Hola, Sneakers! It’s the 12th Anniversary of your favourite podcast that couldn’t!
This week Ian and David talk: reflushinh; tween sets; Bing vs. Bowie; beat off competitors; hairballs; carnal knowledge; T.M.I.; painful realizations; not knowing is half the battle; the after-laugh; Ian enjoyed, but Dave scorned A Haunting in Venice; Ian scorned, but Dave enjoyed The Killer; someting Wick this way comes; multi-media; from ashes come cashes; imperial measures; franchise dilution; Ian and Dave wonder at The Marvels; doing the Loki-motion; black and white world; A.I. carumba; fake Smile; location, location, location; mike drops; refreshing convo; natural intelligence; comedy time capsules; super heroes; wing nuts; Zeus women; pantheon and off; mother of pearls; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; power mad; assault on Pepper; side benefit; tattoo you; family feud; in tile; can’t sleep, won’t sleep’ lost in translation; Gogol search; and, finally, Sneaky Dragon after dark.
Question of the Week: What should Sneaky Dragon’s 12-year plan be?
Sub-question of the Week: Using a fancy, advanced A.I., what piece of lost media would you like to recover/reproduce?
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Laurel sent along a picture of Team Shroom, and we’re sure she won’t mind us sharing it:
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Yes, Ian, Leda, the lady who had sex with swan Zeus, did lay eggs. Two eggs, four kids: Helen (later of Troy), Clytemnestra, and Castor and Pollux (the Gemini boys). She got it on with her husband the same night she got it on with the swan, so two of the kids are divine and two are dull humans, but which are which depends on to whom you listen.
Your twelve year plan should be to sweep across Alaska and take Kamchatka. It’s not a good Risk strategy, but it is sneaky. No one suspects that Alaska and Kamchatka are near each other because our world is a flat square. But take the trip from one to the other sometime. It’s like going through hyperspace and winding up on the other side of the planet.
My first thought was to use A.I. to make Jodorowsky’s Dune (the eighteen hour version), but if that actually happened, Jodorowsky himself would be appalled that anyone could consider something made by a soulless machine to be art. So, instead, I would want to recreate the many lost episodes of Steve Allen’s Tonight Show and Steve won’t complain, because Steve is dead (until A.I. recreates him).
Where are my manners?! All I did was talk about myself and my boring career last week and not once mention a congratulatory 12th to you boys!
There I go again and I’m trying to be better about the overactive writing.
Let’s start again. Happy 12th Anniversary Sneaky Dragon! I’ll segway that into an answer from last week’s question. There may be some other really good podcasts around but I’ve only needed them in a utinitarian way and not for all that long. If I’m struggling with a show, like the WATCHMEN series that was on HBO awhile back, I’ll find a podcast to help me along with it. The one I listened to actually had Damon Lindelof on it and was very helpful! But that was it, I only listened to it while WATCHMEN was on. Podcasts come and go but Sneaky Dragon has been my weekly standard and ONLY podcast I have consistently listened to…ever since I found Full Marx in a search while looking for a Marx Brothers podcast. That was my gateway to the Sneaky Dragon flagship and it’s been sailing ever since!
I think your 12 year plan should be to take the show on the road if you’re able and visit listeners! Maybe expand into a YouTube video show! I don’t know how easy this is or not, but it’s me being wishful.
Is it possible to ever use A.I. to fill in some of the lost gaps in the earlier Marx Brothers films? There’s that choppy scene in Thelma Todd’s place seen in “Horse Feathers” that all the Marx Fans commiserate, maybe smooth that out if possible. I think there’s a few more instances in “Duck Soup” as well. I’m not that huge a propnent of A.I. but if it could be put to good use repairing something to it’s former glory, I’d say use it on restoring films for future generations to enjoy.
We’re on a fast track to America’s Thanksgiving down here, I’ll be damned sure to give Thanks for Sneaky Dragon, Ian and Dave this year!!
¡Hola, Sneakers!
Long time, first time. If I were to use A.I. to recreate a lost project, it would be to manifest the 2012 Three Stooges movie with the same script and directors but with the cast I had heard about originally. Benecio Del Toro as Moe, Sean Penn as Larry, and Jim Carrey as Curly. Only the latter of that trio sounds like appropriate casting, but I didn’t expect Sean Hayes as Larry to work as well as it turned out in the actual film. So what do I know? I’m sure Del Toro and Penn would have been up to the challenge had they stayed with the project. Both of them are very good actors. But past performance does not guarantee future results.
If A.I. itself can’t handle that simple request, then I’ll simply build a device like what Mr. Spock used to peer into an alternate future where the Ratzis won WWII (in the TOS episode when he and Captain Kirk were trapped in Great Depression-era USA and met Alexis Carrington) so I can finally see the results of that cast in that movie.
If none of that comes to fruition, I’d just use A.I. to create a retroactive law which will sentence to death anyone who doesn’t add the periods in the initialism “A.I.” Whenever I see it spelled out as just “AI” — especially when a sans serif font is used — my mind tends to think the writer is referencing “Weird Al” Yankovic. Confusion then sets in as I find myself wondering why Al is causing so many problems for Hollywood actors and writers.
And that’s all I have to say about that.