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This morning we reunited the men of GLoP (that’s Jonah Goldberg, John Podhoretz, and Rob Long) for another jazz riff through pop culture and politics. This week: Minnesota accents, best NYC sitcoms, some Odd Couple punditry, and yes, some thoughts on why collecting items as a hobby is not a window into a person’s soul. Also, one person on this podcast thinks Planet of The Apes is a bad movie. He’s wrong.
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My bet it it’s Rob…
Which “Planet Of The Apes?” That matters.
I couldn’t make out the name of the LA sitcom mentioned just after 17:00, did anyone get it?
The actual problem with “Planet Of The Apes” is that Heston should have known he was back on Earth the moment he heard the apes speaking perfect Engrish.
I have a signed Al Sharpton book. Does that make me a dime store Harlan Crow?
Signed by Al Sharpton, or signed by Ted Baxter?
(Old MTM reference.)
It was the 1960s. Every alien race spoke Midwestern American English. Star Trek clearly demonstrated this.
The idiots who are attacking Harlan Crow’s statues of evil, probably think both Churchill and Thatcher belong there. They believe anyone they don’t agree with are evil.
I am a little disappointed in Jonah Goldberg. He should know by now that leftists will call you a racist everyday and twice on Sunday. Being anti-Trump means nothing to them.
I understand that he is upset that his rich friend is being called a Nazi. I have been called a Nazi before. It is upsetting. However, I realized that twitter and leftists are insane cesspits of nonsense. I learned to avoid cesspits.
Jonah,
The point of 24k collar stays is to impress someone when you are undressing with them for the first time.
I’m pretty sure they aren’t visible when undressing either. Except maybe to a laundress or something.
Just trying to be funny. I’ve heard that Chinese nobility would wear immaculate 24K Gold jewelry, which is obvious to people who know Gold, just because it’s too soft for jewelry one would wear as it’s too soft and easily nicked or bent, but to impress that they were always wearing something new and meant to be worn only once.
Shouldn’t this be about “Friends” instead of “Seinfeld”? Friends ended in 2004.
I think “Cheers” happened to set in Boston, they’re more focused on parody of the human condition in contemporary America rather than being about Boston…Cheers could have been set in a truck stop in Barstow CA and it still would have worked.
It occurs to me one could let the shirt drop with the obvious clunk that 24K Gold collar stays would ensure.
This is why Daisy Duck got mad at Donald Duck. She looked at her ‘Finger’ (?) with her engagement ring and her finger had turned green – meaning that her ‘golden’ ring had a very high copper content.
I enjoyed the discussion on sitcoms and how they are centered around a locality. I first heard James Lileks point out that the Mary Tyler Moore Show though based on characters in Minnesota, didn’t show the quirks of Minnesotans.
And perhaps since Cheers didn’t have a Boston accent, and I watched so much of it, caused me to be surprised when I drove around the Boston area and stayed a few nights there how ubiquitious the Boston accent was.
Though not discussed, when I was reading Marvel Comics as a kid, I was aware that their universe was based out of New York, but until recently, when I revisited what I had been reading as a kid, I didn’t realize how much New York localisms they had embedded in those comics. And when I say that, I’m not referring to Spiderman where it would make more sense, but titles like Thor.
I read those comics living in a New Mexican rural town near West Texas. I’ve never lived in New York City, but I’ve spent a few weeks there on business, and it’s why looking back I’m able to see how much of NYC was put into those 1970’s comics.
Stating that Gavin McCloud was probably gay was over the top. True he’s dead, so who cares, but he does have 4 children who presumably are still alive.
He was married twice, and did host a show on Christian marriage for 17 years with his wife.
Shoulda left that one alone.
Almost all the comics are about NYC. Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Mutant Teenage Turtles, Xmen…
A couple years ago Rob said Baltimore might be America’s worst city. Now he says its great. He’s from there…it’s complicated.
Bosch was a really good show that uses LA in an interesting way.
Yes particularly season 4. I had never heard of Angel’s Flight before.
I read up on Angel’s Flight, especially since the new Perry Mason features it as well. It was shutdown in 1969 and reopened in 1996 in a slightly different location.
I was stationed in LA in 1979-1980 and had never heard of it.
There seems to be a big push to feature it in today’s films. But take a film like Chinatown, which was released in 1974, but set in 1937, it’s not featured at all.
It’s really a tourist destination, not used by the locals, though it may have been in the early 1900’s when it was first established. I’ve taken 2-3 funicular cars in Europe, and I primarily saw fellow tourists on them.
OK… I get it.
What’s the point of that? If you’re to the point of undressing with her you’ve done all the impressing you need to.
Aside from the obvious double entendre.
The Beverley Hillbillies …
Perhaps it’s to make up for any soon-to-be experienced shortcomings . . .
The solution is to trade the gold for a sex robot that is a more attractive version of you.
Sadly, there is not a more attractive version of me . . .
If Rob’s group is in the market for bad movies I would nominate Putney Swope (1969), Zabriskie Point (1970), and Eraserhead (1977).