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It’s the last GLoP of the year — oh wait, it’s the last GLoP of the decade. Better make this one memorable. What can we do? I know, let’s help Jonah write a column. YES.
So that’s what we do: Rob and John suggest column topics and along the way, cover the which droids they’d like to be, the trouble with Clint Eastwood’s new movie Richard Jewell, why the Democratic party is eating itself, a bit of Rank Punditry®, Rob’s newest obsession: ASMR videos (no, we’ve never heard of it either), and various other rabbit holes and detours.
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That’s a cinch – he can just do what he always does, steal one from Ace of Spades.
Won’t it be a victory lap for taking down Trump?
No it’s not. The new decade doesn’t start until ’21
from Wikipedia
The new decade starts on January 1, 2021. Are you cats taking next year off?
If only.
So Rob’s next trip overseas is going to be to India, for a haircut and a head massage?
(Jonah must really be stuck for a column, because everyone on last week’s GLoPcast was saying it would be the last of the
decadeyears that have the numeral ‘1’ in the tens column.)Cynical Desperation would be a great band name.
Good call to avoid the topic of Trump and Impeachment, Jonah. May I suggest another column on Airborne Volcano-Lancing Lasers?
I think I had rather watch the movie you guys are making up than what you’re making fun of. If you need a bit of guerilla movie-making footage from London (Ontario), let me know. It’s not that far away.
Now, now, Drew, they can be very entertaining.
You also listen to folk music.
Those Wisconsin Oompa bands just get tiring after awhile.
Just dropping in here to note that this show was recorded on Monday 12/16 and the column Jonah ended up writing is here.
Is he saying the politicians are all mooning us? 😁
I heard Stephen recommend them on episode 32 of the Conservatarians.
That would not surprise me.
I think most times they’re just making up names.
So far I can’t think of any music they’ve played that I would want to hear more than once, if even once.
That’s a pretty common mistake apparently mostly caused by people not taking into account that there was no year zero.
So the first decade was years 1 through 10, the first century was years 1 through 100, and so forth. So a century ends with a year ending in 00, and the next century begins with a 01 year. Which is why the first year of the 21st century was 2001, not 2000.
You can probably blame @blueyeti for that, but I disagree. Enjoyable music. Thanks, Scott.
I thought Jon Gabriel and Stephen Miller picked the music for The Conservatarians.
Ah, yes, in that case. I thought you were referring to this show.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, but I don’t remember The Black Hole ending the way Rob and JPod describe. My recollection is that Robert Forster and the other remaining “good guys” get through safely and emerge somewhere else in the galaxy; Maximilian Schell’s character experiences a kind of “afterlife” where the robot Maximilian appears as basically the ruler of the underworld, aka Satan. I just don’t remember an angel-like character, I guess I need to see it again.
How about this for 10 hours of ASMR relaxation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz-LK0OBOfM
I love Rob. So much.
Now you’re just being catty. 😜
I don’t know if this is ASMR but it’s appropriate for these guys.
Everyone gets dragged through the black hole (which early in the movie is described as “something out of Dante’s inferno” (and one character suggests you can see a guy with a pitchfork in there). Reinhardt and his robot merge into one being and they end up in hell with fires burning everywhere. Then the camera pans up to a sort of cathedral interior, and an Angel flies through it . . . and all the protagonists shoot through the black hole and back out into space.
Jonah doesn’t always steal columns, but when he does, it is from Ace of Spaces.
You forgot the picture of the Most Interesting Man In The World. :-)