126: The Man Who Would Be Polka King

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4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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UMMMMMM, So we have a lot of questions. We can’t wait for you to meet Jan Lewan, the “Polka God” at the center of this thing. But we also can’t wait for you to meet his wife Rhonda, who definitely didn’t win the Mrs. Pennsylvania 1998 pageant, no matter what she tells you. And look, there’s no getting around it, there’s a lot of polka and super old people in this one. But also fraud and a SUPER PISSED accordion player. Also, The Pope (do you capitalize the The in The Pope? Whatever) makes an appearance, and Patrick gets a new drag name. This one is jam packed with laughs at just the right time, so enjoy and then CALL YOUR MOTHER, she’s wondering how you’re doing.

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0:33.4	as these two people. Wait, wait, wait, wait, look in an actual movie version of this.
0:37.6	Yeah, it's in Netflix like original film. Oh my God. And Jack Black plays Jan Jan. Whatever
0:42.5	you want to call him, he doesn't care. And Jenny Slate plays his wife, but they gave
0:45.1	her a different name for some reason. Mike watched the Jack Black movie first and was
0:48.2	like, girl, you got to watch this. And then we realized there was a documentary about
0:51.7	it. And I was like, no murder. Sign me up. Um, you know what, we should make an album
0:57.3	of what? Jillian Pennsylvania. Patrick, I'm spinning up.
1:02.0	Um, you guys, before we get to the show, two things to talk about. Yeah. Number one,
1:13.5	we launched a podcast network. Sure. We put our new, our first new podcast out, it's
1:17.2	called Obsessed with Abducted in Plain Site. Most of it by me and SkyBorkeman, all about
1:20.7	that crazy bonkers documentary abducted in Plain Site. We just announced our second
1:24.7	show. It's called Obsessed with Disappeared, which is my friend, Ellen Marsh and I recapping
1:28.9	episodes of that ID show that everybody loves disappeared. You might know Ellen Marsh
1:32.5	from our daily harvest ads. Girl, can you clear something up? Oh no. Will you tell
1:39.0	these people exactly where you are not going anywhere? Yeah. So I hate missing person
1:44.3	cases. Number one, welcome to TCO. I legitimately asked Jillian if I could make this with my
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