In this episode, Tog and Parker are joined by a new “host on trial,” Maureen Faucet-Clooder, recording from the Grackleton Community Centre lobby and uncomfortably close to the loud Corncake Bake-Off tie-bell.
Sponsored by the Litigious Lawyer Society, the hosts attempt to discuss the theme of “okra” while navigating Parker’s traumatic childhood memories, Parker’s attempt to steal a bowl of butter mints, and the news that a local radio host has gone missing in the haunted mines.
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::[MUSIC PLAYING]
::You're listening to "Grack Public Access" here on 101.7 FM,
::the "Grack" in Grackleton.
::I'm Tog Chesterfield, and I'm here with two co-hosts today.
::We have Parker Spoon.
::Hi, Parker.
::Hello.
::And as the wonderful voice of yesterday used to say,
::his name was Ed McMahon, and he used to say "Heyo."
::So I'll give you a "Heyo."
::"Heyo."
::"Heyo," I like that a lot.
::And we also have our new host that
::was brought to the show because--
::well, Jen told us-- because of the sponsors.
::And that was it.
::That was the end of the details.
::Is Maureen Faucet-Clooder?
::Hi, Maureen.
::Hi there, guys.
::Well, I would like to be the first one of--
::you know that thing, how in the Wizard of Oz,
::they had the people who welcomed everybody,
::and they did dances for Dorothy.
::And one of them were they--
::so I got you a lollipop.
::Because they had the lollipop killed.
::So I'm going to be--
::I'm the lollipop man in this episode.
::Thank you.
::I love that, Parker.
::I'm confused.
::Are you the lollipop, or are you giving me a lollipop?
::No, no, no.
::You're giving me your presence as a lollipop.
::Oh, it's a real lollipop.
::Oh, thank you.
::Yes, it is.
::It's a wonderful, swirly--
::this was a--
::I had to--
::I scraped up some loose change for this.
::This was-- it was more than a dollar.
::It was several dollars.
::Wow, I can't believe you went all out over a dollar
::on me, Maureen Faucet-Clooder.
::Well, thank you very much, Parker.
::I'm glad to be here.
::I'm glad I hope the listeners don't mind that I've
infiltrated,
::I guess, the show of yours.
::I was going to call it a little show,
::but it's not a little show.
::I mean, a lot of people in Gragleton listen to it.
::So--
::Yeah, oh, good.
::So do you know this for people who listen--
::people actually listen to what we have to say about that?
::Oh, absolutely.
::I'm all over the town talking to people all the time,
::and they talk about it.
::They talk about both of you.
::Oh, actually, I should say--
::I should tell people where we are.
::I haven't even told people where we are yet.
::Yes, please.
::Oh, sorry, Todd.
::Oh, no, no, it's no problem.
::We've got a new guest.
::Well, no, a new host, rather.
::It feels like a guest, but she's not a guest.
::Let's say host on trial.
::Host on trial.
::That's a good thing.
::I don't really know why--
::because of the sponsors means.
::And no offense, Maureen, but this is a very--
::Todd and I have what they call movie magic when we do this.
::Oh, I can see the magic right here happen in Beforma.
::I'm just happy to be here no matter why.
::So-- sorry, Todd.
::You were just about to say where we are, I guess.
::Yeah, so we're at the Gragleton Community Center.
::And we have a sponsor today.
::And the sponsor, I haven't written down right here,
::is the Litigious Lawyer Society.
::That's right, the Litigious--
::Sue, the diaper's right off you.
::And our theme for today is "Ocra."
::"Ocra."
::"Ocra."
::Now, let's unpack these one by one as we often do.
::First of all, I would like to not say anything that could,
::in any way, be litigious to anybody.
::So I guess that from a sponsorship perspective,
::that's a wonderful thing because we--
::I personally love everybody.
::So that's one.
::And "Ocra," I'm going to just say it out loud.
::It might be the one thing that I don't love.
::Really?
::That's interesting.
::You like so many foods, Parker.
::So why don't you love "Ocra?"
::Because one time, I never had "Ocra,"
::but somebody once told me it was slimy.
::And that always freaked me out because when I was a
youngster,
::I used to imagine-- you ever see that movie
::where it's called "Ghostbusters?"
::Yeah, I've seen that one.
::Yeah.
::So there's a character in there and his name's Slimy.
::And he would go and whatever the Ghostbusters would be,
::they'd be sitting around at home drinking coffee
::or eating cereal or whatever.
::And Slimy would be-- I guess he lived next door to them or
something.
::But he would always come in and he would always have this
grand entrance
::and he would eat their cereal without asking.
::And he was a rascal and I never liked him.
::And so I don't want--
::Yeah, well, you know what, "Ocra," that--
::Slimy makes sense to me because I've always heard
::and I've actually tasted "Ocra," they're right.
::It kind of-- it reminds me of mucus and that's what people
usually say.
::But yeah, it's like eating a whole bowl of snot.
::Snot isn't exact.
::Do you know why we're here in the lobby and not someplace
better in the community center?
::I mean, they've put us right by the bell that they ring for
the corn cake bake-off
::when it has a tie, they keep-- they ring it for every tie.
::It's a wonderful-- I'm not to be the contrarian here, but I
am--
::I love wonderful traditions and beautiful things like
bells.
::And whenever they ring the bell-- and I know it's because
they ring it to honor the ties in the bake-off--
::Yeah.
::But whenever I ring the bell, I imagine that perhaps
somebody found like a really good fitting pair of shoes.
::Or something nice like that.
::And in my mind, I'm just imagining somebody because, you
know, a lot of shoes that don't fit right,
::they can give you blisters on your heel and that's the worst.
::Right.
::Yeah.
::So--
::Oh, it's an awful feeling.
::Yeah.
::I'm okay with the bell.
::Yeah, well, I'm okay with it, but I thought you two that--
because you're doing a show and you've got your cassette
tapes.
::I mean, that's weird, but you got your cassette tapes right
here on the table.
::I mean, we're within like three feet of this-- the giant--
the bell.
::I mean, this is not a good place to do a radio show.
::tie,:::I'm going to let Tog answer that because I have nothing to do.
::I-- you know, this morning I showed up and I had my bowl-- my
wonderful bowl of shredded wheat.
::And then Tog told me we were doing a show and made me come here.
::Yeah.
::Well, they put us here.
::They-- I didn't really have a choice.
::They just said, here, drag your table over by the lobby and
just kind of extend the-- extend the check-in desk.
::And they told-- they pointed by the bell.
::So why don't I go ask and see if we can move someplace quieter?
::Okay.
::That might be better.
::Thank you.
::Maureen, you're right.
::Can you-- you need to just do the community-- community
part of the show?
::No.
::Yeah.
::Yeah, no.
::Parker, you can do it.
::Can we talk--
::No, Tog.
::Yeah, Tog.
::Oh, I'm going to go talk-- I'm going to go talk to the manager
and see if we can maybe move to one of the rooms instead of
being underneath the bell.
::I think Maureen's right on this one, Parker.
::Oh, okay.
::I should have done this before we started recording, but I
can--
::You do me a favor.
::Okay.
::When you're out there.
::Sometimes in the library administrative society
offices, I don't know what that is, but there might not even
be that.
::I just-- it's a room with a lot of books.
::Right.
::They sometimes have a bowl of pasta salad that has
pepperoni in it.
::Oh, oh, that sounds good.
::Yeah.
::Can you get me some of that, please?
::Sure.
::Yeah, I'll look for it.
::It's okay.
::I'll try to get you some.
::It sits out because it's just, you know, it's just--
::Well, I think your stomach's used to it.
::I mean, your stomach's been through so much just while
we've been recording here, so I think you'll be fine even if
it's gone off a little bit.
::Can you come back soon?
::Okay, yeah, I will.
::You'll be fine with Maureen here.
::Okay.
::So just do the community connections.
::Okay, I'll be back.
::Bye.
::Bye there, Todd.
::All right, so we got-- we got-- what, Packer?
::Packer, already?
::Yeah, you're gonna do fine.
::You're gonna do fine.
::We got this.
::We got the notes and the cassette tapes.
::It says community on the top of this piece of paper.
::That's, I guess, what we're supposed to do.
::Okay, so just before we do that, let me paint a quick
seascape. This is something you might not be familiar
with, where we paint a wonderful seascape of-- it's the
audience's very much favorite part of the show.
::Oh, okay.
::Yeah.
::Although--
::We're nowhere near the sea.
::I mean, I get that's the Graccleton thing or whatever.
::They like the ocean analogies or metaphors or whatever.
::Yeah.
::Okay, seascape.
::Yeah.
::On board.
::I'm gonna paint a quick seascape of the most vicious,
horrible email addresses that send me stuff.
::They have never insulted me directly over the seascape,
because in my mind, these people who send me these awful
messages, the other day, I opened up my email and somebody
had made a-- what appeared to be a claymation figure of me.
::And they put it into a microwave and they put the microwave
on high and then it melted.
::And then they spread the claymation figure of me onto a
piece of bread.
::And they-- you only saw the bottom part of their face,
because there were cowards and hiding their face.
::But then they ate the bread and then I was all over their face
and they had that thing where they have stubble, but it's
kind of-- it's not like good-looking stuff.
::It's like, you know, a movie star wouldn't have that kind of
stubble.
::Okay, so we're not dealing with a movie star eating a
claymation parker.
::Yeah, they licked their lips and it was disgusting.
::And I sat there--
::What does it look like?
::I mean, claymation in a microwave, you said.
::They melted it.
::I mean, that sounds fascinating.
::Can you say-- does-- I presume this is a video.
::They sent you a link to a video.
::Can you send me that link?
::I want to see.
::I don't want to continue the hurt basket enough.
::Right, right, right.
::There's so many different types of baskets and the bunny
basket has won up joy and the hurt basket is just-- well, you
know, moving on--
::Okay, so we're moving on to this community thing.
::It says community.
::[music]
::"Grat Connect."
::[music]
::"I have advice."
::[music]
::"Happy birthday."
::[music]
::"Where are you?"
::[music]
::This first one here, do you want me to read it, Parker, or do
you read these things?
::No, I don't-- I'm not allowed to read this.
::That's my understanding of the situation.
::You're not allowed to read it.
::I don't want to read it if I'm not allowed if we get into
trouble or something like that.
::Where's Tog?
::Tog?
::Tog's still gone.
::Tog?
::So, all right, so I'm going to-- I'll look.
::I'll just read it and we'll let the chips fall where they may.
::Okay.
::"I have advice coming in from Lucinda Bratt."
::Oh, hi, Lucinda.
::"This advice says to avoid using sour cream in your corn
cake recipes."
::Sour cream is-- that's good in a corn-- this sounds like
Lucinda wants to screw over people
::going into the corn cake bakeoff.
::That's what it sounds like to me, Parker.
::First of all, you're breaking our number one rule of the
show.
::You're saying some comments that could be what I would
consider litigious.
::Litigious, yeah.
::Yeah.
::But that's our sponsor for today, so we should be okay, I
think.
::You know, if you want to bend to the sponsors already,
Marine, then that is okay.
::Well, I know what I'm supposed to do.
::Am I supposed to bend to them or am I supposed to like hold
them up?
::I don't even know.
::It just says that I'm here for this deal with the sponsors or
something like that.
::I don't know.
::You might as well make a deal with Willy Wonka.
::Remember at the end of the thing, he went back-- it's like
there was a deal and he
::said, "You, sir, I get out of here, you."
::And then he blasted the person off in a spaceship or
something and hit the moon, I think.
::Oh, well, I have to believe you because I've never seen that
movie.
::I've heard a lot about it, but I've never seen it.
::It was one of the most mean-spirited things I ever saw and I
never want to see it again.
::Thank you.
::Okay.
::Okay, so we got to be nice.
::Even if this advice is to screw other people over, we got to
be nice about the advice.
::Hi, Joanna.
::I think Joanna is over there.
::Oh, yeah.
::Joanna, that's one of Dawn's clients.
::That's one of Dawn's clients at the Business Insurance
Agency.
::Wonderful.
::Joanna is-- Hi, Joanna.
::Hey, Joanna.
::I'll tell Dawn I saw you.
::She wants to be on the air.
::Yeah.
::Oh.
::Yeah, no, I can say-- oh, she loves that.
::Look at the wave.
::Oh, yeah, she's got that nice wave.
::Yeah, hey.
::Yeah, I always try to mimic other people's waves to match
their waves.
::That actually is apparently a sociological thing that
you're supposed to do.
::You match somebody's wave, it makes them feel welcome.
::Oh, well, welcome everybody.
::Parker, Parker, Parker, show me your wave.
::Show me your wave.
::I'll try to match it.
::OK, if you can, don't look at my face while I do it because,
you know, obviously you can see why.
::Yeah, I can see your face.
::Your face looks fine, Parker.
::You look great.
::You look great.
::You got a-- I would say a face for TV, not a face for radio,
even though you're on radio.
::You got a face for TV, Parker.
::You know, you don't have to lie to me just because, you know,
I look like a dog vomit mushroom.
::Oh, you don't.
::See, Parker, Parker--
::That's in the rowing.
::Parker, you see, I never lie around the presence of a
cassette tape.
::I had to learn that in the '70s.
::So the cassette tapes are right here.
::We're being recorded and we're being sponsored by the
Litigious Society.
::So I don't lie in the presence of-- your face is good.
::Yeah.
::I mean, we'll agree to disagree.
::OK.
::I put my face, a picture of my face into one of those
artificial intelligence image recognition things.
::You ever see that where you can-- I don't know what it was.
::To be honest, there was a page and it looked like it was
-- maybe it was from like the:::And there were a lot of animated gifts and balloons, but it
said artificial intelligence.
::And I up-knew the picture of my face.
::Yeah.
::And it said-- it just-- it said-- I don't know why it said
this, but it said, "You look like an order of Mugu Gaipan."
::And I didn't like that.
::I love Mugu Gaipan.
::It's one of my favorite dishes.
::But I didn't want to be Mugu Gaipan.
::No, that's very specific, too.
::Yeah.
::That's very specific.
::I don't really see that in you, Parker.
::Thank you.
::I don't see Mugu Gaipan in you.
::I just don't.
::I appreciate it.
::I also-- so, you know, this was-- the funny part was I was
doing all this while I was also ordering Chinese food.
::Wow.
::So I had two windows open at the same time.
::Well, you know what I did, Parker, once?
::Oh, it is great to multitask.
::That's what I have to do when I'm selling insurance.
::But let's just say-- I have to say I had this experience.
::You know when they do the related similar-- images that
look similar to this?
::I put my picture in just to see, like, what I look similar to.
::It wasn't Mugu Gaipan.
::It was Rod Stewart.
::Oh, my goodness sakes.
::Oh, my goodness.
::Yeah.
::Look at you.
::I like that.
::I thought that was pretty good.
::You look like him himself.
::What do they--
::I kind of do, don't I?
::Yeah, they used to call him-- what do they call him?
::The Dancing Baron or something?
::Yeah, I don't even know.
::I haven't even listened to any Rod Stewart's music.
::Oh, he was amazing.
::You know, but I saw the picture and I'm like, yeah, you're
right.
::Yeah, he could-- that man with one-- he-- they-- he would
walk out on stage.
::Yeah.
::Because I saw a video of this one time.
::And with one stare, you had to be careful because he would
look in your direction.
::Uh-huh.
::And wherever he looked, a row of people would faint.
::Really?
::It would be--
::Well, no one's fainted around me.
::Yeah.
::I mean, that's-- I don't even know now if I should believe
this related image or a similar image search thing.
::He would make patterns of the audience from his faint eyes
sometimes.
::Faint eyes.
::Yeah.
::And that would be OK because I think they had like some kind
of cushions there for one of the people.
::They liked to faint.
::It wasn't a mean thing.
::Oh, yeah.
::Now, fainting would be fun if it was the right person to, you
know, faint from.
::Yeah.
::I mean, I wouldn't want to faint around like if it was like
a-- I don't know, some sort of killer or murderer that
wanted to murder me.
::And then they had the faint eyes and then he fainted and then
he could get murdered dead.
::No, we're not talking about anything.
::Yeah, you could.
::No, but we're not--
::This is a practical-- this is a practical discussion right
now, Parker.
::So do you want to move on to the next community thing?
::Yeah, let's move on.
::OK, this is number two.
::It says number two next to it.
::It says, "It is the 32nd anniversary of the submarine in
Lake Corncrop getting stuck in the West Shore Lagoon."
::Oh, 32 years.
::Wow, I remember that.
::"There will be a celebratory volleyball tournament near
the lagoon this Saturday."
::Oh, that sounds fun.
::Yeah, that's wonderful.
::That sounds fun.
::That's amazing.
::Yeah.
::I went into the lagoon and I've had some wonderful
experiences there with-- they-- you know, Todd gave me a
talking to and said that the geese were not my friends.
::But--
::Oh, yeah, those geese are nobody's friends.
::No, they were wonderful to me.
::Those geese, they were-- wait, what?
::Sorry, they were wonderful to you, those geese at Lake
Corncrop?
::They had carried me away at one point.
::Oh, yeah, that's what they do.
::Yeah, but they took me into-- I don't know what it was.
::And I woke up.
::I woke up and it was one-- there was a goose with a bonnet
around her head and a rocking chair.
::Oh, like mother goose.
::You're talking about mother goose?
::No, this was not-- this was very different than that.
::Oh.
::But then I woke up again and I was in the hospital.
::Oh, yeah, that checks out.
::Several wakes in a row.
::Let's put it that way.
::Yeah, I mean, those geese, those geese, they have their way
with you.
::You have to be careful with them because they have the faint
eyes.
::They have the faint eyes, you faint, and then they have your
way with you.
::And I mean, it's uncomfortable to say the least.
::You want to move on to number three?
::Ooh, no, not a second here.
::What's going on?
::I'm going to get into whimsy here because whimsy is
something that the audience likes.
::There happens to be a bowl that I can see four feet away from
me.
::Oh.
::Now, it is on the desk of, we're going to pretend that Lisa's
a scoundrel, OK?
::OK.
::Yeah, I'm-- Lisa kind of is a scoundrel.
::No, don't you say that.
::I know we're not.
::We're playing pretend.
::Oh, that's right.
::All right, we're playing pretend.
::Yeah.
::Yeah, we're going to pretend that the-- so anyway, there's
a big bowl of those mints
::that are like green and pink and white, and they look like
puffballs.
::Oh, I love those things.
::Oh, they're amazing.
::They melt in your mouth.
::Oh, look, we said common ground.
::Oh, yeah, yeah, they're called butter mints, I think.
::And some of the--
::Butter mints, yeah, they're called butter mints, I think.
::Yeah, it's like, I'd like to-- I put them-- you could put
them in butter.
::That's what that means, I think.
::Oh, well, you could.
::I just put them right in my mouth.
::I take a great big handful and just jam them right in my mouth.
::I always put a little bowl of these things on my work desk for
clients that come in.
::I am going to, if it's OK with you, and even if it's not,
because I'm feeling naughty right now.
::Oh, boy, oh, that's fun.
::See, I like this.
::This is interesting.
::I'm going to show you my stealth moves.
::OK.
::I'm going to go over there.
::All right.
::I'm going to sneak around.
::This is my game plan, ladies and gentlemen.
::OK.
::All right.
::I'm going to talk right into the microphone.
::Oh, it's like a little ASMR thing.
::I like it.
::I'm going to sneak around Lisa May's desk.
::All right.
::And I'm going to steal the entire bowl of butyl mints, and I
am going to eat them all.
::Oh, wow.
::OK.
::My mouth.
::All right.
::No, I got you.
::I got you.
::Hold on.
::You can--
::OK, I got you.
::You do this story, and I'm going to be doing my stealth
moves, because I've been practicing
::the stealth moves.
::Sure, sure.
::Yeah, no, that's great.
::That's great.
::No, I got you.
::I'll do this other one right here.
::I'll do that.
::I'll do that.
::All right.
::OK.
::So Parker Parker's being all stealthy.
::Parker's going over there.
::I'm going to read the last one here.
::It's a misconnection.
::That's what it says on the piece of paper.
::It says, oh, so Carl Ballet sent in this misconnection.
::It says, I went on a hike in and around the haunted mines with
the Outer Graque hiking
::brigade.
::Oh, yeah, those guys.
::And we started off with Barty Bundle in the group.
::I'm Barty that hosts municipal water quality report redo,
radio show.
::But Barty wasn't there when we got back to the parking lot.
::We're looking for Barty.
::If you're out there, give me a call.
::Oh, wow.
::Oh, that's not good at all.
::Barty's missing.
::You got Parker's over there doing kind of these sneaky
moves.
::Parker's got to look on his face.
::He's not going to like this news.
::OK.
::Parker's saying be quiet.
::She caught me and I am right now in words of the immortal Bond
Jovi.
::I am wanted, dead or alive.
::She is very upset and she's looking with eyes of.
::Remember how that man Ron Stewart had the eyes that make
people faint?
::Yeah, yeah.
::Faint eyes.
::Yes.
::Yeah.
::These eyes are like eyes that make people turn into like,
yeah, yeah, yeah.
::They make them die.
::Oh, they make them.
::Yeah.
::You make them die.
::Yeah.
::Yeah.
::Like where do you dead?
::No, I got it.
::I'm kind of like probably the eyes of the murder that I
talked about before.
::Parker, you told me not to talk about this stuff and then you
brought it up.
::Parker, guess what?
::Barty Bundle's gone.
::That's what I had to read when you weren't here.
::Barty Bundle is missing from the haunted mines.
::Wait, what?
::What?
::Not say I cannot.
::No, no, I am not going to save him if that's what you're
asking because I can't.
::Oh, no, I'm not asking that.
::Oh.
::I'm not asking that, Parker.
::Don't take it up to us to go find him.
::Look out for Barty, please.
::Yeah.
::Yeah, yeah, yeah.
::There's a haunted wonderful horrible mines with lots of--
::Oh, I think horrible is more-- it was a wonderfully
horrible.
::Yeah, yeah, because you're going to wonder at how horrible
they are.
::I thought the reason I said it.
::Yeah.
::Have you ever been in there, Parker?
::No.
::Into the mines.
::No, no, no.
::Okay, I am-- you know what?
::You brought up very bad.
::The seascape in my eyes right now is one of a horrible stormy
sea.
::And I'm going to-- I know you can do your stuff for a while,
but I'm going to punish
::you and leave for five minutes and go into the-- where's the
pasta salad?
::It's the punishment, the leaving part of it.
::That's the punishment that I'm getting?
::I'm just checking.
::Okay.
::Parker's gone.
::I'm going to go to ads.
::I know that there's ads in these things.
::I'm going to go to roll ads.
::I think it's from the litigious lawyer thing.
::And then we'll be back.
::So I don't know how this works, but we'll be back.
::[MUSIC PLAYING]
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::to the Litigious Lawyer Society of Grackleton, where
they'll sue the diapers right off that
::person that you have the complaint of.
::Of?
::That doesn't sound right.
::Oh, it says page turnover.
::Okay.
::Oh, shit.
::This summons for me.
::Jen deHaan made mockery of our grammar on post-red ad in
episode six of Grack Public Access.
::Seriously?
::Motherfucker.
::We're back on the show.
::This is Maureen Fawcett-Cluthor.
::Togchester Field is trying to find us a better place and we
got Parker Spoon here.
::Parker Spoon.
::Hey Parker, buddy.
::You're back.
::I'm doing a lot better.
::I'm sorry.
::But first of all, I have to apologize for what happened
before the commercial.
::I was, you know, sometimes when I don't have Tog Gear and,
you know, I'm in a place of
::lots of hostile enemies around who are trying to get me from
my stealth skills.
::You know, you ever see that movie, The Impossible
Missions, where there's a wonderful film.
::Oh, is that the Tom Cruise?
::Yeah, Tom Cruise.
::What a talent.
::Oh, definitely a talent.
::He's a--
::Definitely a talent.
::Yeah, yeah, yeah.
::Jumping around and doing all these silly things.
::It's amazing.
::And so, but anyway, yeah, that's what I'm like right now.
::They're after me because, you know, they have to do
counterintelligence because I've already
::stolen their mince and I'm not going to give them back.
::But that--
::Oh, you're very stealthy.
::I found the pasta salad because Tog was--
::Oh, my goodness.
::Oh.
::Tog was nowhere in sight.
::So--
::Oh.
::But the pasta salad was.
::Yes, I have that very big bowl with plastic wrap over top.
::Oh, good.
::It's good because the bugs really like to get into that.
::That's where the flies-- there's a lot of flies in here.
::I actually heard that there's infestation in the roof
rafters of this place, so the community
::center.
::Why?
::Yeah, there's an infestation of something.
::I don't even know what.
::But it causes, you know, the flies get into whatever it is
that is dead up there.
::So there's dead things in the ceiling.
::And there's a lot of flies around.
::So you don't want to eat anything in here that hasn't been
covered, including those
::mince that you got.
::Like, those aren't covered either.
::And by the way, everybody's hands go into that.
::That's pretty disgusting.
::I've already had, you know, because I've been keeping
count of my little timekeeper here.
::You ever see those little things where they keep them,
where people-- you can count how
::many people walk into a concert because you don't want too
many people to be there?
::I like those.
::Yeah, I have one for when I eat food because I like to count
how many bites I eat.
::Oh, every single bite will click, huh?
::Yeah, oh, absolutely.
::Yeah, so right now it's 38.
::So I've had 38 of these mince.
::Oh, good for you, buddy.
::And then you could push the switch to see the switch over
here.
::You move the switch over this way.
::And you can see, I've so far had 108 bites of pasta salad.
::OK.
::So we're going to see what happens in my belly when you mix
the two together because this
::is what the audience wants.
::Oh, they want to know what's happening in your belly.
::That's like an established part of this show?
::I don't know the name.
::This is-- so Todd--
::OK.
::--and then he drives me here and then talks about stuff and
then I'll say stuff.
::Sometimes I'll paint a seascape.
::That's how it works.
::OK.
::Well, that sounds good.
::I'm glad you know how it works because I certainly don't
know how it works.
::What are we supposed to do after we came back from an ad break?
::I know you have the ad breaks because I'm supposed to be here
about the sponsors.
::But so what do we do after the ad?
::Do you know?
::I have a note here.
::It says do reviews, but I don't know when that's supposed to
be.
::I don't like to say reviews because when you review stuff,
you have to sometimes say things
::that aren't nice and that's not good.
::We can do reviews.
::Why don't you review something you like?
::Oh, OK.
::Yeah, just Parker reviews.
::Let's call this Parker reviews something Parker likes.
::I'm going to say this is kind of a thing.
::Remember Jen deHaan?
::Oh, yeah.
::I know Jen's the one that told me to come here and do this
because of the sponsors.
::One of my best friends.
::And what they'll do is we'll say put in a new bumper here and
so again, do a whole review
::of that.
::OK.
::So they'll put in a bumper of whatever I said.
::I said Parker likes to review Parker.
::Parker reviews something Parker likes.
::I think that's what I said.
::OK.
::So do bumper of that.
::Go ahead, Bestie.
::Go on.
::Parker reviews something that Parker likes.
::Oh, you're Bestie's with Jen?
::That's a wonderful person.
::Yeah.
::I mean, that's a hard sell.
::I mean, that's a hard thing to do to be a Bestie of Jen.
::No.
::Jen doesn't do that stuff lightly.
::Jen is a wonderful.
::We had a falling out at first now with we had a falling in.
::It actually surprises me that Jen would even have a friend.
::I mean, Jen doesn't seem like.
::I didn't think Jen had people.
::No.
::Jen is, you know, yeah, once you're used to the
disparagement and the, you know, the
::the Bakery.
::The Cussing, the incessant Cussing.
::Yeah.
::And, you know, at some point, because what my mom used to say
is if you have to completely
::break somebody down to to their true self, which is in very,
very ugly, horrible, duckling.
::Are you talking about yourself right now or Jen?
::Because I'm very confused.
::You're talking about yourself.
::You're talking about yourself.
::Parker.
::The ugly is.
::Parker, I already said I can't lie in front of a cassette
tape and you're you have a face
::for TV, buddy.
::You do.
::You're good.
::You're good.
::I know.
::I've never seen one of those cartoons where all the ducks
are beautiful and then one of
::the ducks literally looks like a, you know, a fork or
something.
::He's a fork.
::Yeah.
::You know, you're good.
::All right.
::So Parker, what's something you like?
::Can you do a review on something you like?
::Absolutely.
::Yeah.
::Yeah.
::Yeah.
::Yeah.
::I love this.
::I love egg rolls.
::You know.
::I love the fullness of an egg roll.
::So there's, there's, there's, I call it, you know, how the
earth has different parts
::ecause they guess back in the:whatever, they cut the earth in half
::and so they can look at everything.
::And they found out that the earth has all these different
layers in it.
::And just like the earth is like an egg roll.
::So they, uh, the outside of the egg roll is, especially if
you get it fresh, is a wonderful
::bubbly oil that shields the crispy layer of egg, egg roll.
::And then there is the part that's inside that is the not
crispy part, but it's still a little
::doughy.
::And that's the part you want to see until the end because
it's delicious.
::And then inside is like the magma because if you eat that,
your mouth will turn to fire.
::Oh, you do.
::Yeah.
::That's like, yeah, the center of the earth.
::Uh, I, I don't think they cut the whole earth open though.
::We're sponsored by the litigious people this week.
::So I think we have to be accurate.
::I'm trying to think back to the, because they made you
memorize these dates.
::I think it was like:::So can we say Jen fix that if that's factually incorrect?
::Yeah.
::I mean, Jen, my bestie, she's gonna, she, she trusts.
::That check.
::It never happened.
::I guess this is Maureen reviews something, uh, bumper.
::I'm going to review something I don't like Parker.
::I'm going to have to do that, but just to balance because we
need balance in this show.
::So I'm going to review the garbage cans in the town square
and the lent posts in the
::town square in the center of Gackleton.
::You know that they're just too decorative, but you know
what?
::I'm going to, I'm going to review something that makes,
that makes me think of this.
::You know the clam bacon take that's down there by the town
square.
::Wonderful. Yeah.
::Yeah. It's great.
::It's great. They do that clam bread.
::Have you had the clam bread from the clam bacon take? Right.
::They used to call me Mr. Clam bread and did they really?
::Yeah. Oh yeah.
::Yeah. What I used to do and I don't mean to steal your thunder
here.
::Oh no, that's fine.
::I would, uh, when, when it used to rain, um, you know,
::I guess it rains now still, but I never know.
::Yeah. Because I, you know, I'm usually inside until talk
takes me here.
::Um, I, uh, I used to go out and I used to get the clam, the clam
bread and then like
::Fred Astaire, I would decorate the decorative, uh, poles
that you dislike.
::I would swing around on them and.
::Oh yeah. Oh, you're one of those.
::Yeah. I know. I know your type.
::Everybody would be clapping and, uh, and, uh, people would
be forming and then I would
::take the decorative trash can lids and I would play them
like drums and.
::Would you really?
::The water would be splashing in the air and people would be
cheering.
::It would be, it was a whole, it was what a scene. It was a
wonderful scene.
::You know what, Parker?
::I think I'm starting to get a very good picture of what kind
of, uh, gentleman you are.
::I just threw these, uh, exploratory, uh, exploratory
vignettes I would call them.
::I think about you. I'm a, I'm a people person. I have to be
because I'm in insurance, you know,
::like when you do small business insurance, you have to be a
people person. I, you know,
::and I, I think I've pegged to you. I mean, you know that I know
your mom, Mrs. Boone.
::Yeah. We, we don't.
::Yeah. Yeah.
::Okay. Okay. That's fine. That's fine Parker.
::Anyways, the clam bacon take, they actually, you know
what, they have excess coverage and
::that's because they had such a clean claims experience,
uh, when, when I set them up,
::actually quite against the garbage can lamp post, uh, how
decorative they are.
::So I wanted to end it on a positive note and the positive note
is the clam bacon take go on
::Tuesday nights. That's my recommendation. So this is
being Maureen reviews something.
::Uh, do you, do you do end bumpers in the show? Parker?
::I, I, I have no idea.
::Oh, okay. Well, Jen, do an end bumper for this one.
::I don't know if you do it, but do one.
::Maureen reviews something.
::End bumper.
::I don't know if that's going to be demanding. Jen might come
after me after this,
::but that's okay. I can handle her.
::I, I, I'm, I'm not going to take up any more of the show, but I
have a little
::breaking news for you.
::Oh, good. Okay.
::Why, what's up?
::I'm going to go up to the attic and, um, because, uh, the
attic is, it's, it's very accessible.
::Cause I saw when I was in the library, they had one of those
wonderful drop ladders that you
::saw in the movie, um, Home Alone, which is,
::Oh yeah. I love those things. So it's a great,
::so I'm going to go up there and, um, it's already very
infested. And, uh, so I, I,
::if a little more infestation will not, um, I, I'm, I have a
buck in a case I get sick.
::So I'm going to go up there.
::This is really interesting to me that you're going to go up
there and use it for the reasons
::that I think you're going to do, which we aren't going to
say, but even though they are going to
::cut this out, they are going to cut this out. Okay. Yeah.
::They're going to cut this out. Uh, but also I think I get what
you're dropping and that you're
::about to drop a lot. No, no. I like you. No, no. I'm going to
get sick the other way.
::Not going to go. I like you Parker. You're my kind of guy.
You're my kind of guy Parker.
::You're my kind of guy. You are my kind of guy right now.
::Fine talk after this and, uh, okay. Well, I got your back.
I'm going to,
::I'm going to say do an ad or something in here while you go and
drop a load.
::No, no, I'm not going to do that. Don't you be so hurtful.
::I'm not being hurtful. I'm optimistic. I might have to get
mouth sick is what I'm saying.
::Mouth sick. Okay. We'll use that terminology, whatever
you want to say.
::Mouth sick. Gotcha. Okay. I'm going to. Okay. Bye. Bye.
::All right. So we're back. Uh, we're back. We're all back.
So, uh, this is a one oh one point
::seven FM. The GRAC. We are at the community center. I feel so
much like a host right now,
::Parker, even though I'm just a temporary maybe host while
the sponsor things going on. How
::are you feeling there, buddy? You're back. You may or may
not have seen the, uh, well, the,
::that looks to, well, might look to the untrained eye to be a
horrible wound on my arm.
::Um, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, um, well, it would be also to a
trained eye. It would also be a wound
::because it's a wound. I got it. It is a wound. Yeah. I can see
that. Yeah. Um, because I went up
::there to get mouth sick, uh, in my pocket and, um, just to be
clear, that does mean that you're
::throwing up. That's Pew. No, you're not leading. Jen, you
can, uh, you can put the bleep over that word.
::Um, right. So butt sick would be diarrhea. No, no, no. Tug.
What would you call it if it was
::both things? Your mouth sick and your butt sick. I looked
for talk during the break. I went all
::around. I did a full loop of this place and I know this place a
lot. I actually did the insurance for
::their sheds out back. I had to go around all of this place in
addition to the sheds just to
::write their policy. I did a full loop. I did not find talk
anywhere. I don't know where they went.
::Well, I, there's a little bit of blood involved with my arm.
You see it? It's a, oh, yeah. Okay.
::Now it's okay. Okay. Yeah, I see what you're, I see what
you're dealing with. Yeah. There's that,
::there's one little flap that'll just, uh, if I, if I kind of
fold it back, if you fold it back in,
::like, you know how they say that the coast of South America
goes into the coast of Africa,
::because they used to be connected? Oh, it's like a puzzle
piece. Yeah. That's like that.
::Kind of like you're dealing with like a puzzle piece. In the
other flap here. They can, yeah,
::but also you wash that off with soap and water. Correct. I
mean, that's, that's just right to get
::infected. That is that is stingy. I'm not doing that. Oh,
you should do that. You should do that
::before you do anything else. I mean, that looks deep enough
that you need to take care of that.
::I will talk to you and I'll tell you my little harrowing
story. I'm up there and I finished
::getting mouth sick in the bucket. Okay. And that's puking
audience. That means puking. And there
::were indeed erasers in there. Many of them. I don't know why
I did not feel them as I was chewing.
::And suddenly I see a pair of yellow eyes. And, and I, I see it
approaching, approaching,
::and next thing you know, something's locked the hold of my
arm. And, yeah. And so something,
::something bit you. So this is a legit bite. Well, then I ran,
I came back here and that was me.
::If you heard me screaming down the, if you heard somebody
screaming down the hallway.
::Yeah, I did. Earlier. I don't know if you remember, but that
was me who did that. Oh,
::that was, I thought that was a bunch of kids just having fun.
That was you screaming after
::getting bit. Pretty sure that it was either a vampire or a
werewolf up there. No, buddy,
::buddy. That's the raccoons up there. There's a whole
family up there. Got their little beady eyes.
::I saw me. They did have, I saw cute paws before I was bit, but
from what I can tell from my,
::from my research, many werewolves can also have, because
you know, that werewolves are poppies
::sometimes and they could have. Yeah, that's where they
start. That's where they start.
::I'm not going to cause any conspiracies here because
that's not this type of show. Yellow
::eyes. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I would, I would
probably, I would probably go get a rabies
::shot because of the raccoon situation. Oh, I get, I have to
go. My, my, my mom makes me get
::one, one, one every six months to be safe. Say hi to your mom
for me. I mean, you still go home
::every night, right? Yeah, sometimes for your vitamins.
Well, I, I, I sometimes, if, if Todd
::makes me, I go, but I'm trying to knock on us often now. So I,
I, yeah, I, but, well, I'm glad
::Todd is taking care of you as well. I know how much your mom is
worried about you being taken care
::of. Four or five times a week. I'll go probably. Oh yeah. I
mean, that's normal. That's totally
::normal. All right. So what are we supposed to do after we get
back again? We're back again on the
::show. We're recording here on the cassette tapes. A lot of
times I run away screaming,
::because something horrible happens. But so far as other
than my wound, that has not happened.
::No, you're doing really good. Let me just look at the papers
here.
::The papers say that we're supposed to do the history of the
carnival. Oh,
::what do I know about that? History of Grack. The carnival of
the Grack happens every year in
::Grackleton in the town center. The carnival started, I
think maybe in:::they'll maybe fix some little fact checker or something
like that. Fact checker. Yep. That's
::right. From Rufus. Rufus de Grack was the one that started
the whole Grackleton carnival.
::Wanted to put it around funnel cake creation, because
Rufus, of course, was the best funnel
::cake baker at the time and did all the creative toppings.
Parker, that's all I know. Have you
::heard anything else about the carnival of the Grack? The
history? Yeah, no. The whole time,
::the second you said funnel cake, that's the only thing I
thought of. Yeah, I know. As soon as I
::said funnel cake, that was all I could, I just was just like,
oh yeah, the funnel cakes, right?
::Even the horrible throbbing pain in my arm went away.
Really? Yeah. You hear them scaring up there,
::the children of the night in the ceiling? Well, I think I
hear the raccoons up there.
::I mean, they're chattering. Now they have a connection to
me and I'll never be able,
::you know, what I was just with the tissues are here. Yeah,
move them over.
::Pretty soon, I will go through the process where I will.
Yeah. I will leave what appears to be
::my mortal coil behind. But then I will awaken in my mortal
coil, but I will no longer be a human.
::I will be a werewolf. So if that happens, you may have to do
the unthinkable.
::And, you know, I put a silver stake, get the silver stake.
Okay, well, you know what? I
::don't think you really need to worry about that, Parker,
because I think rabies is probably going
::to be your chief concern here. You just definitely need to
talk to your mom. I have it right here.
::She put it in my paper so I can give it to you. Oh, nice. Okay.
That's my history. All right. Well,
::should I leave this for Tog? It seems like Tog does a lot of
the caring activities.
::Yeah, Tog has a copy as well. Oh, so this is my personal copy
here. Just so you have it too.
::I try to give it to as many people as possible. Lisa at the
desk has it as well. Oh, wow. So the
::thing on the back is your daily vitamin regimen. Yeah,
that's the vitamins. That's the vitamins.
::Oh, we take a lot of the same ones. Wonderful. Yeah, they do.
Oh, nice. Love them. You know,
::I should run by my list with your mom. No, no, thank you. I
don't want to do that. Nope, we can.
::I mean, she's got a good regimen here for you. Three blue
ones, huh? So moving on. So funnel cakes,
::they used to be, this is many years ago, they used to try to,
they used to be in the shape of funnels.
::And that's why they call them funnel cakes. Because then
what you could do is you could put
::the icing, you could put the funnel in your mouth, and then
you could like put the, you can,
::you could drink the, it was the icing from the funnel. See, I
love that. And I would say that my
::primary reason to eat the funnel cake is for the icing. You
know, there's this little bakery,
::sort of an outer crack. It was like out of a basement of a
house. I insured the bakery,
::but not the house. Insurance, Lisa, did the policy for the
house. I did the policy for the
::bakery in the basement, which is just a very, we had to work
together. This place had icing shots.
::It was like a little two ounce cup that you could buy just of
icing to be eating on its own,
::without any other vehicle for the icing. That is my kind of
dessert I discovered.
::Yeah, that sounds, that sounds absolutely like heaven to
me.
::Does it really? The wonderful, because especially if it's
the cream cheese icing that they put on.
::Oh, wow. Yeah, that's the best one. What are you gonna do
with that?
::What are you gonna do? Yeah, I know. The cream cheese icing
is absolutely the best icing,
::but I haven't, Parker, you know what? I haven't met a lot of
individuals that are with me on the
::only eating icing thing without a vehicle. Most people are
like, you know what? I need the
::base of a cupcake. I need some kind of, you know, cake. You
don't need any cake at all. You can
::just go have the icing. Back when I used to go out for
Halloween, when I used to live with mother,
::you know, we didn't have a lot of money growing up, so she
would whip up some cream cheese icing
::and then put food dye in it. So it was green. And then you ever
see one of those, I guess they use them
::for, they used to plug the holes up in the wall with this
putty knife or something.
::Yeah, like a spackle or something like that. Yeah, like a
spangle or whatever. Spackle. Spackle.
::Yeah. Spackle. That's a good word. Yeah. Spackle. Yeah. My
face, she would take the icing then and
::just put thick lobs all over my face. Then I would go out with
my friends on the trick-or-treat
::group, but I would always run off in the woods and hide in the
clearing and just eat the icing off
::my face. Oh, I mean, going, you have to, I think, when, if
you're eating icing on its own without a
::vehicle, you have to eat it solo. I think that's something
that to be done in private only.
::Yeah. Well, I mean, it's like a private activity when you
need some private time. You know what I'm
::saying? But all you're doing is eating icing. You're not
doing something else, something fun.
::No, thank you. You're just eating icing. No, I don't like
it. I mean, you could do something fun
::while you're eating icing. No, no, no, no, no. This show is
not, the show is going wonderfully,
::and then it took a horrible, awful turn. So let's turn the
wheel back in the other direction and get
::us back onto this wonderful highway of glitter and that
wonderful. Speaking of which, Parker, when
::did you move out of your house with your mother? Oh, well,
thank you. You said when I was living with,
::with mom when I was with mother. Yeah, I went. When did you
move out? Parker, how old were you?
::Well, we're not going to go into details here. But I was, I
was this many years old. Parker is
::flashing his hands, both of his hands a few times right now.
It was just for the listening audience.
::So just because the audience does not have to know because
he never tell the audience,
::the audience right now, I am eternally young. And I'm going
to be eternally young.
::Hey, here I'm got the tissues again. I think I understand
why there's issues sitting on the table.
::Yeah, I will always be the same age as I am now. Yeah. Oh, my.
You know what? Parker. Oh, hi. Hi,
::everybody. Sorry. Hi, Parker. How are you? Oh, you're
crying, Parker. Yeah. But the marina doesn't
::know what to do. So no, I don't. I'm sorry. I got the tissues
out. Oh, thank you. Yeah, he
::needs sometimes needs those. All right. So did you did you
did you do the show? I know I've
::been gone for a while. It was a world of wonder and fancy and
absolute abject horror. Right. Yeah,
::there were mints and then there was Lisa and there was
stealth and there was rumors of pepperoni
::and there was a thing on your arm. Yeah, well, it's
terrible. Yeah. And then I think you might
::know about that. So we'll talk about that later. No, I don't
know. And then there was
::werewolves and and vampires and what? Yeah. Oh, yeah. And
talk of talk of conspiracy. That
::sounds all sounds very noisy. And unfortunately, I
discovered that we couldn't move to another room.
::So this is this is what we have for the rest of the show. We've
done I think we've done most of the
::show talk. Did you do the weather? Now we didn't do the
weather. All right. So I'll just Parker,
::I'm just going to do the weather. Okay, it's you know, the
heart beats. I feel that but not in my
::heart. It's happening with my arm. Yeah, you should you
should probably wash that. But first,
::let's let's do the weather. Okay. The weather is brought to
you by the litigious lawyer society of
::Gragilton will sue the diaper right off. Yeah, well, even
sue it right off. Yeah, if you get the
::weather wrong, we're watching. Well, you should be
listening. You can't watch it. Get ready for the
::weather. The weather in Gragilton this evening is going to
be breezy. You just learned all about
::the weather. That's the weather brought to you by the
litigious lawyer society of Gragilton.
::That diaper, it's coming off whether you like it or not. If
we sue you. And that's if you do
::something like get the weather wrong. All right, we're
back. That was the weather. I think I think
::we've covered everything in the show. Parker, do you think
we've covered everything in the show?
::You've done the show before. Sorry, Maureen. I feel like
I'm on a cloud right now. And it's not a
::nice cloud. It's a very angry cloud. So I'm I would like to,
if possible, just lay down for a
::little while and close my eyes. And maybe you can put me in
the car or something. I'll do that.
::I'm going to carry you out. Parker, listener, Parker is
slumped over in his chair. And we should
::probably get him out of there. So this is being a grack
public access. I haven't been here for most
::of the show. So I just only hope that everything was covered
and that you enjoyed it. And we'll be
::back soon with another episode. So this is being from the
community center. I guess maybe everybody
::talked about okra or not. And we're we're done for now. Bye,
everybody.
::You've been listening to Grack Public Access, a Stereo
Forest production.
::This episode was created, directed, edited and produced
by Jen deHaan, Maureen Faucet-Clooder
::and Tog Chesterfield. We're improvised by Jen deHaan.
Parker Spoon was improvised by Adam.
::Additional voices and writing by Jen deHaan. You can find
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