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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: ~L on May 03, 2011, 03:40:49 PM
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Get ready for the Wacki-duo!
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Well only one half of the duo is really "Wacky."
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You and your clown shoes.
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Well only one half of the duo is really "Wacky."
What happened to the man. Man?
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Victory lap -- USA vs. OBL!!
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Yeah, they should have a warehouse of extension cords for when the nucular plants go out.
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Gregg Gethard on 'Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG7UbCOYwS0#)
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Mike's Wally impression was golden. Not as accurate as Tom's but it's power to annoy Wally was impressive.
Yeah, they should have a warehouse of extension cords for when the nucular plants go out.
Yeah, I'm sure I totally George W. Bushed the pronunciation there. I don't often say the word out loud.
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Gregg Gethard on 'Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?'
That is fantastic!
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Wally: "I was hoping Julie would call but I think that she's currently in jail." followed by dead air.
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Wally: "I was hoping Julie would call but I think that she's currently in jail." followed by dead air.
I also liked his throwing Mike under the bus. Skeevy the Puppet needs to teach Wally a thing or two about tact and grace.
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Hatch's prison story was great. Man I just wanna kill a cop huh
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Hatch's prison story was great. Man I just wanna kill a cop huh
The whole weed thing seemed like a great joke. But either way Hatch is either a funny dude or a great storyteller. WIN WIN
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Just the mere idea of Hatch in jail is insane - he's such a laid back dude.
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funny, i recognized the carmen sandiego clip when greggulator was describing it, but not from the actual clip posted above, but the keyboard cat one:
Play him off, keyboard cat. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo1BorkW9Do#)
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Anybody know what that bed music is that they always use? Sounds like the "Its your thing riff" or where ever that riff originally came from.
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What's the exchange rate on crime bucks these days?
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What's the exchange rate on crime bucks these days?
I was hoping i wouldn't have to pay to find out the answer.
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What's the exchange rate on crime bucks these days?
oh man
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funny, i recognized the carmen sandiego clip when greggulator was describing it, but not from the actual clip posted above, but the keyboard cat one:
Play him off, keyboard cat. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo1BorkW9Do#)
Stuff I didn't talk about on my call about my appearance:
1) My competitor, Ilan, is some high-faluting military expert and writes for the Huffington Post and worked for John Kerry's campaign. He actually befriended me on Facebook and is a very nice guy and thinks the whole thing is funny. He was never able to live down the "Jerusalem is safer than here" bit from his friends and family. Super glad to have communicated with him.
2) I constantly lean into the microphone because I was on my middle school's academic decathlon team and we had it drilled into us that we had to lean into the microphone for our answers to count. I couldn't break that habit on Carmen Sandiego, which just adds to the hilarity/humiliation.
3) I originally had this on VHS. A few of my friends from college also had these weird TV show appearances -- one was on some Double Dare rip-off and another was an actor on an Unsolved Mysteries reenactment -- and we showed all of them at a party. Naturally, I lost the VHS tape since I moved about 500 times when in college. I tried for YEARS to track down a copy of the tape but to no avail. Finally, about three or four years ago, I found out that there is a Carmen Sandiego message board community, run by someone who dresses like Carmen Sandiego and goes to comic book conventions as such. They led me to this guy Anton who collects game show appearances and has like 10,000 game show episodes in his collectiion. I told him about my episode and he had it. He sent it to me for free. This sounds nice enough, but this guy was a total nutjob and used to e-mail me things like, "I'm writing a screenplay about an asteroid that's going to hit the sun and I have you in mind to be the lead actor." Total weirdo.
4) The Keyboard Cat thing is hilarious. Someone sent a link to me about that when it first appeared and I was completely mesmerized. My friend Paul revealed to me about two years after the fact that he put it together as a prank. He felt bad because the comments on that are so absurdly mean but I think that's even funnier. They're better than the comments on the original video which are horrifically racist/anti-Semetic. I've also threatened to sue commenters for "slanderous" remarks about me and had a friend of mine pretend to be my lawyer.
5) I did a comedy show in Philly where I showed the video and did live commentary over it. This came together because the lead singer of Rockapella found me on Facebook and said that he loved the video and he'd love to perform with me or something. So I ended up somehow getting him to do the theme song at my show. Afterwards, he did his new material from his comedy music act "Jewmongus."
The whole thing essentially sums up my life to a T. When this thing first aired, I was soooooo embarrassed, since it came out within my first two months of being in high school. But then I came to just embrace it since it was seemingly on television at least once a day for three years of my life. What else can you do? And then that was the first thing my future wife said to me so the whole thing worked out well. Cheaters Do Prosper!
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Greggulator, you are awesome. You have a way of wearing down all resistance. (Still pulling for Geneva if the protege competition ever gets reinstated though.)
By the way, when that Rockapella guy teamed up with my onetime friend Rob Tannenbaum for some novelty recordings in the 90's, I did the cover art for their Howard Stern-approved holiday CD single "Hanukah with Monica" (Lewinsky).
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Yeah, they should have a warehouse of extension cords for when the nucular plants go out.
Yeah, I'm sure I totally George W. Bushed the pronunciation there. I don't often say the word out loud.
Funnily enough, this Bush-ism was mentioned on a recent Judge John Hodgman episode that I listened to on the way to work this morning.
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They really stuck it to the Man this time, our Man!
I think cops at that time of night are bored and looking for something to do. Their attitude of "well we started the process and can't stop now" is what they they live by. Yet, they do not care that what they have put in motion causes someone to spend a night in jail over a DMV notice (that automatic suspension notice is sent out to everyone in NJ who is late paying a parking ticket or any traffic summons, if you don't pay on time and your license gets suspended they don't send you a notice of that, so you don't know it happened, to fix it you have to spend a whole day at the DMV straightening it out, because it takes that long to be processed.) Those cops did not care enough about a citizen to push a send button; once they have you, they have you; they do not care about the blatant drug use and selling in the holding cell because those guys monitoring the cell are not the same guys who arrested you, and they can't be bothered; and then in the morning "it's oops, not our problem." That story is infuriating! I am very sorry to hear that Hatch had to go through that. I wonder what Officer Tom would say after hearing Hatch's story. Where is Officer Tom? We need a special FOT Get Out of Jail Free card issued.
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Greggulator, you are awesome. You have a way of wearing down all resistance. (Still pulling for Geneva if the protege competition ever gets reinstated though.)
Agree completely.
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By the way, when that Rockapella guy teamed up with my onetime friend Rob Tannenbaum for some novelty recordings in the 90's, I did the cover art for their Howard Stern-approved holiday CD single "Hanukah with Monica" (Lewinsky).
ha, i think i've heard that. should've figured it was rockapella-related.
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Maybe the Wackiman will chime in and help me with my question.
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Luther: the bed music is a loop I made from the intro to "Nobody But You Babe" by Clarence Reid (a/k/a/ Blowfly).
Clarence Reid - Nobody but you babe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ugpvFTOpU#ws)
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Luther: the bed music is a loop I made from the intro to "Nobody But You Babe" by Clarence Reid (a/k/a/ Blowfly).
Clarence Reid - Nobody but you babe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ugpvFTOpU#ws)
Thanks!