Sorry, I forgot to mention that I updated both the episode summaries (added Where Have All the Spaniards Gone?) and the Running Jokes page (which is sadly, pretty incomplete).
Anyway, this last episode, if you haven’t already heard, features Buzz Goldstein talking about his visit to Barcelona, Howard snuggling his pug, Desmond (as seen on the Wiretap Holiday Special video) and Zouzou discussing Batman vs. Superman.
Enjoy.
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I’ve updated with the following summaries:
I added the last one because about 66 percent of our hits lately have been people googling Starlee Kine and this episode has her playing an unhelpful customer service rep who won’t let Jonathan return his shrunken pants. Also tune in if you’d like to hear Jonathan and Gregor singing “Shaft.”
HEllo I’m back from vacation. And I missed TWO Jonathan Goldstein National Post articles. Here’s how the latest one begins:
Monday. With school finished, Zouzou has decided to keep busy by writing a screenplay for a horror film. It’s about vampire babies who live in the sewers and attack through people’s toilets.
“The only problem,” she says, “is that I have to keep stopping writing because I start to scare myself.”
“That would be great for the trailer,” I say. “Get ready for a film so terrifying that the writer was too afraid to write it.’”
“And maybe it’ll have no ending!”
“And instead of an ending,” I add, getting into it, “they could just have words flash across the screen: ‘Leave the theatre and go back to your regular lives, for that is the scariest ending of all.’ Then they could have footage of people stuck in traffic and late for work. Getting an expensive mechanic’s bill. Stuff like that.”
Zouzou shakes her head.
“There’s fun scary and then there’s unfun scary,” she says.
“Like roller coasters are fun scary and the dentist’s office isn’t?” I ask.
She nods her head. Then she grabs her pen, inspired.
“I’ll have a scene where the vampire babies do root canal on someone while riding the roller coaster. No one will be able to tell that the patient’s screams aren’t fun screams until it’s too late.”
“I can’t remember the last time I fun-screamed,” I say wistfully, and Zouzou suggests I go check the mailbox for coupons.
These should be read in their entirety by everyone, every week.
When your email thinks you’re going soft from July 8, 2008 (???? A TUESDAY?) feat. Zouzou and Josh (in reference)
and
The soft bigotry of used couches from July 2, 2008 feat John Tucker and Buzz Goldstein
Oh, also, while I was on vacation I re-read Lenny Bruce is Dead for the 4th time and realized that it’s spelled Dina Goldstein. Not Dyna.
I have some clerical errors to fix.
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I’m assuming that this week’s episode is akin to a re-enactment on Unsolved Mysteries. Although its billed as salvaged tape a la Blair Witch Project, I’m pretty sure this is all re-creation. It has the exact same audio “texture” as Wiretap and I think I doubt that JG had the chops he does now back when he was a neophyte. Plus, JG’s parents appear as the voices of random loonies and goonies at Dragon’s Throat.
Also, Gregor appears, playing himself – Jonathan Goldstein’s pre-med roommate. Not sure if that really happened or not.
Jonathan mentions the term “Hi-Bye Friends” in the episode which you may remember from “Allure of the Mean Friend” episode from This American Life.
Also, in the credits he mentions Heather O’Neill and “dog scratchings” which is absolutely baffling to me. I emailed CBC about it but we’ll see if they have any explanation. Zackary Clark appears as a voice as does some guy with a confounding last name which I won’t even attempt to spell (sounds like Bez-moe-gus).
Anyway, tune in – one big fat 20 minute act of gonzo journalism, Goldstein-style.
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