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    I agreed with everything Spike said and I've heard it many times before. Who hasn't? His rant seemed hilariously unfocused to me so it came off, in a comedic way, like what he said could be boiled down to he'd rather the garbage still not be picked up. To me he stated some obvious social trends but I didn't hear any solutions. So should white people not walk their dogs? Who exactly is he mad at? The current mayor is pretty damn liberal. As a result of listening to his rant what would Spike like the listener to do? I think most white people who move to Brooklyn know that not as many white people used to live there and everything used to be shittier. So beyond being aware, what are they supposed to do? Not move there? And, we certainly weren't thinking of Oscar the Grouch as being a black man. His connection came from the garbage.

     

    I mean...couldn't it be perceived that Spike was being prejudiced towards white people? I think it was best said on the show, he didn't just want things to be better for everyone, he just wanted white people out. That was probably the most telling thing in his rant.

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    I just saw on ESPN that Rando Moss (who was coincidentally born in Rando, West Virginia), was planning on joining the NFL (Never Fully Listening) for the 2014 season. Apparently this group of people gather up all of the top musicians of the year, wrap them in moldy bacon, and then see how long they can jumprope on a newborn harp seal without coughing.

     

    WHAAAAAAAAAT?!?! Is it just me, or is that...

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    How DARE Matt try to take the "us" out of JesUS. What next, are you going to take ALL OF THE NAILS out of your house because of the CRUCIFIX?!!

    Soon you will want all of the mangers gone too. What about the separation of church and PODCAST!!!

     

    p.s. The parts in all caps are when I was screaming out loud. If you didn't read it that way the first time, please go back and reread it properly. Thank you kindly.

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    I feel like this dynamic didn't work during this episode. Since Jason played it rather straight and didn't bring anything in the way of a weird performance, the hilarity was supposed to ride on the simple twisted of, like, oh dismembering tons of girls! keeping them in pens! HAHA! ISN'T THAT FUCKED? It's a subtle shift, but for me, it was an important one. Absurdity becomes shock jock stuff. And misogynistic at that. Maybe it was the sheer repetition -- joke after joke about girls losing their limbs, getting shot, etc. The joke is on the level of brutality, not the level of the performance of brutality.

     

    I kind of agree that this episode had a lot of jokes that just had brutality towards women as the punchline, but I understood it as an ironic take on real misogyny to portray a world where people could dehumanize women so much that they are shipped off to camps where they are left to die. This is hard to pull off in comedy anyway, but I feel like they did it by never ever breaking from that line.

    I think that it is unfair to pin Jason on it because he wasn't as creepy as everyone else. The wolf joke was legitimately funny. Furthermore, think about how a person can even keep a straight face with a character like Dom talking about the horrific things that were mentioned. Was Jason supposed to copy that character? I think he did his best to keep up, but what was seen was the mismatch between a developed character to an undeveloped one.

     

    ...this episode creeped me out to the max, but that is why it was genius. I would have been furious if I ever heard anything even vaguely similar anywhere else, and....it's Andy Daly....he has one of the most lovable personalities in the country.

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    My mom took me out of school to see Nelson Mandela speak at Benaroya Hall when I was nine. That was pretty cool. But he wasn't sitting near me on an airplane, especially not on a Southwest airlines flight. Dale Chihuly was in front of me on a flight from Seattle to Sun Valley, Idaho though... It's hard to be anonymous when you wear an eye patch and have melted glass on your shoes.

     

    The real question here...why on earth were you flying to Idaho? Were you going huckleberry picking?...since it is the state fruit that I didn't need to look up.

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    The forum this week has me on a one way ticket to Laughtown (formerly the People's Republic of Chuckleville).

     

    I have a serious question for all the Scoop Troopers, though: if you had a jet and it would fly you anywhere in the world, but you had to stay at that destination for the rest of your life, where would it be?

     

    For the rest of my life? I won't give Chanson the sweet satisfaction of saying that his city is pretty happening, so I will say somewhere 2 degrees cooler (literally and figuratively): Vancouver.

     

    What would be keeping us at the destination though? Couldn't I just pick a hemisphere?

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    My new agent just called claiming that I need to come up with a cool hip name and start a brand around it

    I'm not so sure about this suggestion list though:

     

    FeloniousFunk: dangerous and sexy. so funky, its a crime; so criminal, its a felony

     

    ColonialistHunk: picture Melly Gibson in the Patriot

     

    ThelonliestMonk: Kung Fu the legend continues

     

    JabroniousPunk: It doesnt matter what your name is jabroni !

     

    BalogniestSpunk: Mechanically separated for his and her pleasure

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  20. Posted

    I had never heard of that wrist-pressed-against-the-doorway-arm-floating-up thing until this Saturday. This Saturday, the day before the Oscars, the day they recorded this podcast!!!!!!! Guys!!!!! And then when I heard Sean mention it on the podcast, I looked at the truck in front of me and it said "Clement" on it, which is close enough!!!!! Guys!!!!!

     

    You are stuck in a dream within a dream. The entire podcast and everything here was created in your mind in the duration of your last sneeze.

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    Thanks for making this podcast to explain this to people. This is why Shyamalan's Signs gets written off by people, because they are too ignorant to see through their own assumptions. They always assume the aliens there are basically acting like we would, and have made such a nonsensically bad decision to attack a water planet that the movie fails suspension of disbelief. I maintain, for reasons similar to explained on this podcast, you have to make 1000 biased assumptions to reach that conclusion. What if the Signs aliens have backups and clones of themselves and don't especially care about risking their physical forms? What if people they came here for are so valuable to them its worth risking their lives? (think of Alaskan fishing, or mines around active volcanoes, or any number of expensive things on Earth people put labourers in risky conditions to acquire.) What if the aliens we saw are just slaves or convicted criminals of another alien race, using them like the brigades of insane people Stalin sent out in WWII as essentially suicide reconnaissance

     

    tl;dr: Signs was good and if you disagree you're just too preprogrammed to assume Vulcans with rational motivations and not able to see Shyamalan's deep genius in crafting his movies to do things outside our expectations (PS he never says he's the messiah in Lady in the Water either, he just says he's the guy that would write something to change the world, he could be Hitler writing Mein Kampf, but everyone was just sick of him by that point and was predisposed to blame it on his imagined ballooning ego, envious of his success)

     

    Wow, that was so ironic that you almost Somalianed me into thinking that you seriously consider M. Night Somalian a genius!

     

    Well played.

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