Hola, Sneakers. Welcome to 465th episode of the podcast that really rocks steady!
On this episode: don’t clap for the wolfman; Sammy Hagar the horrible; a deep hole; virtually subscribed; diggin’ the hole; a special day; pro marriage tips; big treats; safe costume; inundated; Halloween vs. helicopter parents; dumb pun; Karate Kids; neither good nor plenty; licorice bits; keep on digging; good news; political virus; what will the future say; Borat feelings; Q drips; sneaky government; how to affect change; cult thinking; grace is important; social experiment; lets not be great; we’re a little worried for America; teamwork; curious about bicycles; old stories and older jokes; best protest; amusing platform; chummy satire; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; highly faithful; a bunch of Jokers; Crime Story facts; disappointing square egg, cookies in your ears; Spock’s dismembered hands; be explicit; a holo gift; and, finally, ventriloquist corpse.
Thanks for listening.
Question of the week: What’s an effective way to use humnour to affect change?
Task of the week: Please feel free to continue Ian and David’s comic strip/rock band name merge game!
Sub-task of the week: Please send us a picture of yourself in costume for this year’s Halloween!
Sub-sub-task of the week: We need a demonstration of the Monster Mash. How does it go exactly?
Curious about Superman defeating a KKK-alike organization? Here’s Episode 1:
We can’t let a mention of Ian’s sit-com pilot Space Arm go by without a link. You can watch it right now! (Corner Gas fans will enjoy seeing Nancy Robertson!)
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Mary Worth, Wind and Fire!
Ian’s googly-eyed corpse would be terrifying.
With a newspaper open in front of me (actually two of our local papers), I was able to come up with the following:
Peaches & Herb & Jamaal
Baby Blues Traveller
Candorvillage People
One Big Happy Mondays
Streetheart of the City
Adam and the Ants
T. Rex Morgan M.D.
The Family Circus (this also works for the British group Family)
Mr. Mister Boffo
The Beatle Baileys
Nancy Robertson as Lex Luthor would definitely get me watching DC movies again.
Dave mentioned the Stanford Prison Experiment, and I know the validity of the experiment’s result have been criticized a lot over the years. It’s alleged that the experimenters strongly influenced the outcome by coaching the guards on how to behave, and that the most brutal of the guards acted that way simply because they assumed the experimenters wanted dramatic results. It’s also been pointed out that the experiment’s subjects were recruited from among those who responded to an ad asking for volunteers for a prison simulation experiment, which probably biases the sample from the get-go. I mean, would you volunteer for a prison simulation? There’s probably only a certain type of person who would. Well anyway, I’m not saying there isn’t a dark side to human nature, just that this experiment might not be the best example.
Oh, and: Krazy Kat Stevens
I’m listening on Tuesday, thanks for taking my mind off the election for awhile. You guys are the best.
Apartment 3-G Love and Special Sauce
Dondi-on and the Belmonts
Manfred Mann-drake the Magician
Sun Kil Moon Mullins
Miss Peaches
Whoops, sorry Todd. Not sure how I ended up in your thread.
Hi gents,
The challenge in using humour to affect change is that the people whose attitudes or beliefs would benefit most from change are generally also the most humourless. The most difficult people I have ever encountered were almost always those who seemed to have long since lost the ability to laugh.
But this is too deep, so here are some band/comic mash-ups:
Simon and Garfield.
PogO-asis.
The Phan-Tom Waits.
Steely Dan Dare.
Emmy Lou Reed.
Iggy Popeye.
The Rocketeers for Fears.
That is all.
Mick
PS: see inbox for Halloween costume pic.
Here are my band/performer and comics mash-ups (the ones you didn’t scoop me on!)
The PARTRIDGE FAMILY Circus
THE BLACK EYED PEAnutS
DOWNCHILD Baby BLUES BAND
PETER, PAUL and MARY Worth
BOBBY SHERMAN’S Lagoon
LULUanne
DoonsbuRHIANNA
DilBURT BACHARACH
Rex Morgan, TENACIOUS M.D.
Thanks for the tip on The School Nurse Files. A series about a South Korean paranormal ghost-hunting school nurse checks a lot of boxes for us!
Medical note: Thalidomide was used to treat nausea a.k.a. “morning” sickness. My twin brother and I were in utero when it was available in Canada but we were lucky it was not prescribed to my mom. There is an episode in the British drama Call the Midwife where you see the kindly doctor prescribing it and we viewers were gasping, “Ohhhhhh no!” Then you see the consequences in subsequent seasons. Just last year, the Canadian government set up a new compensation program for the survivors so the repercussions are still be felt sixty years later. It’s a grim reminder now for the need for thorough drug trials before releasing any drug or vaccine to the public.
Here’s a few more:
The Phantom Tom Club
Herman’s Hermutts
Polly and Her Palace Music
Skin Alley Oop
Louise, you scooped me on the Bobby Sherman one!
I was yelling “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Valiant!” hoping either one of you wouldn’t mention it during the podcast but Ian’s sharp mind won out!
Here’s some I thought of: (Apologies if any were mentioned during the podcast)
‘Lil Abnirvavna
Little Orphan Annie Lennox
Mutt & Jeff Beck
Brenda Ringo Starr
Frank Zappa & Ernest
The Far Side Project
Hi,
Thanks for the tips on Crispin, I will write it somewhere where I can find it again, or buy directly the ebook, firstly because i have already too many books, secondly the book shops have been closed by the government, thirdly because I think it will be complicated to find the english book here, and fourthly (?!!?) I don’t need to explain myself, were still in Democracy !
Speaking of democracy, Trump is unfoldling quietly (It’s rhetorical) his master plan to end democracy or rather to start his own 1000 years reign (If you see what I mean). Meanwhile he is mining the terrain, so if he loses, it will still remain mostly impraticable, and I fear for a long time… and it’s the best overcome of all this sad mess.
Just watched the last Borat, I like the madness, the provocation and the global mess of the exercise but still wondering what I really watched.
And speaking of provocation I frankly prefer Borat over Fincher 😉 A least it make me laugh.
I GOT MY STICKER! I GOT MY STICKER! I love it too, I need to find a place to display it now. The colors are terrific, very brilliant with great contrast, Thanks! What’s also cool is that I know what Dave’s writing looks like now, more of a printing style than cursive. Curious Dave, do you always print when you write? When I took drafting in high school we had to print for the work we did and I found it easier to write that way. I’ve never gone back to cursive since and others will comment on how they can actually read my writing. I had a teacher in high school who forbid me to print when taking notes in her class thinking it took too long to write and that cursive was faster. No wonder I almost failed her class.
My humor doesn’t always work 100% on others, so I’m taking a gamble using it to change anything let alone amuse someone. My wife, for example, just may get madder at me if she thinks I’m not taking her seriously but she knows me well enough to see through what I’m doing. It’s effective to diffuse a situation with a stranger using humor, which may cause your opponent to change their mind after winning them over with it. I can change my kid’s minds by making them laugh if they’re having a hard time with something, using humor to alleviate them enough and realize things aren’t as tough as they think. When I finally hear that laugh, I know I’m doing it right.
No Halloween costume to speak of this year, we usually dress up at work but since we’re still quarantined, there was none of that. To prove that I still have some shred of the Halloween Spirit, I’ll email some photos from a recent Halloween in the workplace with me disguised as The Iron Chef.
I appreciate your remarks on “High Fidelity” last time, and I also vaguely remember seeing that deleted scene about the woman’s $100 record collection, I just can’t remember when I saw fit. The movie also uses the tactic of breaking the fourth wall, which I like in small doses (Groucho did it best in “Horse Feathers”) and I guess I should cut Ol’ Jack Black some slack, I don’t hate the guy but his usual silliness reminds me of too many familiar people from my life and it wears me down. I realize that’s not Black’s fault but I’ve seen him act in other roles that I prefer him in to comedy. I thought he was fantastic in “Bernie” from 2011 where he played an undertaker in a small Texas town. Based on true events, “Bernie” took place and was shot not far from me and features real townspeople from East Texas in the film. I thought it was a brilliant take on a dark comedy and gave Jack Black an opportunity to prove that he can act in a dark comedy role, something I’d like to see more of.
I did however enjoy Black’s scene near the end of “High Fidelity” where he catches everyone off guard by singing “Let’s Get it On” live onstage. The look on Cusack’s face when he hears Black sing is priceless.
I like Katrina and the Waves too.
When I hear “Monster Mash”, all I get a visual of is the Rankin-Bass Halloween animated film, “Mad, Mad Monster Party.” I’ll let Dave be the authority on the music, I think he has a rather successful and enjoyable podcast based on this knowledge. Ahem…segway?
I GOT MY STICKER! I GOT MY STICKER, TOO!!!
i just received it in the mail today as we are waiting, waiting, waiting for the outcome of this Pres election! This sticker is fantastic and helped break up the … waiting!
Thank you, David, for taking the time out of your busy life to prepare these and send them out! Really, above and beyond the call of duty!
I’ve got NOTHING this week for answers. You all have outdone yourselves ( and brilliantly, I might add!) with the comic strip/rock band game! But I do want to second Mick Elliot’s comment concerning “humourless people”. (See what I did there? I put that “u” in humourless just to go along with you Aussies, British and Canadians in the group!) You can rarely “jolly” folks into changing who are not inclined to laughter or to listen to another point of view. Not really… I’m sure we’ve all tried it, and our good humour (I did it again!) and wit falls flat.
Well, on with the waiting game! It’s Thursday morning as I write; maybe we shall have an answer by the time you, Ian and David, record Episode 466 or 468 or 469, etc.
Thank you again for the great sticker!
Dagnab it, dragsters – you and your quick wits! I made a list of HILARIOUS band/cartoon mashups while the show was running, only to listen to you knock them off one by one. Never mind, I still had a couple of zingers up my sleeve, but, uh-oh, here come fellow sneakers to steal my thunder once again. So what am I left with? Andy Capptain and Tennille? Steve Earle and the Marmadukes? I got nothing! What an embarrassment…
My Keep on Sneakin’ sticker has arrived safely Post hastily.
Thank you very much. It was exciting to receive International mail.
I have it visible above my workbench.
— Did somebody say, “Blondie”?
if so, sorry. my bad.
if not, dibs.
2 for 1.