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California King
You Look Nice Today
27 episodes
2 months ago
A new journal of emotional hygiene. From the makers of You Look Nice Today.
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A new journal of emotional hygiene. From the makers of You Look Nice Today.
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Comedy
Personal Journals,
Society & Culture
Episodes (20/27)
California King
Supplement

Opportunity: personal care finally takes its show on the road.

NOTE: This episode and its claims have not been evaluated by The Food and Drug Administration. So, you're welcome.

Please step inside the perimeter of the temporary fence line, then proceed through the large disclaimer bottle. To your right is Alan's Foreskin, and to your left is Adam's Paragon of Blades™ (launching Fall, 2023).

Children must be monitored at all times. Also, all attractions are offered "as-is," and their utilization therein does not create a bailment or constitute a "medical diagnosis." Any appendage submitted to the cobbler's public fluoroscope is offered solely at the guest's own risk.

Side effects may include extensive cranial scarring, crippling student debt, and grave personal regret.

Ask your operator if Supplement is right for you.


Editor: Paul O’Mara

(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

Supplement - YouTube


Raymond

Fig. 1: Our muse, Dr. Raymond Damadian, in his repose.

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4 years ago
34 minutes 19 seconds

California King
I.T. Hoop Skirt

Opportunity: A grand roving dignity sink

The Soft Boys add frisson to any streetscape.


Editor: Paul O’Mara

(This episode is available only in audio, to honor the richness of Homeric oral tradition.)

Links:

  • Vladimir Harkonnen | Dune Wiki | Fandom — He was so morbidly obese that he required suspensors harnessed to his flesh in order to walk.
  • The Soft Boys - "I Wanna Destroy You" — And, when I have destroyed you, I'll come picking at your bone. And, you won't have a single atom left to call your own.
  • Gangs | The Warriors | Fandom — "The Warriors" is known not only for its detail on its own gang, but the diverse and realistic or wacky gangs that surround them in New York City.
  • Washington Generals - Vintage Highlights Reel - YouTube
  • Parallels between Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Odyssey
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4 years ago
25 minutes 34 seconds

California King
The Benediction of Sister Susan

Opportunity: Take a page from a storied American industry.

Ask your doctor if our juice is right for you.


Editor: Paul O’Mara

(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

The Benediction of Sister Susan - YouTube


Nun

Links:

  • TV Magic Cards with Marshall Brodien (Commercial, 197?) - YouTube — "Take the top card…TAP it…"
  • 10 Great Ways To Recycle Your Wee — "1. Pee in a pot and make invisible ink!"
  • Genesis 38:8-10 KJV - And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto - Bible Gateway — "And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also."
  • CueCat - The 50 Worst Inventions - TIME — CueCat became little more than a high-tech paperweight.
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4 years ago
30 minutes 32 seconds

California King
Yellow Leather

Opportunity: Helping you become more comfortable in your skin.


Editor: Paul O’Mara

(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

Yellow Leather - YouTube

Links:

  • Freddie Mercury Queen's Concert Yellow Leather Jacket Costume - TLC — "A Premium Quality Freddie Mercury Yellow Jacket, A Pure Queen’s Power Gear."
  • What Is Disney's Go Away Green Paint? - Simplemost — The science behind the shade is simple.
  • Aging: What to expect - Mayo Clinic — Here's what to expect as you get older — and what to do about it.
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4 years ago
34 minutes 11 seconds

California King
Big Tubs

Opportunity: Radical Proximity should be an immersive experience.

First off: this is not a cult, okay?

Look, if an Aerie of Randies is a little hot under the collar and wants to be stone soup with some other hard-working men, who are you to judge?

The good news is we're probably already available in your neighborhood, so just flag down the apologetic lady in the Shriner car, and she will be more than happy to top off your wing sauce and freshen up your straw.

Everybody ready? Are you ready?! Because…hmmmmmmmmmmmmm…

"WHOOP-sie!"


Editor: Paul O’Mara

(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

Big Tubs - YouTube

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4 years ago
37 minutes 21 seconds

California King
The Situation District

Opportunity: A fresh look at a storied neighborhood.


Editor: Paul O’Mara

(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

The Situation District - YouTube

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4 years ago
35 minutes 38 seconds

California King
Five of a Kind

Opportunity: Your bar may be unfinished, but your cassette deck is definitely done.


Editor: Paul O’Mara

(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

Five of a Kind - YouTube

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4 years ago
39 minutes 7 seconds

California King
Thrival Future

Opportunity: home is where you hang your backpack

stay at home


Editor: Paul O’Mara

(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

Thrival Future - YouTube

Links:

  • Thrival Future - YouTube
  • You Look Nice Today - YouTube — Please consider subscribing to our YouTube channel.
  • Rampant shoplifting leads to another Walgreens closing in S.F. — "No sooner had the clerk spoken than a man wearing a virus mask walked in, emptied two shelves of snacks into a bag, then headed back for the door."
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4 years ago
31 minutes 47 seconds

California King
Interregnum

Opportunity: who arted?

In the liminal space between life and performance, there exists a certain hallway.


Editor: Paul O’Mara

(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

Interregnum - YouTube

Links:

  • Interregnum - YouTube
  • You Look Nice Today - YouTube — Please consider subscribing to our YouTube channel.
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4 years ago
38 minutes 47 seconds

California King
David Fincher’s House of Whoops

Opportunity: There's no "I" in "mistake."

Let's be honest. If you had to do it all over again? Yeah, you'd probably do even worse. I mean. Look at you.

No, seriously, it's fine. Well. It's not "fine," but it is universal, and that's ultimately where the big money is.

So, the question becomes, what if you could do worse better? Again. You won't, but that's not the point.

The point is, you're ready to commit to change, or at least the appearance of commitment.

But, you won't figure that out until you land on the big balloon in Act III. But, let's not get ahead of ourselves.

How would you feel about a face tattoo of a foot? Or a foot tattoo of a murder tear? Or a night on a futon that practically screams "hand stuff?"

Let me start over.

Hi. Have you ever avoided a mistake that, in retrospect, you really wish you'd made? Yeah. Also: sorry about your contact lens.

Also, also: sorry about Austin.

Just…sorry.


(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

David Fincher’s House of Whoops - YouTube

Links:

  • You Look Nice Today - YouTube — Please consider subscribing to our YouTube channel.
  • David Fincher’s House of Whoops - YouTube
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4 years ago
45 minutes 20 seconds

California King
Lobster Roll Bounce

Opportunity: sometimes, the best couple skate is the one you skate alone.

Listen: it's your room now. Mr. Sandwich is only here to act as a guide.

And, while vaping is not encouraged, Ms. Menounos will be happy to repair your phone screen at Booth M5605 (Mezzanine).

Simply agree to corkage, and our monster will be happy to top off your corn.

Thanks, and enjoy the show.


(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

Lobster Roll Bounce - YouTube

Links:

  • Lobster Roll Bounce - YouTube
  • You Look Nice Today - YouTube — Please consider subscribing to our YouTube channel.
  • You can now rent a private AMC theater for just $99 — AMC's FAQ page lists renting a microphone to greet guests as an extra $100 charge, while more time to enter an auditorium, beyond the standard 15 minutes, will cost another $250.
  • Florence Mall (Kentucky) — Also in the mid-1980s, the food court was renovated.
  • Napoleon (1927) - IMDb — Runtime: 330 min.
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5 years ago
40 minutes 30 seconds

California King
Big Money

Opportunity: Improve the quality and reliability of online ratings systems with the assistance of little Philipe and a VHS tape of the pain you've caused.

There’s a 2½ star Popeye’s in Tracy, and a 5-star Taco Bell in Pacifica with thousands of ratings, but who’s rating the raters? Perhaps reviewers will think twice if they know that they might have to repeat those comments to the proprietor’s sad child (rental or leasing options available).

Go ahead and unzip your wallet. Is it full of receipts? Open a Window™ and let those money ghosts fly away—you never know what ID card or student photo is waiting just around the corner.

Your keyring: do you still have the keys to the car you drove as a toddler? Go ahead and slide those off. Sure you might break a fingernail—hold onto that, it’s a happy memory of your newfound freedom you might want to bequeath to a friend one day.

Grab your satchel full of California quarters and your wallet full of tiny bills. Let's mint a new you.


(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

Big Money - YouTube

Links:

  • Big Money - YouTube
  • You Look Nice Today - YouTube — Please consider subscribing to our YouTube channel.
  • Cockroach infestation shuts down San Francisco Popeyes — They determined that they had a cockroach infestation and the permit has been temporarily suspended.
  • Next On “Black Mirror” - The Toast — what if phones, but too much
  • Artisanal Plastic: Japan's Fake Food Is A Real Art : The Salt : NPR — They're meant to whet your appetite, but don't bite them: These are plastic display foods, and they're ubiquitous in Japan — designed to advertise the foods available for purchase inside.
  • The world's best Taco Bell is located on a beach in California - Business Insider — In 2013, Thrillist dubbed it "the greatest Taco Bell in the world." 
  • Limited Perspectives Collection on Letterman, 1982-84 - YouTube — October 6, 1983: "Flashdance" reviewed by John David George, arc welder
  • Star Wars. Reviewed and rated. — "Best movie ever. One star."
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5 years ago
34 minutes 15 seconds

California King
History Mall

Opportunity: an immersive journey inside of another immersive journey.

When Hobbes first stipulated that Man's primal instinct naturally reverts to a state of mall against mall, he probably had no idea how prescient he barely was.

But, what if History could also be a lively if self-referential retail and fast-casual dining experience? What if, indeed, that food court were presided over by a period-appropriate "judge" who deliberately attracted fleas and never broke kayfabe to admit that Wu-Tang Clan even exists?

Well, steel your guts and pack your butts, because your reality is about to get deeply augmented by some really upsetting contextual tableaux.

Like it or not, you've got the music in you. At least for now.


(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

History Mall - YouTube

Links:

  • You Look Nice Today - YouTube — Please consider subscribing to our YouTube channel.
  • History Mall - YouTube
  • Boobs-and-Butt Pose — While this pose is possible to achieve in multiple variations in Real Life, in fiction it can get exaggerated to the point that the character's torso is almost pointing backward.
  • The 61 Best Butts on Instagram - Great Belfies 2020 — This whole Instagram butt-fixation thing really got going back in 2015, and now, it’s the year 2020, and we still can’t get enough.
  • Butts - Descript — Butts?
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5 years ago
32 minutes 29 seconds

California King
One Ticket to the Gun Show

Opportunity: a destination holiday you just can't wait to leave.

Isn't it finally time for fun Dads to get their dream vacation?

Just submit your dossier, pack your toilet, and get ready for some long-overdue Aloha.

Please be sure to include any specific skills you'd like to see complimented, all relevant dietary restrictions, plus painfully detailed notes outlining your position on clowns.

(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

One Ticket to the Gun Show - YouTube

Links:

  • You Look Nice Today - YouTube — Please consider subscribing to our YouTube channel.
  • One Ticket to the Gun Show - YouTube
  • The Day the Clown Cried (1972) - IMDb — Getting drunk at a local bar, he pokes fun at Hitler in front of some Gestapo agents, who arrest and send him to a prison camp.
  • John Wayne Gacy - Crime Museum — He frequently dressed up as his alter ego, Pogo the Clown, at parties that he hosted for his entire neighborhood.
  • Coping With Coulrophobia or the Fear of Clowns — Are Hospital Clowns Scary or Soothing?
  • What does Club Med's "All-inclusive" package include? — (except champagnes, VSOP and XO alcohols, alcohol bottles, and some premium brands which are extra)
  • Fantasy Island (TV Series 1977–1984) - IMDb — Accounts of visitors to a unique resort island in the Pacific Ocean that can fulfill literally any fantasy requested, but rarely turn out as expected.
  • Emergency toilet kit with 72 hour supplies, toosl and more — When you have to evacuate and can no longer use previously existing facilities, then this toilet emergency kit might be the solution to many of your problems.
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5 years ago
36 minutes 34 seconds

California King
C.A. Baracus

Opportunity: monetize the admittedly thin line between jape and assault.

There's a party in the boy's room, and you're invited.

Your Scoutmaster is here to encourage wholesome habits and gently dissuade you from doing your business in a swim suit.

So, c'mon in.

(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

C.A. Baracus - YouTube

Links:

  • You Look Nice Today - YouTube — Please consider subscribing to our YouTube channel.
  • C.A. Baracus - YouTube
  • Josh's Frogs - Largest online herps feeders and reptile supplies store — The man sells some good-ass hornworms.
  • B.A. Baracus | The A-Team Wiki | Fandom — Of this fact the Team is often overcome by other members of the team drugging him, knocking him unconscious, or, as in one episode, hypnotizing him, so he can be transported without objection.
  • History of Ridgewood High School, Pasco County, Florida — The building, designed by Rowe Holmes Associates of Tampa, cost $3.2 million to construct. CM Associates, Inc., a Texas-based construction management firm, supervised the construction.
  • Camp Tuckahoe – New Birth of Freedom Council, BSA — Summer camp is the high point of the Scouting year.
  • Fear of Needles: The Fatal Phobia - PharmaJet — Trypanophobia, fear of needles, also known as needle phobia, is the extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles.
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5 years ago
27 minutes 41 seconds

California King
Mr. Fahrenheit's Here

Opportunity: turbocharge your brand influence with these mind-blowing tricks.

Listen. Sometimes, we all need a little help. Maybe you broke a gear tooth or even a toe. Maybe, you just can't remember whether Hegel played Dr. Who or Elvin Tibideaux or Harry Bentley.

Our highly-trained Crossperts™ are standing by to "help." Perhaps not in the way that you want, but, definitely in the way that you need.

Now take off your shoes and peel this fruit. We will be taking a lot photos but probably won't put them on the internet.

(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

Mr. Fahrenheit's Here - YouTube

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5 years ago
33 minutes 15 seconds

California King
Livin' Barge

Opportunity: A man, a plan, a canal, Erie!

What is it going to take for me to put you on this ship today? Revive the recycling economy, and pick up your own slightly stained "Dirty Venice" tee. Not the golf kind. Although, you can buy that too. Also, please be circumspect about the buffet, and always be guided by the advice of your new assistant, Ray-Ray.

If you need anything, just flag down Suzie, and please do have your checkbook ready. You're really going to need it.

(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

Livin' Barge - YouTube

Links:

  • Livin’ Barge - YouTube
  • You Look Nice Today - YouTube — Please consider subscribing to the You Look Nice Today channel on YouTube.
  • New York State Canal System — Use your own boat or rent a fully equipped canal boat, and chart your own course. Marinas provide a full range of services for transient boaters. You can tie up and explore quiet, 19th-century canal towns, bicycle to nearby wineries for a tour, then dine aboard as the sun gently sets.
  • Lobster golf balls — Lobster golf balls: Want to improve your stroke out at sea? Use lobster golf balls. Made from the shell, they're biodegradable.
  • Hawaiian Punch — RJ Reynolds Company (RJR) acquired Hawaiian Punch in 1963. In 1981, the business was transferred to Del Monte, a wholly owned subsidiary of RJR.
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5 years ago
38 minutes 10 seconds

California King
Lincoln Bedroom

Opportunity: medical appliances that go ham.

In these challenging, sexy times, your industry is probably suffering a grave synergy crisis. Maybe it's time to accept that there's no box to think outside of.

So, drop a coin in the bed, and strap this apparatus on your hog. It's for "health," okay?

We’re not here to judge.

(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

Lincoln Bedroom - YouTube

Links:

  • Lincoln Bedroom - YouTube
  • You Look Nice Today - YouTube — Please consider subscribing to the YLNT YouTube channel.
  • Charles Grodin on Tonight Show, Late Night, September 1989 -Best Show - YouTube — Charles Grodin was on a book tour in September 1989, promoting his new release, "It Would Be So Nice If You Weren't Here."
  • Beddr — Want to get diagnosed for apnea comfortably, in a snap?
  • Heart disease prevention: Does oral health matter? - Mayo Clinic — Tooth loss patterns are connected to coronary artery disease.
  • A Retro Traveling Standard: The Vibrating Bed — In the book Slaughterhouse Five protagonist Billy Pilgrim uses a vibrating bed to fall asleep.
  • Harrison Bergeron — A buzzer sounded in George's head. His thoughts fled in panic, like bandits from a burglar alarm.
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5 years ago
37 minutes 19 seconds

California King
Terrestrial Bathysphere

Opportunity: sometimes, inspiration can be a breath of fresh steam.

Just because we can't be "near" each other doesn't mean we can't enjoy an intimate environment. Whether that's a museum on the Mall, or an antiqued vivarium in the woods, or even just a very large hat that you share with good friends. But, let's also address a uniquely male pain that is neither here nor there.

Time to dump out that box, slap on some rusty gears, and steady your gimbal load. This week, You Look Nice Today will spit on your comb and drop a half-penny into a strangely erotic new entertainment apparatus.

Mr. Twain will see you now.

(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

Terrestrial Bathysphere - YouTube

Links:

  • Terrestrial Bathysphere - YouTube
  • You Look Nice Today - YouTube — Please consider subscribing to the YLNT YouTube channel.
  • Dani Donovan 👩🏻‍🎨 ADHD Comics on Twitter: "How to wear a face mask without fogging up your glasses 😷👓 #COVID https://t.co/jIqVCEcJbK" / Twitter — How to wear a face mask without fogging up your glasses 😷👓 #COVID
  • Toothpick maker releases button-pressing sticks amid virus fears — 'The product, which features the tagline "come, press to your heart's content," comes with an additional container to hold the disposable sticks after use.'
  • The Karate Kid Daniel Larusso's Tenugui Headband replica movie prop — This is a replica of the Tenugui headband that is given to Daniel Larusso, (RALPH MACCHIO) by his friend and mentor Mr. Miyagi, (NORIYUKI ''PAT'' MORITA).
  • The Lightness of Being a Couch Potato May Work to Keep Us Fat - The New York Times — There are many theories about why extra pounds are so intractable, and the full mechanisms are still mysterious.
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5 years ago
37 minutes 19 seconds

California King
Straits of Sandwich

Opportunity: one man's plank is another man's treasure chest.

Now, more than ever, many Americans hunger for travel and adventure—while some yearn merely to be something besides an American. Well, your time has arrived, so, come aboard! We're expecting you.

Our consultants and child-lawyers are available to review your preferences in party water, urban poultry admiralty, and the complex and often unnavigable seas of local garb and maritime headgear. Serf's up.

So, plant your running shoes in a new land, and show that childless Halloween family that you're the Captain now.

(Be sure to check out the YouTube video via this episode's show notes. It's way better that way.)

Straits of Sandwich - YouTube

Links:

  • 33 U.S. Code § 385 - Seizure and condemnation of vessels fitted out for piracy | U.S. Code | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute — Any vessel built, purchased, fitted out in whole or in part, or held for the purpose of being employed in the commission of any piratical aggression, search, restraint, depredation, or seizure, or in the commission of any other act of piracy, as defined by the law of nations, shall be liable to be captured and brought into any port of the United States if found upon the high seas, or to be seized if found in any port or place within the United States, whether the same shall have actually sailed upon any piratical expedition or not, and whether any act of piracy shall have been committed or attempted upon or from such vessel or not; and any such vessel may be adjudged and condemned, if captured by a vessel authorized as mentioned in section 386 of this title to the use of the United States, and to that of the captors, and if seized by a collector, surveyor, or marshal, then to the use of the United States. (R.S. § 4297.)
  • Admiralty | Wex | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute — Parties subject to admiralty may not contract out of admiralty jurisdiction, and states may not infringe on admiralty jurisdiction either judicially or legislatively.
  • Yahtzee History — The game that makes you think while having fun.
  • Flag Designer — Generate Random Flag
  • Straits of Sandwich - YouTube
  • You Look Nice Today - YouTube — Please consider subscribing to the YLNT YouTube channel.
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5 years ago
35 minutes 12 seconds

California King
A new journal of emotional hygiene. From the makers of You Look Nice Today.