Why American Idol Was Moving (w/ Patrick Doolittle)
Exploration: LIVE!
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4.8 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Ideas Covered:
- Perfect plastic
- Group chat communism
- Why American Idol was moving
- Getaway bias
Guest: Patrick Doolittle
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Headgum podcast. |
| 0:07.6 | Life gets pretty boring when every day's the same. |
| 0:15.0 | Take me on a rocket ship to see the earth from space. |
| 0:22.6 | And then it's all right, baby. Well, good Good morning. Well, good morning. |
| 0:35.6 | Yes. |
| 0:36.6 | That is us readying the Well, good morning. Yes. |
| 0:44.7 | That is us readying the car, the motorcycle of the episode. |
| 0:47.7 | That's doing a rev-up to get the engine started. |
| 0:49.5 | It's going now. |
| 0:50.5 | It was kind of curmody. |
| 0:53.2 | Yeah, that's just due to the condition of my voice and throat. Okay. |
| 0:54.0 | And I'll also just think you had it in the back, like, v-v-v-v- Right. Yeah, yeah. I'm like doing a kind of Kermit. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm getting ready to get on the motorcycle. That's like Pillion. Haven't had the pleasure, but I cannot wait. Well, I just, it's, I think a Pillion is like a sidecar. |
| 1:12.4 | That's what we learned when we Googled it. |
| 1:13.8 | Or someone else Googled it. I haven't fact-checked. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. What I'm thinking is, because we have a guest, two-person motorcycle, sidecar. Two-person motorcycle, someone on the sidecar. I would like to be on the back of the motorcycle. |
| 1:28.3 | Okay. |
| 1:28.7 | I don't want to be in a sidecar. |
| 1:29.9 | Okay. |
| 1:30.5 | I'm happy to be, I would like to be on the back of the motorcycle. Okay. I don't want to be in a sidecar. Okay. I'm happy to drive. So I guess that puts him in the sidecar. Okay. That's okay. Well, sorry. Some people like that. He don't mind. Yeah. This guest is a huge treat for our listeners. Like everyone loves this guy, asked asks for him when he comes on. Oh, where's Patrick online? We can't really find Patrick. Oh, how do we get where Patrick? Get in line. Yeah, you're not the only one, bitch. This is us blowing up our own spot about Patrick. Yeah, I know. And it's like it's like it's like it's like keep but fine whatever |
| 2:00.8 | the fuck but also know your place right no no no exactly we're trying to like we've been |
| 2:06.2 | gatekeeping yes and we are not gatekeeping Patrick out of a selflessness yes because we want you |
| 2:13.0 | guys to have him to and we know that it hurts us because we know after these episodes come out |
| 2:17.2 | you know |
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