
Speaker 2: I think he's giving him like he's going to the
Speaker 2: back of the closet, going God, when did I buy this?
Speaker 2: This will? Maybe Jim can make something out of this.
Speaker 2: Elaine ushers them into the auction hall, where there's an
Speaker 2: assemblage of people already seated. But here, I'm curious what
Speaker 2: your impressions were. I got to hand it to the
Speaker 2: set decoration. Yet again, it's entirely believable. There's a lectern
Speaker 2: where the auctioneer is going to stand, there's a row
Speaker 2: of flowers in front of the little stage. But the
Speaker 2: most clever thing I thought was there's a center carpet
Speaker 2: line running all the way to the back of the
Speaker 2: stage effectively. And what it does is it gives the
Speaker 2: illusion that this room is actually twice as big, like
Speaker 2: this is a center aisle, like you would have it
Speaker 2: like a wedding or a function hall. So I thought
Speaker 2: it was really effective and it worked for me. What
Speaker 2: did you think of the auction hall?
Speaker 1: I didn't even register it was a set. I liked
Speaker 1: it so much.
Speaker 2: It was good, wasn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah? And you know what, it's funny because it's been
Speaker 1: a while since they've wowed us with a off site set.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, I like this one a lot.
Speaker 2: It was good. So the come in they try and
Speaker 2: act cool. They file past the painting they're going to
Speaker 2: bid on, and Louie and Tony express some surprise that
Speaker 2: a painting like this would be worth so much. It's
Speaker 2: just there's it's just like an abstract picture. There's nothing
Speaker 2: really interesting about it. Tony remarks, it's untitled. For two
Speaker 2: thousand dollars, you think they'd throw in a name, so
Speaker 2: Tony ever, the simpleton. After some more banter about the painting,
Speaker 2: they take their seats, but the front row is filled
Speaker 2: and Louis does the old coughing fit routine, which clears
Speaker 2: out the first two rows of seats and the Cabby's
Speaker 2: take their place for the auction.
Speaker 1: Ever done that something like that?
Speaker 2: HP? Oh, all the time? Well it's less necessary now.
Speaker 2: For example, would I would do it most often when
Speaker 2: I went to the movies before they had assigned seats
Speaker 2: that you could you could get the seat you wanted.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I did that all the time. What about you?
Speaker 1: I don't know that I did the coughing fit, but
Speaker 1: pandemic when I was flying a lot. If it wasn't
Speaker 1: going to be a full flight and I didn't want
Speaker 1: someone to sit next to me, I certainly would take
Speaker 1: the vomit bag out and just sort of have it
Speaker 1: on my lap and look nervously at everyone who was
Speaker 1: looking at potentially sitting next to me, and good lord,
Speaker 1: they would just keep on moving.
Speaker 2: HM. Much more subtle and effective, I think. So they
Speaker 2: sit down and Elaine is fretting about the projected value
Speaker 2: of the painting. It's going to go. It's projected to
Speaker 2: go between one thousand and eighteen hundred bucks, and she
Speaker 2: again goes back to Louis and says asks if he
Speaker 2: has any more cash, but he says he sunk everything
Speaker 2: into it. She says, you always talk about having money,
Speaker 2: and he says, yeah, I have money, but most of
Speaker 2: my cash is sunk in investments. Despite his better judgment.
Speaker 2: Alex asks about these investments, and do you remember what
Speaker 2: his big investment that he describes as father balone.
Speaker 1: It's like a nursing home, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a nursing home in Jersey. So the auction
Speaker 2: starts in the first painting is a a nude, which
Speaker 2: just the hearing about it gets the simpleton Banta all excited.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think he goes yes like one of those.
Speaker 1: Can't take him anywhere. You know what, he's the best looking,
Speaker 1: he's the sharpest, as you said looking, and then clearly
Speaker 1: the dumbest just can't help himself.
Speaker 2: What I love and what we should probably just mention
Speaker 2: as this is all going is and maybe this is
Speaker 2: a little foreshadowing for the Yellow Lights piece, but I
Speaker 2: gotta say I love the whole ensemble is gathered in
Speaker 2: the service of this scheme that they have going, and
Speaker 2: it's such a delight. Tony seems like he's excited about it.
Speaker 2: Everybody is pitching into the comedy and it's very very funny,
Speaker 2: and I don't know, I just it's rollicking and I'm
Speaker 2: really really here for it. What did you think so far?
Speaker 1: I'd like to amend my earlier idea of a season
Speaker 1: of them art brokering and instead a season of them
Speaker 1: as art thieves, because I agree with you. I love
Speaker 1: seeing them together and doing their thing.
Speaker 2: It's we harp on this every single episode of when
Speaker 2: we're rating the episode. Well, I say it all the time. Well,
Speaker 2: there's not a lot of interaction between the caves or
Speaker 2: this cavey's missing, or this actor is missing. But this
Speaker 2: is it's so wonderful that they're all together. They're all funny,
Speaker 2: they're all pitching in, they have the little bits. It's
Speaker 2: just wonderful. I at this point, I'm just loving the
Speaker 2: episode anyway. Like I said, there's this reveal of this
Speaker 2: nude painting, and it's an abstract kind of cubist image,
Speaker 2: which Jim stands up in surprise and says, O, my god,
Speaker 2: I know her, and it's a completely unrecognizable it doesn't
Speaker 2: even look like a human being. Of course, Jim is
Speaker 2: going to go, I know her. I thought it was hilarious.
Speaker 1: That line made me flash back because that bit was
Speaker 1: used on WLVII TV fifty six and they're advertising for taxi.
Speaker 1: That was one of the little clips that they use.
Speaker 1: My god, I know her.
Speaker 2: We fade out and we fade back in, giving the
Speaker 2: impression that some time has passed and now their painting
Speaker 2: is coming up for bidding. Louis figures a good strategy
Speaker 2: is to make it sound like the painting is garbage,
Speaker 2: so he starts carrying on. He's blowing raspberries and saying
Speaker 2: stuff like yikes, how did that get in here. It's
Speaker 2: great Louis slash Danny DeVito. He's awesome in this. They're
Speaker 2: all great, but he's really funny. The bidding for this
Speaker 2: painting starts at one thousand dollars, and Elaine is following
Speaker 2: with her paddle the increasing bidding. It's basically between her
Speaker 2: and an older gentleman behind them, who keeps out bidding
Speaker 2: her pretty quickly. The bidding increases to the Cabby's limit
Speaker 2: of two thousand dollars, but at the last minute it
Speaker 2: looks like they're going to get it. But then at
Speaker 2: the last minute, this other auction, this other bidder, goes
Speaker 2: up to twenty one hundred, and Louis makes a threat
Speaker 2: that this guy better not spend his tw years at
Speaker 2: Sunset Acres, which I think is the place in Jersey
Speaker 2: they referenced. Eventually, the painting is just priced out of
Speaker 2: their reach entirely, and Louie actually lunges at that other
Speaker 2: bitter and frustration. He's just so upset. I think it's
Speaker 2: sold for twenty nine hundred dollars in total. And then
Speaker 2: immediately after the gavel falls on the painting, somebody rushes
Speaker 2: in and whispers to the auctioneer, and he then makes
Speaker 2: this announcement to the assembled gathering that duff and Max
Speaker 2: Duffin died earlier that morning, which I think at that
Speaker 2: point Louis is moaning in just anguish at this. So
Speaker 2: this is yet another I mean, what we're seeing here
Speaker 2: basically Father Malone, And I'm surprised you haven't mentioned this.
Speaker 2: This is another aspirational episode.
Speaker 1: Here's why I would have brought this up in yellow lights.
Speaker 1: Here's why I didn't bring it up because nine times
Speaker 1: out of ten aspirational episodes on this show about one
Speaker 1: character trying to get out of the garage. This is
Speaker 1: the group just trying to get ahead. No one's escaping
Speaker 1: the life, no one's getting rich, no one's fulfilling their
Speaker 1: career goals. Here, They're just all pulling together in one direction.
Speaker 1: So that kind of aspiration is very welcome.
Speaker 2: True that this was never going to change their lives.
Speaker 2: Anyone caves lives immeasurably. This was going to be a
Speaker 2: nice side hustle for them and maybe help them get
Speaker 2: over some of the hard times. But so I agree
Speaker 2: with you there, this isn't aspirational in the truest sense.
Speaker 2: And now we fade. I'm sorry, I skipped ahead.
Speaker 1: Don't skip ahead, got to deal with the Maudlin part
Speaker 1: of this episode.
Speaker 2: Well, no, we're getting to it. But I liked it.
Speaker 2: I liked it. So we cut to the lobby of
Speaker 2: this auction house and Louis is just kicking himself forever
Speaker 2: believing that this was going to work. I think he
Speaker 2: says something to the effect of, for you, caves losing
Speaker 2: as a w life, but for me, it's bad for
Speaker 2: my system. He makes a lot of other loser cracks
Speaker 2: at the rest of the Cabby's, and Bobby reckons this
Speaker 2: is no great revelation, but he says that this proves
Speaker 2: you got to have money to make money, and he
Speaker 2: gets up and suggests they all go to Marios for
Speaker 2: a beer, and they're all filing out, but then Alex says, no,
Speaker 2: I want to stay. I want to check out the artwork.
Speaker 2: He says, I came here to buy a piece of art,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to buy a piece of art, even
Speaker 2: if it's not original. He wants to buy something he likes.
Speaker 2: Bobby agrees, and then the rest of the Cabby's all
Speaker 2: come on board and they all start browsing through these
Speaker 2: reproductions of art and paintings and things. And Alex is
Speaker 2: looking at a bust of it's like Plato or Aristotle
Speaker 2: or something I couldn't tell, and he decides to buy it.
Speaker 2: And throughout the whole scene here's the Maudlin part. Elaine
Speaker 2: is looking at all the cabbys with an almost motherly
Speaker 2: pride because in her I'm sure she's saying, they get
Speaker 2: it now. It's they're appreciating the art for something greater
Speaker 2: than just something to make money off of.
Speaker 1: No, that's not the Modlin part. The Modlin part was
Speaker 1: Alex pyeing that fucking statue. That's the modlent.
Speaker 2: How was that Madlin?
Speaker 1: It just seems so I don't know, it just seemed
Speaker 1: like a button I don't know, for whatever reason HP
Speaker 1: that seemed tacked on everyone. If they hadn't done that,
Speaker 1: and then they cut to everyone bought a painting for
Speaker 1: some reason, that would have been more impactful for me.
Speaker 2: I will say. Alex is very childlike about his fascination
Speaker 2: with this bust, Like he picks it up and says,
Speaker 2: all right, come on, we're gonna leave now. I don't know,
Speaker 2: there's something he very potemic in his approach to this
Speaker 2: bus that it was a little weird, but I didn't
Speaker 2: think it was Maudlin. I thought it was a little weird,
Speaker 2: but I was fine with it because he's he's trying
Speaker 2: to get out of himself a little bit and make
Speaker 2: the best of a bad situation. So I thought it
Speaker 2: was fine.
Speaker 1: Oh look, you know what, man, I would have bought
Speaker 1: a piece of artwork too, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: like not bagging on the situation. I just felt like
Speaker 1: they needed us to feel better right then and there.
Speaker 1: So that's what we got because they didn't win. And
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know whatever.
Speaker 2: I mean, but how else do you end it? You
Speaker 2: just haven't got to Marios and say, well, that's it.
Speaker 2: You gotta have something.
Speaker 1: No, well and no. They go to Marios and then
Speaker 1: they start appraising the paintings and Marios, I look at
Speaker 1: that thing, Tommy, Tommy, you take that down. We gotta
Speaker 1: gotta get this place looking better. Man.
Speaker 2: That is so ghost, Tommy, where did you get that?
Speaker 2: We fade back into the garage and the Cabbys have
Speaker 2: set up sort of a makeshift art gallery of all
Speaker 2: the art work that they bought at the auction, and
Speaker 2: Elaine is going from person to person giving her nodding
Speaker 2: of approval, and according to Love's and the Official Taxi
Speaker 2: Fan Guide, the actors were given their choice of paintings
Speaker 2: from a small selection to reflect their character's personality, which
Speaker 2: is why these are also.
Speaker 1: I wish we had seen the full gamut of what
Speaker 1: they were allowed to choose from, to see what was
Speaker 1: left behind. Honestly, that's as important they chose.
Speaker 2: The artwork they chose is all very on the nose, right,
Speaker 2: So we start off with.
Speaker 1: A lot of those paintings, HP, I Love, Can I
Speaker 1: just say that I agree?
Speaker 2: I wonder if it's the same thing is it's got
Speaker 2: to be Bobby's, right, of course it's Bobby's. So we
Speaker 2: start off with Laka, and Laka has bought a watercolor
Speaker 2: of the nation's capital, which it makes sense because he's
Speaker 2: the immigrant whose believes in America.
Speaker 1: Whatever, it's terrible anyway, next it's.
Speaker 2: Bad, and then the next one. Tony has picked out
Speaker 2: the biggest painting of a seagull in flight that you've
Speaker 2: ever seen. It's probably to match the scale of his
Speaker 2: Easy Comics plaque of the giant dead fish plaque in
Speaker 2: his wall. This is the only thing that dwarfs it.
Speaker 1: Don't forget he's got gigantic barren walls. That apartment is
Speaker 1: like two lofts, like split down the middle and caught
Speaker 1: chopped in half. It's so weird, like he needs that.
Speaker 2: He does need a lot of He's got a little wall.
Speaker 1: Space thing in there, just like it's the idea that
Speaker 1: he could look at some nature somehow.
Speaker 2: Well. I sort of figured it was maybe a callback
Speaker 2: to song Gonna Fly Now, the rocky theme. I thought
Speaker 2: maybe that was part of why he chose to reaching
Speaker 2: my man could be, could be. Then we get to
Speaker 2: our favorite painting, both of us. Bobby's picked out a
Speaker 2: realistic rendering of an electrical outlet. It's like something that
Speaker 2: Andy Warhol has painted, right.
Speaker 1: It's so much better. It's a fucking It's like a
Speaker 1: four foot by three foot painting of an electrical socket.
Speaker 1: I loved it.
Speaker 2: It's awesome. It's perfectly proportional as a light socket. It
Speaker 2: looks exactly, it's got shading, it look perfect. So that
Speaker 2: was my favorite. But that's what Bobby picked out.
Speaker 1: This is why we are not part of the art world.
Speaker 2: You and I I think, so I gotta find It's
Speaker 2: like there's no interpretation necessary. It's just a light socket beautiful.
Speaker 2: Then we pan over and Alex is weirdly staring into
Speaker 2: the eyes of the bust that he's bought of Plato
Speaker 2: or whatever. And then Jim has bought this two thousand
Speaker 2: and one esque painting of monolith, kind of.
Speaker 1: With a cloud resting in the middle of a starfield
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: It's I thought it was like an island in the
Speaker 2: middle of the water with heavenly lines coming off of it.
Speaker 1: It was very, very much what art.
Speaker 2: So. And then of course Louis walks in and he's
Speaker 2: bought I don't know why this would have been on
Speaker 2: sale and a reputable art auction, but he's bought a
Speaker 2: cheesy black velvet nude. That's like the size. It's huge.
Speaker 2: It's like four foot by two foot or something. It's big.
Speaker 1: It's a landscape velvet oil painting. It's not a nude,
Speaker 1: by the way. She's fully closed, sure, but it may
Speaker 1: as well be a nude. I mean, she's a preveyor
Speaker 1: of velvet paintings. I now am the proud owner of many.
Speaker 1: I gotta say that it was a fine painting.
Speaker 2: It was fine.
Speaker 1: Of all the art purchased. Honestly, that's the one I
Speaker 1: would probably hang.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just said you'd want the Bobby's painting of this.
Speaker 1: I say, I love Bobby's painting, but when I really
Speaker 1: consider it, I would think, what are you doing? Man's
Speaker 1: It really is just a wall socket.
Speaker 2: But Louise is just an excuse for a one final
Speaker 2: laugh before the show is over. And we get that.
Speaker 1: That's fine.
Speaker 2: That is the end of the episode. Now, as is
Speaker 2: our custom, let's talk yellow lights. What does a yellow
Speaker 2: light me? Just a reminder we grave these on a
Speaker 2: scale from one to five yellow lights. One is the
Speaker 2: worst taxi episode and five is the best taxi episode.
Speaker 2: And as is our custom, also, I'm gonna throw it
Speaker 2: to you to give us your grade on artwork.
Speaker 1: Father alone, you can consider me at the golf course, HB.
Speaker 1: Because I'm on in four four four yellow lights?
Speaker 2: Why did you knock it down one from perfection? Let
Speaker 2: me ask that.
Speaker 1: It's not. The ending was kind of modeless.
Speaker 2: You're hung up on this Alex thing with the bust.
Speaker 1: I didn't like it all right. Also, I also I
Speaker 1: didn't like I didn't like Naggy Lane at the beginning.
Speaker 2: I didn't mind it so much, and that's why I
Speaker 2: gave it five yellow lights, the coveted five yellow lights,
Speaker 2: because this, as I said before, Father Malone, you can
Speaker 2: wag your you can nod your head or shake your
Speaker 2: head at me all you want, but you did you
Speaker 2: totally kind of like went like this.
Speaker 1: Didn't at all. Listeners, he's lying there.
Speaker 2: You gave me the gas face from just then. That's
Speaker 2: what you did.
Speaker 1: Always give you the gas face with the permanent gas look.
Speaker 2: El Roy, el Roy Cohen gets the gas face. My
Speaker 2: reasons are very simple. This is the rare instance where
Speaker 2: all of the cabvi's are present and involved in the plot.
Speaker 2: This to me is taxi ensemble comedy. It's finest. Five
Speaker 2: yellow lights from me, four yellow lights from father.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I'm amending mine. Now, okay, I'm going to three.
Speaker 1: I'm going to three strictly out of spite. Okay, why
Speaker 1: because you came at me for some head thing that
Speaker 1: didn't occur. So I'm now nullifying your perfect score by
Speaker 1: removing one of my stars.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, this is being recorded on zoom.
Speaker 2: I'll play it back for you and you'll see that
Speaker 2: you didn't know you were doing it, but you gave
Speaker 2: me a shake of the head.
Speaker 1: Listen, man, I'm bobbing, I'm bobbing, I'm weaving. That's what
Speaker 1: I do over on my end of things. Okay, But
Speaker 1: why would you take.
Speaker 2: It out on the Why would you take it out
Speaker 2: on the episode though that it's done nothing to you?
Speaker 1: Who's taking out in the episode you did?
Speaker 2: You're knocking it down one light just because I accuse
Speaker 2: you of nodding your.
Speaker 1: Head right, there are consequences to your actions in Sunshine Cab,
Speaker 1: my man, whatever.
Speaker 2: I you know what, there's such a thing called integrity.
Speaker 1: Father Malone, bing bing bing, that's three three other lights?
Speaker 2: All right? Anyway, before this thing gets docked even more,
Speaker 2: we're going to stop it. There. Five for me, three
Speaker 2: from Father Malone. That's going to do it for this
Speaker 2: episode of night, Mister Walters, Father Malone, where can the
Speaker 2: people find you when you're not clocked into the garage?
Speaker 1: I have a show called Midnight Viewing. It's on twice
Speaker 1: a week Mondays. It's Father Malone's weekly round up where
Speaker 1: we look at all the new stuff that came out
Speaker 1: over the weekend. And on Fridays it alternates between the
Speaker 1: Horror Anthology podcast where we look at horror anthology television
Speaker 1: currently looking at Tales from the Dark Side and anthologies Attack,
Speaker 1: which I do with Antonio Lapour, where we look at
Speaker 1: anthologies of every variety and genre.
Speaker 2: Movie wise, I entreat you check out the weekly Roundup.
Speaker 2: It's a great well. First of all, it's a great
Speaker 2: primer for the kind of content that you can get
Speaker 2: from Father Malone. I love it. It's a great capsule
Speaker 2: of things that are coming out on streaming or any
Speaker 2: new movies coming out that week. He gives you a
Speaker 2: leg up on what to expect. He gives his opinion
Speaker 2: on them. It's funny. I just love it. It's great.
Speaker 2: It's a great way to start your week. And I'm gonna,
Speaker 2: you know what, Father Malone, I'm going to listen to
Speaker 2: that as soon as we're done recording this. That's what
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry though.
Speaker 2: As for myself, you can find me also in other
Speaker 2: areas of the weirding Way Network. I do a podcast.
Speaker 2: I've taken over a podcast called Noise Junkies, which is
Speaker 2: a music podcast that I've been enjoying doing some new
Speaker 2: episodes dropping on that, so please check that out. I'm
Speaker 2: also an occasional guest on The Culture Cast with Chris
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, yes you did. It's really finally, man.
Speaker 2: It's been how many years of me saying, well, new content.
Speaker 2: So it's an album called Wired and Waiting. I'm very
Speaker 2: very pleased with it. If you like kind of eighties synthwave, synthpop,
Speaker 2: old eighties action movie soundtrack stuff, this is I get
Speaker 2: you covered. Please check it out. It's free to listen to.
Speaker 1: Quarter Flash in there too. Man, I've heard some quarter
Speaker 1: Flash in there.
Speaker 2: Quarterfly. I don't have any saxophone, though.
Speaker 1: You don't need sacks to be quarter flash.
Speaker 2: That's fair, That's fair. Anyway, it was a lot of
Speaker 2: fun to do, and I'm so proud of this new album,
Speaker 2: so please check it out. I think you'll be you'll
Speaker 2: be happy listening to it. So anyway, like I said,
Speaker 2: that's going to do it for this episode. Thank you
Speaker 2: for listening. Please feel free to subscribe to this podcast,
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Speaker 2: and for Father Malone. Thanks again for listening and we'll
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