Episode 587 - Ryan Palmer in Northern Racism

February 9, 2026·1 hr 49 min·10 clips

Rudy falls backwards at a party, then later pukes in Ryan's car just two minutes from home.

Comedian Ryan Palmer opens as a first-time guest, joking he has long been a podcast hater but has finally been brought on to set the record straight about a story told the previous week. He walks the crew through a detailed account of a New Year's Eve that began at a mutual friend Don Thomas's house, where Rudy — a large Congolese-American comedian — drank heavily despite later claiming he did not know the juice contained alcohol. Palmer and co-host Eric Felix reconstruct Rudy's version of events, noting he admitted midway through the retelling that he had in fact been told there was alcohol in the drink. At the party, Rudy falls backward into another guest and is caught before hitting the floor, which Ryan flags as the first of several falls that evening. Loading Rudy into the car, the group drives onto I-408 when Rudy begins retching; Ryan pulls off on an exit where Rudy tumbles from the car and spends ten minutes attempting a half-pushup before rising, urinating while clutching a roadside fence for balance. Back in the car two minutes from Rudy's house, Ryan hands Rudy a bag, which Rudy tosses aside and then vomits onto the door window and into the cup holder, despite Ryan's earlier attempt to protect the seats with a coat and hammock from the trunk. Ryan spends thirty minutes cleaning the car at 1:30 AM while Rudy lies shirtless on his couch, his roommate briefly appearing and going back to bed. The next morning Rudy had no memory of vomiting in the car, believing he had only gotten sick on the couch. Ryan notes Rudy had totaled a borrowed car of his two weeks prior, and that he still likes the guy despite everything. The conversation shifts to alcohol and drinking culture: Ryan says two beers reliably give him bad hangovers despite hydration attempts, and Felix discusses his own moderate relationship with alcohol while acknowledging the social pressure to drink. The hosts debate whether generational racism is fading, prompted by Ryan's memory of segregated bathrooms in a Jacksonville diner and his grandmother's use of dated racial terms; they disagree on whether age provides cover for offensive language, and the conversation extends to regional differences in racial awareness between the North and Florida. Felix discusses dating a Black woman and the unsolicited reactions it produces from both Black and white acquaintances, including a comedian who announced it onstage. A cruise ship story emerges about a friend who, on day one of a Carnival cruise, attempted to force entry to the captain's quarters while drunk and was confined to his cabin for the entire remaining voyage. The hosts roam through the Orlando bar and club scene, recalling a determined homeless man who repeatedly tried to get people to pay his cover charge outside clubs. Zach recounts being pulled over while driving comedian Jolly home from a show; a fellow passenger immediately told the officer they were stand-up comedians just back from performing, and the officer let them go. A side tangent covers comedian Ray Reyes going from heavy to thin, the podcast's Apple Podcasts ranking as number two behind a now-defunct show called Annie Agger, and the show's original description written years ago that still refers to Zach simply as 'an actor that says stuff.' Ryan accepts an invitation to join the hosts' weekly golf game, and the episode ends loosely with each host reflecting on what they actually want from life.

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A messy car-ride argument that keeps mutating into sharper jokes.

The episode opens in a car ride and keeps catching itself as it goes, which is where much of its appeal sits. Pickup details, name mix-ups, and the frustration of not being able to jump in turn into a quick, loose exchange that keeps changing shape.

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Press play for a car-ride argument that spirals into truth, booze, politics, and conspiracy chatter.

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