Episode 225: Intro, shout-outs, movies (Bet: Get Low), Meal of the Week, Pet Stories, What’s Up With That? (the weather and car window decals), fuck offs and you rules, Google Voice translates your voice mails.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by Sierra Rein, Lee Rocker and Frank Sinatra.
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Sorry, I gave up on the Amazing Race a while ago. I don’t watch a whole lot of shows any more, and whatever they are, they have to rerun after midnight, after NTCNTC goes to sleep and I wake up from having fallen asleep with him.
Subway cannot make a good sandwich. I don’t understand how they stay in business. I remember the knock-off Subway on the military base in Japan (Robin Hood?) made better sandwiches. I used to love their six-inch BLT. (BLTs are my guilty pleasure sandwich — a whole lot of stuff I don’t normally like in one place — white bread, mayo, commercial tomatoes, etc. Not bacon. Bacon is great in any application.)
I didn’t give you jabberwocky because I told you I would in chat before I knew that part of the project was to have you all guess what it was. So I moved on to something else.
I had thought Eletelephony was Ogden Nash myself until I looked it up to read it to you (it’s Laura Richards). I haven’t read that to NTCNTC — this is a poem I remember from childhood. It’s one of those things we learned in school. What I like about it is that it proves how the human mind is much sharper than a computer — even a small child can read the original and get what all the nonsense is getting at, and the computer can’t even come close.
So, let’s see. By complimenting you on a great show/topic, which was presumably the result of your shitty weeks, I helped you have good weeks, which, in turn, yielded (I’m paraphrasing) a less-than-stellar podcast and topic. Not sure if I should say I’m sorry or you’re welcome.
Either way, it seems proven what they say about great art being the product of suffering and that, ipso facto, there are no happy, well-adjusted artists.
Of course, I thought this was a perfectly lovely show, but I guess that, in the interests of promoting a better Hucklebug, unless I’ve got something nasty to say, I shouldn’t say anything at all. ;^)
I fully agree with Mr. Middlebrow about last week’s show going in the top ten. In fact, I had been thinking while I was listening and laughing, “Damn, ladies, you are on a ROLL this week!”
I know that you’re humping to get listeners in all 50 states, and maybe you don’t have that yet, but I’ll tell you what you do have: listeners who just love you gals and your show to pieces. I know I do. Clearly Mr. Middlebrow does. Besides you two, my second favorite thing about your show is the awesome community of HBers you’ve engendered, which I get to be a part of. So keep it up, ladies!
Oh, and I was laughing my eyes out at this week’s topic. I’m going to set that feature up on my phone too!
It’s true, I wasn’t a guest on podcastathon 2. I wasn’t invited *sniff*
I think Bet misheard the story on Troll 2. There was indeed a Troll 1 made a few years earlier. Troll 2 was originally named Goblins but the distributer changed the name to capitalize on the earlier film. So Troll 2 actually didn’t have any Trolls in it nor was it related to Troll 1 in any way. It had Goblins. Exploitation movies have a history of doing stuff like that. For instance the minor classic Robot Holocaust (1986) didn’t actually have a robot holocaust in it anywhere. I just wanted to clear up the confusion on Troll 2.
I think an Official HB Bad Movie Night would be fun. We could facebook comments or tie together on Google chat. Is there any interest in the HB community? I have an extensive collection of horrible movies most people haven’t seen (or even heard of). If you think Ed Wood is bad, you ain’t seen nuttin’. Many of them are old enough to be Public Domain, which means they can be copied without Mr. Middlebow, Esq (he’s a notary) coming after me with a writ of Bad Movie Delicti. Talk it up, let me know. I’ll be glad to legally burn copies and send them to anyone who wants to participate. Many movies have a colorful history, such as The Creeping Terror not having a soundtrack because the guy dropped the sound equipment in the lake. He then overdubbed the movie in a hotel room with a voiceover narration. Facts like that add a lot of interest and make those bad movies fun. I can fill in the little details as we watch (if I know them). If HBer’s want to spend 90 minutes together wallowing in Bad Movie Goodness, I’ll help. Let me know.
Oy! Nice show you have around here…