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Philly Boy Roy weighs in on Hall v. Oates

October 17, 2025·39 min·3 clips
Philly Boy Roy explains how he brokered a deal where John Oates grows back his mustache and Daryl Hall stops wearing only socks.
Philly Boy Roy calls in to discuss mediating the Hall & Oates lawsuit, revealing absurd compromises and announcing a new band with Kurt Vile and John Oates. He shares wild stories about his family's beef mediation history, a stolen valor incident, and ends with a confrontation from Eric Bazillion.

As heard by us

An oats pun that mutates into a horror pitch, then swerves again.

Roy turns an oats pun into a full horror-movie pitch, while Tom keeps the call moving even as the idea keeps changing shape. What starts as a breakfast gag grows into a factory nightmare, with a Quaker Oats plant, an oat vat, and a plan to live beneath the vats and wreak havoc.

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A phone call that turns a pun into an oat-factory horror pitch and a long, weird movie riff.

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