Rob and Josh share some Diet Coke, just for the taste of it!

BBDC

• 2 scoops Vanilla Ice Cream
• 2 oz Diet Coke Syrup
• 1 cup Frozen Michigan Cherries
• Blend
• Top with Diet Coke

Our guest confesses to "light stealing" and picks the 20 people he'll be saving from the upcoming apocalypse.

Priest: Padraic Connelly
Confessor: Rob Grabowski

Michigan's baddest bad boy, Rob Grabowski, plays the only game where You! Can! Win! 8! Dollars! Rob flaunts his knowledge of Michiganders behaving badly, probes the depths of his own social media, and makes you cry with a monologue you'll Oogielove. 

But can he win $8!??!

ROB GRABOWSKI and LAURA MARSH board the S.S. PopFury and set sail for silliness! We discuss performing on cruise ships, the ship life, bad auditions and Laura’s newest obsession with animal noises!

SHOW NOTES

0:00 Intro

1:10 Rob is leaving Chicago to perform for Second City on a cruise ship for 4 ½ months!

4:05 After college, Laura worked on a cruise ship for Disney. SAMMY HAS ALL THE QUESTIONS!

“It is very similar to being wrapped up in a carpet and doing aerobics in the sunshine.”

10:40 Laura recalls her Disney audition.

14:10 Rob and Laura discuss the ins and outs of ship life.

21:40 Sammy wonders if Rob is a sell-out. Rob thinks Laura is a furry.

“Actors are horrible people.”

24:00 We commiserate over bad auditions and learn from Laura’s mistakes. Rob once auditioned for a talking air conditioner. Sammy learns what their "types" are.

41:00 Laura’s favorite new thing is teaching animal noises to her nephew. Sammy wonders what Laura and Rob would want their children to learn from them.

48:00 Outro, where Rob continually corrects Laura on her plugs and discover Laura let her website expire.

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It's been a joke for so long it had to happen eventually -- this week, Talking Games becomes... something different. Tim plus guests Rob Grabowski and Mike Chuck Bretzlaff spend an episode at the theater for Talking Musicals! They're going to look at the Resident Evil stage play, Biohazard: The Stage, which you can watch on YouTube if you're a brave individual!
Thanks to Cards Against Humanity for sponsoring this episode, and thanks as always to the Chicago Podcast Coop for existing.

ROB GRABOWSKI  (@RobGrabo) and BETHANY REMELY (@thebremely) get real--and real funny--when we talk about unemployment, life anxiety, relationship red flags, and too many tattoos. Oh, and celebrity doppelgängers. 

SHOW NOTES

0:00 Intro

1:40 Rob lost his job in February. He recently temped for the National Restaurant Association where became “Andrew from Toronto”

5:30 A bunch teens said Rob looks like Kevin from the Office. Bethany looks like Carol Hannah from Project Runway.

8:15 Bethany has a lot of anxiety about her life and ran to the podcast taping.

“My uterus is slowly crumbling. Every month is a potential baby I’m fluting away.”

10:50 Sammy relentlessly grills Bethany about her the sources of her anxiety. Along the way we discuss comparing our lives to our non-comedy friends, scheduling social time, taking a break, and ‘acquaintances’ vs ‘friends’

26:40 Bethany has trouble watching movies, no matter how short they are so she’s reading books instead.

31:35 She’s been thinking about what she can do of social value with comedy.

“Looking back it was probably cocaine.”

34:00 Rob and Bethany share the relationship red flags they ignored in their 20s.

39:15 Please listen to our friends at the Rabbit Hole and Remake podcasts

40:40 Surprisingly, a British man with 29 Miley Cyrus tattoos says they’re negatively affecting his life. Bethany chickened out of getting a tattoo but once had a pierced nipple.

46:40 A Texas town installed a statue of girls taking a selfie

49:00 Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are cracking down on reported content...and sometimes crackdowns adversely affect comedians and burlesque performers.

“That kid needs to learn some Stranger Danger.”

52:55 A Grandfather took the wrong kid home from school.

54:55 Outro

Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this episode of the PopFury Podcast, please subscribe and rate us on iTunes or Stitcher! You can also listen to PopFury on Google Play Music!

Flintstones and Jetsons, British Office and American Office, Talking Games and Remake -- truly the great crossovers in media history. This week, the hosts of Remake: The Podcast join us for a LIVE EPISODE that sees us turn a classic film into a hit game and vice versa. Get ready for some Jaleel White Birdman action and collect enough points to earn your wings as we discuss It's a Wonderful Life and Sonic the Hedgehog!
Remake: The Podcast is great and you can find it here!
Thanks to Cards Against Humanity for sponsoring (and hosting) this meeting of the minds, and thanks as always to the Chicago Podcast Coop!