Hola, Sneakers. Welcome to Episode 427 – Mission accomplished!
This week on the show: what is time; free will vs. determinism; the paradox of predestination; Sylvester Stallone paying the bills; sleepwalking actors; Dave saw The Color (sic) Out of Space; Nazi rat; Martha Raye’s dentures; Richard Stanley’s downfall; truncate the tip of the tongue; useless advanced facial recognition software; living room-ation of movie theatres; let’s talk about Moonstruck; what a genius; can we re-visit Kramer vs. Kramer; Robert Benson – pretty good; Superman and Kojak; age gap; Dave admits he watched Miss Americana; scary, overwhelming fame; photo labs; Ian is under pressure; time travel is hard; correcting the past; hordes vs. doors; Ragnarok – Riverdale for Norwegian teens; rubbing our hammers; lazy sub-titles; the Archie-verse; Supernatural fan service; Archie knock-offs; the lure of Jughead; the template for Scooby-Doo; podcast baby; Crime Time after Prime Time; sexy crimes; the Reverse Dorian Gray; lateral move; there is a word for that list; can’t leave; uncomfortable situations; Ian’s murder advice; proof of God; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; the origins of Sneaky Dragon; the third dragon levels up; Almost Live is still alive; and, finally, time to get super cut.
Thanks for listening.
Question of the Week: What is a word we need for something that we are currently missing in the English language? Or, you can make up your own English equivalent for one of the words we were talking about on this episode.
Sub-question: Help us! Please give us an example of a “sexy crime”!
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Am I crazy, or is the show itself missing?
Yes, you are crazy. Look right above this! It’s right there! It’s been there the whole time!
*tugs at collar*
It’s because David eats 3 hotdogs in one sitting! Ian dubbed him David “Three-Dog” Dedrick!!
Oh, my gosh! This is why I have young friends like Nina or my daughters around so they can remember things I forget!
Ian’s brought it up in multiple episodes now so I thought for sure you guys would get it
I want you both in my office
Sorry, I don’t listen to the show.
Ian, I think that show about the family of Norse Gods might have been the Almighty Johnsons.
That’s it! Thanks!
I think your crack team of behind-the-scenes fact checkers may be slipping, Dave.
Robert Benton has written some fine movies, but Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ain’t one of ’em. That was an original screenplay by William Goldman, who won his first Oscar for it and went on to write novels and scripts for Marathon Man, The Princess Bride and many others, as I’m sure you know. His memoirs of life as a screenwriter – Adventures in the Screen Trade and Which Lie Did I Tell? – are both fantastic reads as well.
Speaking of Butch, though… if I can hark back to one of the questions posed in episode 414, that’s a movie where one scene throws the whole film off balance for me. It’s when schoolteacher Etta (Katherine Ross) returns home to find Sundance (Robert Redford) waiting in her dark bedroom with a gun. He then tells to undress, which she does, still at gunpoint. Of course, it’s ultimately revealed that they’re in a relationship, he’s only acting and she’s in on the pretence. But the reveal comes after we in the audience have sat through a voyeuristic scene that was clearly meant to be titillating, but instead feels creepily misogynistic and out of tune with the rest of the movie.
Words missing from English… How about ‘webtracted’? It’s when you go online for a specific task but end up distracted by some trivia and totally forget the thing you wanted. eg – ‘I was meaning to pay the gas bill, but got webtracted by that cat in the mirror.’
The English language could use some words to describe the emotions I feel when I watch coverage of politics or read the comments sections under news articles. How about…
Indignorant – the feeling of being indignant about how ignorant people can be
Dismissbelief – the feeling of disbelief when people dismiss obvious truths in favour of blatant lies
Doubtrage – the outrage you feel over people who doubt factual information
I’d say a sexy crime is one where the criminal, the victim or the investigator is sexy — preferably all three. It’s even sexier if the MacGuffin is also sexy. An early example of this is in The Three Musketeers where the seductive Milady de Winter steals two diamonds from a set given to the handsome Duke of Buckingham by his lover, the beautiful Queen Anne of France. It’s up to the dashing D’Artagnan to get the original diamonds and two replacements back to the Queen before Cardinal Richelieu can use the stolen diamonds as proof of her adulterous affair!