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Last couple of episodes have been wonderfully entertaining. John just never runs out of stories and great/nefarious ideas.
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Given how often Merlin says "We can cut all this out if you want" do you think they ever actually do it?
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I just noticed that today is the show's second birthday, and I can't let that go un-noted.
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dancehall posted:Last couple of episodes have been wonderfully entertaining. John just never runs out of stories and great/nefarious ideas. To piggyback and update, the latest 2-3 episodes have been amazing, both in their discussions of wealth and freedom and John's burgeoning local politics career. Fate Accomplice fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Oct 22, 2013 |
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Oct 22, 2013 17:00
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It's strange because recently he said he views himself as a person "engaged in a culture of ideas" an yet is really acrimonious to any of these "well-meaning college professors" writing to him to explain why what he says might be wrong (he's got some crappy opinions, tbh, that punk article was weird.) It seems like someone engaged with a culture of ideas would be more open to having his ideas challenged.
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Oct 22, 2013 17:23
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HipGnosis posted:It's strange because recently he said he views himself as a person "engaged in a culture of ideas" an yet is really acrimonious to any of these "well-meaning college professors" writing to him to explain why what he says might be wrong (he's got some crappy opinions, tbh, that punk article was weird.) It seems like someone engaged with a culture of ideas would be more open to having his ideas challenged. I think he's very aware of this and plays it up a little to exaggerate his character.
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Oct 22, 2013 17:45
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This was posted by someone on the (mostly deserted) Long Winters forum and I think y'all might enjoy it. I really wonder when he will run out of stories. This one features drug use and guns! http://vimeo.com/77172523
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Oct 23, 2013 06:58
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If you guys need something else to listen to once you're done with this week's episode, John was a guest this week on The Todd Barry Podcast: http://www.feralaudio.com/27-john-roderick/ Definitely a good listen in my opinion.
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Oct 25, 2013 04:37
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Seems like this is the best place since the old thread got archived: part 1(?) of the final You Look Nice Today episode was just posted. http://youlooknicetoday.com/episode/scat-academy-one
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Nov 2, 2013 04:39
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Stutes posted:Seems like this is the best place since the old thread got archived: part 1(?) of the final You Look Nice Today episode was just posted.  Does the Comedy thread discuss YLNT at all?
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Nov 2, 2013 09:59
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This show's great and I'm glad I finally got around to listening to it. It reminds me of a podcast I liked a lot called Speedway Squad, which was hosted by current and former members of the band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets and shared a lot of that insight only career musicians can provide. Shittily, it ended its 129 episode run the week I subscribed to it, and while two of the three hosts still do a podcast called Horsetrack Hooligans along with another guy from the same band, the guy who left was kind of the show's John Roderick analogue and it's pretty terrible without him. Speedway Squad isn't hosted anywhere anymore, and while I still have almost every episode saved on my hard drive, I am disinclined to re-listen to them at this juncture and they aren't mine to be spreading around, so they're pretty much just taking up space. Here's the only evidence I can find to prove the show actually existed. Anyway, thanks a ton to this thread for finally giving me a new "hilarious musicians bullshitting" fix!
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Jan 22, 2014 03:39
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What's the episode where Roderick talks about his childhood obsession with money?
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Jan 24, 2014 20:57
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Fighting the urge to stitch together every time John says "the thing about X is..." into one super long audio file.
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Feb 14, 2014 01:21
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Mescal posted:What's the episode where Roderick talks about his childhood obsession with money? I believe it starts about 25 minutes into Sunset University.
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Feb 14, 2014 07:17
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So who else is buying a white jumpsuit after listening to this week's show? Gotta be ready for the stick fights.
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Apr 22, 2014 17:48
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My son just informed me that eating meatball sandwiches in the bathtub is "against the rules." Where did I go wrong?
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May 13, 2014 00:42
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head58 posted:My son just informed me that eating meatball sandwiches in the bathtub is "against the rules." Where did I go wrong? How many trails has he cut?
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May 13, 2014 02:54
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Poopy Palpy posted:How many trails has he cut? Supertrain is on the way ...
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May 20, 2014 05:49
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I just want to say I'm delighted that they've been back in the groove of great episodes every week again. There's nothing else quite like this show.
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May 20, 2014 17:42
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The handjob episode is sublime essence of this show.
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May 26, 2014 04:57
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John is going to get so many emails this week.
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Jun 10, 2014 21:19
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I like that he basically admits his theory of feminism has to ignore all evidence. I like John, I really do, but any of his theories related to "social justice" or cultural studies show his "middle-aged-ness." If someone really wants to be "engaged with a culture of ideas" as he claims to be you have to accept that your views will be challenged. People are going to disagree with you and maybe you should listen to their objections instead of whining about the fact that others are making objections. peter banana fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Jun 11, 2014 |
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Jun 11, 2014 16:24
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Good grief that was a rough 10 minutes or so. If you ask me John was just putting matriarchal apples on patriarchal trees.
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Jun 11, 2014 19:17
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it was pretty tone deaf, considering some guy just shot a bunch of people because women wouldn't gently caress him and he felt entitled to that. Like, the biggest issue facing women right now isn't "the fact that we don't demand our own recognition" it's "will some man kill me because I said I wouldn't sleep with him?"
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Jun 11, 2014 21:25
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peter banana posted:it was pretty tone deaf, considering some guy just shot a bunch of people because women wouldn't gently caress him and he felt entitled to that. Like, the biggest issue facing women right now isn't "the fact that we don't demand our own recognition" it's "will some man kill me because I said I wouldn't sleep with him?" You really think that one incident is indicative of social structure at large?
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Jun 11, 2014 21:48
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WoG posted:You really think that one incident is indicative of social structure at large? as a woman: YES
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Jun 11, 2014 21:59
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peter banana posted:as a woman: YES Well, to paraphrase a wise person, if you want to engage with a culture of ideas, you have to accept that your views will be challenged. People are going to disagree with you and maybe you should listen to their objections instead of whining about the fact that others are making objections. tldr: great thread. Keep it up.
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This is the worst and dumbest derail that ever happened so I'd like it to stop but: what are you even talking about? Where did I whine about your objections? You asked me if my experiences indicated a larger problem with misogyny in society. I drew on my lifetime of experiences and answered yes. You are welcome to believe that the abuse, rape and harassment I've experienced at the hands of multiple men didn't actually happen but, uh, it did. I was there, you weren't so again what are you even talking about
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Jun 11, 2014 22:21
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I don't know how that discussion was controversial--I was listening pretty closely to that part, and he didn't seem to make a point.
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Jun 11, 2014 22:44
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Yeah, can we post about how wrong Roderick was about Computer Maths instead?
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Jun 11, 2014 22:56
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Sorry dude. I thought #notallmen was such a joke at this point no one would say it sincerely. Not sure why I thought that.
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peter banana posted:This is the worst and dumbest derail that ever happened so I'd like it to stop but: what are you even talking about? quote:You asked me if my experiences indicated a larger problem with misogyny in society. My point is this: John made some ridiculous argument at which you could have just rolled your eyes, as the rest of us did, as one does with much of his rambling philosophizing. Instead you cried, "too soon!" (ie, "It was pretty tone-deaf, considering..."). For that alone, gently caress you. Now you're willfully misinterpreting everything in the most volatile way possible, so that you can bring up dumb tumblr hashtags. Thanks for accusing me of denying that you'd been raped, though. (?!) That's not terroristic rhetoric at all.
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Mescal posted:I don't know how that discussion was controversial--I was listening pretty closely to that part, and he didn't seem to make a point. it didn't quite get to a point. It sort of started out as "women's social and economic power is often overshadowed by patriarchy" which Merlin tried to articulate at one point. Then John sort of switched to, "well, actually women probably enjoyed traditional gender roles (whatever that means, including when they had no rights and were treated as property, I guess)" to "patriarchy is (or feminists believe it is) a weird conspiracy run by a board of shadowy figures to keep women down" again, freely admitting that those theories fly in the face of all evidence of women's real experiences
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peter banana posted:freely admitting that those theories fly in the face of all evidence of women's real experiences That part really struck me. He said something to the effect of "It's all anecdotal. This statistic says this, that statistic says that" which makes it sound like he has no idea what anecdotal actually means. He seems to come from a very heavily female family. How many times has he mentioned a male relative besides his dad? I'm sure there must have been some, but I can't think of any. He talks a lot about his sister and his mom though. He sees how his family works and is extrapolating from there, and it's giving him a warped view of society as a whole.
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Poopy Palpy posted:Yeah, can we post about how wrong Roderick was about Computer Maths instead? I'm a software engineer and listen while at work...I couldn't stop laughing at that part. I love John and his bullshit, the recent feminism mini-rant included. I did think it was interesting that he pointed out the social power women have that is easy to overlook, but he missed a lot of the overall picture. Then again, the show is mostly about playing with ideas that are interesting instead of getting things completely right. In that sense, in some ways he's right about "computer maths" in that most of the things I actually do at work, as opposed to what I learned in college, could be taught as a trade. ham_sanitizer fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Jul 22, 2014 |
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Jul 22, 2014 03:00
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How the gently caress has John spent over 120 hours telling the sorry of his life on this podcast and not mentioned the time he cofounded a cocaine fueled art gallery jazz rave cafe where he met Reggie Watts until he needed to explain his relationship to artichokes?
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Aug 10, 2014 18:20
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I thought the same thing...though it is a period pretty much completely disconnected from the rest of his life. Like he said, when it was over it was pretty much like it didn't happen.
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What I really liked about it is that he spent all that time telling the story, and still remembered to bring it back around to the artichokes in the end.
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Aug 12, 2014 01:21
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Yeah...it seems like he's really figured out where the lily pads are.
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Some hero is putting together an iBooks series titled "The Definitive Guide to Roderick on the Line". So far it only covers episodes 000-005, but he plans to keep updating it. https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/definitive-guide-to-roderick/id910018983
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