In this episode:
- celebrity deaths (Vidal Sassoon and Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys),
- the Jackson family’s Pepsi deal,
- Bill Pullman talking like “Macho Man” Randy Savage,
- the crying wrestling fan (video),
- Norm MacDonald’s boring golf tweets,
- What Ever Happened To? (the Saturday Supercast podcast),
- celebrity podcasts,
- the upcoming Expendables 2 movie,
- our review of God Bless America (2011) directed by Bobcat Goldthwait,
- What Ever Happened To? (clock radios),
- long sleeve T-shirts are contradictory,
- sour cream doughnuts at Dunkin’ Donuts,
- pointing out the flaw in the father’s line at the end of Dirty Dancing (1987),
- What Ever Happened To? (Andy Milonakis),
- having to be told to say “thank you” as a kid,
- the Virtual Skipper series of yacht racing computer games,
- the Tire Claw car security device (from the makers of The Club),
- the infamous Nutley NJ tanning mom,
- are all IHOP restaurants dumpy?,
- things to do with your body when you’re dead,
- politicians always getting caught cheating on spouses,
- Dennis Haskins on and episode of Mad Men,
- the whereabouts of Max Weinberg,
- the strange Dating Brad Garrett failed reality/dating show,
- Donald Trump suing Scotland,
- space shuttle Enterprise flying over NYC,
- Ringo Starr losing all his Beatles photographs,
- Rob meeting Britta Phillips in 2003,
- the Perfect Strangers video game (link),
- J.J. Abrams turning Star Trek 13 (2013) into a comic book movie,
- the quest for the maximum movie frame rate (Peter Jackson, James Cameron),
- and Douglas Trumbull’s TORUS theater technology.
Rob meeting Britta Phillips of Satisfaction and Jem in 2003…
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I did not realize that Bruce Springsteen sounds exactly like George W. Bush when he speaks!
Also, how deep do you reckon that Stan Lee well to run? I think you may be on the brink of having dredged up every last dead body from the bottom of that well!
Also also, I repent my opinion of a couple shows back on pot pies. You tweaked my nostalgia and I went to the store and bought some Banquet pot pies, which I had not eaten in years.
Besides the gastro-intestinal distress these babies caused me, they are no longer packaged in foil pie tins, but instead they come in a futuristic microwave and conventional oven “safe” plastic pie holder that comes with the warning “Do not heat too long or at too high a temperature. May cause damage to your oven.”
Honestly, who packages food in a bomb? Banquet, apparently. Total FAIL! Do NOT eat under any circumstances.
One last point: the proposed new 70 frames movie format is just an excuse to put twenty subliminal ads into each second of film. Think about it, the public is aware of the product placement shenanigans the corporate shills work into every film, but think of the ad revenue studios could generate by adding all these frames that no one can consciously process! Avatar 2 will be selling us everything from ideology to coca cola to cigarettes to political candidates and the masses will be none the wiser. It’s a perfect Big Brother scenario. What better way to ramp up profits in a dying industry? I mean, who wants to sit in a shitty theater anymore when everyone has Blu-Ray and On Demand and giant 3-d televisions? Not me, I have to clean the gish off my shoes every time I got to the theater…and that ain’t popcorn oil on those floors either!
Tripling the frame rate will allow studios to make money on movies whether anyone sees them in the theater or not, since they can sell literally thousands of ads on every film and not only will no one notice, people will be programmed to buy without even realizing it. They will buy shit from pre-programmed habits and cravings after that. And honestly, where else can Jack Daniels and Marlboro advertise without raising public outrage?
Subliminal land, that’s where. Turns out Big Brother is not a politician, he’s a studio head.
Have a good one.
i’m glad i’m not the only one who shouts ‘STAN LEE!’. vampire stan lee would be a great sitcom. i’m glad you brought up podcast shelf life – i’ve mentioned this previously that some podcasts post shows very intermittently over the course of a couple of years, but then boast about how long they have been going yet they only have a handful of episodes as an archive. i don’t think anyone will beat frank nora though. you turned the grim topic of funerals into one of the funniest now – being thrown off the empire state building? i’ll take the chrysler building if that’s alright with you.
Steve, I agree, I’ve been having a difficult time coming up with new superheroes these past few episodes (not their names, but their abilities and ways of defeating the evil-doers). That just goes to show you the level of Stan Lee’s genius, inventing a new superhero every 45 seconds every day of his life. I’m struggling to keep up!
And thanks for the heads up regarding Banquet chicken pot pies. Had we not known, Greg’s oven might’ve exploded…the Paunch luck!
Good theory about subliminal messages in higher-framerate movies. As Jesse Ventura would say, “It’s a conspiracy.” Seriously though, there are so many great movies that have come out during the past 90 years, if studios do end up putting subliminal images into new movies, I’ll be totally fine discovering “new” old movies for the rest of my life.
David, forget Blackula, forget Son of Dracula starring Ringo Star, we need the It’s Me, Vampire Stan Lee! movie!
Trust me, nobody will ever beat Frank Nora in terms of podcast output. He has to be the most prolific audio person of all time. He makes it seem so easy. As you know, I tried it on my own and stopped after nine episodes. I didn’t even make it into double digits! So I guess I’m guilty of the “vanishing podcast syndrome” myself. D’oh!
I promise, I’ll record more episodes. I’m just on an extended hiatus…yeah…
Steve, sounds like you put a Jiffy Pop popcorn container into the microwave.
As for subliminal messages, Michael Bay could put one into every other frame of Transformers 4, saying “you love this movie,” and I would still hate it.
David, what’s funny is I got a digital recorder recently, to use in emergency situations. I was trying it out myself, and found I really could not think of anything to talk about. I don’t think I could do a podcast alone.
I remember when I was a teenager going through my wanting-to-learn-guitar phase I read a book that said a good rhythm guitar player should also be a good lead guitar player and a strong lead guitar player should be a strong rhythm guitar player. I thought that was stupid because all I wanted to do was learn the solos so I could get all the chicks. But I did eventually realize there’s more to a song than the solo.
I think the lead/rhythm relationship has parallels with podcasting. As a listener I feel a podcaster should be able to not only be a good conversationalist when paired with others, but they should also be fun to listen to solo. Both situations require skills that need refining. Sometimes with shows I listen to the second host isn’t always there and the remaining guy has to either go at it alone or let the audience wait for a show. Those are some of my favorite times because it’s always entertaining/fun/painful to hear guys who usually function as a duo go at it alone.
Frank proves that it’s possible for one person to be interesting and listenable and lost of other shows are examples of multiple hosts being fun, too. But I think podcasting is the reverse of guitar playing in that podcasters would rather have someone to play off of than go at it alone. There’s a perception that the solo guy isn’t as interesting to listen to and I can see why since the majority of solo podcasts don’t appeal to me. But when they’re good, soloists are some of the best podcasters anywhere. I guess that’s why Frank is the Jimi Hendrix of podcasting. He’s fun to listen to but there’s not a lot of others like him.
I found this link for an RSS feed containing all the old Saturday Supercasts:
feed://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss38795.xml