Appendix E

Date
Monday, 8/24/2020, 3:00 pm Length: 1:57:10

Title
The Day Secret Surprise Special Guest Kay Hanley Filled Up The Swear Jar And Josh Sort Of Forgot How To Do The Show, Then Showed He Had “Standards” And Played A Special Birthday Song For SteveDave

Link
Facebook Video: https://facebook.com/223201732456031

Noteworthy Details
Regular Episode Location: Living Room Secret Surprise Special Guest: Musician Kay Hanley, from Letters to Cleo

Summary
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Episode Description

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Quotes and Taglines:

 * “Every episode we do the 7th-Inning Stretch. And for the first 120, which were daily, we counted the episodes — 1 through 120. And we’ve been doing it since then on a weekly basis ever since Major League Baseball resumed. So this the fifth of the weeklies, and so we’ve been lettering them —Appendix A, B, C and so forth. So today is Appendix E episode. Not that that means anything or has any significance, it’s just for naming purposes. For 50 years from now, when this show is being studied in Professor Kristine Kmr’s graduate seminar, they’ll be able to say, like, ‘Oh, right, wasn’t that in Appendix E where Josh forgot how to do a show? Yes it was...”
 * “This way you get to look at me on a screen — in two dimensions. (The other way) is three dimensions; that’s one dimension too many. Nobody wants to look at me in three dimensions. Two, I can hack it.” (on “new” Facebook chat problems)
 * “If I know it, or I think I can fake my way through it, I will take a crack at it — even if it’s a terrible song. You guys know this about me: I have no standards. Except for, like, song standards. … Like My Funny Valentine, right? That’s a standard, right? Have I played MFV on this show before? Nobody knows, nobody cares.”
 * “We’ve got these birthdays, and we’ve got this birthday song...”
 * “Where the heck is full screen? This a very professional operation, you guys. Very professional.” (trying to simultaneously set up screen for SSSG Kay Hanley and also give his written introduction)
 * “Are we swearing here? That’s like, ‘Kay, stop breathing.” (Kay Hanley, during SSSG conversation)
 * “I think your gig is really funny because you’re the unassuming guy and obviously a very talented keyboard player with lots of cool gear, but then when people find out what you do — that, like, you’re the Fenway organist — I mean, it’s like you’re fucking Bono. It’s the ultimate behind-the-scenes gig.” (Kay Hanley, on Josh, during SSSG conversation)
 * “We should play some songs, right?”
 * Josh: SteveDave’s been a great supporter of the show for a long, long time, so I wanted to give him a special birthday treat, this song that I wrote for him. Have I written it yet? No. Am I about to write it right now, on the spot? Yes. Will I have written it after it’s been performed, momentarily? Yes. How long can I stall before that happens? I don’t know. OK, how’s this song go? Mary: I don’t know. Do you know? Josh: We’re about to find out.


 * Josh: That was the eighth-worst song I’ve ever written.
 * “You don’t mess with stuff when you time travel; otherwise the ramifications could be Michael J. Fox could end up kissing his mom in a Studebaker.” (on Kelly Hogan’s future hypothetical bingo card)
 * “Van Morrison, that guy sure knows how to use two chords over and over and over and then throw in a couple others.” (after playing Domino)
 * (RPM) “We should have had (Kay) on Appendix F for all of the F-bombs that she dropped, actually. We might want to rename this Appendix F.”

Baseball Card of the Week

 * Team photo of 1936 West Newton (Mass.) Colored Giants: [placeholder]

Player of the Week

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Album of the Week

 * Syreeta - Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta

Hatter or No-Hatter?

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