Heat Stroke

Heat Stroke

By James Fryer & Christopher FermanComedySociety & CultureTechnology
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Heat Stroke episodes

  • #26: Interview with Veterinarian Extraordinaire: Claudia
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      • Show Topics
      • "Singaporean fruit bat monkey dogs"
      • "They did quite well once they started getting oxygen."
      • Tilting the dog is a diagnostic technique
      • "Do I look smart to you?"
      • "The beatnik sophisticate"
      • Claudia questions James's podcasting technique
      • Writing the medical record is challenging, but rewarding
      • Claudia wanted to be a mechanic
      • Airbag vests for horse riding, but not for motorcycles because, fashion
      • Lithium Grey
      • Bicycle helmets are for suckers
      • "Well when I was in China..."
      • Doing research on Asiatic Black Bears (Moon Bears) for Animals Asia
      • James and Claudia conspire to kill all those awful humans
      • Video taping bears for stereotypic behavior
      • Quid Pro Quo - I'll give you veterinary advice if you give me your professional advice for free too
      • Claudia was raised in an animal hospital barking at dogs
      • Veterinary medicine is way more efficient than slow human medicine
      • James would rather go to a veterinarian than a 'human' doctor
      • Advice for people looking to be a vet - spend time doing it
      • Good vets know how to do a physical exam (but they don't teach that in school)
      • Horses are cool and Claudia loves them
      • Dogs think they run the house, but who has the credit card?
      • Damn Yankees
      • What is with Ben Affleck? How can you like him?
      • Anal Sacculectomy - made Claudia nervous, but her mentor made it easy
      • Alameda East - E-Vets
      • "No, I'd LOVE to hear about you!"
      • Claudia's film career
      • Be your best on set, or you won't be asked back
      • Interdisciplinary teams
      • Best case: physical exam - X-ray - bloodwork = lymphocytic leukemia. Diagnosis in less than 24 hours
      • X-rays are magic, almost as good as ultrasound
      • Some of the smartest people don't test well
      • Advice for pet owners - create a budget for your pet! Vaccines, preventative care, and micro chip
      • Claudia standing on her head in class because she didn't read the directions
      • Patrick Stewart's Ice Bucket Challenge
      • Don't misgender the animal
      • Claudia gives the worst answer ever
        • 1 hr 8 min
      • #25: Interview with Amarjit Singh
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          • Show Topics
          • Christopher and Amarjit - friends since 8th grade
          • High school used to be better
          • Losing fingers is just part of growing up in Arizona
          • Free doughnut! Oh, Crispy Cream... forget it.
          • Amarjt's spicy Chai Tea
          • Ten Gurus - basis of Sikhs
          • Amarjit's travel tips for India
          • Guru Granth Sahib
          • Ek Ong Kar Sat Nam
          • Sikhism - no hell, just self realization
          • Singh for men, Kaur for women - way to dismantle Indian caste system
          • The Golden Temple feeds 100,000 people a day
          • "If it changes, it dies"
          • "The soul is perfect" so don't try to change it, just realize it
          • Self realization is a process of subtraction
          • Slide projector / remove slide to see white light (consciousness) = self realization
          • A "colorful person" is really just neurotic
          • "Are you saying I'm neurotic?" "No, you're not that colorful."
          • Sikh Warrior
          • Crossed swords - one to be the warrior of the soul, the other to be the warrior of world/politics
          • India not really masking up (this is before spike in April)
          • Indians have a different sense of personal space
          • Big red X on your house if you have COVID in India - caused many suicides
          • COVID response is speeding up current trends
          • Kids aren't learning personal skills
          • Zoom and masks both stifle communication
          • Classrooms are now silent
          • BSA to the rescue - the opposite of Idiocracy
          • We all impact the 'Collective Consciousness'
          • Amarjit's Bodhi Tree story - kid is getting all the leaves. Amajit lets go and leaves start falling on him.
          • Amijit's first retreat - He gets bullied
          • "Who is the first victim of your anger?"
          • Don't be clever with people, be generous
          • Fight fire with fire? Maybe try water.
          • Aversion or Attachement
          • Are facial expressions cultural or innate?
          • James channels the GGs
          • Amijit's podcast - The Story of My with Amarjit Singh
          • All the way from India just for this podcast
          • Psychedelics? Oh, yes. Mushroom yogu, but nothing compared to meditating in a cave for 10 hours a day 40 days.
            • 1 hr 25 min
          • #24: "Very Heterosexual Looking"
            • Do you tip the delivery robot?
            • What does a delivery robot do with an undeliverable pizza?
            • Too costly to make people
            • Christopher is afraid of maps
            • Christopher thinks the lightbulbs are listening to him (they probably are)
            • "Your eating habits are really not very interesting to me."
            • 'Smart' devices are listening to your confidential corporate info through your remote workers
            • Our kids use their fancy smart devices for:
              • lights
              • music
              • weather
              • alarms
              • reminders
              • math
              • Uber's "Cupertino Mode"
              • Liberals hate Tesla (good for environment) but love Volkswagen (bad for environment)
              • Google and Amazon replace The Stasis
              • "James time is over."
              • Your monitor can see you! Click this link to see what it is seeing right now!
              • Cheerleader mom deep-fakes the cheerleading squad to make room for her daughter
              • Colorado has a "Day Without Meat" and Nebraska looses its shit
              • 70's and 80's TV shows were terrible, but the show intros were fantastic
              • James drew naked people is collage and learned the human body is not always beautiful
                • "Very heterosexual looking."
              • Miami Vice intro (Jan Hammer and bikinis)
              • PSA: Miami Vice pilot was good, the rest of the show was awful
              • MASH intro
              • Modern shows are so much better, but their intros suck
              • Knight Rider intro
              • Knight Rider's intro narration: "Knight Rider: a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist..."
              • Battle Star Galactica intro extended https://youtu.be/WtUxDbWcVTc
              • Battle Star Galactica intro narration: "There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens."
              • Buck Rogers intro extended - https://youtu.be/BINijYepahA
              • CHiPs intro
              • OK, Christopher was right, James watched CHiPs because of Eric Estrada
              • Magnum PI (the only good show of the 80's)
              • Top ten best tv shows from the 1980's by IMBD
              • The A-Team intro
              • The A-Team intro narration: "In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit..."
              • Tom Selec makes James feel small
              • The Fall Guy intro
              • Get Smart intro is a work of comedic genius
              • MacGyver intro
                • 52 min
              • #23: "Godlet" - Interview with Tim Johnson
                • Tim Johnson
                • Whiskey or vaccine?
                • James threatens Christopher with unpleasantness if you doesn't get the vaccine
                • Where is the best Mexican food to be found?
                • Christopher wears his cowboy hat in London
                • The English eat asparagus with their hands, but they eat tacos with a knife and fork
                • We argue about how to use a knife and fork
                • English eat weird
                • Chopsticks
                • "Who wants to eat their food with tweezers?"
                • "Everyone having knives is just too dangerous."
                • Forks as weapons
                • Women don't like eating in front of other people?
                • "I understand why you don't want them to have knives."
                • Tim is a "getting better" cook
                • Are artists good cooks?
                • Tim is such a good painter that sometimes his own paintings make him hungry
                • James brings 'cognitive sciences' up again...
                • James is getting high off the hazelnut coffee
                • Tim and Christopher are better cooks than James
                • Californian light is magical
                • "The finished product is the residue of my thought process."
                • "Don't worry, it's just art. You're not going to hurt it."
                • We're too tough to take medicine (except whiskey)
                • Tim's favorite artist is Thomas Hart Benton
                • "Holy crap this thing is little." (Stary Night is smaller than you think)
                • Paintings are better in person
                • Italy is a good place to see art
                • Painting is process and problem solving
                • "Do you see yourself as god?"
                • "You're a little god."
                • State of mind of riding a motorcycle and painting is basically the same (in the zone)
                • Tim was born to be wild
                • "The question was a lot more shallow than the answer."
                • Boxer-briefs
                • "Sometimes I don't wear anything."
                • "I want to get one, but they look scratchy."
                • "The best podcast we've done today."
                • 1 hr 1 min
                • #22: "The Pre Cryogenically Frozen Biden"
                  • "Outsider" Architecture
                  • Greek homes "grow over time"
                  • Christopher wants to build a straw-bale home with mud covered walls
                  • Navajo fever
                  • Joe Rogen Dr. Hotez
                  • Feeding America's Hungry Children
                  • Feed My Hungry Children
                  • Caring Coalition
                  • Can't give money? Give your time.
                  • It's bad for James to interact with humans (for him and them)
                  • Apple TV +
                  • Christopher occupied Wall Street
                  • James goes all ways (Apple, Android, and Windows)
                  • Sony doesn't mix well with others
                  • Apple has the dumbest names
                  • Christopher hates big TVs
                  • Rose Gold and Space Grey are not colors!
                  • Benny Hill was cheap and sad, but funny
                  • Apple TV + is the new HBO (not an original observation)
                  • Charles Schulz - Li'l Folks
                  • YouTube is music
                  • Foundation Series Coming to Apple TV +
                  • Christopher doesn't respect one-liners
                  • Christopher, The Sopranos was not a documentary
                  • Netflix is slowing becoming the new cable
                  • Microsoft Christmas ad "In their own prison cells." - saddest thing I've seen
                  • NFL owners are like a diversity rainbow. Of white. And old. And male.
                  • "The pre-cryogenically frozen Biden."
                  • "Vaccined"
                  • Trump vaccine plan vs Biden vaccine plan
                  • And we discuss the EU
                  • CANZUK
                  • Can-Nada
                  • Mexico - the 51st state
                  • "I swear to God I don't put anything in the coffee."
                  • A flag is not a rainbow
                  • Glucose? Couscous?
                    • Christopher: "Do you remember when we used to talk about flags?"
                    • James: "Yes."
                    • Christopher: "What happened to that?"
                    • James: "You."
                      • 56 min
                    • #21: "Artists and cooks are the two worst spellurs on the planet." - Interview with Mike Swaine
                      • Mike Swaine designer and saver of trollies
                      • Lost wallet found in Antarctica
                      • "A recording of our tedious conversations."
                      • Crawdads, everywhere
                      • Water-skying the canals
                      • Canals are off limits except for dead bodies
                      • Drainage ditch or canal?
                      • Arizona Falls
                      • Canal coffee
                      • SuperBall Ad
                      • 1947 - suspicious barn fire takes out trolley service
                      • 1887 - trolleys start
                      • "Chlorophyl hadn't even been invented yet."
                      • Mule driven trolleys
                      • "If James is wrong, Christopher owes James $100."
                      • First trolley line - 7th street to 7th Ave along Washington, then Up 7th street to fairgrounds
                      • Trolley museum booted out of Hance Park to make way for a skate park and moved to Grand Ave
                      • Disney horse-drawn trolley
                      • Trolleys converted to tiny homes - Millennials didn't invent tiny homes
                      • Two old trolleys found in trailer park
                      • PHXTrolley.org
                      • Rosson house
                      • Costco Pizza
                      • Pizza cheese
                      • "It might even be legal."
                      • The best Mexican food is in... Italy
                      • Artists are good at cooking?
                      • "You're not lying, your just wrong. Again."
                      • "Artists and cooks are the two worst spellurs on the planet."
                      • Is presentation (on the plate) important?
                      • One of NINE sibling?
                      • Mike's self portrait
                      • "You can edit your face."
                      • Genrad (General Radio)
                      • Mike had a type setting company but sold it all when he saw the Macintosh
                      • Press Type guitar
                      • James gets off on code
                      • 1980 Linus Screen Composer ($40,000?)
                      • Trolleys of Venice Beach
                      • Moses Hazeltine Sherman
                      • Venice Beach paved over their canals
                      • The rolling blackout didn't really role...
                      • Dark or Milk chocolate? Milk chocolate. This conversation is over.
                      • "You can say 'ding-dong', but not 'boob'?"
                        • 1 hr 13 min
                      • #20: "Hey everybody, this is my probation officer!" - Interview with Allen Henry
                        • Allen Henry - Probation Office
                        • James's of panic moment
                        • James doesn't know the difference between probation and poral
                        • "I've had enough of this, just send me to prison."
                        • PSA - Phone Change-over
                        • James complains about the mug
                        • Turns out, getting arrested is expensive
                        • Scottdale runs on DUIs
                        • Equal opportunity spewers
                        • Real Colors - Personality Assessment
                        • Gold, Blue, Green, and Orange
                        • Christopher is an Orange
                        • Christopher's "Pow Wows"
                        • James is Green
                        • "I like the idea of people, just not people..."
                        • "We're not making Easter eggs here."
                        • Tea tipper?
                        • "As colors go, you're a Californian."
                        • Greens don't get caught
                        • White collar criminals should just be hanged
                        • There are no Robin Hoods, just hoods
                        • What, the chair isn't included?
                        • Oranges commit crimes
                        • It's just a matter of time before Christopher ends up in jail
                        • It's not Christopher, it's "Kissy"
                        • The Brightening
                        • How to speak to and hear people better
                        • As a teacher, Christopher did well with the problem kids because, well, he was one.
                        • Ankle bracelet kids
                        • They don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care
                        • Christopher doing home visits in the hood
                        • "That's downright brilliant."
                        • Allen telling Mike Tyson's what to do
                        • What does ear taste like?
                        • Muhammad Ali hugs Christopher
                        • "Hey everybody, this is my probation officer!"
                        • Allen didn't need no sidearm
                        • Smooth or crunchy?
                          • 1 hr 9 min
                        • #19: Take Your Vaginas and Your Penises and Go Home
                          • James thinks Christopher should wear a dress. A kilt is not a dress.
                          • Great Kilt - a survival tool
                          • "What the hell is a loincloth?" "A cloth made from loins?"
                          • "The Italian size."
                          • James thinks the Black Knight scene in The Holy Grail was faked
                          • From dumbbell reading level to advanced literature
                          • "Those lazy Medieval people and their people cranes."
                          • My 600 Pound Life
                          • Coca-Cola ad
                          • Murals in Phoenix:
                            • Redemption Church Alhambra mural by Carlos Rivas
                            • Day of the Dead + Basketball = mural
                            • Public art anchors the time and place of a community
                            • And then we talk about ART...
                            • London Elephant Parade
                            • WE define "Art"
                            • Mineko Grimmer - 1987 "The Point" installation art at El Camino College
                            • James doesn't go to see art, he makes it come to him
                            • James Turrell
                            • James sticks his head into the art
                            • Christopher wants you to touch his paintings
                            • Art is ephemeral and only silly artists think their stuff should last forever
                            • Eurotrash Girl
                            • Oversized Popeye. Is it art? No.
                            • Con Artists
                            • Thomas Kincaid vs Jeff Koons (twitter pole?)
                            • The art world is rotten from the top down
                            • Damien Hirst's dead shark
                            • Computer generated art?
                            • England - shark on the roof
                            • Film is the best art form
                            • We don't like Christo
                            • Dumb
                            • Phallic is always a thing
                            • "Take your vaginas and your penises and go home."
                              • 52 min
                            • #18: Interview with John Fitzsimmons - Magician Extraordinaire
                              • John Fitzsimmons native Arizonian Magician
                              • Small talk it too big an idea for us
                              • I don't like correcting Christopher because it takes too long
                              • Audio problems
                              • John is a (licensed) pyro
                              • Zoom Magic
                              • Easley's Fun Shop
                              • Magically curing learning disabilities
                              • We were all in the slow class
                              • Drink it through your nose
                              • Guinness World Record - Most costumes tried on in eight hours
                              • Top 10 sexiest women
                              • Social Media's impact on magic
                              • Vanishing Ink
                              • Social media not great for Magic
                              • Five years to create a trick - it takes a lot of work to do stuff
                              • James has mug shame
                              • Brain Games - Seeing what's really there - magic and painting trick you
                              • Hypno-disc
                              • Seeing Jesus
                              • Pink light ruins the Rubik's cube trick
                              • Moonwalking with Einstein
                              • Solve a Rubik's Cube - John: 1 minute 15 seconds, James: 10 years
                              • The Gong Show
                              • The unknown comic (Gong Show)
                              • Fozzie Bear
                              • "You can't have gotten this far in life without wearing dress."
                              • Christopher has 25-30 hats
                              • John has invisible hair
                              • "I only have one wig."
                              • "A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician." - Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin
                              • Carnac the Magnificent
                              • John is a magician just as an excuse to make stuff
                              • Super Thought Uploading Psychic Infused Dynamic Hat
                              • John magically leaves
                              • Comedytrickster.com
                                • 52 min
                              • #17: The Last Thing You Need to Worry About is Toilet Paper
                                • Christopher teaches his kids to be rock stars
                                • Christopher: the failed architect, James: the failed painter
                                • Christopher becomes disillusioned with architecture when he realizes there are not enough beautiful women in the field
                                • Phoenix's architecture and more:
                                  • Metro Center
                                  • The Pyramid On Central
                                  • Phoenix Financial Center
                                  • U of A Biomedical Science Partnership Building
                                  • Tempe is ugly
                                  • Frankford is ugly
                                  • James is ugly
                                  • MP3.com & lala.com
                                  • James listens to... Enya and so does Christopher!
                                  • Natural Wonders
                                  • Kitaro
                                  • Far and Way
                                  • Pontiac Fiero
                                  • Christopher has army green eyes, except they are blue
                                  • Boston Legal - Captain Kirk and Odo (inside Star Trek jokes?)
                                  • Benson
                                  • 4400 desperately trying not to get cancelled. And Failed. And ruined itslef in the process.
                                  • Jumping the shark
                                  • Christopher doesn't respect old people anymore because he is one now
                                  • Engineering is the application of science
                                  • Christopher is tired of science changing
                                  • Don't confuse science with science journalism
                                  • "The last thing you need to worry about is toilet paper."
                                  • Women fighting over toilet paper
                                  • Has religion or science has done more harm?
                                  • Hydroxychloroquine?
                                  • Science becomes useless as it becomes politized
                                  • "We talk to much - that is a scientific fact."
                                  • Coffee technology just can't do it better than a simple French Press
                                  • Kuerig cups are more environmentally friendly than Starbucks
                                  • James whining again about being cutoff
                                  • Christopher cracks himself up
                                  • "Little pods of stake."
                                    • 54 min

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