Mt. Rushmore Podcast

TV and film can make any professional seem WAY more glamorous than it really is. But the truth is that most jobs are just that: jobs. Even internationally-renowned cat burglars spend most of their time dealing with mundane things like washing their ski masks or ordering more smoke bombs and grappling hooks.

This week we're taking a closer look at some of the coolest jobs in movies and television and seeing if they would really be all that great if you had it in real life.

SHOW NOTES

• Cowboy (Michael's Choice)
• Assistant District Attorney (Richard's Choice)
• Bounty Hunter (Michael's Choice)
• Crime Lab Investigator (Richard's Choice)
• Scientist (Michael's Choice)
• Astronaut (Richard's Choice)
• President (Michael's Choice)
• Firefighter (Richard's Choice)

Musicians have been making songs about other musicians since the days when Amadeus released his hit single "Suck It Salieri" (also known as the first diss track). But not all songs are about putting down a rival. Just as many have been made as tribute to an act that an artist admires (or at least wants to get cool points for by referencing.)

This week we're looking at some of the best songs that musicians have written about other musicians. Everything from shameless grabs for cash to angry putdowns are included, along with some possibly psychotic ramblings about Elvis.

SHOW NOTES

• "Alex Chilton" by The Replacements (Richard's Choice)
• "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone" by Sleater Kinney (Michael's Choice)
• "Kool Thing" by Sonic Youth (Richard's Choice)
• "Dio" by Tenacious D (Michael's Choice)
• "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco (Joint Choice)
• "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House by LCD Soundsystem (Michael's Choice)
• "Elvis Is Everywhere" by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper (Richard's Choice)

We all have love/hate relationships. These are the things that can make us so happy but also bring us down. But enough about our marriages.

(Editor's Note: ba-dump-ba!)

This week we're exploring the range of things that can be the best but also the worst. We're talking about a lot of different stuff this week including fast food, entertainment and general great/terrible life choices.

SHOW NOTES

• Eating French fries on the way home (Michael's Choice)
• Social media (Richard's Choice)
• Living across the street from a liquor store (Michael's Choice)
• Yoshinoya Beef Bowl (Richard's Choice)
• Leaving the dishes for the morning (Michael's Choice)
• College football (Richard's Choice)
• Bingo (Michael's Choice)
• Disneyland (Richard's Choice)

What makes a couple a "power" couple? It could be the sheer force of their celebrity. It might be the literal power that they wield. Or, there might be some sort of X factor that allows their relationship to be much larger than the sum of their parts.

Our own Power Trio is taking some time this week to talk about Power Couples throughout the worlds of entertainment, politics and history. Not all of these relationships were smooth sailing, but they were legendary.

SHOW NOTES

• Beyonce and Jay Z (Michael's Choice)
• FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt (Richard's Choice)
• Barack and Michelle Obama (Michael's Choice)
• Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip (Richard's Choice)
• Sherri Ann Cabot and Christi Cummings from "Best in Show) (Michael's Choice)
• Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz (Richard's Choice)
• Gomez and Morticia Addams (Michael's Choice)
• Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love (Richard's Choice)

Yeah, being in a rock band is pretty cool. Four or five guys and gals jamming and touring and livin' that rock n' roll lifestyle.

But what happens when its just two people in a band?

On this week's episode we go back and forth debating those bands that are made up of the bare minimum to disqualify them from being a solo act on the Mt. Rushmore of Duo Bands.

Alright, everyone who's depressed in the locker room...gather round. Take a knee.

We may be a rag-tag team of underdog ne'er-do-wells, that somehow has acquired the best player in the league mid-season, and it may be halftime and we're losing because the other team has taken the concept of winning one step too far. But if we play team ball, and use that special trick-play we've been working on all season, as well as rely on our well-worn superstitions, we may just win this whole. Damn. THING!

Insert slow-clap here.

With Paul Preston from Bleav Podcasts

We all love two things: Our Moms and The Internet. OK. Well we love ONE of those things.

...

Moms. It's our moms. SHEESH!

But sometimes these two things go together like oil and vinegar. On this week's episode we discuss, debate and deliberate how the inter-tubes and our dear sweet mamas just seem so constantly at odds in our 21st century digital world.

Animals. God's worst mistake.

But put a click track behind them on a music video and boy-howdy! do they shine!

This week we chat about dogs and cats and snakes and oh, let's say... the emu... that appear in some iconic music videos.

SHOW NOTES

• "Stray Cut Strut" by the Stray Cats (Michael's Choice)
• "Patience" by Guns 'n' Roses (Richard's Choice)
• "The Love Cats" by the Cure (Michael's Choice)
• "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson (Richard's Choice)
• "Who Am I (What's My Name)" by Snoop Doggy Dogg (Michael's Choice)
• "Epic" by Faith No More (Richard's Choice)
• "Where's Your Head At?" by Basement Jaxx (Michael's Choice)
• "Opposites Attract" by Paula Abdul (Richard's Choice)

Sorry for the late release this week. We were busy. Busy loafin'.

This week we take a look at the mysterious hobo. That boxcar hopping gadabout who lives by his own laws, works his own hours and lives on the outskirts of society.

Also: Eats boiled shoes.

The history of the hobo in pop culture is an interesting one. So here are three schmoes who screw that history up.

We all secretly wish we could have one of two superpowers: flight or invisibility.

Or this one time, I was walking home from high school and these junior high kids were across the street and they were throwing rocks at me, and I was like "boy, if I could turn into the Hulk that would be soooo cool" as I ran away from those kids who were three years younger than me...

So yeah, invisibility!

This week we're joined by guest Paul Preston from www.themovieguys.net to take a look at... well, you know, try to take a look... at that most sacred of powers that renders one... imperceptible to the naked eye. From magic cloaks to "magic" cloaks to The One Ring we try to make the intangible a little more tangible.

Follow Paul and the rest of The Movie Guys on Twitter @TheMovieGuys and check out The Movie Guys Podcast on your favorite pod catcher.

SHOW NOTES

• Mac King's Cloak of Invisibility (Paul's Choice)
• Harry Potter's Cloak of Invisibility (Richard and Michael's Choice)
• Monty Python's "How Not to Be Seen" Sketch (Paul's Choice)
• Invisible Boy from "Mystery Men" (Richard and Michael's Choice)
• Buster Bluth's Stealth Skills from "Arrested Development" (Paul's Choice)
• "The Invisible Kid" (Richard's Choice)
• Violet Parr from "The Incredibles (Paul's Choice)
• The One Ring from "Lord of the Rings" (Richard and Michael's Choice"