The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)

Hell yeah

Will See

26:24 Roberts has added another 7 credits to his name since this podcast was recorded :O

AMC popcorn. Get the refill with a box upfront. Don’t have to leave the movie.

RIP Beansie. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/movies/paul-herman-dead.html

Sean Hutchinson

The Manpon bit was debasing, foul, and low. Loved it!

william o'connor

re: wishing Bill Paxton was still around to save Marvel He actually made it into Marvel! Bill Paxton had a major recurring role in the first season of Agents of SHIELD and he was great. His son James Paxton was in the final season, playing the same character in a few time-travel episodes. I thought that was very sweet. Powers Boothe also had a pretty big role in the show shortly before he passed away.

Stephen Cass

"hahaha", or one of these guys: 😆

Stephen Cass

I actually do favor 3 musketeers. Got my abz timing here

HumanGoblin

I really appreciated the watch talk from Stanger at the end, especially the specific that Tissot is more obtainable than Rolex. I'm starting to think I might be the Stanger of my friend group.

David Bauer

Betting on Hearts is the sign you need an intervention.

Dave McM

I have listened to this episode 3 times now! Stanger is just so damn good…I can’t get enough! Kisses for Stanger yall 💋

PizzaCrustPunk

Action Faction: what’s your go-to method for typing laughter? A haha, lol, 🤣? How reserved are you with lmao? Do you never have cause to express laughter?

one of my first jobs in high school was dishwasher at Red Robin. The dude I was replacing had just won $500,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire(with Regis!), I felt great for him cuz he was gay and real nerdy, a lot of the high school age meat heads in the kitchen made fun of him.

Jon Smith

Oh damn good pull for the poker thing. I feel like i just missed it (i'm 33) but there was still a looot of poker played in college.

Matt Brown

Of course they did. Now that I’m thinking of it, I think dishwasher is a good ABZ listener job. I used to do it about 60 hours a week at one point. It’s so fucking hot and wet and exhausting.

Sean

I worked an event where Karl Rove spoke. They made all us lowly servants leave the hall when he came in.

John Blood

Side note: I was working there summer of 2016 when Trump was campaigning. He came to our banquet hall for a rich person Republican luncheon, and it was a complete nightmare to work. We had to hide in the back while he walked through our kitchen on his way to speak, and the secret service guys (both suits and tactical dudes) were everywhere. They had to inspect every dish (dirty or clean) that went in and out of our kitchen. And of course all the assault rifles doesn’t make work fun. Secret service people were cool, but obviously all the trump people were a complete nightmare. We gave the secret service / campaign people some leftover sandwiches for lunch, but that didn’t stop one super slimy haired campaign PR guy from coming up to my boss and asking if she could have the kitchen grill him up some steaks. She of course said no, and the dude got pissed. Would not recommend working a trump event (especially not for $11/hr). A couple years later we found out that our town (a medium-sized wisconsin town) had billed Trump for the stop, but he never paid. So he cost our town about 5K of taxpayer money. Highlight of the event was seeing crazy Rudy there, off to the side taking phone calls.

Sean

Yo, respect. I did a few tours in kitchens of various stripes. Brutal.

John Blood

Restaurant work is brutal. Worked at a fancy restaurant for nearly five years in a variety of roles (mostly catering, but intermittently picked up side work dishwashing, hosting, helping out in the kitchen, etc.). Exhausting work that never pays enough. It’s no wonder that most cooks (or at least the ones I worked with) all have drinking problems, anger issues, cigarette addictions, and never stay at one place for long. Working 12-16 hour days 6 days a week in a hot fucking kitchen absolutely kills your soul.

Sean

When the pandemic first started there were articles about how a lot of young people who were doing sports betting had no sports to bet on so they started day trading on the stock market to chase that dragon. It's not particularly surprising when you think about how much money all those betting apps spend and promote. I know I'd have been betting non-stop if they were available during college. I'm in the age range where when poker really blew up in the early 2000's every guy I knew was having poker nights and playing online poker. A friend of mine lost thousands to online poker in college. It was insane.

Scott Tammel

I waited tables for years. At a nice place you can make so much money. But it's soul crushing. Youre degraded from the moment you walk in until you leave for the night.

John Blood

I did some work with a bar account that landed a big sponsorship deal with Fanduel to be like an official sports betting bar. I was expecting it to look like an Otb in there all March long but a lot of the customers sitting there drinking and placing bets were between 21-25. I had no idea Gen Zers were so into gambling but they are, apparently. My hypothesis is its an extension of the grindy/sidegig culture? Trying to secure the bag by parlaying the Scottish Premierleague? Anyways, if Hearts of Midlothian don't win this weekend I lose my house. Good episode!

Matt Brown