Hola, Sneakers. Welcome to Episode 434 – the epsisode that asks, “We’re the only ones socially isolating, right?”
This week on the show: a new beginning; doing well; bunker down; carousales department; horse religion; distantly social; the bro scale; good excuse; responsibilities of the tall; the seven o’clock cheer; generational divide; lenten practices; Easter is cancelled; audio problems; Animal Crossing and other virtual exercise; virtual money; times are tight; up in the air; Zoom-inappropriate; the good ol’days of SARS; pandas are okay; freedom fried; calming medical updates; a little Chicktalk™; dumb animals; cool cats; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; meh to Canadian bacon; Canadian carbs; Easter orgies; the orient experiment; the Dragonverse (!); beanbag massage; dream on; strange coincidence; the problem with traffic; a robot writes; hypochondria or paranoia; bi-oopsy; easy gas; fatal architecture; face-to-face dick moves; evil organizations check list; watching The Irishman; talkin’ Talking Simpsons; he-man woman haters club; and, finally, mythological hypocrites.
Thanks for listening.
Question of the Week: Of which evil organization would you like to be a part?
Sub-question: What are you doing for exercise in the new now?
Chris, here’s your William Shatner thing:
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Not to put a damper on the loud celebration of medical workers, but my friend who suffers from hyperacusis and others with the same condition are not happy about it. The condition gives her painfully sensitive hearing, and she says the noise is like getting stabbed in the ears, which then aches for days. She wishes people would find a quieter way to show support. I think of her every time I hear that noise.
You asked a few episodes ago if there are any Star Trek episodes about infection. I’ve been watching Star Trek Voyager, and just the other day as I sat down to have dinner and watch an episode and take my mind off current world events, as luck would have it (?), it turned out to be about a virus infecting the crew. The episode is called “Macrocosm” and is about a virus that grows in size at an alarming rate and becomes a “macrovirus,” basically a fly that buzzes around laying eggs in people, which then hatch and become more macrovirus flies. The survival of the ship depends on a sweaty Captain Janeway who’s stripped down to a tank top and wields a huge gun, most likely to go for an Ellen Ripley vibe. (The huge gun is for the macroviruses that turn into REALLY big flies.) I think a giant monster virus you can see with your eyes and shoot down from the sky is actually less threatening than the real kind.
To answer the question of the week (which I might start answering more often to give you guys more material for the show): the evil organization I’d like to join is whatever ship Tom Nook in Animal Crossing runs. I wouldn’t mind working for him because he’s adorable and I’m assuming I’d get to live in a child town inhabited by animals.
To answer the sub-question: my muay thai gym is closed, so I’ve been doing stretches and workouts at home with my weights and pull-up bar. I filled a plastic jug full of water to use as a makeshift kettlebell. I go for walks when I can, and if this goes on long enough, I might even go running (I hate running but I don’t want to lose my cardio stamina).
Hello Ian and David,
Forget Hydra, Spectre and Kaos. The evil organisation I would be part of is the Teletubbies. Their secret, high tech dome hideout is a better lair than any Bond villain ever designed; they have a built-in screen in their stomach to directly download premium streaming video content and they clearly have a limitless supply of mind altering party drugs. Plus they have a slave vacuum cleaner and spend most of their time sleeping.
As for exercise in the brave new world, my theory is that COVID19 was created by domesticated dogs. They’ve got all the humans at home now and never have they had so many walks.
Stay well gentlemen.
Re: Ian’s appearance on The Buttpod. I have listened to it and remember enjoying it, although now I can’t recall exactly what you guys talked about (probably the same old nonsense). I’ve gone through all the Buttpod episodes on iTunes and am sad there don’t seem to be any more, but I’m sure Mr. Butt has enough on his plate.
Re: Corner Gas Animated. For a long time this was unavailable in the US, and I just had to make due with a few random episodes on DailyMotion and whatnot, until they were finally put up on Amazon Prime fairly recently. While I don’t think it reaches the same heights as the best episodes of the original show, it’s pretty enjoyable in its own right, and they really take advantage of the animation to do things that weren’t possible in live-action. I was also impressed with how well Corrine Koslo, the new actor playing Emma, fit into the role. I thought it would take a lot of getting used to, but after the first episode or so I didn’t even think about it.
Evil organization I’d like to join: probably Team Rocket from Pokemon. They may get electrocuted a lot, but none of their members ever seem to get killed, which is more than you can say about most evil organizations.
Exercise in the new now: a lot of pensive pacing back and forth.
If I had to work for an organization that is up-to-no-good, I’d work for Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated. It would be entertaining to see the boss’ nefarious plots blowing up in his face every week and I’d look forward to Perry the Platypus infiltrating our workspace on a regular basis. He looks kind of hot in that fedora.
An evil organization, huh? It’s not much of an “organization” but I think if I had to choose I’d be part of Professor Fate’s team from The Great Race. Being evil never looked so fun and you’d get to ride around in cycle-powered blimps with angry shark teeth painted on the sides. Boo, Hiss on that Great Leslie! I want on Team Fate!
Then there’s the less traveled road of Noodles Romanoff’s gang that was a thorn in the side of Roger Ramjet. Might not be as fun but you’d get to ramble on and mumble words out of context along with the rest of the gang. There’s a story I heard once but I cannot find it anywhere to support the claim. I heard that the Jay Ward studios needed about three or four random voices to record for Noodles Romanoff’s gang when they were making the Roger Ramjet cartoon. So they went to an adjoining studio where they were recording and had Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. record a bunch of mumbling nonsense to use for the gang’s rambling dialogue. Ever heard anything about that? You guys know your cartoons, so I thought I’d ask…
Like I mentioned so darkly on the last podcast blog, I’m hoping to lose some weight during this whole quarantine so I’ll fit in a regular sized coffin should I not make it through. Dark joking aside, I’m right at 205 lbs. and I’d like to try and get below the 200 mark by exercising twice a day. My neighborhood has these long sprawling greenbelts all over with walkways paved along them, perfect for walking any time of the day. So I walk for a half hour during lunch and maybe an hour at night, usually listening to Sneaky Dragon or Sneaky Dragon Listening Party. This has been my routine since we’ve been dry docked at home. So I guess I owe you guys yet another debt of gratitude for your podcasts, they’re perfect to fill the time and I can concentrate better on them than if I were driving.
Stay safe, sane and healthy guys…there’s Episode 450 to prepare for.
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