Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Sneaky Dragon! Where entertainment goes to hide!
This week: the invention of blong; choose your Tipple; film job; quiz-lings; Pluto-crazy; a river runs through it; generation aches; friend mixture; inexplicable movie tastes; Rush hour; the lovely Jones; the children’s crusade; my trump, you dummy; David’s thoughts on Midnight; de-coding; bathing beauty; testes cases; the rating game; the Jones boy; the villain’s turn; a friend of Dorothy; baby love; playing the Oz; peaceful breast; the Arthurian legend; let’s enjoy Adventure in Manhattan; twitterpated; owl service; cheesy; political hijinx; dog lovers; office shark; a true not-Canadian; from the prairies to the mountains; assorted -ettes; family time; Laurie driver; hipsters; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; a Dedrick dozen; “Hey-y-y…shut up”; Jaws harp; and, finally, low resolution.
Question of the Week: Did you get a fun gift over the holidays?
Sub-question of the Week: How do these long winter days make you feel?
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Longtime listeners might remember how Dave despises the overflowing bathtub movie a.k.a. “The Whole Town’s Talking” (1935). Yet when reminded that Jean Arthur starred in said motion picture, he says enthusiastically and without hesitation, “That’s a good movie.”
Has Dave actually seen this overflowing comedy film or not?
Last episode Dave struggled to come up with the counterpart for the term “definitive article.” I think the difficulty lay in the fact that the grammatical term used to describe “the” is not “definitive article” but “definite article.” The word he was searching for to describe “a” or “an” is “indefinite article.” But I propose that there SHOULD be a term called the “definitive article” and it should be when “the” is pronounced “thee” — as in the sentence, “Some fun things I got this Christmas were a couple of new board games which I’m looking forward to playing someday with THE Dave Dedrick and THE Ian Boothby, the definitive pop culture podcast hosts.”