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Congrats, cat & beard for getting the shout out. I didn't catch this when it was live, but I can't wait to hear this episode.

This is the dance June talked about with them on the last episode!!!!!!!

I second the Remo Williams nomination. That movie is pure 80s goodness. I like to think that JCVD saw Remo Williams and based his whole career off of recreating the magic that was in that film.

People at Earwolf already speak with black street accents and clownish chicano accents for comedic effect. People who take offensive to that are told that they have no sense of humor and are being too sensitive. I'm going to give you that same advice.

That's fucking insane!!! You're gonna blow my mind if you say there was a real band called Jessie and the Rippers as well. John Stamos has led a charmed fucking life.

Shhhh, if you say his name three times in the mirror, he'll write a diss song about you.

Tupac was the best rapper/actor. He killed in the Juice and in Gridlock'd.

Is he looking to get some strange?

You should have made a couple of more, put them out as an LP, and then tour the world making millions with your laptop.

Anywhere Fred Stoller is, is the saddest place on Earth. He's like a real-life embodiment of Eeyore. "Oh Piglet, I'm just gonna stand here at the Barnes and Noble and flip through magazines."

What I hated about Joshie's comment was that he was defining these arbitrary lines about "actual" instances of co-option and what Miley Cyrus was doing -- which, in my opinion and many others, is co-opting a culture she is not a part of to sell shit. And while he isn't certain about what co-option is, he is ready to say that there is "actual" misogyny going on though. It's all bullshit; either you see the intersectionality of this shit or you are condoning bits and pieces to suit your agenda.

I think he meant exactly what he wrote. By the way, the name is Shariq.

I feel like I'm talking too much about LL right now. I'm gonna stop before he turns his eye on me and destroys my career.

Jamie Foxx said LL was gonna beat him up while filming Any Given Sunday because LL yelled at him about calling the plays wrong. Jamie Foxx was like, "I'm not a quaterback. You're not a running back. We're actors. This is make believe right now."

Hang on, one fucking minute! Uncle Jessie was really a part of the Beach Boys, like in real life? That wasn't just a part of a Full House storyline?

Oh no, LL was being all huffy. The song was already done because everyone did their verse according to their personal schedules. They weren't all in the studio together making the song. LL was listening to a rough cut of the master and flipped his shit over Canibus' line. So, he re-recorded his verse on the spot and released that instead. There is actually a phone conversation that one of them recorded (I think it was Canibus) where LL basically says, "Just eat shit on this one, ok? I know I dissed you. You know I dissed you. But the general public doesn't know anything at all is amiss, so just roll with it." But Canibus didn't, so LL smacked him back down. LL has a history of over-reacting to other people's lines. Kool Moe Dee had a line that talked about radios or something, and LL took that as a diss against him and started beef with Kool Moe Dee. You don't hear too much about him nowadays either. Like I said, don't cross James Todd Smith.

It is interesting that these make money overseas. They wanna see Milla Jojovich in tight outfits fighting other beautiful women in tight outfits. Remember, the Taylor Lautner movie, "Abduction," did gangbusters overseas as well; they wanna see those T-Rex arms.

Gawker had a list of how much EDM people made last year and the numbers are staggering. Millions of dollars to twiddle knobs, or in this case, pretend to twiddle knobs.

My theory is that all of the production moved to Miami after Hurricane Katrina wiped out Louisiana. So, since Mannie Fresh and his stable of producers were in South Florida, they started taking in that Euro techno sound. Once Mannie was down in Florida, a lot of other people came to network get their music commissioned and hook up with Rick Ross and DJ Khalid. It's very weird because when the production was centered in Atlanta and New Orleans, there were elements borrowed from the marching bands -- the snare roll to setup a break comes to mind. And then when production was centered in New York, it was borrowing from jazz.

I used to mess around with Reason and Fruity Loops back in the day, but I decided that I didn't want to put in the time to actually try to do that as a way to make money, so I gave up on it. And love that you called yourself a necromancer. To those people, you might as well have come out on stage with a set of triangles and recorders. "Doesn't he know there is a Juno VST? Some people just don't know how to make music."

Also, I never noticed how big The Grove plays a part in Los Angeles culture. They make it seem like everyone is there. When I went there, I didn't see anyone famous or anything interesting going on. I always thought that place to be was that little theater in Westwood. There was a full blown movie premiere going on when I was getting my coffee at the nearby Coffee Bean.

It all sounds like a lamer, uninteresting version of the techno wave that came to the States around the mid-to-late 90s (Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, etc). And that's not to say that stuff was all that great either, but there was something more going on than just random noises and fades, which is what my ears hear now.

You have to be a hip-hop head to know about the Canibus vs LL battle. So, Canibus is a young and upcoming rapper who gets a verse on LL's "4,3,2,1" song, which is also notable for being one of the first appearances of DMX (pre-crack). So, the story goes is that Canibus has a line in his verse that says something like, "let me borrow that mic on your arm". This is in reference to LL's tat of a microphone on his right arm. So, when they are mixing the record, LL get's all huffy and re-records his verse to shit on Canibus and that is the version that is released to the public. Canibus is like, "what the fuck, man?" LL, doesn't care and isn't taking the newcomer seriously at all. That whole album was doing gangbusters (this is the album that had "Doin It" and "Hey Lover") and LL is touring, making videos, etc. So, Canibus makes Second Round KO and basically says LL ain't shit, has never been shit, and most of his fans wear high heels, so you can't take him seriously anymore. Basically, Canibus says LL went Hollywood. LL responds on his song, "Jack the Ripper" and really piles the shit on Canibus. So, much so, that Canibus' career is over before it ever got a chance to take off. So, LL brought this guy on the scene, gave him some shine, then smacked his ass back to obscurity. That's reason you don't know who Canibus is PlanB; you don't cross James Todd Smith and get away with it.

All of the Resident Evil movies should go into this category as well. I do not see how they keep making them every couple of years and they never are a big, huge hit. Its like, if the numbers that "Resident Evil 6:Aftermath Requiem Delirium" does are that good to greenlight another, then we should be eighteen movies deep into a Mortal Kombat franchise. All of the Underworld sequels belong in this category as well. It should have stayed at just one movie, but now, the lichens(sp?) are mating with the vampires and having hybrid babies and no one can find any fabric to make clothes out of besides patent leather.

I remember when that book came out, LL had a beef with Canibus and in Canibus' song, "Second Round K.O." he talks about reading it to get material for his lyrics. There's even a shot of him with the book reading it in the video of Second Round KO.