FULL SHOW (Friday, Nov 13): Jeremy Piven, Cam Parker on Texas at LSU, Potluck Season, and Johnny Depp's Scrooge
Congratulations, Dennis: The Sheet Cake Potluck Plan and Mezcal Explained
What happens if you bring a sheet cake to the office potluck with a name nobody knows?
It is the Friday wrap-up, and the crew runs through the things they learned this week. With the potluck spreadsheet nearly full, the plan is a sheet cake from H-E-B that says Congratulations, Dennis, and then say nothing. Nobody in the office is named Dennis, and everybody agrees it is hilarious.
Then it is on to the big game: Longhorns at LSU in Baton Rouge, a 6:30 kickoff, and a tailgate scene full of smokers and pots big enough to need a boat paddle. Tricia asks what mezcal is after Jeremy Piven mentioned it, JB explains the smokier cousin of tequila, and the room remembers trash can punch.
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It is the Friday wrap-up, and the crew runs through the things they learned this week. With the potluck spreadsheet nearly full, the plan is a sheet cake from H-E-B that says Congratulations, Dennis, and then say nothing. Nobody in the office is named Dennis, and everybody agrees it is hilarious.
Then it is on to the big game: Longhorns at LSU in Baton Rouge, a 6:30 kickoff, and a tailgate scene full of smokers and pots big enough to need a boat paddle. Tricia asks what mezcal is after Jeremy Piven mentioned it, JB explains the smokier cousin of tequila, and the room remembers trash can punch.
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Johnny Depp Plays Scrooge, and Dolly Parton's Last Song Is Here
Is a darker Christmas Carol exactly what the holidays need?
Steven Presley from Thunderpop TV joins JB, Sandy and Tricia to talk Johnny Depp's first major release in 10 years. Depp plays Ebenezer Scrooge in a darker take on the Dickens classic from director Ty West, who is known for horror, and Steven says he uses the scares in just the right places, especially when the ghosts show up. The crew wonders if the trial boosted Depp's stock, whether another Pirates of the Caribbean is coming, and Sandy has a few jokes about the housekeeping bill.
Then the talk turns to Torn, the last song Dolly Parton recorded, a collaboration with Bono and U2 just two months before she passed. Steven explains the two versions, the letter Dolly wrote to Bono, and who co-wrote it.
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Steven Presley from Thunderpop TV joins JB, Sandy and Tricia to talk Johnny Depp's first major release in 10 years. Depp plays Ebenezer Scrooge in a darker take on the Dickens classic from director Ty West, who is known for horror, and Steven says he uses the scares in just the right places, especially when the ghosts show up. The crew wonders if the trial boosted Depp's stock, whether another Pirates of the Caribbean is coming, and Sandy has a few jokes about the housekeeping bill.
Then the talk turns to Torn, the last song Dolly Parton recorded, a collaboration with Bono and U2 just two months before she passed. Steven explains the two versions, the letter Dolly wrote to Bono, and who co-wrote it.
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Potluck Season Survival: Brownie Bites, Narnia Coworkers, and Dad's $2 Ice
Whose potluck dish would you secretly refuse to eat?
Sandy declares potluck season open as Thanksgiving gets closer, and Tricia admits she struggles with eating food from certain people's kitchens. The crew breaks down sign-up sheet strategy, where the first person to reply always grabs the brownie bites from H-E-B and the green beans get stuck at the bottom of the list. Then there is the mystery guy who walks in the front door of the office and vanishes, like there is a door to Narnia somewhere in the back. Best potluck plan yet: a bowl of ice labeled family recipe.
Sandy also shares a family laugh from Nebraska. His dad's refrigerator ice maker had been broken for six or seven years, and his dad would rather buy $2 bags of ice every other day than pay to fix it. Now Mom wants a whole new fridge, and the crew swaps stories about the den couch and the one room where the husband won.
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Sandy declares potluck season open as Thanksgiving gets closer, and Tricia admits she struggles with eating food from certain people's kitchens. The crew breaks down sign-up sheet strategy, where the first person to reply always grabs the brownie bites from H-E-B and the green beans get stuck at the bottom of the list. Then there is the mystery guy who walks in the front door of the office and vanishes, like there is a door to Narnia somewhere in the back. Best potluck plan yet: a bowl of ice labeled family recipe.
Sandy also shares a family laugh from Nebraska. His dad's refrigerator ice maker had been broken for six or seven years, and his dad would rather buy $2 bags of ice every other day than pay to fix it. Now Mom wants a whole new fridge, and the crew swaps stories about the den couch and the one room where the husband won.
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Death Valley Under the Lights: Cam Parker Breaks Down Texas at LSU
Can a three-loss SEC team still crash the College Football Playoff?
Cam Parker from sister station AM 1300 The Zone joins JB, Sandy and Tricia ahead of the Longhorns' night game in Baton Rouge. Cam calls it the SEC gauntlet: beat Missouri, then head straight into Death Valley against an LSU team limping after Alabama rolled them in the fourth quarter. Texas sits at number six in the playoff rankings with two losses, and Cam explains why a deep SEC could still send a three-loss team to the playoff, while JB predicts the rest of the country will be irate.
Cam also shares where to watch the game in Austin and Round Rock, and Tricia asks her go-to question: what is the prediction and the final score? He likes the Longhorns, 27 to 21.
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Cam Parker from sister station AM 1300 The Zone joins JB, Sandy and Tricia ahead of the Longhorns' night game in Baton Rouge. Cam calls it the SEC gauntlet: beat Missouri, then head straight into Death Valley against an LSU team limping after Alabama rolled them in the fourth quarter. Texas sits at number six in the playoff rankings with two losses, and Cam explains why a deep SEC could still send a three-loss team to the playoff, while JB predicts the rest of the country will be irate.
Cam also shares where to watch the game in Austin and Round Rock, and Tricia asks her go-to question: what is the prediction and the final score? He likes the Longhorns, 27 to 21.
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Story We Love: Bring a Bottle, Get In Free at Austin Nature Centers
What if one plastic bottle was your ticket to a day outside?
Tricia has the Story We Love. In celebration of Texas Recycles Day, H-E-B is covering admission at 20 nature centers across the state. Bring one recyclable plastic bottle or one single-use plastic bag per person and you are in. Around Austin that includes the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment in San Marcos, Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center in Round Mountain, and the Wild Basin research center.
The crew loves H-E-B's year-round recycling push and the great weather, then the talk turns to Longhorns game plans and the legend of the lucky boob, which did not go well the last time JB and Sandy tried it.
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Tricia has the Story We Love. In celebration of Texas Recycles Day, H-E-B is covering admission at 20 nature centers across the state. Bring one recyclable plastic bottle or one single-use plastic bag per person and you are in. Around Austin that includes the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment in San Marcos, Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center in Round Mountain, and the Wild Basin research center.
The crew loves H-E-B's year-round recycling push and the great weather, then the talk turns to Longhorns game plans and the legend of the lucky boob, which did not go well the last time JB and Sandy tried it.
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Jeremy Piven, Part 2: Austin Hangouts and the Road to Stand-Up
What does a Hollywood actor do with a free night in Austin?
In part 2, new Austinite Jeremy Piven shares his routine: cigars and mezcal at a little bar off Sixth Street, a set at the Creek and the Cave, and the Mothership, the room Joe Rogan designed with low ceilings made for stand-up. In Austin, he says, you can get an IV and red light therapy or be a degenerate, whatever you want.
JB points out nobody should be surprised he is doing stand-up, and Jeremy walks through his roots: performing as a kid, studying Shakespeare at the National Theatre of Great Britain, and Second City sketch comedy with Chris Farley in the 90s. He also opens up about growing up at the Piven Theatre, watching his father call strangers out of the phone book to fill seats, and why getting on the radio to talk comedy means so much to him. And yes, he ran lines with his mom. Not those kind of lines.
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In part 2, new Austinite Jeremy Piven shares his routine: cigars and mezcal at a little bar off Sixth Street, a set at the Creek and the Cave, and the Mothership, the room Joe Rogan designed with low ceilings made for stand-up. In Austin, he says, you can get an IV and red light therapy or be a degenerate, whatever you want.
JB points out nobody should be surprised he is doing stand-up, and Jeremy walks through his roots: performing as a kid, studying Shakespeare at the National Theatre of Great Britain, and Second City sketch comedy with Chris Farley in the 90s. He also opens up about growing up at the Piven Theatre, watching his father call strangers out of the phone book to fill seats, and why getting on the radio to talk comedy means so much to him. And yes, he ran lines with his mom. Not those kind of lines.
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Jeremy Piven, Part 1: 'Are You Ari Gold, or Was That a Character?'
What do you do when people still think you are the character you played?
Actor and comedian Jeremy Piven, Ari Gold from Entourage, joins JB, Sandy and Tricia ahead of his stand-up shows at Cap City Comedy Club. Asked which project he enjoyed most, Jeremy points to a film he has been working on for over a decade that nobody has seen yet. Then he tells the story of a fan who sat through a full hour of his stand-up, all about who he really is and the mom who was his acting teacher, and then asked, 'Are you Ari Gold, or was that a character you were playing?'
The crew reminds him he was not really a college dean in Old School either, and Jeremy shares how he became friends with Arch Manning backstage at Cap City, plus his theory that Arch is the first guy he has ever met who rounds his height down.
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Actor and comedian Jeremy Piven, Ari Gold from Entourage, joins JB, Sandy and Tricia ahead of his stand-up shows at Cap City Comedy Club. Asked which project he enjoyed most, Jeremy points to a film he has been working on for over a decade that nobody has seen yet. Then he tells the story of a fan who sat through a full hour of his stand-up, all about who he really is and the mom who was his acting teacher, and then asked, 'Are you Ari Gold, or was that a character you were playing?'
The crew reminds him he was not really a college dean in Old School either, and Jeremy shares how he became friends with Arch Manning backstage at Cap City, plus his theory that Arch is the first guy he has ever met who rounds his height down.
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Story We Love: The Great Microsoft Outage and the Breakfast Taco Red Alert
Did you think your email was broken just because of you?
It starts with theories about a rodent chewing through the cables or a copper thief, and a group verdict that copper and catalytic converter thieves are the lowest of the low. Then Tricia has the Story We Love on what is being called the biggest IT outage ever: jurors sent home, people calling 911 by phone, health staff locked out, and more than 74 countries reporting problems.
One of the crew admits running a search to see if it was a cyber attack, the iHeart tech team sends a hopeful update, and the crew laughs about office workers sword fighting with highlighters. Is it the first salvo of an AI uprising, or a prank to send us back to the 90s? Either way, it only gets truly scary when you can't get breakfast tacos.
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It starts with theories about a rodent chewing through the cables or a copper thief, and a group verdict that copper and catalytic converter thieves are the lowest of the low. Then Tricia has the Story We Love on what is being called the biggest IT outage ever: jurors sent home, people calling 911 by phone, health staff locked out, and more than 74 countries reporting problems.
One of the crew admits running a search to see if it was a cyber attack, the iHeart tech team sends a hopeful update, and the crew laughs about office workers sword fighting with highlighters. Is it the first salvo of an AI uprising, or a prank to send us back to the 90s? Either way, it only gets truly scary when you can't get breakfast tacos.
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Care Don't Care: Fajitas at a Birthday Dinner and the 12-Second Wi-Fi Rage
Is it rude to order sizzling fajitas at somebody else's birthday dinner?
Tricia brings the great fajita debate to Care Don't Care: people online have argued for years that the sizzle steals the spotlight from the birthday person. Not everyone is buying it, and the conversation detours into fajitas' Austin roots and a fajita legend who apparently still owes one of the guys money.
Next up, Wi-Fi rage. A survey says people only last 12 seconds waiting for a page to load before they lose it, which sparks a riff on attention spans and a family trip to Switzerland spent chasing Wi-Fi, pretzels and chocolate. And the update everyone wanted: the drunk raccoon who passed out in a Virginia liquor store has inspired shirts that raised 250 thousand dollars for animal control.
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Tricia brings the great fajita debate to Care Don't Care: people online have argued for years that the sizzle steals the spotlight from the birthday person. Not everyone is buying it, and the conversation detours into fajitas' Austin roots and a fajita legend who apparently still owes one of the guys money.
Next up, Wi-Fi rage. A survey says people only last 12 seconds waiting for a page to load before they lose it, which sparks a riff on attention spans and a family trip to Switzerland spent chasing Wi-Fi, pretzels and chocolate. And the update everyone wanted: the drunk raccoon who passed out in a Virginia liquor store has inspired shirts that raised 250 thousand dollars for animal control.
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