Hucklebug, Episode 154: RIP Corazon Aquino, shout-outs, Podcastathon recap, movies (Stennie: IOUSA, The Italian Job, That Thing You Do!, Captain Blood, Bet: Captain Blood), highlights & lowlights, fuck-offs & you-rules, various left over podcastathon topics, including some Top Fives.
Music: “The Hucklebuck,” performed by (respectively): Lee Rocker, Kay Starr, Lionel Hampton, Chubby Checker, Frank Sinatra.
I have a friend who helped film & edit IOUSA. When the shit hit the fan financially, I joked that the current financial crisis would do well for the movie itself – as people would be more interested in the subject. He said he regretted the situation, but was happy about how many more people were watching it.
I love hearing Bet’s motherly protection of Milo with the threat of the bees..
“Spinaltap” did “Sex Farm” on TDS
ThePete & I keep bread in the fridge too; I’ve never lived otherwise!
Wait, Stennie – you’re flying into New Jersey!??! Can we catch you before you start driving across country? Where do you fly into?
Total unsnap on Captain Blood. I thought it was great fun and a worthy predecessor to Robin Hood.
I think you need to figure out what your listeners would be arrested for. As for you guys:
Stennie: stalking Colbert
Bet: solicitation, along with her friends Cabiria, Wanda, Jessy…
I am so with you Stennie on how great it feels to climb into bed after a hard-day-and-night’s work.
Sorry you guys were so down in the post-podcastathon afterglow 🙁 I know how that goes with Jay ThePal. It’s why he’s addictive for me. I get comments on his videos and it makes me want to make more videos…and MORE videos and MORE!
Have you guys heard about the supposed truce between MSNBC and Fox News that is being forced on Olbermann and O’Reilly?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/business/media/01feud.html?_r=1 (you need to log in, but if you use Firefox you can login with bugmenot)
Apparently, instead of retaliating against Olbermann directly, he decided to go after GE’s shady (but legal) dealings in Iran which was becoming embarrassing to GE, the owner of MSNBC. So, MSNBC went to Rupert and said, “Call off your dog and we’ll call off ours.”
Olbermann’s denied all of this, of course, but I’m finding it interesting since it seems like the corporate heads did actually meet. What a lot of folks don’t know is that GE is a major government contractor and has been for years with the US government not being their only customer.
Hey, Sten, can you add a link to the American Cancer Society on the HB page some place? Just a suggestion…
Enjoy your two weekends away from the Hucklebug ladies! You shall be missed!
Serious RIP time—John Hughes! ‘Bueller, Bueller”? “No more yankee my wankee. Donger need food”. “You won’t have a guy’s tongue in your mouth but you’ll eat that?”
Sad times indeed.
re: podcastathon
I have not received anything about following through with payment. When are they going to send out that information?
Random rainy-day topic idea:
Best/least offensive films by a given director (Scorsese, Hitchcock, Spielberg, Kubrick, Fellini, etc., but also Michael Bay and that ilk.)
Also: same thing but with lead actors/actresses.