516: Famous Friends
The Popcast With Knox and Jamie
Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, it’s not about the more you know, but rather, the who you know. We discuss the iconic types of famous friends, longstanding BFFs (Before Fame Friends), and the pairings we desperately wish would exchange friendship bracelets and phone numbers.
MENTIONS
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- Huh?: “To find out more about these fidus achates pursuits…” | Moonlighting
- Fact check: Kim Kardashian was a closet organizer?
- The types of best friends: Bill & Ted | Timone & Pumba | Nick & Jess | Jonathan & David | Dwight & Angela | Buzz & Woody | “We dug coal together” [I am not 100% sure this is what Knox said. It may have been “we dug holes together” or “we grew up together” or could have even been “we did coke together”. -Indi] | Smoke Show Friends | Nepo Babies
- Deeper dives: Mindy Kaling & BJ Novak timeline (<-- includes the most romantic speech ever given by a man about a woman!) | The scandal that ruined Pee Wee Herman’s career | Marcus Mumford & Carey Mulligan timeline
- History check: Matthew Perry beat up Justin Trudeau [<-- Matthew Perry says “love play” here but we still aren’t sure what that means] | Maya Rudolph & Gwenyth Paltrow | Zach Braff & Lauryn Hill | Oprah & John Tesh
- RIP Indi’s search history: Etymology of dick and peter (slang)
- IMDb: The Rock (must listen: Episode 413- The Rock Explained) | Timothy Olyphant (learn: how to pronounce Olyphant)
- Red light mentions: Twitter rebrand | Loki S2 trailer (wow: Owen Wilson supercut)
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| 0:00.0 | And obviously, there's only one real good iteration of this. |
| 0:03.6 | Would you like to guess who the best iteration of this is, Jamie? |
| 0:05.9 | Of Will Day, won't they? |
| 0:07.4 | Will Day, won't they? |
| 0:08.8 | Did they? What did they? |
| 0:10.0 | Did they? |
| 0:12.0 | I feel like the bright answer is Maddie, like, the moon lighting couple. |
| 0:20.0 | The moon. |
| 0:21.0 | This is, don't worry, I'll cut all that. |
| 0:22.6 | So it's fine. |
| 0:23.4 | Don't, like, you're probably on the spot. |
| 0:25.8 | I know, I know, so I thought it was obvious. |
| 0:27.4 | So I was like, this will be like a set up spike. |
| 0:29.5 | And then, did you first see a moon lighting? |
| 0:31.5 | It's not Rachel, I was off. |
| 0:32.5 | And I was like, I don't even know what moon lighting is. |
| 0:34.1 | Is that a, is that a deck? |
| 0:35.1 | Is that a show? |
| 0:36.1 | Is that a movie? |
| 0:37.1 | Cheers! |
| 0:38.1 | Hello, and welcome to episode number five, 16 of the podcasts. |
| 0:47.9 | I'm one of your host, Knox McCoy. |
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