122: Recursive Clip Loop: Our 2012 Favorites

0:00:00the incredible

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0:00:082012 there well welcome back to being

0:00:13comfortable podcast I'm your host Jason

0:00:15snow

0:00:16this is a special episode of the

0:00:18uncomfortable where we're looking back

0:00:19at 2012 but it's not a clip show it's

0:00:21not a rerun

0:00:22it's all new stuff plus a few clips from

0:00:26the past because it's fun

0:00:28we're going to tell you about stuff we

0:00:30like this year some of our favorite

0:00:32books and TV shows and movies and comics

0:00:34and stuff like that

0:00:35we're also going to talk about some of

0:00:37our favorite moments from the podcast

0:00:39from the last year so sit back and i

0:00:42hope you enjoyed this look at 2012 as we

0:00:44move into 2013 and joining me for this

0:00:47episode are Dan Morgan Clem fleischmann

0:00:50John siracusa serenity Caldwell Steve

0:00:53Lutz Lisa Schmeisser and Scott McNulty

0:00:57so let's get started we started this

0:01:00year with the episode 73 of the

0:01:03incomparable and we're going to finish

0:01:04at roughly a hundred and twenty-one and

0:01:07we make a lot of there's a lot of well

0:01:09he do one a week had cast that's a lot

0:01:12of yakin I was gonna I was gonna say we

0:01:14make a lot of crap but yeah it's worse

0:01:16when you have to edit them let me tell

0:01:17us that this is all gold the supercut is

0:01:21really going to be something so i asked

0:01:25on on the internet i asked listeners

0:01:27what their favorite to we still at the

0:01:31scene if we do a few there got there

0:01:33they're about to die as the world comes

0:01:34to an end but into them from Australia

0:01:36only likes me

0:01:38yes before they went they they gave us

0:01:40some feedback

0:01:41Adam world said was the Empire Strikes

0:01:44Back episode this year

0:01:45no it wasn't sorry that episodes every

0:01:48year James I guess we run it like a

0:01:50christmas story 24 has day it's a

0:01:52Christmas tradition it's beautiful thing

0:01:55about podcast you can plan back anytime

0:01:56he said he liked the jonathan coulton

0:01:58episode and like listening to John on

0:02:02miyazaki i was also on that episode but

0:02:06he didn't like to listen to me like the

0:02:07John part he'd like John's parts of the

0:02:10miyazaki episode Rodney simba Massa rear

0:02:14I think he said the TV draft and and

0:02:18casting was that this year it doesn't

0:02:20matter it

0:02:21and whenever here you also not this year

0:02:24but thank you

0:02:25where is it possible we shall molanda

0:02:27ourselves are so you're really good but

0:02:29after battle yes but Rodney had the

0:02:31right answer which is it doesn't matter

0:02:32it wins every year anyway so Dylan geo

0:02:36veneto says the con con and con- moment

0:02:41from episode 84 the film festival which

0:02:45actually was this year good which

0:02:46actually wasn't in 2012 good stuff

0:02:49german angel movies included he says

0:02:51blending yeah man going science fiction

0:02:57then into screwball then into cons but

0:03:01not that con right Scott Scott starts

0:03:04with Khan wear which games child and all

0:03:07this i hit james bond movie always a

0:03:10godfather is the godfather

0:03:12oh sorry ok well there we go kon Kon Kon

0:03:15it's it's really the con film festival

0:03:18at this point haha oh wow well

0:03:24Wow who are in terrible pain no that was

0:03:28amazing times after snow somehow also

0:03:31like wow but it was sitting right there

0:03:35guys

0:03:36yeah I thought of it too but I didn't

0:03:38say strength and you can see it didn't

0:03:40even see it while RR Michael Gartenberg

0:03:43who was actually on the star trek to

0:03:46episode said that he liked when in arco

0:03:48took over the Avengers episode and then

0:03:52several other people said don't don't

0:03:54you mean the worst thing that happened

0:03:56on the podcast this year that was not

0:03:58one of our popular moments in many

0:04:00places no no that was that that episode

0:04:03that that's that's in some ways my least

0:04:05favorite episode that we've done mostly

0:04:07because i felt like it kind of got out

0:04:08of hand out of hand and not everybody

0:04:10you know it became more of us trying to

0:04:13like debate with Andy rather than talk

0:04:15about what we were talking about and

0:04:16it's you know oh well live and learn

0:04:19when the avengers 2 comes out we'll do

0:04:21another oh man oh yeah we're we're right

0:04:23there

0:04:24it prevented our plan white christmas

0:04:26episode at any rate so yes it's got that

0:04:28going for it

0:04:29Fred he she or quiche depending money

0:04:34he's a real bad i'm going to guess it's

0:04:36not even i prefer quiche Frederick kishi

0:04:40i think i read his philosophy whole stop

0:04:43making fun of the listeners I feel like

0:04:46it started

0:04:47he liked uh he said very well-read hobos

0:04:50schrödinger's cat dare you mean the

0:04:53museum for sony that right not actually

0:04:56very well if i get a spinal tap wrath of

0:04:57khan the redshirts episode he's just

0:04:59listing all the episode like the mall is

0:05:02everything alright Fred had something to

0:05:04make me laugh Brian Hamilton said the

0:05:07Joe the joco episode obscure reference

0:05:09references and said thanks for getting

0:05:10me into jonathan coulton he says that

0:05:12was very nice

0:05:13you're welcome our work here is done

0:05:15Clinton Phillips the man who is making

0:05:17the Scot McMillan supercut I haven't

0:05:19heard an update on that in a while by

0:05:20the way I haven't given up

0:05:22it's been very quiet he's working on it

0:05:24Scott don't talk anymore you make more

0:05:25work for him he said he liked it

0:05:28kids have bad taste episode where we

0:05:30talked about what we what we expose our

0:05:32kids to in terms of what I mean I'm I

0:05:34was not on that the sound he didn't have

0:05:37any like yeah you didn't have to get out

0:05:39that was why he liked it so much it's

0:05:41alright it's alright Scott you have bad

0:05:42taste to and he he actually listed some

0:05:44favorite moments he likes when and he

0:05:47says the Avengers is like Michael based

0:05:49Transformers movies and everybody

0:05:50suddenly get irate again it wasn't an

0:05:53awful movie it was just your basic

0:05:55transformers two style on its 100 no I

0:06:01think you need to watch transformers two

0:06:03again he like an after-dark number 154

0:06:08when everybody does an impression of

0:06:10Scott McNulty saying hello in tilling

0:06:12recording know that is a classic

0:06:18it angered me instead of saying

0:06:21recording we show

0:06:22imitates commenting saying saying hello

0:06:24Lou and he also liked the insular

0:06:31nervous fear episode we talked about

0:06:32john scalzi and the the Hugo's and

0:06:36sci-fi fandom voting for itself for

0:06:39awards like you know nominating feed for

0:06:42things and stuff like horrible things

0:06:44erik christensen said he enjoyed me haha

0:06:48finally somebody's on my side describing

0:06:51the scene in in return of the jedi where

0:06:54Luke is attempting to explain his

0:06:57relationship with her

0:06:58the force is strong in my family I have

0:07:01it

0:07:01my father has it my sister are you

0:07:06following along you're done

0:07:08he just wants to talk two layers so

0:07:10badly about this and she's just not

0:07:12getting the hint and he's like all right

0:07:14come on please I view that as being

0:07:16looks like what we will with the most

0:07:18dramatically I could tell you this I

0:07:19could just run up to it today I thought

0:07:21of your bases you doing there's a father

0:07:22God but no no no let me stretch it out

0:07:25let me make it a little more dramatic

0:07:26that's it the Darth Vader's here

0:07:28remember Darth Vader he's a bad guy

0:07:29yeah okay guess what guess what the

0:07:32force is strong in my family I know that

0:07:34seems unrelated wait wait for it wait

0:07:35for it

0:07:36Darth Vader's my father who no no that's

0:07:39not it

0:07:40oh that starts out the conversation with

0:07:45like I never remembered my mother

0:07:47oh my sister has it my name is Gail she

0:07:50lives in Oregon actually and the thing

0:07:55that really gets me about that is that

0:07:57let's try to process it all and I I'm

0:07:59really should and she says I know I know

0:08:02somehow I've always known anybody you

0:08:04know what she should be saying there is

0:08:06wait a second are you saying that Darth

0:08:08Vader is my father

0:08:10holy crap right now she's like I've

0:08:12always known and we and we made out that

0:08:14one time i do then to that was just

0:08:17getting on jealous he also loved John

0:08:20talking about the Jedi philosophy of

0:08:21pacifism so22 moments from our return of

0:08:25the jedi episode and he also credits

0:08:27leash misers laughs which is infectious

0:08:30and that is true we've all been in fact

0:08:31by Lisa's laughs hence the fires yeah

0:08:34there is no cure and and I want to

0:08:37acknowledge mr. Doug leak who suggested

0:08:40that we talked about movie trailers

0:08:42that's a good idea will take that under

0:08:43advisement and stupid ideas it turns out

0:08:46yeah exactly sorry Doug yeah so uh you

0:08:51guys have any anything that you want to

0:08:53recommend from being comfortable from

0:08:55the world at large from 2012 before we

0:08:57cast into oblivion

0:09:01I did my homework and I made a big list

0:09:02of notes here yes John you said 10

0:09:05favorite thing or two from 2012 and

0:09:07favorite thing from icomparable Sean's

0:09:09totally the teacher's pet you always

0:09:10showed up with his homework done to say

0:09:13I come prepared of anyone elses takes

0:09:16his email seriously here's an apple

0:09:17Jason I got a big I got a big list here

0:09:20too but go ahead Johnson is daughter

0:09:22might do my quick so I never prepared

0:09:24for class my favorite things from 2012

0:09:27Iranians are easy to guess but you know

0:09:29what's my number one guy's heart related

0:09:34don't know tourney come on

0:09:37love-40 during you get a videogame

0:09:39journey with the and stationary not the

0:09:41band not the incredible journey with the

0:09:44dog and the cat then we touched then we

0:09:46say yeah right so that the video game is

0:09:49specifically what I'm talking about

0:09:50that's the best game i played in 2012 by

0:09:52a long shot and it's easily in my gaming

0:09:55top 10 and depending on what I feel like

0:09:57when i wake up in the morning sometimes

0:09:58it's my number one so big thumbs up

0:10:00there I yeah I know you like that w

0:10:04scott did just for you

0:10:08we know we know what he likes you know

0:10:09he likes Colombo and bathroom humor

0:10:11alright the perfect together and and on

0:10:15what my second picture that things like

0:10:18this year is like I watch a lot of TV

0:10:20but if you go down like the shows that I

0:10:21have season passes for at the top of my

0:10:23season pass list or you know

0:10:25past present future Sopranos the wire

0:10:27Game of Thrones Breaking Bad boardwalk

0:10:29empire walking dead like those are not

0:10:31exactly laughfest there you know there's

0:10:33not a comedy in the but it's all kind of

0:10:34like pretty adult drama fantasy sci fi

0:10:37you know and I basically given up on

0:10:39sitcoms entirely except for 30 rock and

0:10:41stuff because a tina fey is awesome

0:10:43so when I look back at 2012 1

0:10:45are they really stood out it's not all

0:10:46those other shows are listed there were

0:10:48great and everything but it's HBO's

0:10:50girls because it's the closest I came to

0:10:53something that was you know I don't know

0:10:56happy like it's not a completely

0:10:58comedies more of a dramedy or whatever

0:11:00but it was it's you know quirky and

0:11:02interesting and offbeat and people don't

0:11:05get their heads chopped off and nobody's

0:11:06a zombie and it's not about organized

0:11:09crime i and III really like it you know

0:11:13it's a nice change of pace that's why it

0:11:14stands out because it's like wow this

0:11:15other thing you know and uh the show

0:11:18could also be called like I yeah

0:11:20Lena Dunham presents lena Dunham's girls

0:11:22by lena gonna finally Donna LaDonna

0:11:24joints because she pushed her she

0:11:26created it

0:11:27she produces it she writes it and she

0:11:29stars in it all which I didn't know when

0:11:31i watch the series so I am a big giant

0:11:33fan of her despite her all for flaws as

0:11:36an actress and a rider and probably as a

0:11:39person they all just make her more

0:11:41endearing

0:11:42so those are my those my two pics for

0:11:452012 am i comfortable pics quickly

0:11:48surprised the journey show you i was

0:11:50excited that we had a show I was very

0:11:52touched that everyone managed to find a

0:11:53way to play it

0:11:54despite not having Playstations and I

0:11:56was glad that everyone seemed to like it

0:11:57so I didn't have an Avengers moment ya

0:11:59on that episode when you will tell me

0:12:01was there was terrible and i really like

0:12:04every like the way music was that into

0:12:06that episode I think we should do more

0:12:07of that I said that is person who never

0:12:09had doesn't know yeah except yeah I'll

0:12:11take that under advisement it helped

0:12:13that somebody who was involved in that

0:12:14actually like sit sent me specific

0:12:17recommendations for what songs to play

0:12:19at what times that we're facing more

0:12:22wilhelm scream could help look at that

0:12:24I've contributed I tell you hear this

0:12:26here's the audio clips and here's where

0:12:27you put them in I go to town supervisor

0:12:30and I went to town you know that is

0:12:32jason and i also like Princess indiana

0:12:34jones and who cares what we think I

0:12:36guess I like princess diana jones

0:12:38because we have to talk about a movie

0:12:39and then we talked about a meta topic

0:12:41about the movie we should do more of

0:12:42that we have time like and there you go

0:12:45you're helping already

0:12:46yeah and who cares what we think I like

0:12:48a metal show that it was about the show

0:12:50how could you not a hundred episode you

0:12:51that was a good one that was on my list

0:12:53that's great i'm done i like the journey

0:12:56show to ya

0:12:58it was fun good episode damn yeah I am

0:13:01there are a couple moments I that I like

0:13:04this year we wrapped up our star wars

0:13:05trilogy like the return of the jedi

0:13:06episode especially I would went back and

0:13:08listened to it earlier and I like the

0:13:10beginning where we all sing the Fox

0:13:12fanfare oh yeah did you do digit digital

0:13:18ooh internet didn't did it did you do

0:13:24did to do anything where we make sound

0:13:27effects and noises anything with a horse

0:13:29with the head on it clearly I'm crazy

0:13:31but here's my problem i can't remember a

0:13:34lot of things that we thought we had a

0:13:35lot of singing and sound effects come

0:13:38from us this year it's very strange i

0:13:39don't know what's wrong with us

0:13:41I don't either but I think we might have

0:13:42some sort of collective disorder

0:13:44we have a probe droid an empire that was

0:13:45one of the yeah that's exactly I was the

0:13:47only comment was that this year i can

0:13:48recommend a TX is like one of the few

0:13:50moments I actually remember that was

0:13:51last year games one I think I may have

0:13:53given it as my favorite moment from last

0:13:55year on the west i'm on the wrap-up

0:13:58thing for last year so can I throw up my

0:14:00favorite moment moment from about yes

0:14:02please God I got you know I was racked

0:14:04my brains that it popped into my head

0:14:06because I just I love this moment and

0:14:08remember exactly where you put in i

0:14:09think it may be at the beginning of one

0:14:11of one of the Empire episodes which is

0:14:13everybody's impression of a imperial

0:14:14probe droid

0:14:15oh yes that's at the beginning of one of

0:14:16the Empire episodes and the other the

0:14:18other one ends with yes largely you

0:14:21doing your series of sound effects from

0:14:23you can wear story star wars soundboard

0:14:26and I'm a trap Batman around a proper

0:14:28irony and understand what

0:14:32remember we're already paying attention

0:14:35during internet

0:14:37after that nap yeah

0:14:41report trooper 020 girl got also

0:14:50throughout our live episode at singleton

0:14:54where we made lecture even talk about

0:14:56Indiana Jones despite having exactly and

0:14:58look

0:15:00Lex has and CNN alternately great and

0:15:05also to me why did you make me do that

0:15:07makes it because I thought it was funny

0:15:08I didn't think you just go about it

0:15:10would be funny to have you up there

0:15:11saying i don't know i havent what are

0:15:14your impressions it's alternatively if

0:15:16it's alternately hilarious and

0:15:17incredibly painful same time and Lex

0:15:20Friedman who hasn't seen them

0:15:22I don't know why I'm here max hasn't

0:15:25seen it

0:15:26that's that's Lex has seen many movies

0:15:28it's it's not true that he's not seen

0:15:31any movies he just hasn't seen any

0:15:32movies that anybody else has seen right

0:15:34i basically there was a large gap in the

0:15:37eighties and early nineties when if the

0:15:38movie was fantastical my parents were

0:15:40interested in they were the arbiters of

0:15:42what we got to watch at home so I didn't

0:15:43see it

0:15:44so relax and I haven't made up for that

0:15:46lost time

0:15:47what do you know about Indiana Jones I

0:15:50want to start before we start talking

0:15:51about the movies i would like to quiz

0:15:53you what you see that youtube video

0:15:55about the three-year-old explaining Star

0:15:56Wars yeah this is basically the same

0:15:58thing

0:15:59yes only on 31 yeah

0:16:01it's other that is getting this is what

0:16:04I know I know it stars Harrison Ford I

0:16:06believe Shawn consciousness will do that

0:16:08yes Sean Connery's i love is in the

0:16:10fourth one that people don't like that

0:16:11had the nuclear bomb that he hides from

0:16:13a refrigerator right i doing great so

0:16:16far

0:16:17yes it's like you've seen them in the

0:16:18first 1i think the first one I don't

0:16:20know which title goes with which movie

0:16:21but in the first 10 there's the big

0:16:23boulder that he runs away from yes and

0:16:26everything I know about the first movie

0:16:27i know from UHF and there's a thing

0:16:31where he's got a bag of sand that he's

0:16:32gotta replace the weight and he's got a

0:16:34time right after that the see you've

0:16:36seen the weird al yankovic parody of you

0:16:37guys either not the actual movie and I

0:16:39know there's one of the odm that I know

0:16:42that at the end the the Nazis spoiler

0:16:45alert get fried when the Ark of the

0:16:47Covenant opens I know that happens that

0:16:49is approximately he's basically seen it

0:16:52why do we not yet have a 30 style drop

0:16:54of somebody going

0:16:55Lex hasn't seen hey I'm thinking we got

0:16:58it

0:16:58plop in every given up aside I'm sure

0:17:00likes would perform that for you

0:17:02yeah as for things that i consumed this

0:17:06year it was a it was not a great year

0:17:08for a lot like television was looking

0:17:10through my television listings like a

0:17:11lot of good stuff i'm watching but it's

0:17:12all into you know second seasons third

0:17:15seasons cetera and there was really as

0:17:18we discussed in our TV episode not a lot

0:17:20good that was new this year and before

0:17:23that I need to go back to writing down

0:17:25the books i actually and movies I

0:17:27actually watched site lets can't

0:17:28remember anything i saw or read this

0:17:30year I feel very bad memory for those

0:17:34things but I did like there are a couple

0:17:37things i did--like i played some video

0:17:39games including journey which I really

0:17:40enjoyed and yeah I don't know it was a

0:17:45yeah I guess there is some good stuff

0:17:48and stuff i don't remember that's about

0:17:50it you're not disappointed i have very

0:17:52good i have a very good memory for

0:17:53certain things which include people's

0:17:55faces and names i have a terrible memory

0:17:57for things that happened in books and

0:17:59movies and television shows even though

0:18:01i like all of those things we need to

0:18:03perform an experiment both Scott and Dan

0:18:05read a book and then we wait a week and

0:18:07then we ask each person questions about

0:18:09the book to see who remembers less

0:18:11that I will I will I will take part in

0:18:14this i want as well just because the

0:18:16first question will be i read that book

0:18:18and if there's a movie adaptation you

0:18:21can put Lex in there i would just I was

0:18:23just watching just doing some catch-up

0:18:24on Homeland the second season which I

0:18:26hadn't finished watching I'd sort of let

0:18:28the last five or six episodes build-up

0:18:30turn my back and we're watching them and

0:18:33and you know I had to keep having my

0:18:35viewing companion like say oh yeah don't

0:18:37remember when that thing happened and I

0:18:38was like no do you remember that you did

0:18:41with it don't got that kind and they

0:18:43recap like the whole season the

0:18:45beginning of each one of those shows

0:18:46like that but they were like little

0:18:47details like oh wait did we ever learn

0:18:48that this guy knows this thing and you

0:18:50look at four episodes ago I don't know I

0:18:53have no recollection effect

0:18:55yeah right its name is a problem simpler

0:18:59then yeah there's not a lot of baggage

0:19:01there i like to live in the moment

0:19:03happy birthday it's my birthday

0:19:06Frosty the Snowman help everybody

0:19:09I don't think that here we go I don't

0:19:11think that's in a much better impression

0:19:13Scott what about you i enjoyed the

0:19:17structure to episode me too mostly I was

0:19:21a good episode

0:19:22this is City al5 I enjoyed that it is

0:19:25that was good that was fun we in

0:19:28addition to singing and making sound

0:19:29effects we also reality and this is

0:19:33eddie out 45 a lot at you as you do is

0:19:36study alpha 5 is a back with this is

0:19:38Ceti alpha five and one of my co-workers

0:19:42hadn't seen any of the Star Trek movies

0:19:44before the reboot and he said well which

0:19:46star trek's movie should i start with

0:19:48and I said clearly wrath of khan so I

0:19:50lent him the blue house and see what you

0:19:52wrecked it you should have told of any

0:19:53other film and then you something to

0:19:55look forward to

0:19:56I told him not the first one good god

0:19:58and and then the next day I said oh well

0:20:01did you like wrath of khan what did you

0:20:02think

0:20:03and he said it was alright and I said

0:20:05never speak to me

0:20:06we're no longer coworkers

0:20:10exactly I i like the the the game show

0:20:15episode i enjoyed the air force episode

0:20:18yes that was this year my god that was

0:20:21this year game show team old and Tim

0:20:23young team young

0:20:25yeah it's good i enjoyed that I also

0:20:28like the the the manic episode about why

0:20:31we do this that's good and I enjoy all

0:20:34the book club episodes because it makes

0:20:35me read things that I would have read

0:20:37anyway since I suggest all the books but

0:20:39still I thank you scarred the one we did

0:20:43on the how we read to it that's good

0:20:45oh yeah that was good that's good

0:20:46suggested by listening right so yes just

0:20:49as soon as keep bringing it in I feel

0:20:50like this is suggest very well-read

0:20:52hobos that was that's the name of that

0:20:54episode I was gonna make a joke about

0:20:55how you read show is one word after the

0:20:58next but that's not actually however on

0:20:59the show red so forget about the summary

0:21:01diagonally

0:21:02I don't know it's a live right in

0:21:04addition pieces and as for other things

0:21:09that I have a read or watched a

0:21:11television has been kind of lackluster

0:21:14for me this year yeah haven't seen many

0:21:15movies but I've read a lot of books so i

0:21:18could talk about some i think i like the

0:21:20night circus which read for an episode

0:21:21that was a highlight of this year for me

0:21:24yeah the brook by Daniel O'Malley is a

0:21:27fun book we haven't spoken about it but

0:21:30a look it up on the internet so not to

0:21:32explain to you the hydrogen Sonata in

0:21:35banks is latest culture book lot of fun

0:21:37if you've read any of the culture books

0:21:38even if you haven't read the culture

0:21:40books it's a good place to jump into it

0:21:42i spent a lot of time reading a a KJ

0:21:46parker books which I've spoken about

0:21:48before it like seven of them this year

0:21:50so check them out

0:21:52i also enjoyed more than other people on

0:21:54this podcast the cloud atlas

0:21:56yeah not naming any names but the book

0:22:00not the book i haven't seen the movie so

0:22:02who knows my book did not start tom

0:22:06hanks so happy about that and you know

0:22:11that covers it for me

0:22:12alright that's good Steve what about you

0:22:16I only put down one cool thing about

0:22:182012 because just in general 2012 sort

0:22:22of blue for male don't like to uh the

0:22:25one cool thing I put down actually in

0:22:27keeping with last year's clip show

0:22:29episode it's it's another new thing new

0:22:32things

0:22:33yes that's right it's new to you that's

0:22:35all that matters

0:22:36this was the year that i discovered

0:22:38Star Trek it's true

0:22:42oh yes yes shortly after after we did

0:22:45our breath of cod episode I'd mentioned

0:22:49previously that my daughter and I were

0:22:51kind of going through a few twilight

0:22:52zone episodes and just one night I

0:22:54suggest you know second twilight zone

0:22:56I've been thinking about going through

0:22:58the original series of Star Trek and

0:23:00kind of checking it out

0:23:01you want to watch one of these said okay

0:23:03sure why not

0:23:05so we put it on and she is completely

0:23:07hooked I I nine-year-old girl completely

0:23:11hooked on Star Trek which is great

0:23:13because it means i don't have to worry

0:23:15about boys for at least another 50 years

0:23:17until all those nerd boys get up the

0:23:20leprechauns I know how to deal with them

0:23:23though

0:23:24yeah that's having been one myself and I

0:23:26can easily handle them

0:23:28it's the the football team guys that I

0:23:31wouldn't be able to manage but there's

0:23:32no problem there because she's a big

0:23:34star trek fan

0:23:35yeah in fact you know we get towards the

0:23:37end of the year here i would recommend

0:23:39night before she goes to bed you want to

0:23:40watch a miracle 34 street and watch a

0:23:43christmas show let's watch Rudolph let's

0:23:45watch how about a christmas story she

0:23:48would say no star trek and we are we're

0:23:52almost almost done with season two right

0:23:54now and about to drift into season three

0:23:57Oh Steve it's all it's all downhill from

0:23:59there I gotta say I'm prepared for some

0:24:01downhill site yes season three is

0:24:03another good because i have been awful

0:24:04lot of down hills in seasons wanted to

0:24:07have already put up with

0:24:09yeah you do 28 or 30 episodes a year

0:24:11which is insane like they did and and

0:24:14yeah it's it's variable but you know a

0:24:16lot of people talk about what if start

0:24:18record stayed on the air for longer and

0:24:20I keep thinking there's a reason it

0:24:22didn't they needed that third season to

0:24:23get into syndication to make all those

0:24:25other things happen but that third

0:24:27season itself really not very good

0:24:29yeah well I don't want to get into a

0:24:30whole episode here on Star Trek the

0:24:32original series will do that i mean

0:24:34there's a good chance that might happen

0:24:35sometime in the future eight happened i

0:24:38I've got the got the blu rays of the

0:24:40first two seasons and they look since

0:24:42they shot that on you know nice high

0:24:44quality film and then they scanned it

0:24:46all in it looks great it looks fantastic

0:24:49cam but it's funny we've gotten very

0:24:51into

0:24:52the original series of Star Trek and

0:24:53we'll probably once we're done with that

0:24:55because she's she seems to be still

0:24:58interested

0:24:59midway through the second season will

0:25:00probably continue on with the the films

0:25:02and then maybe on into the next

0:25:04generation generation sure we'll see

0:25:06we'll see how it goes i described the to

0:25:09her as like The Twilight Zone in space

0:25:11and it pretty much is in that whole

0:25:12first season fact a lot of the same

0:25:15writers and some some of the same

0:25:16directors pop-up and with Shatner and

0:25:19yeah and Shatner right he's in like

0:25:21three or four toilets and episodes so

0:25:24that's pretty much it for for external

0:25:26to the incomparable items in 2012 now as

0:25:29far as the incomparable goes i have a

0:25:32favorite episode and some favorite

0:25:33moments my favorite episode it this year

0:25:36it's tossed up but i gotta go with the

0:25:39criminally underappreciated game show

0:25:41episode which was already mentioned I'm

0:25:43proud of that because I that I through

0:25:45like every single kind of crap that I

0:25:48could think of it as the Sun yes yes i

0:25:51do something stuck to the wall the

0:25:53bucket it's a bucket show that show is

0:25:55full of it's more complicated than like

0:25:57risk it's like got eight different games

0:26:00in it happening simultaneously with a

0:26:02parallel universe and yeah so I'm glad

0:26:04you liked it because i liked it and in

0:26:06its it helps for me because I was so

0:26:09god-awful sick at the time that I can

0:26:13actually listen to it and i have no no

0:26:14recollection of having participated so

0:26:17it's a big surprise to me but I was I

0:26:19was kind of surprised you know we've had

0:26:21even some of our weirder episodes we've

0:26:23had a lot of feedback from people on

0:26:26Twitter and the game show episode kind

0:26:28of got dropped in there was just nothing

0:26:30yeah maybe one or two people responded

0:26:33on Twitter but it was it was pretty

0:26:35quiet and I thought it was a pretty darn

0:26:36good episode it was very entertaining

0:26:38I agree people who did you don't

0:26:39remember it you should go back if you

0:26:40maybe you're sick and you couldn't

0:26:42remember anything about anything listen

0:26:44again because you know it'll be new

0:26:45years to had so deep in the throes of

0:26:47typhoid was i that that having the old

0:26:49farts performance Cheech and Chong

0:26:51sketch seem like a pretty good idea yeah

0:26:53like oh man that's one back

0:26:56no well that's why people don't like it

0:26:58at some of those

0:26:58did you go well you just have to wait

0:27:01for them to it in the pre-show rehearsal

0:27:03it was it was snappy patter it was like

0:27:06you know back and forth it was funnier

0:27:08than hell and then by the time that the

0:27:10episode started the skype skewed kicked

0:27:12in

0:27:13you shouldn't you should have recorded

0:27:14the pre-show rehearsal and I could

0:27:16adjust with that in there as well hey by

0:27:18the way Jason thanks a lot for not

0:27:20tightening that up at all in

0:27:21postcrossing sounded sort of general and

0:27:25you're a very similar to be that was

0:27:27tightened w that's this city

0:27:29out-of-pocket this is exactly how crappy

0:27:31it happens I got it I got to be honest

0:27:34you but you may not remember it it is

0:27:35actually tighten up with all the help of

0:27:39five of bad skin 11 of one of you was

0:27:42tightened up this is the game show

0:27:44episode now you've made me sad yeah

0:27:47sorry but i will continue anyway so as

0:27:50far as favorite moments from various

0:27:52episodes first of all we're going to do

0:27:54clips in this shirt shirt on Syracuse's

0:27:57it's great when you drop clips yeah

0:27:59sewed and then i'm going to pick the

0:28:01part in the 2011 clip show episode like

0:28:05the Skeletor clip at my goal my goal is

0:28:11to create a recursive singularity loop

0:28:14and eventually takes over the entire

0:28:16annual clip show podcast if we survived

0:28:18watching too much Star Trek's these on

0:28:21tempo cornfield Steve I loved I loved it

0:28:23when we remembered how funny Skeletor

0:28:26was from last year in this year's clip

0:28:29show that look back on last year so

0:28:31listen Laurie liked the cancelled TV

0:28:36show draft but she says the TV character

0:28:39draft made her laugh from beginning to

0:28:40end so i guess my favorite moment steve

0:28:43was the drafting of Skeletor yes mr.

0:28:47Janus said I laughed so much of the

0:28:49character draft that my sister thought i

0:28:50was nuts

0:28:51well there's a good chance you're

0:28:53welcome me mr. Chad road in simply

0:28:55saying Skeletor house needs to be sick

0:29:02well i'm gonna go with one that's a

0:29:04that's close to my heart for various

0:29:06reasons and I know somebody's just

0:29:08raring to pick him so I better grab him

0:29:10now I'm gonna pick a pic Skeletor from

0:29:13the Masters of the Universe seems yeah

0:29:15yeah so I do not think you should be on

0:29:19the show with Tom servo well the beauty

0:29:21of Skeletor is that he can die every

0:29:23weekend yet miraculously reappeared from

0:29:25under the pile of rocks that he was

0:29:27buried under in subsequent holds so if

0:29:30Anthony tries to send Skeletor the

0:29:32cornfield what happens is back to the

0:29:34next week

0:29:35that's the intention of the show's

0:29:37spoilers no spoilers alright okay so

0:29:39you're you're pretty clearly it's

0:29:41crucial to my plot which which I look

0:29:44forward to making up on the candy yeah

0:29:48that's appropriate but it's Skeletor is

0:29:54the alpha and the omega of our podcast

0:29:56he won that draft by killing everyone

0:29:59else

0:30:00yes well I'm hoping this episode

0:30:04actually airs in 2013 so that i can then

0:30:07pick the 2014 clip show 2013 clever of

0:30:12me picking the clip where we played

0:30:14Skeletor clip

0:30:15good luck future Steve alright other

0:30:18favorite moments I i thought the quick

0:30:20the jonathan coulton cameo at the end of

0:30:22episode 98 was hilarious hilarious and

0:30:25cruel

0:30:26we should get more famous people to pop

0:30:27in and say one sentence

0:30:29well I want to say thank you to

0:30:30everybody hey for putting up with me but

0:30:32be for a very interesting talk about

0:30:34Jonathan Coulton so thank you John Scott

0:30:36and Greg thank you thank you x

0:30:39thank you thanks sure and that's it

0:30:43I don't know how Jason's these things

0:30:45hey guys i happen to have the man

0:30:47himself jonathan coulton right here with

0:30:50me and he has something that you'd like

0:30:52to say to you I heard what you were

0:30:54saying you know nothing of my work I

0:30:57mean how you got to record a podcast

0:30:59about anything is totally amazing

0:31:02how if only real life worked like this

0:31:04and then actually my real favorite

0:31:06moment from this year was probably the

0:31:09after dark from the movie draft is I

0:31:11think the funniest moments are the parts

0:31:14where we just go completely bug nuts

0:31:16insane and i mean that that particular

0:31:20After Dark has the the old prospector

0:31:24oh yeah and it also has the bit where

0:31:29where Jason realizes that the only way

0:31:31he's going to finally get get us off the

0:31:33call is to kill us off one boy which is

0:31:36just a brilliant sequence and and makes

0:31:40me laugh every time I hear that i have

0:31:41probably played that after dark more

0:31:43than that up I go back every once in

0:31:46awhile and play that because there's a

0:31:47lot of good stuff in that but that

0:31:49you're right i remember that that that

0:31:50was a great one

0:31:51I'm here to Georgia of the pie care

0:31:53through the primary points where is

0:31:57weird because Raiders already done I've

0:32:00done with my my selections but Alexis

0:32:03out

0:32:03that's okay Jason anywhere without me

0:32:07this will be the wildest podcast in the

0:32:09wilderness

0:32:10hi my name is that but why would you not

0:32:16use that beautiful rose gold boiler or

0:32:22that would be the fast it's the spoilers

0:32:26we are the people sound like someone who

0:32:28just like you're just got spoiled a

0:32:30movie and it will boil and boil and

0:32:33reduce my father was the wilhelm scream

0:32:36doesn't make you hang up first no return

0:32:53to know you hang out you and I know you

0:32:55I don't start trying to I know

0:33:00when when when I say so who's the sucker

0:33:10who hung up win

0:33:11oh go out but it was hired a rad cast by

0:33:14the way can be titled podcast this what

0:33:18happens when I don't cancel the podcast

0:33:20is that nobody gets up people just yes

0:33:22we just wait last one out the button

0:33:24no I'm gonna go talking about me I have

0:33:28to go home but you can't stay here

0:33:29I'm real survivor we have a whole paper

0:33:32with the guys know it's like survivor

0:33:35you never know who's gonna who's gonna

0:33:37go next last person to take the handoff

0:33:40the idol I i am as the initiator the

0:33:42call i can actually hang people up now

0:33:44so I'm like the god of the skype call

0:33:47Jason is getting you a tiny vengeful god

0:33:51you should have a choice

0:33:53back off one by one loss is that means

0:33:56on Syracuse's going did it like and then

0:34:02there were five that's it sentimental

0:34:04Indians this is a locked skype murder

0:34:07mr. his skype a transmitter for talking

0:34:10to god that's very clever dan-o who a

0:34:18little morons guy next let's talk about

0:34:21you in his movie sucked

0:34:24let's touch your fan baby still Raiders

0:34:27yeah it's not like they're really more

0:34:28and you really do that Steve what did

0:34:31you just sink parody lyrics so let's

0:34:33talk about sex i did and they involve

0:34:35Mellon oh no point I think I know what's

0:34:38going to happen it's just the two of you

0:34:41now

0:34:42hmm we are your favorites for my least

0:34:46favorites

0:34:46oh yeah one of the other I'm going to

0:34:49bow out now early without that

0:34:51distinguish between the wrath of i win

0:34:55yeah that was a whole great the whole

0:34:57film festival think that being much

0:34:58wacky of them i expected and that we

0:35:01have like six hours of content out of

0:35:03that

0:35:03yeah yeah well if you look at the

0:35:06archive we ended up doing a recap of it

0:35:07the next week when we had had assembled

0:35:09are our schedules and it says part 3 of

0:35:12two

0:35:13just like it's the increasingly in

0:35:16accurately named 21 episode that's that

0:35:19is very exactly so that's it for twenty

0:35:23twelve men had already much better than

0:35:24that other than that

0:35:26fair enough Lisa Schmeisser I i come to

0:35:29you now to ask things you liked sure uh

0:35:32let's start with TV i really liked the

0:35:35show arrow which which I i dashed off in

0:35:38like two sentences when we talk about

0:35:39fall TV I said it was better than i

0:35:41thought but it wasn't very interesting

0:35:43so tell me more i finished on hulu over

0:35:47a couple of days and I've caught up all

0:35:50the way to the ninth episode and there

0:35:52are a number of reasons i like it first

0:35:53of all susan thompson who plays Oliver

0:35:56Queen's mother is fantastic i think

0:35:59she's one of the most underrated

0:36:00actresses working on TV right now

0:36:02because she's also very good on King's

0:36:03she has a certain presence where she

0:36:05manages to simultaneously convey a sort

0:36:07of a professional warmth you know I like

0:36:11Gwyneth Paltrow who does pepper potts

0:36:12but at the same time you can always see

0:36:14the wheels turning and there's this

0:36:15undercurrent of menace in her

0:36:16performance that is just riveting so

0:36:18arrows worth watching for that the

0:36:21action sequences are great and they've

0:36:23managed to take some of the best parts

0:36:25of the green arrow mythos and discard

0:36:28some of the really ridiculous stuff and

0:36:30it's a little bit more intelligent than

0:36:32most CW shows the only the only the only

0:36:35quibble i have a battle that's a local

0:36:37that was yeah well now but you have a

0:36:39skillet easily quickly i have is that it

0:36:41once again there's like a cabal of

0:36:42people who run the who run everything

0:36:44and they have to be brought to justice

0:36:46and i'm just getting really tired of the

0:36:48one world conspiracy as a conceited TV

0:36:50shows but its its light entertainment it

0:36:54might be a good on comic adjacent way to

0:36:57get into the green arrow especially if

0:36:59you were to go to write like when your

0:37:00nerve the comic friends and say okay I

0:37:02really liked the show then the person

0:37:04consider great you know read the long

0:37:06bow hunters are great read the kevin

0:37:07smith run or what have you and it sort

0:37:08of fits into the whole continuum and

0:37:10again it's not thinking entertainment

0:37:12you know you're not going to watch and

0:37:13come away all of this is a metaphor for

0:37:15you know humanity learn something about

0:37:17the arrow taught me something important

0:37:18about man's inhumanity to man it's not

0:37:21what you know it's not only shows where

0:37:22people were our critics are going to

0:37:24endlessly with her on like they do about

0:37:25mad men or breaking bad but ya know but

0:37:30you know this is actually the year i got

0:37:31the appreciation for what I'd call

0:37:32mid-level TV or comfort TV because I i

0:37:35became a huge fan of alphas and haven on

0:37:38the SyFy channel and those are certainly

0:37:40shows where you can kind of dip in a nap

0:37:43there's a little bit of mythology but

0:37:44every episode is kind of self-contained

0:37:46with you know freaky mutant of the week

0:37:47I was sick a few weeks back and i was

0:37:49thinking what do I want to watch and I

0:37:50could have watched breaking bad i could

0:37:52watch mad men and i ended up watching

0:37:53season 1 episodes of supernatural

0:37:55because the fact is there's some shows

0:37:58that that you want to watch when you're

0:38:00you're laying on the couch under a

0:38:01blanket and don't feel well and the end

0:38:03it's not necessarily the highest art

0:38:05that you want

0:38:07yeah it's chicken noodle soup and

0:38:09sometimes that's all you want is it the

0:38:11end of a long day when you when you use

0:38:12your brain and then you had to match

0:38:14what the toddler and you probably lost

0:38:15then you that you just want something

0:38:19that's oh look it's the story I want to

0:38:21see how it turns out

0:38:22so other other stuff you have any books

0:38:24or comics or other things but the movies

0:38:26cake movies

0:38:28see I enjoyed the adventures as a

0:38:29spectacle a lot you know I realize you

0:38:32can drive from a Helicarrier through

0:38:34some of plot holes there's a lot of

0:38:35dependent a lot it doesn't make sense

0:38:36and you know fanservice fanservice

0:38:39setting up an item but it was a lot it

0:38:41was a lot of fun to watch and it was fun

0:38:42to see somebody charismatic and good

0:38:44actors in one place doing doing

0:38:46entertainment you know I've seen I've

0:38:48seen it three times now because i bought

0:38:49the blu-ray and yes you're right all

0:38:52that there are lots of cooking

0:38:52criticisms you can level at in fact is I

0:38:55enjoy that time

0:38:56yeah every time in terms of comics

0:38:59continue to really enjoy scalped even

0:39:01though it ended this year wrapped up and

0:39:03I swear probably person Americans

0:39:04talking about it

0:39:05I loved that loved lock and key which we

0:39:08read for coming and we're going to have

0:39:09to talk about the forthcoming to be in

0:39:112013 and we'll talk about walking key in

0:39:13the next comic book club that's press

0:39:14and and love that and I should mention

0:39:18in case I don't mention it later

0:39:20since you're on the subject of comics

0:39:22that I i really enjoyed great pox

0:39:24extreme x-men which is a terrible title

0:39:27what is totally

0:39:28fun crazy apart parallel universe

0:39:31hopping x-men with a savior floating

0:39:34head in a jar and that's that's what i

0:39:36wanted my economics is is that level of

0:39:38kind of craziness any podcast related

0:39:41thoughts for the past year i think i

0:39:44think the podcast i had the most fun on

0:39:46this year actually was the parenting one

0:39:48and one of the reasons i did and pardon

0:39:52me for very into amateur sociology but i

0:39:55think that the practice of mothering in

0:39:59the u.s. is slightly different than the

0:40:00practice of fathering in part because

0:40:02there's so much media aimed at mothers

0:40:04and and the practices and and you know

0:40:06are you doing this greater you doing

0:40:07that right and it was so nice to to hang

0:40:10with a bunch of people who like if you

0:40:12know what their small people and we just

0:40:14do this with them I don't beat myself up

0:40:16over it i'm not worried about how this

0:40:18is gonna play out 20 years down the line

0:40:19and I'm not judging myself by it and it

0:40:22was it was eye-opening to it was

0:40:24eye-opening to realize that to realize

0:40:28the Gulf and parenting cultures as it

0:40:29was and and I enjoyed the experience of

0:40:32a lot so so i think that was my favorite

0:40:35yeah we got a nice nice comment from

0:40:38adam highland who has written to us a

0:40:42bunch as the proton k yes the real

0:40:45proton k or proton as we sometimes like

0:40:48to say and his pick for best 2012 moment

0:40:51was in the parenting episode which I

0:40:53thought this was nice i love despite my

0:40:55fears about parenting related podcasts

0:40:58and enjoyed least misers growing mix of

0:41:02delight horror and fascination upon

0:41:04hearing John Syracuse's plan for

0:41:05indoctrinating his children in the

0:41:06correct order and framing of the Star

0:41:08Wars movies it's the Nicene Creed it's

0:41:13true he just has this planned out like

0:41:15he had actually sat down and got all

0:41:17right you know how am I going to do this

0:41:18and this is what we deeply believe in

0:41:20something like you gotyou got the idea

0:41:22to maybe there were some storyboards

0:41:23there

0:41:24my main concern was to ensure that what

0:41:27they thought of as Star Wars was what I

0:41:30thought of a star and so I knew that

0:41:34once they came became school-aged and

0:41:36like got older all their friends

0:41:39who have parents that don't know these

0:41:41rules are going to be telling them about

0:41:43because the people and so I had I had to

0:41:48cement in their little minds that star

0:41:51wars Luke Skywalker Princess Leia Han

0:41:53Solo Chewbacca c-3po you know like I had

0:41:55like that is star wars so that by the

0:41:57time they inevitably enter the world of

0:41:59their peers in kindergarten

0:42:01you know and regular elementary school

0:42:03and all their friends tell the battle is

0:42:04pretty cool stuff that will be like like

0:42:07explain expanded universe John if you

0:42:10don't explain the prequels to your kids

0:42:12are only gonna hear about it on the

0:42:13street man hit us the thing i knew they

0:42:17were going to hear about it from their

0:42:19friends I just wanted to really lay down

0:42:22those tracks of like this is what star

0:42:24wars is it and almost didn't care so

0:42:26much if they were like excited like

0:42:28dinner whenever I just wanted to think

0:42:29of this star wars and then this is other

0:42:31crazy stuff and I know it's weird to use

0:42:32expanding universe to explain to the

0:42:34expanding universe is a real thing

0:42:35within the star wars universe but i'm

0:42:37i'm trying to say let's push the

0:42:39prequels out and right there's the

0:42:40cannon right and then there's the like

0:42:43sort of non you know not really cannon

0:42:46right and I was like those out of there

0:42:48push the prequels because this star wars

0:42:50games like they play lego star wars all

0:42:52those things like a nice nap so what I

0:42:53did was I showed those like the Star

0:42:55Wars version of the Nicene Creed where

0:42:57you just decided what's dr. no it's not

0:42:59it's it's started storing those are my

0:43:02biggest reason the star wars honestly

0:43:04believe we believe in one star in a

0:43:06galaxy far far away where Luke Skywalker

0:43:09is the protagonist believe in three star

0:43:11wars so i showed my on my son a new hope

0:43:14first it's the truth yeah you run the

0:43:19risk of having the ostracized kids who

0:43:20can't talk the prequels with their

0:43:22little friends on the playground when

0:43:23you like the kids who didn't have TV

0:43:25they're gonna start knocking on doors

0:43:27does anyone else have like imagine a

0:43:30little circus on the playground like

0:43:32chastising his is his fellow

0:43:34six-year-olds that like this is not

0:43:36pleased besides are only three movies

0:43:39and Star Wars of the unbelievers

0:43:43the unbelievers in the name of the son

0:43:45and of the father that's impossible and

0:43:48the force

0:43:49loading Yoda but uh but yeah so I

0:43:53thought his comment was great in the

0:43:54sense to that I was a little worried

0:43:56when we talked about parenting stuff too

0:43:57and I'm glad to hear his comment which

0:44:00is that you know he viewed with dread

0:44:02and then he listened to me and he liked

0:44:04it and I thought that was good i think i

0:44:05thought that was a really nice

0:44:06discussion about how how we as parents

0:44:08deal with what we expose our kids to

0:44:11those are great that's great

0:44:13a serenity Caldwell yes i do you have

0:44:17things that you inhaled into your brain

0:44:19and 2012 that you'd like knows about

0:44:21that the phrase that will stay with me

0:44:22forever now from our last show i am glad

0:44:26that I have been able to you know

0:44:28yeah give such a wonderful phrase to the

0:44:31podcast

0:44:32yeah i was looking over my list I've

0:44:35been taking pictures of all like my

0:44:36ticket stubs and things like that to try

0:44:38and actually remember what movies i saw

0:44:39this year because it's been a very jam

0:44:41packed yet I feel like I agree with Lisa

0:44:43and that there it's it hasn't really

0:44:45been a super fascinating year for movies

0:44:49and TV but I still feel like I as you

0:44:53like to put it I inhaled a lot into my

0:44:55brain

0:44:56despite all of that I came up with three

0:45:00movies that really stand out from the

0:45:01past year and I'll go in order of

0:45:03watching on the first I actually saw at

0:45:07South by Southwest at its South by

0:45:09Southwest premiere which was safety not

0:45:11guaranteed which is a very very cute

0:45:14cute little time travel film about a

0:45:20series of or a couple of kit while two

0:45:23kids two interns and a news reporter

0:45:26going out basically into the boonies to

0:45:28investigate a guy who's put out a

0:45:30classified ad to you know

0:45:32warning i want to i want to find

0:45:34somebody to go back in time with me this

0:45:35is not a joke must bring your own

0:45:37weapons and I don't know if you manage

0:45:40to get a chance to see it Jason it is

0:45:41very it is adorable it starts up the

0:45:45plaza from from parks and recreation and

0:45:49she she is so happy in this movie

0:45:52despite she still has her sort of

0:45:54trademarks cowl from park

0:45:56and wreck but it is at the same time a

0:45:58completely different character than

0:45:59you've ever seen her playing and it's it

0:46:02is such a delightful film to watch both

0:46:06from a good character standpoint and

0:46:09from a oh my god time-travel this is so

0:46:12adorable it reminds me a lot into like

0:46:14totally of of Johnny Five a little bit

0:46:18which is weird because they're yeah

0:46:20they're not they're nothing alike

0:46:21because there's no robots in this movie

0:46:23sadly but spoilers but it's still it's

0:46:27very sweet

0:46:28it's very adorable it's a commentary on

0:46:31both time travel movies and living your

0:46:35life and being able to let go of the

0:46:36past and how the past affects your your

0:46:39day-to-day choices I so I i really

0:46:43really adored that movie and seeing it

0:46:45at South by Southwest with the cast and

0:46:47a very excited full audience at the

0:46:51Paramount Theater definitely helped and

0:46:53I saw it again in September with dan

0:46:57Morin and a couple of my friends and I

0:47:00was like no it still is good it's a

0:47:02really really sweet film so i encourage

0:47:03everybody who did not get a chance to

0:47:05see safety not guaranteed when it's in

0:47:06theaters to go pick it up on iTunes or

0:47:09Amazon because it's it is a great little

0:47:11time touch that you you said I don't

0:47:12know if Jason you've you've seen it all

0:47:15I i don't think i've actually even heard

0:47:17of it so i would also seek it out now

0:47:19but I don't think I even knew about that

0:47:20movie I mean it was a it was in indie

0:47:22film that I played plead regionally I

0:47:26don't think it ever got full nationwide

0:47:29nationwide building in theaters down for

0:47:32the government out alright

0:47:33yes it is I'm so there's that and then

0:47:36my my other big movie choice would be

0:47:41Moonrise Kingdom which is another indie

0:47:43film but i think a few more people saw

0:47:45and that is like it's a Wes Anderson

0:47:50movie so when you go when you know that

0:47:52going in you know you're going in for a

0:47:53very specific sort of sort of tale but

0:47:58it was very it's very sweet it was

0:48:00basically you know fantastic mr fox west

0:48:04anderson was actually tackling more or

0:48:06less a fairytale but I feel like

0:48:07Moonrise Kingdom

0:48:09is the actual realization of him

0:48:11tackling a fairy tale where he decided

0:48:12let's make a movie about children and

0:48:15how children think and the imaginations

0:48:20and the fleeting you know we're going to

0:48:22run away and we're going to found our

0:48:24own place and we're going to you know

0:48:27we're going to be adults and the

0:48:28realization of how that actually

0:48:30translates in the real world it was

0:48:34utterly charming very sweet very very

0:48:37West Anderson but i like it doesn't

0:48:42quite top Rushmore for me which is I

0:48:44think my favorite Wes Anderson movie but

0:48:47it comes very close and it's it is

0:48:50definitely one of those if people had

0:48:52never watched a Wes Anderson movie I

0:48:54might recommend Moonrise Kingdom to them

0:48:56over Rushmore and be like this is

0:48:58actually you know while it is still very

0:49:00much a Wes Anderson movie i think it's

0:49:02actually his most his most widely widely

0:49:07acceptable like the the best one to sort

0:49:10of give to a wider audience and say here

0:49:12this is kind of what west anderson is

0:49:14about don't believe the stereotype so so

0:49:18yes I like that one quite a bit LOL

0:49:20tenenbaums is my favorite I'll overall

0:49:2310 monsters I didn't like that 1i like

0:49:24rush like Rushmore a lot of pressure on

0:49:28Wilson the cowboy hat that just gets me

0:49:29every time

0:49:30but but Owen Owen Wilson has great parts

0:49:35in west anderson movies I I can't get

0:49:37over him and he's in bottle rocket i

0:49:39believe is and then I have to tip my hat

0:49:42towards the Avengers because i really

0:49:44enjoyed that I love justin is writing i

0:49:48love

0:49:49well done big movie spectacles that's

0:49:52like it doesn't it doesn't need to make

0:49:54sense entirely once I walk out of the

0:49:56theater as long as you keep me engaged

0:49:58and involved the entire time while I'm

0:50:01watching it

0:50:02ya did ya yet he did it with a bullet

0:50:05that but that movie so easily could have

0:50:06been a legend just you know let's cash

0:50:09in just a bore and awful and I I know

0:50:12Andy and I co thinks that it was but oh

0:50:14yeah he put that down

0:50:15he put that thing on Twitter the other

0:50:16day like the 63 things that are wrong

0:50:18with the Avengers in under three minutes

0:50:20and okay yes you're fine and and again

0:50:23let's emphasize they put an archer up

0:50:25against the alien army but it was still

0:50:27so much stuff and it was a great

0:50:30yes yeah you can't help but get a little

0:50:32glee in your heart when you watch

0:50:33somebody firing and you know an arrow

0:50:35that contains a bomb at a giant alien

0:50:37ship and i was just reading Alan

0:50:41Sepinwall book about the I think like

0:50:44eight series that changed 12-month

0:50:47series the same yeah yeah the Revolution

0:50:49was televised is the name of it and i

0:50:50was reading the the buffy chapter and he

0:50:52was talking about the Avengers and about

0:50:54about serenity to not the one on the

0:50:57podcast the movie of the same name and

0:50:59uh get referred he reminded me he

0:51:02reminded me that uh that that serenity

0:51:05has the same trait that the Avengers has

0:51:08in that although it's not super serious

0:51:12or anything like that it's fun and I

0:51:13remember coming out of that movie

0:51:14thinking that's what the kind of sci-fi

0:51:16movie I want to see I want to come out

0:51:18being like God that was that was so much

0:51:19fun

0:51:20which is how I left like the Star Wars

0:51:22movies when when I saw those and the

0:51:24Avengers you know it's like that it's

0:51:26it's it's it's fun it's a fun movie yeah

0:51:29there's a common i read in Wired

0:51:30magazine about 12 years ago that's

0:51:32always stuck with me which said if you

0:51:33want to figure out what scientists are

0:51:34going to do 20 years from now you should

0:51:36read side fine now because if you have a

0:51:39set if you have a store with a sense of

0:51:40excitement and fun and discovery this is

0:51:43what sticks in people's brains and they

0:51:44want to do that would make up the same

0:51:45way that I think people who went to

0:51:47school the same time Jason I did I think

0:51:50we all wanted to be on the space shuttle

0:51:51and living in space for a while you know

0:51:53I think everybody have that that

0:51:55astronaut moment in the eighties from

0:51:56star wars in the space shuttle they like

0:51:58that and like you said there's it as

0:52:01much as i enjoy post-apocalyptic

0:52:02post-apocalyptic sci-fi and I run a lot

0:52:05of ye dystopia and and I enjoy that too

0:52:08there's a lot to be said for for when

0:52:10there's fantasy and adventure in sci-fi

0:52:12where it's like we're in space does this

0:52:15kick-ass isn't this cool you know of we

0:52:18that there's a lot to be said for that

0:52:19as a halt

0:52:20yes and there's a Hulk there's a whole

0:52:23group major major ups for solving the

0:52:26whole problem right just weed was like I

0:52:28know how you doing it well yeah yeah

0:52:31deploy him on a limited basis and make

0:52:33sure he's played by my

0:52:34Buffalo who at the casting in Avengers

0:52:37was just so good because if if they

0:52:38hadn't cast everybody the way they did

0:52:40it really could have been awful but you

0:52:43know if I'm not sure there's anybody

0:52:45would have recast now permanently

0:52:48watchman where you could take off half

0:52:49the cast and say that would have been

0:52:50better with somebody else in the

0:52:51Avengers right Randy have any uh any uh

0:52:55diagonally red looks that you liked to

0:52:58get their picture i have i have a couple

0:53:01actually so the the two that came out

0:53:03this year and funny enough 2012 was

0:53:06definitely a year for reading books from

0:53:08the past for me i have a lot i'm looking

0:53:10at my Goodreads list and I have a lot of

0:53:13books that i read that are actually from

0:53:14you know 5 10 15 mins behind 50 years

0:53:18ago yeah what was it what you consumed

0:53:20this year not what Kim yeah yeah I'm so

0:53:23the two books that i consumed this year

0:53:24that were actually came out this year is

0:53:26number one which i think is probably my

0:53:28favorite book of the year is erin

0:53:30morgenstern the night circus

0:53:32Oh which i still need to buy in

0:53:34hardcover because that that is the kind

0:53:36of book that I want on my shelf for the

0:53:38rest of my life and I want to be able to

0:53:40loan it people own to people that will

0:53:41because i think it's so perfectly

0:53:43it's so perfectly captures the the

0:53:47beauty of a good fantasy story and

0:53:50close-knit relationships it's such a

0:53:52fascinating book the imagery is so vivid

0:53:55the writing is almost poetic in its

0:53:59beauty and it like I i love that book

0:54:03because I can open it up and read a

0:54:05paragraph and be completely subsumed

0:54:08into the world and not many authors can

0:54:11do that well and erin morgenstern really

0:54:13really showed a talent for doing that

0:54:15and I'm i cannot wait to see where she's

0:54:17going to so like that that is my number

0:54:20one book I can't like I can't even talk

0:54:22that much about the plot because I just

0:54:24I don't want to spoil anything it's just

0:54:26more this book is amazing

0:54:28oh yeah and everybody should go read it

0:54:30so that's one and then another one is

0:54:34actually an old a new book at once which

0:54:36is to say it's some hope Larson's

0:54:38wrinkle in time graphic novel which came

0:54:43out this fall and I mean wrinkle in time

0:54:46has long been

0:54:47one of my favorite books and was one of

0:54:48my favorite books in childhood and

0:54:50clearly it was one of Hope Larson's as

0:54:53well because she pour so much love and

0:54:56respect for Madeleine L'Engle is work

0:54:59and adapts it so pitch perfectly like

0:55:01that is that is a very difficult book to

0:55:04try and adapt into a graphic novel what

0:55:07I mean you have the dark thing and you

0:55:09have you have picked the tesseract alone

0:55:12would be on my gosh

0:55:13and she she does it so well like i am

0:55:17i'm really impressed na three-tone book

0:55:19to it's not you know it's not in full

0:55:21color it's a it's black and blue and

0:55:24some shades of some shades of gray and

0:55:27she just does somet so much great work i

0:55:30mean i've i've been a fan of larsen

0:55:32since her first graphic novel but

0:55:35wrinkle and time is really really a

0:55:38masterpiece

0:55:39I'm and it's something I'm really

0:55:41excited to you know I i have some

0:55:45cousins who are smaller and it's very

0:55:48much i'm so excited to be able to start

0:55:50showing them this as a way to sort of

0:55:53get them hooked onto bigger books

0:55:55because i really think you know the

0:55:57wrinkle in time is a is a book that is

0:56:00ness you know not it's written towards

0:56:02children but it has a lot of big ideas

0:56:03and it sort of gets you thinking in a

0:56:05bigger world scape and the idea of space

0:56:08and the idea of multi dimensional travel

0:56:11and it gets your senses really excited

0:56:13and to be able to sort of start kids who

0:56:16maybe aren't so interested in reading

0:56:17400-page books like look here's a

0:56:19graphic novel it has pretty pictures but

0:56:21it also has really really interesting

0:56:23substance to it so I'm that's definitely

0:56:27am a Christmas present for several of my

0:56:30family members who this year

0:56:32yeah so the last set of books that i

0:56:35wanted to mention her sort of older

0:56:37older books that i started reading this

0:56:39year one of which was Jasper Ford's

0:56:42thursday next series which of which i

0:56:43had read the fourth book something

0:56:46rotten in 2005 on an airplane because I

0:56:50needed something to read and I'm like oh

0:56:51Shakespeare this sounds like it could be

0:56:53fun and I got hooked but then

0:56:56subsequently never picked up the other

0:56:58books in the series

0:56:59these and had no idea what was going on

0:57:01so coming back to those books starting

0:57:03from the beginning in 2012 was very

0:57:06strange and very delightful because it

0:57:09is a great series of books for people

0:57:10who love literature and love literature

0:57:13literary in jokes

0:57:15it's very very funny and very British

0:57:18and very well sure but uh but is it

0:57:21great a great series of books

0:57:23very clever so I'm I've been enjoying

0:57:27working my way through those I'm now on

0:57:29the second set of those books and I

0:57:31think again we have a jasper fforde

0:57:34podcast plan at some point so i will

0:57:35save most of my rambling for that and

0:57:38then Neal Stephenson's diamond age I

0:57:41just got through this year

0:57:43ah yeah that is a book you know I did

0:57:47not think that books at you know 25

0:57:50still had the ability to change the way

0:57:52i think but a diamond age is really

0:57:56really remarkable

0:57:57I told you I told you I i know i know

0:58:00it's not that I didn't believe you I

0:58:02just had I had so many books to read and

0:58:04I finally picked that up and within two

0:58:06chapters i was completely hooked and

0:58:09just absolutely fascinated by it so I

0:58:11really really enjoyed diamond age

0:58:14another book I've got to get to put on

0:58:16myself

0:58:17yeah but broke my heart oh my god it is

0:58:21tragic and beautiful and fascinating all

0:58:25at once

0:58:26anything else couple TV show all right

0:58:29so when I actually just started very

0:58:32recently and just discovered is a very

0:58:35cute little british show called spy

0:58:38that's all I love that hulu right now it

0:58:40is on hulu right now and i had never

0:58:42heard of it and hulu got syndication for

0:58:46it for its second season it might have

0:58:48gotten syndication for its for the first

0:58:50that's yeah it's got all of them

0:58:51yeah well its got all of them but i

0:58:53didn't i didn't actually hear about it

0:58:55until its second season started running

0:58:56and so one of one day while I was

0:58:58cleaning my apartment i just got a

0:59:00television and I

0:59:01an apple TV so I hooked that up and I

0:59:03thought hey you know I want something to

0:59:05to play while I'm cleaning up in the

0:59:08background and this seems like a

0:59:09suitably adorable show and I play it and

0:59:12I i was hooked

0:59:14it's it kind of reminds me a little bit

0:59:16of space and a riddle a little bit of

0:59:18arrested development with a side of

0:59:20Spooks thrown in

0:59:22it's a 10 funny little amalgam of a show

0:59:25with great great character actors but

0:59:29the the basic plot is there's a you know

0:59:3230-something guy who has a ten-year-old

0:59:36kid he works in a computer store his kid

0:59:39is super brilliant kind of think Peter

0:59:41from ender's game and looks down upon

0:59:45his father as being a complete washout

0:59:47and horrible and so his father decides

0:59:51you know what I'm gonna make my son

0:59:53proud of me and also because my my wife

0:59:55and I just divorced I need to figure out

0:59:57a way to win custody of my son

0:59:59so I'm going

0:59:59so I'm going

1:00:00you go and get a better job than working

1:00:01at a computer shop and I'm going to you

1:00:03know rise above and so he applies for a

1:00:05job working for the government and on

1:00:09the day of his his interview he

1:00:12accidentally wandered into the wrong rum

1:00:14and takes an exam that ends up being for

1:00:17mi5 so he ends up becoming part of the

1:00:24service and has to covertly learn how to

1:00:30be an intelligence officer while

1:00:32basically being the bumbling straight

1:00:33man of this ridiculous 22-minute comedy

1:00:37and the music is also very catchy i have

1:00:41it kind of running through my head while

1:00:42i'm talking it's it's very upbeat very

1:00:45cute the the person who plays his son

1:00:49dude right who plays Marcus is just

1:00:52hilarious and has the best facial

1:00:55expressions and the show is so smart

1:00:59the this the series ender for the first

1:01:02series

1:01:03I Marcus just whips out the word

1:01:05habitude pneus is like how tenure so

1:01:08have a tunas I can't take this life

1:01:10anymore and it's like at that point my

1:01:13my heart was was the show's forever

1:01:16it was it's so cute another thing I

1:01:18haven't even heard of

1:01:19oh you have to you have to yeah it's

1:01:21very short I mean it's a series of 22

1:01:23minute episodes and it's very funny you

1:01:25would enjoy it a lot

1:01:26alright i'll put it on the list boy the

1:01:28lists keep getting longer but there's a

1:01:30whole other year because you watch the

1:01:32IT crowd right

1:01:33yes some of it probably about half of it

1:01:35because you know that the boss on the IT

1:01:38crowd there are shades of him in the

1:01:39boss for mi5 and that that only makes it

1:01:41more hilarious

1:01:43alright new things new things new things

1:01:46are great and I also liked the hour this

1:01:48year although that isn't really that's

1:01:49less John room but oh god we have those

1:01:52stocked up on the do i like i like the

1:01:55hour although that was when a BBC

1:01:56america was not on my TV and HD yet and

1:01:59it was kind of painful to watch them and

1:02:01I'm then I lost one off the DVR so i

1:02:04need to hopefully those will be

1:02:05surfacing on some streaming service that

1:02:08I subscribe to so I can catch up or or

1:02:12maybe when maybe bc

1:02:13America will repeat them before they

1:02:15show the new episodes because I got a

1:02:17serious yeah I liked I liked what I saw

1:02:19it and then I kind of got away from me

1:02:21and you know it's never it's never you

1:02:25never get tired of seeing Jimmy McNulty

1:02:27speak with an English accent yeah you

1:02:31know

1:02:31dominic west and he's great and uh I can

1:02:34never remember her name but the female

1:02:36Romola Reimer I is great it's great it's

1:02:39great

1:02:40yes I i may have gotten series 2 from

1:02:45British and i will say no trailers

1:02:49screen only exactly to screen copies

1:02:52that series is really impressive and

1:02:57really builds upon the work they did in

1:03:01series one and i think is much better

1:03:03than series 1i it just I i am now

1:03:07crossing my fingers that they renew it

1:03:09for a third series because it would be

1:03:10very very sad if if series 2 was the

1:03:13last series of the hour so BBC please

1:03:17please me this show right

1:03:19do you have any uh what about the

1:03:21podcast any podcast thoughts anything

1:03:23you like my cast thoughts

1:03:24no I am enjoying no no podcast thought

1:03:28station i'm really enjoying all the

1:03:30books that we've been reading on book

1:03:31club

1:03:32i my my book reading list for the year

1:03:35has been better that it has been in the

1:03:38last five years and i've just i've been

1:03:40reading so much partially because of the

1:03:42incomparable and partially because some

1:03:44of the things we talked about lead me

1:03:46two more books that i haven't read or

1:03:48more shows that i haven't watched and i

1:03:50love the recycling and the you know the

1:03:54growing of new information it makes it

1:03:57makes me feel very very excited about

1:04:00literature and about geeky things so

1:04:04it's just sort of a general comment i

1:04:06really liked our our Indian Jones

1:04:10episode I like our sci-fi novel summer

1:04:15reading list oh yeah that was before

1:04:17that was a lot of fun and yeah i think i

1:04:22think we had a very good year for the

1:04:23uncomfortable and it's it has been a lot

1:04:25of fun to be on and I

1:04:27and i look forward to doing more

1:04:28episodes 2013 yeah Glen fleischmann do

1:04:32you have any favorite items from 2012

1:04:35things that you read or saw or consumed

1:04:38in some way with your brain

1:04:39I have my brain consumers things

1:04:42sometimes i'm not even paying attention

1:04:43i have a number of favorite things this

1:04:46year actually a surprising number of

1:04:48many of which we talked about on this

1:04:50show because things that we like we

1:04:51talked about here and i liked Avengers

1:04:54kind of against my better judgment I

1:04:57haven't seen any of the lead in movies

1:04:59the avengers so I went in blind have not

1:05:01having seen Hulk Captain America or Thor

1:05:04or ironman other awkward man like 15

1:05:08movies that fit into this movie and I

1:05:10saw it first in the theater and then I

1:05:12saw it like a lot of plane ride i think

1:05:14i like a seat back here is something to

1:05:16watch it you know i think it's actually

1:05:17pretty enjoyable movie despite the

1:05:19massive plot holes about alien invasion

1:05:21sure I thought I just like the character

1:05:24action i think they got such a great mix

1:05:26of people that anytime they're all in a

1:05:28room and I don't like that much better

1:05:30than the fight scenes i'm sure the fight

1:05:31scenes what's old movie to a big

1:05:32audience but there's great chemistry in

1:05:34the movie and and a lot of actually

1:05:36decently interesting moral ideas explore

1:05:39and I continue to like the relationship

1:05:41between four and his adopted brother in

1:05:45that mythology low-key and I maybe go

1:05:47watch for which I heard was widely

1:05:49ridiculed i kinda liked for again for

1:05:52the same reason the relation between

1:05:53those two characters and the two actors

1:05:56are just I think have a wonderful

1:05:58wonderful magic together that transcends

1:06:01some of the cheesiness of both films you

1:06:04know it's funny this episode is rapidly

1:06:05becoming a like our are making amends

1:06:08for our adventures episode where that's

1:06:10for me and he ripped into a several of

1:06:12us that you know I end up mentioning the

1:06:13Avengers that's the thing we like for

1:06:15this year but it's for all of the for

1:06:17all these reasons I you know I agree so

1:06:19that's yeah it was it was fun it was it

1:06:22was fun moving i'm a big wreck it ralph

1:06:25and I've seen it twice in theaters now

1:06:26both times in glorious student mentions

1:06:29I know people have probably an episode

1:06:32about we are going to do an episode

1:06:33about it

1:06:34oh yes that's right it's our next

1:06:37episode will be about and we'll have

1:06:39been going to have done

1:06:40i SAT there you go thing that was done

1:06:42we do pre-taped Nona which is doing to

1:06:45that from the past that's all that's

1:06:47right that's what we're time traveling

1:06:48shows so it's perfectly appropriate the

1:06:50grandmother was i I liked it because of

1:06:52the richness of plotting I think some

1:06:54people found it money and found you some

1:06:58of the plots a lot of it is I think

1:06:59rehash inexplicable but i don't know i

1:07:02wouldn't saw it just enjoy the spectacle

1:07:04like the music a lot like the core story

1:07:07like the secondary tertiary quaternary

1:07:09stories and it's actually persuaded me i

1:07:12finally bought a blu ray player because

1:07:15I'm like oh it's going to come out on

1:07:16blu-ray and I want to be able to buy it

1:07:19and watch it at home in something that

1:07:21approximates even the barest of what I

1:07:23might see in the theater as opposed to a

1:07:25400 line right ed I want to see

1:07:27something better so that's I I think

1:07:29wreck-it Ralph is one of my my top picks

1:07:31partly I mean I grew up in that area so

1:07:32i'm going to like it too but I felt

1:07:34didn't pander entirely to me justjust a

1:07:36lot i agree on TV I was a big fan of

1:07:40sherlock season 2i thought it was there

1:07:43was one episode I know what they do

1:07:44three up and three services a middle

1:07:46episode is never good but yeah but i

1:07:49still i like the show so much I want to

1:07:50cut cut them some slack and I just loved

1:07:53a woman episode i watched several times

1:07:56it's a wonderful actress wonderful lot

1:07:58about Irene Adler retold in the modern

1:08:00age loved Moriarty the way they

1:08:03integrate that character love the end

1:08:05when they have the battle but yeah so

1:08:07many wonderful things so much

1:08:10intelligence i also liked you know

1:08:13without spoiling I liked someone was

1:08:15completely other day about the problem

1:08:17of all of the movies that have

1:08:20ridiculous computer deus ex machina seen

1:08:23someone sits at the keyboard they tap

1:08:25away that even happens in Sherlock

1:08:27there's a bit in another episode

1:08:28Sherlock was like what could his

1:08:29password BL he's got a bunch of maggie

1:08:32thatcher books he's a magnet that's

1:08:33right the passwords probably i don't

1:08:35know what it was stature something like

1:08:36that's like know people don't set

1:08:37passwords that way and government

1:08:39agencies not only something the last

1:08:40episode Moriarty one was very clever

1:08:42because it did have the right payoff for

1:08:45that they made us word us for enjoying

1:08:47our little

1:08:48schadenfreude and then turn it back back

1:08:50onto us because they didn't do the

1:08:52obvious thing that was great

1:08:54there was something i think i don't know

1:08:56if we talked about it all this year tron

1:08:57uprising did that come up

1:08:59you mentioned it at some point in

1:09:00passing it's a terrific show I'd seen

1:09:03the preview early in the year of watched

1:09:04I don't have watch all the episodes by a

1:09:06long shot

1:09:07I watched many of the episodes i heard

1:09:09it might not be returning but it's

1:09:11incredibly interesting university

1:09:14created from the Letran reboot instead

1:09:17of it being a continuation of the story

1:09:19kind of backstory and ordinary what

1:09:23seems to be an ordinary repairman in the

1:09:25tron universities repairing light cycles

1:09:27and things he winds up apparently having

1:09:31some special abilities he gets topped he

1:09:33becomes tron to essentially replaces

1:09:36strong because the original tron not

1:09:38sure if this is told in the story itself

1:09:40in the the reboot movie is damaged

1:09:43beyond repair but he can

1:09:44yeah so this is this picks up from that

1:09:46where he's part of the ongoing

1:09:47resistance and it's just it's elegant

1:09:50it's remember when they brought back

1:09:51Batman the Animated Series when they

1:09:53brought that back in the nineties wasn't

1:09:56already rebooted it's that thing they

1:09:58use silence

1:09:59sometimes it's quiet they have these

1:10:02elegant beautiful scenes they use the

1:10:05fact that they're in a created universe

1:10:07to their effect as opposed to being

1:10:09constrained by the limits of physical

1:10:11universe being sort of mapped into a

1:10:13computer space and clever plots moral

1:10:17ambiguity real consequences people died

1:10:19and we're reminded me of most was to

1:10:22show that so few people know of phantom

1:10:242040 from the early nineties dearie

1:10:26calling out i'm one of so many people

1:10:28who don't remember it

1:10:30I don't even know it says l36 episodes

1:10:32in nineteen nineties it was by the guy

1:10:34who later did aeon flux was designed by

1:10:36him and show again full of a crazy was

1:10:40about the Phantom that the cartoon

1:10:41character the Phantom having a welcome

1:10:43from cryo sleep or something in 2014 the

1:10:45world's changed sort of this topic and

1:10:47so full of of the kind of moral

1:10:51ambiguity you only find typically in

1:10:53difficulty novels in German and I like

1:10:56when you see that when they played out

1:10:58when they use the medium of cartoon plus

1:11:00the fact that things don't have to be

1:11:02black and white they can have all this

1:11:04shading and still tell inside the medium

1:11:05so trying apprising great show

1:11:08cool Oh actually I those two novels to

1:11:11is night circus and among others which I

1:11:13was exposed to is yeah there's a good

1:11:16devices of this program i'm sensing some

1:11:18trends in this episode indeed but night

1:11:20circus came up with Scott and ran it's

1:11:22the one I mentioned to people when they

1:11:24say is there anything good I should read

1:11:25i say night circus and then I usually

1:11:27say and if you like fantasy trying on is

1:11:30not exactly fantasy because night circus

1:11:32is it's nicer kisses fantasy but it's so

1:11:35for people who might be wary of reading

1:11:39something that's called fantasy night

1:11:41circus is just a beautiful novel and

1:11:43it's it's not that you should I mean

1:11:45there's an issue of labels not that you

1:11:47should avoid things that are fantasy but

1:11:48there's too many things that are you

1:11:50know have the predictable elements of

1:11:52elves and goblins and you know DNA and

1:11:55shadows it's like when you read american

1:11:58gods and you have to say American Gods

1:11:59by Neil Gaiman that is fantasy but it's

1:12:02not the kind of fantasy that you think

1:12:04about when you look at shelves and

1:12:06shelves of half cloud elevating it's not

1:12:08sorcery it's not a high fantasy about

1:12:10you know basically Lord of the Rings

1:12:12pain it's a very different kind of thing

1:12:14yeah among other spits into that to

1:12:16where it's like this is what magic would

1:12:17be like if magic existed in our world

1:12:20this is what it would actually be like

1:12:21as opposed to the sort of fancy love you

1:12:24dot know life is a lot more bloody like

1:12:26that one of the things about token that

1:12:27you have to like to I think comes

1:12:29through here and show Walton the author

1:12:31of among others is so well-read that she

1:12:34brings up that that notion she's able to

1:12:37take talkin like elements i think and

1:12:39bring them into the real world where

1:12:40it's bloody and nasty i also like how to

1:12:43read farthing I don't like the whole

1:12:44small change series by John Walton but

1:12:47I'm glad father and less glad its

1:12:49successive novel but very glad to have

1:12:52read farther yeah this is because 12

1:12:54yes she was a great find this year I

1:12:56think for a lot of us is Joe Walton any

1:12:58other works strike your fancy or is that

1:13:00we covered it how you've been getting

1:13:02back into comic books and dribs and

1:13:04drabs with digital reading as so many

1:13:05people have I think so many people I

1:13:08know who have yeah and it's if I think

1:13:10with the 20-year gap for a lot of people

1:13:12sometimes 30 years it's like being able

1:13:14to

1:13:14an ipad not have to cart around find the

1:13:17individual stuff we're paying more for

1:13:18it but having essentially eternal

1:13:20unbroken you know clean access to it

1:13:24seems to be part of the appeal and so

1:13:26I'm doing a lot more experimenting with

1:13:27what i'm reading and I got sucked into

1:13:29suicide squad which is so improbable for

1:13:32me it's such a weird crazy violent

1:13:35series in the DC reboot not the original

1:13:381 i've looked at some of those and I

1:13:39don't didn't like it much

1:13:41and then I got just sucked into this

1:13:43world of like Harley Quinn the Joker's

1:13:46squeeze inside quick after the whole

1:13:48crazy Joker stuff that happens which I

1:13:51don't want to get into it so unpleasant

1:13:52all that whole Batman thing but they

1:13:54have a Suicide Squad there's just

1:13:56something I compelling about the taking

1:14:00people who are absolutely beyond

1:14:02recovery there beyond salvation although

1:14:05some of them believe they have salvation

1:14:07front of them putting them together as

1:14:09this group of like they have micro bombs

1:14:10implanted in her neck that can be

1:14:12triggered remotely and they have to

1:14:13finish the mission a time and just blow

1:14:15up and government you know shadow

1:14:17government agency that controls them and

1:14:18has absolutely no regard for human life

1:14:20whatsoever they're scum their dragon

1:14:22whatever and the whole thing I find

1:14:24completely fascinating and it's a strip

1:14:27it's a sick pleasure i haven't checked i

1:14:29read the first page 13 issues and i'm

1:14:31not sure if they've done the next series

1:14:33of it yet but it's a really weird arc of

1:14:37the story

1:14:38cool very cool i'll check that out not

1:14:40not for everyone not for the weak

1:14:42there's certainly sounds like it is and

1:14:43back but that's cool that's a cool idea

1:14:46any-any podcast memories anything that

1:14:49you like to on the podcast this year and

1:14:51pretend a podcast this year of a few yes

1:14:54I do

1:14:55well I you know as as we've already

1:14:56probably spoken about love Hitler of

1:14:59course because we talk about it all the

1:15:01time we didn't ruin this is arranged my

1:15:04Hitler keeps coming up because we read

1:15:05those small change books and mr. Hitler

1:15:07seems nice and nose and it's gotten us a

1:15:10story about reading my comp on the

1:15:12subway and then we had let's kill hitler

1:15:16we write because the number who met

1:15:18Hitler facility yeah and there's

1:15:20something it's something there's a sick

1:15:22fascination with Hitler that I think

1:15:23brings them up as a theme as we always

1:15:25want to rewrite history and

1:15:26can rewrite we can make things better by

1:15:28turning into fiction are making the

1:15:30payment of ridicule or providing a

1:15:31different outcome or what-have-you so

1:15:33what somebody else wrote into US and and

1:15:35claim that are mentioned Hitler was was

1:15:38distasteful because he was so awful and

1:15:40I subscribe to the the mel brooks school

1:15:43which is the best way to have our

1:15:46revenge on Hitler after all of his

1:15:48misdeeds is to mock him and make fun of

1:15:52him as many ways as possible because

1:15:54then it's impossible to take a hit

1:15:56anything he did seriously and I think

1:15:58that's good because he was such a

1:15:59criminal that goes without saying

1:16:01and I like having a tree course of

1:16:03making fun of Hitler and and basically

1:16:05kicking his gravestone and you dancing

1:16:09on his grave if I think that's I think

1:16:10it's a good thing I i agree there's

1:16:12great kids in the hall bit that will

1:16:14make sense in a second why tell you this

1:16:15where they fully it's a very brief bit

1:16:17he comes out dressed as a woman

1:16:18actresses and some more choice she says

1:16:20oh she's not so glad thank you so much

1:16:23for this award like to thank my agent my

1:16:25mother

1:16:25honey you're my darling you're always

1:16:27there for me like to think Hitler also

1:16:29i'd like to thank the direct boo boo

1:16:32what and Ken McDonald comes as you think

1:16:35hitler'd i did not you

1:16:37thanks bit ler it's just a silly throw a

1:16:39bit so Mel Brooks wins an award for for

1:16:43the producers he comes out and he thinks

1:16:46that her for being such a crazy guy and

1:16:48I'm thinking he thanked blur it was just

1:16:51you know some kind of double joke there

1:16:53but I'm well my memory from this here is

1:16:55that we talked to get to talk about a

1:16:56lot of now that we are going to our

1:16:58third year the partially here this next

1:17:01year i think we we did some more meta

1:17:03episode which was fun and talked about

1:17:05you know the hundredth episode we talked

1:17:06about kids it was great to talk about

1:17:08how we introduce this material two kids

1:17:11I think one of my favorite episodes of

1:17:13the year was the game show episode you

1:17:14put together on a little bit of input

1:17:17into that and yes you helped a lot you

1:17:18hate you came up with some of the games

1:17:20and that was really you and Dan more in

1:17:21both and it was very helpful after we

1:17:23play we play scroll or created we can't

1:17:26remember but played a version version of

1:17:28that it was Marvel Marvel Doctor Who or

1:17:30classic sci-fi i think but basically

1:17:32basically that I i took that and ran

1:17:35with it and that was a lot of fun but

1:17:36and um any lost I lost I know what

1:17:39extremely I was on

1:17:40team old guy Demel guy the young

1:17:41whippersnappers beat us by I don't think

1:17:44we had a good Superman defense so we'll

1:17:45be working on the Superman defense for

1:17:47next time so that's the game show that

1:17:49you lost this year that's the name for

1:17:51it and then later i also enjoy the game

1:17:53show episode about blending about

1:17:55anything saturday onion with one of

1:17:58about seventeen podcast I've done in

1:18:01which i've talked in part about with

1:18:03integrity

1:18:04it's fascinating how many podcasters are

1:18:06interested to talk to people who won

1:18:08jeopardy and yes I was it was a this was

1:18:10a fantastic here for me tonight was a

1:18:12really good Glenn year and the Jeopardy

1:18:15thing was just so hilarious and fun and

1:18:17it was great to talk to you all

1:18:18we didn't you know secretly after I'd

1:18:20one but before to taped kept in the

1:18:23vault we'd be pre-tape like jeopardy

1:18:25itself which tapes way in advance of

1:18:27airing we we taped you and me and Steve

1:18:29lots taped an episode i think a week

1:18:33after you came back from the show and he

1:18:35just sat on my hard drive for a long for

1:18:39like three months

1:18:39that's right that was one there was a

1:18:41great way to do it was all fresh in my

1:18:42mind and Frank I've written a lot about

1:18:44it whatever but it's so funny to be

1:18:45inside a cultural phenomenon where

1:18:48everybody knows about it so few people

1:18:50relative to who know about it watch it

1:18:53they all watched it growing up and and

1:18:55so few people watch it now I was I was

1:18:57famous in my in-laws retirement

1:18:59community when they're like hey you're

1:19:00that got me with that guy who are you

1:19:02know that guy I saw you on TV this week

1:19:04for about one week and then I've not

1:19:07been recognized in public to the

1:19:09appearance but the best part is that

1:19:11usually takes six months for them to cut

1:19:14checks from when you take this is very

1:19:16traditional and possibly because of the

1:19:17fiscal cliff maybe they're being kind of

1:19:19contestants worried about higher tax

1:19:21rates next year the check actually

1:19:24showed up in December of 2012 so nice

1:19:27nice end-of-the-year one of the things

1:19:29I'm doing in this episode is reading

1:19:30some comments as we've been going here

1:19:32and I save this one for you

1:19:34collin de days d ass boy I really am

1:19:39like John in my inability to pronounce

1:19:42people's names and your refusal to

1:19:44practice ahead of time or decide on

1:19:45something that I'm not going to happen

1:19:47at ten minutes preparation is all I

1:19:49allow myself Colin says I really like

1:19:51the con episode and the Jeopardy episode

1:19:53code and this is the key part going as a

1:19:55nineteen-year-old jeopardy lover i

1:19:58really enjoyed seeing you on TV and then

1:20:00hearing him talk about it I wasn't aware

1:20:03people under the age of 61 but colin is

1:20:07a nineteen-year-old jeopardy lover i

1:20:08thought there was a filter it actually

1:20:10like a retina scanner check your like

1:20:12tree rings to make sure to check your

1:20:14telomeres to see if you were how long

1:20:16they were gonna know it's good it's a

1:20:18thing is still functional my son got a

1:20:20older son Ben got obsessed with it for a

1:20:23bit before and afters on so we must

1:20:24months of it together before and after

1:20:26might think he's moved on a little bit

1:20:28but it's there's something fun about

1:20:29having a time challenged you know

1:20:32necessity answer answer questions and I

1:20:35think jeopardise big problem as we

1:20:37talked about this because they're in

1:20:38syndication you can't really watch it's

1:20:40really an amazing thing that so many

1:20:41people are intrigued by in Canada

1:20:43actually watch it unless they get

1:20:44broadcast TV on the very night it's the

1:20:46air door it's gone forever it's actually

1:20:48a lot like a lot like sports even though

1:20:50it's pre-tape it's a lot like sport it's

1:20:51not online you can subscribe to it you

1:20:53can't you know you can't get it later

1:20:55there are no reruns other than the ones

1:20:57on a weekend that are from like a year

1:20:58before and so for those of us who tried

1:21:02to watch you and found out that there

1:21:03was a football game on instead we just

1:21:05missed that episode and there's no way

1:21:07there is no way to get it back it's just

1:21:09you know that's a jeopardy is like live

1:21:12sports jeopardise keeping keeping the TV

1:21:14industry alive

1:21:15apparently the other thing that was

1:21:17funny from that too as i found it after

1:21:18we did that episode here that it turns

1:21:20out that everyone i know knows someone

1:21:22else who was on Jeopardy at some point

1:21:24in their lives no matter how Justin so

1:21:25Ben boy check your friend of mine boy

1:21:27check who's been on this program he

1:21:29buddy of his

1:21:31so i think is a Washington congressional

1:21:34aide maybe was on not long after i

1:21:37appeared in one a number of episodes too

1:21:39i think that was who it was and then

1:21:41there's somebody else I keep funny

1:21:42people on Twitter who will say oh you

1:21:44must know is through a chain of two

1:21:45people you know you so-and-so is on

1:21:47jeopardy and we're on months apart so

1:21:48there's a very strange skiing of tech

1:21:51people people on Twitter people on

1:21:54facebook you know people are on Jeopardy

1:21:55no surprise but this was this was a

1:21:57jeopardy may have been the high point of

1:21:59my personal year but this was a great

1:22:01year for the podcast with a lot of very

1:22:02interesting

1:22:03topical work we had some some nice

1:22:07standard stuff and we did some really

1:22:08weird stuff like game shows and a film

1:22:10festival and with with some German

1:22:12movies and it thanks to you and we have

1:22:15a great track the dragon up so was a lot

1:22:16of fun at least as Michaels rested we

1:22:18talked about the theme of dragons in all

1:22:20the fantasy and sci-fi why they keep

1:22:22coming back so much

1:22:24yeah i'm very happy to to have you guys

1:22:27there were a few episodes this year than

1:22:28other people posted and it's nice you

1:22:30know will do will do more of those that

1:22:32there's some episodes where people

1:22:33really suggest really great topics and I

1:22:36think wow I i have no knowledge of that

1:22:39at all and you know I i'm happy to have

1:22:41a week off its nice so we'll have to do

1:22:44more of that in the new year

1:22:45I i I've got a little list here in the

1:22:49in the greater world i want to mention

1:22:51in the night circus i really like that i

1:22:53read a I'm not sure whether i read among

1:22:55others

1:22:57late last year earlier this year but

1:22:58that was that was a favorite really like

1:23:00John Walton i was at a Christmas party

1:23:03my wife works at our local library and

1:23:06so I i was sitting at a table with seven

1:23:08librarians and the woman next to me

1:23:11asked me what a librarian ask me what uh

1:23:15what I was reading and what stuff that i

1:23:17like them it was like it was like a

1:23:18podcast happening at the table it was

1:23:20kind of hilarious and I will teach you

1:23:22how people going Shh every couple of

1:23:24seconds apparently apparently went to a

1:23:25party with my family yeah so so exactly

1:23:28below their your extended family there

1:23:29librarians you're all part of the same

1:23:31library family right there are for

1:23:33librarians in my family so I so I

1:23:35recommended among others to her and she

1:23:37said I haven't read that but but have

1:23:39you read and it was Scott it was have

1:23:42you read the book of hers words dragon

1:23:43to wear hats nice

1:23:45no I haven't but it's on my list now

1:23:47because it's been recommended to me so

1:23:49and she also actually recommended

1:23:50altered carbon which dan and Scott I

1:23:52think both recommended to me

1:23:54mhm Marianna and I read that although I

1:23:56would that it was fine but but Joe

1:23:58Walton so I'd say is is is on my list of

1:24:01things i like this year and I I'd say

1:24:03you know TV why's that the the thing

1:24:05that engrossed me the most was game

1:24:06thrones that it's I think that was the

1:24:09one that I keep coming back to is as

1:24:11that you know I i well and that's an HBO

1:24:15show so there's no commercial so

1:24:16basically as soon as

1:24:17Sonia you watch it if you know within

1:24:19like half an hour of it beginning to air

1:24:22we were watching it wasn't something

1:24:23that you'd put on the DVR for a few days

1:24:25later when you got to it that was

1:24:27appointment TV and there isn't a lot of

1:24:29that these days in terms of the show the

1:24:34this fine fine high quality but podcast

1:24:37that that you're listening to now I

1:24:39liked art I like just talking about kid

1:24:41stuff i like the movies for kids episode

1:24:43and the kids have bad taste episode I

1:24:45thought it was kind of fun to get the

1:24:47prospective parents about how i do more

1:24:50of that actually considering so many of

1:24:51us

1:24:51ninety percent of our life is consumed

1:24:53by kids it seems like that's kind of a

1:24:55no-brainer

1:24:56sure and I could save time because then

1:24:57you know we already are investing that

1:24:59time and thinking about that stuff so

1:25:01and dan could you like borrow kid like

1:25:02you know the difference the PlayStation

1:25:04you know just for a little while and

1:25:05then you can come on the show he's got

1:25:07his young cousins right

1:25:08I do in fact where this this year I had

1:25:10a talk with their their dad my cousin

1:25:12who about showing them star wars for the

1:25:14first time so i think that will be an

1:25:16interesting experience

1:25:17now how did you guide them read the

1:25:19prequels they know nothing

1:25:21they know nothing these kids like I mean

1:25:23their parents don't really watch a lot

1:25:24of television and stuff like that so

1:25:25they are pretty on exposed to that kind

1:25:27of stuff

1:25:28alright so like the homeschool kids

1:25:31getting close

1:25:32I mean they go to school but they're not

1:25:33they're not they're young enough that

1:25:34they haven't quite gotten that whole

1:25:36like peer group level thing yet I i

1:25:39wanted to mention we we did to live

1:25:41episodes so we did the singleton episode

1:25:43with the Rolex hadn't seen it and we

1:25:45also didn't want to at macworld expo I

1:25:47thought that this hasn't seen no I was

1:25:51kind of fun to do episodes in front of a

1:25:52live audience

1:25:53I was surprised that there were dozens

1:25:55of people in both venues who actually

1:25:57didn't just walk out while we were

1:25:59talking and Steve and listen to us talk

1:26:02most of them are just resting between

1:26:04panels though yeah they're very tired

1:26:06macro expo you know they just just

1:26:08trying to find a seat at singleton they

1:26:09were drunk and also i enjoyed they were

1:26:12it was the afternoon and they were

1:26:13already quite drunk

1:26:14uh I also enjoyed we did that our game

1:26:17of thrones season 2 episode in San

1:26:19Francisco with John in / in person in

1:26:23the studio along that was a lot of fun

1:26:25dan and and was Dan and ren and yeah and

1:26:28we and we dialed in with dialed in Monte

1:26:31so it's five not in front of a studio it

1:26:34was yeah but it was fun to do an episode

1:26:36with your underwear some it's much

1:26:38better than the previous samples go

1:26:40ahead with look here Stephen Fry this

1:26:42evening for is as if it is we got into

1:26:46the audience great i was a very warm

1:26:48small room yes yes the film festival

1:26:51episode that you know again I think that

1:26:53was that was great just like we should

1:26:54do a crazy draft episode series every

1:26:57year because I just like the TV draft

1:27:00the year before I thought that was great

1:27:01game show i had a lot of fun time

1:27:04putting that together it was great to

1:27:06talk to Jonathan Coulton sorry John

1:27:07uh-huh and I just had that moment where

1:27:10I was we were talking about that episode

1:27:13and I thought it wouldn't be funny if

1:27:14jonathan coulton came on at the end and

1:27:16did the Annie Hall thing and I ask

1:27:18Merlin Mann if you know he could get me

1:27:20in touch with jonathan coulton and he

1:27:22said yes and i ended up talking to

1:27:24Jonathan Coulton for 20 minutes it was

1:27:25actually pretty cool like the hundredth

1:27:29episode and and uh I like that we had

1:27:33some new words this year we learned

1:27:36about Greg NOS told us about gays box

1:27:38the ice every call he had many hairs in

1:27:42his undies box men here's where in his

1:27:44case box this box of course which I mean

1:27:46they make a wax for that now he thought

1:27:48a gazebo was obviously a typographical

1:27:51error and it probably was short for gays

1:27:53box because a box expanded and then gaze

1:27:56out this year really was this year

1:28:00holy fuck I missed that one that's

1:28:01pretty that's pretty good the text

1:28:03adventure episode that case box mon

1:28:06store which is a monster who is your

1:28:09mentor which scott we in our discussions

1:28:12of the drowned cities and and a ship

1:28:15breaker mon store is your is he's a

1:28:18monster but he's also your mentor and of

1:28:20course friend nemesis someone who is

1:28:23both your friend and nemesis

1:28:25why can't it be both so those are three

1:28:27words of the year that we've introduced

1:28:29to to humanity

1:28:31you're welcome humanity look for them in

1:28:33next year's OED and they'll be a

1:28:35children's book that greatness and I are

1:28:37working on hold

1:28:38there's a monster in my gaze box

1:28:40and other stories of foreign embassies

1:28:43yes the French Embassy cycle

1:28:45yes book1 the monster in the case box i

1:28:49think life is already written that

1:28:50actually I'll while he was not on the

1:28:51show he knows that I had a camera in my

1:28:54gaze box huh

1:28:57I can't take credit for that word that

1:28:58was wrestling with but yes and I want to

1:29:01make a new year's resolution which is

1:29:02that uh in I I can't promise we'll do

1:29:05all of them but in 2013 we will at least

1:29:08color up here comes a star wars prequel

1:29:12Oh episode and wishing the world an

1:29:16archer episode one that's my god that's

1:29:19my new year's resolution

1:29:21yeah will be scheduled right between

1:29:23March 34 history because i couldn't yeah

1:29:26that might be planning further prequels

1:29:29also looking forward to 2013 we do we do

1:29:32potentially have a comic-con get

1:29:34together

1:29:34coming up so it wasn't hearing Steve

1:29:37lives in San Diego so it's really easy

1:29:38for you and I am going I am going to

1:29:40comic-con and if we can get some other

1:29:42people there it is not that easy for me

1:29:43to face that the stench of Leicester the

1:29:4768 convention that is true i actually

1:29:50put an application in 48 for a press

1:29:52pass I alright sincerely doubt they will

1:29:55give me one but honestly whether i go to

1:29:57comic-con or not the stench will get to

1:29:59me because it does the the the afternoon

1:30:02breeze from the ocean waters of the area

1:30:04pretty much all over the county yeah

1:30:06yeah it would be nice i will say if i

1:30:08get if i get a pass i will go i recall

1:30:10it flop sweat August actually yeah

1:30:12around here we have maigrey I and the

1:30:15August flop sweat

1:30:16yep this the scent of nerds mmm the

1:30:19smell of it but we may do that yes we

1:30:22may have a get-together at the very

1:30:24least Steve you and I will go to karl

1:30:26strauss isn't and drink beer now we'll

1:30:28go we'll definitely should do our

1:30:30long-awaited to beer tasting episode

1:30:33oh that's a good idea i'll bring my

1:30:34microphone there are there's a lot more

1:30:36than Carl straps that we can travel to

1:30:38now there are many many a tasting room

1:30:39that we can visit in mira mesa area

1:30:42alone and you think that these episodes

1:30:44go off the rails whole it would be a

1:30:46good

1:30:46oh my god Oh that'll be that'll be our

1:30:50country

1:30:50well this has been great we have we have

1:30:53we have time

1:30:54about the past and look forward to the

1:30:56future and I'd like to thank my lovely

1:30:59guess for closing out another year of

1:31:01the incomparable you know it's fun to do

1:31:04this podcast i say that even when i'm in

1:31:07the depths of editing despair sometimes

1:31:09on the weekend but you know it wouldn't

1:31:11be any good if it was just me sitting

1:31:14here saying things about the book that i

1:31:17just read it's all because of the I'm

1:31:19fortunate to have a lot of very smart

1:31:21and funny and interesting friends who

1:31:23are willing to be on this ridiculous

1:31:25podcast so and also me and also

1:31:27statements Steve took my walk so so

1:31:30thank you so well now you you wait for

1:31:33it wait for it so I'd like to thank

1:31:34let's friedman and you go Monty Ashley M

1:31:39night Shyamalan boo but sadly they

1:31:43couldn't be here so instead I'll think

1:31:45these guys who were on their world ended

1:31:47three hours ago John siracusa thank you

1:31:49for being here thank you jason i

1:31:52treasure my little award that

1:31:55yeah we're not going to talk about the

1:31:57major award that was one yeah we have

1:31:59something that happened this year one of

1:32:01the governor's award and that's the only

1:32:03time i would like that last time i got a

1:32:04trophy that was like a soccer when I was

1:32:06in kindergarten

1:32:07there was a big gap and now finally

1:32:10podcast award that's right

1:32:12no that's your right and greatness was

1:32:14actually kind enough to to purchase that

1:32:17was incredibly generated that everybody

1:32:20agrees

1:32:20thank you because I didn't think I

1:32:22wanted it but now that I have it now

1:32:24that I realized that was the hole in my

1:32:25life that was my canon I can't imagine

1:32:27life without it you know it's it looks

1:32:30great on top of my piano if I had known

1:32:32it was shaped like a star a star like

1:32:34colon polyp i would probably the Horde

1:32:36want to begin it looks kinda like the

1:32:38more you know from the exactly it is

1:32:44exactly sitting on top of my piano next

1:32:46to a little buddha most appropriate

1:32:49place to pick up we got it keeps stay

1:32:51centered

1:32:51yeah keep it all in perspective don't

1:32:54let it go to your head and for a good

1:32:55buddy

1:32:56yeah so so thank you that was all part

1:32:59of me thinking John by the way thank you

1:33:02Dan Morgan someday I'll be somebody's

1:33:04favorite moment I cross my fingers some

1:33:06next year because I'm gonna

1:33:08bringing up my game ok and you know

1:33:10you're my favorite moment Steve oh now I

1:33:13got to come to San Diego

1:33:15that's right I'll get out fascists

1:33:17moment Scotty healthy thank you as

1:33:21always

1:33:22no it's my pleasure and when they do an

1:33:25incomparable movie I hope I'm played by

1:33:27John Goodman it's tom hanks all the way

1:33:30down sorry man but I'm like Tom Hanks is

1:33:34like a a quarter of my size in all

1:33:37respects you wear padding it always fall

1:33:40not always back to all of them lift and

1:33:43a Hawaiian shirt that's right and then

1:33:46it'll be indistinguishable from you

1:33:48Lisa Schmeisser thank you very much for

1:33:50being here and all of your contributions

1:33:52this year thanks I had a great time

1:33:54talking with you guys and serenity

1:33:57called well thank you goodbye farewell

1:34:00another year by baby new year is about

1:34:03to come in the door

1:34:05ah we have to ax 2012 it stands gone use

1:34:09really acts used up and Fleischmann

1:34:12thank you for being here thanks for

1:34:14having me

1:34:15and of course Steve let's creator of

1:34:182011 favorite uncomfortable moment and

1:34:22of course through hindsight from 2012's

1:34:25clip show about 2011 I guess 2012

1:34:28favorite moment loose soil or that's

1:34:30right when we get to the point where the

1:34:32entire clip show episode is recursion

1:34:35back down to the 2011 clip show episode

1:34:37that's when it's time to end this

1:34:39podcast or possibly tomorrow at 3am good

1:34:42point

1:34:42hard to say you know who knows we'll

1:34:46only the listeners know for sure they

1:34:48don't know

1:34:49that's it for us we hope that the world

1:34:51doesn't end and we can come back in 2013

1:34:53for more episodes of the uncomfortable

1:34:54until then this is jason l signing off

1:34:58goodnight goodbye good luck and farewell

1:35:01people of Earth here's the final easter

1:35:20egg this is one of my other favorite

1:35:21things from 2012 Mike dole is an

1:35:25incomparable podcast listener and he

1:35:28listens with his son and daughter so one

1:35:32night Mike leaves home to go out to

1:35:35dinner with his wife and as parents

1:35:38sometimes discover when they come home

1:35:40they're children have done something

1:35:42unexpected and in this case what their

1:35:46children did is record their own podcast

1:35:48in the style of the incomparable I can't

1:35:53tell you how flattered we all were by

1:35:55mikes kids making this podcast it was

1:35:58really great and who knows maybe in 2013

1:36:01will have them onto the incomparable

1:36:04that would be pretty cool

1:36:06welcome to a podcast that about you paid

1:36:13to are discussing things that they read

1:36:16or seen recently

1:36:18Oh with the topic today the printer ride

1:36:21so Matthew the princess bride a beloved

1:36:26film everyone that I know loves this

1:36:29movie you i have class my friend Jonah

1:36:34about this and he said that it sounds

1:36:36like a chick flick which you kinda does

1:36:39don't you think yeah little how do you

1:36:43pronounce his name

1:36:45cary elwes Kerry Ellis carry elvish why

1:36:50is he not in Lord of the Rings

1:36:52you're just copying Glenn now aren't you

1:36:54know

1:36:56scoot over and them and then lightning

1:37:00sandwich in the book it's called snow

1:37:02sand it's like in the book we actually

1:37:06get to know what it's like to be in

1:37:09there and like it's called snow send in

1:37:12the book and it's like suffocating

1:37:14forever and it's like you never fully

1:37:19suffocate until you do and it's terrible

1:37:23you get it in your eyes

1:37:24normal nose and mouth terrible and your

1:37:28ears think mom and dad home

1:37:32should we put up we're heading pause now

1:37:36because this is way too long

1:37:37yeah hello see you next time on are you

1:37:42the princess bride podcast on the

1:37:46podcast i haven't named yet

1:37:48that's it happy new year everyone