Having done so many reasonable-length episodes lately, Phil & I really dug in with Conversation #13. It's a ninety-five minute epic.We start off with:
bickering about A Very Serious Question; dealing with my feelings; addressing Phil's concerns about the quality of our content, me telling a couple of stories (one about coffee snobbery and the other about a dream I had involving a rat and my genitals), and some other stuff.
After about 15 MINUTES we address Listener Feedback, mainly concerning:
our friend (and last week's guest) Ryan's feelings, getting paid, and some other stuff.
At about 20 MINUTES in, we move on to our first topic, the new movie Superbad. This includes discussion of:
movie reviews in general, fraternal love, what girls think, the state of comedy, my grandma and some other stuff.
When that's done-- at about 35 MINUTES-- we discuss a movie that Phil's been trying to get me to watch for years, the classic comedy Sullivan's Travels. It leads us to such topics as:
Veronica Lake, comedy and morality in classic Hollywood, the films of the Coen Brothers, socially-responsible movies, late-eighteenth & early-nineteenth century sexual mores in America, the wild sea, and some other stuff.
After roughly 55 MINUTES, I get to hear a story about Phil's dad spilling Diet Coke on Phil's bed, and Phil gets to hear two stories about defecation.
Just before 1 HOUR & 10 MINUTES we decide to go over responses for two recent A Very Serious Question topics, movies that make you cry and fantasy theme parks, and ramble on about such things as:
extreme reality television, fiction vs. non-fiction, sympathy for sharks, global warming, the Bible, usury, hippies and some other stuff.
Did I mention that we talk about some other stuff?
13 comments:
Jake it just occurred to me that some people may not know that they have to click on the image to listen. I'm not talking about rocket scientists here but then again you and I don't know anyone on the NASA payroll anyway.
you were talking about fiction... let's see, you were talking about the coen brothers movie... "No Country For Old Men"... and I have to interject and recommend that anyone read Cormac McCarthy if you haven't yet. Jake, you said at some point that you watch Indiana Jones because you are adventurous, well, reading Cormac McCarthy makes you adventurous and tough too. Read all his books. My favorite fiction right now.
if you lower the bar far enough, you can step over it.
Thank you my friends.
Every Tuesday at noon, the City of San Francisco tests its emergency alert system by sounding the sirens located at every fire house in the city for 15 seconds.
In 2005, they upgraded the system. Previously, they were only 18 sirens in operation. After 2005 there are now 65 and they have voice capabilities so the mayor can get on the line and tell the whole city to Party! He can even tell individual zones to party, well telling other zones where the party at.
One of the old 18 must have been near our house in the Richmond district, Phil, because I used to hear that shit every week. I think you had too much ear wax in your ears.
I like the sirens. If you stand in certains parts of the city, you can hear multiple sirens going off, as well as all the echoes deflection off the tall buildings and hillsides.
i meant "while telling other zones where the party at."
quick comment on superbad and my reading of movie reviews:
I actually didnt read any reviews for Superbad before Jake and I watched it last week....my comment to him that it was "long" was definetely not from having a predetermined idea about how long the movie was or anything like that. It was just a long movie. Suck it, Jake.
Re: the tail-end of the Superbad discussion and how these Apatow movies are about male bonds and desperate clinging to adolescence:
The idea that this is typically a male dilemma, the struggle against becoming an adult, is completely false. Women have just as much trouble with growing up, and that's probably why they're expending energy on emotionally immature and non-functional relationships with infantile men...So they can put off settling down themselves, but at least appear to be working towards actual adulthood.
Women want to stay young and silly just as much as men do...I think I just came up with the theme for MY new rom-com.
Wow, Phoebe. Thanks for the insight. I don't think I ever thought of it that way. And now I can let a little bit of guilt go.
This is kind of weird and I know this is not your intention, but I noticed a couple conversations ago that as I listen to these I feel myself choosing sides, almost like I'm listening to some sort of political debate and trying to decide which candidate's views are most closely aligned with my own. And every time one of you says something that that causes me to have any kind of emotional response, my general esteem for whoever said it increases or decreases according to that response and, in my head, points are awarded or subtracted from a running tally. And by the end of the podcast, whoever has the most points is the winner.
That said, the clear winner of conversation #13 is Phil. I won't go into much detail, but there were a couple of glaring strikes against Jake which I can mention:
1) I'm not generally offended by vulgarity and I was willing to let the phrase "pussy blood" slide the first time. But the second time just seemed gratuitous and contrived.
2) His lack of empathy regarding sharks is troubling to me.
Congratulations, Phil. And don't feel bad, Jake. I bet to some other people, you were the winner.
Man, the bar is really being raised for the comments. Thanks, Natalie. I started a message board thread about it.
I just finished listening to it:
One thing that sucks about the Tue. raid sirens is that when the turbonazis are seen in the distance laying waste to Oakland with their ultrakrush-hammers my reaction is going to be like "oh shi-- i had better get down to Anchor Oyster bar before all of the stools are taken by the lunch crowd." Even if the alarms are sounded at like 2am on a Saturday. One time I accused Pfil of just being a collection of macros that reacted to various triggers and it is obvious to me now that I was just projecting.
I don't agree with Jake's comment that shows like Survival Man or Radical Catch or whatever are bogus because if there is a cameraman there it is obvious it isn't very dangerous. Like what about Vietnam or investigative reporters in the gulf or even COPS. Just because a camera is there doesn't mean everyone is safe. The reason Survival Blast sucks is because he picked up a turtle and stuck a knife into it and drank its blood or some shit. What did that turtle do to him you know?
WRT Transformers: If you weren't stoked while Starscream was transforming back and forth into an F-15 while fighting the other jets, I don't understand how we are still friends. I mean seriously, what do we talk about? How do we relate to each other? Really, I am curious. I feel like a large basis for my understanding of the way things are is built upon the idea that that scene was awesome. Without it the world crumbles away.
Oh and also the dude saying "#13" made me think about how gross going number 13 would be.
Joe, recently the Man Vs Wild dude got outed for going to posh resorts at night. The Survivorman dude is out there by himself and has to set the camera, film the segment, move the camera, etc.
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