58. Hard Seltzer, Kids In Restaurants, Anti-Diarrhea Medicine

Every Damn Thing

Phil and Jake are joined by Phil's sister Alexa Green to rank hard seltzer, kids in restaurants, and anti-diarrhea medicine on the List of Every Damn Thing.

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SHOW NOTES:

• The City of Sebastopol, California has nothing on its official website about Russian settlement history. Phil is maybe thinking of Fort Ross when he tells the story of Russian settlers being chased off by gophers.
• Here’s the article where Jake got most of his information about Zima.
• Here’s a TV ad for Crystal Pepsi from 1993 featuring “Right Now” by Van Halen.
• We talk about a lot of other beverages in the episode, including malt liquor, White Claw, craft beer, Mike’s Hard Lemonade, New York Seltzer, hard kombucha, non-alcoholic sparkling water, cold brew shandy and apple juice.
• As for the sources of info on hard seltzer sales dropping, which Phil says on-mic he’d put in the show notes... Phil mostly half-read headlines and parroted them, and is pretending he knows what he’s talking about. Here's a story that goes into it a little bit. Journalists seem to want the trend to be over but maybe it's just a permanent part of our lives now like constant wood smoke in the fall.
• The website for Biergarten in San Francisco is very basic. They seem to be closed until the pandemic is really really over, which is weird because it’s an all-outdoor space.
• Casa Bonita in Denver seems to still be currently closed as well, but they are offering free backstage tours. The restaurant has recently been purchased by the creators of South Park who, like Jake, are from Colorado.
• In England diarrhea is spelled "diarrhoea" It's awful just bottom tier spelling.
• The Bristol stool scale is the standard method for stool.
• “The Green, Green Grass of Home” is a bona fide standard, mostly in the realm of Country Music. The Tom Jones version is the one Alexa remembers best. Jake and Phil are more familiar with Merle Haggard’s take of the song. Jake correctly surmises that George Jones recorded the song as well. It has also been performed by Porter Wagoner, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charley Pride, Dean Martin, Johnny Cash, Johnny Paycheck, Joan Baez, The Grateful Dead, Elvis Presley, Gram Parsons & The Flying Burrito Brothers, Kenny Rogers, Nick Cave and many others.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Caddyshack * Groundhog Day * REM’s Green album * Howard the Duck * Pancakes * the alcoholic beverage industry * masculinity * ruby red grapefruit * Triscuits * Steven Seagal * food poisoning * peanut butter ice cream * Tommy Bahama shirts * radio edits * Jimmy Buffett * Sammy Hagar * Fire Island * whale tail * online dating * families * zipper jeans worn with no underwear * sriracha * brief * Sorry! * Game of Death * skorts * Pepto-Bismol * The Matrix * metatextuality * firefighters

Below are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go here):

TOP TEN:

1. Dolly Parton - person
2. interspecies animal friends - idea
3. sex - idea
4. Clement Street in San Francisco - location
5. Prince - person
6. It’s-It - food
7. Cher - person
8. Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character
9. Donald Duck - fictional character
10. Hank Williams - person

BOTTOM TEN:

183. Jenny McCarthy - person
184. Jon Voight - person
185. Hank Williams, Jr - person
186. British Royal Family - institution
187. Steven Seagal - person
188. McRib - food
189. war - idea
190. cigarettes - drug
191. QAnon - idea
192. transphobia - idea

Theme song by Jade Puget. Graphic design by Jason Mann. This episode was produced & edited by Jake MacLachlan, with audio help from Luke Janela. Show notes by Jake MacLachlan & Phil Green.

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