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MeFi's own Linda_Holmes gives us a shout-out for yesterday's book burning thread on NPR's Monkey See Blog.
I was so, so excited to see Linda on metafilter. I still have my God Is In the Tub tshirt.
posted by restless_nomad (staff) at 9:26 AM on October 12, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by restless_nomad (staff) at 9:26 AM on October 12, 2011 [2 favorites]
Has Ira weighed in on his sex tape, yet?
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:29 AM on October 12, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:29 AM on October 12, 2011 [4 favorites]
"Weighing in at 98 pounds - 102 with glasses on - is Ira 'The Sex Taper' Glass!"
posted by villanelles at dawn at 9:35 AM on October 12, 2011
posted by villanelles at dawn at 9:35 AM on October 12, 2011
He dropped a weight class when he had the ponytail lopped off.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:39 AM on October 12, 2011
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:39 AM on October 12, 2011
Weight? Weight? Don't tell me.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:47 AM on October 12, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:47 AM on October 12, 2011 [3 favorites]
I was wondering if Linda_Holmes was that Linda Holmes, but I was too shy to ask!
The Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast is my new favorite thing ever. Seriously: I'm working my way through back episodes, and I'm going to cry when I'm done.
posted by craichead at 12:50 PM on October 12, 2011
The Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast is my new favorite thing ever. Seriously: I'm working my way through back episodes, and I'm going to cry when I'm done.
posted by craichead at 12:50 PM on October 12, 2011
Weight? Weight? Don't tell me.
Each week we choose a theme, and bring you stories about that theme. This week's theme is Blazecock Pileon that was a terrible joke.
posted by shakespeherian at 2:34 PM on October 12, 2011 [6 favorites]
Each week we choose a theme, and bring you stories about that theme. This week's theme is Blazecock Pileon that was a terrible joke.
posted by shakespeherian at 2:34 PM on October 12, 2011 [6 favorites]
Still better than anything you'll hear on Says You.
posted by villanelles at dawn at 2:44 PM on October 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by villanelles at dawn at 2:44 PM on October 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
And I just took craichead's advice and listened to a Pop Culture Happy Hour while on a run; but it was hot as balls and I live in the fucking hills and now I never want to hear it again. Pretty much clockwork oranged myself.
posted by villanelles at dawn at 2:46 PM on October 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by villanelles at dawn at 2:46 PM on October 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
And that is why I make a point of never, ever running unless I am being chased.
posted by craichead at 3:27 PM on October 12, 2011
posted by craichead at 3:27 PM on October 12, 2011
If Cracked's articles could automatically have MetaFilter comments after them we'd all learn so much.
'Top 6 Reasons Why Tesla Is Manlier Than FDR'
Cracked comments: *videogame reference*
MeFi comment: "As an electrical engineer and FDR scholar...."
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 3:45 PM on October 12, 2011
'Top 6 Reasons Why Tesla Is Manlier Than FDR'
Cracked comments: *videogame reference*
MeFi comment: "As an electrical engineer and FDR scholar...."
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 3:45 PM on October 12, 2011
I always run when I'm being chaste.
posted by a humble nudibranch at 10:51 PM on October 12, 2011
posted by a humble nudibranch at 10:51 PM on October 12, 2011
Man, I've been listening to the Pop Culture Happy Hour ever since I ran out of Slate Culture Gabfests, and I really like it, but the SCG spoiled me for this type of thing. They're so organised over there. With the PCHH, it's like they have no editor, or else their editor just can't be bothered. For instance, when they refer to a song or any other kind of aural experience, they hardly ever play an example. The last episode I listened to, one of the dudes was talking about some actor (?) whose name I had never heard, and somebody else asked who he was, and he was like "Oh, I'm certain that if people just heard his voice, they would know exactly who I'm talking about", and so I jammed my rubbishy iPod headphones deep down into my ears to drown out the music of all the little middle-schoolers trying to destroy and seduce one other before they had to get off the bus, but the PCHH just moved right on to the next thing as though it weren't an audio podcast at all. They did a whole episode about the season premiere of X-Factor without playing a single clip of any of the singers they were talking about, even though they put a completely superfluous extract of dialogue from Homeland in the next episode. It just seems so haphazard. Also, I can't find a list of the Things That Are Making Them Happy online after each episode, is there one?
Again, I really like the podcast, but the way it's done so often brings me back that feeling of reading a music review in a magazine in 1999 - that "oh, I wonder if that's as interesting as it sounds, maybe I'll go find out about it later, ugh but I'll forget, should I write it down, god where's my stone tablet and chisel?" feeling.
posted by two or three cars parked under the stars at 11:37 PM on October 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
Again, I really like the podcast, but the way it's done so often brings me back that feeling of reading a music review in a magazine in 1999 - that "oh, I wonder if that's as interesting as it sounds, maybe I'll go find out about it later, ugh but I'll forget, should I write it down, god where's my stone tablet and chisel?" feeling.
posted by two or three cars parked under the stars at 11:37 PM on October 12, 2011 [1 favorite]
I want to tell people about this, but I'm not sure how. "So I posted a Cracked link to Metafilter, and it got picked up by an NPR show I don't listen to'. Go me.
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 11:40 PM on October 12, 2011
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 11:40 PM on October 12, 2011
Again, I really like the podcast, but the way it's done so often brings me back that feeling of reading a music review in a magazine in 1999 - that "oh, I wonder if that's as interesting as it sounds, maybe I'll go find out about it later, ugh but I'll forget, should I write it down, god where's my stone tablet and chisel?" feeling.
Hey, y'all. So this is super weird, this feeling.
HELLO, PCHH PEOPLE.
This, by the way, is a completely, totally fair criticism, this thing about clips.
Here's what you should know about the podcast: It technically doesn't really, specifically, business-wise, exist. That's why it's a subcategory of a previously existing arts-and-culture podcast. (You know how Heather Locklear was a special guest star on Melrose Place for like twenty seasons? We are still basically a special guest star on a previously existing podcast.)
It was started because Stephen and I sat in Stephen's house and said, "You know what we should do? We'll get Glen and Trey in a room and we'll ask Mike to produce and this is what we'll call it and we'll grab a studio at the end of the day when nobody is using it." And we sort of willed it into existence around everybody's existing stuff.
You're 100 percent right that because we're trying to squash it in around our jobs (and in Stephen's case his busy kids), we don't always get as many clips in as we wish we could. There's nobody who can't be bothered, I promise, especially Mike (who's our editor/producer and who always wants more clips and more organization because we torture him with our randomness), but you'd be surprised how much extra logistics and how many extra steps are involved. When the conversation is spontaneous and largely unscripted, going back after the fact and figuring out all the audio we should track down and then finding it and ripping it and adding it is something that needs to happen when we're all off doing our actual jobs, and it's easy for it to fall through the cracks. That doesn't at all mean we shouldn't do it, but the failure to do it isn't really because we don't have it in mind. It's just a lot of ... logistics, as I say. But it's true that it sometimes doesn't happen, and it should happen more, and I will take this to the weekly meeting. (We actually have a weekly meeting! It is the most official thing we do other than faithfully having drinks together after we tape.)
Maybe we need an intern to sit there and make notes about what audio we need to grab. There's nothing interns can't do!
Anyway, thanks so much, and point totally taken. The episode that will post tomorrow, by the way, has clips including an iconic theme song.
(And God/Tub people UNITE. I still hate that.)
posted by Linda_Holmes at 5:36 AM on October 13, 2011 [10 favorites]
Hey, y'all. So this is super weird, this feeling.
HELLO, PCHH PEOPLE.
This, by the way, is a completely, totally fair criticism, this thing about clips.
Here's what you should know about the podcast: It technically doesn't really, specifically, business-wise, exist. That's why it's a subcategory of a previously existing arts-and-culture podcast. (You know how Heather Locklear was a special guest star on Melrose Place for like twenty seasons? We are still basically a special guest star on a previously existing podcast.)
It was started because Stephen and I sat in Stephen's house and said, "You know what we should do? We'll get Glen and Trey in a room and we'll ask Mike to produce and this is what we'll call it and we'll grab a studio at the end of the day when nobody is using it." And we sort of willed it into existence around everybody's existing stuff.
You're 100 percent right that because we're trying to squash it in around our jobs (and in Stephen's case his busy kids), we don't always get as many clips in as we wish we could. There's nobody who can't be bothered, I promise, especially Mike (who's our editor/producer and who always wants more clips and more organization because we torture him with our randomness), but you'd be surprised how much extra logistics and how many extra steps are involved. When the conversation is spontaneous and largely unscripted, going back after the fact and figuring out all the audio we should track down and then finding it and ripping it and adding it is something that needs to happen when we're all off doing our actual jobs, and it's easy for it to fall through the cracks. That doesn't at all mean we shouldn't do it, but the failure to do it isn't really because we don't have it in mind. It's just a lot of ... logistics, as I say. But it's true that it sometimes doesn't happen, and it should happen more, and I will take this to the weekly meeting. (We actually have a weekly meeting! It is the most official thing we do other than faithfully having drinks together after we tape.)
Maybe we need an intern to sit there and make notes about what audio we need to grab. There's nothing interns can't do!
Anyway, thanks so much, and point totally taken. The episode that will post tomorrow, by the way, has clips including an iconic theme song.
(And God/Tub people UNITE. I still hate that.)
posted by Linda_Holmes at 5:36 AM on October 13, 2011 [10 favorites]
This note about having drinks after a podcast recording? Most important advice ever.
posted by TrishaLynn at 7:37 AM on October 13, 2011
posted by TrishaLynn at 7:37 AM on October 13, 2011
Here's what you should know about the podcast: It technically doesn't really, specifically, business-wise, exist.
That's kind of awesome.
Also: I miss the Trey-with-an-E-and-Graham-like-the-cracker singsong. Am I alone in this?
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 5:03 PM on October 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
That's kind of awesome.
Also: I miss the Trey-with-an-E-and-Graham-like-the-cracker singsong. Am I alone in this?
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 5:03 PM on October 14, 2011 [1 favorite]
(not so) secret confession - I listen to the other Culturetopia episodes first, so that I can go back and savor the PCHH ones. PCHH = the Oreo creme of podcasts.
posted by clerestory at 6:58 AM on October 17, 2011
posted by clerestory at 6:58 AM on October 17, 2011
Sorry I didn't get around to saying this five days ago, but I just wanted to say thank you, Linda, for such a thoughtful, graceful, informative response to my unseemly complaining. It's obvious a ton of work goes into producing most good podcasts, and I've always wondered how you got it all done and how much support those of you with organisations behind you actually got from those organisations. Thank you for making the PCHH happen every week, all of you - I can't imagine how many bus rides to work apart from mine it makes much happier, clips or no clips. May it one day technically, really, specifically, business-wise exist.
posted by two or three cars parked under the stars at 12:10 AM on October 18, 2011
posted by two or three cars parked under the stars at 12:10 AM on October 18, 2011
No, thank you. That was really helpful and constructive and not at all unseemly. Believe me, the only way shows get better is when people remind you what you're still not doing that you really do intend to be doing and that they genuinely would appreciate.
We're just so, so grateful for the way people have embraced it and been so amazing to us -- that is the only reason it's been such a great experience and so much fun. We've all said at different times that it's often our favorite thing we do.
posted by Linda_Holmes at 8:51 AM on October 20, 2011 [1 favorite]
We're just so, so grateful for the way people have embraced it and been so amazing to us -- that is the only reason it's been such a great experience and so much fun. We've all said at different times that it's often our favorite thing we do.
posted by Linda_Holmes at 8:51 AM on October 20, 2011 [1 favorite]
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posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 9:20 AM on October 12, 2011