Zach Looks for a New Assistant
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Why does the Zoom name keep changing and how did they finally fix it?
And go. Hey guys, how's it going? Well I have huge news. Oh, this is exciting. Notice anything different about my Zoom name? Oh, you switched it to A S? Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's been my assistant's name for the last two years. Wow. Yeah, we know. And uh I had to manually fix it every time. Yeah. Over and over for two years. Endured a lot of jokes about it, you know, from random pitch meetings and edit seshes. What do you think not your name? You know what I mean? Yeah. Right, right, right.
And so what do you think finally got ya out of your chair to fix it? But you would change it but now you figure out how to permanently
change it. Is that the difference?
It was uh I was signed in into the wrong account.
Oh, so this wasn't something for you to go and fix. You just had to sign in correctly. It
took uh it took about thirty seconds. I was like, Hey, can we actually try and fix that? We were together in person. Yeah. And I had my computer and uh she was like, Oh yeah, yeah, I see. And then it was fixed, and now it's fixed. This is huge. This is really huge.
It's gonna change the whole tenor of the podcast, I think. Yeah, maybe this is why you've been a little grumpy from the very beginning. That's why
Well, also for the three of us, we've been having some sort of mental dissonance 'cause we'd be looking at your face but seeing her name, and finally when I look at you I feel peace.
Right.
Yeah.
Uh well, I mean look, it's the best thing that happened to me all week. So feeling pretty stoked. I'm really happy for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know. Now Yorm Yorm isn't here, but we're gonna do a two parter today. This one episode will be in two sessions. That's the plan.
The first half hour will be me and Andy and Akiva. And then later in the day when Andy's unavailable and Yorm is available, he will swap in for Andy. Yeah.
Versus your mother round one. Oh yeah. Oh!
We were hopeful that Yorm was gonna join us once we decided this window worked, but um he hasn't responded to any of us for the last ninety minutes. Yeah. Yeah.
Which on a Sunday is
his right.
Yes. It's a careful balance. I was just discussing it with my parents who are here and who I confide in all of our scheduling issues. But I was like, Sunday afternoon putting down your phone to be with your family is actually commendable. And it's actually something my family would love it if I did. It's
always anti weekend, but it's very difficult with four adults with kids and careers. Yeah.
Sometimes m my wife I'll be like, Hey, you didn't write me back. She'll be like, Um, I didn't have my phone with me and the amount I want to be like, show it to me. Show me you haven't texted anyone else. In the last two hours. Mm-hmm. Uh you guys caught me listening because uh it was a real um you know that real quiet Yorm. We need to come up with a word for when Yorm just drops a little one in. We're going over the best movies from nineteen ninety-four, and he very quietly said, Silence of the Hams, right, which is a silence of the lambs parody. Uh with McGruber, uh the television series owned Billy Zane. I listened back to that episode and I still didn't hear him say. say that. That again, time codes.
Thank God for time codes, as I've often said.
Now, this is a cartoon that came out that year? No, it's a
it's like a parody movie with Billy Zane. Oh. He plays a character named Joe J O Dash D D E E Foster. So he's a character named Jody Foster. Oh so it's like a uh like a scary movie. Dom Delawise plays Dr. Annibal Cannibal Pizza. We gotta check this out.
L to the yes. Hold on. I'm bringing up the team. Hannibal
Cannibal Pizza? Martin Balsam, who played the detective in uh in Psycho, plays uh detective Martin Balsam, so he plays himself, I guess. Which is real fun. Seth,
I know a lot of people like a go to kind of play joke at this point is like, Well, that's a great name for a band. But Hannibal Cannibal Pizza actually is like a fucking dope name for a band. I would go see that band.
Hannibal Cannibal Pizza.
Yeah, dude. Hannibal Cannibal Pizza plays hard.
So there's a lot of I mean, so maybe uh by the way, in our uh what are we gonna do?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why does the Zoom name keep changing and how did they finally fix it?
0:00–5:59
2
What 1990s movies do the hosts reminisce about and why do they matter?
5:59–16:19
3
Why did Rachel Dratch appear on the podcast to discuss her New York Times crossword controversy?
16:19–26:34
4
How did the “Colon Blow” sketch come about and who actually wrote it?
26:34–36:49
5
What is the mystery behind the “Zach Looks for a New Assistant” digital short?
36:49–47:26
6
Why are the Lucas Museum and the Jamestown Comedy Center being highlighted in this episode?
47:26–58:33
7
How do the hosts decide who is the better host in the versus segment?
58:33–1:10:10
8
What are the key take‑aways and final thoughts from this chaotic episode?
1:10:10–1:15:56