Appendix O.1

Date
Monday, 11/2/2020, 3:00 pm Length: 1:47:22

Title
The Day A Little Choppiness Didn’t Prevent The James Bond Chord, A Perfect Song Cycle Or The LisztPocalypse (When Josh Played [*Along To] Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 In C-Sharp Minor) From Happening

Link
Facebook Video: https://facebook.com/2675426212772212

Noteworthy Details
Special Episode Location: Living Room Secret Surprise Special Guest: N/A

Summary
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Episode Description

 * Switching to EST over the weekend!
 * [Placeholder]

Quotes and Taglines:

 * (on chat comments that beginning of show was “choppy”)
 * Mary: Josh, that broadcast was kind of choppy. It was amazing — amazing — but it was kind of choppy. Everything here is set up as it normally is, so we’re just gonna keep doing what we do.
 * Josh: So it was choppy, but also amazing?
 * Mary: It was both!
 * Josh: That seems kind of strange.
 * Mary: Hashtag 2020NeverNotWeird — choppy and amazing.
 * Josh: When you say choppy, you mean like it looked like I was chopping cuts of meat on the keyboard with, ** like, a meat cleaver?
 * Mary: Were you cutting chops of meat on the keyboard?
 * Josh: Well, no I wasn’t. That’s why I’m confused.
 * Mary: It didn’t look like it and if you were doing that, it would be weird. I’m not sure that would be amazing, though. It would be choppy and weird.
 * Josh: I think it’d be amazing if someone was, like, cutting meat while they were playing a song at the same time.
 * Mary: It’s OK if we don’t agree on that. We don’t always agree on what’s amazing versus not amazing, right?
 * Josh: Hey, it’s the 7th-Inning Stretch!
 * (after showing 1982 Fleer card of Mike Jorgensen of the Mets [not baseball card of the week])
 * Josh: I did not know that the guy from Quindar and Expandards and what’s that other band, Wilco? … (I) did not know that he was a first baseman for the Mets in the early 80s.
 * Mary: Impressive!
 * Josh: I know. And now I gotta look up his career stats to see how good he was. I mean, don’t quit your day job, right?
 * Mary: Those guys from Wilco, they have lots of side projects. They’re, like, super creative and active. They do a lot of other stuff.
 * Josh: Right, so you’re saying this was one of Mike’s artistic side projects was playing first base for the not-very-good Mets in the early 80s.
 * Mary: Yeah! Well it’s a side project, right?
 * Josh: So he wasn’t giving it his all, necessarily. But sometimes the side projects are the ones they’re the most passionate about…
 * “Round of applause for the one and only Reverend Producer Mary! She’s a reverend, she’s a producer, she’s a Mary. She’s here. She keeps it real. She’s monitoring the chat to make sure you guys don’t get too clever on me…”
 * “Maybe that’s what this show should be, instead of taking song requests, I just take chord requests? Somebody could be like, ‘Can you play a D-major with the third in the bass?’ Sounds great, right? Count that as a request, even though I’m the one who made it and it wasn’t even a song…” (on request to play “the 007 chord” following death of Sean Connery; note: the “James Bond chord” is “an E-minor, major 9…it’s a minor triad, but then it has, like, a major 7 on top.”)
 * “I’m gonna let you guys in on a little show secret: Any time I say maybe we should blah, blah, blah, don’t do it. Don’t do it, please. Thank you. It’s all I ask. It’s not all I ask; it’s pretty much all I ask. Support a food bank if you can. Don’t do something if I say maybe we should do it.” (on “chord request” show idea)
 * “Let’s see…we gotta get rid of some of these (requests). There’s still too many. I thinned out the board and there’s still too many. How many requests have I played, two? We’re doing great.”
 * “That was choppy. I’m out of practice or something. Maybe I can’t do two shows in a week anymore. I don’t know…I’m feeling really, like, kind of wobbly today. I don’t know, I just am.” (after semi-struggling on Sharp Dressed Man)
 * “This might be a perfect song. I’m gonna try to decide between the time when I start playing it and the time when I stop playing it whether it’s a perfect song. … Friggin’ jazz chords. ” (on Georgia On My Mind)
 * (after Mary accidentally sings a bit of the previous song, Carly Simon’s Anticipation, while Josh is trying to figure out Robert Palmer’s Simply Irresistible)
 * Josh (smiling): What? Dude!
 * Mary (uproariously laughing): Dude! That’s like a cardinal sin or (something)! Now I’ve got Anticipation in my head…
 * Josh (smiling): Well, keep it in your head.
 * Mary (still laughing): I’ve got to keep it in my head. Sometimes it’s really hard to keep things in your head and not just (let it out)…
 * Josh: Is it?
 * Mary (laughing): For me — for Mary Jane Eaton — it is. Not for Josh Kantor.
 * “I don’t think this counts, me noodling along to a recording of it. I don’t think that counts as having played it. That’s me. I have standards. What can I say?” (on deciding to play along with a recording of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor by Franz Liszt)
 * “Ugh, that sucked. I did it. JayEm, I hope you’re happy. You know what, I don’t even care if you’re happy or not. If you’re happy, that’s fine; if you’re not, there’s nothing I can do. I try to make people happy on this show; I do my best. I’ve played, like, 3,000 different songs, 130-some episodes (of) songs, jokes, cautionary tales, baseball giveaways, all kind of things that we do on this show. JayEm’s a big part of it. He’s definitely strong-armed a lot of people into making food-bank donations, which is pretty great. “You guys know I don’t have classical chops, right? I mean, I’ve said it so many times and now I’ve proven it. That’s all right. That’s all right. I would say getting my classical chops up is not high on my priority list of work I need to do.” (after finally playing viewer JayEm’s long-standing request for Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 In C-Sharp Minor by Franz Liszt)
 * “Attendance is optional for you guys, mandatory for me and Mary. Also, you can watch it in the past or in the future or in the present, whatever you like Or not at all — also totally fine. But still support a food bank.”

Baseball Card of the Week

 * Gary Ward (1982 Fleer)

Player of the Week

 * N/A

Album of the Week

 * The Trumpet Kings (Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie and Clark Terry) – At The Montreux Jazz Festival 1975

Hatter or No-Hatter?

 * No-hatter

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