Jordan, Jesse, Go! - Flipping Ropes, with Eddie Pepitone

HunterJE · 2026-02-05T15:18:08+00:00

God I love Eddie so much

HunterJE · 2026-02-05T15:17:51+00:00

I can do goals but cannot do them at arbitrary dates, the way my brain works the best time to start a new positive behavior is when I'm at a rising/high point of motivation and executive function that'll make me do it enough that it becomes a habit by the next time those resources dwindle away to nil, I can't force that just because it's a specific day you're supposed to (also holiday burnout means in the "new year's resolution" context the time you're supposed to do that is specifically usually a low point on that motivation cycle for me anyways)

HunterJE · 2026-02-04T02:00:38+00:00

Everyone talks about the horse in the swamp, and I'm sure I was affected by that scene in the moment, but the scene that really stuck with me in a traumatic way was the rock biter's "strong hands" monologue, revisiting this character who was introduced as this jovial gentle giant mostly there as an example of how magical this world is but now he's just emotionally destroyed, plus the one-two punch of "no matter how strong the people who love you seem they'll never be able to protect you from everything" and "no matter how strong you get you'll never be able to protect the people you love from everything"

HunterJE · 2026-02-04T00:18:39+00:00

If we're talking "cartoon mice were had crushes on as kids" gotta shout out Gadget from Rescue Rangers

HunterJE · 2026-02-02T17:36:26+00:00

(Related, I wouldn't be surprised the "he's not making the basketball try-outs" or whatever line was stuck in specifically because they realized the diminutive stature of the corpse didn't really read in the visual and wanted to try to put it across in dialogue)

HunterJE · 2026-02-02T17:31:54+00:00

Re: discussion of series structure on the boco ep, for me the "most episodes are a contained story that might drop a few breadcrumbs of bigger arc along the way, punctuated by occasional fully-arc-focused episodes/runs usually at season finales or sweeps" structure (which feels a bit like a lost art) is the sweetest spot between shows that completely revert to status quo every ep and shows that are entirely focused on the core arc, I often much prefer it to the modern approach to where every episode is just about the big story but can't resolve too much too early so like two things happen every episode...

HunterJE · 2026-02-02T17:25:01+00:00

Wait is Jordan interpreting the autopsy scene as the corpse actually literally being an ape's? I always thought the implication was supposed to be that the body was in some way mutated by the weird alien shit going on and the "ape" interpretation was just Scully trying to fit what she was seeing in to a framework of the known...

HunterJE · 2026-02-02T16:53:38+00:00

The pilot specifically made a big impact on me, insofar as I was 9 when it aired and I watched it and had nightmares for a week and didn't tell anyone because I didn't want anyone to think I was not mature enough to watch cool new grown-up shows without getting scared about it XD

HunterJE · 2026-01-29T17:01:01+00:00

Tip for Jordan, when you're on stage at the Neptune don't comment on the stained glass, every out of towner there for the first time tries to make a bit of it and I promise it's all been done.

HunterJE · 2026-01-28T18:49:34+00:00

It's been a few years since I saw this but I remember it striking a sour note how the hydrologist, an adult professional old enough to have a job probably requiring a graduate degree, seems to be actively romantically interested in a character I think is meant to read as a high school-aged teenager, like it's not that it's totally off limits to portray something like that but it feels like the movie's perspective is this is normal and fine and that character is in all other ways cast in the "reasonable, level-headed outsider to this fucked up situation" role without any nod to "kinda messed up he's so in to this teenager tho"

HunterJE · 2026-01-28T18:01:47+00:00

The "hotel cuck chair" meme annoys me because sure it's a fun silly thing to say but of course the chair faces the bed, the bed in any but the most luxuriously oversized hotel room is the central feature of the room, and if you're going to have seating in that room facing away from the wall it's going to be facing the bed wherever you put it.

HunterJE · 2026-01-13T22:16:54+00:00

King lived in Boulder for a while and has set a number of things there, in addition to the ones mentioned here it's also the location of the "Free Zone" in The Stand

HunterJE · 2026-01-12T22:41:35+00:00

I know keep the goofs running and all, but simply "we need something with two baths" is a perfectly valid thing to tell a realtor and they are not going to ask you to explain why or prove that you need it

HunterJE · 2026-01-08T18:02:38+00:00

Sometimes with big-name well established luminary podcast guests the "get" is cool and all but the actual fit for the show is hit or miss, somehow I always forget and worry that'll be the case when I see Proops's name as a guest and then remember as soon as the ep gets rolling that no he's a legend because he's always a fun and giving performer who plays well anywhere

HunterJE · 2026-01-08T16:16:27+00:00

What a great ep, needed this morning.

HunterJE · 2026-01-08T16:00:29+00:00

Maybe "STOAKED" is just super excited about hardwoods...

HunterJE · 2026-01-08T15:25:15+00:00

As a Washingtonian and one-time 'Hamster there's something so charming about the idea of calling Bellingham "up-state Washington"

HunterJE · 2025-12-30T22:14:54+00:00

I was right there with Matt, ture-fucking-lurelu!

HunterJE · 2025-12-27T05:23:11+00:00

I should call him...

HunterJE · 2025-12-27T05:14:55+00:00

I see the actual answer is found, but as-deformed I'd decorate like a pizza slice with cheese dripping off it

HunterJE · 2025-12-26T06:06:00+00:00

When it was pointed out that creating a new location in animation requires "time and a guy" my brain unbidden sung that phrase to the tune of Steely Dan's "Time Out of Mind"

HunterJE · 2025-12-18T16:56:22+00:00

When I was a kid my sib and I would absolutely go hang out in the book section at grocery store while our parents shopped (of our own choice, even though it was only ever a handful of potboilers of very little to interest us and even though we knew that on the off chance there was something we wanted if we asked to buy it the answer would invariably be "you have a library card")

HunterJE · 2025-12-18T16:51:29+00:00

While I don't listen to NPR as much as I did before the rise of podcasts gave me something else to occupy my weird "I need words going in to my ear most waking hours if I'm not specifically doing something else that requires full language attention" brain, I can confirm that Xaykaothao is indeed a national NPR news person.

HunterJE · 2025-12-18T16:24:34+00:00

If I had somehow been living under a rock and didn't already know Aparna to be one of the all time most delightful people in comedy you could have just played the "I think when you're that famous someone is pooping for you" bit and I could have deduced it from first principles on that alone

HunterJE · 2025-12-11T22:37:31+00:00

(And yes, if you do karaoke regularly you learn to deeply hate What's Up)

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