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This past Saturday evening marked a seminal moment in the often sordid history of the mighty GLoP podcast: our first virtual Night Owl captured on video, recorded live in front of an audience of thousands, enforced upon us by the covenants of social distancing. This is the audio of the event (the video is here on Ricochet and behind the paywalls at The Dispatch and Commentary). As foretold by the elders, this podcast does contain some adult language, drinking, and juvenile jokes. In other words, it’s a GLoP.
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I guess I’m a little puzzled why it took 3 days to get this up? Back before it was easy to get Meet The Press and Fox News Sunday audio podcasts, I used to get them for a friend of mine by recording the TV shows on a VCR and then playing the audio into a program that made mp3 files. And that was real-time, but it still only took a couple hours.
It had nothing to do with technology. We held it back because we wanted to give the members and subscriber of the three sites some exclusivity with the video version of it before we released the audio to the world for free.
The best blind character in a movie is Tom Sullivan in “If you could see what I hear” (1982) – its a true story of Tom Sullivan who was blinded as a toddler.
What was the president’s lie about masks? I only heard one about masks being stolen – which Trump heard from Gov Cuomo, but nobody squawked when Cuomo said it. Like everything else Trump says, the media instantly changes their narrative as soon as Trump has a quote on it.
And rather severely muffled audio too, especially Jonah.
My nomination for best blind-guy performance in a film: Jason Bernard in “All Of Me,” starring Steve Martin and Lily Tomlin.
Oh, I thought it was the GLoP Culture Podcast, not the Dispatch/Commentary/Whatever (National Review?) Podcast.
Re: Dream sequences: “Brazil”
Re: condensing The Sopranos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgBD94cs0T8
Bigger question- why does Rob show with a cigar? I thought he was more into, er, some form of relatives of lucy-in-the-sky-etc. these days.
Maybe only when he’s visiting Central America, where he wouldn’t go to jail for it, if caught.
Unfortunate drop-outs at around 1:18:45.
Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns were all slow paced, with long lingering shots and lots of space interspersed with the dialogue and activity. And I’d put “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly” somewhere in the top 25 list at least.
And aren’t these the same guys who criticized “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” for being “slow?”
With regards to “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”, and Rob Long’s jibe towards Jack Butler, I didn’t get the reference either, though I have watched Caberet, and when i watched the YouTube of that excerpt, I got it right away.
So basically Rob, in a joking non-serious way, implied that Jack was a member of the Hitler Youth which was a double entendre, because Jack was accusing Rob, again jokingly, of being anti-Semitic.
Rob is very good at comebacks, and that was masterfully done.
I’ll add that “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” in Caberet is a warning to whatever generation happens to be the youngest that their tomorrows, their choices, can go very badly however well intentioned they might be.
But the whole recognizing-it-came-from-Cabaret-and-then-having-to-look-it-up-on-youtube kinda takes away from the effect, doesn’t it? Especially since they didn’t include Cabaret as an “essential American film.”
I enjoyed listening live on Saturday. I made it through the first hour but with 4 kids I eventually had to drop off.
Somehow JPod is correct and Rob wrong about Pardon Mon Affaire, the original French title is ‘Un éléphant ça trompe énormément’. – Just in case someone wants to practice their French in this time of lockdown.
I watched live with a Ricochet membership, you had to register to receive the link.
Btw, is zoom really the best option for these?
Ivy League Brown Football?
How about former MN Viking Steve Jordan?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jordan_(American_football)
It kinda does. I still garnered enjoyment of it after looking it up. And maybe Jack did too, if he had to look it up.
I don’t know. Do you have something else in mind to compare?
What drink did rob have? Sounded good but I forgot what he called it.
I remembered now!
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015308-the-boulevardier
How could the GLoPsters – and @jackbutler – forget the name of Edna Mode?
I must have watched that sketch on YouTube a dozen times before I realized it’s not James Gandolfini.
Actually, the movie Rob mentioned is “The Woman In Red,” not “The Lady In Red.”
But that was really Vincent Pastore, wasn’t it?
Jonah: “Everyone would be more consistent than Donald Trump!”
Really? Has he ever MET the Democrats?
Re: Punishing Children…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WIi-i_FcnE
I was listening to this podcast and got to a part where I started to think…”Please don’t do it. Please don’t make a world wide pandemic with thousands dying, millions out of work, and so many lives disrupted somehow about the persecution of Jews.” But they couldn’t help themselves and we get a bunch of comments that the goyim just skip through marveling at the amazingly self-centered view of the world.
Good show, especially the @jackbutler abuse.