Topic: Episode #305

[Jolimont]

Thanks for the Harold Camping link. I don't understand how anyone can follow some old religious bat who will self-justify anything. Grrrr!

[Parrot]

Cool, I was right.

I have to credit America's Funniest Videos for this one.  They actually do a "Name That Sound" segment, and the moment I heard the Who's That Noisy I thought, "Hey, that sounds familiar... what was it again?"

The Krusty thing I assume was somebody using one of those novelty sound effect devices, or maybe some sort of smart phone app.

[pandamonium]

Schindler's List... a movie about a guy who's list was about specific Jewish people that he wanted to work in his factory making fake munitions. The segment "Swindlers list" is supposedly going to, after some time passes and segments accrue, become some form of "list" of swindlers (people who take advantage of individuals with specified gullibility by design).

The closest conceptual proximity is porn titled after "Hollywood" movies to capitalize on the existing theme and the characters, thus the assumption that the "list" should be about people who should be "spared" and thus the controversy about the title of the segment, where those on the list are presumably despicable and greedy.

... It was just a pun. I didn't really put that much thought into it. Also, I'm a bad person, and making fun of persecuted ethnic minorities is a favorite passtime of mine.

[GodSlayer]

Schindler's List... a movie about a guy who's list was about specific Jewish people that he wanted to work in his factory making fake munitions. The segment "Swindlers list" is supposedly going to, after some time passes and segments accrue, become some form of "list" of swindlers (people who take advantage of individuals with specified gullibility by design).

The closest conceptual proximity is porn titled after "Hollywood" movies to capitalize on the existing theme and the characters, thus the assumption that the "list" should be about people who should be "spared" and thus the controversy about the title of the segment, where those on the list are presumably despicable and greedy.

... It was just a pun. I didn't really put that much thought into it. Also, I'm a bad person, and making fun of persecuted ethnic minorities is a favorite passtime of mine.

if you were really a bad person you'd have subtitled it "Yews been fooled!"

...and drawn a logo for it where a Nazi with Andrew Wakefield's face photoshopped on is doing 'gotcha!' finger guns at poor people stepping off a crowded train

[Julius from Finland]

Was... was that a Finland shoutout? *confused* We always get paranoid when even collectively noticed.

Thanks for the podcast!

Did anyone understand what Evan said? Because I didn't.

[Miisanthrope]

Was... was that a Finland shoutout? *confused* We always get paranoid when even collectively noticed.

Thanks for the podcast!

Did anyone understand what Evan said? Because I didn't.

I eventually came to the conclusion that he must have said "Huomenta", but it could have been "Hyvää päivää". There was definitely an H there close to the beginning.

[Anders]

Pronouncing finnish words isn't easy for foreiegners.

[Miisanthrope]

I know, and I wasn't going to say anything, I was so pleased there was an attempt. 

[Anders]

I don't think you heard them try to pronounce Göteborg... hilarity ensued.

[Miisanthrope]

But... it has an English name...?

[Julius from Finland]

Pronouncing finnish words isn't easy for foreiegners.

The ticket is to not pronounce. There's hardly any pronounciation in Finnish.

Oh and I remember the Göteborg episode, it was hilarious.

[GodSlayer]

But... it has an English name...?

well, we do call it 'The Birthplace of Melodic Death Metal', but 'Gothenburg' is quicker.

[Johnny Slick]

Pronouncing finnish words isn't easy for foreiegners.

The ticket is to not pronounce. There's hardly any pronounciation in Finnish.

Oh and I remember the Göteborg episode, it was hilarious.

Thucidydes!!!

[Anders]

But... it has an English name...?

Yes, but I gave them the Swedish name because I am evil.

[dkreidler]

I love playing along to "Science...or....Fiction" and don't do that great. This week, however, I was all over it!  Good job, Bob!!

I was in my car doing my end-of-weekend commute back up to New Haven CT, screaming at the iPod "it's the first one, the egyptians, it's horse-sh*t!"  Is this still considered new news? I know the Paleo/Caveman diets are still considered fairly fringe, but the concepts that its the massive amounts of processed grain in our diets that make us sick isn't *that* weird, is it? I thought every agricultural civilization that's been studied in this amount of depth has been shown to show the marks of "diseases of civilization."  Of course, I read stuff like that IN the Paleo books, so clearly MY sources are biased, but seriously?  I would have been SHOCKED if that one turned out to be science.

Long time listener, first time poster. You guys and gal are awesome.  Keep up the great work!

dk