I was in New York City for a couple of days last week, so Phil & I were able to conduct this conversation in the actual physical presence of one another. Our friend Jason was also around, so he joined in to contribute in such ways as rudely telling us to shut up and that what we were saying was boring. Of course, I edited out such comments while keeping in the boring things we were saying.
The conversation is just under 1 & 1/2 hours in length. It's kind of "all potatoes and no meat": all recurring segments and no episode-specific discussion topics. But it's us talking, which is hopefully all that really matters. It starts with the standard routine of Phil & I bickering with each other and whining about our personal needs. Also, I tell Phil about an experience that I had the previous night with Jason and our other friend Smith.
About 6 MINUTES in, we get start going over Listener Feedback from Conversations 13 & 14, during which Phil receives a phone call from his father. Topics in this segment include: women & adulthood, sharks, extreme reality shows, the Transformers movie, the evil eye, our friend Ryan's measurements, our friend Peter's upcoming relocation and our friend Natalie's band Charlee Horse.
We then move on to some of the topics discussed on the A Very Serious Question page...
Inventions (starting at about 24 MINUTES), including discusson of:
what Ryan does on the internet all day, ancient civilizations of the Americas, our friend Reno "flipping" a Chevy Corsair, language & writing, imagination/storytelling/lying, the printing press, the Homeric tradition, clocks & time, indoor plumbing and women & pillows.
Childhood Fears (starting at about 46 MINUTES), including discusson of:
wolves, Bloody Mary, anti-monster spray, our friend Joe's youth spent living on a commune, Jake's time on a nudist colony as a child, Phil's fear of aliens, a bunch of scary movies and scary things in general.
Teen Movies (starting at about 1 HOUR and 13 MINUTES), including discusson of:
the relationship between Dazed & Confused and American Graffiti, Cooley High, Bring It On, Clueless, The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, saturday school, Say Anything, Meatballs, and a shitload of other movies.
Click on Victor's shark-in-a-spacesuit picture (above) or here to listen.
5 comments:
Ok so you guys said pussy blood like three times and I paused the show to go to the bathroom and I got my goddamn period. It was like Beetle Juice or something. In the future, if you could refrain from mentioning this again, I would appreciate it.
Jake, points can not be awarded in trade for band publicity, though I appreciate the effort.
Phil, trust me. We need all those pillows. No two are exactly alike and each one has its own special purpose.
I should have chimed in earlier on the invention topic, but I am thinking the level... as in what carpenters/architects use to determine whether the foundation etc. is level with the ground. I believe ancient egyptians used a simple water level.
Movies:
I would be into a romantic comedy comedy partly because I think 2 parts comedy to one part romantic is a good ratio but mostly because I could refer to it as a "rococo".
Inventions/Hippy-ery
I wouldn't go as far as to say that indoor plumbing is the best invention ever but I will point out that no indoor plumbing fucking sucks.
Here are two non-indoor plumbing situations I have lived in when I was a kid:
Outhouse
In order to take a dump you go outside to where there is a little wooden room with a toilet seat over a deep hole in the ground. As you open the lid and look in hella spiders and bugs scurry away. The entirety of your time taking a dump you are desperately trying not to think of the plan the bugs are probably having to latch onto your butt.
Indoor outhouse aka "The Upgrade"
We later had a regular bathroom with the exception of the toilet which was a toilet seat/throne thing attached to a 50 gallon drum. Instead of flushing you would pour sawdust or ash over your dumps.
The worst part of this situation is that a family of 5 fills 50 gallons of dumps pretty fast. To empty it, you had to drag the drum far away from the house and turn it over so the dumps oozed out; then you would cover it with dirt and wash out the drum. It was a total gag factory (and not like the series of videos that Jake keeps on my computer with the same title.)
yeah! the pussy blood thing happened to me too! wtf?!
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