Oct 11, 2007

Conversation #18



I'm posting this from airport in Phoenix. Since Phil and I (along with some friends) will be in Puerto Vallarta for the next week, we decided to record an over-sized episode to tide our listeners over until then. And it's a long one at that, weighing in just under two hours.

Check it out here (or click on the above image).

The last half of the conversation features our friends Jason and Victor.

We start with our disagreements concerning Conversation #17, then go into some general discussion about the martyrdom competition in which Phil and I are engaged, the intelligence of our listeners, the Playboy bunny, places of worship and such.

Here's a schedule of the rest of it, with the rough times of subject-changes and topics:

~00:07:00 - The Darjeeling Limited
Including discussion of: Wes Andersen movies, Phil's film tastes viewing habits, keeping books after you're done with them, Catch-22 (the book and the movie) & M*A*S*H* (the book, the movie and the TV show) and remaking books.

~00:19:00 - Listener Response
Including discussion of: Girls & pillows/stuffed animals, RoCos (& RoCoCos & RoCoCoCos), indoor plumbing (or a lack thereof) & toilets of the world, "fingerblast", Italian cities, Phil getting attacked by a pigeon, terms of endearment for daughters, similarities between the films 3:10 to Yuma & High Noon, and the vinegaroon.

~00:40:00 - Jason and Victor Join the Fray

~00:43:00 - Extinction
Including discussion of: Various insects, unicorns, dinosaurs, the Humboldt squid, woolly mammoths, a story from Phil's bike trip across the U.S., dodo birds, more on stuffed animals,and those prehistoric-looking deep-sea fish.

~00:52:00 - A Very Serious Question: Who are you better than?
Including discussion of: Bullies, rapists, chemists vs. physicists (& biologists), time travel and how super powers are acquired these days.

~00:58:00 - A Very Serious Question: Nicknames
Including discussion of: Various people's self-applied, Victor's clothes and girl's boy-shorts.

~01:00:00 - A Very Serious Question: What are you looking forward to?
Including discussion of: The SF Aquarium, art, Providence RI, what I was like in high school, our friend Kami at motorcycle school in Florida and our upcoming trip to Mexico.

~01:05:00 - A Very Serious Question: Dream Home
Including discussion of: Switzerland, Phil's creepy mystery house, the X-Men mansion, a train as a home, hobo stuff, Joe's satellite station house, Jason's sexing motions, anime archetypes and Pokemon.

~01:12:00 - A Very Serious Question: Birthplace
Including discussion of: Phil's dad's time as an Air Force doctor, conspiracy theories, the migrations Jake's parents, Tomo's dad's cooking skills, jai halai, more about Kami, and Willits, CA.

~01:27:00 - A Very Serious Question: What are you afraid of?
Including discussion of: The Portuguese Man o' War, Jake getting attacked be a tumbleweed as a child in Tucson, moths & Mothra, body odor, Japanese tentacle porn, polygamy in Utah, marriage/serial monogamy, the Evil Eye, Robert E. Howard and Philip K. Dick.

~01:43:00 - A Very Serious Question: Birthday Gifts
Including discussion of: Phil's getting hit in the face with a pie and Tomo recieving a singing chicken telegram.

~01:47:00 - A Very Serious Question: First Kiss
Including discussion of: A girl you don't know in the Niagara Falls area and our early "experiences" with girls.

2 comments:

nils said...

when you guys were talking about terms of endearment used by fathers directed at their daughters, i was instantly reminded of rebel without a cause when natalie wood's dad in the film calls her "glamourpuss".

Joe said...

Dude,

Victor* totally effed up the pie throwing story. Here is how it went:

0. Phil discusses pie throwing as the a1-ultra of comedy for months. Intense buildup ensues, pie throwing party is planned (and canceled?) etc.

1. I get a call from Victor while I am at work. Victor states that I should "be careful" as phil has some pie-throwing plans up his sleeves.

2. On the way home I stop and get a paper plate, some chocolate pudding, and a bottle of seltzer water. I combine the pudding and plate into a pie-like configuration.

3. Rather then enter the front door of my house I enter the back door quietly.

4. Phil is nearby holding a pie in one hand and a phone in the other hand. His back is towards me and he is saying this to whoever he is talking to: "It's going to be so good; when he comes home I am going to hit him in the face with this pie"

5. I tap him on the shoulder and he turns around. As he does I hit him in the face with my pie. Then I shake the seltzer water and spray it in his face.

6. While Phil is still in shock, Victor grabs the pie that phil is holding and hits phil in the face with it. I then spray him down with more seltzer.

7. Hilarity ensues.


I remember this clearly because the fact that it worked out so well is the only proof, other than the photographs of Jesus partying with Dinosaurs, that I can think of of God's existence and His infallible plan.

Victor was combining this with a different time Phil got hit in the face with a pie, not on his birthday, but on Adama, Jake, and my shared birthday. But this was later on.

Much later on Phil hit me in the face with a pie and then his friend , Ed Sheffield (a skilled trombonesman), played "wah-wah-waaaaaaaah" on a trombone also in my face. It ruled.

*Victor, as some of you know, is a total stoner.