3465: From a Distance w/ Mary Jo Pehl

[Keith]

Mystery Science Theater 3000’s Mary Jo Pehl joins KATG to discuss being a teenager working at an assisted living facility, being robbed at gunpoint(?) while working at a 7-Eleven, and what she learned about handling terrible situations as an adult. NEWS BREAK: The judge in Wisconsin shooter Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial says lawyers cannot call the 2 people Kyle killed “victims”. Mary Jo discusses an uninvited fan showing up at her home, and Keith and Mary Jo discuss their history with the Catholic Digest. NEWS BREAK: The Passion of the Christ’s Jim Caviezel is a QAnon speaker, Alec Baldwin’s prop gun that killed a cinematographer had been used earlier with live rounds by the crew to shoot cans and bottles for fun, and an art collective is selling a 1954 Andy Warhol sketch along with 99 fakes for $250 each without you knowing if you’re buying the real one or a fake. Oh, and Sniffies.com.

Guest:
Mary Jo Pehl



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[Sparrow]

what a lovely energy! aces!

am much looking forward to this week’s Next Week featuring Keith and Honda.

[Svage]

Really liked this episode. I have no idea what she looks like so I'm imagining she looks like Phyllis from The Office cause she sounds exactly like Phyllis.

Great job Keith and Hamda😁
Bring her back for a silent trailers she'd be fun

[Apia resurrected]

I'm sure I would have worked after it.
I tend to feel responsible too much and always did especially at work. Yes, this is something I talk about in therapy because it's not good!

She sounds exactly like me at 17.

[Apia resurrected]

Quick inside into my inner life:

I feel as I said often too responsible and not doing it so much was one big thing in my life.
Somehow I was very often in the situation where I had to quit a job because it was shitty in some way or and my feeling was like:
" how can I do this to them?"
It got better with every time. What didn't help is that often the reaction was not wanting to let me go and trying to guilt me into staying. It feels like someone tries to strangle me.

Before Mr Apia it was the same with relationships. The men also always made braking up with them really hard.

So I guess a fight for autonomy is a big theme here?

[bluenova]

I'm glad you shared the Sniffy part of Chu & A because Keith did such a good job of selling it that I went to see what he was seeing, haha.

In the future you could also promo the section where Keith acts out what he would do it someone started crying while he was blowing them. I was dying.

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by Svage

Bring her back for a silent trailers she'd be fun

this

[mxmalloryjane]

BEST NEW GUEST

Maybe it was just me... but Keith's excitement and reverence for this new guest felt palpable, and this version of Keith is always my favourite.

Also, it kinda felt like Chemda found a new best friend in Mary Jo?

Exquisite exciting soft hilarious chemistry between the three of you.

what a fucking delight.

[bag of lazers]

And here I was thinking we'd heard Chemda's name mispronounced every possible way already. There really is always more to learn.

[flashthegreat]

At 18 I worked as a security guard. Mostly I worked in tech offices, but they needed coverage at a methadone clinic on Christmas Eve. I said yes, because it was time and a half and they were only open till noon. At noon all of the nurses shut off their machines and we started locking up. Then a man came up and asked if we were still open and we said no. This set this poor man off. He started waving a gun and screaming because he was actually trying to get sober and knew he wouldn't last the day without methadone. Because this was so regulated the nurses couldn't help. So he killed himself. At this point the police had already been contacted by the alarm buttons. Even though they had a station right around the block it took them over an hour to come. I told my boss that I needed the next day off and he flipped out. Said some shit about it being Christmas and I don't have a family so I should work. Nothing about me just watching a man kill himself. I ended up quitting that day. Managers always treat younger people like shit, even though they are doing the same job all of these older people are doing. They know that they will take their abuse. Thankfully in the 15 years from when this happened it's a little better for people trying to get sober with methadone. This man was hard working and the only reason he couldn't get a take home dose was because he smoked pot, and that meant he failed his drug tests. From what I understand those clinics no longer treat pot like a drug, because realistically it helps people.