Jesus Is A Friend Of Mine

October 23, 2014 Episode 7
Cast: Steve Rees, John Kensil, Dr. Frielgood, Midnight Martinez
Guests: Omar Scruggs and Tony Rinaldi Spinelli

Happy Saturday, Darling. Today's classic TPAH is a great one to experience while you're running around doing all of your Saturday whatnot.

On the previous week's show we learned some things not to do at Laffcast. This time though the guys have top stand-up Omar Scruggs to show us how it's done. Omar seemed to maybe not be a regular listener, and he didn't pass the Door Test, but he brought the right personality and charisma to be able to fit in perfectly. Steve seems to be much happier with this guest since he called the last show, "horrible". There's no horrible TPAH, Steve. But, we know what you mean.

Talk of the last guest started things off. Dr. Frielgood thinks that maybe Steve was a little to aggressive with his improv hate stance. Not a listener, Doc?

We learn some interesting behind-the-scenes tidbits about conversations that happened with the previous guest at the studio, but not on mic. That guy really left an impression, huh? Poor Previous Guest!

After the Goddamn Tweets, we start to learn more about Omar. At the time he was doing his own sports podcast that could be found on supercrappyfuntime.com. I tried to find this so I could link to it here, but it's gone. I did find their facebook page, but the last post was made in 2015.

Can I just take a moment to rant here? I super extra hate when a podcast disappears and they take down all of the archives and content. That's not fair to your fans! It's especially not fair to all of the people who were on the show and provided content for you. To just decide that you don't want to pay for it anymore and erase people's hard work and contributions with a quick click of a button is a horrible thing to do!! Let me tell you a little story. In the early 2000's there was an incredible show called Channel Chaos. It was the funniest podcast ever. There weren't 15 bazillion shows to choose from at the time and Channel Chaos was certainly a trailblazer for the talk show style podcasts that we have today. Almost everyone that was in comedy in the Philadelphia area at the time appeared on that show. Keep in mind, this was a time when there was such a thing as comedy and there were actual living, breathing funny comedians who were allowed to be funny. Amazing things happened on there all the time. I kept listening even after they stopped recording. It was fun to go back in the archives and relive moments. Out of the blue it was gone. Just gone. All of the great stuff that so many people did for them just erased. Imagine being one of the guests and never being able to share a great appearance or something funny you did on a show because they just up and deleted it? Gutting!! Anyway, that's my Channel Chaos story. The agony stays with me. I was lucky enough to get most of the shows on cd from one of the hosts, but still. It's the principle. Maybe this is just a thing that bothers me. Who knows? Maybe no one gives a shit. When I rule the world, this bullshit will not stand.

Back to TPAH. Omar was really great. He knows some stuff about Canadian Football! We found out that John Kensil and Omar were in a short film together. Here it is!


Omar was also the first guest on Back To The Humor which was directed by our Midnight Martinez!


In October lame radio stations do that whole Rocktober thing. Not our TPAH. Since the show is ministry based, they give us Contemporary Christianber! Once we're told about that, we're handed this gem:


OOF! Luckily, OFLWAFPSOAPBP gets played right after as a palate cleanser. There's no video for that and I can't help but wonder why. There should really be a fun visual element to Old Fat Lady With A Fanny Pack. I'm going to put that on my list of things to get to the bottom of.

I still have two pages of notes left about this show. It was so action packed! But, I'm going to wrap up and leave you in peace to experience it for yourself.

Favorite quote: "Since Omar's here we should have put more bass in that."- Dr. Frielgood

Enjoy episode 7!

Show description: This week, the guys welcome top stand up comedian Omar Scruggs. They talk about last week's abysmal show, a football field full of moon bounces, and cheesy Christian pop tunes. Tony Rinaldo Spinelli chimes in with his hatred for Polish jokes. It's all that matters on the only podcast that matters.



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