Hello, okay, so basically, I’ve been summarizing all episodes in my notebooks with the intent of posting pages on this blog, as you can see on the sidebar. But anyway, the other day, someone stumbled upon my other blog looking for the episode where Jonathan Goldstein and Jorge Just end up ordering for each other in the diner. It was a very short bit, more of a prologue than an act, but it was pretty funny and ever since someone was searching for it, I’ve been trying to find out which episode it was. Well, turns out its Negative Scanning, an episode about, erm, negative scanning. As defined by Starlee Kine’s piece, “Scanning the Pandas” from which this episode takes its name:
If you’re a positive scanner, it means you always see the bright side of things, even when maybe you shouldn’t. Negative scanning is when everything seems to be going just fine, but you still manage to find something wrong. It’s not being able to wear your favorite shirt, the one that makes you feel like a different person, because there’s a pen dot on the sleeve. It’s not being able to enjoy your wedding day because you’re pretty sure the guy at the deli doesn’t like you.
As you can imagine, the episode is fraught with pessimism, featuring a short story on loneliness from J. Robert Lennon, calls with comedian Jen Kirkman and Gregor Ehrlich and a palm-reading for Jonathan Goldstein.
Check out the summary or give it a listen.
Shouts outs to SupernintenoChalmers, as always, who brings us the Unofficial CBC Wiretap Podcast. Without his work, we’d all have to move to Canada or get satellite radio.
