Hey everybody, welcome to Jon D. Podcast. I'm
your host, Jon D. Miller. Welcome to episode
number 73, everybody. Number 73. Número setenta
y tres. In the old Espanol language, that's right.
Mm -hmm. 1 ,561 going on 1 ,562 days now as I
begin to record this of No Booze. No Booze, yeah.
No Booze. How are yees? How are yous? How are
y 'alls? First off... Thank you for being here,
anybody and everybody who is here right now listening
to my voice. Now, I gotta say, I feel like I'm
crossing over. I feel like my podcast voice is
sort of going over into my stand -up voice. And
I was asking this one friend of mine, and he's
like, dude, that's fine. I don't think that's
a big deal, but I don't know. I don't like it.
Like, I did stand -up long before I ever did
a podcast. I used to notice actually when I would
do radio, like sometimes you do comedy. I've
talked about it. You know, you do radio to promote
the standup shows. And I felt like I was just
doing my comedy jokes on the radio, but I've
spent time in radios, like guest co -hosting
on shows where you're on there for an extended
period of time. Of course, I've been doing this
and I don't know. I feel like lately some of
my, I'm on this and I'm talking the way I talk
now was half, like half a Christopher Walken.
Half John Travolta from Greece. I'm just saying,
anybody who has seen me do my comedy lately,
and they listen to the podcast, usually my stand
-up's different. I don't know. It just struck
me as weird. And if you have seen me do comedy
and listen to the podcast now because of it,
one, I'd be surprised because I don't really
advertise it much. But I know a few of you found
out from talking to me after shows. I don't think,
maybe I'm the same. Maybe it's just the same.
Maybe it's just me and my little, you put a mic.
This is my microphone voice, whether it be on
a stage in front of people or sitting in a basement
talking to myself. This is how I talk on a microphone.
So basically, it's the start of summer. I know
we already have Memorial Day, which is the unofficial
start of summer. That's what it is. From Memorial
Day to Labor Day, people go nuts. Vacation. We're
going to be traveling. And I saw this the other
day. Now, anybody who's ever worked in a restaurant,
which is a lot of us, I'm sure, at some point,
not a lot of people have, and those people suck,
but a lot of us have. It's some sort of industry
job. Any type of job you have to deal with the
general public is fine. We'll give you half credit
or at least enough credit to where we don't.
Unless you've worked in a restaurant, that is
the one. The only thing I think better than that
or more deserving of some sort of an award or
whatever is, you know, people work in emergency
rooms like that's got to be a no joke. Right.
And then people who, you know, work at a Chili's
on a Saturday at seven o 'clock and anybody who
ever worked front of the house, especially sometimes
the people in the back would have to do this.
But, you know, you had to marry the ketchups.
Right. Everybody. Right. Marrying the ketchups.
You have to pour them, the bottle, because it's
bottles. Now it's different. They have the plastic
squeeze things. You take the bottles and you
get them to like one stacked up on the top. And,
you know, there was always that one person who
could never do it right. And one would fall on
the floor and it would break and it would just
be a fucking giant mess. I think we've all known
anybody who's ever done this side work, as they
call it, in the front of the house business of
a restaurant. You know, how many times you cut
open a can, it said tomato ketchup and it came
from the local food distributor or not. from
uh what was the bottle label which would be in
this case is Heinz tomato ketchup so basically
this is what it is because restaurants are doing
that like I was just saying like we know they
do it they will put things into that ketchup
bottle that are not Heinz ketchup and you've
probably been in a restaurant at some point and
gone to tilt that bottle over so whatever the
hell comes running out of it like this is from
the 60s this ketchup is and it's been kept on
the table the entire time or it's not Heinz ketchup
This is what they did. This is what I think is
ingenious. And as you're traveling, because let's
face it, when we go to on vacations during the
summer, we go some places that one, maybe wouldn't
normally eat at. Or two, we go places where we
would eat there, but they've also been getting
eaten there by a mass horde of family. You know
what I mean? Like you go to any beach town. on
a on a tuesday or wednesday night in the middle
of summer vacation season right you got the weekly
rentals and all stuff like that and you will
see restaurants ransacked to shit my wife and
i will go every time we go to visit my dad down
north carolina he lives near the beach and one
night she and i will just go out to dinner and
we usually try to time it a little later because
you get these families rolling in at like five
six o 'clock and seven eight and it'll be like
16 You know, those are the big families. They
rent the big house for the week. Aunts, uncles,
cousins, they all spend the week there. All the
kids have sideburns, right? There's at least
one person that's drunk as shit, male or female.
And, you know, it's just a mass horde of people.
And even then you get a bunch of other families.
It's just, it's chaos, man. It's chaos. So in
all of that, you know, restaurants maybe try
to save a few pennies. here and there try to
make what they have go further i don't know i'm
just saying so they have a thing called a pantone
code it's a code often referred to as pantone
matching system so it's a standardized system
used to identify and communicate colors accurately
especially in printing and design industry so
if you buy something anything that you can think
of that where it has packaging and you'll see
like on the end of the of the thing or the bottom
or the side of the packaging or like like toothpaste
you look at the end of toothpaste it has those
little color squares that's the Pantone system
right and that's what it does is it indicates
what the printing colors were used in order to
make it into some sort of a federal regulation
or something along those lines so Heinz figured
out what their Pantone was and then they started
making all their labels on the very ends of the
labels they're red and the Pantone of the of
the label will match the color of the ketchup
that is inside. And that is the only stuff that
is genuine Heinz tomato ketchup. Yeah. So next
time you go somewhere and you pick up that bottle,
if it don't match the label, you should ask to
see the manager and ask for a free dessert. Because
you have been emotionally scarred. But I'm just
saying, when you go out this summer, Make sure
you check your labels. Make sure your ketchup
is genuine Heinz tomato ketchup, unless they
don't have Heinz tomato ketchup, in which case
you can just forget about all this shit. Okay.
I don't know. I thought it was interesting. I
also found it was interesting in the fact that
I didn't know about this happening in 2023. How
did I miss this? I don't. Yeah. Well, I've been
busy, I guess, or I don't know. Staying home
a lot. I did. Yeah. But that's the thing. I do
go to restaurants and eat. I'm going to do it
now every time, like every time I go someplace
and I see a Heinz, I'm going to, I'm going to
be looking at him, put my reading glasses on
and be like, what the, is this it? Hey, it's
just a little off. I don't know the lighting.
That's what I'm saying. I'm like, what is the
lighting? I need to get the lighting. Come on.
Is this, is this right? I don't think this is
right. I need a free cannoli, you know, free
dessert. Remember? Okay, cool. Make sure you
get the good ketchup stuff. And have safe travels
and make sure that you keep tuning in to John
D. Podcast right here, which I appreciate. Okay,
so let's talk about this real quick. I want to
get this out of the way. I want to say to Alex
B., who got the Amazon gift card for episode
72, the stonerifics of it. What was it? 1537,
I think is what it was. And I think that's what
I wrote down. I can't remember my own handwriting.
I do want to also, Wade B., long -time listener,
thanks for writing in, man. I appreciate it.
Did write in, got the title of the show and the
minute mark correct, but you weren't the first
one. Otherwise, I definitely would have given
it to you. At least that was my initial thought.
But then I thought, no, I can, because Wade has
been a long -time listener. This is like the
third or fourth time you've written in. At least
I've heard something from you. And I thought,
you know what? I'm just going to give you a $10
Amazon gift card as well. So you need to make
sure, Wade, that you did receive it. You should
have received it from jondpodcom at gmail .com.
I think that's what it would have come to you
from. But yeah, make sure you double check that.
And that's just my way of saying thanks, Wade,
for listening to the show. And I appreciate that.
So hey, it pays to listen to Jon D Podcast.
Not much. And it takes a while. Because I think
Wade's been listening for... since like episode
10 or some shit. And he just got something out
of it. So, you know, it's an investment. It's
an investment of your time and your energy. All
right. So thanks to everybody who wrote in. That
was super cool and super fun to sort of just
read things, which Alex B, which I know I do
the B, like Wade B, Alex B, that's your last
names. And I do, people call me Jon D, but that's
my middle initial. But I just, I don't know.
I just do the, because I don't know your middle
name initials. That's what I'm saying. So, but
Alex B had a question. So he had the minute mark
and the show title and stuff. But then he said,
what's up with the D for the Jon D? All right.
So the answer to that question, Alex, is years
ago when I started doing standup in the DC area
and I started going out on the road, there was
a comic from Pittsburgh named John Miller. I
just went by Jon Miller, just J -O -N Miller,
you know, and it was very. Yeah. How generic
could you get? But anyways, there was a guy named
John Miller, J -O -H -N Miller. So I started
working for this one booker named Carol Pennington.
Give her a shout out. I don't know if she even
cares,. But anyways, I was working for her and
I started going places like Pennsylvania, Ohio,
places like that that she booked rooms in. And
I started getting people going, oh, I thought
it was the other John Miller or I came to see
the other John Miller, which apparently, I'm
not going to lie, people told me I was better.
than the other John Miller. So one of my comedy
friends and mentors, Mike Diesel, who that was
his comedy name. That was his stage name. And
please welcome to the stage, Diesel. Yeah. So
anyways, he'll get a kick out of that. So he
suggested, he goes, why don't you do Jon D.
Miller? And then he kind of became over the years,
people just said Jon D. So that's why he introduced
stuff. So it just became Jon D. Podcast. Remember
when it was called Thee Jon D Podcast? Were you
here for that part, Alex? That atrociousness
that I had for a while because my unimaginative
self couldn't come up with something better.
I actually, though, have another podcast that
I'm thinking about doing. I do have a pretty
freaking sweet -ass name for it. It's called
The Pretty Freaking Sweet -Ass Podcast. No, it's
not. Wouldn't that be funny? This is the thing
that I think about when it's like 3 o 'clock
in the morning. I'm going, how? Can I make more
money doing this? Speaking of money, you can
support the podcast through our official listener
support app, Venmo, at jondpodcom, should you
so choose to do that. And also, if you want to
write in for the show, if you want to do the
minute mark, just like I was talking about. So
if you want to get a $10 Amazon gift card, take
the minute mark where you're here, the title
of the episode, send me an email, jondpodcom
at gmail .com, and you can win yourself if you're
the first person to do it. You can win a $10
Amazon gift card. No, Wade, don't write it in.
I'm not giving you another one. But do let me
know that you got it. I don't think there's no
confirmation I can do on that. That's why I make
sure you got it. I feel like a grandparent that
sent their kid $10 in the mail. Did you get it?
Okay, you did. Cool. Grandparent? I don't know.
Oh, should we talk hockey? Because I was just
talking about Wade. I know Wade likes talking
hockey. Okay, so it is set as of tonight that
I'm recording this. So it's going to be a rematch
of last year's Stanley Cup matchup, which was
the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers.
My Capitals went out in the second round to the
Hurricanes. I'll talk about that real quick.
You know what it was? They were playing awesome
in February and March. And then they just somewhere
along the way went down. They just weren't a
hot team at that point. And then, you know, they
lost Farivari. You know, so there was a whole
litany of reasons. But at the same time, they
also just did not perform the way that they should
have. I mean, fun season. Got to see Ovi break
the record for most goals ever. You know, all
time. And that was cool. That was great. It would
have been nice to do a little more with that.
And they got me going. And at one point, they
were playing both Florida in one game and then
Edmonton in another. I believe they were pretty
close together. But they were doing very well
against both teams. At one point, they were schooling
Edmonton with hemming them in the zone. You know,
really doing a great job on it. And I thought,
man, this team. But they didn't do it. And Carolina
played very good. They were fast. They're a dirty
team. I call them the Dirty Kings. I don't mind.
I'll say that. And they can argue all day about
it. But I don't know how many times they got
away with interference on the dump and chase.
So, you know, you want to talk some hockey. But
they really didn't play the way they should have.
Logan Thompson didn't play the way he should
have. I really thought they probably would get
what I got into the third round. I didn't really
think they were going to get to the finals, the
cup finals. So, anyways, yeah, so Caps are out.
So, it's Edmonton, Florida. It's been a great
playoffs, though. I mean, I thoroughly enjoyed
the game last night with Florida and Carolina.
And then Barkoff with that insane digging out
the putt from behind the Carolina net and throwing
it across the crease for Hagee. And he put on
a – roofed it. It's been a great playoff. And
then tonight, McDavid just going crazy and going
to town. i don't know the dallas stars you know
every time they score a goal they just yell dallas
stars that's that's all they do they're like
cheering and they're just dallas stars they just
repeat that over and over again like i don't
know it's like a cultish in a little bit of a
way you know i that's all they can do i don't
i like when you have the places when i see the
caps they have different songs for each player
player gets to pick their song and then Which
in a way kind of sucks because what if you score
like never, like you never score, like you're
one of these defensemen that never scores a goal.
You never get to hear your song, man. Which will
make it a special moment because you get to,
if you do score and then you have somebody else,
like if you score a lot of goals, you better
pick a really cool fucking song because otherwise,
you know, people aren't going to root against
you just because they don't want to hear OPP
all the time. Like that's not going to work.
There you go. There's a little bit of my standup
voice getting into my podcast voice. So, but
no, it's been a really. I really enjoy the playoffs.
It sucks about the Cavs. But I'm rooting for
Edmonton all the way, man. Who was the dude that
wrote in? I just thought of this. I wish I thought
of it before. Somebody wrote in from Florida,
a Panthers fan, last year. If you're still listening.
Yeah, man, I got to. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Abe,
because I got to root for a Canadian team. And
Edmonton's the only one. And they haven't gotten
a cup in Canada since, what, 93? Edmonton won
one in 90. So I would really have loved to have
seen the Maple Leafs go and gotten one. And once
again, another team just did not, just didn't
do it. And that's the playoffs. That is the playoffs.
I want to get to this before I get any more off
track or do anything else. I want to talk about
Andor. Did you guys enjoy it? Did you like it?
I thoroughly did. 100%. I think there's never
been any more real than Andor season two. Not
only that, the sets were fantastic. The characters,
it was so good. It was so good. It was some of
the best Star Wars I've ever seen, period. Don't
worry, I'm not going to really talk about it
that much, but I am going to describe my feelings
about it as best I can, but not try to give anything
away. Now, I might talk about Andor Season 1,
but if you haven't seen that, then shut up. That
was like two years ago, okay? I really enjoyed
it. I thought it was great. I thought it was
some of the most realistic Star Wars I've ever
seen. And I know it's a long time ago in a galaxy
far away, so it's not realistic at all on the
premise. But, you know, you get to see so much.
I mean, I was just really just impressed by how
much it showed. One thing I really like about
it, and I think you already know this before
you even watch it, is you really get to see not
only the lead up to Rogue One, but it goes over
a course of several years. You know, you really
get to see how the empire was to people. That's
one of the things I really found to be very important
to me to see how it was and how life was, you
know, with it and how it just, it wasn't great.
You know, some people had it pretty good. The
rich people had it good, but everybody else,
the working class didn't. I'm not saying that
was a statement on anything or anything like
that, but I think it was, it was poignant and
it was also. But it was good to see. And also
just the way the Empire, the way the military,
just the way they acted to people in the general
population. And then also how dictator, whatever,
being assholes that they were as well. So I thought
it was cool. If you haven't seen it, you should.
Especially if you watched season one of Andor
already, I would. It was crazy though. What was
it? Three episodes for four weeks. Three episodes
a week for four weeks. That was nuts. It was
like every week you got basically a movie. And
I watched them every single one, usually the
night that they came out. And I don't mind saying
that. But it was, man. It was a movie. It was
a little bit, you know, I didn't want it to be
over because I got so immersed in the world because
you're watching basically this movie in length
every week for a week, you know, for a month.
And you just sort of get wrapped up into it.
It's like, you know, like you read a series in
books. You just sort of have that. what's going
on next? And that's what it left me doing. I
really did. Oh, the actors were good. I mean,
Diego Luna did great, but that was Deidre Miro,
who's the ISB officer. If you've seen season
one, you know exactly what I'm talking about,
so don't be calling spoilers. They were great.
You know who I really liked was the lady, was
it Catherine Hunter? Catherine R -Y -N -E? The
mom of Cyril. God, that lady, man. She's so good
at being just that annoying, like, bearing, never
approves of anything mom I've ever seen. I've
seen in a very long time. I was literally, like,
just blown away by it. And I just saw a preview.
It's coincidence. Like, earlier today, just on
YouTube or something, there was a movie she was
in with Brandy where she, like, moves in and
she's a racist lady and she's trying to get Brandy
moved out. Because she doesn't like Brandy, who's
black, right, being with her son. It came out
in 2024. It's called The Front Room, I think
is what it is. But anyways, that lady was awesome
as the mom. And it's so good, people. I'm just
telling you. If you haven't seen it, you need
to. And if you have seen it, let me know what
you think. Write me, johndpodcom at gmail .com.
Because I don't know. Like, I don't know where
to go. Like, I went back. since it's ended since
andrew and i've gone back i watched uh re -watched
kenobi which another great series if you have
watched it once or never seen it definitely i
they could have expanded so much on that um but
it was good that was good too but yeah i thoroughly
loved andor i mean it was gritty it was enlightening
um had twists and turns to it you got the some
of these characters from rogue ones like uh that
are in it uh are is pretty cool I'd like to have
seen some more things, but at the same time,
there was a few times with the dialogue where
I was a little like, okay, fucking come on. I
don't want Downton Abbey. I want Star Wars. And
there's a lot of British. There's a lot of fucking
British people in there. I thought it was like
the fucking Harry Potter movies for a second.
I'm serious. You know the Harry Potter movies.
You know that, right? There's literally, what,
two? Was there two people? that had spoken lines
in the Harry Potter movies that had American
accents? Is that correct? I think that's what
it was. No, wait, actually, no, it might have.
No, wait, it actually might have only been one.
Because was it Verne Troyer? Didn't they dub?
I don't want to look that up now. I think they
might have dubbed Verne Troyer, who he was mini
me in the Austin Powers movies. But yeah, he
was in there. I think they dubbed him. Yeah,
no English people. No Americans, excuse me. No
American -speaking people. Speak American? No,
I'm not. We speak American English. Eddie Izzard,
great comic and a comedian person, said it the
best. The UK and America are two continents divided
by a common language. I believe that's how the
quote goes. But yeah, Harry Potter, they were
very much just British. it's fine i don't care
i thought it was a continental or linguistical
you know bias is what i'm saying no you couldn't
do that hey man i'm telling you sorcerer give
me your shit you sorcerer stone mother you know
you couldn't that would be bad i would not have
had the same theatrical stuff to it you know
that would not have had the same sort of uh theatrical
levity anyways there were some times though in
andor where it's just the british people talking
And it just got a little bit sort of like, okay,
come on. Let's move along. I wish they would
explain more in the movies sort of how the accents
in Star Wars work. Because there is some background
to that. And they don't explain it very well.
And I wish they would. It's basically people
come from certain planets, have certain accents,
kind of like the way it is. And just like they
would if they speak a whole other different language
or whatever. Like some of the aliens type people
that we say aliens are just right. So it's a
melting pot. That's the thing. I don't think
anybody can say anybody goes, oh, there's not
enough diversity in Star Wars. Do you have you
not seen the cantina scene in the in the first
one? Have you not seen that? That's not diversity.
I'm sorry if it's not, you know, I'm sorry if
it's not. And I'm not trying to say I'm anti
-DEI or some shit. Don't try to label this on
me with modern stupid shit. I'm not. Don't. I'm
not saying that. But there is definitely diversity
in the Star Wars universe. Galaxy. No, it's a
galaxy. In the galaxy. And I would point to the
first movie. The first one. I'm just saying.
All right. So if you haven't seen Indoor, watch
it. It's going to go on. I don't know how much
longer I'm going to do it. I don't know what
else the Star Wars have now. They do have a series
coming out. It's an animated series. It's going
to be out in, well, 2026. Really? What is on
the horizon? I don't like this. I might actually
get rid of Disney Plus at some point. Here's
the other thing. I love watching movies in the
summer. So if anybody has any good movie suggestions,
like I have some old ones, like I want to watch
Real Genius with my son who's 12. I think he
can watch it. I just, I love that movie. Okay.
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I'm not even talking about the current political
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that a lot of kids, their best meals come from
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And I encourage you to do that as well if you
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just telling you. Maybe it's just, I know it's
a drop in the bucket, but there's been times
I don't. I haven't, you know, there's been times
I haven't donated. I don't do it every week,
but I will send like 10 bucks a month. I've done
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but you can find stuff on there should you want
to. And don't forget to go on my YouTube. My
pitiful, alone, lonely YouTube. But it's John
D. Podcom on YouTube. And you can just check
it out. I don't know. There's videos on. Actually,
no, don't go on there because there's some dumb
shit on there. Now that I think about it. Never
mind. I'm going to cut that part out. You can
find that on YouTube. Jon D. Podcom. Executive
producers for John D. Podcast are Tom Hancoff
and Liz Miller. Thanks to them each for helping
make this happen in their own ways. This episode
was recorded and produced by yours truly, Jon
D. Miller in the Amber Tree Media Studio. Don't
forget. Wait, I was about to read the blend yet.
These are old notes. It still has the Blendjet
spot on here. It might work. I don't know. If
you're on Blendjet .com and you want to order
one, put in JonDPod12, and it says you'll get
12 % off and free shipping. I don't know if it's
still going to work. I'm not doing an ad read
for it, but if you want to try it, I don't think
the pricing's on the green, so. All right. It's
been a lot of fun, guys. I know this one was
kind of all over the map and everything else,
but it's been fun to get back in here and do
this. Thanks for listening. I really do appreciate
it. This has been episode 73, numero 73 of John
D Podcast. I've been your host, Jon D Miller.
All right. Be good to each other. Be kind. Spread
goodness. Just spread goodness, people. Just
be nice. Just be nice. Just be nice. That's it.
All right. Just be nice. Hey, I get it. That
guy might do something you don't like. That woman,
person, whatever. Try to understand maybe they
are having a bad day. Or try to. And it's got
to go all the way around. Take care of yourselves.
Take care of each other. And until next time.
Later for you.