Episode 135: Fire Was Always the Star


 * Vocal fry
 * John got a spam text, and it's probably J Crew's fault. And has had an unsuccessful moratorium on thrifting.
 * But then eBay. And he didn't have any Italian climbing boots. Or silk pajamas.
 * 8 minutes: There's a whole online world of men talking to one another about their clothes and their fashion, and Merlin doesn't know anything about it because he "tucks his dad jeans into his socks." -JR ("Socks like these you don't keep to yourself."-MM).
 * John on Road Warrior and the reboot.
 * Fire was always the star to a young, pyromaniac John Roderick.
 * Between Two Ferns is a little too close to home for John.
 * Forks vs chopsticks
 * Guitar licks
 * Murmurs is a good record if you like keyboard-oriented music. 48m or so.
 * The ding ding of past gas stations.
 * "I bet you're too young to remember the oil embargo." -John, trying to comiserate with a stranger in line at a coffee shop.
 * John does impromptu crowd control at a Dukakis rally in Spokane (56 minutes).
 * 45 minutes of top-of-his-voice standup comedy about Dukakis not having arrived yet.