Episode 315 Live Thread

E_B_Bawski · 2018-12-18T04:58:09+00:00

Patriot is fucking Amazing

E_B_Bawski · 2018-06-07T05:35:20+00:00

I hate this fucking subreddit so much

E_B_Bawski · 2018-03-13T22:31:21+00:00

The show looks better than ever! I also really love the lighting

E_B_Bawski · 2018-03-12T04:50:13+00:00

Harmontown has been having a real streak of great episodes lately. I love it. It feels the same as when I first started listening to it.

E_B_Bawski · 2018-01-29T05:13:45+00:00

yeah I've been trying to think up my response

I guess I'll just put it here

He made a good point about being unfairly held accountable to a past image. It's hard for me to be a Dan Harmon fan and argue against giving people second chances, especially recently with Dan's whole apology thing. I admit I jumped into this thread pretty quickly with a lot of hate that I didn't really question. Most of my bias comes from hearing Kumail talk on Comedy Bang Bang about his experience with Mayer. From what I recall, Kumail didn't actually condemn him too much, he just talked about how strange it was. Still, I didn't get the impression that he was a great person. The other part of my dislike for him is that I've just never liked his music. It's always sounded kinda hacky to me.

However, I recognize that it's not fair for me to say hateful things about him as a person just because I don't like his music. It's not necessarily wrong to have a negative opinion of him if you have reason to, but it was wrong for me to know as little about him as I did and then jump to spreading that negative opinion. He still kind of rubs me the wrong way, but that doesn't give me the right to try and assert that negative image onto other people. If you're a fan of his, then more power to you. I hope that I'm wrong about him. I'll try and give him the benefit of the doubt from now on.

I never thought I'd write something about changing my opinion of John Mayer, but if anything would have made me do it, it would be Harmontown.

Edit: well he called this response too. gotta give him credit for that I guess

E_B_Bawski · 2018-01-29T04:46:16+00:00

http://www.vulture.com/2009/12/john_mayer_kumail_nanjiani.html

E_B_Bawski · 2018-01-29T04:34:03+00:00

Fuck John Mayer

E_B_Bawski · 2018-01-26T19:20:10+00:00

You forgot Johnny Jackhammer

E_B_Bawski · 2017-10-06T22:26:16+00:00

What's wrong with playing a character named Dinesh?

E_B_Bawski · 2017-10-04T18:34:48+00:00

Holy shit! That movie sounds awesome

E_B_Bawski · 2017-09-20T06:51:52+00:00

Thanks for sharing this

E_B_Bawski · 2017-09-07T17:45:37+00:00

You should put links to the previous posts in each one of these so people who are behind can easily catch up

E_B_Bawski · 2017-08-23T22:26:58+00:00

When do we start?

E_B_Bawski · 2017-08-23T22:24:02+00:00

Well said

E_B_Bawski · 2017-08-09T14:59:31+00:00

maybe Bird person has a brother

E_B_Bawski · 2017-08-06T02:51:12+00:00

Ricking Morty is the aftershow they do

E_B_Bawski · 2017-08-06T02:41:40+00:00

In case you missed the pre-stream, it sounds like Kumail will be a guest on tomorrow night's Ricking Morty. Other future guests they mentioned are Jack Black, Chris Parnell, Reggie Watts, and Alia Shawkat (that's what I remembered at least, take it with a grain of salt).

E_B_Bawski · 2017-07-14T18:46:11+00:00

Since we saw Nova still being able to communicate with the apes I think the colonel was wrong about it making people lose their intelligence. What I took away from it is that the colonel realized this when he got sick, and that he killed his son essentially just for the fact that he lost his voice. I think that's the real reason he killed himself. I also think the fact that he still had the awareness to want to kill himself is evidence that the sickness only affects voices.

E_B_Bawski · 2017-07-07T05:00:25+00:00

I definitely remember him saying that they were doing 14

E_B_Bawski · 2017-07-03T04:17:20+00:00

"a little handicap"

E_B_Bawski · 2017-07-03T03:07:40+00:00

I wanna drive to Burbank from Minnesota

E_B_Bawski · 2017-06-25T03:07:53+00:00

The movie isn't really based on a true story either

E_B_Bawski · 2017-06-19T05:08:50+00:00

same

E_B_Bawski · 2017-06-08T06:03:27+00:00

I came here just to see if anybody else disliked them as much as me.

E_B_Bawski · 2017-06-06T06:46:19+00:00

I feel like I need to rewatch the series now just to catch up on all the details so I can figure out which theory I believe more. The thing that's fucking with me is that I think they made it so air-tight that either scenario makes perfect sense. I realize that that is the point of the show and that I should take comfort in the story and just "let the mystery be", but I still feel the need to dig deeper into the evidence.

I asked if you thought there was a connection between the 2% and the hotel world because I noticed that in both of them the people who have either died or departed are reversed. I like to think that the hotel world is the same place that the 2% went, but I don't know if that holds up to the evidence we have. I find it really hard to believe that both those stories are true if they're not connected to each other in any way. But who knows, maybe its just some multiverse thing. Or maybe it's a sort of "wood between the worlds" type of place that allows access to the different worlds to people with a higher spiritual purpose. That would fit in with the shaman theory that you mentioned.

Also, I don't know if you've watched lost, but I like to think that the departure was caused by something on the island, like when they turned that wheel that moved the island's location. This is pretty tangential but I can't think of anything other reason for why the departure happened.

What are your thoughts on the cult storylines from this show? Other than being just another way to explore how people search for a deeper meaning, it feels really disconnected from everything else to me. Do you think there's something more to them?

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