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Madigan's Pubcast

Episode 123: Running the Rocky Steps, Capone’s Shipwrecked Speakeasy, & Closing Machu Picchu

Madigan's Pubcast

Kathleen Madigan

Madigan, Comedy:stand-up, Standup, Society & Culture, Kathleen Madigan, Comedy, Stand-up

52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Kathleen opens the show drinking a Stacy’s Mom Citrus IPA from Philly’s Evil Genius Beer Company. She reviews her sold-out weekend in Philly at Parx Casino, drinking green beer at McGillin’s Olde Ale House and tailgating with random Eagles fans before her friend Anita Baker sang the national anthem at the NFC Championship. 

QUEEN NEWS: Kathleen shares that Queen Stevie has announced her solo 2023 Tour dates, and Queen Dolly’s Imagination Library has expanded to Scotland

“GOOD BAD FOOD”: In her quest for delicious not-so-nutritious food, Kathleen samples Herr’s Fire Roasted Sweet Corn popcorn, Zapp’s VooDoo Heat potato chips, and The Ranch Darwinian’s Homemade AF Buttermilk Ranch. 

UPDATES: Kathleen gives updates on Anna Delvey’s new reality show, Netflix freeloaders have a March deadline, the family of Tiger King’s Carole Baskin’s “dead” husband breaks their silence

“HOLY SHIT THEY FOUND IT”: Kathleen is amazed to read about the discovery of Al Capone’s secret sunken Prohibition-era speakeasy, rare Pallas’s cats are discovered in Nepal, and scientists find a preserved 9,000-yr-old bison mummy in Siberia

FRONT PAGE PUB NEWS: Kathleen shares articles on the recent closure of Machu Picchu, Ticketmaster execs defend their part in the Taylor Swift presale debacle, Justin Bieber sells his music catalog, a Florida woman is rescued from a storm drain for the 3rd time, in 3 years, Planet Fitness is allegedly running an illegal billing operation, Antarctica has a new iceberg, Jewish heirs sue the Guggenheim over a Picasso sold to flee the Nazis, and scientific reasons for procrastinating

WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK: Kathleen recommends watching “JANN” on Roku, and Season 2 of “The Hunters” on Amazon.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, it's me, Kathleen Madigan. Welcome to Madigan's Pubcast. You grab

0:12.9

yourself a drink, pull up a bar stool, and let's talk about what's been going on.

0:17.3

Tomites, welcome to episode 123. Eat the fire because there's an ice storm outside

0:33.1

right now. Started in Dallas, always blame Texas. And you know what, they're

0:39.8

canceling flights that it's starting there. My little friend Dorfie Dorf was

0:44.6

going to fly out to go do what? He's so excited. Yeah, it's not my thing, but he

0:52.8

would have taken me too. And I'm like, dude, well, first of all, I have to work. But

0:56.1

second of all, I'm not born to run. Thank you. I'll be all week. Oh my God, so many

1:04.3

things tonight. So many things. Where was I? Well, I was in Philadelphia. And I don't

1:10.9

know if you saw the video, me running the rocky stairs. I probably should have

1:16.4

tried to run like with my arms down. I was trying to do it to the song. And I

1:19.7

think I just look like a crazy person. But not as crazy as there was about a seven

1:23.4

year old man behind me doing pushups because I think he thought he was actually

1:26.9

rocky. Like he'd run up the steps. And then he'd do like 20 pushups. And then he

1:30.7

run 20 more and do 20. I'm like, dude, this is just going to actually kill you. You're

1:36.6

actually going to die like right here in front of all these tourists. And then

1:41.1

they move the statue down. So if you look at the steps now, I don't know why they

1:45.5

do it. They probably because the art museum, there's an art museum at the top or

1:48.9

some sort of museum. It's the art museum. And I probably think they're like, hey, man,

1:54.0

can we, yeah, can we just move that a little bit lower? So now it's at the bottom

1:59.3

of the steps. If you're looking at it to the right, the rocky statue. And I don't

2:03.7

know what time of day they did it. But 49ers fans put their jersey on rocky. I sometimes

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