Premium 307: Playing It Straight
Added 2024-06-03 20:32:03 +0000 UTCBoy bands, Railbird Festival, Eminem, Netanyahu/Gallant, and the Book Threat
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Bob!
Maggie Queen
2025-05-12 12:19:02 +0000 UTCstill crying laughing from when Tom said in eminem voice that’s an awfully hot coffee pot
mitsucherrie
2024-06-20 12:48:20 +0000 UTCRailbird is cursed
Mary Radford
2024-06-10 18:48:11 +0000 UTCI'm enjoying this new american-taliban-Tarrence, were the US is not only irredemable, but borderline supernaturally evil. Like it's a place that's been karmically irradiated, fit for humans in a thousand years at the earliest, rendering any project within its confines slated for the near future a ridiculous concept. The actual land is fine. But the superstructure that washes over it is a page-one-rewrite.
Jesper Ohlsson
2024-06-09 19:26:22 +0000 UTCYou guys often talk about going to the rubber room, I almost had to go for a permanent stay this week. When I found out my sister is a zionist, shit nearly broke my ass.
nolan king
2024-06-08 19:13:43 +0000 UTCZimmerman is GOATED
Adam Murphy
2024-06-07 02:11:23 +0000 UTC...Only because he has white-girl "why can't people spell my name correctly? It's Meghauyhn, duh" whined about it on the pod in the past, the way I remember to spell his name is "it's Tarence, like a Tarantula". Tarantula is coincidental as a memory-hook, but most people have some kind of reaction to spiders, so it sticks. It's not intended as some inscrutable shade.
Jesper Ohlsson
2024-06-06 23:08:06 +0000 UTCJustin Timberlake embodies the ~2005-2015 era of AAA action video game covers. Just a generic dude with a buzz cut, nothing that stands out
voteforjefe
2024-06-06 18:42:57 +0000 UTCThat Knoc-Turn’al song is rough man
Zach Spires
2024-06-06 14:46:59 +0000 UTCJT is trash. That album is trash.
Kyle Turnbull
2024-06-06 09:56:10 +0000 UTCChecking comments before episodes now. Thanks Bob
Benj
2024-06-06 01:22:04 +0000 UTCAppropriate amount of bob on this one, feels like a good way to close out eps where you spend 55 minutes talking about fucked up shit
Adam Edwards
2024-06-05 19:09:52 +0000 UTCI spent this whole episode planning on writing a scathing comment about how you took Bob from us but you fellas saved yourselves at the end. Good work!
foreversincebreakfast
2024-06-05 17:25:54 +0000 UTCI’m surprised Macklemore didn’t come up during this conversation about white rappers. I know he’s largely considered corny but I feel like he ticks the box of not taking himself too seriously. I can’t help but give him props for Hind’s Hall, no other big name artists sticking their necks out like that.
Grumpy Botany
2024-06-05 16:42:40 +0000 UTCI love Chetnickdave. He's going places, just slower than most.
synthmage
2024-06-05 15:44:45 +0000 UTCRight and it made no sense bc he went from the Mickey Mouse Club as a child to basically the adult Mickey Mouse club that was NSYNC.
Annie Greene
2024-06-05 12:16:45 +0000 UTCGuess whos back Back again Bob is back Bob Dylan
Eric
2024-06-05 11:49:43 +0000 UTCIt’s so funny in retrospect, the moment in a young Christian boys life when he makes the decision to risk his immortal soul for a single decent track. If slim was Christian I’d be a priest rn.
Chapo has always branded nu metal as right wing
2024-06-05 08:18:44 +0000 UTCgod im so happy when yall bring out "the boys" for a good time.
hatsune kiku
2024-06-05 02:50:37 +0000 UTCSo I'm only like 17 minutes in but I gotta say I'm a lil sad at no love for Chris Kirkpatrtick from Nsync. He's my local boy (He grew up in NWPA, like less than 20 miles from where I grew up), he's a fellow poor (even more poor than I grew up), and he went on to do some really silly voice acting stuff.
æmbər
2024-06-05 01:05:22 +0000 UTCIs that related to what I said, or just a thought you were having?
Keith
2024-06-05 00:37:13 +0000 UTCBob is back and I can stop doing the voice myself just to scratch the itch. My girlfriend will be over the moon.
Liam
2024-06-05 00:26:30 +0000 UTCBobby is Back!
Kevin Rutledge
2024-06-04 23:37:04 +0000 UTCNope. He's been overtly sexual/physical since the previous century.
Emily Epstein (unrelated to the bad guy)
2024-06-04 23:00:36 +0000 UTCI didn't particularly mind Bob Dylan voice, but it did really highlight to me how much the phenomenon of "what is being said right now is poignant, and is going somewhere to a larger point" is 90-95% down to tone or inflection. If you have a wistful way of talking, you can basically lean back and go "one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish *drags cigarette*...it's all green eggs in the end", and there's an NPR reporter on the other side of the table wildly nodding and going "uh-huh.. green eggs..wow *scribble, scribble*".
Jesper Ohlsson
2024-06-04 22:35:23 +0000 UTCTerrance Voices tier list: A: Bob B: Cartman C: Terrence D: Biden F: Australian accent
Gru
2024-06-04 22:34:04 +0000 UTCI almost used the "word you're not supposed to use anymore" (starts with a "w") but decided it was a bit too spicy (and honestly not my place; I'm not black). There was so much of that in the 00's from white male artists who all of a sudden "became very cool, out of nowhere".
Jesper Ohlsson
2024-06-04 22:11:51 +0000 UTC100% the child abuse situation is 🤢🤮
Emily Epstein (unrelated to the bad guy)
2024-06-04 22:10:51 +0000 UTCHappy Pride Tarence
sarah
2024-06-04 22:07:09 +0000 UTCBecause he was the first real white rapper who acknowledged socioeconomic identity in common with Black hip-hop.
Emily Epstein (unrelated to the bad guy)
2024-06-04 22:04:46 +0000 UTCworker makes a dollar while profits are sky-high so I listen to trillbillies on company wi-fi
Lindsay
2024-06-04 21:09:15 +0000 UTCI have to assume the guys don't know about Eminem's porn collection, because this would have been the perfect conversation to include it in. He didn't even know that there was porn on the internet until a reporter told him.
Keith
2024-06-04 17:45:40 +0000 UTCJustin Timberlake spent most of the 00's doing to contemporary black artists what Corey Feldman did to Michael Jackson (style-wise), but because he never really got called out for it, we were all supposed to not take note of all his fedora-wearing, borderline AAVE-antics on tv. Also, yes - not hot. He is to basic gays what Taylor Swift is to basic girls.
Jesper Ohlsson
2024-06-04 16:02:42 +0000 UTCStealth Bob is best Bob.
Jason Edmiston
2024-06-04 15:36:55 +0000 UTCMy favorite part of the Britney Spears memoir audiobook, read by Oscar winning actress Michelle Williams: “One day, J and I were in New York, going to parts of town I’d never been to before,” Williams reads. “Walking our way was a guy with a huge blinged-out medallion. He was flanked by two giant security guards. J got all excited and said, so loud, ‘Ah, yeah! Fo’ shiz, fo’ shiz! Ginuwine! What’s up, homie?'”
Annie Greene
2024-06-04 14:36:43 +0000 UTCI like how Bob is trying out for the Traveling Wilburys pretending to be a replacement Tom Petty despite he himself already being a member of the Traveling Wilburys.
Andrew
2024-06-04 13:18:47 +0000 UTCThe music festival guy reminded me of that story about the coffee shop owners who got mad at the kid doing chalk drawings on their sidewalks. This was years ago y'all star lore.
Aaron
2024-06-04 12:29:07 +0000 UTCThis thought occurred to me. Like when taco bell removed potatoes from their menu just to create an uproar.
Tom's Trips Official
2024-06-04 12:13:53 +0000 UTCHE'S BACK, BABY! HE'S BACK!!!
Tom's Trips Official
2024-06-04 12:12:09 +0000 UTCTerrence: keep doing the voices
Scrub_Club_is_Life
2024-06-04 11:25:49 +0000 UTCThe squeaky white boy musician voice was incredibly annoying but well done and could be a thing.
Cory
2024-06-04 08:11:25 +0000 UTCFuck my life I mean Kevin Bass or whatever his name is. Not the porn star.
Cory
2024-06-04 07:45:59 +0000 UTCAlso.. halfway through. White boy rappers. Maklemore?
Cory
2024-06-04 07:45:25 +0000 UTCThe George Costanza skit with the Sears catalog held true for many years now that I think about it. Also I'm gonna have to go back and check out what Jake Bass looked like since this is now how I as a gay man remember those years.
Cory
2024-06-04 07:44:34 +0000 UTCBuying that Eric Cartman dip.
Tyler Pittman
2024-06-04 05:30:15 +0000 UTCNow this is the content I came here to get
Tony
2024-06-04 05:02:07 +0000 UTCYa know, this Tom Petty guy doesn't seem half bad.
Sean J
2024-06-04 04:30:52 +0000 UTCNot feeling existential dread as much as floating in a dark pool of indifference. To each their own, though, ain’t trying to yuck anyone else’s yum
William
2024-06-04 02:18:18 +0000 UTCOkay, I'll concede....requesting Bobs return for the age old Tom and Gail readings from simpler times
diosmuertos
2024-06-04 02:08:34 +0000 UTCI suppose I better comment something; usually do
William
2024-06-04 02:08:29 +0000 UTCTo be honest the degree to which Bob is a raging Zionist put a bad taste in my mouth recently but I nevertheless forever support Tarence’s right to do Bob impressions to the chagrin of grumps everywhere
rainbow.harvest
2024-06-04 02:06:37 +0000 UTCTake this with a huge grain of salt because I probably haven't listened to them in fifteen or twenty years, but I will go to bat for the first two Snow Patrol albums. They had more of a shoegazy, power pop edge to their music when they started out, but after they got famous off Chasing Cars, they went soft and never looked back.
Guy Incognito
2024-06-04 02:02:18 +0000 UTCsickos stay winning, dylan/dave "yes, haha yes!" 2024
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2024-06-04 00:46:48 +0000 UTCwhat is dylan/dave may never die 🫡 to anyone asking these boys about what's their plan to phase out the impressions all i say is 🎶WHAT'S YOUR PLANN TAHHHH HOLD YO' BABY BALLS INYA PANTSS I SEE 'EM RIGHT NOWWWW PUT 'EM AWAAYYYYYYYY LITTLE BITCHH~🎵
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2024-06-04 00:41:51 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/v5j77D4BnSU?si=uB1V4Hqwn6TS-fWU
E
2024-06-04 00:05:31 +0000 UTCMore importantly Steven Weber did star in an underrated film directed by Larry David (his only such effort) called Sour Grapes. It relevant given the mention of him in relation to Seinfeld
Joseph Friedman
2024-06-03 23:21:12 +0000 UTCYES BOB YES!
Kevin Doyle
2024-06-03 23:18:06 +0000 UTCOnly half way through the ep, so I apologize if this is actually covered, but I think there is a spiritual connection between Eminem and South Park and I have to say it because this is one of the topics I'm obsessed with and I have poor impulse control. Both push the boundaries of what you could say in entertainment but neither were particularly subversive to the status quo. I think this all relates the the "End of History", wherein an end of political possibilities breeds a sort of political nihilism. If neoliberalism is all there is, then presumably we've resolved issues like racism, sexism and homophobia up to the point we're actually going to solve them, but race, sex and non-heterosexuality still contained the possibility of offending people and were thus imbued with a impotent power. There's always a thrill in saying the forbidden but, from the late 90s to the late 00s, there was nothing left but that cheap thrill. I think this explains the rise of Eminem to some extent and why he no longer feels relevant. He represents a time when there was nothing more to say but provocation and provocation, while feeling dangerous, was actually really safe because there is nowhere left to go. This is the inverse of our current moment where the only thing we can all agree on is that, whatever this is, it isn't gonna last long.
Vincent
2024-06-03 23:17:03 +0000 UTCTheir were dicks in the locker room in Challengers
Joseph Friedman
2024-06-03 23:11:35 +0000 UTCLove Bob
sean
2024-06-03 23:07:21 +0000 UTCMore Bob Dylan. And Dave. And Cartman.
Breadnutz
2024-06-03 22:57:50 +0000 UTCDon’t tarnish Justin for pulling himself up by his bootstraps. That’s fine American invisible hand magic at work. It’s just that JOEY DIDN’T WORK HARD ENOUGH. But he does have good hair plugs
Wilford
2024-06-03 22:57:03 +0000 UTCBOB IS BACK praise the boys
Rae Rae
2024-06-03 22:55:24 +0000 UTCOkay but have you seen the clip from Eminem free styling where he says, "it's fun for me just to grab a boob, plus my PEANUS got an attiTUDE"
Trixie
2024-06-03 22:37:03 +0000 UTCas does Drake
Trixie
2024-06-03 22:35:56 +0000 UTCTimberlake has rizz
Marty Shambles
2024-06-03 22:35:42 +0000 UTCJustin Timberlake has a distinctly neutered vibe
Trixie
2024-06-03 22:26:18 +0000 UTCbob heads are eating
big mood
2024-06-03 22:21:43 +0000 UTCThis is like when coke changed their formula, so people would buy tons of it when it came back. Terrance wanted to hear us beg for Bob.
Tnetsyuser
2024-06-03 22:16:10 +0000 UTCLMAO, Terrance had to throw the ol’ “I didn’t get to see no dick and balls” in there, “your dang right I love titties, but you can feel safe with me cos I also love them dick and balls girl.” lol
Cory Waring
2024-06-03 21:52:28 +0000 UTCcan we get a bob dylan cover of slim shady
Triskaideka
2024-06-03 21:33:23 +0000 UTCBring Bank Bob #BBB
Pattern Recognizer Jr
2024-06-03 21:33:11 +0000 UTCMan, I miss Bob and his nets.
Thomb Thumb
2024-06-03 21:30:24 +0000 UTCDamn, right off the bat I had to stop and go listen to some JC Chasez… pitiful stuff!
Danny Linnane
2024-06-03 21:25:15 +0000 UTCglad to hear there's been a groundswell for bob dylan. not unlike the swelling around his chafed dick and balls. cheers boys. silly shit will save us.
Matt
2024-06-03 21:24:54 +0000 UTCfeeling the existential despair as well. but sometimes the best remedy I have is to be silly with friends
Carter Mize
2024-06-03 20:46:00 +0000 UTC
