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Barnyard Odors

Episode length: 1h 15m

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Yep, it's another episode of GLoP, where three middle-aged men wander from topic to topic like your drunk uncles at Thanksgiving—except with more references to 1970s TV pilots and less pie. This week’s meandering odyssey covers the full spectrum: wiping Faye Dunaway’s… dignity, debating whether puppies can survive her PR aura, discovering that Superman might be unpopular overseas because America is now “meh,” lamenting the death of big loud comedies (RIP, Naked Gun), and reviewing TV shows no one under 50 has heard of but everyone pretends to watch. Along the way, you’ll get unsolicited opinions on Colbert’s cancellation (spoiler: yay), the economics of late-night TV, why Hungarian tax rebates are the real star of international thrillers, and an extended meditation on historical body odor.

Hosts:
John PodhoretzJonah GoldbergRob Long

Discussion (15)

  • Al Sparks@AlSparks

    Mention was made of the British police procedural, Line of Duty, which I initially loved, and couldn't get enough of.

    The first season is excellent. But each subsequent season had declined in value. They decided to go conspiratorial, where some hidden organization, a star chamber perhaps, is the actual power running the UK police.

    Basically the unit is, what Americans might know as an internal affairs department that investigates other police of wrong doing.

    I only watched one episode of the last season, apparently released in 2021, about a SWAT officer (the Brits call it something else, but actually they know what the term SWAT means) who kills someone in cold blood. And it's one unrealistic scenario after another.

    I think the show runners of LOD don't like the police, at least the part that actually tries to solve physical crimes, and would rather they go back to policing people on Facebook.

  • Al Sparks@AlSparks

    I was a big comics book fan, and was a collector, in that I never threw my comics away. When I left home to join the military, they got lost in the shuffle.

    It's actually when I stopped reading them anyway. It's interesting that John, looking at the recent Fantastic Four movie, which I haven't seen, doesn't think it transfers to the screen very well. I agree with Jonah that it was an excellent comic book.

    I have gone back and read some of the Marvel comics that I read so long ago, and I'm struck how New York City centric they were. There were subtle references to New York that I as a child growing up in rural New Mexico didn't really catch, but did in my recent reading because I have spent some time there (never lived there, but had some business and vacation trips).

    Oh, and if anyone is interested there are Kindle versions of many of those comics. You'll want to read them on a color tablet that runs a Kindle client.

    If all you want to do is sample what teen and pre-teen boys were consuming in the 1960s, that's a good way to do it.

  • kedavis@kedavis
    ReplyingtoAl Sparks

    Al Sparks (View Comment):

    If all you want to do is sample what some teen and pre-teen boys were consuming in the 1960s, that’s a good way to do it.

    There you go.

    Perhaps even most, I suppose. Although it seems likely that teens/pre-teens in less urban areas probably didn't have much access.

    And I myself was never interested in any of them.

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