Groundhog's Day
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What is the opening banter and why do the hosts mention recording three episodes in a row?
What is it in this one's love's life? Makes it all worthwhile. It's the small thing the big thing the humor profundity that I notice go root around it. Mess around it, figure it out, it's poking around.
Hi everybody.
Can we tell you a secret?
Yeah, pl please tell 'em.
This is the third episode in a row that we've recorded, which we've never done. So one time before we did two.
Guys, we recorded an episode at three, then we recorded an episode at four, and now it is five and we were recording another episode. Another episode. You can imagine how club, club, another club, no sleep.
Also I got into New York at three AM. Yes. Basically twelve hours ago. You can imagine how strong we are. We're the strongest girls in both ways. Do you ever think about though how people have like jobs?
All the time.
Not that we can I just say real quick we do we work we work constantly. Well, it's just sort of like different. It's different.
And and I do feel like lucky, like we definitely have a better deal. But I will say when you do like free a lot of freelancers, artists and stuff who are listening will know If you want a day off, you have to really carve it out.
You have to completely block it. Like every time I'm like, I'm taking a day off, I'm like, what a perfect day for me to catch up on all of this random tiny shit. Yeah. Yeah.
And not random tiny house shit, like random like I have to edit the podcast.
Right. Like I need to write thirty poems. Right. Full ass my job. Yeah, full ass my job. I don't have to leave my house. Right. Yeah. Anyway So anyways, yeah.
So basically like we're just start like that.
Yeah, but we're gonna get through this really strong. I'm just gonna say that to so that we believe it. Yeah. And we're not gonna flag.
No. What's that mean to flag?
Like you're as you start like flagging, it's kind of like you're running out of steam a little bit. No, I am full of steam. I'm full of steam. I am full of steam Before we started we had One batch of nachos. One espresso martini. One porn star martini. Our favorite. Our favorites. So yeah, once again sponsored by that experience at the bar across the street from our studio. Okay. We are a podcast.
We do poetry. We do comedy. We're a professional poets. And amateur podcast. Amateur comedians. This is a three tiered podcast. Yeah. Like a three-tiered cake.
If you ever think these girls, their poems are kind of better than their jokes.
Well money that makes sense.
That's by design. We want it like that. I actually think that we're pretty funny together. Yeah. We and we hope you agree if you're listening to us.
Is this it's so interesting. There's a real difference between being funny and writing jokes.
Yeah.
I've always felt I was funny.
I've always known.
But I've never It's a real skill that you teach yourself and you practice to like write a joke.
We're doing that as informally as possible.
Yeah, we don't work that hard at that part.
No.
We're like, here's this random ass crapping idea I had. And sometimes it really does sometimes it's yeah.
Sometimes it flops.
Sometimes we're like so anyway, awkward movie. So it was awkward.
Especially when you have when we have a guest. And like when you have a guest and the joke doesn't land, it's like Let's just stop. Let's stop here. Just go home. Oh we need to have more guests. We're gonna Okay. Okay. Okay, so let's we do poems, jokes, poems. It's a poem joke sandwich. You get it, you've been here, we've been here, poem time.
We're like, we're not gonna lose steam. We're like blah blah blah, you get it, okay? Moving on. Next part. Okay. Okay.
Um, so I have the poem today and um oh he signed this. This is from So sweet. R okay, Joshua Turek is, you may know him from the internet as a comedian. He's a touring comedian, but he also has three or four books of poems.
Very evenly split comedian poet. Yeah. Like he's perfect for us. And he's
And he's per he would be an amazing guest. Joshua, if you're ever in New York, hit up. Yeah.
He also just is like very smart and says the best stuff. And a new father.
Congratulations. I didn't he ha he sent I bought his new book and then he sent me all of his books.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening banter and why do the hosts mention recording three episodes in a row?
0:00–4:56
2
How do the hosts discuss work habits, taking days off, and the challenges of freelance life?
4:56–8:55
3
What is the concept behind the “poem‑joke sandwich” and how do the hosts structure their show?
8:55–12:23
4
What is the meaning of Joshua Turek’s poem “Oracle” and why is it featured?
12:23–15:51
5
How do the hosts define and illustrate “third spaces” using Sprouts parking lots?
15:51–25:11
6
Why do the hosts talk about trucks, Republicans, and regional grocery store names?
25:11–33:38
7
What Groundhog Day sketch idea do the hosts develop and how does it relate to love and errands?
33:38–43:48
8
How does the episode wrap up with the final reading of the poems and closing thoughts?
43:48–48:12