Episode 42: the ultimate answer to the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything! RIP’s (Molly Ivins, Barbara McNair, Joe Hunter), how the Hucklebug is like a New Orleans funeral, shout-outs, a brief discussion of the order of the show, movies out the asshole, lowlight and highlights (one by proxy), fuck-offs and you-rules, return of Listener Topic of the Week: Things We Don’t Get.
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I think the Hucklebug needs its own New Orleans style funeral band.
Love the sock monkey icon in the URL line. Woo hoo!
Oh, you are so doing RIPs next week. How can you pass up Anna Nicole? That can generate a whole hour of conversation on its own.
Betster darling, I hate to differ, but if someone who, about three minutes after declaring herself not a geek, proceeds to do a knights-who-say-ni impression with a strong degree of accuracy, this someone is a geek. Welcome, welcome.
And bless you for not liking The Third Man. Every time I’ve tried to watch it, the print sucked so badly that all you see is a big field of black and occasionally someone slinking around an alleyway.
Yep, you killed Anna Nicole by canceling RIPs. Well, I hope you’re happy.
WOW, I was all set to suggest you do a “Things We Don’t Get” segment every week, but after listening to the first one I think you’d have to call it “Intolerance, with Bet and Stennie”.
I’m not sure how to react to it, actually. Part of me feels like you guys are being unfairly judgemental. I mean, how can you not get James Bond? He’s a reflection of a moral society. Men can live vicariously through his womanizing and killing. We men are genetically programmed to hunt and fuck but we’re not allowed to do either anymore. What’s not to get? On the other hand, with S&M, people often find being in charge or be under someone in charge gets to be a drag—so, S&M allows people to change places.
Most of the stuff you guys cited as things you didn’t get I totally got but just didn’t care for.
Things I don’t get? How pro-life Christians can be pro-war racists. Why it is that the more money you make the less you actually do to earn it. Why some people would rather see an M. Night Shamalan movie rather just watching the episode of the Twilight Zone it’s ripped off from. How Stennie can think Groundhog day should be in her top 20 (!!)—I can see how people enjoy it, but Bill Murray stopped being reeeeally funny shortly after Caddyshack. Oh and I don’t get Little Miss Sunshine. I saw it, laughed, enjoyed it, but Alan Arkin an Oscar? FEH!
He deserves a lifetime achievement award, in my opinion… just not for anything in that movie… I do think LMSS has been overhyped.
All right, good show otherwise. SO sez I…
Hm. Perchance ThePete didn’t get the Things I Don’t Get segment? I thought it was great. It was sort of like watching someone tweak their Netflix recommendations list by giving low ratings to things you don’t care for. I totally got what you were saying (good thing, since I suggested it) though I didn’t always agree. Some examples: I like James Bond movies, not because I want to do James Bond (I’d be killed by the third reel) but because I want to drive fast cars in exotic locations and save the world. I also like leather. I don’t feel as badass in my hooded wool peacoat as I do in my leather jacket.
But maybe to bring some positive vibes, cleanse your auras, and make ThePete happy, maybe a future topic should be “Things I like, but shouldn’t.”
HA! Like “Degrassi: The Next Generation!”
I think ThePete just wants Bet to come over there and give him an old-fashioned whuppin’. Not getting Little Miss Sunshine indeed.
I can’t believe you thought my slogan was brown-nosing. I’m not going to to compliment you on the podcast ever again. In fact, please add yourselves to the “fuck off” list for me.
Michelle is onto something there. Though I wasn’t lying with all that stuff I said.
Oh and it looks like Xpym missed the point of that segment, too. 😀