Friends of the band, the elusive and pretentious ambient noise music collective Wolcott & Lincoln have released their first “album” yesterday. “It Ain’t Corn” is the culmination of almost 20 years of planning and nearly an hour of actual labor.
00040 Permanent Grind: The Proverbial Bathtub of Theseus
Topics
- Nagging Question: Can You Really Make a Boat out of an Old Bathtub??
Flowers of Disgust Ethics Panel: Duck Tales, Allowance Day (1989) wherein Scrooge’s nephews trick him into thinking it’s a day later than it really is, so he will give them their allowance money early, before a certain bicycle sale ends, but the plot backfires after Scrooge’s vast influence among the finance sector causes a ripple effect in which everyone in town becomes convinced it’s a day later – including the bike store!SEGMENT POSTPONED- How Many Bills Can We Name?
- Serious Discussion: Is American Democracy Doomed? A Serious Discussion of Matthew Yglesias’ American Democracy Is Doomed (Vox Magazine, 2015)
Songs
- Miniskirt
- Comin’ Home Baby
- Shineth Not the Sun
Further Research / Deeper Learning:
- Image search for “bathtub as boat”
- American Democracy Is Doomed (Matthew Yglesias, Vox)
- Animal Cops – “Horse Rescue”
- John McLaughlin Obituary
- Nice building. Bad roof. Good parking!
00028 Rooster
Topics
- Giant Chewy SweeTARTS®
- Snot & Tears: Stan Freberg (1926-2015)
- Inappropriate Things to Do with Those Pneumatic Tubes They Have at Banks
- …Who Said That??!
Supporting Documents and Further Reading:
- The Adam Sandcast
- BBC News: The Spooky World of Numbers Stations
- SweeTARTS® Giant Chewy – Official Page
- “Stan Freberg: “Elderly Man River”
“Stan Freberg: “Day-O” - Angry Bank Customer Urinates in Drive-Thru Tube
- The Erotic Meaning of “Pneumatic” in Huxley & Eliot
- The Psychosocial Complexities of ‘Mr. Ed’
- “Hot to Trot” theatrical trailer
The Mandela Effect: Alice in Chains’ “Rooster” - Alice in Chains Interesting and Funny Moments
00032 Businessman Pretending to Be a Train
- Listener Emails, Corrections & Addenda
- Segment 1 – As
BeesBears in Honey Drown: Beekeeping Advice - Segment 2 – Reciting Four Famous Speeches at Once
- Segment 4 – Predictions: Spice Girls Death Order
Songs:
- Purple Rain
- On the Sunny Side of the Street
Supporting Materials
00049 Naughty Ol’ Human Head Sitting There
00048 Trilobites Are Doin’ It For Themselves
- Reminiscing about funny moments from past episodes of BFTP
- Great ppl w/ horrible hair
- Christopher Winter ad-libs the inner monologues of various animals by request
00046 Monkey Versions of C-List Celebrities
- Jeff Goldblums Throughout History
- Dinner Party Gone Wrong Clichés!
- How Many People Can We Name?
00045 An Eternally Recursive Sequence Of Self Spawning Snoop Doggy Doggs
- Ethics Panel: If you order water at a restaurant with self-service fountain drinks, is it ok to get the club soda? Can you put a lemon wedge in it?
- Lesser Known Mnemonic Devices
- How to Clean a Bathtub in Exactly 32 Steps
- Reviews of movies h’ain’t none of us ever done seen.
Show Notes:
00044 Richard Dreyfuss in a Bear Costume
- Reminiscing About People We Have Killed in Self-Defense,
- Nagging Question: Can You Really Make Gin in an Old Bathtub?
- Fake Toilet Parts
- Classic Ill-Fated Fast-Food Ventures: The Burger King Kingdom
Show Notes:
Is Richard Dreyfus still alive?
How to make bathtub gin and skip this podcast
Buzz Aldrin / Snoop Dogg collaboration:
Compilation of 70s-80s BK commercials:
00043 People Posing as Colonel Sanders
- Can Somebody PLEASE Explain Henry Rollins to Me???
- How Many Randomly Selected Topics Can I Definitively Settle in 60 Seconds?
- A Series of Controversial Statements, Pt. III
- Classic Hip Hop Skits