The Incomparable

00:00:00 ◼   ► on this edition of the uncomfortable [TS]

00:00:01 ◼   ► will be discussing what may be my [TS]

00:00:03 ◼   ► favorite TV show of all time in fact a [TS]

00:00:06 ◼   ► lot of critics think that this is one of [TS]

00:00:09 ◼   ► the greatest genre television series of [TS]

00:00:11 ◼   ► all time maybe even one of the best TV [TS]

00:00:14 ◼   ► series of all time and I think you'll [TS]

00:00:16 ◼   ► agree I speak of course of the CW's [TS]

00:00:18 ◼   ► groundbreaking supernatural haha as f [TS]

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00:00:50 ◼   ► welcome one and all to the uncomfortable [TS]

00:00:53 ◼   ► podcast I'm Jason smell your host today [TS]

00:00:55 ◼   ► we have a strange strange strange topic [TS]

00:01:00 ◼   ► which is humor and comedy in in kind of [TS]

00:01:04 ◼   ► geeky geek culture and geeky media so in [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► honor of april first the the holiday [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► that celebrates silliness and wackiness [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► I've asked up our our esteemed panelists [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► and also scott McNulty to join us today [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► to discuss humorous things and and let's [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► do that now Scott McNulty [TS]

00:01:28 ◼   ► sign in please I refuse [TS]

00:01:31 ◼   ► ok I'll take that as a pass serenity [TS]

00:01:35 ◼   ► Caldwell please present yourself a logo [TS]

00:01:38 ◼   ► and reporting for duty [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► excellent now that's how it's done [TS]

00:01:41 ◼   ► McNulty Glenn fleischmann hello i am a [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► glow with radiation I can see you from [TS]

00:01:48 ◼   ► here to end a to see the radiation humor [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► no no and Steve Lutz hey how's it go and [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► I look forward to talking about humor [TS]

00:01:58 ◼   ► thereby negating any possible humor [TS]

00:02:00 ◼   ► content to this podcast gonna kill my [TS]

00:02:02 ◼   ► new room until it's nice and dead [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► children for the record i am also [TS]

00:02:06 ◼   ► presenting myself right now [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► thank you i can tell as though as the [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► male baboon presents himself very much [TS]

00:02:13 ◼   ► like that yes okay and and once again [TS]

00:02:15 ◼   ► coming back around Scott McNulty [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► ah i have my podcasting pants on and I'm [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► ready with the funny tactical podcasting [TS]

00:02:25 ◼   ► Pet Center recommend those we will [TS]

00:02:27 ◼   ► accept that answer i wear my casual [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► podcasting plans [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► hello I actually isn't that like an [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► oxymoron you because you don't actually [TS]

00:02:35 ◼   ► need pants to podcast so why would you [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► have podcasting pants maybe living [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► visible these are transparent packs [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► comparison to life forgetting who am I [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► forgetting there's somebody I forget old [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► and more in hello dad more'n why hello [TS]

00:02:50 ◼   ► Jason's now it's good to have you here [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► it's a pleasure to be here on time as [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► always i'm totally punctual [TS]

00:02:57 ◼   ► I'm thinking podcasting chaps right now [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► that might just move [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► I oh my yes it is that kind of show the [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► income I after dark [TS]

00:03:06 ◼   ► hide the children so so I i have asked [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► all of you hopefully you've you've come [TS]

00:03:12 ◼   ► prepared with at least a couple of good [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► examples of things that you just think [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► are really funny i'm gonna come out and [TS]

00:03:19 ◼   ► open a good one because some people may [TS]

00:03:21 ◼   ► have missed this because it came from [TS]

00:03:22 ◼   ► the nineteen seventies board of the [TS]

00:03:24 ◼   ► rings this is a Harvard Lampoon project [TS]

00:03:26 ◼   ► some of the folks who then became went [TS]

00:03:28 ◼   ► on to become in fact I think national [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► lampoon I think with some of the folks [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► who have gone on to found national [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► lampoon wrote this thing while still in [TS]

00:03:36 ◼   ► college if i recollect and it's a it's a [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► really pitch perfect parody of lord of [TS]

00:03:43 ◼   ► the rings because remember how because [TS]

00:03:46 ◼   ► since we're all 80 years old remember [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► how landlords first came out now the [TS]

00:03:49 ◼   ► Rings you know yeah I remember that well [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► so what you looking at the fifth i was [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► waiting down at the booksellers in my [TS]

00:03:57 ◼   ► cravat I paint you as an ascot man [TS]

00:04:01 ◼   ► during these bright yellow cravat you [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► rode your bike with the one big front [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► wheel and the tiny back wheel down to [TS]

00:04:07 ◼   ► the bookseller the penny-farthing yes [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► sipping on your egg cream and I brought [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► my entire week's pay of eighteen cents [TS]

00:04:15 ◼   ► the first so the first 11 more rings [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► first came out of England and then then [TS]

00:04:21 ◼   ► after some tedious negotiation [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► eventually came out and legitimate [TS]

00:04:25 ◼   ► editions of the u.s. it was sort of [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► seized upon the sort of this crowd of [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► people into science fiction this was [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► kind of part of that fantasy but it hit [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► really hard in the counterculture [TS]

00:04:33 ◼   ► movement they rediscovered lord of the [TS]

00:04:35 ◼   ► rings and gave the popularity it has [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► today and of course they read it as this [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► you know sort of this anti-war thing [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► even though they go to war and all this [TS]

00:04:43 ◼   ► sort of flower children magic is [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► everywhere in the elves and bloody blah [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► so Henry beard and the National and [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► Harvard Lampoon come lasha Lampoon guys [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► wrote this thing that basically just [TS]

00:04:54 ◼   ► took the piss and everybody was sort of [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► a big joke about the summer of love and [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► they made bad poetry and some it's just [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► stupid and pure I'll but i think it's [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► funny as hell end up you know it's got [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► its got some great parody of the of the [TS]

00:05:08 ◼   ► One Ring poem that sora sora apparently [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► written engraved be such a great poet [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► and the rings that you know this ring [TS]

00:05:15 ◼   ► and no other is made by the elves hawker [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► own mother to grab it themselves and so [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► on so it's you know there's a reference [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► the zoo pits instead of the the the pits [TS]

00:05:25 ◼   ► in Mordor and Sorbonne and there's our [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► source or on a sore head and there's a [TS]

00:05:31 ◼   ► lot of is this yes it's this sounds like [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► a madman seen parody actually get you [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► know sort of as with as with some of the [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► best parody instead of cleaning [TS]

00:05:40 ◼   ► perfectly to the plot it diverges a bit [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► in order to be funnier than if it just [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► was you know paragraph by paragraph [TS]

00:05:47 ◼   ► whatever but you know there's too much [TS]

00:05:50 ◼   ► you know because we all I know on this [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► podcast love Tom Bombadil so much [TS]

00:05:54 ◼   ► there's Tim Benzedrine is the repair [TS]

00:05:57 ◼   ► hello derecho his wife ashbury of course [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► so I got it I got to stay Glenn the [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► various wacky names do not make me want [TS]

00:06:08 ◼   ► to read it it is it makes me makes me a [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► little afraid to like it's again like a [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► how long is it to this also leads me [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► your pages long [TS]

00:06:17 ◼   ► no it's actually its wealth for its [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► really a parody of Lord of the Rings [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► everybody to be like a million pages [TS]

00:06:22 ◼   ► long but while the convergent media the [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► paperback edition that is actually is [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► not in print I'm looking to see if [TS]

00:06:29 ◼   ► there's an illusion that is harmless on [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► our topic tonight is what things you [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► can't get in having a bright shiny ball [TS]

00:06:36 ◼   ► that I'm holding waving in front of you [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► i was a good version 1993 something [TS]

00:06:40 ◼   ► expensive to purchase a copy and just [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► you know starts at one penny and it's a [TS]

00:06:44 ◼   ► hundred and seventy six pages but I know [TS]

00:06:46 ◼   ► it's a cash i should i should have been [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► more prepared with excerpts but it's you [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► know it's it's a I think it's a big [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► parody the summer of love it's parody of [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► the hippie culture it's a parody of the [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► sort of endless boring description and [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► TDM and say that you know fifth part of [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► the six parts of lord of the ring and at [TS]

00:07:04 ◼   ► the end you know Sam and Frodo are [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► hanging around the pits and sort of the [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► flick the ring over their finger into [TS]

00:07:10 ◼   ► them into the boiling mass so it's um I [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► i think it's like I will say that I have [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► at least seen a copy of bored of the [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► Rings having seated on my brother shelf [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► way back in the day [TS]

00:07:21 ◼   ► although I never actually picked up to [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► read it because sitting right next to it [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► was another book of collected national [TS]

00:07:27 ◼   ► lampoon works that were almost entirely [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► dick and fart jokes so if you have to [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► choose iiNet yeah but it's so I know [TS]

00:07:36 ◼   ► it's closer to the source material of [TS]

00:07:38 ◼   ► lord of the rings it's hard to pull [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► yourself away from us or headbutt so so [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► so Steve I'm gonna I'm gonna come to you [TS]

00:07:46 ◼   ► now do you have a do you have a [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► recommendation or favorite like i want [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► what i did want to to to call out any of [TS]

00:07:52 ◼   ► you guys familiar with the online comic [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► strip achewood know [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► nah it's a brilliant piece of work and [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► and it's it's just got on indefinite [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► hiatus so continue William of of things [TS]

00:08:07 ◼   ► you can't get and all right excellent [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► now there's still an extensive a backlog [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► of of of past strips on the web and it's [TS]

00:08:15 ◼   ► unbelievably funny stuff fairly surreal [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► it follows the exploits of a bunch of [TS]

00:08:22 ◼   ► small animals who just kind of hang [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► around there's a cat who wear thongs and [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► a squirrel who does coke and drives a [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► fan [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► there's a projectile vomiting creature [TS]

00:08:35 ◼   ► of some kind and they basically just [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► hang around and and say things alright [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► yeah that sounds great they hang around [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► and say things I values that many of it [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► is the is the creator Chris on stands [TS]

00:08:48 ◼   ► way with words [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► that's it's like once again I come [TS]

00:08:52 ◼   ► bearing absolutely no examples to prove [TS]

00:08:54 ◼   ► my point but you really would have to [TS]

00:08:56 ◼   ► read it anyway [TS]

00:08:57 ◼   ► 22 truly appreciated but yeah he went on [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► record on i think last week sometimes [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► saying that he was pretty much burned [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► out and there would be no no further [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► strips in the immediate future which was [TS]

00:09:10 ◼   ► very sad indeed which the strip called [TS]

00:09:13 ◼   ► is called achewood ACH II would all [TS]

00:09:16 ◼   ► right even going around since what 99 I [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► think so something and over a decade ya [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► got a little tired huh [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► and it's been it's been sporadic for the [TS]

00:09:25 ◼   ► last year or so anyway you can kind of [TS]

00:09:26 ◼   ► sense that he was getting tired but I [TS]

00:09:28 ◼   ► think the beauty of it is is really that [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► his he has a phenomenal way with words [TS]

00:09:32 ◼   ► and his characters are kind of nuts [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► he doesn't necessarily go for the gag [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► based humor ease [TS]

00:09:37 ◼   ► he's a he's willing to just kind of [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► float a bizarre punchline out there and [TS]

00:09:42 ◼   ► let you kind of go your own way with it [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► which it generally I find more amusing [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► than the I don't like mondays style of [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► comic I don't know what you're talking [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► about their I'm night I had some [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► fantastic lasagna earlier did you know [TS]

00:09:55 ◼   ► I'm so good at selling less sad day [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► indeed in a online viewer Garvey [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► actually Garfield minus car fire field [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► is a fantastic piece of works better [TS]

00:10:05 ◼   ► when they take all the captions out and [TS]

00:10:07 ◼   ► it's just john and garfield staring at [TS]

00:10:09 ◼   ► each other existentially take don't [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► think are you without so which is no [TS]

00:10:13 ◼   ► that's your on an extra crazy [TS]

00:10:15 ◼   ► well there's now 14 there's no one for [TS]

00:10:17 ◼   ► peanuts to where they take out the last [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► panel three panamera it's so depressing [TS]

00:10:23 ◼   ► reality it's very dark [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► alright fair enough Scott would you have [TS]

00:10:26 ◼   ► a a recommendation something something [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► that you were that you love so I there's [TS]

00:10:31 ◼   ► a webcomic that reimagines the phantom [TS]

00:10:37 ◼   ► of the first three star wars movies [TS]

00:10:38 ◼   ► retold as if it's a bad D&D campaign and [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► it's called darth's androids at darts [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► darts androids dotnet and I think [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► there's something like a 550 entries so [TS]

00:10:55 ◼   ► far and it is a very funny by the way [TS]

00:10:59 ◼   ► while you're talking Phantom Menace I'm [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► i assume everyone here has seen the red [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► letter media reviews of the first three [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► star wars for the ring yeah i should say [TS]

00:11:08 ◼   ► those are those the full fully [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► commentary [TS]

00:11:11 ◼   ► yeah the commentaries that are almost as [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► long as the films themselves [TS]

00:11:14 ◼   ► I can't i did i just can't as much as I [TS]

00:11:16 ◼   ► you know support the idea i can't [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► subject myself to that much Phantom [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► Menace have you arrived fantastic it is [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► i watch the first second i watched the [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► first segment I managed to get through [TS]

00:11:27 ◼   ► the first two movies because he posted [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► he posted all of them and I was just [TS]

00:11:31 ◼   ► putting them on in the background and [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► then it gets very eat the comedy on the [TS]

00:11:35 ◼   ► on the movies themselves as funny and [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► then there's this like underlying serial [TS]

00:11:38 ◼   ► killer subplot that drug ed I yeah it's [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► pretty creepy [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► I have to say it's a pretty decent job [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► of it it's true it gives it a gulet [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► color [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► the big three tries to mail pizza rolls [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► to use is is a positive i want to jump [TS]

00:11:52 ◼   ► in with a even though you're going on [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► the circle with a quick suggestion of [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► george lucas and love a short parody [TS]

00:11:59 ◼   ► film starring a friend of mine from high [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► school before mr hines as the young [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► George Lucas because as we know from [TS]

00:12:05 ◼   ► previous podcast I apparently know [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► everyone for some reason that's that is [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► actually a pretty great short he's got a [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► bad crop of but a sweet [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► yes I love your movies at three in OT [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► you know THX 1138 and 35 7337 it's it's [TS]

00:12:21 ◼   ► a very clever little film is a hundred [TS]

00:12:23 ◼   ► percent callbacks to your call forwards [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► to American Graffiti [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► well mostly star wars but also I think [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► it's American Graffiti references in [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► there and a great brilliant he was only [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► like eight minutes long i think is it [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► available a lot going on fire on its not [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► available at all ever watched it and I [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► want you when it came out back in like [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► 12 that I need personalizing not a [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► challenge [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► yes George Lucas's killed everyone who [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► has seen it it's um we actually like [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► it's like the ring using my and George [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► Lucas close out of your screen when you [TS]

00:12:56 ◼   ► watch it [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► Martin was slightly concerned after this [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► came out because it got enormous amount [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► of attention that perhaps would harm his [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► film career in Hollywood and instead it [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► turned out like through second parties [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► that Spielberg in and Lucas and some [TS]

00:13:08 ◼   ► other people thought it was actually [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► damned hilarious and it was a little you [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► know little mean hold on for a while [TS]

00:13:13 ◼   ► haha the new spot might not actually [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► directed a couple features [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► yes that one of the american pie [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► director videos that I didn't say it was [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► anything good [TS]

00:13:24 ◼   ► got a job only did hate him but who [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► hasn't gone yet Dan how about you are i [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► know i know at least some of you maybe [TS]

00:13:32 ◼   ► maybe my myrish name is mr. McNulty I [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► think have red jasper fforde i have a [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► kind of a great absurdist writer in the [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► realm of I don't even know what you [TS]

00:13:42 ◼   ► would call it mean sort of fantasy sort [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► of just strange literary humor it's a [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► story he's written a few series but the [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► most popular one is a series of sort of [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► mystery novels call that followed the [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► character Thursday Next who gets [TS]

00:13:59 ◼   ► embroiled in these variously [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► Jerry crimes including i think in her [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► first book she has to rescue Jane Eyre I [TS]

00:14:06 ◼   ► i actually had I am in the middle of [TS]

00:14:09 ◼   ► reading his most recent novel in the [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► series one of our thursdays is missing [TS]

00:14:13 ◼   ► and I had a brief paragraph that I want [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► to read because it touched upon stuff [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► that i thought was was close to our [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► hearts so just to recover my paragraph [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► dramatic reading Daniel the taxi was the [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► usual yellow and check variety and can [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► either run on wheels in the conventional [TS]

00:14:30 ◼   ► manner or fly using advanced technology [TS]

00:14:32 ◼   ► babble TM vectored gravitational [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► inversion thrusters this has been [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► demanded by the sci-fi fraternity who [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► had been whinging on about hover cars [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► and jetpacks for decades and needed [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► appeasing before they went and did [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► something stupid like allow someone to [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► make a movie based on the title of the [TS]

00:14:47 ◼   ► book known as I robot get married [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► anyways [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► mr. part is very funny he worked in [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► previously worked in Hollywood I believe [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► before he worked before became a [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► novelist and his stuff is very similar [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► in many ways to like a Douglas Adams or [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► terry pratchett in that it's very absurd [TS]

00:15:05 ◼   ► it's full of chalk full of references to [TS]

00:15:08 ◼   ► both sort of geeky things and also just [TS]

00:15:10 ◼   ► to general literature in one of the [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► earlier books there's like there are [TS]

00:15:14 ◼   ► roving gangs who who are disputing the [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► the authorship of Shakespeare's plays [TS]

00:15:19 ◼   ► all sorts of various references to [TS]

00:15:23 ◼   ► things but anyways he's very funny if [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► you not read him I had I had a hard time [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► recommending him to some of my friends [TS]

00:15:28 ◼   ► who are more traditional sci-fi and [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► fantasy readers but i actually got one [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► of them to one of them to read him and [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► he actually surprisingly liked it a lot [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► so i highly recommend that [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► so how where do I start with just for [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► Ford I would start with the air affair [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► which is the first thursday next book [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► there are I think six now and they [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► started delving in and out of the both [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► take place in a sort of parallel [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► universe to our universe as well as [TS]

00:15:53 ◼   ► inside books themselves who gets kind of [TS]

00:15:55 ◼   ► meta at a few points so the most recent [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► 184 any well in one of our thursdays is [TS]

00:16:00 ◼   ► missing the main protagonist is not [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► actually thursday next but the written [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► version of Thursday Next inside the book [TS]

00:16:07 ◼   ► so if you can wrap your head around that [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► one and you'll be all over you can also [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► enjoy his lovely series of [TS]

00:16:14 ◼   ► sort of noir a children's tales is his [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► nursery crime series which includes it's [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► the first mode the over / well over easy [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► is the first one right or a big overeasy [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► the big over easy and the fourth bear [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► which are followed it's like a crime and [TS]

00:16:35 ◼   ► crime investigations in nursery land [TS]

00:16:37 ◼   ► basically while you're both pretty [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► pretty amusing as well so if you have [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► not [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► you're looking for something funny to [TS]

00:16:43 ◼   ► read i highly recommend mr. for mr. [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► that's forward with 2 f's yes and in an [TS]

00:16:48 ◼   ► e at the end as usual damn Welshman he [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► shades of grey is more science fiction [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► still humorous and now put well it's the [TS]

00:17:00 ◼   ► first in a trilogy which I did not know [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► when I was reading [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► yeah it's a little more it's a little [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► darker in some ways it is all the great [TS]

00:17:09 ◼   ► can I leave you with one last short [TS]

00:17:11 ◼   ► pieces including me i am terrible person [TS]

00:17:14 ◼   ► yes the his ladies ladies and gentlemen [TS]

00:17:16 ◼   ► open mic night is back in session the [TS]

00:17:18 ◼   ► the the poetry stylings of Dan Morgan [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► the beginning of each chapter of his [TS]

00:17:22 ◼   ► books include quotes from other [TS]

00:17:24 ◼   ► fictional books so in this particular [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► one [TS]

00:17:27 ◼   ► these are quotes from Brad shells [TS]

00:17:29 ◼   ► bookworld companion which is about life [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► inside books distilling metaphor out of [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► raw euphemism was wasteful and expensive [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► and the euphemism producing jeans on [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► genres on the island were always [TS]

00:17:40 ◼   ► squeezing the market [TS]

00:17:42 ◼   ► besides the byproduct of metaphor using [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► the cracked euphemism process liberate [TS]

00:17:45 ◼   ► irony 238 and dangerous quantities of [TS]

00:17:48 ◼   ► alliteration which are associated with [TS]

00:17:49 ◼   ► downright dangerous disposal [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► difficulties [TS]

00:17:53 ◼   ► that's a quote from a fictional a [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► picture work inside the fish meat inside [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► a fictional work we have if there's [TS]

00:18:01 ◼   ► anything we like about the company [TS]

00:18:03 ◼   ► incomparable is metafiction that's [TS]

00:18:06 ◼   ► telling more metafiction inside of it I [TS]

00:18:07 ◼   ► can't wait until we do a podcast about [TS]

00:18:09 ◼   ► this podcast that will be awesome [TS]

00:18:12 ◼   ► it's called this podcast is this podcast [TS]

00:18:14 ◼   ► is over is over when I don't think we [TS]

00:18:19 ◼   ► had a gone to you yet [TS]

00:18:21 ◼   ► no no you had not so you're next I i [TS]

00:18:24 ◼   ► have two things and obscure 1a not [TS]

00:18:26 ◼   ► obscure one but i will start with the [TS]

00:18:28 ◼   ► obscure ones and this seems to be the [TS]

00:18:29 ◼   ► obscure round which is also a little bit [TS]

00:18:32 ◼   ► of a meta within a matter which is diana [TS]

00:18:36 ◼   ► wynne jones who recently passed away [TS]

00:18:38 ◼   ► god rest her soul is a fantastic fantasy [TS]

00:18:40 ◼   ► writer that very few people know about [TS]

00:18:42 ◼   ► because she mostly did young adult [TS]

00:18:44 ◼   ► fiction and she had a lovely she's most [TS]

00:18:48 ◼   ► well-known for Chrestomanci which is [TS]

00:18:49 ◼   ► this fantasy series about magicians and [TS]

00:18:52 ◼   ► cats and it's very it's very whimsical [TS]

00:18:55 ◼   ► but she also did this little thing in [TS]

00:18:57 ◼   ► the mid-nineties this technically to [TS]

00:19:00 ◼   ► book series but it's it has sort of a a [TS]

00:19:03 ◼   ► primer called the tough guide to [TS]

00:19:05 ◼   ► fantasyland out which is basically the [TS]

00:19:07 ◼   ► idea that all of the fantasy stories [TS]

00:19:09 ◼   ► that you hear about and all the fantasy [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► stories are all one giant world and in [TS]

00:19:15 ◼   ► reality [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► everybody comes through like tourists [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► and the big bad Kings are not actually [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► big bad Kings they're just normal people [TS]

00:19:22 ◼   ► and these big bad fights don't actually [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► happen but they're staged every year so [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► that the tourists feel like they're [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► actually getting something out of the [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► experience like oh that's fantasy that's [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► how it's going [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► so she wrote this non this quote-unquote [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► nonfiction book called the top guide to [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► fantasy land which is all about the the [TS]

00:19:41 ◼   ► reality behind fantasy series and then [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► she did a two-book fictional series i [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► called the Dark Lord of Dirk home is the [TS]

00:19:50 ◼   ► first one the second one is I think year [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► of the Griffin which is about basically [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► the denizens of fantasyland having to [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► deal with these tourists coming through [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► and expecting this big giant battle and [TS]

00:20:04 ◼   ► so they have to basically someone is [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► elected you know the evil king [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► and this it turns out to be this Griffin [TS]

00:20:09 ◼   ► this family of Griffin's and so they [TS]

00:20:11 ◼   ► have to put together they basically have [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► to enchant their castle and and they [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► have to take advantage of you know these [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► this horde of undead and and but it's a [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► very it's a very funny little and very [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► satirical look at all of the things that [TS]

00:20:27 ◼   ► are wrong with the fantasy trope and how [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► outsider's view them [TS]

00:20:32 ◼   ► she likes to do that a lot in all of her [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► books where it's all you know based on [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► what the normal world sees versus actual [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► fantasy and it's very it's very fun i [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► love she is she I wouldn't even though [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► some of her books are a bit young adults [TS]

00:20:45 ◼   ► i would wholly recommend that people [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► read her her stuff because it's just [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► it's so funny and and so with like very [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► very concise and we that's great and [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► very timely to since she just passed so [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► yeah I am I I feel bad but first her [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► stuff is so great so I'm encouraging [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► more people to read it [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► this is extremely obscure none of you [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► have probably heard of it but there was [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► this there was this fellow in England [TS]

00:21:11 ◼   ► and in the seventies who wrote a parody [TS]

00:21:14 ◼   ► of what started out really is a parody [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► of science fiction as a as a radio show [TS]

00:21:19 ◼   ► and it later turned into look and a TV [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► series and a movie and a serious amazing [TS]

00:21:26 ◼   ► tell me more and it's um of course I [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► speak of the the plum trilogy [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► no I I you know of course I'm talking [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► about the hitchhiker's guide to the [TS]

00:21:40 ◼   ► galaxy which is one of the funniest [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► things I think that I've ever read but [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► what I want to say about it is if you [TS]

00:21:45 ◼   ► have only experienced in one medium i [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► encourage you to experience in another I [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► I grew up reading the books and only [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► recently listened to the radio plays [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► which was actually the original [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy which [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► he was working on douglas adams working [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► on a while he was working on Doctor Who [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► and the seventies for the BBC and and so [TS]

00:22:07 ◼   ► he was able and he slipped some parody [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► into his doctor who episodes but it [TS]

00:22:11 ◼   ► really all comes out in the radio place [TS]

00:22:14 ◼   ► which are different from the books they [TS]

00:22:16 ◼   ► they are substantially different in some [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► ways where he would tinker with his [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► story [TS]

00:22:20 ◼   ► sometimes find better ways or just [TS]

00:22:22 ◼   ► different ways to do it in the different [TS]

00:22:24 ◼   ► formats but um so I really highly [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► recommend those but I i come back to the [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► book and how it is one of the funniest [TS]

00:22:33 ◼   ► things that I've resonated I may have [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► read it more than any other book that [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► i've ever read because the original is [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► so funny and and this equals are also [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► quite good [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► although they vary and tone and quality [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► the first two or our books are [TS]

00:22:48 ◼   ► essentially seamless so you know he he [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► manages to cover a lot of ground in the [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► later Series he actually tries to cover [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► some things that are a little more [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► serious about the evolution of his [TS]

00:22:59 ◼   ► characters and he's got a great kind of [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► moment where he gives the finger to some [TS]

00:23:04 ◼   ► of his critics and basically says look [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► I'm gonna talk about these characters [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► that you've been following for a [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► thousand pages and if you don't like [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► that just skip to the end because that's [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► got a funny bit with Marvin it can I can [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► I put a plug in for a i believe there [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► for any of his essays most of which i [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► think or a lot of which were come [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► collected in the salmon of doubt i right [TS]

00:23:23 ◼   ► which is his unfinished also includes an [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► unfinished novel some of which are I [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► just remember reading when I think there [TS]

00:23:29 ◼   ► is one about like cookies because i feel [TS]

00:23:31 ◼   ► like i read this one about cookies that [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► was laughing so hard that i could not [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► yet I could not actually see what one of [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► the best things about the radio shows [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► having read recently wish you were here [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► which is the biography of douglas adams [TS]

00:23:43 ◼   ► it's like 53 vision its revised so much [TS]

00:23:45 ◼   ► that neil gaiman wrote the first couple [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► versions before he was neil gaiman and [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► there are footnotes of the footnotes in [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► the book it has been so extensively [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► overhauled over the years is a [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► fascinating biography but when you find [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► out from this which I don't think I knew [TS]

00:23:59 ◼   ► before is that not only was he writing [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► the radio plays before they aired he was [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► running them while they were recording [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► them literally he was writing them while [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► the actors were speaking lines he was [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► writing lines for the next scene which [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► explains why the radio plays may have at [TS]

00:24:15 ◼   ► times appeared a little erratic and the [TS]

00:24:18 ◼   ► reason the first really got a guidebook [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► suddenly ends which says they say let's [TS]

00:24:22 ◼   ► go the rest of the universe is the [TS]

00:24:23 ◼   ► publisher practically drove to his house [TS]

00:24:25 ◼   ► and Claude the manuscript of his hands [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► and put it on the press [TS]

00:24:29 ◼   ► well as a man who is not good at [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► deadlines he's famous saying that he [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► loves deadlines especially the wish [TS]

00:24:34 ◼   ► thing sound they make as they blow past [TS]

00:24:36 ◼   ► him you had a phenomenal phenomenal [TS]

00:24:38 ◼   ► disregard for the notion of time and [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► space so one of the things I love about [TS]

00:24:42 ◼   ► douglas adams and I i I'm going to [TS]

00:24:44 ◼   ► follow in dad's footsteps and read a [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► very tiny fragment from very early on in [TS]

00:24:47 ◼   ► the first book because what i love about [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► him is his way to put these characters [TS]

00:24:53 ◼   ► in kind of awful situations and have [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► these really kind of deadpan responses [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► so even though it's funny [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► let's not forget this is aches a comedy [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► series that begins with the complete [TS]

00:25:06 ◼   ► destruction of planet Earth and he plays [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► it for laughs and this is this is my [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► best part where where where forward [TS]

00:25:12 ◼   ► taking orders or pages still in his [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► bathrobe into the pub and this dressing [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► gown and is yes in or ordering which I'm [TS]

00:25:20 ◼   ► really freaking clue what that meant [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► right first read the book it's a [TS]

00:25:23 ◼   ► bathrobe uh ordering beer and peanuts [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► and I and I love this he says I'm going [TS]

00:25:31 ◼   ► to watch the match this afternoon then [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► forward glanced around [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► no no point he said and looked back out [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► the window what's that foregone [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► conclusion then Arsenal without a chance [TS]

00:25:39 ◼   ► no no said forward it's just that the [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► world's about to end [TS]

00:25:42 ◼   ► oh yes sir so you said the department [TS]

00:25:44 ◼   ► lucky escape for Arsenal if it did for [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► looked back at him generally surprised [TS]

00:25:49 ◼   ► no not really he said there's there's [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► two phrases from the book that i use [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► probably so often that people who know [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► me already discussed that I would incite [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► them one is a substance almost but not [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► quite entirely unlike t that is produced [TS]

00:26:05 ◼   ► by a vending machine on the heart of [TS]

00:26:08 ◼   ► gold the asset and the other of course [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► is the statement about products made by [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► the Sirius cybernetics core since we're [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► all technology people we've encountered [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► this the whole thing which is that your [TS]

00:26:18 ◼   ► plastic pal who's fun to be with [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► exactly its know the think it's the [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► statement about the fact that that the [TS]

00:26:25 ◼   ► Sirius cybernetics product that [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► corporation products are so deeply [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► flawed it's the it's the minor design [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► flaws quote is that you were so overcome [TS]

00:26:33 ◼   ► with a joy that defeat admire design [TS]

00:26:36 ◼   ► flaws that you totally overlooked at the [TS]

00:26:38 ◼   ► major and I'm and I'm how to use this [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► I've been tempted to use this in about [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► half the hardware reviews ever in my [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► life [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► Steve might join me at the [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► probably some text adventure aficionados [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► out there oh they can just go to the [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► galaxy is also a tactic with top we see [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► well it's just on a video game type yes [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► yes it was a spoiler alert for those who [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► haven't solved it because somebody was a [TS]

00:27:00 ◼   ► great moss actually knows what was it [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► you Steve who knows exactly what to do [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► to I yet sadly that I totally gave up on [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► that game in 1993 so don't never quite [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► got back to its brilliant but but what I [TS]

00:27:12 ◼   ► want when you talk about things that [TS]

00:27:13 ◼   ► stick with you from Douglas evans i find [TS]

00:27:14 ◼   ► this hilarious that my wife has only [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► played one text adventure in her entire [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► life and I wish the hitchhiker's guide [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► to the galaxy and that probably [TS]

00:27:21 ◼   ► completely turned off texted Billy I [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► think it did but we don't reference into [TS]

00:27:25 ◼   ► it because one of the funny things in [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► that game is that if it was actually [TS]

00:27:30 ◼   ► parodying the fact that you could pick [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► up objects and drop them and have them [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► in your inventory and one of the objects [TS]

00:27:37 ◼   ► that you had was no tea right and you [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► can pick it up no tea and you could drop [TS]

00:27:42 ◼   ► in OT and to this day no t is here in [TS]

00:27:46 ◼   ► various situations my wife will turn to [TS]

00:27:48 ◼   ► me and say you have no t know it's funny [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► somebody mentioned the socket flat [TS]

00:27:55 ◼   ► because this was back in the days when [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► infocomm actually packaged crazy stuff [TS]

00:27:59 ◼   ► with their games and the game actually [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► came with a piece of pocket fluff one of [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► the things about Hitchhiker's Guide all [TS]

00:28:06 ◼   ► the ancillary stuff was that it did the [TS]

00:28:08 ◼   ► same thing that is proposing board of [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► the Rings did is it transcends the peri [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► because it's a purity but it's so damn [TS]

00:28:14 ◼   ► good that you're enjoying the funny part [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► but you're also enjoying the story and [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► the modern equivalent that I would say [TS]

00:28:20 ◼   ► is the series futurama a matt groening [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► co-produced venture after after the [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► simpsons you know which was the simpsons [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► wasn't a big success so he thought he'd [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► go to the science fiction genre and [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► pretty something massively successful [TS]

00:28:32 ◼   ► there but it's not the same thing a [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► loving attention to detail super nerdy [TS]

00:28:36 ◼   ► details and details in it and have two [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► people work on the son of maths PhDs and [TS]

00:28:41 ◼   ► they and I like to flaunt it in the in [TS]

00:28:43 ◼   ► the notes on the blackboards the virtual [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► blackboards on the show but it also has [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► that thing where the story some of them [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► have real hard and they're not just [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► parodies of the genre at some point they [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► ran out of just parroting and create [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► something new that was also hilarious [TS]

00:28:57 ◼   ► when i'm going to stop you there because [TS]

00:28:59 ◼   ► you know what I think I think we should [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► do a whole [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► cast about futurama not lose everyone [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► but that won't be today and Glenn should [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► just repeat futurama a couple more drama [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► today could we look for for things that [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► we like in other in other media in in [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► movies and TV does anybody have [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► suggestions of some movies or TV shows [TS]

00:29:19 ◼   ► that would be that would be good and [TS]

00:29:22 ◼   ► Steve perhaps because I know especially [TS]

00:29:24 ◼   ► he loves the horror genre i think there [TS]

00:29:26 ◼   ► are a lot of really good examples in [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► that donor will start with dan Warren [TS]

00:29:30 ◼   ► uh-oh there's a couple on some of which [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► we discussed for but i will start with [TS]

00:29:34 ◼   ► one that I've been recently watching [TS]

00:29:36 ◼   ► which is that the TV show supernatural [TS]

00:29:39 ◼   ► which seems off the top of it [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► yeah am I go ahead unless I will because [TS]

00:29:45 ◼   ► I'm it's got the doesn't have Dean from [TS]

00:29:48 ◼   ► the gilmore girls from the gilmore girls [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► and does I you know it and that is in [TS]

00:29:52 ◼   ► fact mine at least in one episode this [TS]

00:29:54 ◼   ► is what i love about this show is that [TS]

00:29:56 ◼   ► let's just talk about the Gilmore Girls [TS]

00:29:58 ◼   ► Scott I think we should I never liked [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► Jess know he was no good [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► I know just go ahead and my character [TS]

00:30:06 ◼   ► knock ok i'm glad they got rid of him [TS]

00:30:08 ◼   ► and then he was on heroes what was that [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► about I don't ever think of him as [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► anything but very scared of well [TS]

00:30:13 ◼   ► boyfriend it's true that that punk was [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► an attitude from Stars Hollow [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► yeah why didn't kick him out of Stars [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► Hollow nobody wants that kind of you [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► know they're just so pleased looks like [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► that is like this although he was like [TS]

00:30:27 ◼   ► Luke's nephew or something that wasn't [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► he wasn't at his desk so I can leave [TS]

00:30:30 ◼   ► anytime I hall [TS]

00:30:32 ◼   ► ok you have some ants and it's glazed [TS]

00:30:35 ◼   ► yes I i want to let you dig as deep a [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► hole as you like and telling us about [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► how great supernatural is going [TS]

00:30:40 ◼   ► supernaturals a fantastic show and maybe [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► one of the best shows I've watching [TS]

00:30:43 ◼   ► years in fact i would go too far as to [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► say is it is the best sort of the horror [TS]

00:30:48 ◼   ► fantasy show since Buffy I would [TS]

00:30:51 ◼   ► actually say it is actually dropped dead [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► funny there there's an episode in which [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► for example the two characters made the [TS]

00:30:59 ◼   ► brothers go and visit Hollywood to [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► investigate a ghost sighting and while [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► there they make reference to the fact [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► that they're passing the gilmore girls [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► set and the actor who was on that show [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► kind of looks up awkwardly and makes [TS]

00:31:11 ◼   ► them get off the little tram and walk [TS]

00:31:13 ◼   ► away [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► they've done a number of parody episodes [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► they did one this this most recent [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► season I watched that is entirely a no [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► Maj to the universal monster movies of [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► the thirties is shot entirely in black [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► and white and involves a shapeshifter [TS]

00:31:26 ◼   ► who turns himself into like the Bela [TS]

00:31:28 ◼   ► Lugosi version of Dracula the lon chaney [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► version of The Wolfman and and sort of [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► kidnaps people and throughout that [TS]

00:31:36 ◼   ► despite having these totally [TS]

00:31:37 ◼   ► off-the-wall episodes there's an episode [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► for example there's a time loop episode [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► in which they the two characters get [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► stuck in a time loop which ends every [TS]

00:31:46 ◼   ► time with one of the brothers dying in [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► various unfortunate ways including [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► having like a piano dropped on him but [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► throughout this they managed to actually [TS]

00:31:55 ◼   ► hold a pretty good plot like ongoing a [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► storyline as well my personal favorite [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► humorous episode involved an episode [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► where they discover an artifact that's a [TS]

00:32:05 ◼   ► rabbit's foot which makes you [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► exceedingly lucky [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► well you have it in your possession so [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► you know somebody shoots at them and the [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► board like ricochets off like four [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► different walls and knocked the gun out [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► of the persons hand accept them when you [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► lose it [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► your luck goes downhill which involves a [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► variety of pratfalls and increasingly [TS]

00:32:22 ◼   ► unfortunate happenstance so i will say [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► this I you know rock the show you want [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► but okay you have actually watched it [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► then I hold actually no respect for my [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► will say that i did watch the first few [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► episodes and perhaps they were at that [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► point they were still taking themselves [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► very seriously and it was no it's really [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► starting starting with the second season [TS]

00:32:45 ◼   ► I feel like they really get into a [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► groove that there's a lot of metal [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► references to the show there's an [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► episode with a wishing well that grants [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► actual wishes including a little girl [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► who wishes her teddy bear is alive and [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► so ends up with a giant 6-foot depressed [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► teddy bear they can't understand what [TS]

00:33:01 ◼   ► it's doing there and at one point tries [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► to kill itself by shooting itself the [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► head and disclose something out of the [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► fridge [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► Wow and during that conversation one of [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► the you know one of the characters is [TS]

00:33:13 ◼   ► like oh yeah it doesn't cover is over [TS]

00:33:15 ◼   ► we're writing a book about weird things [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► what's the name of your book a [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► supernatural [TS]

00:33:20 ◼   ► it's it gets very mad i hear there's an [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► episode in later seasons in which they [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► actually end up in our world as you know [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► the end are recognized as the actors [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► portraying them so it's a clever show i [TS]

00:33:33 ◼   ► gotta say I'm surprised but pleasantly [TS]

00:33:36 ◼   ► so it has to have completely changed [TS]

00:33:37 ◼   ► them from further w having seen a couple [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► seasons and episodes here and there is [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► not a bad show for the CW's setting the [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► bar high [TS]

00:33:47 ◼   ► it's better than charmed much my taste [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► is in everything [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► charmed that's the only worse than [TS]

00:33:54 ◼   ► saying for the CW you can find a hole in [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► my taste [TS]

00:33:57 ◼   ► please go ahead actually eyes having [TS]

00:33:59 ◼   ► seen the first episode I thought it was [TS]

00:34:02 ◼   ► basically the dude charmed [TS]

00:34:04 ◼   ► yeah i mean it it's already operating on [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► writing weird half-assed barely [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► supernatural event up each each week in [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► a scooby-doo type fashion but with less [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► said that they give them i mean what [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► makes the show is that the rapport [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► between the two guys playing brothers [TS]

00:34:19 ◼   ► they actually are really funny they go [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► back and forth they act like actual [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► brothers you know they bicker they fight [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► but they have they have a good [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► relationship they have good chemistry [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► today and i gotta say you brought you [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► brought up supernatural rather than [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► spaced really i've talked about space [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► before on our podcast and I have [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► extolled the virtues and I could do so [TS]

00:34:39 ◼   ► at any moment in fact if you would like [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► I could perform the entire series from [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► you from beginning i would like to see [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► that that might be another podcast after [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► why read blah enough for today but we [TS]

00:34:49 ◼   ► left you think I can't be emotional and [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► cried like a baby at the end of [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► Terminator 2 with the thumb and the [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► that's the first thing together [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► Robert Scott help me out here well do [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► you love charm to do we just spoil you [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► bringing up termed you do just like a [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► girl version of supernatural I here but [TS]

00:35:13 ◼   ► it's far superior match the supernatural [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► please [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► it's closer to the material there are [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► more girls there who crosses happens [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► I've not been so insulted in Scott tells [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► me about how he doesn't like to know [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► that's i'm saving that for later [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► how about a little i am a big fan of [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► british sitcoms or brit comes as the [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► come off the show with an option so the [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► it crowd or the IT crowd one of the well [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► played sir thank you is is one of my [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► favorite a geeky sitcoms it is it [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► follows the adventures and misadventures [TS]

00:35:49 ◼   ► of this kind of corporations IT group [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► which three people and they are in the [TS]

00:35:58 ◼   ► basement and they go around doing things [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► and I think the first moved in the first [TS]

00:36:02 ◼   ► the opening of the first show you know [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► the phone rings one of the IT guys picks [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► it up and he says have you tried [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► rebooting and he hangs up and that kind [TS]

00:36:13 ◼   ► of sets the whole time for it [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► it's a very good chance it's very much I [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► it's almost like an office kind of [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► flavored thing it's true but it's more [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► absurd than the office yes because then [TS]

00:36:22 ◼   ► later and maybe the second season you [TS]

00:36:24 ◼   ► find out that there is a someone who's [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► been trapped in the server room and he [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► lives there and he's thinking maybe a [TS]

00:36:29 ◼   ► vampire and they're not sugar and ren do [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► you have [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► would you like to install the virtues of [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► something where and i'm going to mention [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► again with the mid-nineties Galaxy Quest [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► is great [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► okay you tell me you took my things to [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► go ahead take think I'm sorry well it [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► was it's a it's a combination of several [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► galaxy quest was one of the ones i was [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► thinkin fifth element is kind of serious [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► but also kind of ridiculous it's just [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► this this series also kind of terrible [TS]

00:36:57 ◼   ► also kind of terrible but it no longer [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► feels good [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► I don't like it interior know it's [TS]

00:37:04 ◼   ► terrible and delightful i took my future [TS]

00:37:06 ◼   ► wife in a day badly so I have a soft [TS]

00:37:08 ◼   ► spot so bad which tells all kinds of [TS]

00:37:10 ◼   ► things about yeah right it's so-so [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► galaxy quest tell me more about about [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► galaxy quest [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► oh gosh Galaxy Quest is kind of problem [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► for everybody seen it on the podcast [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► right anybody not seen it'sit's [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► protostar track day is understated [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► although i have quoted at me repeat [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► ok so go see anybody know it's one of [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► the best Star Trek movies ever made in [TS]

00:37:33 ◼   ► fast and hard to achieve in my opinion [TS]

00:37:35 ◼   ► has that's the same qualities to [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► transform the parody even though it's [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► incredibly funny [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► it does and it it has stellar casting is [TS]

00:37:43 ◼   ► alan rickman isn't it yeah Alan andhra [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► alan rickman isn't it is basically the [TS]

00:37:47 ◼   ► spot is his spot character i believe and [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► yeah yeah and it's basically you know [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► your water dimer yeah washed-up [TS]

00:37:54 ◼   ► television actors who used to be on this [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► star trek like show which has ended on a [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► cliffhanger and then they get basically [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► take abducted right bye-bye action by [TS]

00:38:04 ◼   ► aliens who have actually seen that has [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► seen the show based on like radio [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► broadcasts through the foremost [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► authorities right they modeled their [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► entire society on the historical [TS]

00:38:14 ◼   ► documents that are actually the episodes [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► of this star trek like cancelled TV show [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► and they've come to recruit them and [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► they built the mastership so that they [TS]

00:38:22 ◼   ► can lead them into battle against their [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► alien their alien foe accept these [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► people are all just kind of vein actors [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► who are not remotely capable of doing [TS]

00:38:31 ◼   ► what the characters can do so it's the [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► three amigos in space [TS]

00:38:35 ◼   ► yeah nailed it [TS]

00:38:39 ◼   ► Tim Allen by the way oh man that has [TS]

00:38:42 ◼   ► four months of his career as you sort of [TS]

00:38:44 ◼   ► shatner asked a guy who ends up sucking [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► it up and doing his job and saving the [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► that planet of jellyfish people from [TS]

00:38:52 ◼   ► certain destruction out and alan rickman [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► he delivers the performance Alan [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► requires extraordinary actor in any [TS]

00:38:57 ◼   ► movies and no matter how terrible we [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► know this right and in this movie which [TS]

00:39:01 ◼   ► is good shoot you know he seems totally [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► to be this pompous ass and then at the [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► end there's scene where I'm in tears [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► yeah and they're reflecting yes yes [TS]

00:39:10 ◼   ► you just like my granddaughter's hammer [TS]

00:39:12 ◼   ► I will avenge the or whatever that line [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► is my great still stained my crap Thor's [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► hammer quality by grabthar's hammer [TS]

00:39:19 ◼   ► ology ruin that he completely ruined the [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► punch line now it's a nice job led [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► another interesting reznor about this [TS]

00:39:26 ◼   ► film though on the DVD you know what [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► deleted scenes usually watch deleted [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► scenes and you say there's a reason [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► these were in the movie galaxy quest the [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► deleted scenes should have been in there [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► missing plot points and some hilarious [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► stuff on the excellent Sam Rockwell is [TS]

00:39:39 ◼   ► in this movie too [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► yes and he actually plays a redshirt he [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► was a guy who was an incident in like a [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► couple episodes and then throughout the [TS]

00:39:47 ◼   ► throughout the episode he's like today [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► I'd be expendable guide their my last [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► name its use the redshirt throughout [TS]

00:39:55 ◼   ► their my favorite part in the movie i [TS]

00:39:57 ◼   ► think we probably have to fire the [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► spiral the spoiler Horner off because [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► it's the it's the countdown device just [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► being vague but I yeah i'll just say it [TS]

00:40:06 ◼   ► might be like that the countdown device [TS]

00:40:08 ◼   ► is my favorite part of that movie [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► because now there's just no point seeing [TS]

00:40:12 ◼   ► it thanks alone is that surprises [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► surprises just say there is a device [TS]

00:40:16 ◼   ► that has to count down [TS]

00:40:18 ◼   ► yes there's a whole this giant have two [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► smaller version of the spoiler horn for [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► spoilers that really aren't the old [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► because we're the millers that don't [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► boil and whack we bring that out [TS]

00:40:30 ◼   ► oh and and Justin what's-his-face just [TS]

00:40:37 ◼   ► not guy this long as possessing long [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► isn't he's playing a bit of a bit of a [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► dweeb by the way [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► spoiler alert you hadn't been for you so [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► so I I fully endorse red selection of [TS]

00:40:53 ◼   ► galaxy quest great funny parody that [TS]

00:40:56 ◼   ► elevates itself and i think that's a [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► that's a recurring theme here is that [TS]

00:40:59 ◼   ► you can take something that's sort of a [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► loving parody and if you do a really [TS]

00:41:02 ◼   ► good job it elevates above the source [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► material and it's just you know it's [TS]

00:41:07 ◼   ► just funny on its own and it creates its [TS]

00:41:09 ◼   ► own little little universe and i [TS]

00:41:10 ◼   ► actually am hopeful that there's been [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► some talk that they might revisit galaxy [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► quest which I would be up for because [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► that is a film great film [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► I wanted to say also this is very very [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► recent but Paul which is by the crew [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► two of the three creators of space simon [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► pegg and nick frost it's their writing [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► debut I don't know if they directed it [TS]

00:41:30 ◼   ► but they also star in it they didn't [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► know did not direct Mottola yes greg [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► mottola superbad superbad yes but I it's [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► that explains a lot but Paul is also [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► hope not only is it hilarious but it is [TS]

00:41:42 ◼   ► chock-full with so many ridiculous [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► science fiction references and cameos [TS]

00:41:47 ◼   ► and guest stars it's basically to geeks [TS]

00:41:50 ◼   ► who go to comic-con and then decide to [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► tour road or go on a road trip of famous [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► alien artifacts in the you know [TS]

00:41:57 ◼   ► southwest and then they run into an [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► actual alien and they have to deal with [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► that to give nothing away [TS]

00:42:04 ◼   ► I and yes the voice of Seth Rogen yes [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► the voice of Seth Rogen is the alien and [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► I was I was really concerned because i [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► was pretty much assuming that this was [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► going to be the hangover with sci-fi [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► jokes and to a certain extent it kind of [TS]

00:42:19 ◼   ► is but at the same time the sci-fi jokes [TS]

00:42:21 ◼   ► are at such a wonderful level jason [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► bateman does a great Han Solo cameo [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► which I will not spoil because it is [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► just so perfect that I I can't do it [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► like I i was in glee for at least five [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► minutes after that happened it that [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► there's just there's a lot of great [TS]

00:42:36 ◼   ► acting there's Jason Bateman Sigourney [TS]

00:42:38 ◼   ► Weaver's and it Simon Pegg nick frost I [TS]

00:42:42 ◼   ► Jane Lynch has a has a short thing [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► there's just there's so many wonderful [TS]

00:42:46 ◼   ► wonderful actors know my selections [TS]

00:42:49 ◼   ► Doctor Who parodies specifically the [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► curse of life death that the curse of [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► failed and like first grade fail yeah [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► that's right well the live curse of [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► people much but it's much better if you [TS]

00:42:59 ◼   ► get the titles i'll just erase that fix [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► that for me will ya it's it's brilliant [TS]

00:43:04 ◼   ► because it's by steven moffat who wind [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► up red running the real show but it was [TS]

00:43:07 ◼   ► done when it was off the air and it's [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► got an all-star cast as well its got [TS]

00:43:11 ◼   ► rowan atkinson is as the doctor and [TS]

00:43:13 ◼   ► julia sawalha is that as a an assistant [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► and Jonathan Pryce is the master and [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► then there are lots of Steve you like [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► this part there's lots of poop jokes to [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► is also if you [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► but--and boob jokes a really JW a and [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► Richard grant Jim Broadbent Hugh Grant [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► and joanna lumley all appear as [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► subsequent doctors in the regeneration [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► yes because the doctor does really [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► stupid things and keeps killing himself [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► and abs nothing is on youtube if you [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► what is available on 23 minutes was done [TS]

00:43:45 ◼   ► for that one of the Red Nose Day telefon [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► charity telephones if you look at [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► parodies of Doctor Who I was surprised [TS]

00:43:51 ◼   ► by this [TS]

00:43:52 ◼   ► I didn't notice i have seen some others [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► there are over 50 disparities listed [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► some are just a single scene and summer [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► extended sketches or episodes in TV [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► alone and there's a bunch of other stuff [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► to me doctor who was right there so many [TS]

00:44:05 ◼   ► episodes and it was so cheesy [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► sometimes it's hard to parody stuff [TS]

00:44:08 ◼   ► that's cheesy and the older series where [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► was Les you know less serious and more [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► of a low-rent but yeah curse of fatal [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► death curse of fatal death which is [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► which is a call back to many ridiculous [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► dr. titles like the deadly assassin [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► that's the best one and and there are [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► also several points in the curse of [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► fatal death where there's a serious plot [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► problem that is caught by the companion [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► who says but doctor I don't understand [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► that and he just turns to her and says [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► I'll explain later and the redskins [TS]

00:44:37 ◼   ► garlic's a one-point beautiful this [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► happens there's sort of a pause in the [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► dollar in the Daleks say he will explain [TS]

00:44:42 ◼   ► later [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► yes yeah alright we are we're running [TS]

00:44:47 ◼   ► out of time i'll explain later exactly [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► right Steve have you I opposed your [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► question earlier about something like a [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► horror horror release that that you find [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► particularly funny you have something [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► for me [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► you did mention something along those [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► lines and it's obvious you're trying to [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► draw shaun of the dead out of me but I'm [TS]

00:45:06 ◼   ► going to fear aside and discard your [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► expectations which turned out to not [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► have actually been your expectations [TS]

00:45:12 ◼   ► like that's a lot of so many used [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► tissues [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► I understand about showing up a TV show [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► that's again from Britain that's what [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► really is the brit com [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► no it is not it is actually a travel [TS]

00:45:27 ◼   ► show in its own way called an idiot [TS]

00:45:29 ◼   ► abroad [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► oh I'm just some of you are familiar [TS]

00:45:32 ◼   ► with it but it's it's it's sort of a [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► spinoff from the Ricky Gervais pause [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► sure isn't your marriage or face to face [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► service okay I'm gonna go with your PHA [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► so it's a spin off its that right Cass [TS]

00:45:46 ◼   ► French we can survey if if if you ever [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► listen to that podcast it basically [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► involves and I haven't so I have no idea [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► but I don't know where you're missing [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► out that site it involves a payment so I [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► as a cheap bastard I I pretty much just [TS]

00:46:02 ◼   ► live vicariously through those who have [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► actually first sentence for your money [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► first was glad I understand a large part [TS]

00:46:07 ◼   ► of it is is ricky gervais days [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► yes and Stephen Merchant to murder Shan [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► Shan Shan they're basically abusing the [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► the the bald-headed karl Pilkington who [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► I they consider it a you get his name [TS]

00:46:26 ◼   ► right just as well because he and I we [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► share a lot of a lot of qualities and so [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► I I bothered to look up the [TS]

00:46:33 ◼   ► pronunciation of his name but anyway [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► they just torment this guy and he's a [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► think they consider him kind of a [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► half-wit and it i haven't quite gotten [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► weather hits it's all kind of a dry act [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► or whether he genuinely is just kind of [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► a daddy and dude who's I've heard enough [TS]

00:46:51 ◼   ► of it now i want without the entire [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► ricky gervais podcast it's that's just [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► him he's just that guy and ricky gervais [TS]

00:46:58 ◼   ► said wait a second i had this guy is [TS]

00:46:59 ◼   ► hilarious in his own unintentional way [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► let's put him in uncomfortable [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► situations and see what he does and [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► that's exactly what this is they've [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► taken a karl Pilkington and and sent him [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► to the seven wonders of the ancient [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► world and put him up in the worst [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► accommodations possible put him into [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► these situations where he's likely to be [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► killed and and then they just they watch [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► what he does and then call him while [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► he's there is an call him in torment him [TS]

00:47:29 ◼   ► and talk about how their they just [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► opened their third bottle of champagne [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► and they're about to go take a nice [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► bubble bath while he's being trampled by [TS]

00:47:38 ◼   ► a bowl in the middle of some dusty field [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► in Mexico to Mexico episode was very [TS]

00:47:43 ◼   ► funny it was it was good and it was [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► actually that kind of interesting that [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► that turned out to be the place that [TS]

00:47:48 ◼   ► he's he liked the most of the various [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► places to visit [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► but very funny and extremely shy know [TS]

00:47:54 ◼   ► where he just basically says this isn't [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► so great that's not the thing that I [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► like so much about the show and I i know [TS]

00:48:01 ◼   ► i'm taking this completely the wrong way [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► because I'm supposed to look at him into [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► a stupid idiot [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► how does he not see the beauty in that [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► cigarette and and in fact basically [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► everything he says is about what i would [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► say in the same situation [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► no that's that's heat that's the [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► brilliance i think of karl Pilkington [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► this that I mean he has a very [TS]

00:48:21 ◼   ► straightforward you and and sometimes [TS]

00:48:23 ◼   ► you know he uh I think what a lot of [TS]

00:48:26 ◼   ► people like Ricky Gervais Stephen [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► Merchant who is the one who I think [TS]

00:48:28 ◼   ► really strapped in the world traveler [TS]

00:48:31 ◼   ► says you know it broadens your mind and [TS]

00:48:33 ◼   ► you can really see into other cultures [TS]

00:48:34 ◼   ► and you can appreciate history and all [TS]

00:48:36 ◼   ► that is true and I think you can [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► appreciate it on that level then there's [TS]

00:48:39 ◼   ► that other level which is I'm staying in [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► a really crappy place and this food is [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► really weird and I'm afraid to drink the [TS]

00:48:44 ◼   ► water and I don't really see what the [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► fuss about this thing is it's just kind [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► of an old bunch of bricks and Carl [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► that's the level he's working on and he [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► and he just looks everything because why [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► why is this so great this wall and then [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► they say walk across it is why would I [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► do that why would anybody do that ever i [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► love it there's a particular scene I [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► think he's at what Tanaka plan and in [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► Mexico and he's basically yeah it's [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► actually pronounced n notched it planned [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► yeah [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► Gervase you have been around your face [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► if you go and work to say it right [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► he's it's at the very end of the episode [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► and he's effectively given up on trying [TS]

00:49:22 ◼   ► to figure out what's so great about it [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► and he puts on his headphones and and [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► and i think it's a Depeche Mode song or [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► something that's on and just starts [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► walking away dancing there at that point [TS]

00:49:35 ◼   ► he's happy he's given up on on the [TS]

00:49:37 ◼   ► monument and I think he's walking away [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► says you know there's nothing so boring [TS]

00:49:42 ◼   ► that any comes up with completely the [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► wrong band in the wrong song that that [TS]

00:49:46 ◼   ► but that's such a figure can't fix us [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► anyway it's a great show that's it sits [TS]

00:49:53 ◼   ► on the science channel shell things [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► where are we [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► I guess because it's somewhat of a [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► science experiment to send this poor [TS]

00:49:59 ◼   ► bastard out and see what he does [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► yeah I revives I think the basis that [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► it's because karl Pilkington is a wonder [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► of science [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► no one can explain him there we go [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► whatever works anyway it's it's genius [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► and i highly recommend my favorite [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► moment in in the mexico episode is also [TS]

00:50:13 ◼   ► the next episode when he's in the ring [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► with the bulls and he's like okay this [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► is too dangerous i have to leave so he [TS]

00:50:19 ◼   ► leaves the ring and they show him [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► walking down this road and then they [TS]

00:50:23 ◼   ► show and he's wearing a sombrero and [TS]

00:50:25 ◼   ► then he starts running the other way [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► because there's a swarm of bees [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► he's just absolutely incredulous [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► throughout the mexico episode that what [TS]

00:50:36 ◼   ► the hell's wrong with you people like [TS]

00:50:38 ◼   ► you're all trying to die and he's trying [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► to find a Mexican jumping beans it keeps [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► asking everyone what he asked everybody [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► finds if they've got Mexican jumping [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► beans and nobody has a clue what he's [TS]

00:50:49 ◼   ► talking about [TS]

00:50:50 ◼   ► has anybody out there anybody feel [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► unfulfilled this there's something else [TS]

00:50:53 ◼   ► that you would like to share that I have [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► not yet prompted you to share we would [TS]

00:50:57 ◼   ► probably be remiss if we did not mention [TS]

00:50:59 ◼   ► rifftrax in some way shape or form [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► mentioned it earlier in short you did [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► yes in passing somebody it is i've never [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► heard I've never heard of specifically I [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► wanted to bring up something called I [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► riffs which is basically will retract is [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► of course commentary tracks similar to [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► mst3k and written by most of the same [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► crew that was involved with mystery [TS]

00:51:21 ◼   ► science theater and again another [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► hilarious example of you know just great [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► stuff and a lot of that mystery science [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► theater stuff is now on netflix instant [TS]

00:51:29 ◼   ► watch so you know if there are movies [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► that you haven't caught on mst3k a lot [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► of them are up there now and one of the [TS]

00:51:36 ◼   ► things i wanted to bring up so this [TS]

00:51:38 ◼   ► works well and i will then let Steve [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► finish what he is talking about is it [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► during mst3k it ended often with keep [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► circulating the tapes because people [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► would tape it on VHS tapes on the [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► sequence at the time and then they would [TS]

00:51:53 ◼   ► mail tapes to each other and this group [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► of fans created their own before [TS]

00:51:57 ◼   ► rifftrax they did their own Mystery [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► Science Theater episode with Star Trek [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► five and the only way at the time to get [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► it was to send three dollars to this [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► address and then you would get a VHS [TS]

00:52:09 ◼   ► tape of this hilarious mystery science [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► theater with Star Trek five and you can [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► find it on the internet now so look [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► forward [TS]

00:52:17 ◼   ► it's well worth [TS]

00:52:18 ◼   ► the effort but iris as you know is is [TS]

00:52:22 ◼   ► essentially the ability for people to [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► come up with their own rifftrax which [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► then people can purchase and download [TS]

00:52:30 ◼   ► and sync up with a DVD of of whatever [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► film-- you may happen to have laying [TS]

00:52:35 ◼   ► around the house and in fact i [TS]

00:52:37 ◼   ► understand that a plucky little podcast [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► might have put one of those together [TS]

00:52:42 ◼   ► recently i believe so you can you can [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► find it it's the Phantom Empire chapter [TS]

00:52:47 ◼   ► five is it now whole area see if I do [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► say so myself all my god it's funny [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► added features many of the people on [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► this podcast in fact all of them today [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► except me [TS]

00:52:59 ◼   ► well no I did all of the people that [TS]

00:53:01 ◼   ► features are on tonight's podcast subset [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► of today's on upset right Scott Scott [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► and read more both in it as well but [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► they are playing arm only sound effects [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► stress course my cat in the background I [TS]

00:53:16 ◼   ► i will throw out really quick that a and [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► I think we talked about doing a podcast [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► about this subject [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► haha well but the author Terry pression [TS]

00:53:26 ◼   ► who is I think another one of the great [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► examples [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► hey Jason you should read some pratchett [TS]

00:53:30 ◼   ► by the wicked omens ah I i purchased [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► guards guards so i'll be reading that [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► good man [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► yeah another douglas adams sort of vain [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► and where Douglas Adams did for sci-fi [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► terry pratchett has done for fantasy [TS]

00:53:45 ◼   ► creating a huge series taking place in [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► the world of Discworld and he's written [TS]

00:53:50 ◼   ► like 30 novels or something [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► the man is the man's produce if nothing [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► else and a few of those have actually [TS]

00:53:58 ◼   ► been turned into TV productions there is [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► a production of the colour of magic [TS]

00:54:03 ◼   ► which was his first discworld book that [TS]

00:54:05 ◼   ► aired on Sky TV and Britain the last [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► year two years ago and then most [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► recently a version of making money which [TS]

00:54:12 ◼   ► is one of his more recent books starring [TS]

00:54:14 ◼   ► richard coyle from Stephen Haas [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► happening [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► yeah well there's also an as I think red [TS]

00:54:20 ◼   ► mentioned good omens which was a [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► collaboration between Terry Pratchett [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► and neil gaiman and it's a it's a [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► hilarious book and they are making a [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► British a british version the miniseries [TS]

00:54:30 ◼   ► that directed by monty python [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► i'm terry jones that actually in [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► production though it's been rumored for [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► you on it is no no this is this is [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► actually have a new Monty Python would [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► have liked last week or two my god yes [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► so so anyway I'm glad that you all could [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► could join me for this very loosely [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► themed podcast because i wanted to do [TS]

00:54:50 ◼   ► something to mark april first back in [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► the old days [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► Steve and I we all we all gonna be [TS]

00:54:55 ◼   ► murdered well yes and now you're useful [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► this is is no more [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► no Steven I back in the old days along [TS]

00:55:00 ◼   ► with a bunch of other people Lisa [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► Schmeisser included uh did a site called [TS]

00:55:05 ◼   ► TV where we did a parody on april first [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► every single year an entire parody [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► website and those were the days and as [TS]

00:55:15 ◼   ► my wife said to me this very week she [TS]

00:55:17 ◼   ► said boy I'm glad you don't do that [TS]

00:55:18 ◼   ► anymore so instead we have had was a [TS]

00:55:20 ◼   ► pretty nightmarish experience here after [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► you a lot of work [TS]

00:55:25 ◼   ► yeah alright so thank you all for [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► sharing your your things that make you [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► laugh with us because this important to [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► laugh so up i would like to thank you [TS]

00:55:32 ◼   ► individually now as is our custom in [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► this podcast this the the incomparable [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► nations custom is to thank you [TS]

00:55:40 ◼   ► individually not collectively so Dan [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► more'n I thank you [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► thank you Jason Scott McNulty I am [TS]

00:55:48 ◼   ► grateful for your presence [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► well thank you Jason I have to go watch [TS]

00:55:50 ◼   ► the episodes of the supernatural have on [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► my DVR [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► coming for you right now [TS]

00:55:59 ◼   ► serenity Caldwell I am grateful for your [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► presence [TS]

00:56:03 ◼   ► it is always a pleasure Jason's down [TS]

00:56:05 ◼   ► always did we test that tonight a little [TS]

00:56:10 ◼   ► bit [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► it's a pleasure for event at the present [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► time is your pleasure [TS]

00:56:15 ◼   ► where is obtained go and Fleischmann I [TS]

00:56:17 ◼   ► acknowledge your presence I was promised [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► a shallow grave and that's what i will [TS]

00:56:21 ◼   ► get Steve Lutz I appreciate you being on [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► this podcast from a hotel room instead [TS]

00:56:29 ◼   ► of watching hotel room born you are [TS]

00:56:32 ◼   ► forever in my debt [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► indeed I am and on that note until next [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► time again as is our custom I Jason [TS]

00:56:41 ◼   ► smell host of the income [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► well thank you the listener for [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► listening to this nonsense [TS]

00:56:46 ◼   ► until next time [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► unfortunately everything we discussed [TS]

00:56:54 ◼   ► tonight is real isn't it that's the one [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► downside everything we discussed that is [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► no no one of the things but actually [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► night yet one was not real and you have [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► to figure out which one of them was [TS]

00:57:03 ◼   ► poisoned it was made but had actually [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► were not real and poisoned [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► I'm a very poor simulation of a [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► podcaster im a series of perl scripts [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► running on a laptop that's right oh I i [TS]

00:57:19 ◼   ► could get Captain Kirk to him actually [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► should have been obvious actually sell [TS]

00:57:23 ◼   ► the touring test earlier today [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► yeah yeah but the next thing I say will [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► be the truth the last thing i said was a [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► lie [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► normally the air or air or air are and [TS]

00:57:36 ◼   ► that's the end we uh demeanor sis [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► episode with the the statement one of [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► the people this podcast will die [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► wow that's as it turns out i was never [TS]

00:57:50 ◼   ► actually alive so who that we didn't [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► Lackey twist when you're here you're a [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► vampire now I'm a set of prescripts tips [TS]

00:58:00 ◼   ► yes [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► who's the vampires scarier than a [TS]

00:58:02 ◼   ► vampire when you think about this is [TS]

00:58:04 ◼   ► just like that episode of supernatural [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► listen knife in the wound [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► i'm going to start saying mean things [TS]

00:58:12 ◼   ► about something else you like I was like [TS]

00:58:20 ◼   ► something you'd like to do you know what [TS]

00:58:22 ◼   ► we want to change sucks [TS]

00:58:24 ◼   ► alright and I gentlemen ladies yes I am [TS]

00:58:27 ◼   ► pressing the big button that turns off [TS]

00:58:30 ◼   ► the recorder push the button Frank know [TS]

00:58:32 ◼   ► i will cease to exist [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► Steve it's time for the it's time for [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► the hotel room important yeah i actually [TS]

00:58:37 ◼   ► started at about 45 minutes on [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:58:43 ◼   ► Sal show 1900 house on the PBS where the [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► the people lived in that house and only [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► use technology from 90s I never actually [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► watched it but I'm sure but yeah that [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► was so I'd I remember them like on a [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► fence collecting collecting something in [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► the dirt that's the only memory I have [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► of the show I like the 17th century one [TS]

00:59:08 ◼   ► where they're like supposed to be a [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► trading company and had to deal with [TS]

00:59:12 ◼   ► actual native americans were descended [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► from people in the sixteen hundreds of [TS]

00:59:16 ◼   ► anything worse than competent whatever [TS]

00:59:17 ◼   ► and then they all cut smallpox and died [TS]

00:59:19 ◼   ► and it stored in the cholera they came [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► down with the grips there's am there's a [TS]

00:59:26 ◼   ► young adult novel called running out of [TS]

00:59:28 ◼   ► time that's all based around that which [TS]

00:59:30 ◼   ► is very funny at least around haha no I [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► take that it's just that I'm so speaking [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► of comedy and I don't we start horrible [TS]

00:59:42 ◼   ► death that sounds like an outtake right [TS]

00:59:44 ◼   ► there [TS]

00:59:45 ◼   ► [Music] [TS]

00:59:47 ◼   ► Steve Steve probably i don't know if we [TS]

00:59:54 ◼   ► ever showed this to Steve when I when I [TS]

00:59:55 ◼   ► was in college [TS]

00:59:56 ◼   ► our college newspaper and Steve work for [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► the humor newspaper [TS]

00:59:59 ◼   ► the humor newspaper [TS]

01:00:00 ◼   ► / and and these people should have sent [TS]

01:00:02 ◼   ► it to you maybe they did but we got the [TS]

01:00:04 ◼   ► I got this book from a guy he may have [TS]

01:00:06 ◼   ► been a drifter I don't know but he had [TS]

01:00:07 ◼   ► enough money to mail us this book and he [TS]

01:00:10 ◼   ► was fit right in with us it was it was a [TS]

01:00:12 ◼   ► book of comic strips and what it was was [TS]

01:00:15 ◼   ► there were peanuts trips where he had [TS]

01:00:17 ◼   ► replaced all the dialogue we have been [TS]

01:00:19 ◼   ► absolutely filthy yes it was called [TS]

01:00:21 ◼   ► penis nuts and his family was called [TS]

01:00:23 ◼   ► famous knots [TS]

01:00:24 ◼   ► yes he did indeed drop it by I think [TS]

01:00:26 ◼   ► decided that we would be sued into [TS]

01:00:29 ◼   ► oblivion if we tried to print them yes [TS]

01:00:31 ◼   ► at least trying to redraw it was it was [TS]

01:00:33 ◼   ► the creator's brilliant in its way and [TS]

01:00:35 ◼   ► just horrible invaluable completely [TS]

01:00:38 ◼   ► forgot like the nineteen-twenties sexy [TS]

01:00:41 ◼   ► comics with any characters right but he [TS]

01:00:44 ◼   ► had not touched up the the pictures in [TS]

01:00:47 ◼   ► any way you know takin shots of like you [TS]

01:00:50 ◼   ► know Lucy grabbing are like Linus [TS]

01:00:52 ◼   ► grabbing Lucy around the that the legs [TS]

01:00:55 ◼   ► and trying to get his blanket back but [TS]

01:00:56 ◼   ► of course he replaces captions with [TS]

01:00:59 ◼   ► something a little more saucy yeah [TS]

01:01:01 ◼   ► brilliant i'm glad I'm glad you remember [TS]

01:01:04 ◼   ► that yeah it was good work if if if I [TS]

01:01:06 ◼   ► actually think I still have that in my [TS]

01:01:08 ◼   ► box of filthy things at home box film [TS]

01:01:11 ◼   ► anything edible to military research if [TS]

01:01:14 ◼   ► we may have a patient now that nobody [TS]

01:01:16 ◼   ► cares about being sued i was living on [TS]

01:01:18 ◼   ► the area a former boyfriend of my wife [TS]

01:01:20 ◼   ► his filthy things were labeled military [TS]

01:01:23 ◼   ► research that no one ever opened that [TS]

01:01:25 ◼   ► box sure why would you accept military [TS]

01:01:28 ◼   ► historians out there is a sarin gas yes [TS]

01:01:31 ◼   ► I just put filthy things online i think [TS]

01:01:35 ◼   ► anybody really wants to dig in then more [TS]

01:01:37 ◼   ► power to sure when you get when you got [TS]