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Seinfeld "The Race" Audio Commentary | 2024 Christmas Specials
The boys “phone it in” the year with an audio commentary on the other Seinfeld classic Christmas episode “The Race.” Sync with watching the episode for best results.
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Pixelland by Kevin MacLeod
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seinfeld-the-race-audio-commentary-2024-christmas-specials.mp3
Transcript
00:00:00 Andrew
I was like, I think it finally died down and then we went outside and it was like, no, it's just regular.
00:00:04 Andrew
It's not pouring from the heavens.
00:00:08 Andrew
It's kind of BS. You're in for a treat.
00:00:11 Brandon
Oh yeah, I will make sure to bring something waterproof.
00:00:15 Andrew
Bring your mukluks in your galoshes.
00:00:17 Andrew
It's going to be a wet one.
00:00:20 Narrator
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I.
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00:01:29 Andrew
Well, the holidays are upon us.
00:01:32 Brandon
The holidays are upon us, yes.
00:01:35 Andrew
The night before the holiday? Yeah.
00:01:37 Brandon
Mary Fringus happy.
00:01:40 Brandon
Hanukkah.
00:01:43 Brandon
Merry festivus. For the rest of us.
00:01:46 Brandon
Yeah. So we're not doing the Christmas specials this year in the way that we normally do in that we're not doing 12 episodes over the course of 12 days with guests and all of our friends coming by.
00:01:54
Now.
00:02:01 Brandon
But what we are doing?
00:02:02 Brandon
Is.
00:02:04 Brandon
We're doing audio commentary, so.
00:02:06 Andrew
What we are doing is phoning it in.
00:02:08 Andrew
You may.
00:02:09 Andrew
That as we go through this next episode.
00:02:12 Brandon
I know.
00:02:13 Brandon
Phone it is the right word.
00:02:16 Brandon
Planned.
00:02:16 Brandon
We thought about it for at least for 40 minutes.
00:02:21 Andrew
Yeah, he had concepts of a plan, let's say.
00:02:25 Brandon
Yeah, and I kept dropping the ball. OK, so originally last week, after we finished recording, it might have been two weeks ago. I was like.
00:02:33 Brandon
You know, I should like, reach out to our friends that normally come on the show and see if they want to just like record a quick thing that we could just drop into like a movie commentary that we're doing.
00:02:45 Brandon
And then.
00:02:47 Brandon
We got to hear. I didn't do that.
00:02:50 Brandon
And then you're like, yeah, I don't think I have a movie in me.
00:02:56 Brandon
Recording I was.
00:02:57 Brandon
Yeah, yeah.
00:02:59 Andrew
No, to be very honest, I'm quite tired.
00:03:00 Andrew
Haven't been sleeping too well.
00:03:03 Brandon
Same I think I went to bed at.
00:03:06 Brandon
One last night and up at 6:00.
00:03:10 Andrew
The sad thing is I went to bed on time, got up in normal time.
00:03:10 Brandon
I'll get.
00:03:11 Brandon
You.
00:03:12 Andrew
I still feel.
00:03:13 Andrew
I think it's just called being in your mid 30s.
00:03:16 Brandon
Mid 30s. It's winter, so it's dark at like 4 here.
00:03:24 Brandon
Yeah.
00:03:25 Brandon
It's.
00:03:27 Brandon
We're we're old.
00:03:29 Andrew
Yeah, yeah, that's for sure.
00:03:30 Brandon
Yeah.
00:03:31 Andrew
Like I have back pain from standing. That's that's healthy.
00:03:36 Brandon
That's why I got the lumbar sport.
00:03:37 Brandon
This chair.
00:03:38 Brandon
Where's where's my lumbar pad? No.
00:03:42 Andrew
Yeah, theoretically I could drop down into the office chair since we're not on video.
00:03:47 Brandon
And and for those of us who've never watched an episode of namely 90S.
00:03:53 Brandon
You can just skip ahead to the part where it says audio commentary. If you're just looking for an audio commentary for Seinfeld, the race.
00:04:01 Brandon
Yeah.
00:04:04 Brandon
I'm. Yeah, we're we're going to be watching Season 6 episode 10 of of Seinfeld.
00:04:13 Brandon
This is the second episode of Seinfeld at Andrews been forced to watch.
00:04:18 Andrew
Not much more than one episode of Seinfeld.
00:04:21 Brandon
Oh.
00:04:21 Andrew
I mean, for this podcast is my second one but.
00:04:24 Brandon
Yeah, all the last. The first time that we did it, which you can check out on our first annual 12 days of Christmas specials.
00:04:36 Brandon
Bronzer is Day 4 with.
00:04:40 Brandon
The host.
00:04:40 Andrew
Your friend will be your friend.
00:04:44 Brandon
No, and we watched it with. We watched it with professional Canadian journalist.
00:04:45 Andrew
No, that was somebody else.
00:04:52 Brandon
From history of the 90s.
00:04:53 Andrew
Canadia history of the 90s.
00:04:55 Andrew
Thank you.
00:04:57
Yeah.
00:05:00 Brandon
Which we watched the strike, which was sorry, that was day three.
00:05:05 Brandon
Of 90s with Kathy Zora, I believe.
00:05:08 Andrew
Yes, that's right.
00:05:09
OK.
00:05:11 Brandon
And she's still popping off, doing great episodes of 90S history.
00:05:16 Brandon
You can check out day three of the 12 days of Christmas specials with history of the 90s.
00:05:22 Brandon
We watched Seinfeld at the time you said that that was the first that you you had not seen Seinfeld.
00:05:31 Andrew
I mean I I had.
00:05:33 Andrew
Episodes of it, so maybe I.
00:05:35 Brandon
You remember, OK.
00:05:36 Andrew
Yeah, but I I what I've actually said. I've actually watched the entire episode of Seinfeld all the way through, maybe in high school, maybe.
00:05:41 Brandon
Right.
00:05:46 Brandon
OK, OK. Girly pop off.
00:05:52 Brandon
Yeah.
00:05:52 Andrew
We're doing something new because this is our first live watch of something.
00:05:57 Brandon
Yes, yeah. Usually we'll have people for these specials for those old specials that we did, which there are 40 of them and you can go and listen to them right now if you wanted to and go support our friends.
00:06:12 Brandon
We would watch if some beforehand and then just discuss. Now we're doing a live audio commentary, so be prepared for a bunch of stuff.
00:06:22 Brandon
Edit It out because we've said.
00:06:24 Brandon
Wrong things.
00:06:28 Brandon
No, I never edit anything ever.
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So.
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Congratulations.
00:06:34 Brandon
Enjoy the gauntlet of getting through this 90s episode of 90S humor without falling into it.
00:06:42 Brandon
Umm.
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Yes.
00:06:44 Andrew
What's the deal with that?
00:06:47 Brandon
What's the deal with airplane food?
00:06:50 Brandon
B. Movie.
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Yeah.
00:06:56 Brandon
So.
00:06:58 Andrew
Further ado.
00:06:58 Brandon
This is was that for me?
00:07:00 Brandon
One more thing.
00:07:01 Andrew
Maybe a little bit more in do.
00:07:03 Brandon
Just just background on this episode.
00:07:07 Brandon
Background on this episode season 10 Episode 6.
00:07:13 Andrew
Season 6, episode 10.
00:07:13 Brandon
Nope. Season.
00:07:18 Brandon
Like Seinfeld, Christmas episode.
00:07:24 Brandon
I don't want to give away the plot, but essentially it talks about.
00:07:30 Brandon
Middle school rivals.
00:07:34 Brandon
Communism and department store sales so.
00:07:37 Andrew
Killer bees, the Magna Carta.
00:07:39 Andrew
Short guys.
00:07:40 Brandon
And everything's set and everything. Saying you'd like to bring to the party.
00:07:46 Brandon
All right.
00:07:46 Brandon
Yeah. Are you ready, Andrew?
00:07:48 Andrew
Oh, you all ready for this?
00:07:51 Brandon
Duh.
00:07:52 Andrew
Yeah.
00:07:55 Brandon
Alright, let's go.
00:07:55 Andrew
Play it.
00:07:56 Andrew
Roll the tape.
00:07:57 Brandon
Oh, and then for our audio commentary listeners, I want to watch long.
00:08:04 Brandon
You could watch this on Netflix right now.
00:08:07 Brandon
I bought the episode on Amazon.
00:08:09 Brandon
So this is 23 minutes and 53 seconds long.
00:08:14 Brandon
And we are starting in 54321.
00:08:27 Brandon
So you remember the whole like.
00:08:31 Andrew
Think my mom had that haircut at one point.
00:08:31 Brandon
If she starts out.
00:08:34 Brandon
You know, it does look.
00:08:35 Brandon
Your mom's haircut?
00:08:38 Brandon
Umm.
00:08:41 Brandon
Yeah, yeah, it.
00:08:42 Brandon
They always start with the.
00:08:46 Andrew
The stand up quote UN quote stand up.
00:08:47 Brandon
Jerry. Yeah, it's.
00:08:52 Brandon
The fake laugh. It's always fun.
00:08:57 Brandon
Didn't.
00:09:02 Brandon
Oh yeah.
00:09:08 Brandon
So I remember this episode being like advertised a lot on.
00:09:15 Brandon
TV because like.
00:09:18 Brandon
This is like.
00:09:21 Brandon
He did the.
00:09:22 Brandon
The American Express card.
00:09:23 Brandon
And then I think they redo the race for that and he did a lot of Superman clubs.
00:09:29 Andrew
I have no recollection of any of this.
00:09:37 Brandon
So yeah.
00:09:39 Brandon
I think I think he just wanted to.
00:09:41 Brandon
I think he just wanted to date her because her name was Lois.
00:09:55 Andrew
Lot of food service people not giving them food in this show.
00:10:00 Brandon
Yeah, that's it.
00:10:00 Andrew
Do New York things.
00:10:01 Brandon
Must be like denial of service.
00:10:14 Brandon
It's red.
00:10:17 Brandon
Made the joke before it happened.
00:10:19 Andrew
Sorry, I was looking at his hairline. I was distracted.
00:10:23 Brandon
It is impressive that he got.
00:10:26 Andrew
I love that people are still worried about communism in the 90s.
00:10:29 Brandon
Right.
00:10:32 Brandon
He's a communist.
00:10:42 Brandon
And of course, George.
00:10:46 Brandon
Finds love.
00:10:48 Andrew
In.
00:10:48 Andrew
In a communist, yeah.
00:10:50 Andrew
You go.
00:10:50 Brandon
Yeah.
00:10:53 Brandon
I guess this was only like 2 years after the fall of the wall, yeah.
00:10:56 Andrew
Still, though.
00:11:03 Andrew
That sounds like a cake company.
00:11:03 Brandon
Don't con mind it.
00:11:05 Andrew
Oh Dunkin Hines.
00:11:07 Brandon
Yeah.
00:11:09 Brandon
Or Oscar Mayer.
00:11:16 Brandon
High school.
00:11:18 Andrew
They had them all line.
00:11:19 Andrew
I didn't know where that was going.
00:11:29
Replay.
00:11:50 Brandon
I just love George's delivery on everything.
00:11:54 Andrew
To be exhausted.
00:11:55 Brandon
Can't believe it.
00:11:57 Brandon
Very Larry David.
00:11:58
OK.
00:12:05 Brandon
It is kind of funny that the people watching this or listening to this regularly without the episode would just hear us randomly commentating with a bunch of dead air imagery.
00:12:30 Brandon
So.
00:12:35 Andrew
I think with Seinfeld that I realized it's like I never know what the hell they're talking about.
00:12:40 Andrew
It's it's way over my head and I'm not like an idiot.
00:12:44 Brandon
I mean it's.
00:12:46 Brandon
Yeah, like why?
00:12:49 Brandon
It's just like, so niche and random, because it's about nothing, right?
00:12:56 Andrew
Really, every show is in a way.
00:12:58 Brandon
True.
00:13:00 Brandon
But this is the this is the one that was like.
00:13:04 Brandon
We are nothing. Oh, wow.
00:13:11 Brandon
Also, the that wig that she's wearing.
00:13:15 Brandon
Wow.
00:13:16 Andrew
It looks like the she dyed her hair when she was on the run with Jason Bourne or something.
00:13:20 Andrew
Know, you know, he's, like, died in the bathroom and cut it.
00:13:23 Brandon
That does look like Julie Styles hair from whatever born movie that she was in the second time.
00:13:30 Brandon
Now is this the same?
00:13:33 Brandon
Persistent seeing boyfriend that Phoebe had in like.
00:13:38 Brandon
In friends where she had a communist.
00:13:43 Brandon
My friend.
00:13:43 Andrew
You mean the guy who was stationed in Minsk or whatever?
00:13:46 Brandon
Oh no, that was not.
00:13:47 Andrew
That was named azeria, yeah.
00:13:47 Brandon
Think the area? Yeah.
00:13:50 Andrew
No, this is like a crossing.
00:13:51 Brandon
No, no, the psychiatrist guy.
00:13:52 Andrew
Yeah, that was Fisher.
00:13:55 Andrew
This is like a combination of area and Fisher Stevens actually, which is what every guy, every dating guy in the 90s apparently looked like.
00:13:58 Brandon
Gotcha.
00:14:02 Andrew
The goat cheese.
00:14:03 Brandon
Sure. And we all had your moms hair.
00:14:03 Andrew
The glasses look at those Anthony Edwards glasses.
00:14:07 Brandon
And your mom's hair.
00:14:10 Andrew
On the men.
00:14:12 Brandon
Yeah.
00:14:12 Andrew
No, my mom's here wasn't bad.
00:14:14 Andrew
Not that bad.
00:14:15 Brandon
No.
00:14:22 Brandon
Let's see, there's a deleted scene where Kramer takes George down to the Cuban embassy.
00:14:27 Andrew
Oh no. I imagine that's very not racist.
00:14:28 Brandon
He's cutting time constraints.
00:14:30 Brandon
Yeah.
00:14:36 Andrew
Who isn't these days?
00:14:38 Brandon
Right.
00:14:41
That's pretty cool.
00:14:42 Andrew
Is it funny that the Republicans color is red now?
00:14:45 Brandon
That is.
00:14:46 Brandon
I had never thought of.
00:14:49 Andrew
Like fascists like red too, though.
00:14:52 Brandon
True.
00:14:54 Brandon
'Cause they like the color of.
00:14:56 Brandon
Oh, it's the first appearance of Kramer. I thought he got canceled out of the show.
00:15:06 Brandon
Combing department store Santa.
00:15:11 Andrew
No.
00:15:15 Brandon
And what's that actor's name?
00:15:19 Andrew
I don't remember, but.
00:15:20 Brandon
And.
00:15:22 Brandon
He's.
00:15:25 Andrew
This no one can ever resist.
00:15:28 Andrew
Bringing a.
00:15:28 Brandon
Danny Woodburn.
00:15:29 Andrew
Person into the show, especially on the Christmas time, they just can't resist.
00:15:30 Brandon
Yeah.
00:15:33 Andrew
It's worse than the monkey, not worse, because like the, I'm just saying, like, it's such a gimmick. They always do it.
00:15:34 Brandon
Yep.
00:15:40 Andrew
Cringy.
00:15:41 Brandon
I feel like he tried to.
00:15:45 Brandon
Oh, so he played Mickey Abbott on Seinfeld.
00:15:48 Andrew
Oh, OK.
00:15:50 Brandon
So yeah.
00:15:53 Brandon
He's like a established friend of Kramer.
00:15:56 Andrew
OK, I didn't realize that.
00:15:58 Brandon
But at the same time.
00:16:01 Brandon
Of course he was.
00:16:04 Brandon
Of course, he was the elf.
00:16:07 Brandon
Helper.
00:16:22 Andrew
That sounds like Italian, which seems offensive.
00:16:22
10.
00:16:26 Brandon
I thought he was going for Norse, sort of.
00:16:29 Andrew
That was like a weird Italian to me, but.
00:16:35 Brandon
You're welcome to be offended.
00:16:41 Andrew
Mirror, mirror, mirror.
00:16:45 Brandon
Oh, look at that computer face.
00:16:49 Brandon
Vicki Lewis.
00:16:52 Andrew
Nope, no idea.
00:16:55 Brandon
She was on News Radio.
00:16:58 Andrew
With Andy ****.
00:17:01 Brandon
Yes.
00:17:13 Brandon
Oh.
00:17:13 Brandon
Toys R Us in the background.
00:17:14 Andrew
Yeah. Remember, those are the days.
00:17:17 Brandon
Oh yeah.
00:17:19 Brandon
Although I feel Shortz was the better New York 1, I think, right.
00:17:23 Andrew
What makes this guy a communist?
00:17:25 Andrew
Just just.
00:17:26 Brandon
He reads the daily worker.
00:17:31 Andrew
No one likes a labor union more than the Republicans, you're saying?
00:17:42 Brandon
What?
00:17:43 Andrew
In communist Russia, shirt owns you.
00:17:50 Brandon
Uh oh.
00:17:53 Brandon
Oh, he's gonna convince him to unionize.
00:17:56 Andrew
Ah yes.
00:18:07 Brandon
How does he just know that South town? Yeah.
00:18:07 Andrew
Fields.
00:18:16 Brandon
Who is this guy?
00:18:17 Andrew
He sounds familiar.
00:18:21 Brandon
I've got some literature.
00:18:24 Andrew
Well, that's funny.
00:18:28 Brandon
Oh yeah, Mickey's usually like the.
00:18:31 Brandon
I can't usually common sense.
00:18:58 Brandon
Wow.
00:19:04 Brandon
I feel like this is like we would do.
00:19:09 Andrew
Yeah, except you have ordered, like a sex on the beach or a mudslide.
00:19:13 Brandon
Yeah, yeah.
00:19:25 Brandon
Let's see.
00:19:36 Brandon
Todd Kimsey plays Ned.
00:19:39 Andrew
I'm comedian.
00:19:41
Yeah.
00:19:52
I.
00:19:54 Brandon
Uh, did you ever notice?
00:20:05 Andrew
Ah, nice bulb joke.
00:20:07 Brandon
Oh yeah, it's it's the 90s.
00:20:25 Brandon
Classic.
00:20:34 Brandon
OK.
00:20:44 Andrew
4.
00:20:44 Brandon
Construction joke.
00:20:47 Andrew
Also, the word Guggenheim is just funny.
00:20:50 Andrew
It's like that's a comedic beat there.
00:20:56 Brandon
The Guggenheim.
00:21:15 Brandon
Um.
00:21:18 Andrew
Why is it when yellis?
00:21:19 Brandon
Put my groove.
00:21:23 Andrew
Everyone's yelling.
00:21:26 Andrew
Is the mic far away?
00:21:27 Brandon
Yeah, I mean it is.
00:21:32 Brandon
It is the.
00:21:35 Brandon
Recording from the live audience thing.
00:21:43 Brandon
Wow.
00:21:47 Andrew
What are they laughing about?
00:21:50 Brandon
Being taken advantage of by.
00:21:55 Brandon
The dolls.
00:22:08 Brandon
What?
00:22:21 Andrew
Why are they going out with her boss?
00:22:24 Brandon
'Cause he's.
00:22:27 Andrew
Intrusive has no boundaries.
00:22:29
Yeah.
00:22:31 Brandon
Well, their old high school chums.
00:22:36 Andrew
I thought he was supposed to be on a date with this chick.
00:22:39 Brandon
I guess so.
00:22:41 Brandon
Didn't want to be called a liar.
00:22:49 Brandon
Wow.
00:22:51 Brandon
They really went for that in the middle of a.
00:22:55 Brandon
Christmas episode.
00:22:59 Andrew
Aren't they all Jewish?
00:23:02 Brandon
Kramer isn't, but he celebrates Festivus.
00:23:07 Brandon
Which they never referenced, yeah.
00:23:07 Andrew
Nothing. They can't celebrate Christmas.
00:23:10 Andrew
Which is funny for.
00:23:13 Andrew
For this type of show.
00:23:15 Brandon
I think, George.
00:23:19 Brandon
Maybe she's.
00:23:20 Andrew
Lapse.
00:23:20 Brandon
I think it's just scary.
00:23:21 Andrew
OK.
00:23:26 Brandon
Oh.
00:23:35 Andrew
Imagine assuming you called into the office. Now for being a communist.
00:23:38 Brandon
Yeah.
00:23:40 Brandon
It might still happen in the Midwest.
00:23:41 Andrew
Only here I could Chick-fil-A.
00:23:49 Brandon
Wow. Corded phone.
00:24:13 Andrew
Video blinking without a change in my facial expression.
00:24:18 Brandon
Classic.
00:24:19 Andrew
But communist jokes are not funny anymore.
00:24:22 Brandon
No.
00:24:26 Andrew
2 topical.
00:24:42 Brandon
His father was.
00:24:45 Brandon
Well.
00:24:49 Brandon
But she's blacklisted.
00:24:52 Brandon
What kind of tree is that?
00:24:57 Andrew
It's a different style.
00:25:00 Brandon
Mm.
00:25:06 Brandon
You know.
00:25:08 Andrew
Man, that is an Asian person. I believe playing it, but it's still just wildly offensive.
00:25:14 Brandon
Right.
00:25:18 Brandon
Wasn't he a delivery man too?
00:25:20 Andrew
Yeah, he was.
00:25:26 Brandon
Oh, she's gonna get him blacklisted too.
00:25:37 Brandon
Oh God.
00:25:44 Brandon
The I want a racing car set.
00:25:50 Brandon
So Elaine's boyfriend was in an episode of 24.
00:25:54 Andrew
OK.
00:26:02
Oh.
00:26:06 Brandon
It's the 7th, 70s or 60s thirties, McCarthy.
00:26:07
Me.
00:26:13 Andrew
This is wow.
00:26:14 Andrew
This is a laugh riot.
00:26:22 Andrew
Is it that one guy?
00:26:23 Brandon
Yeah, that's that one guy.
00:26:26 Brandon
Let's see.
00:26:28 Andrew
House at some point.
00:26:32 Brandon
That is Mark Christopher Lawrence.
00:26:36 Andrew
He I believe he's in house.
00:26:39 Brandon
Yeah.
00:26:47 Brandon
Wow, what?
00:26:50 Brandon
No, he can't.
00:26:56 Brandon
This is just.
00:26:58 Brandon
Communism, I've seen.
00:26:59
No.
00:26:59 Andrew
I'm thinking that was a different guy than I thought it was.
00:27:09 Brandon
Oh, he's in black Jesus.
00:27:21 Brandon
MMM.
00:27:26 Brandon
Good Lord, that was the set up for the joke.
00:27:29 Andrew
Yeah.
00:27:35 Andrew
Was it supposed to be like the the owner of the Yankees?
00:27:39 Brandon
Yeah. George Steinbrenner.
00:27:40 Andrew
Yeah, but it's not.
00:27:41 Brandon
Yeah.
00:27:41 Andrew
Just the back.
00:27:42 Andrew
It's always so bad. Just the back and someone's head.
00:27:43 Brandon
On that.
00:27:45 Brandon
Yeah, I think.
00:27:47 Brandon
I think they played off of it.
00:27:51 Brandon
Also.
00:27:56 Brandon
The boss actor from.
00:27:57 Andrew
Oh, now he's gonna. He's gonna lean into being a communist.
00:28:00 Brandon
Yes. And get something to Cuba.
00:28:17 Brandon
Uh.
00:28:25 Brandon
Christopher Lawrence played Big Mike on Chuck.
00:28:33 Andrew
Well, I wish this.
00:28:34 Andrew
This is like a lecture where I'd watch it like 1 1/2 speed just to get through it.
00:28:40 Brandon
How much time do I have left?
00:28:52 Brandon
Communism.
00:28:55 Andrew
Oh my gosh.
00:29:00 Brandon
So.
00:29:03 Brandon
So this would be like the two of us running in a race right now.
00:29:07 Andrew
Yeah, except I could run 2 steps in face plant.
00:29:12 Brandon
So you're Jerry.
00:29:27 Brandon
That's their high school coach.
00:29:29 Andrew
Let me guess. Jerry's gonna cheat again, then fall over.
00:29:34 Brandon
He's always gonna cheat again.
00:29:37 Brandon
But no one's gonna see.
00:29:40 Andrew
Yep. Oh, the oh, the car's gonna backfire.
00:29:41 Brandon
Maybe. Or excuse me, is gonna run him over.
00:29:45 Brandon
Yeah, 'cause cars do that.
00:29:46 Andrew
Yeah.
00:29:49 Andrew
I knew he was gonna take off early.
00:29:52 Andrew
Without question.
00:29:59 Andrew
But he is not.
00:30:00 Andrew
I mean, I shouldn't be talking but.
00:30:00 Brandon
No.
00:30:08 Brandon
And this is the Superman theme from.
00:30:13 Brandon
The John Williams one from.
00:30:14 Andrew
I was gonna say it sounds like John Williams.
00:30:17 Brandon
Yeah.
00:30:17 Andrew
I shouldn't said it.
00:30:19 Brandon
Well done.
00:30:22 Brandon
This is.
00:30:30 Brandon
Why are people clapping weird?
00:30:33 Andrew
It's like it's in slow motion, but it wasn't actually slowed down.
00:30:34 Brandon
That one guy.
00:30:36 Andrew
Like doing this in real time.
00:30:39 Brandon
Yeah, he pushed the lane all the way to hug Lois.
00:30:46 Brandon
Oh.
00:30:50 Andrew
He pushes the coach or whatever.
00:30:53 Brandon
Yeah.
00:31:06 Brandon
Merry Christmas.
00:31:18 Brandon
Think that's Fidel Castro?
00:31:28 Andrew
This is not the right accent.
00:31:33 Andrew
It just doesn't feel like the right accent.
00:31:36 Brandon
No.
00:31:42 Andrew
Is he?
00:31:42 Andrew
Is he? Is he Turkish?
00:31:59 Brandon
Something the joke is.
00:32:02 Brandon
Steinbrenner keeps talking all the time, too.
00:32:10 Andrew
Wow, this has cemented my.
00:32:12 Andrew
That Seinfeld is nearly unwatchable. That was not.
00:32:15 Andrew
Not.
00:32:16 Andrew
There wasn't. Wasn't really any beat in that that I found funny whatsoever.
00:32:21 Brandon
I do.
00:32:23 Brandon
I feel like I felt like we laughed at one point.
00:32:25 Brandon
I think it.
00:32:26 Brandon
The When George was ramping up, when he ran into Jerry and Duncan.
00:32:31 Andrew
Yeah, I think the.
00:32:32 Andrew
The bald spot situation was kind.
00:32:35 Brandon
The bulk. Yeah, and the.
00:32:35 Andrew
A little bit funny.
00:32:39 Brandon
So observational.
00:32:40 Brandon
Isn't that what everyone's doing these days?
00:32:41 Andrew
Yeah, but like I, I mean let's this is a legendary show.
00:32:44 Brandon
They're being meta and this is the second best Christmas episode.
00:32:47 Andrew
It's legendary comedy.
00:32:51 Andrew
Maybe they just don't excel at Christmas.
00:32:53 Andrew
Codes.
00:32:55 Brandon
Well, a festivus.
00:32:57 Brandon
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:32:58 Brandon
I recall you liking festivals enough to the fact that you said, yeah, I would watch another episode of Seinfeld.
00:33:05 Andrew
Yeah. No, I did, and I hate it.
00:33:09 Andrew
It's, I know there are funny episodes.
00:33:12 Andrew
Was not.
00:33:12 Brandon
Yeah.
00:33:13 Andrew
This is not if it's supposed to be a comedy. It should at least be a little funny, and it and it wasn't.
00:33:19 Brandon
It's just it's all situational.
00:33:21 Brandon
Yeah, I mean.
00:33:24 Brandon
Communist jokes.
00:33:25 Andrew
The communist jokes fell.
00:33:27 Brandon
3030 years later.
00:33:27 Andrew
I mean, yeah, maybe back then, sure. But oof.
00:33:30 Brandon
You know that like.
00:33:30 Andrew
Like 30 year old Communist, 20 year old communist jokes.
00:33:33 Andrew
Years later. Yeah, they don't. They don't translate.
00:33:36 Brandon
Yeah.
00:33:37 Andrew
Can you show that to a selenial? They would just look at you like.
00:33:39
Well.
00:33:41 Andrew
What? What's a comos?
00:33:42 Brandon
That is a.
00:33:42 Brandon
That is a good point.
00:33:46 Brandon
What would solano's Zoomers and Jen Alpha think of Seinfeld?
00:33:52 Andrew
Also, by the way, the whole double dipping thing, I know, like Seinfeld invented double dipping, but.
00:33:52
Because.
00:33:57 Andrew
We're going to turn, but before Seinfeld did, people watch other people dip chips and salsa, and we're like, just cool with it.
00:34:04 Brandon
Yeah, became a prophet when they mentioned it. Hebrew dipper.
00:34:07 Andrew
They didn't.
00:34:08 Andrew
They didn't have a I'm sure they didn't have a word for it.
00:34:10 Andrew
Like can you not dip your chip twice? It's disgusting.
00:34:14 Brandon
Yeah.
00:34:15 Andrew
What did you think?
00:34:16 Brandon
I mean.
00:34:19 Brandon
I.
00:34:19 Brandon
I don't know the etymology of Double Dipper, but.
00:34:22 Andrew
I think it came from Seinfeld.
00:34:24 Brandon
It must have come from Seinfeld.
00:34:27 Brandon
Or at least to the extent that we use it in pop culture.
00:34:29 Andrew
Well, people claim that the the punch card thing came from sign, probably like buy 10 things get the 11th free or whatever.
00:34:33 Brandon
Hmm.
00:34:37 Brandon
That was the episode we watched.
00:34:38
Oh yeah.
00:34:40 Brandon
Yeah.
00:34:43 Brandon
'Cause yeah.
00:34:44 Andrew
I just.
00:34:44 Andrew
I mean, but loyalty programs existed long before that.
00:34:47 Andrew
Whole green stamps, books or whatever.
00:34:50 Brandon
I.
00:34:51 Brandon
I guess so, yeah.
00:34:52 Brandon
But do they have the punch cards?
00:34:54 Andrew
Well, it's all.
00:34:56 Andrew
A version of the same thing. I feel like they were invented at the at the Seattle coffee stand, personally.
00:34:58 Brandon
Right. And how it's all?
00:35:05 Brandon
Starbucks.
00:35:06 Andrew
No, you.
00:35:08 Andrew
I mean, I grew up with, like, the coffee stands rather than the Starbucks. My my parents didn't like Starbucks.
00:35:13 Andrew
Starbucks doesn't have punch cards.
00:35:13 Brandon
Sorry.
00:35:16 Brandon
They have a loyalty program now.
00:35:17 Andrew
True, but that's newer, but I'm saying like back in the day, it was like my mom would go get a coffee and they would give her a stamp on the stamp card.
00:35:18 Brandon
Herb.
00:35:24 Andrew
And that's right encountered it.
00:35:25 Brandon
Huh.
00:35:26 Brandon
See where I.
00:35:26 Andrew
And nikes?
00:35:27 Brandon
At first was port of Subs.
00:35:29 Andrew
Oh yeah, it's very Pacific Northwest thing to do.
00:35:31 Brandon
Yeah.
00:35:33 Brandon
True.
00:35:35 Brandon
I don't even know if they still exist anymore.
00:35:37 Andrew
I feel like they.
00:35:38 Andrew
I think there's still that one port of Subs in like 130 or 128 by the Fred Meyer in the jack-in-the-box.
00:35:42
Next.
00:35:44 Brandon
Yeah, we're at work in.
00:35:45 Andrew
And then make minimum.
00:35:47 Brandon
Yes, whatever the Safeway is now.
00:35:50 Andrew
Yeah, sprouts, sprouts.
00:35:52 Brandon
Oh, interesting.
00:35:54 Brandon
Right.
00:35:56 Brandon
Yeah. So that was, that was Seinfeld, the race season 6, episode 10? Yeah.
00:36:06 Andrew
The studio audience was racing out of the studio.
00:36:10 Brandon
Renee props played Lois.
00:36:16 Brandon
Best known for.
00:36:22 Brandon
Weird science.
00:36:23 Andrew
OK.
00:36:24 Andrew
She looked familiar, but was nobody.
00:36:26 Brandon
Get Shorty.
00:36:31 Brandon
Let's see if she's been anything.
00:36:33 Andrew
I think the wig made her look familiar.
00:36:36 Brandon
Yeah, she looked like Teri Hatcher. Kind of.
00:36:41 Brandon
Which I guess is the point cause the event is Mandalore and most.
00:36:44 Andrew
Yeah, that's a good point.
00:36:45 Andrew
I didn't think of that.
00:36:47 Brandon
Yeah.
00:36:51 Brandon
OK.
00:36:51 Brandon
Yep, well.
00:36:55 Brandon
That was the.
00:36:56 Brandon
Let's see what the ratings were on this.
00:36:58 Brandon
You're carrying some pop culture references, a recurring joke throughout Seinfeld is the reference to.
00:37:03 Brandon
The theme features prominently in the race. Jerry Zhu Lois, faster than the speeding bullet. Lois is a reference to the Superman series adventures of Superman.
00:37:12 Brandon
He also at one time says why I'd have to be Superman to do that.
00:37:16 Brandon
God, people who write Wikipedia articles.
00:37:19 Andrew
Yeah, that was really needed.
00:37:21 Andrew
Really, the subtlety was real.
00:37:25
Him.
00:37:25 Brandon
At the end of the episode, Jerry breaks the 4th Wall and winks the camera after.
00:37:29 Brandon
Maybe I will, Lois.
00:37:31 Brandon
I will.
00:37:32 Brandon
This is the first and only instance of breaking the 4th wall in the series. Excluding the retrospective, the highlights of 100 and the Chronicle.
00:37:39 Brandon
Going towards the camera as a reference.
00:37:39 Andrew
Is that kind of a Superman?
00:37:43 Brandon
Oh yeah, in Silver Age and TV series.
00:37:46
Wink.
00:37:49 Brandon
Yes.
00:37:49 Andrew
The only thing worse than this episode was the episode of Superman that we watched for the holidays.
00:37:57 Brandon
I always miss you.
00:37:59 Brandon
Is a pivotal.
00:38:01 Andrew
Makes a piddle reacts beowze a piddle.
00:38:03 Brandon
Thanks. Yeah.
00:38:07 Brandon
Would be awesome pittal.
00:38:07 Andrew
With mix mix to middle.
00:38:10 Brandon
Oh, here's one thing I didn't know, Jerry Declaration of. I choose not to run is a reference to President Calvin cool.
00:38:18 Brandon
Calvin Coolidge statement I I do not choose to run.
00:38:23 Andrew
Wow, that's a that joke killed.
00:38:26 Brandon
Yeah, president.
00:38:28 Andrew
Yes, I'm very well versed in my Calvin Coolidge quotes.
00:38:31 Andrew
Get out of here.
00:38:32 Brandon
1927.
00:38:36 Andrew
Hack. I'm sorry. I'm gonna say hack on that one, Larry, David or Seinfeld. I'm not sure you wrote that joke, but it was hacky.
00:38:39 Brandon
They do it.
00:38:45 Brandon
That sounds like a Jerry joke. The daily worker was a Communist newspaper that ceased publication in 1958.
00:38:51 Brandon
It was presented in this episode as still being in print.
00:38:54 Brandon
Lois makes a reference to Duncan controlling the means of production. A relevant part of Marx's theory.
00:39:01 Brandon
Cold War paranoia is lampooned through a young boy making commie accusations against Kramer, calling him a traitor, while Mickey tries to keep him quiet as well as hop sings blacklisting Elaine and George's conversation.
00:39:14 Brandon
Steinbrenner, about being a communist.
00:39:16 Brandon
These were obvious.
00:39:18 Brandon
Umm.
00:39:19 Andrew
Well, the deep analysis this is worse than like sports analysis.
00:39:25 Andrew
Yeah, we're gonna. The team that scores most points is gonna win this game.
00:39:28 Andrew
Chad, what do you think?
00:39:29 Andrew
Yeah. Yeah, that's that's usually how it goes.
00:39:33 Brandon
Yeah.
00:39:36 Brandon
The phone conversation between George and Natalie was ad libbed by actor Jason Alexander, who performed almost completely different versions of the conversation in each of the scenes. Several takes.
00:39:46 Andrew
That's fun.
00:39:48
Yep.
00:39:53 Andrew
I'm going to say no more Seinfeld.
00:39:56 Brandon
Yeah. Well, 'cause you. You remember our little theory about in the 90s you were either a Seinfeld person or a friend's person.
00:40:05 Andrew
Yeah. I think the difference is that.
00:40:08 Andrew
This is gonna get. People are gonna disagree with me, but I think that the difference is that there were.
00:40:13 Andrew
Jokes in friends that were funny.
00:40:17 Andrew
Like I realized that Seinfeld is the, quote UN quote smarter show.
00:40:17 Brandon
Right.
00:40:22 Andrew
But like I don't wanna. I I want my jokes to be funny, not thought provoking.
00:40:27 Andrew
I therefore consider them not to be jokes at that point.
00:40:30 Andrew
Know what I mean?
00:40:30 Brandon
True, true.
00:40:33 Brandon
But I mean, there's there's a limit.
00:40:36 Brandon
Like Big Bang Theory? Brainless.
00:40:39 Andrew
True, but I I I truly have no.
00:40:39 Brandon
Bad jokes.
00:40:42 Andrew
Like there were times during the episode where I didn't know what they were talking about, and I'm pretty with it.
00:40:47 Andrew
Know like I.
00:40:48 Andrew
Kind of understand that I.
00:40:49 Andrew
I mean, granted, we were talking over it, but like, it's been my complaint of Seinfeld, they're making these like jokes and quips.
00:40:55 Andrew
Feels like they're inside jokes that I'm not Privy to.
00:41:01 Brandon
So I mean.
00:41:03 Brandon
I don't know if it's 'cause. I've watched more episodes of Seinfeld or.
00:41:08 Brandon
Just wired that way, but I I I've followed along all right.
00:41:13 Andrew
I feel like I have to to laugh just 'cause everyone else is laughing.
00:41:16 Andrew
I look like a dunce, you know?
00:41:18 Brandon
That's what the laugh track is for, yeah.
00:41:22 Andrew
That's OK. You know what? You don't have to like stuff like I know I the joke is I don't like anything that people like when it's popular and then later I go back and like it. And that's generally true.
00:41:23
Yeah.
00:41:26
True.
00:41:32 Andrew
Could not say that that's true for Seinfeld.
00:41:33 Andrew
I don't think it's.
00:41:35 Andrew
I'm sure there are funny moments.
00:41:36 Brandon
Yeah, I mean.
00:41:38 Brandon
This is not an episode like. Well, I mean, I haven't seen this episode in a long time, but like just watching.
00:41:44 Brandon
Episode and.
00:41:45 Brandon
Like I see where they were making the jokes.
00:41:50 Andrew
It should be more obvious.
00:41:51 Brandon
Were they?
00:41:52 Brandon
Yeah. Were they funny?
00:41:54 Andrew
I need a whole a whole episode dedicated to Communist jokes is not going to be funny.
00:41:54
Really.
00:41:58 Andrew
Maybe it's funny then. Sure. 'cause the people watching it will remember the red scare.
00:42:04 Andrew
We we don't remember that.
00:42:05
Mm.
00:42:06 Brandon
Yeah. Oh.
00:42:08 Brandon
Yeah, we. If we grow up in a time where it was like, what is the USSR and why is it on a map?
00:42:14 Brandon
The world.
00:42:15 Andrew
Years. There's gonna be some show talking, making trans jokes and people are gonna be confused by it.
00:42:21 Andrew
Years in the future, 'cause, they're.
00:42:23 Andrew
Be like what?
00:42:26 Andrew
You know what?
00:42:26 Andrew
Mean.
00:42:26 Brandon
If only.
00:42:27 Brandon
Yeah, just like how going back and watching friends.
00:42:32 Andrew
Oh, fat jokes and homophobia.
00:42:36 Brandon
All classics.
00:42:38 Brandon
All classics.
00:42:41 Brandon
Yeah. So that's our holiday message this year.
00:42:47 Brandon
You know, I lost it. I was.
00:42:52 Brandon
Either communism jokes or fat jokes and homophobia.
00:42:59 Andrew
Indeed.
00:43:00 Brandon
And that might be a clue for what's coming up next week. 'cause either we're going to have a.
00:43:06 Brandon
Second part of this Christmas special or.
00:43:11 Brandon
We missed a Monday for the first time in five years.
00:43:15 Andrew
Well, I thought.
00:43:15 Andrew
Talked about recording. Studying. You're here.
00:43:17 Andrew
I'll just do that.
00:43:17 Brandon
Right. But I also have to then edit it and upload it during the week of Christmas.
00:43:24 Andrew
It's good for you.
00:43:27 Brandon
You are going to burn in hell now.
00:43:33 Brandon
No, we could.
00:43:34 Brandon
We could shoot it, edit and upload it at your place because you have better Internet.
00:43:38 Andrew
That's a good.
00:43:39 Andrew
Yeah, your your hotel Internet won't do it or, you know, at the hotel.
00:43:43 Brandon
Yeah.
00:43:44 Andrew
Anyway.
00:43:45 Brandon
No, but my yeah, my aunt's 256 came out and probably won't upload.
00:43:51 Andrew
No.
00:43:54 Andrew
She's actually 256K.
00:43:57 Brandon
No, but the cable modem's not is not fast.
00:44:00 Andrew
Ah, OK.
00:44:01 Andrew
Alright, well, I'll allow it.
00:44:03 Brandon
Alright. Yeah, well, happy Christmas.
00:44:08 Brandon
Merry Hanukkah.
00:44:11 Brandon
Which starts on Boxing Day.
00:44:15 Brandon
And happy Festivus to the rest of us.
00:44:19 Brandon
And anything else that you might celebrate during this winter solstice.
00:44:24 Brandon
Season Kwanzaa, the.
00:44:29 Brandon
Winter solstice castbox iheart.
00:44:34 Andrew
Where you celebrate your holidays.
00:44:35 Brandon
Rad.
00:44:39 Brandon
Io. That's it for this week's Christmas special edition of name Me 90s.
00:44:44 Brandon
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00:44:46 Brandon
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00:45:08 Brandon
Brandon, that's Andrew. And we'll catch you.
00:45:12 Brandon
Happy Festivus and Happy Hanukkah, and we'll catch you next time.
00:45:26
I.
00:45:33
I.
00:45:35 Andrew
And you feel.
00:45:36 Andrew
This is a comedy podcast.
00:45:38 Andrew
We said was funny.