We were joined by our special guest star Nick Galli for our 8th installment. We responded to listener feedback and discussed the meaning of life, Overboard and the relative merits of Birds vs. Rodents. Having said that, it only seems fair to admit that we tend to get off topic. For your benefit we've made an index of all the subjects we addressed, in order:
Listener feedback, Hot Boyz, Superman, hot dog lovers, Boba Fett, Slave 1, killing yourself, punching yourself in the face, My Little Pony, G.I. Joe, toys, emotional projection, shoplifting, trying children as adults, Ukiah, the Porno Fairy, mind bottling, homeopathic medicine, bird-hater heaven & bird-lover heaven, proving your humanity to the internet, the rez, Smith Puget, China, the death penalty, depraved indifference to human life, praved difference to human life, the Food & Drug Administration, San Quentin Prison, gas chamber green, naming Phil's & Nick's unborn children, Michael Vick, dog-fighting, Jay-Z, bad behavior of athletes, DMX, pit bulls, gladiators, public executions, Puritanism, FOX Television, France, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Theodore Roosevelt, usage of quotation marks, irony, frats, bizarre rituals, Delta Force, Mega Force, Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Barry Bostwick, Road Warrior, Troma Films, the meaning of life, City Slickers, Jack Palance, Billy Crystal, Chaos Theory, religion, personal responsibility, reproduction, cop-outs, the Japanese, kamikaze, heroism, martyrdom, comic books, the limitations of language, sacrifice, Semites, public schoolteachers, middle-class white American guilt, when Phil runs for Congress, Back to the Future II, Smokey & the Bandit 3: Smokey Is the Bandit, Rad the movie, The Temple of Doom, Gremlins 2, Yahoo Serious, Young Einstein, Overboard, Gary Marshall, Leslie Dixon, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Taming of the Shrew, woman's servitude to man, gender roles, the class struggle, Trading Places, Dorothea Lange, imdb.com, social realism, Mendocino CA, Fort Bragg CA, the Dust Bowl, Sullivan's Travels, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Phil's girlfriend, Phil's sister, Boudu Saved from Drowning, Jean Renoir, Soldier, Blade Runner, Philip K. Dick, Ukiah CA, Venture Brothers, cherry season, Seinfeld, The Departed, Jack Nicholson, Martin Sheen, Leo D., Mark Wahlberg, The Simpsons, rodents vs. birds, squirrels, pigeons, rats, mice, Phil's food, doves, differences between white people & black people, man's friends and enemies, Vienna, seagulls, ducks, parrots, chickens, reptiles, amphibians, Ratatouille, ravens, geese, Clement Street in SF, Nick's dad, swans, Mother Goose, the SF Exploratorium, parakeet, Santa Cruz CA, the Monterey Bay, Birds the movie, eating pigeons
As always, we welcome any comments or criticisms. If you can draw any of these subjects, send us pictures. If you are an expert on something, let us know so we can interview you.
13 comments:
"Gas Chamber Green" can be your Jewish gangsta name. Once, I asked my Jewish girlfriend if she knew of any cool Jewish versions of "Colombian Necktie?" She said, "Matzah Ball Chicken Bone." Later, she told me she was joking and I was sad!
I think if you have a third talker on VSC they should be an interesting special guest who only talks when addressed. Something more themed. Like, if you brought Smith on to rap about the Rez. However, I love the show.
I love Overboard and I quote it all the time. I especially like when Goldie is reminded of their first time having sex.
Phil is absolutely right. I was hoping to be diplomatic. In fact, Phil asked me to provide a point by point accounting of innaccuracies and I declined because I love you guys and I am not here to punk anyone on their stage.
If I felt strongly enough about "the facts", I would record my own podcast.
I was trying to say that, like Nick explained, your conversation was off the top of your head, and that's all anyone can expect, but if a listener was interested in getting a more accurate accounting of TR's life, they should read the books.
But, again, the three of you did an excellent job highlighting the colorful life of a character we should all know more about.
These conversations are the magickal faerie dust that transport me away to another soft-focused place and time and make my life worth living.
I regret sounding critical of the VSC guest stars. My comment didn't sound as constructive as I meant it to be. Your show is the best!
I bet Chuck Norris could punch himself in the face hard enough to kill himself.
When I was a kid an emu ran up to me and bit me for no reason. They are the bird I hate the most. They are way worse than geese because of their piss-poor attitude and their size.
ok, I really like your show... how ever, I am not that into the guest topics. I like the topics, but I really am punching myself in the face right now listening to the guest star talk in a crazy way about things that he doesn't know about.
That's why I like when you guys talk about your friends, and the other things that may be interesting, because you know about it. If I wanted to listen to people talk about what "people want from religion" who don't study it, I would go back to UC Santa Cruz.
also, just to be critical, but not to be mean, I don't think you should cuss on the podcast because it devalues the things you are saying, and makes it less funny because cussing when you hear yourself do it sounds bad. And its weird, because I cuss all the time in my day to day conversations, but somehow hearing you guys cussing hurts my ears.
thank you for your time and devotion
In this modern electronic world we live in, would it be more appropriate for the Porn Faerie to sprinkle the woods with DVDs, or maybe CD-ROMs loaded with J-P-Gs? Or maybe a printed-out email with links to salacious youTube vids or Flickr pics? Can a fella even buy mags anymore?
I couldn't thoroughly enjoy Ratatouille because every scene with a rat in it made me want to vomit.
Oh, and although I didn't fantasize much about My Little Pony, I did pretend that my stuffed E.T. doll was a starving orphan that I found and nursed back to health by feeding it pre-packaged taco shells.
I've only listened to the first half so far but did you guys not see Blades of Glory?? Come on! Mind bottling!You know, when things are so crazy it gets your thoughts all trapped, like in a bottle?
On rats v. pigeons: At the end of the book 1984, they use "the worst thing in the world" to break Winston. That thing was a cage full of sewer rats that fit over his face. And after you read it, you don't really blame him for being so terrified of having his face eaten that he'd sell out his girlfriend. On the other hand, had the cage been filled with pigeons and he still caved, he would have seemed like a huge pussy.
great episode. nick, however, never fails to ruin the smooth flow of the episode with his supercilious conversation contributions and his weak jabs at rational thought. causing even more frustration, nick's demeaning, pretentious tone of voice destroys phil and jake's endearing chemistry and the delicate balance between lightheartedness and seriousness that they maintain so effortlessly.
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