daveB from Oakland

Fifthing or Sixthing, I enjoy the Stard-Howard brohang. Side note: Look at these screengrabs of 1990s Jon Hamm. Looks a lot like Howard ... kind of? Maybe? http://www.avclub.com/article/heres-jon-hamm-losing-fabulously-90s-dating-show-203084

Y'all brought some good energy and pos vibes to location #3.

I wasn't sure who was embodying @QTHor until I finished listening ... I was thinking it was Myq Kaplan.

Eric the unpaid intern stories! BONUS!!

Goodbye location 2 Goodbye grease chain Goodbye white blues elevator You will be in our hearts, always.

Matt did a great job of tweaking his gloomy-gus reputation and turning it into comedy gold.

Safe journey, Kulap .... Also, I propose that the 5th or 10th anniversary edition of Who Charted be broadcast LIVE from Luang Prabang. Let's take this thing international, Chartists!!

PART 3 With all my blather, I forgot to say: Great episode, Jake! When I was following underground stuff in the Bay Area in the 90s, I somehow figured out that Peter was involved with a collective that put out tapes and vinyl of prank calls to Christian Radio stations (see video below). But I'm not sure I ever figured out that he became part of Negativland. (The prankish intentions of this call don't become fully obvious until the very end of this call)

PART 2 My other tenuous relationship with Mr. Conheim and this episode is that I've been using Negativland's Dis-Pepsi as my avatar on this forum for several years now. (There it is! To the left of this comment!) I started using it when, for a very brief time, Earwolf was interrupting CBB and other shows with an extremely annoying Pepsi advert. It was maddening to hear the same exact spot many times throughout the week if you were an Earwolf fan (since then, I think Earwolf has figured out that having hosts read and put their spin on ad spots is a lot more tolerable for listeners ... also, they've figure out that listeners are more favorably disposed to Squarespace, Legal Zoom, etcetera, as opposed to Toxic Sugar Water. Anyway, I guess I never got around to changing that avatar, and now I come full circle to a show examining the genesis of DisPepsi.

I remember this guy from the early 90s in Berkeley. He worked at the VHS store downtown, in Berkeley Square on Shattuck Avenue. I rented several videocassettes there ... I don't think DVDs were on the market yet. Pretty sure they had a laserdisc section, though. I've been going crazy trying to remember the name of the video place Peter worked at. It was the go-to place for cinephiles and fans of obscure & Cult films and bootleggish vids of questionable legality. I remember Peter worked there, along with Will "the Thrill" Viharo, who's still a presence around these parts: www.thrillville.net. Will the Thrill was a huge pain in the ass when he worked at that video store (Think Jack Black's judgy record store clerk in High Fidelity) ... I was able to rent a VHS of "Cocksucker Blues" from that store, which is a pretty hard to find (It's photographer Robert Frank's scandalous Exile-era Rolling Stones documentary. Mick hired Robert Frank to do the movie, but when he saw the finished result he did everything he could to keep it out of the public eye). ... so anyway, I was excited to rent the Forbidden Rolling Stones Movie from that store, but I had to listen to an earful from Will the Thrill, who has a whole dreary shtick of loving everything that came before the Beatles and hating everything that came after it. I have no problem with the things that Will the Thrill loves, but his shtick of hating on the stuff that replaced the stuff he loves was (and continues to be) fucking tiresome. So anyway, I realize this all a huge tangent. But to come back to the point, I think Peter may have been present the day I rented Cocksucker Blues from the video store and had to be subjected to Will's loudmouthed anti-British Rock rant. I kinda wonder what Peter thought of his co-worker routinely berating customers for renting tapes that the store itself was making available ...

Kulap, all the best to you on the Laotian portion of your filming. I commend your bravery in undertaking this project, and your willingness to share it publically. I kind of wish you had more than 10 days to spend in Laos. Except (selfishly) I kind of don't, because that would be time I couldn't hear your wonderful voice and spirit on the podwaves. (Jesus Christ, Dave ... what a corny post. What is wrong with you??)

Howard and Kuku were great on @midnite, go watch it on Hulu or on some other viewing platform, or maybe find someone on your block who's watching it and sneak around outside their house so you can watch it through their window. POINTS! CHARTS! CHARTPOINTS!

Holy shit, did you guys watch that Peter Alllen video? What a spaz that guy was. Run run run, shake maracas, play piano for a couple seconds, then jump on top of piano, then run some more, shoulder-shimmy a little bit, play more maracas, run, skip, hop, shimmy. I think maybe there was some nose candy involved. Yeah, maybe some nose candy.

Regarding: Van Halen versus the Clash at the US Festival ... here's David Lee Roth at the peak of his idiocy. At around 3:20, DLR brings out a little person to serve him Jack Daniels, After a swig, DLR accuses the clash of drinking fake prop whisky (because they're not "real" rock music, or something): ... and here's DLR with Steve Wozniak: http://www.vhnd.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Steve_Wozniak_David_Lee_Roth.jpg

I'd also be curious what the movie would look like with early Van Halen as the stars. I'm sure David Lee Roth would have enraged everybody on set.

Really liked this episode! Good stories, good storyteller. It's cool to hear from someone who has such lucid memories of the Fillmore East.

"Do people ever complain about your whistling?" YES.

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This show sucked. JUST KIDDING!!! I agree with all effusions of praise that have been posted to this little corner of the forum thus far.

Re-listening to this ep due to the renewed interest and activity ... I'm at the part where Scott, Jon, and Zach are talking about Earwolf releasing the PEPPERCAST on a daily basis. So that's gonna start happening ... pretty soon, right?

You guys are both named Jake!!

I just saw a banner ad for a guide to "concealed carrying" of guns. It led to the site usconcealedcarry(dot)net. Here's some of the things on that page: "UNITED STATES CONCEALED CARRY ASSOCIATION Providing Education, Training and Firearm Liability Insurance to Responsibly Armed Americans Since 2003." "21 pages of what you MUST know before leaving home with a gun ..." endorsed by NRA Business association,

Thanks Gabe!

I'm not looking to get too far into the political beliefs of fellow Earwolf fans ... but is anyone else uncomfortable having this as an advertisement on the Earwolf page? Has anyone else been seeing this advertisement? I've complained about the pepsi spots on these pages, but I'd gladly take Pepsi over this.

Gotta go to work, but I'll load this up when I get there. Looking forward, Kroll always kills it and Jenny Slate is a major B-b-b-Bonus. Anybody who doesn't love Jenny Slate should be put in prison. Prison for bad people.