Sal Vulcano 5.0 (The Sleepover Series) on TYSO – #377

• 1:00 Alvin on the loose, a too-small chair and the “eight” quad muscles.
• 2:40 Sal’s first-ever physical therapy, for a labrum he tore in two places by reaching back to hold his daughter’s hand on long drives.
• 5:00 Leaning into the mic, the “is it cake?” bit, and not an Aerosmith fan.
• 5:50 The search for the Is It Cake? knockoff, which turns up Sal’s Impractical Jokers instead.
• 7:20 Sponsor break: BlueChew and Instant Hydration.
• 8:40 Liquor laws in Salt Lake City, Rick’s last tour dates of the year, and the merch.
• 9:20 How to accept a compliment without agreeing or disagreeing with it.
• 11:40 An old real-estate business card: “the finest compliment I can receive is a referral.”
• 12:20 Opening with “it’s good to be back,” and splitting the room for crowd work.
• 13:40 Raised Catholic and Puerto Rican, and not hanging out with either lately.
• 14:30 Counting Sal’s TYSO visits, including a lost backstage one with Jay Larson.
• 16:20 A national anthem sung on stage in Philadelphia, after begging the room to stand.
• 19:40 Being embarrassed versus being ashamed.
• 20:40 A Jimmy Iovine vocal-coach bit, sung to Josh Turner’s “Your Man.”
• 23:00 How low can a voice go: the dad from Good Times, Zuul, and Luis J. Gomez’s Story Wars.
• 25:20 A too-honest traffic stop, in the deep voice.
• 27:40 “Brothers,” “plead,” and what follows “pleading” on Family Feud.
• 29:00 Family Feud hosts: Richard Dawson, Steve Harvey and Ray Combs.
• 30:20 Full sponsor reads: Instant Hydration and BlueChew.
• 33:00 Plugs: Sal’s touring, the UK and Canada runs, and Rick pitching himself as the opener.
• 34:20 Alvin and Dave Seville, and a talk-show project of Rick’s due out in November.
• 35:00 Louie Anderson and Gilbert Gottfried, then Arnold and Christopher Walken impressions.
• 37:00 Letting flies live, and a quick-hands grab game.
• 39:10 Sal’s Burt’s Bees “magic” for his daughter.
• 41:00 David Blaine reactions, and Billy Zane in Titanic.
• 43:00 An audition exercise: playing sincere.
• 45:00 “I’m walking here,” It’s Complicated, and cancel culture.
• 46:20 Trump impressions, and a “superior intelligence” speech.
• 48:50 A riff on class, CEOs and borrowing against stock.
• 50:30 Love Is a Battlefield and Guitar Hero.
• 51:10 The bluffing-expert game: Cedar Point, the Magnum, the Raptor and Dance Dance Revolution.
• 57:20 Atlantic City, Monopoly and a run of Monopoly puns.
• 1:00:40 “Dissolvable concept” and building a TV pilot.
• 1:02:00 Studio mic flags, custom ones, and the Shure mic as a guest gift.
• 1:03:40 Follow Shoes Off Pod, and the “next podcast” bit.
• 1:06:30 How women walk through the world, and the Access Hollywood tape.
• 1:10:40 The argument over “fingering” a criminal, and Freddy Got Fingered.
• 1:14:30 An aside on doctors who dismiss women’s pain.
• 1:16:00 Who does the best Trump: Bill Maher, Shane Gillis and a blind Trump test.
• 1:18:20 The Santa Clause, the Chipmunk Song and Alvin’s cuddles.
• 1:20:20 Is “shout out” still slang?
• 1:22:10 The hotel with four chocolate cakes.
• 1:23:40 The answer: Sweet Deceit, hosted by Josh Peck.

• 5:50 The Is It Cake? knockoff — A running search all episode, answered in the last minute: Food Network’s Sweet Deceit.
• 9:20 Taking a compliment — Saying thank you means you believe the other person, not that you agree with them.
• 19:40 Embarrassed, not ashamed — You can be embarrassed about a limitation, like singing, without being ashamed of it.
• 39:10 Dad magic — Sal hides Burt’s Bees tubes around the house so his daughter thinks he can make one vanish.
• 51:10 The bluffing game — Two fake experts on Cedar Point and Monopoly try to catch each other out.
• 1:16:00 Trump impressions — Bill Maher, Shane Gillis and the SNL version, and a pitch for a blind Trump test.

Is It Cake? — The Netflix baking show behind the mic-biting bit, and the show they spend the episode trying to find the knockoff of. Wikipedia 5:20

Aerosmith (not a rec, one of the hosts: “I’m not a fan of Aerosmith”) — “One of those bands” that gets a pass during the cake bit. 5:30

Impractical Jokers: Season 1 — Sal’s hidden-camera show, which the knockoff search keeps turning up. Amazon 7:00

Your Man (Josh Turner) (song sung, artist not named) — The deep-voiced country song in the vocal-coach bit. Amazon 22:00

Ghostbusters (1984) — Is the deepest voice just Zuul? Amazon 24:20

Family Feud — The host debate: Richard Dawson, Steve Harvey, Ray Combs and Louie Anderson. Wikipedia 29:00

Burt’s Bees Original Beeswax lip balm — Sal bought an eight-pack and hides tubes around the house so his daughter thinks he can make one disappear. Amazon 39:20

Titanic (1997) — The Billy Zane trivia question. Amazon 42:00

Midnight Cowboy (1969) — Where “I’m walking here” comes from (Dustin Hoffman). Amazon 45:00

It’s Complicated (2009) — “It’s complicated” is probably a movie, and it is, with Meryl Streep. Wikipedia 45:40

Best Shots (Pat Benatar) — The hits collection with “Love Is a Battlefield,” sung out of nowhere before the debate game. Amazon 50:40

Guitar Hero (edition not named) — “Now we have to play Guitar Hero.” The linked edition is Guitar Hero Live. Amazon 51:00

Dance Dance Revolution — The Cedar Point arcade machine in the bluffing game. Wikipedia 55:40

Monopoly (classic board game) — The Atlantic City streets and a run of Monopoly puns. Amazon 57:40

Shure microphone (model not named) — The black-cylinder Shure mic they joke about handing guests if the show takes off. Official site 1:03:00

Freddy Got Fingered (2001) — Cited in the “fingering a criminal” debate. Amazon 1:13:40

The Santa Clause (1994) — Tim Allen and the contract “clause” gag. Amazon 1:18:30

Christmas with the Chipmunks, Vol. 1 — Has Alvin the dog heard the Chipmunk Song yet? Amazon 1:19:20

Sweet Deceit — Food Network’s Is It Cake?-style show hosted by Josh Peck. Food Network 1:24:00

Accepting a compliment — Saying thank you acknowledges the other person; it doesn’t mean you agree. 9:20

Crowd work — Splitting the room by guys and girls, sides of the room, or birth months. 13:20

Embarrassed versus ashamed — You can be embarrassed about a limitation, like singing, without being ashamed of it. 19:40

Story Wars — Luis J. Gomez’s live show, called great, though the timing doesn’t work this trip. 24:00

Taxes on unrealized gains — Executives taking stock instead of salary and borrowing against it. 49:40

The Access Hollywood tape — They pull up the Trump and Billy Bush audio and argue over “come on, shorty.” Wikipedia 1:07:40

“Shout out” — Whether younger people still say it, and why it works like “spoiler alert.” 1:20:40

Salt Lake City, Utah — Rick’s last scheduled dates of the year, Nov 13–14, at The Cabaret at Wiseguys. 8:40

Philadelphia — the show where the national anthem got sung on stage. 16:20

Cleveland, Ohio — Rick and Steve Harvey are both from here. 29:50

United Kingdom — Sal’s upcoming UK run, which Rick wants to open. 33:10

Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio (Official site) — the bluffing game’s topic: the Magnum, the Raptor and the arcade. 53:20

Magnum XL-200 — the bluff opener: a claim made in the bluffing game (not checked as fact) that it was the tallest coaster in the country through the ’90s. 53:20

Raptor (Cedar Point) — “Didn’t that shut down?” 55:00

Geauga Lake, Ohio — the other Ohio park in the bluff. 57:20

Atlantic City, New Jersey — where the Monopoly street names come from. 57:40

Long Island, New York — family there who sound a bit like Trump. 1:16:50

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• Ricky’s on the Loose tour (house ad) (8:40) — rickglassman.com/tour · Salt Lake City, Nov 13–14 (The Cabaret at Wiseguys), more dates starting in January.