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The Basement Yard

#551 - Mr. Gabagool Is Here

20 Apr 2026

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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?

0.031 - 14.635 Frank Alvarez

Welcome back to the... Welcome back to the basement yard. Good morning. Why are you rubbing your eyes like a baby?

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15.796 - 33.935 Joe Santagato

Babies don't rub their fucking eyes like that. I don't know why. Who came up with that? Cartoons. Why? I don't know. Why do cartoons have such stupid ways of, like, waking up? I do that. Maybe not both hands. You do? You wake up like a cartoon character? Not, like, both hands at once. Like, you're like... I mean, I do. I definitely do this.

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33.955 - 48.673 Joe Santagato

Do you also throw the shades open and, like... Well, I gotta pull. I gotta pull them open. Oh, you have one of those? Yeah. Just take your fucking time. Make more noise. Don't worry about it. You can hear that? Can I hear it?

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48.693 - 51.817 Unknown

It's loud. All we hear is clinkling, clinkling.

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53.7 - 56.544 Joe Santagato

All right. That's my impression of that bag.

56.564 - 64.615 Frank Alvarez

I just got off a flight. I came back from Toronto, and I had a very interesting experience. I would say probably the worst possible thing that could happen to me on a plane happened.

65.101 - 68.225 Joe Santagato

No, there's some really bad ones and now you got me a little free.

68.245 - 71.028 Frank Alvarez

Well, the plane was on the ground at this time So here's what happened.

71.188 - 97.673 Joe Santagato

All right, first of all, I'm gonna flex real quick. Yeah, can I just start guessing? You're never gonna guess it. Oh, I guarantee now see now I have do Are you crying? Yeah, you said like the worst thing that could happen to me and I got a little freaked out and I got a little I'm not crying I I can see, like, you... My eyes got a little watery. Did you yawn? I was just, like, I was doing this.

Chapter 2: What happened to the host on the plane?

130.235 - 134.48 Joe Santagato

All right. And what's your guess? Clearly that didn't happen.

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136.823 - 137.223 Unknown

I don't know.

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137.263 - 147.115 Frank Alvarez

Yeah, it's fine. No, but I was going to Toronto and I got upgraded, right?

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147.355 - 153.723 Joe Santagato

Very nice. Upgraded to first class. Very nice. You didn't pay for first class? No. Oh, humble of you.

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155.345 - 158.288 Frank Alvarez

And I got upgraded to first class and I got upgraded to 1A.

158.909 - 160.951 Joe Santagato

Oh, that's a tough seat. I've been in 1A before.

161.172 - 163.975 Frank Alvarez

Yeah, and it was a small plane, so it's like it's just you.

165.096 - 166.538 Joe Santagato

Like it's one seat. Solo?

166.838 - 187.903 Frank Alvarez

Yeah, like you're by yourself, and then it's a row of two. It's a small plane. And I'm on. I have my headphones on, and then this girl gets on, right? And she looks at me, and she goes like this, like she is trying to talk to me. So I take my headphones off, and I go, what's up? And she goes, are you Mr. Gabagool? Swear to God she said that to me.

Chapter 3: How does the interaction with the fan unfold?

324.426 - 343.474 Frank Alvarez

This dude sits next to me. And he goes, you were on my flight here too also. I was like, oh, was I? He goes, yeah, my fiance was the girl who called you Mr. Gabagool. And I was like, that was your fiance? I was like, yeah. I was like, I'll be honest with you. I don't know why she called me that. And he goes...

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343.454 - 366.412 Frank Alvarez

She tells me that they were in the airport and she saw me walk by and she's like, I know that guy for some reason. And she's like, I think he has a podcast. He comes up on our TikTok and he's like Italian. And then he was like joking with her. And he was like, oh, if he's Italian, go up to him and say like, hey, Mr. Gabagool. So she took that as. I am, I am Mr. Coppola.

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366.432 - 392.602 Joe Santagato

I mean, now, look at what she has done. And she's like, that's Mr. Coppola. You are now, contrary, because there are many, like, Italian, growing up Italian podcasts and stuff like that. Yeah. I mean, we got Big Italy over here. This is the Mr. Boot. That's true, yeah. You are now... Over all of them, Mr. Gabagool. Mr. fucking Gabagool. Big Joe Gabagool. Yeah. And that's what you are.

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393.303 - 397.027 Joe Santagato

He was like, I said that as a joke, but for like me and her.

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397.488 - 399.009 Frank Alvarez

But she just ran with it.

399.249 - 401.272 Joe Santagato

And ran with it. She ran with the Gabagool.

401.392 - 403.914 Frank Alvarez

Yeah. And I mean, we talked the whole flight. He was a really nice guy.

404.535 - 407.799 Joe Santagato

I mean, well, because he was talking to Mr. Gabagool. He was pretty impressed.

407.819 - 415.767 Frank Alvarez

I'll be honest with you. Like, we talked the entire flight, me and this guy. It was like a rom-com.

Chapter 4: What is the significance of being called Mr. Gabagool?

471.514 - 482.389 Joe Santagato

On our flight to Puerto Rico. Oh, God. Oh, well, it was less talking, more drinking. Yeah, that's true. We, and a lot of creed out of you. Oh, boy. My arms were wide open. Frankie.

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483.871 - 486.835 Frank Alvarez

Frank was drinking mimosas, and then he would just go like this.

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487.917 - 498.812 Joe Santagato

With his fucking iPad. Did you have an iPad, Todd, Todd, Todd? No, I have an iPhone. Okay, okay. But it was like, it was the Apple. Did anyone hear that voice?

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499.172 - 504.339 Frank Alvarez

It was a Apple. You know, like iTunes. He's got iTunes.

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504.359 - 511.429 Joe Santagato

Well, that's, you know. So he had, you were about to go, what's wrong with that? Dude, a lot. You have iTunes.

511.449 - 511.549

Yeah.

512.744 - 544.768 Joe Santagato

yeah so i have bought music yeah over the last calendar year you can't do that on like and i do but they also take it from me who is who are they big music they take i've bought songs on itunes yeah and then i go to play them and they're like not available anymore This is why I'm a big physical media guy. I, to this day, refuse to do digital purchases of movies or games or anything like that.

544.848 - 552.66 Joe Santagato

But they just appear somewhere else. No, they do not. Like Spotify. Like, they probably took that off of that and put it here.

552.76 - 557.207 Unknown

Wherever they put it, but like, I bought a song. I'll show you exactly what it is.

Chapter 5: What are the reactions to the food tasting?

2568.242 - 2584.768 Unknown

For me, this is up there with 9-11. What? Wow. I think he has to try another one. It can't be that bad. It is so bad. He has to try. Frank, literally like someone puked into my mouth.

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2584.788 - 2596.647 Joe Santagato

All right. Well, then I'm trying the gravy next then. It's disgusting. Gravy train. Here we go. Riding it all the way down. This tastes like a plumber's tool bag.

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Chapter 6: What is the significance of the gravy taste test?

2596.667 - 2602.497 Joe Santagato

Oh. Oh. That's fucking bad, dude. A plumber's tool bag.

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2604.502 - 2615.861 Frank Alvarez

It doesn't. It tastes like... No, no, no, no, no. Yo, Frank. First of all, I'm going to be honest with you, right? I know you're going to throw up from the last one. Like, I know it. You had a good meal today, too.

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2617.022 - 2619.747 Joe Santagato

Any... I don't even... Okay.

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2619.767 - 2622.932 Unknown

Joe, you got to try the gravy, Joe. Is the gravy that bad?

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2624.228 - 2625.31 Joe Santagato

It's just, it's not good.

2625.35 - 2628.535 Unknown

Frankie's finishing them, which is making me proud. There's no way I'm finishing it.

2628.555 - 2629.056 Joe Santagato

You ate that?

2629.236 - 2633.423 Frank Alvarez

There's no way. Your little fucking sensitive stomach. You were gonna throw up all over this place.

2633.644 - 2636.328 Joe Santagato

Alright, now you gotta try it again. No, no, no. No, you do it again.

Chapter 7: How does the discussion shift to G-spots?

2677.288 - 2678.411 Joe Santagato

You're going to do the same as him?

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2678.431 - 2678.751 Unknown

No, dude.

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2679.914 - 2682.359 Joe Santagato

I'm being serious. I'm being serious.

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2682.92 - 2686.467 Unknown

If you're okay with that, I'm not okay with you.

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2686.75 - 2693.761 Frank Alvarez

So like, either this is going to be the most disgusting thing you've ever put in your mouth, or I don't respect you.

2695.543 - 2716.83 Joe Santagato

Wow, that's bad. No, no, that's how confident I am. I mean, I remember when we did Bean Boozled. This is definitely worse, dude. No way, dude. Those Bean Boozled ones were. The old Band-Aid and the spoiled milk ones, I couldn't believe how they even figured out how to make it taste like that. The spoiled milk one was pretty bad. This one, I just couldn't get it out of my head.

2716.85 - 2733.954 Joe Santagato

I'm like, someone threw up in my mouth. I'm going to need something to wash this down. You're going to need to run to the sink. I'm going to need something to wash this down. Yo, I don't even get like that, and I almost vomited. Really? All right, now you're making me like. I know. I'm sorry. All right, fuck it. Frankie, you're going to just put three. Who is that?

2733.974 - 2740.164 Joe Santagato

You know, the guy at the peanut gallery, now you have to fucking have some. If you do three, I'll do one. I'm having one just to try it.

2740.345 - 2740.765 Unknown

Oh, boo, boo.

Chapter 8: What are the implications of the octopus conversation?

2765.534 - 2771.702 Joe Santagato

It's just a fried chicken jelly bean. You'll be fine. It isn't. All right. Here we go. Here we go.

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2773.104 - 2778.571 Joe Santagato

I don't even want to watch. There are people that have fear of throwing up that are watching this that are going to be pissed.

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2778.792 - 2781.836 Unknown

We're going to need that. You know?

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2781.996 - 2782.857 Joe Santagato

Okay. Here we go. Yep.

2791.763 - 2795.908 Frank Alvarez

How is it still in his mouth? How is it still in his mouth?

2795.928 - 2796.668 Unknown

We got to see the reaction.

2796.688 - 2797.65 Frank Alvarez

Doesn't it taste like throw up?

2797.67 - 2798.01 Unknown

Doesn't it?

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