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padijun posted:I will fight people who A) pronouce Hercule Poirot's name wrong, or B) say he's from France He's from make-believe, I think
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Swan Oat posted:they probably never will because theyve already doen a heinlein book, but i would love to see the boys tackle farnhams freehold, which is incredibly, incredibly racist and also has some real weird incest stuff I just started listening to this podcast, but I think I'm going to skip the Stranger in a Strange Land ep because I have vague but good memories of reading it at 14 and don't want them shattered.
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I will chime in and say I prefer when it's not just pot shots at airport fiction. I like the weird poo poo I've never heard of.
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Jan 25, 2017 03:35
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You've probably all heard Doors songs all the way through you weirdos. You've probably heard them all the way through multiple times in lovely department stores alone.
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Feb 10, 2017 22:08
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I remember fat ol Brando slubbin his tub around
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Feb 16, 2017 01:39
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The Trees is a silly rear end song and it's been poo poo on forever, because it's silly as gently caress. I expected them to poo poo on it even more really. Also, I like Rush.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:10
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I Before E posted:The only part that got me mad on the latest LTTA is when they said having Fairytale be your favorite Christmas song is suspect, because other than that, Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), and Last Christmas, Christmas songs are bad. It is the only Christmas song (that I know of) that has the word "human being" in it. So that's something.
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Why was Jay's twitter suspended?
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Mar 23, 2017 18:29
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Yeah for fucks sake bring back the crabs
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Apr 12, 2017 12:40
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It gets over used on the internet but Dilbert's Dad is as close to the personification of the Dunning-Kruger effect as you can get.
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Jun 1, 2017 17:04
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I liked that period of time where he was cleverly trying to "persuade" people on Twitter by pretending that he was feeling bullied by Clinton supporters.
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Ironic Twist posted:https://twitter.com/IDEOTVPod/status/870308471102623744 I thought he'd be fatter. I guess he just has a heavy voice.
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Jun 2, 2017 12:17
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It's a pretty solid look, honestly. It's the look of a man with a bunch of Camel Cash.
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Jun 2, 2017 23:31
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I'm betting it's a Choose Your Own Adventure book, those are all very short.
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Aug 10, 2017 13:20
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hoobajoo posted:That's my guess, self-published or maybe fan-fiction. So like that dino-sex lady or the pounded in the butt guy?
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Aug 10, 2017 16:09
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Hunh, I prefer Chris. No real reason why. What classic lit episodes have they done? I'd rather not have them try to take A Pilgrim's Progress or something down a few pegs if that's what you're suggesting.
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Sep 5, 2017 16:48
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I don't know, it might be pretty funny to hear them do Pilgrim's Progress. I was thinking today that I'd enjoy how angry Tess of the d'Urbervilles would make them. I heard enough complaining about that in the 9th grade. I don't want more.
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Sep 5, 2017 17:45
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Yeah it's pretty weird that this dumb book is the one people got bent out of shape about. They're sort of smug in every episode, that's basically what the podcast is.
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Sep 5, 2017 19:25
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What happened to the Rush podcast?
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Dec 13, 2017 05:24
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The book is sincere and strange but works as a better unintentional satire than the movie does an intentional one. The movie is cool and good but dresses its characters as Nazis then pats itself on the back for being a big smart boy who figured out Nazis were bad. Also if you extend that metaphor the movie seems to imply that Jewish people (or Russians?) are monstrous bugs. Also Collision is right when he says Verhoeven didn't understand the book since he has said publicly he didn't read it.
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Jan 24, 2018 18:43
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Improbable Lobster posted:The book is dogshit, 9/10ths of it are just characters dryly reiterating about how the military is the best thing ever and how the military should run everything and how the military's enemies are awful monsters that need to be exterminated. Not intentionally. It's been decades since I read it but if I remember correctly the hero nukes a church in the first chapter and burns fleeing intelligent aliens to death.
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Jan 24, 2018 19:06
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Nah, Verhoeven understood the book extremely well, which is why he threw it in the loving trash after reading two chapters. (Its bad and so are its politics) In interviews he literally brought up the costumes, and explained that Americans didn't get that his Nazis were Nazis. It's a fine vagina-bug movie, but the satire is juvenile. I mean, maybe I'm asking too much for the man who brought us Showgirls to be more subtle but whatever.
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Jan 24, 2018 19:36
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu fuckin moron Improbable Lobster posted:Gee whiz maybe he was trying to make a point about Americans or something Yeah my point is it's hamfisted and dumb.
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Jan 24, 2018 19:42
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Improbable Lobster posted:It's pretty clear that you don't actually get it, especially since you think the book is satirical No, I think the book is trying to be dead serious. It's just absurd and scary to the degree that I think it works as an unintentional satire.
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Jan 24, 2018 19:46
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Look, I should have known better to kick this particular hornets nest. I've just never been super impressed with Verhoeven in general, despite liking some of his movies. Sorry for the derail.
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Jan 24, 2018 19:52
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Guy Mann posted:Last Action Hero, Cable Guy, and Starship Troopers are like the holy trinity of 90s movies that weren't that great but have had people hailing them as underrated gems almost since the day they came out on the grounds that people didn't get that they were satires. And it's like, OK but whether or not people didn't get that these were supposed to be satire that doesn't make them any better as films. Shhhhhhhh 
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Jan 31, 2018 14:50
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X-Ray Pecs posted:The thing is, Last Action Hero, The Cable Guy, and Starship Troopers all own to varying degrees. No J! shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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Jan 31, 2018 16:03
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Speaking of “it’s for a project,” this week’s episode has J get savagely dunked by someone for reading a Jack Reacher book in public. At least it was just a Reacher book, better to be mocked for that than for reading a Gor book in public.
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Sep 20, 2018 20:12
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I really liked the deeper dive they made on the author in this one. Made me want a dedicated pulp fiction podcast, either one where they systematically go through more popular authors or a pulp roulette kind of show where they’d randomly have to review a public domain pulp short story every episode. I don’t think it’d work with J and Chris as the hosts but someone could do it. I know there’s dedicated Lovecraft and REH podcasts but I’d like a more general pulp show.
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I read Pirate Latitudes when it came out and all I remember about it is that I read it in like a day because it was so short, and that you could tell that 90% of it wasn’t written by Crichton. I remember way back a guest on the podcast suggested that a bunch of his books were probably ghost written and immediately thinking about Pirate Latitudes and how that obviously isn’t true. His later books get pretty dire but the shift in voice from something lovely like Next and this book is very noticeable.Deformed Church posted:
Their reactions to it just strike me as not genuine half the time. Chris has said multiple times that he’s a fan of old pulp novels and as someone who reads those I can tell you the casual racism stops standing out after a while. Likewise, Jay’s said that he loves King but still reels at awkward lovely sex scenes.
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Mar 22, 2019 15:56
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GigaPeon posted:Hey we get a shoutout in the latest episode! Apparently we're a bunch of fedora wearers who go around saying "M'lady" all the time? I must have missed it, do they call out this thread specifically?
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Jan 27, 2020 21:31
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Famethrowa posted:He's pretty good in small doses, but his jokey tics and idiosyncrasies get tiring. I’d be fine with just more guests, but I guess it might be hard for them to get people living in SF.
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can’t wait https://youtu.be/VMBylNJQEbg
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I’m glad they both seem to be in a better place mentally, pretty good episode too!
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