Heat Stroke

Heat Stroke

By James Fryer & Christopher FermanComedySociety & CultureTechnology
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Heat Stroke episodes

  • #46: All About Helen
    • SubRant
    • Picard sucks
    • Patrick Stewart, Liam Neeson, and Helen Mirren are all in Excalibur!
    • Corporate malaise has hit Amazon
    • Christopher doesn't like fat mannequins
    • Vacationing at Target
    • Ramaswamy is an idiot or a liar
    • Oh, well, Ohio...
    • WKRP in Cincinnati
    • Christopher is part of the secret elite and he doesn't even know it
    • Golda
    • Helen Miran! In Excalibur!
    • A flaming skull looks better than Nicolas Cage
    • Helen Mirren was also in Caligula, but don't watch it
    • James is a liberal?!
    • Now for politics!
    • Christopher tries to unionize, but no-one shows up
    • Phoenix is too dam hot
    • Scottsdale also sucks (water)
    • The Mick
      • 41 min
    • #45: Christopher Breaks His Chronotype
      • Goblin Quarterly
      • People forgetting how to be people
      • Tradeshows
      • Christopher takes Fridays off
      • The four day work week
      • Ford invented the five day work week
      • Working nights at Office Depot
      • Corporate sucks
      • Working too long makes for bad work
      • Barbecue Fridays
      • Work doesn't have to be miserable
      • James's four day work week was actually six
      • Are Chronotypes BS? Probably.
      • Christopher breaks his chronotype
      • Europe closes on Sundays
      • Renaissance Faire Devil
      • James is a Thief
      • Kevin Lee: China's white devil
      • Wolf Warrior
      • Netflix is over
        • 32 min
      • #44: Christopher Goes to Hollywood
        • Always on my mind
        • The world goes to hell
        • Canoeing trip
        • Democracy may suck, but it's the least worst
        • No backdoors anymore
        • Ocean Elevening a crack writing team
        • Afraid of links
        • Hunting comedians
        • Free therapy and free coffee
        • Bill Dawes
        • Bizarre crazy people
        • The Laugh Factory
        • Christopher forgets how to use Google Maps
        • "It was hip until you drove up"
        • "Hey Bryan!" "...My name's Bill."
        • Surprise podcast!
        • Looking for cameras because Christopher is paranoid, or maybe just weird
        • James doesn't go to bars
        • "Aren't you curious?" "No."
        • Cheers sucked, but Boston was cool
        • The Good Place
        • James went to MIT
        • USA has 3% of the children of the world, but 40% of toys
        • Lego inheritance
        • Don't waste your money on a storage unit
        • James the moving guy
        • Podcasting from the (airplane) graveyard
          • 33 min
        • #43: Christopher's Covid Adventure
          • A Brief History of Time
          • Artists throw-down
          • SubRant
          • No one for Christopher to talk to about art
          • Christopher takes his son to college
          • Covid at Christopher's
          • Vitamins
          • Flintstone vitamin is the best
          • 'Teen Guy' vitamins
          • Snorting vitamins
          • Acai berries
          • The American Diet
          • Too many choices at the grocery store?
          • Americans are fat
          • Are there anti oxidants in coffee?
          • James has a feeling
          • Alcohol isn't really that healthy
          • Christopher doesn't get drunk
          • A 12 pack a night
          • Cider
          • $2 Chuck follow up - not a divorce story (Charles Shaw)
          • Graham crackers and coffee
          • Graham Crackers: 'The anti-masturbating treat!'
          • Gettr
          • James eviscerates Gettr's branding
          • Social media sites shaking down users down for their phone number
          • What is ghosting?
          • Herbal remedy for ghosting
          • Gaslighting
          • Dash Rip Rock - Let's Go Smoke Some Pot
          • Heat Stroke Podcast totally, sometimes, maybe endorses the use of certain unspecified herbal medicines which may or may not be legal in your local.
            • 59 min
          • #42: Things That Suck: College Process and China
            • James isn't angry
            • Antifreeze tastes sweet
            • Christopher will do a taste test of poisons
            • The tyrant that is Christopher
            • Dial-tone PSA
            • Reservoir of hate
            • Italian coffee machines don't work
            • McDonald's milkshake machine controversy
            • Don't sue McDonalds
            • Walmart mountain bikes: "Not intended for off-road use"
            • Bezos sues NASA because he's an asshole
            • "The other billionaire dickhead"
            • Creative destruction
            • Free-ride interviewee
            • The terrible college process - Shots, insurance, grades, verify awards, financial setup, etc...
            • Predatory college loans
            • Student loan forgiveness
            • Discharge student loans through bankruptcy
            • College is expensive because of sports
            • The Nads
            • Christopher needs a little reeducation
            • Full negative
            • James isn't pro China anymore
            • "It's not a declaration of war, he's just being a dick."
            • Christopher and James argue about China
            • Pontica Fiero
            • Race horse takes off and ends up in a burning barn (Bold and Bossy)
              • 59 min
            • #41: Interview with Darron Basinger
              • First day of school photo
              • School bus couldn't find James's house
              • 'Stranger Danger' is not a thing
              • School starts and Christopher thinks FOOTBALL!
              • James's iPhone 4 drowns
              • Pop Warner Football
              • Phoenix kids can't run in the rain
              • James was an angry kid - good for football
              • The Washington Football team logo was the best
              • James doesn't like a lot of things
              • Piestewa Peak
              • "Patricia Peak"
              • "Stop remembering things I say."
              • Pedantic vs didactic
              • "One man's pedantic is another man's awesome."
              • Christopher ambushes James again with a guest
              • Starting the game with a 5 minute warning
              • Shoes, insurance, and mortuary
              • Friends since 1974
              • "Let's be clear, I'm not a nice person."
              • Jimmy stole Darron's skateboard and Christopher's 'medicinal herb'
              • Cremation blowback - 'over the top' is not a good line for funeral homes
              • Mortuary business doubled
              • No days off for Darren
              • How many COVID 'customers'? in early 2020 - 1/3 were COVID, now only 1/4
              • Darren's mortuary saw mostly elderly dying from COVID, but also Hawaiians, Samoans, Philippinos (not overweight) & Latinos, and 30-60 year olds who were overweight
              • No bailout for the funeral home (none needed)
              • Death AND Taxes
              • Philippinos not respecting PPE at funeral home
              • The headshop next door ruined James's gallery insurance
              • Was that supposed to be a joke?
                • 55 min
              • #40: Interview with Katie Corso
                • Katherine Corso: Insurance Broker, Notary, & Tax Accountant
                  • tel: (360) 519-7516 (please text)
                • Coke free household
                • "And a pound of sugar"
                • Don't help Christopher
                • "Thor mode"
                • Red tape and dental plans
                • Healthcare and taxes...
                • Loophole
                • Princess Cruises
                • .01%, 1% ($400K+), 4%
                • Lifestyle vs income
                • DON'T tax food, water, and residence
                • "Government clothing"
                • Part of the body that's not part of the body
                • Cover the basics!
                • Christopher's teacher healthcare story
                • Is it in the morning or afternoon?
                • Price transparency
                • Malpractice insurance
                • A thousand little cuts, PC nonsense being one of them
                • Christopher gets his physical the tax guy (from behind)
                • A little bit of COVID
                • Social media contagion
                • Big tech tracking you in ways that would surprise you
                • "Your fault for reading the New York Times"
                • Concierge doctors
                • Market places and health insurance
                • More red tape
                • "Blurp"
                  • 1 hr 13 min
                • #39: "Like a Big Proud American"
                  • James - the international assassin (retired)
                  • Pro tip - don't Instagram yourself before, during, or after the 'job'
                  • "Canadians are the worst"
                  • "Convert English to English"
                  • Christopher is a verbal chameleon
                  • "You can convince me of anything, as long as I already think it's right"
                  • Over the air digital TV scam
                  • Dead air
                  • Cardboard gun replicas
                  • Lego gun
                  • A gun is the basis of the male identity
                  • "You ask a utopian question, you're going to get a utopian answer."
                  • Christopher's theory on hand guns
                  • Gun safety
                  • Gun and automobile safety
                  • Best Halo players are ex military
                  • "Unteach them fingering"
                  • Cease and desist yourself, Lego
                  • Ford Maverick
                  • Vehicle safety
                  • Wooden bumper
                  • Volkswagon deiselgate
                  • Teslas
                  • Chip shortages
                  • Supply constraints or trade war?
                    • 51 min
                  • #38: "An 'Amazon Basics' Spaceship"
                    • Fat girls + cut guys = Christopher gets into trouble right off the bat
                    • "They got the Pelotons out"
                    • 'Ball'varia or Bavaria?
                    • Norwegian Handball Team fined for their outfit
                    • Female athlete harassed for her outfit
                    • "A swimming hat"
                    • Are the Olympics a flop?
                    • Football is fundamentally flawed - too many injuries
                    • Is America a violent culture?
                    • Does our violent culture make us safe?
                    • Red Dawn is a fantasy
                    • Canadians drink all your beer
                    • Military is dispersing migrants?
                    • Travel Agents, good or bad?
                    • Rick Steves is so boring he's interesting
                    • "Questions are violence"
                    • James: "Would you like a beer?
                      • Christopher: "Yes."
                      James: "Suck on your coffee, there's no beer here."
                    • "Dumbionaires" - dumb millionaires
                    • Wiki-yup?
                    • James's scheme to get 100% listenership
                    • 'SIR' Branson!? take your knights and go home!
                    • Why does everyone want a virgin?
                    • "A straight shaft with a bulging head, what's the problem?"
                    • "Everyone's penis looks weird."
                    • Christopher: "How many penises have you seen?"
                      • James: "I went to art school..."
                    • Is it ominous that all the billionaires are building spaceships to get off the planet?
                    • How much does the average actor make?
                    • "We're watching Star Trek again, because that's who we are"
                    • Spock's father was a Romulan, like three episodes ago
                    • The Beverly Hillbillies
                    • "Hey kids, smoking is great!"
                    • Richard Scarry
                    • From the Beverly Hillbillies to space, that's our show
                    • Dinosaur bones on the moon - Hank Green
                    • ASU's space department
                    • Musk is the (space)man, the rest of them are just dumb
                    • Clean air is good
                    • Confessions of a Time Traveler – The Man from 3036
                    • Christopher watches too much TV
                    • Space tourists
                    • Christopher: "Not everyone watches Star Trek."
                      • James: "Well they should."
                    • Bezo's trip to almost space
                    • One trip in Bezo's "spaceship" = one car driving 1.8 million miles
                    • A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift
                    • Half of our show is misremembering stuff
                    • I'll yell at you next week
                    • Go NFL!
                      • 50 min
                    • #37: Christopher Watches Soccer and Becomes a Liberal
                      • Grey wings
                      • Venice Beach
                      • Homeless in hotels
                      • Marijuana vs tobacco
                      • Hotel Marijuana
                      • Rabbit conservative
                      • Rabid conservative = boring and quiet?
                      • Do you see the racism?
                      • Hispanics are moving conservative
                      • Shop classes
                      • "Rape the land and exploit your works"
                      • BSA
                      • Girl Scouts
                      • Venice Beach clears the homeless off the beaches
                      • Vaccine "Rights"
                      • Trump - States on their own for pandemic response
                      • Churches step in where the State fails
                      • NFL is no longer a non profit
                      • James bullies the NFL
                      • Homeless 'actors' keep tourists out of Venice Beach
                      • Christopher doesn't know Soylent Green
                      • Christopher: "Did you watch the Basketball game?"
                        James: "I didn't even know we had a basketball team."
                      • Phoenix Suns theme
                      • Suns's ape mascot (so naturally Christopher loves them)
                      • James rates "the sports"
                      • "A bunch of guys going at it..."
                      • Hooves over feet
                      • Christopher watches Soccer and is not impressed
                      • Soccer players scream like little babies
                      • Christopher says 'shit' on the show
                      • James kicks Christopher in the shins
                      • "They're not men, they're soccer players"
                      • James: "Can we talk about the Tour de France?"
                        Christopher: "No"
                      • "Don't say 'American' football, you communist"
                      • Video gaming is racists? No.
                      • "Who knows why reporters do what they do."
                      • You were killed by Noble Kitty Kat
                      • Christopher trolls the homophobes
                      • You may be paranoid about how much Facebook knows about you, but the truth is much worse
                      • No phone + a mask = totally invisible
                      • A house made of coffee
                        • 49 min

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                      Two hypothetically witty guys talking about the topics of the day and... stuff.