Heat Stroke

Heat Stroke

By James Fryer & Christopher FermanComedySociety & CultureTechnology
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Heat Stroke episodes

  • #36: "What Part Do You Twist?"
    • Venice Beach isn't Venice and is mostly not beach
    • 'People' people, water people, and sand people
    • "The most difficult part of this podcast is not insulting you every 10 seconds."
    • Venice Beach's tent problem
    • "I'm a very complex person."
    • Homeless people, keep your shit together
    • Farting Etiquette
    • Ketchup or catsup?
    • Pigtails and a shotgun
    • Modern houses suck
    • A 2x4 is not 2 inches by 4 inches
    • "Why are we talking about wood?"
    • "Maybe if you gave her a shotgun, she would be your friend."
    • The Boonies
    • Why are the Homeless so clueless?
    • Do rural people have better potty etiquette?
    • No Pooping in the street
    • $3K bicycles at Costco
    • Buying a bigger house to store all your Costco stuff
    • People love to buy stuff
    • Loosing track of your breasts
    • Christopher's de-hording escapade
    • Horders' cars are just as bad as the house
    • Buy a bike from your local bike shop
    • "That extra inch makes all the difference."
    • Sun Cyclery
    • Recumbent bikes (the fast bikes)
    • Recumbents banded from racing
    • Arguing the definition of a bicycle
    • Not all Olympic "sports" are equal
    • Aero spokes
    • "The spoke nipple."
    • "What part do you twist?"
    • Brass Monkey
    • Grey Matter Bicycle
    • Sam Kelsall - Iowa bike ride
    • Bike building school
    • James's house as a Venice Beach vibe
    • And some girls in bikinis
    • We were terrible podcasters
      • 55 min
    • #35: James Buys a Basball Cap
      • James buys a baseball cap
      • Christopher doesn't know how to run
      • Heels were invented for battle
      • Christopher's Amish hat story
      • Southbend Lathes
      • The scourge of Rockler
      • Micron
      • Software bloat - What Intel giveth, Mircosoft taketh away
      • News Stand (Mac newsreader)
      • Macintosh 8100
      • Don't say SIRI!
      • Amazon Alexa Football ad triggers Alexa, or does it?
      • Fashion is all about attitude
      • "I don't jaw people"
      • James looks like a mean Chihuahua when he smiles
      • Homeless are Robin Hood?
      • Soylent Green
      • Liberals want to fix homelessness, as long as it doesn't effect their real estate value
      • Shrinkage
      • There's a lot of talk about Tech leaving San Francisco, but they really aren't
      • Tempe - flash cube city
      • Does James live downtown?
      • New York is a real city
      • Neil deGrasse Tyson repeats what James just said
      • Dreamy Draw alien correction
      • Aliens, because I want to believe
      • Are we smart enough?
        • 46 min
      • #34: It's Probably UFOs
        • James runs
        • Christopher works out
        • Lance Armstrong vs Jan Ullrich / fast vs slow
        • James wasn t naked
        • Speaking of UFOs
        • Christopher, the paperboy, sees three UFOs
        • It's just a meteor (it's not just a meteor)
        • SR-71 Blackbird
        • "Long fingers that glow"
        • Air Force pilots confirm UFOs
        • "It's probably UFOs"
        • How does a compass work?
        • NASA copper cable
        • Just things in the air
        • We aren't interesting enough for the aliens to actually talk to us
        • It's a book, sir!
        • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV show
        • Oort Cloud
        • "Coming out party for the aliens"
        • Christopher has seen the aliens in Area 51
        • The aliens did not crash in Dreamy Draw
        • Are we thinking of Roswell?
        • James doesn't like this whole Mother's Day vs Father's Day thing
        • All holidays are just sort of the same now and silly
        • When is the cutoff time for for holiday well wishing?
        • 9pm is the normal cutoff time
        • Folding the newspapers
        • Christopher's newspaper delivery empire
        • Bitten by a dog and struck by lightning
        • Give me my two dollars
          • 49 min
        • #33: Bacon Inflation
          • Christopher wakes up pissed off
          • Rubbing alcohol in the shoes
          • Teslas are great for sex
          • James hides his Teslas at his secret house
          • If I already have a car, I'm not riding the bus
          • Christopher doesn't rob a bank
          • Checks are weird
          • Christopher went to the bank for money
          • Getting a passport sucks
          • Meat guy accosts Catherine in Costco for wearing a mask
          • Anti-mask bully are "Spineless little slugs"
          • Avoid the nuts
          • Podcasting from James's office
          • Men at Work https://youtu.be/XfR9iY5y94s
          • Christopher goes into a store to buy shoes and hears music
          • Terrible coffee
          • James and Christopher argue over each other's political leanings
          • Bacon up 13%
          • Two Buck Chuck
          • Ted Lasso
          • Only Babylonian warriors get to wear nail polish
          • Housing crisis
          • Reality Winner
          • Falcon and the Snowman
          • Spies Like Us
          • Don't go on a road trip with James
          • Pee and Pizza
          • TripTiks
            • 52 min
          • #32: Old Man Yells at Venmo
            • Video taping comics
            • Cheapskates asking for money back
            • Old man yells at Venmo
            • Mr. Late
            • Shakespeare comic - Gavin Blume
            • Not that Ferman
            • Christopher is sensitive
            • Christopher totally doesn't look like a cop
            • Christopher's Twitter problem
            • Twitter takes out Ellie Kemper, and then forgets her
            • Who pulls Twitter's levers?
            • Twitter to add weather
            • Facebook sucks
            • Fighting a war that we don't know we're fighting
            • Civil War 2.0?
            • Pontiac Fiero
            • Christopher's mailman hates him
            • Amazon's backdoor into your network (sidewalk)
            • Amazon is steeling your bandwidth
            • Amazon is creepy and shitty
            • The death wish cyclist
              • 47 min
            • #31: Donuts and Dating
              • Spaghetti coffee
              • Don't drink out of a jar
              • James finally has a product in Costco
              • Phoenix is not in France
              • Glass gloop
              • James doesn't eat donuts (James is eating a donut)
              • Old Fashion donut
              • A ring of butter
              • Christopher has enough guns for everyone
              • "Boozeline"
              • Liberating grandad's beer
              • No vaccine, no date
              • Bartender dating app
              • Vaccinated?
              • Masks stopped the flu
              • AOL dating
              • Video dating
              • Alfonzo
              • Vibe (charisma) is more important than looks
              • Antiquated flirting
              • A Scamming Mind
              • Christopher's dating advice
              • Christopher blows up graduations
              • NFL bad
              • Old, rich, and white - a trifecta of diversity
              • Fake diplomas
              • Christopher's fake graduation
              • Baseball is cute
              • IQ tests
              • Star Wars needs to upgrade to Zoom
              • The shrinking work space
                • 54 min
              • #30: So Boring I Forgot About It
                • Oat Milk in Christopher's coffee
                • Types of milks
                • Christopher farms wildflowers and cotton
                • Luxury cotton nests
                • Recycling fibers
                • James's dog hates him
                • The Christophers go camping
                • Eating mudbugs
                • Lobster riots
                • Ettouffee
                • Bad parents are sucky travel mates
                • Andy Warhol sucks
                • "Experimental" art is just bad art
                • Most influencer American artist of the 20th century?
                • John Williams
                • James's favorite 20th century PAINTERS are Pollock and O'Keeffe
                • Christopher loves art museums
                • Edward Hopper
                • Norman Rockwell
                • The Chinese century?
                • Andy Warhol is a failed pop artist
                • Thomas Kinkade is the real pop artist
                • Art Curators are... just terrible
                • American Gothic
                • Andrew Wyeth
                • Van Gough - greatest painter of all time
                • Everyone, rich or poor, drinks the same Coke
                • Most important 20th century American artist: James - Kubrik & Robert Johnson
                • Most important 20th century American artist: Christopher - John Ford, Danny Elfman
                • Comedians are artists too
                • John Gruber can't pronounce stuff
                • Pontiac Fiero
                  • 53 min
                • #29: Quaker Oats Boxes Filled with AOL CDs
                  • The Clap
                  • Christopher's terrible Star Wars jokes (puns)
                  • James respects BonJovi, but doesn't like them
                  • 1bigliar
                  • TikTok isn't down! Angry black woman still angry and still black
                  • Bill Gates gets divorced, why at this age?
                  • Windows 95 was fine
                  • Apple wasn't great at this point
                  • Internet Explorer 96% browser share
                  • Chrome is as bad Internet Explorer ever was
                  • Brave is fine, but eh.
                  • Married, divorced, re-married, divorced, and finally re-married
                  • James hasn't used AOL... this century
                  • AOL dialup still works?
                  • Quaker Oats box filled with AOL CDs
                  • Christopher is a proto-hoarder
                  • Clutter-pocalypse
                  • Garages are for cars
                  • Rumpus room
                  • Yahoo and AOL get sold for peanuts
                  • Jeep baby stroller
                  • Harley-Davidson trucks
                  • Yahoo and AOL are not poster children for capitalism
                  • Poor old Sears
                  • Amazon screws the little guy
                  • CEOs never fail
                  • Company Boards are dumb
                  • Moral hazards and capitalism
                  • Christopher's auction problem
                  • Farmers' Almanac
                  • Stealing the Sears Catalog to look at the women in their sexy underwear
                  • My parents' weren't getting the Victoria Secret catalog
                  • James has weird hangups
                  • Winners get divorced?
                  • Divorcees are quitters
                  • Divorce rates by profession
                  • Reasons for getting divorced
                  • Men control the marriage in the beginning, but women slowly take over
                  • Smart people don't get divorced
                  • Post-show
                    • Porn is gross
                    • Do "adult bookstores" still exist
                    • From porn to Disney
                    • Bill's porn stash
                    • Bill invented the internet for porn
                    • Christopher struggles with saying "penis enhancer"
                      • 57 min
                    • #28: Christopher Dances Around the Maypole
                      • Is 13 America's number?
                      • If you're going to be THAT boring, just stay home
                      • What did you think? Get vaccinated?
                      • Christopher doesn't go the the hospital, except for when he does
                      • Doctors are full of shit
                      • Our expert opinion on the uselessness of doctors
                      • Christopher is waiting to go to the doctor until he is 60
                      • Too many vaccines
                      • Christopher doesn't think people are stupid
                      • There are no stupid decisions, only stupid people
                      • Texas woman convicted of a felony for not returning a VHS tape
                      • Renting from the front of the store
                      • The Super League disaster (Soccer)
                      • (America (the best)) Football isn't socialist
                      • What kind of sport ends in a tie?
                      • The Phoenix Wranglers (with cheerleaders)
                      • Good players got wrangled
                      • How many types of (real) Football did we have?
                      • Christopher: SportsMan
                      • Live sports aren't boring in person
                      • Christopher: "Remember when David Ortiz broke Ted Williams record?" - James: blank stare
                      • Why is the potato gendered?
                      • The Mr. in Mr. Potato Head is actually funny and important
                      • The story of Christopher's Lemon Pig
                      • Scouts is better without the "Boy"
                      • BSA created a lot of the early safety procedures for working with kids
                      • Christopher dances around the Maypole
                      • Christopher loves (modern) Germans
                        • 45 min
                      • #27: Interview with Malinda Hurd - Meditation
                        • The mugs
                        • Christopher goes to church for the first time in a year
                        • Sharing the chalice
                        • You don't get sick from the chalice?
                        • Vaccination poll (just James)
                        • Judge was a bad child
                        • Christopher fixes his attendance record
                        • Men like women with "presence"
                        • James doesn't like kilts
                        • Leam Neason can wear a kilt, James can't
                        • Christopher's puffy shirt
                        • No one likes the Arizona Renaissance Festival (but James)
                        • Malinda had a didgeridoo
                        • Christopher picks up the drawl
                        • Malinda is Scottish
                        • If you have the money, you can do anything (none of us have any)
                        • Malinda wants to RV the country
                        • James warns of the murderous Maine mosquitos
                        • Mosquitoes are attracted to people who wear blue and eat bananas
                        • Christopher plays the flute
                        • The Native America flute is the best
                        • Malinda tries to meditate while Christoper's chicken lays an egg
                        • Malinda's meditation removes the mental noise
                        • "The homogeny of pink"
                        • Malinda's non profit
                        • Malinda does mediation with schools "Tools for Teens"
                        • Reflexology - Meditation - Yin Yoga
                        • Meditation trains the mind
                        • Music as meditation
                        • Sufism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism
                        • Teen's disconnectedness has led the sadness
                        • Breakdown of manners
                        • Faith tied to manners?
                        • Is Yoga chaos?
                        • James has the best doodles
                        • Malinda's Sound bowls
                        • Malinda's meditation
                          • 1 hr 5 min

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