Speaker 1: Season four starts now. Wow, it's incredible to be announcing
Speaker 1: our fourth season of Stradio Lab, the smash hit runaway
Speaker 1: podcast that buried Michael Barbarow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, babe, I've been noticing. I've been noticing a
Speaker 2: lot of guest hosts have been filling in lately. You know,
Speaker 2: as an avid listener of the Daily haven't heard his
Speaker 2: voice in a while. I wonder why.
Speaker 1: Guess he's scared.
Speaker 2: So we're both, I would say in a here's what
Speaker 2: I actually think. I think we are both in a
Speaker 2: sort of lockdown zoom situation. I am at home, not
Speaker 2: in the room I normally recorded, because, as fans of
Speaker 2: the podcast might know, there is a nest of pigeons
Speaker 2: living in that window, and I have to wait for
Speaker 2: them to in fact grow up and fly away. And
Speaker 2: then you are in a room that is home in
Speaker 2: Michigan that is so echoey that you have to speak
Speaker 2: in a soft voice otherwise it will be too echoe
Speaker 2: So if you at I just want to say, for
Speaker 2: anyone at home, if Sam doesn't sound excited that season
Speaker 2: four starts now, that's actually literally because he's trying not
Speaker 2: to be echoe Yeah, it's.
Speaker 1: Not anything other than the fact that I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to be quiet because if I get too loud it
Speaker 1: sounds really echoey because I'm essentially an airport hangar.
Speaker 2: It's actually crazy. And also, by the way, you are
Speaker 2: wearing a like I want to say, like gay porn
Speaker 2: football jersey, correct, and I am wearing a zip up
Speaker 2: hoodie with no shirt.
Speaker 1: We're giving sex.
Speaker 2: It's actually crazy. Both, Like, even though we actually could
Speaker 2: not be more excited for season four to start, our
Speaker 2: affect and the way we are recording, it's almost like
Speaker 2: we've given up.
Speaker 1: No, it's that we've pivoted. Season four is all about
Speaker 1: hush tones and sexy under currents.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And by the way, the reason we're both in
Speaker 2: such a chaotics, messy bun place is because we're in
Speaker 2: the middle of tour.
Speaker 1: Yeah, our global tour, our international tour.
Speaker 2: Because we feel like we're more than halfway through the tour.
Speaker 2: In fact, you know, I'll address one thing, which is
Speaker 2: that normally we would have one of these episodes out
Speaker 2: because we were coming back from a break and announcing
Speaker 2: that a new season is starting. Guess what, this time,
Speaker 2: we didn't even take a break. We decided we were
Speaker 2: having so much fun recording this podcast, both remotely and
Speaker 2: in person and on stages across North America the continent,
Speaker 2: that we refuse to take a break and we're going
Speaker 2: to power through whether or not it kills us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. Oh, everyone was begging us. They said,
Speaker 1: you're on tour, like, surely you need to rest rest up,
Speaker 1: rest up? And we said, Oh, really did Steve Jobs
Speaker 1: rest up when he invented the iPhone? Oh?
Speaker 2: Really did did Steve Jobs rest up when he had
Speaker 2: to raise children? I don't think so, because I've read
Speaker 2: his daughter's memoir.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think he took a break for a
Speaker 1: second because he was too busy making the iPhone and
Speaker 1: maybe raising the children.
Speaker 2: I did not read the Yeah, and by the way,
Speaker 2: I didn't read it either. I just listened to a
Speaker 2: Fresh Air episode about it. So if that's not enough
Speaker 2: for you, then I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 2: I don't have time to read Steve Jobs his daughter's
Speaker 2: no more, because I'm on tour.
Speaker 1: When did Melinda Gates rest up when she was doing
Speaker 1: her charity work around the globe?
Speaker 2: Melinda Gates has not stopped giving away money in approximately
Speaker 2: thirty five years and she certainly is not going to
Speaker 2: stop now.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: The fact that when you look at her bank account
Speaker 2: somehow it gets higher and higher is not your business,
Speaker 2: quite frankly, because she's giving it away.
Speaker 1: She's giving it away. She's a good person. A good
Speaker 1: person wouldn't give away their money.
Speaker 2: She's the first person ever make money from doing charity,
Speaker 2: and no one knows how that happens. And don't ask her,
Speaker 2: because that's rude. Never ask a woman how her bank
Speaker 2: account keeps getting bigger while she's giving away all her money.
Speaker 1: I'm addicted to Bill and Melinda Gates because it's like,
Speaker 1: what do you guys even do?
Speaker 2: I like, By the way, did you know they were
Speaker 2: my commencement speakers?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Wait, no, they weren't. They were my boyfriends, my my
Speaker 2: ex my ex boyfriend's commencement speakers. I was Michael Bloomberg,
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. But is I did watch their
Speaker 2: big speech and it was the two of them together,
Speaker 2: so it was a real actually talk about straight culture
Speaker 2: to give a speech as a as a heterosexual couple.
Speaker 2: They were sort of like finishing each other's sentences.
Speaker 1: Finishing each other is Melinda Gates.
Speaker 2: And we finished each other's and I'm Melinda Gates.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my commencement speaker was the governor I think of
Speaker 1: Virginia at the time. Oh, and he like two years
Speaker 1: later got arrested. Like it was he was like the
Speaker 1: Republican guy and it was just like so clear that
Speaker 1: he was Everyone was disappointed and it was just like okay,
Speaker 1: like and then of course he got arrested.
Speaker 2: Well, to be honest, I mean, okay, what's worse yours
Speaker 2: or Michael Bloomberg.
Speaker 1: Oh good point actually, because.
Speaker 2: Actually mine is I would say, an all time flop
Speaker 2: commencement speaker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty rough.
Speaker 2: My sisters with Sterling K. Brown. Isn't that fun?
Speaker 1: That is fun? You know. I think there's a certain
Speaker 1: chip on your shoulder that comes with getting a bad
Speaker 1: commencement speak agree that you hold on to forever. We
Speaker 1: is so embarrassing, but it's true because you hear about
Speaker 1: people that have like amazing guests and they're like and
Speaker 1: that it defines them. But I actually think it makes.
Speaker 2: Might have been Anderson Cooper and it was like during
Speaker 2: a sort of an exciting period where he was like
Speaker 2: very gay.
Speaker 1: Hmm. I love that. So okay, So season four starts, Now,
Speaker 1: what do you think people can expect from season.
Speaker 2: Four, George, and they expect, you know, we've already started recording.
Speaker 2: I have to say when I look at like, you know,
Speaker 2: we have a little wish list of guests you want
Speaker 2: to have. We have people that are in our back pockets.
Speaker 2: We have people that were potentially even recording with in
Speaker 2: person in Los Angeles when we go there for our tour,
Speaker 2: for which tickets are available now on link tree dot com,
Speaker 2: Slash Radio Lab. And I'm thinking, I'm like, I'm like,
Speaker 2: we are spreading our wings. Like I almost feel like
Speaker 2: we've reached the perfect balance of you know, comedy guests
Speaker 2: versus sort of out of the box guests versus indie
Speaker 2: cred guests versus mainstream cred guests versus you know, random
Speaker 2: friends of ours that frankly shouldn't be doing the podcast.
Speaker 2: What happened?
Speaker 1: No, sorry, I thought I heard the garage door opening.
Speaker 2: Oh someone's coming to your bunker. I was too echoey
Speaker 2: in here, you're under arrest.
Speaker 1: The sound quality is horrible.
Speaker 2: So anyway, the point is, I have never felt more confident.
Speaker 2: I mean it is. It does feel strange for both
Speaker 2: of us to not be raising our voice has passed
Speaker 2: a whisper but trying to sound excited.
Speaker 1: I know it's tough. You guys just have to take
Speaker 1: our word for it.
Speaker 2: You guys just have to take our word for it.
Speaker 2: And I guess the best thing we could I think
Speaker 2: one of the things we can talk about a little bit,
Speaker 2: just like for one minute, is just how much fun
Speaker 2: we've been having on this damn tour.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's been a freaking blast from sea to Shining Sea.
Speaker 1: Of course, that the second Shining Sea. I'm considering Lake Michigan,
Speaker 1: Lake Michigan because we have not actually been to the
Speaker 1: West coast yet.
Speaker 2: But we will be going to the third Shining Sea
Speaker 2: very soon. Effect I mean, you're listening to this, then
Speaker 2: it'll be a mere days.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but no, it's been so much fun. I mean,
Speaker 1: meeting people who have somehow listened to us in all
Speaker 1: these places is amazing. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: So I have to say, like, Okay, I'm gonna say
Speaker 2: this without being rude to anyone else that we know,
Speaker 2: but I'm like, when I see our audiences, I'm like,
Speaker 2: these are exactly the people I want to be in
Speaker 2: my community. People want to be friends with, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean?
Speaker 1: Of course, because they're they're biting and cynical enough.
Speaker 2: To be cynical enough, which is LGBTQ plus wall to
Speaker 2: wall LGBTQ plus, as well as straight women and their
Speaker 2: cool boyfriends, but actually mostly LGBTQ plus. And I mean
Speaker 2: there were people at are Chicago show that had homemade
Speaker 2: merch that was really well done, in fact, with a
Speaker 2: sort of fun handwritten font.
Speaker 1: It was actually giving Arrow's tour.
Speaker 2: It was giving eras tour there are. It's such a
Speaker 2: good mix of you know, singles and couples and all
Speaker 2: sorts of all sorts of love triangles and thrupples. I
Speaker 2: believe the cast of Passages was that one of our shows.
Speaker 2: They have not figured things out yet. They were still
Speaker 2: in character too, still in character.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Also, you know we should say I have now met
Speaker 2: members of your family at every single show we have done.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I so this recording is coming literally one day
Speaker 1: after you left my parents' house in Michigan. I you know,
Speaker 1: how have you? How do you feel now that you
Speaker 1: know this side of me?
Speaker 2: It's actually well, first of all, the way I loved
Speaker 2: your parents and you have not done them justice. I'm
Speaker 2: sorry to say when I ask you know, what are
Speaker 2: your parents like blah blah blah. I'm like, I'm imagining
Speaker 2: you know, Midwest quiet like oh oh hello, oh yes whatever,
Speaker 2: Oh we are talking. These are partiers, folks, we are talking.
Speaker 2: I am ready to go on one of your mom's
Speaker 2: girl trips where she has wine in the train that
Speaker 2: she was talking to us about. And sorry, if that
Speaker 2: was an appropriate I should to mention that, but I am.
Speaker 1: That's fine.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you. We are doing a girls trip to Chicago.
Speaker 2: Your dad so fun. The way that they're like, I'm like,
Speaker 2: I thought you would be the sort of crazy one
Speaker 2: in the family, not the case. You're the normal one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a normal one. It's true.
Speaker 2: I mean the fact the way your parents fully understand
Speaker 2: like the importance of a bit. Like we were at
Speaker 2: a restaurant. So this is my last night in Michigan.
Speaker 2: They take me to one of the sort of like
Speaker 2: nice restaurants in your town. Okay, they are selling at
Speaker 2: the restaurant, they're selling hoodies that say the name of
Speaker 2: the restaurant. You and I make some little quip about them.
Speaker 2: We finish our meal, we get out of the restaurant,
Speaker 2: your parents are inside. We say what are they doing.
Speaker 2: They probably ran into someone than you. You better believe
Speaker 2: they were buying me a hoodie with a restaurant name
Speaker 2: as a gag. I mean that is genius.
Speaker 1: I mean it was. I was actually understand that.
Speaker 2: That is the funniest and also most meaningful possible gift
Speaker 2: they can give me. I mean, I also, I'm so
Speaker 2: I'm so lake pilled. I'm like, you know, all my life,
Speaker 2: I've considered lakes to be lesser bodies of water, and
Speaker 2: I am ready to frankly purchase a seaside home in
Speaker 2: Lake Michigan with the proceeds of this worldwide tour.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, Lake Michigan really is that girl. There
Speaker 1: was such an element of like, you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: let her speak for herself totally, because as soon as
Speaker 1: he has his toes in that water, he is going
Speaker 1: to be like Wow, I had no idea.
Speaker 2: You let both Lake Michigan and your family speak for
Speaker 2: themselves in a way that I actually I was like, wait,
Speaker 2: I should do more of that. I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: constantly trying to prove that my family is weird and quirky,
Speaker 2: or trying to like sell people on the idea of
Speaker 2: you know, going to Greece in the summer, and it's like, actually,
Speaker 2: if I just shut up and allow people to experience
Speaker 2: the things for themselves, then I won't have to be
Speaker 2: tap dancing all around everyone. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Well, you can't help it. Prs in your blood.
Speaker 2: Pr is in my blood. From that one year I
Speaker 2: did it and got paid hourly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hot. You can take the girl out of
Speaker 1: the PR firm, but she can't take you.
Speaker 2: And thank God for.
Speaker 1: That, and thank God for that.
Speaker 2: You know. Before we finished talking about try, I do
Speaker 2: want to say, if you're listening to this, the West Coast,
Speaker 2: as we said, is starting soon. So if you're in Seattle, Portland,
Speaker 2: San Francisco, or Los Angeles, head on rightour to linktree
Speaker 2: dot com slash Tradio lab and buy those ticks. But yeah,
Speaker 2: but otherwise I think we are just very excited to
Speaker 2: keep doing this. We are so like I feel like
Speaker 2: i've you know, we get a lot of like dms
Speaker 2: and emails that legitimately make me laugh, teach me things.
Speaker 2: We just posted this giant screed we got on the
Speaker 2: concept of lunch on our Instagram. Yeah, tell you that
Speaker 2: got more likes when we post the photos of ourselves.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm a little mad about that, but.
Speaker 1: That did kind of hurt. To be honest, I was like.
Speaker 2: Everyone is literally genius, genius, smarter than Sam and George.
Speaker 2: Get them on the pod, like they should take over
Speaker 2: for Sam and George. We were like, okay, like we're
Speaker 2: just trying to throw them a bone.
Speaker 1: We're just trying to lift up underrepresented voices.
Speaker 2: Okay, Like yeah, exactly, still people that don't have a pot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of the most underrepresented voices on podcasting.
Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah, yeah by definition actually, so yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 1: I keep keep emailing us, dming us all gripes.
Speaker 2: By the way, please review us. I hate to say it,
Speaker 2: but oh true. We love to see a review and
Speaker 2: it actually really helps with Apple podcasts and being featured,
Speaker 2: et cetera. And by the way, you can always subscribe
Speaker 2: to our Patreon which is patreon dot com slash radio Lab,
Speaker 2: and we have two extra episodes a month. Most recently
Speaker 2: we have been doing a lot of movie episodes and
Speaker 2: a lot of pop culture episodes. But we're gonna also
Speaker 2: go back to our roots and do listener questions and
Speaker 2: you name it, sweetheart, We'll do literally anything you email
Speaker 2: us to ask.
Speaker 1: That's true. We're very up for suggestion. We're open to
Speaker 1: suggestion in a positive way. Yeah, I don't know, is
Speaker 1: there anything else we need to cover?
Speaker 2: This is this is very like it's lounge, it's giving lounge.
Speaker 2: It's both lounging, and we're just sort of like, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, we just wanted to check in with our
Speaker 2: listeners and say thank you because season because you know,
Speaker 2: obviously these seasons are a little arbitrary. I mean, who's
Speaker 2: to say what separates season three from season four. But sometimes,
Speaker 2: you know, like when you're making New Year's resolutions, it's
Speaker 2: nice to take stock of everything and be grateful and
Speaker 2: give a little shout out to everyone who's been with us,
Speaker 2: either from the very beginning or even from hell a
Speaker 2: couple of days ago when you saw us live in Minneapolis.
Speaker 1: True true, true, Yeah, I think happy New Year to all.
Speaker 1: We're seniors now, we're podcasting fourth year.
Speaker 2: Something tell us we're going to be sticking around for
Speaker 2: a couple more years because we didn't ask the big
Speaker 2: chemistry exam.
Speaker 1: Me thinks we're going to be super seniors.
Speaker 2: Me thinks we're going to be super seniors.
Speaker 1: Folks.
Speaker 2: Well, Sam, it's kind of crazy to not be in
Speaker 2: the same place.
Speaker 1: I know, we've like glued to each other for a bit.
Speaker 2: It's crazy almost to the point where I'm like, are
Speaker 2: we so close now that it will be are we
Speaker 2: so close that it will be like doing a podcast
Speaker 2: with my blood brother and it might feel do we
Speaker 2: need more Do we need more distance in order to
Speaker 2: have something at least to bridge with our comedy? You
Speaker 2: know what I mean?
Speaker 1: I think this this next week we are not really
Speaker 1: seeing each other.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Actually, it's actually for we literally need to make
Speaker 2: an effort to not talk as much so that we
Speaker 2: so that things build up and then we start our
Speaker 2: West Coast leg.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And I think the West Coast leg is
Speaker 1: going to be a reuniting that will feel huge even
Speaker 1: though it's only been one week totally.
Speaker 2: So yeah. Seattle. By the way, if you're you're an
Speaker 2: employee of Amazon based in Seattle or Nike based in
Speaker 2: Portland or I don't know if those are switched, but
Speaker 2: you know, we are always open to corporate sponsorships.
Speaker 1: Oh and not to be you know, ignorant, you know,
Speaker 1: as a bit, but the way that I'm just like,
Speaker 1: what is the difference between Seattle and Portland. I keep
Speaker 1: being like, I keep like sort of being like it's
Speaker 1: like Saint Paul Minneapolis. I keep being like the twin cities,
Speaker 1: like they must be right next to each other, and
Speaker 1: it's like not really, but in my mind, I'm like,
Speaker 1: they're they're the same, and I can't wait to find
Speaker 1: their nuanced differences.
Speaker 2: I mean, even my expectations where I was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: Portland is going to sell better than Seattle. Sorry to
Speaker 2: be behind the scenes. You'll never believe this. Seattle is
Speaker 2: selling better than Portland. I'm like, everything I have known
Speaker 2: my entire life has been alive and we are actually
Speaker 2: huge celebrities in Seattle and huge flops in Portland.
Speaker 1: So if you live in Portland, you know, speak up
Speaker 1: and tell tell them that we need your support. Tell
Speaker 1: your neighbors, your friends, your family, that these gay podcasters
Speaker 1: will die if you don't buy a ticket to their
Speaker 1: big show.
Speaker 2: And as your dad said, maybe Fred will be there,
Speaker 2: meaning Fred Armison. That was that was so iconic.
Speaker 1: Well, we were all like, huh, Fred, who what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? He's like Portlandia dah, But he.
Speaker 2: Is right, he was, like it was a good reference.
Speaker 2: It's just somehow, somehow, we were all like, what, hello,
Speaker 2: it's not twenty.
Speaker 1: Eighteen, dad dous twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Uh, well, folks, we'll see you on the road. And
Speaker 2: by the way, enjoy today's episode with I want to
Speaker 2: say Cody Rigsby, Yeah, and if we're wrong then and
Speaker 2: if we're wrong then I guess actually is but but
Speaker 2: but but honestly shout out to Cody because I am
Speaker 2: literally a stan. After that, I was like, you are funny,
Speaker 2: my friend. Yeah, talk about a professional, talk about a professional.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I couldn't teach a Peloton class, but he
Speaker 2: can do a gay podcast.
Speaker 1: It's too much. You can't have too much.
Speaker 2: It's too much. By his book, by his book.
Speaker 1: Okay, talk to you soon. Bye bye,