(As always click on the picture or, if something broke and you can't see the picture, go here to listen.)This one went very long and we didn't know what to cut so we divided it into two parts, with the remainder to come later. I still put outtro music at the end of this half though cause otherwise you wouldn't know it was over. I really enjoyed this conversation and would put up just this first half in a death match against any one we've done so far.
Jake was in Toronto for work and called me up. I'm going to warn you: we talked about comic books a bit at the start of this one, only for like a minute or so, so skip ahead a bit if you can't take it. Then we argued about whether we should talk about comics and had our usual opinions. I think we cut out a good deal of comic book talk to make it palatable to the layman but we left in a bit of discussion of the Ultimate Universe vs. the "Real" Marvel universe. Then Jake talks about Toronto and we both imagine what Dubai is like.
At about the 5 minute mark we get into reader responses. This was very wide ranging, We talked about Ryan's crybaggery, the culture war that Jake alleges is going on between him and the bad people, Indiana Jones 4 and our fear that since it takes place in the 50s it will be awash in 50s nostalgia, Phoebe's tripe eating ethnicity, what Nick eats for breakfast, the evil eye, another trip to a karaoke bar in Manhattan, Joe's erotic GI Joe Story, Italy & Switzerland & Missouri's relative cleanliness, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Davy Crockett/Jim Bowie, the English language before standardized spelling, gaol, Great Expectations and making things happen by saying them three times.
At around the 25th minute we begin to address recent questions from the questions part of the website. This quickly brings us to the subject of the coming war with the speculating on a situation in which Atlantis attacks the surface world and we have to defend ourselves. It gets a little nuts like for example when we start talking about how he would outfit elephants with old fashioned diving gear to chase after the Atlanteans as they retreated. We of course address my invention a couple years ago of the tuna & onion ring sandwich, Tomo's prowess at Asian-offs, home birth, preemies, minotaurs & centaurs, ticker-tape parades, The Hudsucker Proxy and a new ticker tape printer for text messages.
At the 42nd minute we address horrible jobs. We talk about a girl that portrayed Chuck E. Cheese, Hadas' quitting story, the pear packing sheds in Ukiah and speculate more about Indiana Jones 4.
At the 57th minute we discuss peoples' prized posessions. We address angel dust, the Dudley-Perkins Harley Davidson shop, the Oxford English Dictionary, Cropduster, the Squadron Supreme limited series, Mark Gruenwald, a guy who Phil worked with, Jim Shooter, Ultimate Power, Joe Martin. Again, this section has a bit of comic book talk in it so don't say we didn't warn you. At the very end you can tell we were just about to start talking about 3:10 to Yuma which we had both just seen, but that will have to wait for part two, coming soon.
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It was tight when Jake mentioned that Cropduster record. I jammed that one today and it was still good.
Italian cities are dirty because they are cities, not because they are Italian. Except Naples, it's another dimension in dirtiness that even Italians find repulsive. But it's also really beautiful, so eat it.
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