Episode 1271: Race for the Golden Taco with Rob Kachelriess
Matt & Mattingly's Ice Cream Social
Matt Donnelly, Paul Mattingly, Jacob Smith
4.9 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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SUMMARY: Paul's backyard is a snowy minefield of frozen feces, while Matt gets more than what's expected at a children's holiday concert. Rob Kachelriess from City Cast Las Vegas joins us to discuss his Vegas newsletter, the Metro Police's tech acquisitions, the most underreported stories of 2025, and running across town for Taco Bell. Also a Scoopardy from Eric Dittelman!
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hello there. I didn't see you there, but I'm so happy you're here. I would like to thank the ice cream truck drivers. Thank you so much ice cream truck drivers. I'm recording this episode in the past so I don't have a new list yet, but thank you to each and every ice cream truck driver out there. Who knows? By the time this goes out, I might have added the ice cream truck driver names in. No one knows anything anymore. I think we should maybe do that for these two. Yeah, we're going to try and do that. We're never going to try and do that. If you want to be an ice cream truck driver, and I hope you do, preaching fun.com is where you can go. Preaching fun.com. head over there, sign up to be an ice cream truck driver, and who knows? The life you save may be your own. |
| 0:44.9 | Here's a program. Hey, Johnny. Do you want to go to an ice cream social? Yeah, I'd love to. |
| 0:51.7 | Great. Let's go. I'm here, guys, and I'm sweaty. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm fresh for my kids' Christmas, quote, unquote, concert. |
| 1:03.5 | It's in the 70s out there, isn't it? |
| 1:06.8 | Oh, yeah, it's honestly too warm. |
| 1:10.7 | It's time for Matt McAnley's ice cream, social. |
| 1:13.6 | Sitting over there at a sweaty pool with his own mess, that's Matt Donnelly. |
| 1:16.9 | Singing Pittsburgh, it's ballmatically. |
| 1:18.6 | In Vegas, it's me, Jacob, the audio guy. |
| 1:20.5 | We're preaching fun. |
| 1:21.7 | So this is week three for me, where we've had snow, and I can't go out, it's fucking freezing cold, |
| 1:31.1 | and I can't go out and clean up the backyard from the dog poop. |
| 1:35.1 | And with four dogs, pooping all the time, it's a lot of dog poop. |
| 1:39.2 | And so when I go out to do anything in the yard, like change up bird seed or anything that |
| 1:44.0 | Ann needs me to do. |
| 1:45.4 | So I try to stay the hell out of the backyard when there's nothing but dog poop and it's freezing. |
| 1:50.1 | I have to come back in and spend another 10 minutes cleaning my shoes off from all the skank that gets on my shoes. |
| 1:55.7 | I'm super careful. I try to dodge it like landmines. I can't miss it. |
| 1:59.5 | Wait, you have, there's an amount of dog poop in your backyard that it is impossible |
| 2:04.3 | for you to walk around it? |
| 2:05.7 | It's close because they like that area that leads right up to. |
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