Merry Christmas, Sneakers! This week on the show: Ian and David plan ahead; is it really the worst; Ian discovers the “birthday week”; King Herod is a nut; Dave is introduced to jelly babies; Ian institutes obligations for lottery winners; Dave describes the self-defeating “good” procrastination; Ian experiences Weird Al karaoke; let’s revisit tattoos; Dave and Ian saw Mad Max: Fury Road; Dave goes there – and Ian gives him the rope; Ian is hacked off at CSI: Cyber; Ian boos 9/11, but we’ll give him a pass because he’s had a hard week; who’s your favourite Peanut; Dave’s pet peeve: “the overflowing bathtub”; and, finally, Ian forced Dave to watch Strip Search and Dave grudgingly enjoyed it.
If you’re wondering what jelly babies look like, here you are:
Disturbing, right?
Thanks for listening.
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I paraphrase it in the show but here’s the actual opening monologue for CSI: Cyber…
“”My name is Avery Ryan. I was a victim of cybercrime. Like you, I posted on social media, checked my bank account balance online, even kept the confidential files of my psychological practice on my computer. Then I was hacked. And as a result, one of my patients was murdered. My investigation into her death led me to the FBI, where I joined a team of criminal experts who wage a war against a new breed of criminal hiding on the deep web. I infiltrating our daily lives in ways we never imagined. Faceless, nameless, lurking inside our devices. Just a keystroke away. IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU!”
“Merry Christmas”!?!
I think you mean Myllis Christmas.
I enjoyed Mad Max: Fury Road and I’m glad critics are praising Charlize Theron’s Imperator Furiosa character and comparing it to other classic tough female action movie roles like Ripley and Sarah Connor. Three strong women in forty years…that’s great, Hollywood! Okay, so I’m sure the big studios have produced other movies with kick-ass female action movie characters over that time period, and I’m sure some of them were NOT deadly lady assassins or superheroines who look good in leather leggings. But sadly, we’re still waiting for that Y The Last Man adaptation!
Also sadly, Fury Road’s post-apocalyptic women-on-the run plot felt all too timely to me, what with groups like Boko Haram and ISIS treating women like spoils of war right now.
BTW, Ian’s recreation of the movie experience made me LOL. But there were some quieter moments, or at least less explosive, like the scene when Max first meets the brides while he’s still chained to the warboy.
The Linus ‘wild-eyed fanatic’ sequence is one of my all-time favourites! October 22nd 1958 in your “Complete Peanuts” collection. One of you guys has that, right?
Here’s Linus as the wild eyed fanatic! http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v-RwJFxX6gs/TsYZzjyDWQI/AAAAAAAAERQ/XL5c3XwS2tY/s1600/Fanatic.jpg
http://peanuts.wikia.com/wiki/October_1958_comic_strips
Oct 20th on for the full fanatic run!
Two podcasts TODAY recommending Alec Baldwin’s podcast means I’m going to have to check it out – the other was an old episode of a newly discovered podcast, though. BTW, what is it called when you find a podcast and have to binge-listen to old episodes? A back-pod? Bingecasting?
Pod-gorging!
And here’s a good episode to start with if you like comics… http://www.wnyc.org/story/roz-chast/
Or if you like late night comedy…
http://www.wnyc.org/story/216217-david-letterman/
Pod cache-ing.
I like ‘podcaching’… Better than Bingecasting, which, on reflection, could have unfortunate connotations.
Thanks for the suggestions Ian. Lots of fascinating people on the list.
Dave if you are interested, Save on Foods sells Jelly Babies in their bulk section. I’m pretty sure I once bought them in the Save on in your part of town.
Dave, this is your chance to have your name immortalized.
Dederick’s Tub. A principal in comedic exposition that states you cannot suggest a tub is about to overflow earlier in a story without showing the consequences of it overflowing later on.
It would be regularly referenced in drama classes. Sure, you’re standing on the shoulder’s of giants, but go for it man. Aim high and reach for the top shelf!
Plus, “Dederick’s Tub” would make for a great button. Do we need to start a petition for this?
Yes, yes you do!
Okay, I’ll get started on it right awa … hey … wait a minute, Ian … you’re not trying to goad me into misspelling Dave’s name – no, not that one, the other one – yet again, in an even more public forum, are you?
I’m not going to fall for that one. You know what they say, “Once burnt, apply aloe vera twice and stay out of the sun.” Or words to that affect.
First, happy birthday to Ian, a day late! Hope you had a happy day and that, maybe, Dave found you just the right present!
Episode #183 was terrific, lots of fun… along with the bit of personal distress Ian shared. It’s so frustrating when there really is not one thing you can do to change a bad situation for someone you love. Grown people make their own choices. It’s painful to stand back and watch, I know.
On a lighter note concerning tattoos, I’m a massage therapist and I see hundreds of interesting, sometimes, bewildering, body artwork. Yes, generally, as you fellows point out, people have tattoos on extremely attractive parts of their bodies. I smile to think of the entertainment value such tattoos will hold for nursing home workers in the future. Those tattoos will likely be all wrinkled and bunchy, and will need to be kind of stretched out, using two hands, to get the picture!
Anyway, Happy Birthday again to Ian…and thanks for the show!