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Jordan, Jesse, GO!

Ep. 648: Think Globally, Goat Locally with Janet Varney

Jordan, Jesse, GO!

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture, Comedy, Tv & Film

4.8 β€’ 3.4K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Janet Varney joins Jordan and Jesse for a discussion of Janet's favorite Arizona regional attraction – Biosphere 2, Jordan's plan to use his cat to spice up Zoom calls, and Jesse's thirty-minute quarantine entertainment window. Plus, we're joined by an actual elected official listener – Mayor Will Cauthen from Cramerton, North Carolina who tells us about what makes his small town special – from the Frolf on Goat Island to the origins of khaki and a famous heist that got turned into a Zach Galifianakis movie.

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0:00.0

Give a little time for the child within you. Don't be afraid to be young and free.

0:05.2

Under the locks and throw away the keys and take coffee shoes and sex and run you.

0:10.5

It's Jordan, Jesse Goe. I'm Jesse Thorn, America's radio sweetheart.

0:14.2

Jordan Mora, a spoid detective. Just happy to be here to wish everybody in our listening audience.

0:21.6

A happy Max Fun Drive last week at the Max Fun Drive and happy analogue.

0:26.7

A happy analogue. A happy everybody. Max Fun Drive without a base without a trace.

0:32.0

Is this the first year that the Max Fun Drive and analogue has to have overlapped?

0:36.2

I think it is the first and it is like two comets colliding into each other.

0:41.5

Right. Yes. Magical. It'll create a rift in time that'll suck us all in.

0:48.5

Did you ever watch the movie of a brief history of time, the the Errol Morris documentary?

0:54.7

Oh boy. I remember having that put on for me and as maybe like a little kid who is too

1:06.6

young and fidgety to be interested in that and being mad.

1:11.5

That was more or less my experience. I think I saw it at the Roxy Theater in San Francisco,

1:16.3

16th Street in San Francisco when I was eight or whatever. My mom thought it was a good idea.

1:22.6

But the one part that I remember is there is a part where Stephen Hawking says

1:27.2

as you approach the event horizon of the black hole, you will be turned into spaghetti.

1:35.2

I think there was this as a as a kid. There was just like little boys love space,

1:41.5

little boy. Look at this and I'm like I don't like space at all. I like dinosaurs.

1:46.8

Look at this space shit. I'm a dinosaur. I'm a dinosaur boy. I'm not a space kid.

1:53.8

Anyway. So yeah. But yeah, but it looks I wish I had seen it because maybe I could make sense

2:00.4

in my brain of of the collision that is going on right now because Max Fund Drive and analogue

2:07.9

us are taking place in the same week. Wow. Wow. Wow. If you're not already a member of

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