Similidudes

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1:21 Consumption Corner – Drew: “Selma” (2014) “Fall” by Hotel Pools vaporwave music.

Dave: “Poldark” (2015) and the inversion of tropes and Mel Gibson hottakes

15:17 Similitude Proper “Double Dragon (1988) is like Big Trouble In Little China (1986)”

The arcade classic and the John Carpenter cult classic.

33:28 Nevergreen News

Student submits essay with sarcastic title, Dave mafioso wisdom.  The town of Asbestos, and other bizarrely named Canadian towns.  Gaming company death threats.  Game Devs and PR screwups.

54:42 Videogames Overthought 

Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 highlights he impossibility of an invasion of America.

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We thought WoW Classic would be forever evergreen. We were wrong.

0:00 Introduction
1:28 Consumption Corner – Drew: Cormac McCarthy “The Road” & Andrew Shaffer’s “Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery”, Dave: Key Largo, Casablanca, Robert Mitchum, Film Noir and the Big Lebowski.
8:22 Similitude Proper “Each World of Warcraft Zone is like a Led Zeppelin Song”
Barrens Chat, How the West Was Won, Battle of Evermore and Elwynn forest
We talk a lot about Classic WoW, we’re sorry, it was popular when we recorded this. [[Speak for yourself, Drew; I’m not sorry. I like meta-listening.]]
19:48 Nevergreen News – Cosmetic Surgery in the Czech Republic and Barbie.
From ugly Belgium to ugly Buffalo, Tax the Poor, Loot box Lottery and Government.
Videogaming the opiate of the masses?
Drew’s cryptic reference to the game Whack-a-mole is unclear enough to lead us to disclaim that no, Drew does not beat rodents with hammers… for recreational purposes.
Trips to Springfield Illinois and Mountain Dew WoW Stories.

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0:00 Introduction (This episode was recorded in spring 2020)
1:23 Consumption Corner – Drew: “Adrift” by Steve Callahan, Dave: 70’s BBC TV Show “All Creatures Great and Small” and the philosophy of Television, advertising, and education
16:21 Similitude Proper: “Closing Time by Semisonic, is like the Monroe Doctrine”
Dave inexplicably has never heard the Semisonic one-hit wonder “Closing Time” and he and Drew long for letters of writ.  Being a first time father, and getting kicked out of the bar.
31:01 Nevergreen News – Richard Nixon’s Sandwich and Johnny Carson, Microsoft acquires Bethesda and we fawn over Morrowind yet again.  Giant rats beneath Mexico City and the infamous exploits of rats.  
52:08 Name that Tune – First Lyrics of 90s one-hit wonders edition

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0:00 Introduction (The episode recorded in 2020)
1:25 Consumption Corner – Drew: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Novels, Dave: Frank Sinatra’s ‘Sings Only for the Lonely’ and Gilbert Gottfried
13:08 Similitude Proper “Frasier is like the Jordan Years of the Chicago Bulls” Dave tells us about number 45/23 Michael Jordan’s dynamite history in Chicago in the 90s.  The great Dr. Frasier Crane and the sinking ship he came from (Cheers).  How Seattle and Chicago became big in the 90s.  David Hyde Pierce and Kelsey Grammer know how to do their jobs.  Dave tells us about Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman, and all the greats from when the world worked.
28:05 Nevergreen News.  KFC writes open letter to Popeye’s the blitzkrieg of chicken.  Dordogne man blows up part of his house trying to swat a fly.  Dave poses the philosophical question is one fly worse than ten? Nintendo observing 35 years of Mario with a handheld game full of secret easter eggs.
43:21 Videogames Overthought: Diablo 2’s Blessed Hammer is experimental science, not magic.  Necromancers and Paladins, and the physics of magical hammers.  Magic v. Science, and the unpredictable supernatural in Earthbound. 

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0:00 Introduction

1:35 Consumption Corner

Saskatchewan’s Summer Salamanders and JRR Tolkien’s feast day and Tom Bombadil.  Lord of the Rings tangent.

David Letterman’s Boyish charm vs. Johnny (Reb) Carson

18:23 Similitude Proper: “Late Night Talk Shows are like the Dying Embers of a Fire”

Are late night hosts the only friends we have?  Who do we gather around the fire with?

27:30 Nevergreen News:

-Belgian Mayor’s Heart Entombed in Fountain

-Chocolate Snow in Switzerland

36:22 – Super Mario’s 35th Anniversary

We get lost in Intellectual Property philosophy again, George Lucas & the Original Star Wars Trilogy

46:34 Video Games Overthought: Exciting Primal Behaviour

53:00 Name That Tune – Riffing on Lyrics Edition

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00:00 Introduction

02:31 Consumption Corner– Albert Camus “The Stranger” and “The Mersault Investigation” by Kamel Daoud.  YouTube, Dr Mike’s Rocky Summaries and the History of blood-doping

6:52 Similitude Proper “The Cold War is like Fireball in D&D”

Drew misses the date of the Cuban Missile Crisis by a month.  Bat guano magic?  Contra (but not the video game)

The News

16:08 – Stanislav Petrov the man who saved the world 

Sting’s Russians

24:42 Eyes on Belgium– Nato headquarters, ugly tapestries in the land of wolves.

37:55 Soviet Video Games– Businessman, learn the perils of capitalism.  A Tetris too-far.

47:14 Videogames Overthought– Street Fighter II is our historiography 

50:48 Name That Cold War Movie

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As per usual, The Similidudes is a podcast safe for younger ears.

0:00-1:15 Introduction

1:16 Consumption Corner – Drew praises Diablo 2 and Vincent Van Gogh biopics but messes up the birth order of Vincent and Theo.

Dave gaga for Gump, Forrest Gump that is.  The Three Americas.

14:57 Similitude Proper: “David Lynch’s film “Dune” (1984) is like Radiohead’s album “Kid A” (1997)”.  Dave gives the most favourable review of Radiohead that we will ever drag from him.  Dune, the movie, while not great, is apparently much better than the book.

30:46 Nevergreen News

Pubby McDrunkface, the hottest new pub

Australian Man fights snake while speeding and we run a tangent to Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Rudyard Kipling

Zelda recipes in your latest bestseller 

47:42 Videogames Overthought – Tristram must have the lowest economic opportunities in history 

50:40 – Name that Tune (90s edition)

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0:00-1:17 Introduction

1:17-14:48 Consumption Corner

Uncorking the show, seasons of Saskatchewan

Drew watches the Untouchables (1987) and goes on a Chicago kick.  Learn the origin of the term “right-hand man”

Dave watches the Godfather (1972) and yes it’s a great film, but no it doesn’t praise the mafia.  Count how many times Dave can say “demonic” in one segment

14:48-33:50 Similitude Proper “Vincent Van Gogh is like a Nuclear Criticality Accident”

zealous preacher, painter, and pauper.  The mysterious gunshot death of Vincent Van Gogh.  Louis Slotin and the spirit of the 1950s. Buried nuclear waste and complete lack of respect for human life and human arrogance.  The recurring problem of Utilitarianism. 

37:43-61:09 Nevergreen News

The Abbey Monks’ Beer – Similidudes fire shots at hops and discuss the drink and The Deer Hunter (1978)

The Nightmare of Valve’s ‘Utopia’ – we get in the weeds on political theory and philosophy and for some reason talk about the film Gladiator, CGI Tigers, and the now dead (but at recording time, alive) late great Sean Connery.

61:09 Videogames overthought – MMORGs are the fulfillment of base human desire.  Fishing in Azshara in WoW Classic.  The wonders of Feudalism

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0:00-1:20 Introduction
1:20-10:31 Consumption Corner
Drew – Marital Television Arbitration – Ru Paul’s Drag Race Vs. Battlestar Galactica / BSG 2004 Dave – World of Warcraft Classic – AQ Raiding and the friendship of the Similidudes shaken by dungeons in Classic WoW

10:31-24:18 Similitude Proper “Stevie Ray Vaughan is like Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel” Dave’s SRV-laden drives in the Ozarks, simplified Hegel is our Zeitgeist

24:18-36:41 Nevergreen News
Austrian Man Fined for “intestinal wind” – farting deemed “provocative” and “uncooperative”
Topless Woman Saves Family from Drowning – can you make an event newsworthy just by adding the words “Topless woman”? and what is a riptide?

Florida Woman sues for paternity test on goats – this goat has papers dude.  Odessa and the problem of goat registration

Belgian Christmas Kangaroo Attack followup

36:42 – 53:15 Name That Tune 90s Edition

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