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Madigan's Pubcast

Episode 151: Vegas Gets Hacked, A Red Wine River, & The Takeover of Twinkies

Madigan's Pubcast

Kathleen Madigan

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

52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Kathleen opens the show drinking a Quickbeer Pilsner from Rusty Rail Brewing Company. She reviews her weekend of sold-out shows in Hershey, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland, visiting Troegs Brewery and the Hershey Story Museum in Hershey, eating her favorite Primanti Bros Bar in Pittsburgh, and visiting the A Christmas Story House in Cleveland. 

QUEEN NEWS: Kathleen reports that Queen Taylor Swift makes history at the 2023 VMAs, and Queen Dolly is expanding her Doggy Parton collection to Petco

“GOOD BAD FOOD”: In her quest for delicious not-so-nutritious food, Kathleen samples a Gibble’s Red Hot chips, Pittsburgh Pretzel Rods and Weber’s Horseradish Mustard

UPDATES: Kathleen gives updates on Anna Delvey’s rooftop fashion show, and El Chapo’s son has been extradited from Mexico.

“HOLY SHIT THEY FOUND IT”: Kathleen is amazed to read about the discovery of a lithium mine on the Nevada//Oregon border.

FRONT PAGE PUB NEWS: Kathleen shares articles outlining deals on National Cheeseburger Day, another rare brown spotless giraffe has been born in Africa, a man stockpiles 75 years’ worth of incandescent light bulbs, mysterious “blue lights” flash in the sky moments before the Moroccan earthquake, a wine river flows through a Portuguese village when a distillery’s tank bursts, Smucker is buying Hostess, McDonalds is getting rid of self-serve soda machines, there’s methodology as to why you have to walk so far to your gate at airports, a resident at The Villages is arrested for trafficking illegal erectile dysfunction pills, and Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner is removed from the Rock n Roll HOF board after comments in his new book

LYRICAL BREAKDOWN: Kathleen compares the lyrical breakdown of Styx’s “Mr. Roboto” and Taylor Swift’s “Mean.” 

WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK: Kathleen recommends watching (and rating) her new stand-up Special “Hunting Bigfoot” on Prime Video.

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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.

0:17.4

Alright, so one fifty-one, we have done it. I've returned from the

0:32.8

Magical, the East. Yes, Pennsylvania, Ohio, the Middle East. I've returned from the Middle East.

0:41.8

Yes, I have safely returned. What are we drinking? Well, we're going to have a little

0:46.9

this beer right here from Pennsylvania, Rusty Nail. That's from Hershey. Hershey is where I went first

0:53.2

and just a little, do a little travel logs every now and then. Hershey's a wonderful little town.

0:59.0

It's like a hallmark village. Now, if you have kids, the park is great, the whole thing,

1:06.1

but it's just a very pleasant, everyone seems happy. And I don't know, Milton Hershey,

1:10.6

you should Google him. Greatest gut man to ever live. We'll put in the show notes. Yeah, Milton,

1:16.6

he, the chocolate guy, the chocolate tier. I'm going to have a little mood shining because I got

1:22.3

some shitty texts and I don't like them and I don't want to be in a bad mood for this. So you know

1:25.5

what changes my mood immediately? Ignug mood shining. No, ego, ego waffle. Hershey, I mean if you

1:35.4

have kids, it's really great because they can go, but anyway, maybe because it's just chocolate

1:39.8

everywhere. Everybody's happy. It seemed very, it always seems very hallmarky, but not in a

1:44.8

weird way. Right. I mean, there's still fun and plus, it's fall. So it was just pretty. And then

1:51.0

I went to go see Milton's grave and I initially, when I pulled out the cemetery, I thought what I saw

1:56.9

was either the entrance and or a veteran's thing. No, Milton got the whole house his old dome.

2:04.5

It is huge, but he should. He opened an orphanage. Every school bus says Milton Hershey,

2:09.1

public schools. He just did nobody does stuff like that with money. Like nobody does stuff. Dolly,

2:15.4

Dolly does it in your own in your own hometown and just make the whole area better.

2:20.7

Maybe there are other people. I'll start looking, find good philanthropist that termite,

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