Sat 8 Jul 2006
This week we almost gave up on the show due to Zan’s rage about sound equipment. Zan begins by railing against the M-Audio company, maker of his missing audio interface, but once we’re in the swing of things we talk about:
* The Podcast Alley voting controversy.
* Luxury Japanese cockroach accomodation.
* And various issues raised by listener voicemails, like fireworks, chickens and Guy Peirce.
July 10th, 2006 at 1:18 am
Ooooh! A new show. Perfect way to start my Sunday. Like eggs and bacon. Which I didn’t have but rather some cereal that resembled driveway gravel.
And now… some running commentary you can include in the director’s cut:
Sheesh. Do the BYU listeners have to storm M-Audio?? Maybe the delay is just the latency inherent with USB audio devices. Hah.
Hmmm. Interesting. We’re not used to dealing with foreign companies from home in the U.S. as the products are already imported obviously.
Oh man, do I have to wait 7 months for Jana to sing a birthday song to me? *sigh*
Well, it’s not like you’re making money with the characters Zan and Jana.
So now this is a podcast with a view! Beautiful!
Yeah, I like this comments section over forums. I do see a few under-utilized forums at podcast sites.
Yup. We’ve got fried Mars and Snickers bars in the states. We also have fried Twinkies too. They actually are served in some fancy restaurants, which is funny. Mmmm… scraps sounds good! I think in the southern U.S. most everything has been fried once.
Well, it’s not like you don’t deserve a top 10 spot! Funny, I listen to PK&J and Saskia too but it wasn’t me, even though I voted for all three of you!
I listen now and then to Distorted View also.Yup. The Jason Show getting bad publicity on DV is a good move if it was intentional. No publicity is bad publicity… even if your show sucks.
Yeah, chickens are stupid and will wander off, not because they want to get away, they just are aimless and have tiny brains. Some chickens can be let loose… others need keeping. My dad and his parents had a coop as did my dad’s grandparents. They all kept Rhode Island Reds.
What brought you two to live in Japan? Nothing about Japan surprises me much these days. It’s Bizarro World. Do you have the bug traps down there called Roach Motels?
Don’t stop doing episodes due to audio issues!
Is there an Australia day or something euivalent to Canada Day? Woodrow is asking something similar.
ACT, Northern Territory… interesting. I did not know about them or the fact that you have states of any sort.
Okay, Jana, we’ll leave your belly button alone.
Yeah, we see plenty of Aussie movies up here. I own DVDs of “Picnic At Hanging Rock” and “Walkabout.” Both great flicks. Guy Peirce was great in “L.A. Confidential” and “Memento,” both of which I also have DVDs of.
Thanks for more good conversation. Looking forward to the next show this week.
July 10th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
Well Kevbo pretty much said it all so I’ll just add great show as usual. Sound quality is only annoying for the first minute and then we’re laughing too hard to notice.
July 11th, 2006 at 12:23 am
I am beginning to doupt that Zan and Janna are True Blue Australians.
They keep reffering to chickens…………..NO TRUE BLUE WOULD EVER REFER TO THOSE BEAST AS ANY THING OTHER THAN “Chooks”
There is a great Podcast Novel called 7th Son check it out at http://www.jchutchins.net/7Son/Home/Home.html
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July 11th, 2006 at 12:30 am
ps
Open Source Sex also has reference to “Humanclai” how ever you spell in reference to a SPERM BANK…………
Open Source Sex Check Episode 23
On a cold San Francisco night, I read “Sperm Bank Teller” by Polly Enmity, from Best Sex Writing 2005. When I found out that someone I knew not only works in a really dysfunctional local sperm bank — but that she also regularly has sex with “donors” — I asked her to write about it for my book. It’s all real and all true, from the bizarre way donors are screened to the blowjobs in the donors’ rooms.
July 11th, 2006 at 3:18 am
I have had a deep fried Snickers bar (I had to try it because it was the most absurd thing I had ever seen). The crazy thing was that it wasn’t just the regular sized candy bar but the KING SIZE. As if the regular one wasn’t enough to drop you dead in you tracks.
I also get the ‘electric shock’ feeling in my bellybutton. It is very unpleasant. To me it feels like a nerve thing so after a little googling I found this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_nerve
Here is the highlight:
“Other thoracic spinal nerves (T3-T12)
The remainder of the thoracic spinal nerves, T3 through T12, do little recombining. They form the intercostal nerves, so named because the run between the ribs. For points of reference, the 7th intercostal nerve terminates at the lower end of the sternum, also known as the xyphoid process. The 10th intercostal nerve terminates at the umbilicus, aka the belly button.“
July 11th, 2006 at 3:43 am
On the whole, food is now very good in the UK. However, there is still working class food available in the UK if you know where to look. I do hope you’ve eaten already before you read this…
As well as ’scraps’ in UK fish and chip shops, you can ask for a ‘wally’, which is a large gherkin, and pickled eggs are available for the more adventurous. ‘Mushy peas’ are surprisingly good, considering they are huge peas, boiled until they turn into a puree then artificially coloured iridescent green.
The fish and chips usually taste excellent, but, as you said, the fish is normally restricted to just cod or haddock. In fact, you can order by simply asking for “fish and chips”; there is no need to actually specify the type of fish.
Always avoid the vinegar in fish and chip shops - it usually ’spirit vinegar’, some sort of dyed industrial acetic acid by-product. Best to take the food home to eat, there you have control over the condiments.
You can get ‘pork scratchings’ in many UK pubs and bars. This is the skin of pigs cut up into little squares, heavily salted and fried, then bagged up as a snack. It’s like eating the ‘crackling’ from a joint of roast pork. Good to eat when drinking beer, but watch out for scratchings covered in bristles, though.
In the working class East End of London you can get eel pie, liquor and mash (bits of eel in a clear glutinous jelly poured over mashed potato). You also can get bags of strangely unpleasant shellfish no-one else wants to eat, like cockles and winkles. Then there is Bubble and Squeak, which is well-boiled cabbage and potato fried up. And tripe, which is cow’s stomach, usually served with onions.
In the Midlands they eat black pudding, a fried sausage made of blood, fat and a few herbs. The strange thing is that black pudding is usually breakfast food.
Then there is ‘balti’, a type of curry served by retaurants. The word balti beans ‘bucket’ in Indian. It comes from the saying that you could throw anything in a bucket, add curry sauce and the English would eat it.
In Scotland I believe you can still get deep-fried Mars bars, but there was a health crusade against them a couple of years ago, mainly because you get nearly a whole day’s worth of calories in a single hit.
Finally, to round off our gastronomic tour, in Scotland they sell whisky mixed Lucozade, a sort of fizzy orange energy drink. A shame, after all the trouble they take making the whisky in the first place.
July 11th, 2006 at 8:15 am
Sorry, that should have read “whisky mixed with Lucozade”.
July 11th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
I am floored. Not only do I get a birthday kiss…..but a song as well. I have to say that, that was the 2nd best gift I got for my birthday. It gave me this cheesy smile at work all day long.
Here in central Illinois we not only have fried candy bars….but fried twinkies. I’ve never had them…..but I would imagine that ones arteries would harden being near such a thing. Fried corn batter around a tube of cow and pig cast-offs seem to be pretty popular as well. I think the newest thing at the fair this year is key lime pie put on a stick and dipped in chocolate. They had a story about it on the news. Slow news day I suppose.
The newspaper did tell us to expect the bird flu to hit central Illinois by September. 50% mortality rate you know. I better start stocking up on water and incidentals….or I could just wait it out. I’m lazy…I’ll wait.
July 11th, 2006 at 6:17 pm
But hey, I bet the fried bird flu is delicious.
July 11th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
You probably shouldn’t be singing the Happy Birthday song on a podcast, since the music is owned by AOL, and they could come after you:
http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp