Heat Stroke

Heat Stroke

By James Fryer & Christopher FermanComedySociety & CultureTechnology
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Heat Stroke episodes

  • #16: Belligerently Reusing Gift Bags
    • Christopher builds a halfpipe
    • Eminent Domain leaves a young Christopher with an endless playground
    • Christopher becomes the skate ramp guy
    • Flash is Dead! Long live HTML!
    • Here's your bag, now get out of my house
    • Cheap bastards reusing gift bags
    • Reusing the tissue
    • "If you want to complain about the gift I just gave you, please, go ahead. That just means I won't need to get you one next year."
    • Belligerently reusing gift bags
    • "I don't get these reality shows."
    • Forged in Fire
    • "And Mrs. Howell."
    • Ginger or Mary Ann? (Mary Ann, obviously)
    • Beautiful women from the 60s dying
    • A small disagreement over That '70s Show
    • Mary Ann all day long
    • Knives Out
    • PhotoShop 0.07
    • Sean Connery - a beautiful man
    • Barry Nelson - The first James Bond
    • 12 year-old girl sues TikTok
    • Lying to get your kids online
    • Omega Man (another minor disagreement) and Legend
    • Soylent Green
    • "I'm not gorgeous like Will Smith."
    • Revisiting Copyright and Patents
    • Don't ask about Mickey's Copyright, they will find you
    • "You were right, I meant I was right."
    • "I don't get chutney."
    • Christopher wants to watch cowboy movies, but Midnight Cowboy and Brokeback Mountain don't really fit the bill
      • 56 min
    • #15: A Fairly Harmless Gun
      • Wohven T-shirt Club unboxing
      • Million-dollar boxer shorts
      • Our sisters are more thoughtful than we are
      • Because we are men? Because we are jerks? Maybe both.
      • PSA - keep an ongoing "present idea" list
      • Need a gift for your wife? Ask her friends
      • Equal airtime for political candidates- on air vs. on the internet
      • Newspapers are obsolete and website slugs tell the real truth
      • Should Tweets be editable? Only a problem for popular people
      • Christopher is only successful as someone else
      • At least they like the fake Christopher, no one likes James - real or imagined
      • James proposes to revoke Sec 230 of the Communications Decency Act
      • Should Twitter "censor" bad speech? Or should it be a platform for radicalization?
      • Were those real Trump supporters?
      • Kavanaugh hearing break in - Google vs DuckDuckGo news reporting
      • Andy Ngo - the antifa specialist
      • QAnon? Ugh.
      • Night hiking and the creepy things (and people) on the trail in the wee hours
      • James rages against fair weather hikers
      • South Mountain
      • Weirdos in the middle of nowhere
      • Christopher meets a friendly Native American
      • "Waiting for a future that will never come and living in a past that never existed."
      • James is scared of Christopher's zip ties
      • Are we woke? No.
      • Hard truth - violence does actually work.
      • The people who should be rioting are too busy working
      • Boredom leads to extremism
      • COS Play extremists - Posers
      • "Humans are dirty dumb animals who just won't listen to reason."
      • Left and Right extremists are both authoritarian assholes
      • It's time for a third party
      • "Libertarianism and Communism are opposite sides of the same coin."
      • "If you have lived in California, you have seen a large number of crazies."
      • "A fairly harmless gun."
      • Gun Talk - another topic James knows little about
      • Rifling is just a way for big gov to trace your gun
      • "This is America, how can there be no bullets?"
      • "If you people would just be a little more sane, we could get to some funnier topics."
        • 1 hr
      • #14: Christopher Sings at the Ghost
        • Prius free Trump Caravan
        • Christopher: "I start off slow and move into fast." James: "I start off slow and I stay slow."
        • "I like Creme de Mint on my ice-cream."
        • Christopher cheats on James (coffee)
        • Before the sun comes out and kills everyone
        • James is so thoughtful that he wakes up before his alarm goes off so he doesn't disturb the rest of his household
        • MacApline's
        • Creepy high schools
        • James is too dead to have COVID
        • Christopher pranks his friends into thinking the train hit him
        • James doesn't trust his brain
        • Free will is an illusion
        • Christopher smells his way through life
        • Christopher listens to lights
        • Brains, brains, brains
        • Mixed up To Sail Beyond the Sunset and I Will Fear No Evil
        • Where is the thinker of your thoughts
        • Souls are an evolutionary advantage
        • Monsters with blue eyes (blue eye mutation is 6000 years old)
        • Dominant & Recessive gene theory
        • Generational pressure influences which genes get expressed (Epigenetics)
        • The lack of proof is not proof
        • Theists and antitheists are both silly
        • Christopher sings at the ghost
        • The ghosts at San Carlos Hotel love Christopher
        • Everything from the exploration of consciousness to dragon eyeballs
          • 45 min
        • #13: I've Been Playing With It Ever Since
          • Christopher can skateboard!
          • Christopher is a bad influence on the kids
          • Belly-flop bounce
          • "Blood is manly, urine isn't."
          • James has been mountain biking for 30 years, not because he's good at it, he's just stubborn
          • "I suck, I really do suck." - James
          • "Everything runs on LEDs in the future."
          • "My favorite thing is not responding to people." - James
          • James's son gets a new CPU
          • Christopher "I have a 14 year old iPad." James: "The first iPad came out in 2010..."
          • How to podcast
          • Apple podcast documentation is amazing
          • "We're going to argue over HTML now?"
          • "Flash was a horrible nightmare."
          • "I own the show, bow to me."
          • "RSS works until you get to nitwits like Google."
          • Where to get your short tech questions answered
          • "Can I go into one of my conspiracy theories?" "Oh, please do."
          • Christopher started with Photoshop 2 (he's really old)
          • "I've been playing with it ever since."
          • 14-20 floppy disks...
          • Shhhhh Shhhhh
          • Christopher hacking JPEGs
          • Adobe Ancestor Bag
          • Christopher is James Bond, if James Bond was an aging computer nerd
          • "It's not not clever."
          • Pixelmator Pro
          • ASCII Art
          • Hidden job postings (IT'S IN THE CODE)
          • Don't use online PDF editors
          • "You know how to tell if you're on a creepy website?" "It says Facebook at the top?"
          • Christopher was an AOL Instant Messenger Troll
          • Heathers
          • The Golden God moves from cowboy town to LA
          • "I own undershirts, but they have sleeves for god's sakes!"
          • "This is my friend Tina, and my other friend Tina." -Tina
            • 51 min
          • #12: I Hearted My Way Into Science
            • So old I remember Blockbuster
            • Bootleg books
            • James is tired of paying dead authors
            • James's unpopular copyright ideas
            • Disney's secret Hitler movie
            • "Where the hell is the coffee!?"
            • Christopher: "I use coffee like a drug." James: "It is a drug."
            • Coffee is not gendered
            • James's brother-in-law is shocked, shocked how good James's free over the air digital signal is
            • Christopher gets triggered by NPR, but still loves Science Friday
            • Our podcast is so good that even Christopher listens to it
            • James explains to Christopher how podcasts work
            • RSS isn't so Simple when it comes to Google and Spotify
            • "I hearted my way into science."
            • Tik Tok wins because its algorithm actually cares about what YOU want to see
            • Socialism benefits the people (in theory), Fascism benefits the people in power
            • Christopher can't say "Boob shots" so James has to
            • "Parley? What, am I a pirate?"
            • Parler is the "Entertainment" Right
            • Twitter vs Parler is James vs Christopher
            • Instagram is dumb and only wants to show me dumb things and is totally untrainable
            • YouTube is advertising me to death
            • Christopher likes to watch old TV shows (because he's old)
            • Tootsie Pop ad
            • Christopher educates his kids only so he can one-up Europeans
            • The guy with the shotgun tells you where you can camp
            • Why is it up to James to correct Congress Woman Gabbard?
            • Our brains are not built for the technology we have
              • 1 hr 10 min
            • #11: Too Many Jellybeans
              • Absence of wallet
              • "If you want to assert your dominance over me by paying for my meal, please have at it."
              • "My question, James, is it a labor of love?"
              • How do digital devices drift? We're not smart enough to know.
              • Christopher is the "utility guy", who also writes the press releases
              • Smile at the cheese
              • James's eyebrow is surprisingly expressive
              • Our weekly "trying to be nice to Trump" minute - He is the first true outsider president
              • The US political parties suck and have too much power
              • Perot and Nader
              • Running for President just to sell stuff
              • And now we talk about the First Ladies
              • Carter's peanut eraser
              • Too many jellybeans
              • James is cursing at the players through the TV
              • James is corrupting Christopher
              • Christopher - the social chameleon
              • "Up-talking" No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no...
              • Speech mannerisms or, as the educated say - colloquialisms
              • Bleep me
              • Humans are not good at reality
              • I am gorgeous, I am so gorgeous
              • Respect the beverage
              • Pineapple whiskey
                • 47 min
              • #10: Kids throwing rocks at Christopher's rear window
                • Zipper merging
                • Justice on the highway
                • Don't go up against James in a merge
                • "Geometry is my god and I will go where it tells me to go."
                • Kids throwing rocks at Christopher's rear window
                • "I wouldn't say, 'harassing'"
                • Christopher scares the kids while in his boxers
                • The one time Christopher calls the police - when his mother-in-law visits
                • PSA - When the guns come out, walk the other way
                • Gang bangers invade Christopher's neighborhood and the Cops don't really care
                • Christopher again accuses James of looking like Henry Winkler and James throws him out
                • His head is about 30% too big
                • The Fonz is the cool guy? Really?
                • James questions Dustin Hoffman's casting in The Graduate
                • Alabama, you have too many 'A's in your name
                • Alabama's big red X. Not very subtle and not a good look.
                • Christopher and James argue if freedom of religion is freedom from religion
                • Four. Pointy. White. Hats.
                • "A very 'sewable' flag"
                • Alaska, your flag rocks (but the stars could be bigger).
                • Benny Benson, an orphan living in an orphanage designed the Alaskan flag. I mean, seriously! Alaska, you win.
                • "Math is for other people"
                • Vexillology. What? Vexillology. Huh? Vexillology. Say what? Vexillology.
                • Everything Christopher learned, he learned from "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
                • "Don't be subtle with me, I don't understand subtlety"
                • The cleaning crew threw out the "artwork"
                • James loves the '80s, Christopher - not so much
                • Metallica - a small disagreement
                • "Once upon a time, I used to go the gym"
                • "You're not only wrong, you're weird"
                  • 55 min
                • #9: Slap Me After, Not Before

                  "Christopher, is your shotgun loaded at this point?"

                  Christopher is pissed at himself for not being as pissed as he thinks he should be

                  "At this point you are stark raving mad, but you don't want anyone to know that."

                  Christopher didn't sleep well because his little girl is growing up

                  James dreams about Christopher

                  "You like big women?" "Well... no?"

                  I don't like to use the word dumb, but... yes, they were dumb

                  James is into nerdy girls

                  Christopher only likes the smart playboy models

                  James doesn't like Christopher's Intro/Outro

                  Christopher: "It's called dissonance." James: "That doesn't make it any better."

                  "Slap me after, not before"

                  Christopher cracks himself up

                  Christopher tries to explain music to James, but he just doesn't care

                  It's a hit with the youth

                  James doesn't mind getting songs stuck in his head, that's free radio!

                  James is an idiot savant without the savant

                  James admits to listening to Billy Squier and Christopher realizes he doesn't like James any more

                  Christopher laments James's terrible ear

                  Your State Flag sucks

                  Iceland, Greenland, and Arizona

                  Does the blue represent blue?

                  Christopher knows more about your flag than you do

                  Christopher read the whole encyclopedia, James just looked at the pictures

                  We explain to the kids what an encyclopedia is and its implications on social status

                  Macmillan Visual Dictionary (pic)

                  Encyclopedias had no auto update. You lived with what you had.

                  James's father speaks Ancient Greek. Not sure why, but there it is.

                  Christopher is spacey

                  Astronomers on TikTok

                  Ship High In Transit is bullshit - @jesszafarris

                  Shit means shit

                  Beowulf was not written by Shakespeare, but James is too dumb to know that

                  From Beowulf to The Office

                  James takes a hatchet to The Office (American version)

                  You can still steal cars in Rhode Island

                  Cars without USB ports aren't really cars

                  44 min
                • #8: There Are a Lot of Different Hamburgers Out There

                  Bikini Beans - NO Sponge Bob here

                  "The Sweep" or, "Christopher's human evaluation system"

                  Nickle and diming a 10 year old is a bad look

                  "The fuzzy one?"

                  "Toys for children, made by children"

                  James: "I am much less attractive, why are you looking at me?"

                  Maintaining eye contact and ogling at the same time

                  Shoe compliments work better on women than on men

                  "I'm wearing Birkenstocks."

                  Christopher bought his first new "car" when he was 11 years old and it was a motorcycle (Kawasaki KX80).

                  Lying to the PennySaver

                  Christopher's Honda MR50 that his Dad gave him

                  Quirky things from the 70s and 80s - Motocompo - Honda's little motorcycle that fit in their little car

                  Christopher's first "car" - Ford F150

                  Christopher has destroyed a lot of beautiful cars (1967 powder yellow Mustang Coupe)

                  James's woeful tale of the stolen car

                  How to destroy a car in three easy steps

                  Oh sure, they 'bought' the stereo

                  Our Weekly Public Service Announcement: Cars over 10 (now 20) years old are fair game in Rhode Island

                  A gate won't stop James, he's free range

                  Christopher: "There aren't that many blonde male leads." James: "I guess I'm just not interested in this topic."

                  From thrasher to business man to guru all to get chicks

                  Hippies ended up on Wall Street

                  We all need you Christopher

                  Totally façade

                  Saying something nice about Trump is hard, but James is trying

                  Trump's political success is based on his next level understanding of American TV news media

                  The rural vs urban divide is a divide of language

                  A true tale of racism which turns out to be completely incomprehensible because racism is, essentially, incomprehensible.

                  A suntan is the racial dividing line

                  People like Socialism because they haven't been to a Socialist country

                  Americans are not all the same

                  Parisians are jerks, but the French are OK

                  From Trump to Hobbits

                  Christopher wants to be a Hobbit (or at least eat like one)

                  Giant Snicker bars are not a meal Christopher!

                  James hates candy

                  When does candy stop and chocolate begin?

                  James simply does not understand cotton candy, marshmallows, or candy

                  "There are a lot of different hamburgers out there."

                  57 min
                • #7: The toilet seat is still broken, but it looks fixed.
                  • Christopher breaks the toilet at the Children's Museum
                  • Not urinating on the seat is like, "base level human stuff"
                  • The idea of a tweed suit breaks James
                  • Step aside Don Johnson, here comes Christopher (pic)
                  • Pleated? Of course!
                  • Zoot suit!
                  • The suit archive
                  • Christopher's kids don't want to wear his old suits... usually.
                  • Old Whiskey bottles and dungarees are worth $
                  • The whiskey smashing cat (RIP) that destroyed Christopher's inheritance
                  • Old Jack Daniels bottles (pic)
                  • James has Lego hanging from his walls (pic)
                  • Lego inheritance
                  • Luke Skywalker murdered the "nondenominational" Lego
                  • Lego Castle & Space Series from the 1980s (pic)
                  • Lego X-Wings through the years (but the first was the best) (pic)
                  • Skinny Sicilians
                  • James does NOT look like Henry Winkler
                  • Sexual harassment, or, please more
                  • The neurologist triggers James by under weighing him
                  • The Carter Hotel NYC
                  • Christopher gets "Christ" ribs after not eating for three months
                  • Hobbit meal plan
                  • Eating dandelions
                  • "That's not a cookie"
                  • I'm not a weight lifter or a woman
                  • Capellini
                  • Art school is awesome (except the food is terrible)
                  • "That Girl" TV show
                  • Is Phil Donahue a jerk?
                  • TV personalities and Presidential candidates are possibly not the most stable people
                  • Hillary Clinton was the best Republican candidate in years
                  • Putin - riding bears with his shirt off (pic)
                  • Christopher fantasies about riding a polar bear with the Rumple Minze half naked "warrior" princess
                  • If you can see the belly button, it's NOT ARMOR!
                  • "As a former Dungeons & Dragons enthusiast..."
                  • "This thing called LARPing"
                  • Beating the crap out of people with... padded foam weapons
                  • That is cool, I would do that. NERF? Oh, wait, no that's silly
                  • SCA
                  • Is golf Scottish?
                  • Who has time to golf? Steve Jobs
                  • "These are bad-ass swords"
                  • Christopher has an auction problem
                  • Christopher wants to live in a castle
                  • trompe l'oeil - "A style of painting that is intended to give a convincing illusion of reality"
                  • "Don't spell at me"
                  • We haven't started yet
                  • The toilet seat is still broken, but it looks fixed
                    • 41 min

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