Zac Amico's Morning Zoo – Episode 81

Guests: Joe Gorman & Kelly Taylor
Date: January 23, 2026
Network: GaS Digital Network

Episode Overview

This uproarious, freewheeling episode of Zac Amico’s Morning Zoo rings in a chaotic Monday with comedians Joe Gorman and Kelly Taylor. The trio launch into raucous riffs on weird news stories, prison food, nostalgia, reality TV, infamous sex tapes, and low-brow pop culture. True to the show’s “drive-time zoo” format, the mood is boisterous and irreverent, with rapid-fire jokes and comically dark takes on the world’s oddities.

Main Topics & Discussion Points

1. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Banter

(01:17–02:26)

• Zac welcomes Joe and Kelly, joking about how their “celebration” of MLK Day is pointedly irreverent.
• The group pokes fun at the different ways “to honor” MLK, with riffs about menthols, wiretapping, and inter-racial dating.

2. News: Jealous Girlfriend Throws 25lb Weight at Rival

(04:02–07:32)

• Story of a woman at a Houston gym throwing a 25lb weight at her boyfriend’s alleged mistress.
  • Zac: “That seems premeditated to me. When you specifically say the name of the weapon you're gonna use…” (06:32)
  • Joe: “It's like half my dick size. You measure your dick in pounds?” (04:16)
• Hilarious analogies for 25lbs (a toddler, dog, bag of kitty litter).
• No video of the event, but discussion about whether this results in jail time.
• The group riffs on how getting banned from both weed and the gym “is solitary confinement.”
  • Kelly: “Is that like implying the weed made her aggressive?” (08:37)
  • Zac: “That's tough. You can't get up or go to the gym.” (08:28)

3. High School Fights and Nicknames

(09:22–11:22)

• Zac recalls “Truck Face,” a tough girl from Jersey City who would fight and get drunk at school, and the phenomenon of nicknaming based on major incidents.
• The guys joke about remembering the first girls who “got boobs” in high school versus forgetting old teachers.
  • Zac: “Any guy can name the girls that grew boobs.” (11:22)
  • Joe: “Dude, every guy does.” (11:54)

4. Ohio Jail’s Disgusting ‘Wardenburger’

(12:21–16:30)

• Discussion of a penitentiary feeding inmates a gray, fibrous burger.
  • Ingredients: “fiber-heavy slop” of oats, beans, turkey, cabbage, etc., pressed between two white bread slices.
  • Zac: “If you've already reached solitary confinement, I don't know if you have the right to complain about the food...” (12:44)
• They compare the burger to health foods, “aliens making people food,” and “what comes out at the end of the Human Centipede.”
  • Joe: “It seems like something a fitness influencer would be like, ‘Yeah, I actually don’t miss hamburgers. I have this.’” (14:12)
• Social commentary on prison food, privatized jails, and the politics of who deserves better (violent vs non-violent offenders).
  • Zac: “Tax evasion, smoking weed… I would even say drug use… That’s as libertarian as I get.” (15:56)

5. Food Nostalgia & Fast Food Shrinkage

(17:00–20:30; 28:21–29:13)

• Longing for fast food “super size” days and the shrinking portion sizes of modern burgers.
  • Kelly: “If you order a Happy Meal now… it’s like a slider.” (28:44)
  • Zac: “The Big Mac is smaller. I remember the meat coming over the bun.” (28:32)

6. Prison Cuisine Challenges

(20:49–22:57)

• Brainstorming on “prison wine” (hooch) and how to make it for the show, plus jokes about in-house criminal economies.
  • Zac: “Shannon, bring up a good recipe for prison wine, and we'll make it a segment.” (22:00)
• The hoopla of hiding it from staff: “Tom will eat the bag.” (21:56)

7. Blind Social Media Influencers & Accessibility Gadgets

(25:14–27:09)

• Zac describes videos by blind influencers demonstrating life hacks.
• The cast devolves into joking about spitting food, and influencer tropes.
  • Kelly: “Just don't tell Grant I've been doing this for 12 years.” (26:29)
  • Zac: “Ew, you gross blind bitch. Get out of here.” (26:34)

8. TV & Movie Culture: Batman, Superheroes, Danzig

(29:38–34:55)

• Tangent from Batman action figures and McDonald's tie-ins to deep comic nerd chat: why Billy Dee Williams and Marlon Wayans got paid for roles they didn’t perform.
• Critique of the “Snyder-verse” and speculation about Henry Cavill as Wolverine.
  • Zac: “You know who they wanted to be Wolverine originally… Danzig. Wild, right?” (42:45)
• Zac slams Danzig’s “Verotika” film for shoddy filmmaking.
  • Zac: “Danzig stinks at moviemaking. Should not be allowed near a camera.” (33:04)

9. Celebrity Divorce and 2000s Reality Shows

(36:34–40:00)

• Recap of Shannon Doherty’s divorce on her deathday and subsequent estate drama.
  • Kelly: “All she wanted was to die a divorced woman.” (37:16)
• Revisiting VH1’s The Surreal Life, Flavor of Love, Rock of Love, and personality hierarchies among “little people” actors.
  • Celebrity “mini-me” Vern Troyer gets his own analysis, compared to Warwick Davis and others.

10. Reality TV, Infamous Sex Tapes

(44:04–49:14)

• Deep dive into the celebrity sex tape phenomenon (“Who was first? Rob Lowe? Pam and Tommy?”)
  • Zac: “Fred Durst… That seemed like he released it himself, though.” (47:51)
  • Joe: “The Kid Rock and Creed sex tape is real.” (44:12)
• Comparing Rock of Love and Flavor of Love contestants for “classiness” (or lack thereof).
• The increasingly trashy nature of reality dating shows through the 2000s.

11. The Bachelor, The Traitors, and Contestant Lore

(51:50–54:04)

• Kelly explains Bachelor contestant Colton Underwood’s “gay and stalker” saga.
• Zac complains about Michael Rapaport’s unlikeability on The Traitors, and how he managed to make Ari Shaffir seem sympathetic.

12. Chinese Woman Ordered to Apologize for Exposing Cheating Husband

(65:14–67:06)

• Wang-like story from China: A woman was forced by a court to apologize for exposing her husband’s affair.
  • Zac: “She turned it around… now she has millions of views.” (66:16)
• Observations on Chinese social media censorship and American hometown Facebook drama.

13. Hometown Facebook Grudges

(67:34–69:39)

• Zac’s infamous Facebook post gloating over a childhood antagonist’s death provokes a deluge of threats from his hometown.
  • “I wrote that guy died. That was it… Oh boy, did I. And then I just went to sleep…” (68:26)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Joe Gorman, on prison food: “I don’t want my tax dollars going to Chef Boyardee.” (12:56)
• Zac Amico, on “Wardenburger”: “Aliens had to make people food, right? This is what it would look like.” (14:20)
• Kelly Taylor, on Happy Meal burgers: “Now it's like an actual…it's like a slider.” (28:44)
• Zac Amico, about past bullies: “I wrote that guy died. That was it. I didn't write hahaha, good. Oh boy, did I. Then I just went to sleep.” (68:26)
• Joe Gorman, on celebrity sex tapes: “A lot of celebrities are also, like… I don't want you to use, like, an accusation that it wasn't consensual or something. So, I filmed every sexual interaction…” (45:12)
• Kelly Taylor, on The Traitors’ Colton Underwood: “…He stalked her, got a burner phone, started texting her crazy stuff, and himself…then came out as gay to clean the slate.” (52:00)
• Zac Amico, on fast food: “If you're eating McDonald's and think it's real food, that's on you.” (17:00)

Notable Segments & Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment / Discussion | Notes | |------------|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------| | 01:17 | MLK Day riffs | Opening comedy riff on the holiday | | 04:02 | Gym weight attack story | Play-by-play, jokes about weights and injuries | | 12:21 | Ohio’s ‘Wardenburger’ prison food | Analysis, analogies, and mock recipes | | 21:00 | Prison wine & jail food ideas | Recipe brainstorm and how-to video | | 29:38 | Batman/McDonald’s tie-in nostalgia | Movie trivia, toys, and superhero casting | | 44:04 | Reality shows & sex tape genealogy | Wildest and worst celebrity recordings | | 51:50 | The Bachelor/Traitors controversies | Kelly schools Zac on reality TV | | 65:14 | Apology for exposing adulterous spouse | Rare Chinese viral story discussion | | 67:34 | Facebook feuds and local drama | Zac’s “reputation” in his hometown |

Episode Tone & Style

The vibe is gleefully anarchic, irreverent, and quick-witted. The hosts don’t shy from crossing lines or poking fun at taboo, obscure, or dark topics—sometimes pushing the envelope for shock value. Pop culture references fly fast, with healthy doses of absurdity and self-deprecation. Underneath jokes about burgers and blind TikTokers, themes of class, generational divides, and the absurdity of modern life peek through.

For New Listeners

Expect a raucous guided tour through strange news, with comedians riffing freely and taking detours through everything from the state of America’s fast food to 90s reality TV and prison entrepreneurship. You’ll finish entertained, if maybe a little scandalized.