Episode 80: I Was the Red Robin


 * John is still running around in a carbless-daze. All he wants is spaghetti with cookies on it.
 * He's lived his life hopping from shortcake to shortcake, like a frogger.
 * Apparently, severely autistic people make the best sports mascots. John had a stint as the Red Robin and started visiting children in hospitals--"I don't even think we called ahead."
 * John once visited Merlin and forgot to bring pants to a fancy dinner. He looked like a "beefy Angus Young."
 * Merlin’s constant reaction to vulgarity/opulence: “My, that must have been expensive!"
 * Frozen bacon is the popsicle of the gods
 * Pearl Jam is the Bruce Springsteen of the Northwest
 * New Jersey: Your rental minivan suddenly turns into a 57 T-Bird and Chris Christie is up there with binoculars and a crossbow and everybody up there like “You don’t love Bruce enough!
 * "You know how it is when you’re driving up a country lane and you feel like people are in the trees, scorning you.”—JR (50:00)
 * Billy Joel’s entire ouvre is the first 45 minutes of The Deerhunter.
 * Billy Joel is John Lennon singing like Tony Bennet