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GLoP Culture

Puzzles and Recipes

Episode length: 1h 25m

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It’s February, the weather is trying to kill us, the garbage hasn’t been picked up, and somehow this leads—inevitably—to Frank Sinatra insulting his fans, Catherine O’Hara being a comic genius for half a century, the Washington Post lighting itself on fire, and the uncomfortable possibility that puzzles and recipes are the last functioning pillar of American journalism. Also Jeffrey Epstein and a trio of off-color jokes. Obviously.

Hosted by John Podhoretz, Jonah Goldberg, and Rob Long

Discussion (5)

  • Taras@Taras

    I still remember the SNL skit in which Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, and Joe Piscopo played Woody Allen, Bob Hope, and Frank Sinatra watching a football game on TV.

    Allen is amazed when, not liking how the game is going, Hope and Sinatra make a phone call and a fumble immediately occurs.

    This must have been during the period when SCTV took over SNL.

    Fun fact: SCTV was made in Edmonton, Alberta. So the cast were not just outsiders to American culture, they were outsiders to the dominant Toronto-Montreal-Vancouver axis of Canadian culture.

  • Miffed White Male@MiffedWhiteMale
    ReplyingtoTaras

    Taras (View Comment):

    Fun fact: SCTV was made in Edmonton, Alberta. So the cast were not just outsiders to American culture, they were outsiders to the dominant Toronto-Montreal-Vancouver axis of Canadian culture.

    Not so much.

    John Candy - born and raised in Toronto area.

    Eugene Levy - Hamilton Ontario

    Martin Short - Hamilton Ontario.

    Dave Thomas - Ontario

    Rick Moranis - Toronto

    Catherine O'Hara - Toronto

    Joe Flaherty - Pennsylvania.

    Andrea Martin - Maine.

  • Taras@Taras
    ReplyingtoMiffed White Male

    Taras (View Comment):

    Fun fact: SCTV was made in Edmonton, Alberta. So the cast were not just outsiders to American culture, they were outsiders to the dominant Toronto-Montreal-Vancouver axis of Canadian culture.

    Miffed White Male (View Comment):

    Not so much.

    John Candy – born and raised in Toronto area.

    Eugene Levy – Hamilton Ontario

    Martin Short – Hamilton Ontario.

    Dave Thomas – Ontario

    Rick Moranis – Toronto

    Catherine O’Hara – Toronto

    Joe Flaherty – Pennsylvania.

    Andrea Martin – Maine.

    I did not mean to imply they were all from Edmonton, just that they were operating far from what would have been considered centers of Canadian culture at the time. This may have helped free them from current prejudices and shibboleths.

  • Taras@Taras

    One of the guys should have pointed out that, to Trump’s credit, he seems to have been the only one to kick Jeffrey Epstein to the curb long before Epstein got in legal trouble for the first time.

    Indeed, judging from Epstein’s bitter comments about Trump, he may have suspected Trump dropped a dime on him.