#688 - Medium Talents
Added 2026-02-02 18:12:35 +0000 UTCComments
It’s about an hour and a half from the Burgh, aka the Paris of Appalachia, heading up towards Buffalo. Fully in nowhereville which is why Bill’s character is such a prick about being there at first. Pittsburgh has a Big City significance for a lot of PA (and, begrudgingly, OH / WV / WNY) that they are really proud of and it can sometimes come off rude.
Alicia
2026-02-12 21:08:50 +0000 UTCThey do however seem very proud of their “Chicken Cock” bourbon. Ok.
Mallory
2026-02-06 13:03:00 +0000 UTCI live in Kentucky, smack dab in the middle of the bourbon trail so I looked this shit up out of curiosity to see how closely it’s produced. It’s made by a place called Grain and Barrel Spirits which I’ve never even heard of with a home base out of South Carolina. And they do NOT advertise this one along with the other brands they produce it seems lol
Mallory
2026-02-06 12:58:37 +0000 UTCThings that came into my head while listening to this episode: Not to knock your efforts, but a panel discussion on GROUNDHOG DAY featuring Mel Gibson, Kevin Sorbo and Roseanne Barr might lead to some interesting perspectives on the film's high regard amongst the Pope's Church. On Benjamin's rules for writing, I break an awful lot of them. Except, I've always written with a keyboard, since I learnt to touch-type in 1976 at the age of 15. Of course, for a long time I used typewriters, and still miss them, especially a big Adler one I got at my first job in publishing, and which I tried to buy when they were replaced across the office by Amstrad word-processors. Finally, listening to the lyrics to 'I've got you, babe' at the end there, I realised that at either en of their lives the Boomers have had to live with disapproval. First it was their parents and grandparents turning on their hedonistic, liberated life-styles, and now it's their grandchildren roasting them for being selfish and not realising how much life has changed. You've got to have some sympathy for their predicament, haven't you? The rest of the generations had it easy.
Paul Brewer
2026-02-05 17:32:20 +0000 UTCApparently this movie came out my freshman year in college. A beloved film in my household. I remember watching it in the theatre with my late father, a Mexican cinephile and American comedy fan like they don’t make anymore. How he laughed and laughed… ❤️ One of my family’s most quoted films. Thanks for giving it the respect it deserves and for the insights, gentlemen. ✌🏽
Puet
2026-02-05 13:09:22 +0000 UTCI love that Orwell essay (Although it was actually published under the pseudonym "John Freeman for unknown reasons). I read it every year around Christmas.
Kieran Duffy
2026-02-04 02:49:13 +0000 UTCFun fact, Stephen Tobolowski wrote David Byrne’s true stories. I watched it after you did the episode and emailed him and apparently he basically took David around the part of Texas he grew up, took him to shows, had him meet his mom. That is “why Texas?” And where that specificity came from
Jeremy Hawkins
2026-02-03 17:22:45 +0000 UTCI’m surprised they didn’t talk about the falling out between Murray and Ramis from this film. They reconciled in some way on Ramis’s deathbed, but this film basically ended their friendship.
Johnny 5
2026-02-03 14:57:56 +0000 UTCFantastic ep and ending. Thanks guys
Blank
2026-02-03 13:39:29 +0000 UTCLove that Rob Schneider dedicated himself to the conservative posting crowd to the degree that it “triggered” his wife into leaving him.
James Washburn
2026-02-03 11:05:42 +0000 UTCanother thing about Pittsburgh is that it's only about forty mins away from Punxutawney.
Worf Worfstofferson, and I'm da Venari Ral
2026-02-03 09:11:35 +0000 UTCThe description of utopia and Orwell's criticism of the notion of perpetual happiness brought to mind one of my favourite definitions of it, from Susan Sontag's novel In America (1999): "Maybe utopia is not a kind of place but a kind of time: those all too brief moments when one would not wish to be anywhere else."
Graeme Pente
2026-02-03 03:22:07 +0000 UTC
