Fat Guy, Jacked Guy

Well, it turns out there's a lot more to it than you think! This week, we're exploring the history and conventions of hack comedy and how it impacted our understandings of comedy as we were growing up. We'll introduce you to some of the most well-known hack tropes, and hopefully, teach you a thing a two about why these tropes seem to work so well on general audiences. Of course, we're goofing and making plenty of our own jokes along the way!

It's our 10th episode, y'all! Wow! Can you believe it? We hardly can! This week, we're discussing the anti-capitalist themes and messages that seemed to be mainstays in the 90s children's and family films that we grew up watching. We use the 1994 feature film The Flintstones as our frame, but along the way we touch on other popular movies of the time, how we feel these movies impacted us, the reasons these films exist in the first place, and how we must destroy the Cliff Vandercaves of the world. Not to toot our own horns, but this is a goofy and meaningful conversation on some of the most important issues of our time, so GET INTO IT!

That's right, folks...we're doing the thing we do every single day, but we're doing it with y'all. This week, we're discussing Marian Engel's seminal 1976 novel, Bear. This episode truly has it all: jokes about human-bear sexual relations, imagining human genitalia on animals, digressions on the genius of M. Night Shyamalan, and, ultimately, why this novel is so much more important than people seem to let on or think.

This week, your favorite biological brothers discuss their relationship to everyone's favorite supernatural entities: ghosts! Mostly, we discuss the different kinds of apparitions as identified by the "experts" but along the way, we discuss some ghost-related media we love and why Americans—in particular—seem to be plagued with these paranormal phenomena. As usual, there's tons of goofs on the journey, but we do some important analysis, too.

This week, we're discussing the beauty and majesty of one of nature's greatest gifts: fruit! That's right...you read that correctly, we're literally just talking about fruit. But not just fruit in general...we're discussing some of the rarest fruits we could find and our experiences with them (if we have 'em!). Along the way, we discuss the fruits of our childhood, our thoughts about the cultural impacts of eating and sharing fruit with other people, and why we love it so damn much. It's one of the sweetest journeys on the podcast so far!

Grab your boots and lassos, we're doing a deep(ish) dive into the history and culture of the rodeo. Along the way, we discuss the major rodeo events, where cowboys come from, how capitalism ruins everything, and how much money it would take to get us on the back of a bull.

This week, Brendan's curiosity about our favorite type of shirt leads us to a discussion on the history of Hawai'i and the colonization of the Hawaiian islands. We also discuss East Asian immigration to the islands, the "Boogaloo Boys," the reasons fashion designers really suck sometimes, why these shirts are having a bit of a renaissance right now, and lots of other stuff in between.

On this week's episode, Stef's research into what James Bond actually does for a living yielded some pretty surprising results about the West's favorite spy. We also discuss Ian Fleming's general weirdness, Dominican diplomats, American and British geopolitics, JFK's final thoughts, why some people simply don't deserve to get some, and lots of other stuff in between.

This week, your two favorite brothers in goof are taking on the topic of crows, ravens, and the birds of the Corvid family because, to put it simply, no one ever talks about the crows! We'll also discuss the "controversial" subject of animal and human intelligence and why we're so afraid to admit that birds might just be a little smarter than us.

...Obviously, you listen to them talk about the reasons sailors sang shanties in the first place. Digressions include discussions on how bad it sucks to have to sell your labor, the self-sustaining economics of port life, how Brendan wants to beat up "big brothers," how easy it is to write a Tall Tale, and so many things in between. 

"Drunken Sailor"

"Paddy, Get Back"

"Big, Strong Man"

"All For Me Grog"

You can find Stef on the web here and Brendan here.

Enjoy the show, and thank you for listening!