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Strange days call for a strange podcast. This week, GLoP explains the GameStop controversy, remember the great Cloris Leachman, the once great and then awful Phil Spector, why M*A*S*H was not the greatest TV show, and other assorted seemingly random observations and jokes.
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Other films that were made into successful television shows:
Alice (From Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore), 9 seasons on CBS
Dr. Kildare, a successful film series which starred Lew Ayers and Lionel Barrymore was recreated for the small screen with Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey, 5 seasons on NBC
And the grandaddy of them all, Lassie, which MGM brought to the screen in 1943 with Lassie, Come Home and ran for 17 seasons on CBS.
I haven’t listened yet, but saw your comment and thought I too was going to mention Alice. Then I thought are the guys covering this again, what episode was I going to comment on? Turns out, upon listening to the Sub(space)Beacon (the nerd in me really wants them to pronounce the punctuation) episode out today, it was Sonny and Vic talking about M*A*S*H last week where they were trying to think of movies that became TV shows instead of the other way around. At the end of today’s episode, during the corrections and additions portion, a listener had brought up Westworld, Fargo, and Friday Night Lights.
Great GLOP. “Irish Spring” et al. But when you finish off with the Ronnettes? Priceless.
Corporal Klinger was ahead of his time. He would fit right in with the Biden Army.
Where do I go to listen to the sub (Beacon)?
They are only on Patreon now. They have set it up so it only requires a minimum of a $1/month donation and the guys mentioned in the kick-off that if that’s too much, they will give out a complementary subscription if you write to Vic or JVL. Currently they have 1500 patrons and at the end of the latest episode they said that if they hit 2000 patrons Vic will return to the hosting duties, where it should have stayed. The show is like GLoP except they don’t talk politics and only one of the hosts hates Trump.
You can go to subbeacon.com which redirects to their Patreon page.
When they focus on pop culture I realize just how much all three of them know. It’s kinda impressive.
Between the three of them, they’re usually able to correct each others’ mistakes, if given enough time.
They all hate trump, they just don’t talk about it.
Has anyone come up with a Sonic The Hedge-Hog meme yet?
Maybe. Just know that JVL is proud of his work getting Xiden elected. Sonny now writes at the Bulwark but I think just on entertainment topics.
Oh, Sonny hates President Trump, too. And anyone who works for The Bulwank should be assumed to be an anti-American globalist. The Bulwank is funded by Soros and Omidyar.
Yeah, but they don’t spend 25% of their show about pop culture talking politics so I don’t hear it. I enjoy their show. A show with three guys discussing pop culture, where one guy is always wrong, reminds me of something.
Nope. He was a cross-dresser trying to get out, not transgender and trying to get in. Bedwetting or, better, constant, unstoppable weeping (preferably from day 1 of Basic Training) would have been sounder tactics. The US Army bureaucracy is a formidable foe.
Misc, not related:
M. Wikipedia says “ghee LYN” or “ghee LEN.” A few generations back when the Brits still had imperial confidence they might have taken great pleasure in murdering the pronunciation. Today I’m guessing not.
Naked City (1960-1963, with Route 66 as a spin-off) was a police procedural with the look and style of Jules Dassin’s 1948 movie, The Naked City.
I’m reading “The Fall of Fortresses” right now, a memoir by a navigator on B-17s in England in 1943.
If any of you out there are financial types, please correct me if I’m wrong on any of the following. I’m just a layman in the world of finance.
My understanding from reading the reporting about GameStop is that the Reddit group investing in them (and they are buying stock, not short-selling. The hedge fund is the short-seller) is not doing it because they think it will make them money, but because they think that the hedge fund is artificially, and illegally, pushing down the price of the stock through short selling what the Reddit folks allege is 140% of the shares in the company. It is, for obvious reasons, illegal to short sell more than 100% of a company’s outstanding stock, but it could be that it is a common practice for the hedge funds to do just that. That needs to be investigated.
The Reddit folks are trying to make a point that the hedge funds pretty much do whatever they want, and if they can short sell more shares than exist in a company, and no one does anything about it, then those hedge funds can use that method to crush pretty much any floundering stock they want to make their short-sell price target. For example, if short selling 80% of the shares in a company won’t move the price down where they want it, maybe 120% will. Or, in this case (allegedly) 140%.
GameStop does indeed have an outdated business model, but they’ve also just hired a CEO to pivot them to online sales, and that hasn’t had any time to happen yet.
At any rate, that’s my understanding of what’s going on.
Rob Long gave a simplistic and wrong explanation of what’s going on with $GME and Redditors. I have to admit, I’m no expert, but I think this tweet and the referenced tweets do a good job. There was serious naked shorting going on (illegal and the Redditors figured it out from public information) so the short squeeze was a monster run-up in the price. The Redditors will do fine if they have any kind of stop-loss that has them only gaining some large multiple of their investment. https://twitter.com/jordanhenderson/status/1355171617782063110?s=20