Gutterballs

Cowards, weaklings, bums, the waffliness of diegesis, the perfection of narrative spaghetti, high frame rate cameras for catching high speed crabs, the landlord as originally scripted, Thurston's future return, the temporal anomalies of round robin bowling tournaments, a listener comment from Gordon Lightfoot, the fluidity of dates in Lebowski's filmic dream, disconfirmations, Brad's ignorance of movies with guns and/or mobsters, also an entire section talking about movies we've seen.

How Brad hates jobs, high quality digital representations of high quality paper, 150% Brandt

finger splaying, cogent pieces of cultural criticism in a classic 80s film, voyaging inside The Dude's head, the resolution of paper, the season dump, more on PS-Hoff's amazing body control as evidenced by his caterpillar lip, the nihilosity of the word "gather", the jumping of the J, the unlikelihood of the Titular Lebowski's mastery of "scale to fit", the oddly long Brandt reaction preamble, the lefthandedness of the crackle, and an in-depth breakdown of the opening title sequence of House of Cards.

Mo-Zurt, logical glossovers, a celebration of candelabras, the porn version of an old Jeff Bridges movie, a little dude in Tron, the strongly influential Babe Ruth of Japan, some interstates, the fallacy of the Prince symbol with a smiley face, Fargo's punctuated mundanity, duck stamp paintings, The Clive Owen that never shows up, the geographical boundaries of Yellowstone National Park, imagining The Dude's Monty notes, and we only hint at the idea of an "anti-movie" without actually using that preferred nomenclature.

The turntable's disreality infraction, the Dude's landlord's real name, Flea's dedication to River Phoenix, the different roads that all lead to the truth, Marty's (Monty's? Allan's?) extended universe adventures, the green ashtray containing the bowling ball pipe that later the cop handles, the dude's bongos, spider-man's amazing friends, the intimacy of the wide shot of the Dude's home, known unknowns and unknown knowns (or: the theoretical monies of the Rubiks), ass pointing, the Zelniker Astoundment.

Walter stares into your soul, getting lost in the colors and patterns of space and time of The Dude's rug, The Dude's honest grit floor, the fancy treat of using an ice bucket even when you are the only one in your home, Captain Bee Farts, The Dude's cleanliness, the skinny bowler of Adam's nightmare, the curious small plastic bowling pin, contravening bylaws by brandishing a firearm, the non-Ackerman Marty and his filthy clothes, the reasons that The Dude and Richard Nixon can hang out, The Reverend gives Brad and Adam some schoolin' on sculptures, dairy products, and mixology, bowling ball bottle besmitteners, what it looks like when you scale Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" album cover to 2800%, and The Dude's fondness for bathing, and the environmental impact of colony collapse disorder.

What happened to Thurston, Donnie as a member of the square community, Walter as an upside down triangle, the impossible geometries of the dream reality, the most coasterific line, the common pattern of tandem films, how to frame two people having a conversation in a car, the bel ami, a mysterious drip that can be heard, Walter's non-sensitive language.

Brad and Adam are joined by Christine the Playbill to talk about the dog's man mumbles, timelessness of firearms and their ability to make new slots in men, the secret sounds of the coffee grounds, a decade without Stereolab, Thurston as equivalent to coked up Asian firecracker-throwing man, mansplicing, the potential glass ceiling for 1st Assistant Directors, lines and rules, Stu's side job, Thurston and Walter keeping sync, L cuts as scene smoothers, and Donnie straddling the line between corporate drone and convenience store clerk. We do not discuss "The Thurston Equivalent", starring Jeff Fahey.

Brad and Adam finally introduce themselves, Mr. Potter as template for the titular Lebowski, repetitive and chanty music by American GIs who were based in Germany in the mid-to-late 1960s, the awkward name dropping of Cynthia and Marty Ackerman, lots about feet: both their scampering and proximity, leg embraces, the rule of thirds and the effectiveness of center framing, the universality of The Dude's and Walter's bickering, Smokey and the toe, everyone's favorite toothy Critters ripoffs: The Wronglers, and Why I want to fuck Ronald Reagan.

Finding truth in a fictional world more true than our own, blu-ray chapter delineation, the second bottle of jack in the pool, lighting the dude's face with an artificial sun, the popularity of Brad's beat poetry cover of Viva Las Vegas, geospatial ramifications of camera move decisions, rhythmic nostril flares, the mysterious case of the suddenly empty pool, half clouded skies and the similarities between Uli and Eddie Murphy, The magically rearranging but correctly labeled opponents, Walter's only kindness, the curious origin of the hair sectioning clip, head, heart, and crotchal areas, Theodor Herzl, SP & SRy, and Walter's lack of dog knowledge.

The experience of Lebowski with the virgin mind, the inflation of the pea-sized amount, half whip pans, the truth of the human paraquat, the sound of a bottle in the water, a possible second splash, Bunny's poor toenail painting technique and logistics, some clues as to why the titular Lebowski and Brandt think the dude may have been the man for the job, foreshadowed vengeful micturition, the two blows, the boom and the silk, the chronology of Candies, dissecting Bunny's dissection, huffing the remover, lecherous foot fondling that goes on for way too long.