Episode 40: Lobster Farm
You Look Nice Today
You Look Nice Today
4.8 • 899 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2012
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
We don’t know anyone who loves sushi more than we do. That’s because when we meet someone who loves sushi, we stop talking to them forever. Because we want to be the biggest sushi lovers we know.
To honor that love, we worked with a team of chefs to create signature sushi rolls for each of us. First, we went to Japan and found some masters of the form. Then we taught them English and made them listen to all of our shows, over and over, until they had distilled the essence of each of us into a roll.
Here they are—invite your friends over for a YLNT Sushi Night sometime soon.
The Merlin Roll: copy of Cheri magazine (June 1978), Hüsker Dü T-shirt, mayonnaise.
The Scott Roll: pantyhose, glossy photograph of Harry Anderson, mayonnaise.
The Adam Roll: nunchucks, B♭dim7 chord, mayonnaise.
Also: Sushi DMV, pupu platter, Tuna Corn Mayonnaise, kiwanis roll, the Andrew Jackson with extra hickory, two types of foreigner, $50 squid, lobster drag, dinner theater, is it vegetarian if she throws it away, Tevas, “My mussel’s name is Sandy,” ma, the jute chewers, churn for a living, Andie MacDowell and a Sofia Mini.
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| 0:00.0 | In the calm shallow seas of the Bahamas live spiny lobsters. |
| 0:07.0 | Lobsters like calm clear water, but in autumn the Bahamas are swept by serious storms. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm really ready to start in a minute. |
| 0:18.0 | You ever eat rice and it goes up your nose? |
| 0:20.0 | Have you ever done that? |
| 0:23.0 | It happens to me all the time. |
| 0:24.0 | My wife doesn't understand it. |
| 0:25.0 | I think I might have some kind of a glottis, |
| 0:27.0 | because I'll say, |
| 0:28.0 | a kang, a kokkahang, and I swear to God, there's two grains, hang on. |
| 0:33.2 | Oh God. You look nice today a journal of emotional hygiene. Oh my gosh. Wow. I'm sorry, I'm all a lot of sorts. |
| 0:54.0 | Why? I forgot my keys, and then I got my sushi late. |
| 0:58.0 | Scott, is there, and you speak Japanese, is there a term in, I guess whatever they speak in Japan, |
| 1:02.4 | is there a term for like the roles that the white guys always get? |
| 1:05.0 | Sure. Yeah, it's called sushi Jainai. |
| 1:09.0 | Ah. That's a good joke in Japanese by the way. |
| 1:12.0 | Oh, is it? |
| 1:13.0 | Sure it is. |
| 1:14.0 | You know, if I'm in a hurry, you know, I'm not going to get like whatever the |
| 1:17.6 | fucking sea abalone or whatever, the stuff that freaks me out. |
| 1:20.6 | And I just have the feeling that I go in there and there's probably something very disparaging they say about me because I'm standing here and I'm looking. I've got a cherry blossom roll. I've got a rainbow roll and I've got a California roll. |
| 1:31.0 | So I mean does that map to anything that people eat in in Japan? |
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