98. That's Content, Baby!

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Lords:

• Hallie
  • https://twitter.com/hallie_9000
• Christine
  • http://thechrischerry.com
  • https://twitter.com/chriscereza

Topics:

• Where are my glasses?
• Nighttime is the time of abstract possibility and imagination because the world is gone.
• This huge tub of homemade toum
• Turn Down For What
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU
  • Unedited (syncable) commentary: https://youtu.be/Q9oXE3ibmmM
• Modern TV re-discovering the episodic format

Microtopics:

• Mining the pre-show banter for a clip.
• Dreaming of producing content every second of your life.
• Getting hooked up to the content matrix and spewing content out of every orifice.
• Burnt Notice.
• Watercresstine.
• Looking upon Burn Notice as your weird uncle who lives in your basement.
• A podcast about discussing episodes of a podcast discussing episodes of Burn Notice.
• Recording a song in the style of We Are The World except instead of the proceeds going to help children in Africa you keep the money.
• Recording a song in the style of We Are The World except instead of the proceeds going to help children in Africa, it goes to getting Doctor Who back on the air.
• We Are The Timelords.
• Doctor In Distress.
• Needing to stop making a podcast before your listeners can beg you to come back.
• How locals pronounce "Los Angeles."
• Not knowing how to look for your glasses in an apartment because your normally live in a farmhouse.
• How nobody in LA owns more than one chair.
• Whether Hallie's glasses were in the fridge.
• Posting photos of your apartment to the internet so people can help you find your glasses.
• Whether Winston answers the phone at a Korean BBQ restaurant in LA.
• Being awake during the day: terrible.
• The most concrete time of day.
• Going to preschool and answering phones for a Korean barbecue restaurant until daddy picks you up at 4.
• Loving 2am but being in bed by 9:30pm.
• Like a tree but shorter, louder with stickier hands.
• No responsibility except what you make for yourself.
• An emulsion like mayonnaise except instead of tasting like mayonnaise it tastes like garlic.
• Vampires hating garlic because they don't like the taste.
• Whether you can have the vampire gene but not be a vampire.
• Vampirism as a collection of traits that often manifest together, and you're only diagnosed with vampirism if these traits interfere with your ability to do your job.
• How many marshmallows go in fudge.
• Converting from marshmallows when the recipe calls for mini marshmallows.
• Using marshmallows as bait to catch God when everyone knows God hates marshmallows.
• Videos that love to start with a black screen that goes on a little too long when you're watching at one quarter speed.
• A man in a blue hoodie jiggling as something is taking him over.
• Shattering furniture with the power of your raw sexuality.
• The Scully stand-in who is extremely skeptical about how horny this guy is.
• St. Vitus' Dry Hump.
• Could I be a fish doing push-ups?
• Whether there is a Hitmonchan in this bra, and whether it's evolving, and whether we should push B.
• The relief of consuming media and not feeling the need to form any reaction whatsoever.
• Spiking the punch with LSD.
• A cop whose face melts because he doesn't know what you'd turn down for.
• Contracting a bad case of Original Sin and being very angry about it.
• A straight man who stole Elton John's sunglasses.
• Whether DJ Snake looks like a douchebag or just looks French.
• Characters who grow hornier and hornier as over the course of eight seasons.
• The 1943 Watchmen TV series.
• The Veronica Mars model of serialization.
• Whether the Columbo renaissance implies a Murder She Wrote renaissance.
• Whether that's content, baby.
• A character in a romantic comedy who makes web sites for everyone but who can't make a web site for herself.

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