The Literate ApeCast

David and Don have managed to produce one hundred episodes of the two of them talking about a ridiculous amount of random things. In this 100th episode, the Chimps in Charge reflect on that minor and dubious accomplishment.

The death of Eddie Money. Both of the Alpha Apes celebrated wedding anniversaries this week. a $65 cocktail Himmel bought for his wife plus Hall’s disdain for Hamilton. Also, on a lighter note, why not just concede that we’ve lost the climate change war and start preparing for the inevitable apocalypse?

Plus six tasks for you to accomplish in order to be allowed into the house and make soap from human fat.

Yup. Everyone and their dog has something to say about Dave Chapelle’s Netflix special and after all the trans-activists, rape survivors, and host of the Woke, finally two middle-aged white guys offer up their breakdown.

You’re welcome.

The Chimps Online are tired of politics, tired of the Woke, tired of everyone's opinions so the spend forty minutes pissing and moaning about all others who piss and moan. Like an ouroboros of hypocritical critique.

Plus six things that try to be apolitical but who the fuck are we kidding?

Fresh off his date with mortality and the realization that he is now past middle-aged, Himmel ruminates what it would be like to hang out with himself at twenty.

Plus six things to do that celebrate all things 1999.

The Gentlemen Gorillas talk the aborted release of the Blumhouse feature, The Hunt, the bizarre twist of fate that causes David to remember Johnny Epstein (who recently hanged himself) at family gatherings), and the odd tale of sportscaster Mia Khalifa and her early brush with porn superstardom.

Plus six activities for those of you so used to being spectators that you only become active in your lives when a disembodied voice on a podcast tells you I do it.

The Writer’s Nightmare: you write a book, it sells and does well, and seven years later one of the subjects of the book reveals that they hate it and have issue with your version of their story. David confronts the legacy of an historic camp and the damning criticism of his book about it.

Plus six things for you to do that guarantees you will be smarter than that receptionist at your therapist’s office who so often looks at you like you have dogshit on the collar of your shirt.

After seeing Tarantino’s latest, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Don finds a goal in Brad Pitts’s character Cliff Booth. The uber cool, expend no unnecessary energy, be able to only care about that worth caring about. Beset with news of Chicago storytellers still trying to resurrect past beefs, David gets incensed while Don channels his inner Cliff Booth. Also, David is a fainting nancy boy.

Plus six things to watch, read, and listen to in order to prove you aren’t the friendless invalid hermit your petty behavior broadcasts to the world.

Himmel reads a piece about the latent misogyny of When Harry Met Sally in the Atlantic and posts a feature length rebuttal. We talk about that, the concept of ‘high maintenance’ people, and his hatred of You Got Mail. Then onto a discussion of the term “crazy.” Is it gaslighting if they’re truly lunatic? And finally some talk of the films of Tarantino in prep to see his latest.

Plus, six assignments from teachers who slept at their desks, sniffed mimeograph paper, and gave you a better grades if you’d go place bets for them at the local Sportsbook.