Hey, Sneakers! We bet when you started listening to this show around Episode 246, you never thought we’d get this far, but it’s Episode 249!
This week: Dave is presumptuous; Ian looks like a weirdo; cats that are dogs; wasp trees; girls with headphones; how do people date nowadays; Dave’s biggest regret for Ian; Ian doesn’t believe in playboys; meeting Hollywood; Dave’s “one” regret – missing out on a “she-devil hell ride” (with a soundtrack); Ian’s disappointing topic – the fiftieth anniversary of Star Trek; Dave is shocked that they “Lucas-ed” Star Trek; the terrible secret of Strt Trek; bring back the half-hour drama; helpful cats; and, finally, the shocker.
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Dave, you are probably viewing that “road not taken” moment with the young woman in Peace River through the rose-coloured glasses of youth. I’m pretty sure what was awaiting you at that bar was not just a girl out to have a good time with a stranger passing through town. Two steps behind her could’ve been the northern Canadian equivalent of Ray Liotta. Not the melancholy widowed advertising jingle-writing dad Ray Liotta from Corrina, Corrina (1994). Oh no. It would have been the jealous ex-con ex-boyfriend Ray Liotta from Something Wild (1986) — which would make you the Jeff Daniels character and that small-town siren, Melanie Griffiths. I think you shouldn’t look back on this incident with regret but with relief. You may have literally dodged a bullet!
Re: Science Fantasy vs. Science Fiction. Both Star Wars and Star Trek have characters that use telekinesis, telepathy, mind control and other hyper-intuitive abilities. So I wouldn’t say one is more hard core sci-fi than the other just because one franchise calls it The Force and the other calls it extra-sensory perception. They both wind up with folks zapping other folks with lightning that comes out of their hands. Now if the lightning bolts were coming out of a wand, that would be magic!
And of course you can’t train everybody to use The Force. Vader says, “The Force is strong with this one.” So that implies it’s weak with others. You probably had to score high on your FATs (Force Aptitude Tests) and write a pretty good essay to get into the Jedi or Sith Academies.
I just watched an episode where Spock sensed the deaths of hundreds of Vulcans. Very Jedi of him.
The following is another Public Service List™ (PubSerLi), for all the songs mentioned in the Girls-in-Truck section of the show:
Kenny Loggins – Danger Zone
https://youtu.be/yK0P1Bk8Cx4
Motley Crüe – Girls, Girls, Girls
https://youtu.be/aIM4gmho8P0
Theme From Ironside
https://youtu.be/2KE-Ze-VPeE
Lindsey Buckingham – Trouble
(5 *s for my all-time favorite count-in)
https://youtu.be/SCRNDQNjCK4
The Left Banke – Walk Away Renee
https://youtu.be/SqAh1dQu_pg
Joe Harnell – The Lonely Man theme from The Incredible Hulk
https://youtu.be/rccD1EWenio
Ha! Thanks Marcus!
As someone who finds it hard to come up with brilliant things on the spot, I took the opportunity while editing the show to write down my own alternate soundtrack to the now-famous story of The Girls In A Truck:
1. 8 Days on the Road by Howard Tate – This sums up the lonely desperation of life on the road quite nicely and quite funkily.
2. Hazy Shade of Winter by Simon and Garfunkel – Paul Simon’s poppy, upbeat paean to Seasonal Affective Disorder gives us the feeling of life in the small town of Peace River.
3. Tahquamenon Falls by Sufjan Stevens – Stevens self-indulgent modernist xylophone freak out gives us a sense of Dave’s mind set as he stares non-plussed at an actual frozen river – the existence of which had never occurred to him before.
4. In It for the Money by Supergrass – There is no other phrase that adequately describes the heartless ambition of the desperate characters holed up in a low-rent motel room in Peace River.
5. Chain Gang by Sam Cooke – Ian chose “16 Tons”. I’m choosing “Chain Gang” simply to be different…and cooler. It was a grind, but I don’t know if it was a chain gang level grind.
6. Funky Nassau by The Beginning of the End – I’m not sure where my boss was from, but he was a tall, elegant black man with a beautiful blonde wife and an hypnotic Caribbean accent.
7. You Got What I Want by The Sorrows – “Girls Girls Girls” may have been playing in the truck, but this song gets to the heart of the matter.
8. Girl Afraid by The Smiths – Only Morrissey understood a young man’s fearful dithering, self-rationalizations and paranoid mistrust of the opposite sex. He spoke to a generation of glasses-wearing stammerers.
9. The Drinking Song by Loudon Wainwright III – Wainwright’s blunt assessment of mankind’s favourite bad idea reflects Dave’s thought process as he considers going to a bar with the girls in the truck.
10. Bye Bye Baby by Mary Wells – It’s all over. Dave trudges off to two unsuccessful calls, the girls ineptly speed off and probably some undeserving jerk gets his end in.
http://www.sneakydragon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Girls-in-Truck-Soundtrack.mp3
LOL Brilliant! You should do a podcast called mixtape. I dare ya.