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This week, don’t talk to Rob Long about the final episode of Game of Thrones. Seriously, don’t do it. Also, Jonah reviews the Universal Studios theme park, GLoP’s definitive 5 best movie comedies, the banning of Gone With The Wind, the trouble with Breakfast atTiffany’s and Birth of A Nation, and more general end-of-the-summer observations and hilarity.
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And he was MARVELOUS, just like joo are too.
Like so many of us, @jonahgoldberg may be the “minority partner” in his nuptial arrangement. That only means that we were smart and married up!
Best part of the podcast was the fact that the Big Bus (1976) got some recognition from John for the greatness of the bus driver bar scene and the “one lousy foot” line.
Not only did I love the sheer absurdity of that movie but my girlfriend at the time was so horrified than I liked it we broke up soon after. Found my current girlfriend shortly thereafter and she has a vastly better sense of humor.
Old Man Rob Long may be one of my new favorite Rob Longs. Well done Gents.
Re: Ma Bell cornering the Bakelite market. Citation needed. You’re asking us to believe about 30 years of knobs for electrical, electronic, optical, and mechanical devices and some once reasonably priced now very expensive jewelry existed at the sufferance of AT&T. And Westinghouse had the trademark on the name? I duntthinkso.
I don’t understand the fixation on Animal House, which is frequently mentioned here. People actually think that is funnier than Some Like It Hot?
I thought it odd to say “under appreciated” because they were all the critical rage in the second half of the 90s, and i think overrated. Clearly one of the most talked about bands of that era. My favorite is “Hey Now”.
I enjoy JPOD talking thrones! More thrones talk please! He should be a permanent addition to the ThronesCast for final season.
Looks like we will be doing a Rob-less Thrones GLoP with a special guest host. Look for it next week.
I’ve got the feeling that the most rabid fans of GoT just didn’t play enough Dungeons and Dragons when they were younger.
And here he is as Nakamura in Sayonara:
Yawl just crack me up! Love the show. Franny
A bit more Pablo Escobar than “Japanese crime lord”.
I propose that Jonah write a column after every GloP that starts with this phrase. I love JPod, but he interrupts Jonah at least once an episode and then Jonah rarely comes back and finishes what he was saying.
Both ‘critical theory’ and Alinsky tactics involve making sure people are at each other’s throats even if you have to go back centuries to do it and then , in their own words ‘rub raw the discontent’ . That’s why statues that were no problem for a century are now suddenly an issue out of nowhere.
That’s Fernando Lamas. But they are both mahvelous.
I don’t remember the whole movie, but as a kid I remember laughing a long time at this:
Ditto, Katy. I grew up in Tennessee in the ’80s. Same thing, and we had the Battle Flag as our school logo. No racial tensions, and I saw no prejudices expressed.
Being a proud Southerner and pro-Confederate, I started off the episode grumbling and had to skip about ten minutes until they got off the Confederate war memorials and the pseudopsychological analysis of us Southerners. Then John got onto the supposed awfulness of Gone With the Wind, of all things.
I was about to give up on the episode entirely until I read the rest of y’all’s comments here. I love these guys, but sometimes…sheesh! Glad I stuck with the rest.
Wanted to let you guys know this before we announced it publicly: the Ultimate GLoP Game of Thrones Podcast with Jonah, John, Ross Douthat and Sonny Bunch (but no Rob Long) will be out this Wednesday.
There will be spoilers. Consider yourself warned.
Any serious list of great comedies should include “What About Bob?”, my favorite Bill Murray movie:
“Leo, I see salt and pepper, is there a salt substitute?”
“I’ll get it. And don’t call me Leo.”
“But you said in your office that I could call you Leo.”
“That was in my office. In my home, I’d like you to call me Dr. Marvin.”
This made my day!
My alma mater.
Rob:
Wikipedia doesn’t support Morgan Freeman’s contention that the Mississippi flag was adopted in his lifetime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mississippi