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"Jesus fucking Christ, turn it off. Why are we doing this podcast? TURN IT OFF. What are we doing?" would also have been a good title for this episode. But I still love/hate it. Only way Phish could get any worse is by covering a Rush song.

Like the new logo; does this mean new shirts are possibly in the works?

How did Oliver Stone's cartoonish take on professional football (replete with 'Pacino-on-eleven' yelling) stay off that list? Any Given Sunday is a great bad sports movie. Honorable mentions: MVP: Most Valuable Primate (chimpanzee learns to play hockey); Airborne (Seth Green dares the future not to make fun of rollerblading); and The Tooth Fairy (The Rock looks more at home in a tutu than on ice skates).

The delivery of the Voldemort joke nearly made me wreck my car.

Anatidae This

YIIR was originally in the non-comedy section with Seth Goden's podcast when Earwolf had the various "value stream" platforms earlier in the year. They've since blended all the shows back together, but I don't think Andrew's goal is ever to be funny, first. Alleviating some sticky issues with lightheartedness? Sure; but not a comedy podcast. I don't listen to it often, personally, because the question is usually redundant and the guests are rarely interesting.

For a second there I thought Howard was saying calling the fire department is just snitching on a fire, and I was about to drive my car into a guardrail.

Wow, Howard Kremer and Michael Shannon used to drink together...wonder if they ever had a staring contest and if anyone could bear to witness it.

Re: that Robin Thicke song.

The smoking thing...even MORE BONKERS is that is an allusion to Han from a totally, otherwise, unrelated Justin Lin movie, Better Luck Tomorrow, also played by Sung Kang, and is the sort-of origin story of how Han became a criminal, without really explaining the jump to cars and how/when his connection with the Yakuza in Drift happened, unless what we just saw actually took place not in current times. The linear map of these movies is LITERALLY BONKERS.

There is a silver lining to that rasta-banana story: College Humor bought the banana back for $2600+ the X-Box. Must be nice to have that Viacom money.

Backing this. Really bad movie that cracks me up just thinking about it. The central conceit is Melissa Joan Hart is the hottest girl in school, which is "bonkers" © Jason. Then there are all the tropes of teen movies of the era, but with pre-mellenialism that is really hilarious in hindsight, and even ( I think) a rape or abortion subplot that is just sort of tossed out there and disappears ala breast cancer in The Room.

It is a bad movie, but the only thing that really separates it from other horrible Adam Sandler movies is that he roped Pacino into it for a fairly major "role" that makes his Phil Spector look even more insane (THAT is a good shout for a made-for-tv-movie, btw). And the chocolate-dipped bird scene, which was really disturbing. As stolen from TheParrotForum.com: Just watched the movie Jack & Jill starring Adam Sandler and Adam Sandler. Worst movie I've seen in years but was surprised to see a Cockatoo in it. The parrot character was the only thing that kept me watching till the end because I was curious what would end up happening to it. Yet despite appearing in numerous scenes, the parrot turned out completely irrelevant to the otherwise asinine plot. Worse yet, virtually every scene the bird appeared in, it was being abused or mistreated in some way. Hearing Adam Sandler do the voice for the parrot was gunshot to my ears. Whether it was Adam Sandler falling on it, letting it fly away in the woods, caging it in a tiny cage or some guy trying to eat it on a sandwich, getting taped on a kids back, or being dipped in chocolate, the bird got the short end of the rope. Yet the bird's acting was great and it really deserves better than this, I hope it finds a better agent cause of all the characters in the movie, it's the only one who's got potential. Poor bird was the only good thing about this rotten movie.

Kulap steered the shit out of this episode. Safe to say there was either a schedule crunch of fear of Eddie's rants going long form?

"I ain't down with that gay shit"=nearly a car wreck.

Just curious, normally where I go before hitting iTunes to see if anything special or out of the ordinary dropped. Lagging about a day behind or is this a cache refresh issue on the user side?

Qualifier: I like Jen Kirkman, especially in the Pod F. Tompkast context. But she is no CBB-style guest and this episode proved it. Seems like Choctaw kind of acquiesced and quickly switched to straight interview & product promotion mode. Valley before the anticipated peak of Farts and Procreation 3?

And the "two more" limit on Walsh was an underhand "it's not a tumor" setup, unreturned.

The guy behind that "bulletproof coffee" has thrown his name behind some things that, at best, are spurious in their scientific basis and, at worst, are out and out quackery.

Don't forget the chorus for Lets Drop Anchor...this beastial-exibitionism may really be a thing for Howard.

That was hilarious. Especially loved the adidas shoe box guitar and PFT's looks into the camera while Howard was trying to verify the Minneapolis/Toronto thing.

Not to make this into any sort of thing, but I have faith in Kulap's ability to put someone in their place should they step over a line. She seemed comfortable with the banter.

Yeah, the southern way of saying Ben is to really milk it into a 2 syllable word like the French "bien"; otherwise it becomes "Den" or "Dan", even when you spell it out, because B is pronounced "Beeeeee". But back on topic, I don't have a problem with Giancarlo at all. He doesn't come close to cracking the top 5 worst Who Carted guests. For example, where Chris Gore, the undisputed gold standard shit-stain of bad podcast guests, PRETENDED to be a suave mover and shaker; there is at least an air of authenticity about this guy and his machismo isn't blatant fakery given his Jersey background (we're fine with Howard talking about Kulap's boobs but supposed to be outraged by this guy doing the same?). In terms of Hollywood behind the scenes types, this guy is really far from the worst example of douchery in that mold.

Backatchya. It's served well except for being a midwest person in the south where, even after spelling it out, it has become "Den" far too often.

I'M GETTING THE FEELING THAT SARAH DOESN'T LIKE GIANCARLO CHERSICH.