Sun 10 Sep 2006
We’re back to the two-show format this week. In our first show, we give a half-hearted tribute to Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter, and then Zan presents his argument for why race-based teams in Survivor are good.
Plus:
* The Black Vulcan theme.
* The Bogle and Chandler mystery.
* Burlesque - the entertainment form no-one particularly wants to see.
September 10th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Hi Zan & Jana!
For what it’s worth, feedburner.com doesn’t have this show in your feed yet. Also, haven’t you recently moved “the futuristic Bob’s Yer Uncle! Studios at the heart of the highrise Zan and Jana Entertainment Complex in downtown Melbourne, Australia?” (from your rotating Welcome message?
By the way, Jana, It was I who mentioned the two-vaginaed woman who was rumored to have had sex with the diphallic man. Not only didn’t I get a mmmmmwah! I got forgotten! I’m crushed!
-V
September 10th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Jana quickly mentioned speculation that there was a ‘Buffy’ episode with a jarring lack of music. I’m a huge fan of ‘Buffy,’ so I can say with some confidence that you were probably thinking of the season five episode “The Body,” the episode in which Buffy’s mother is found dead. Series creator Joss Whedon explained that music comforts the audience, and he wanted this episode to be touching and horrifying at the same time.
I enjoyed today’s discussion, and I look forward to the next episode.
September 10th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
The RSS feed is good now, and I have the new show. I’m looking forward to listening!
-V
September 10th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
Hey Vibeeen,
1. Your first comment would have been only minutes after I posted the show, which is why it wouldn’t have been on the feed.
2. You’re quite right about the downtown Melbourne bit. We’ll have to retire that message.
3. I can’t remember exactly what you’re referring to re: double genitalia, but I guess we must have given Zebulon credit for something you’d said in last week’s show. If it’s any consolation, we do talk about you in one of this week’s shows.
September 12th, 2006 at 4:43 am
Apparently, Steve Irwin said that if he died on the job, he would want it taped. So they’d be doing a disservice to his memory by not airing it. And not as part of a Remembering Steve Irwin special, either. They should broadcast the special that he was filming on the stingrays any everything. They could advertise it as normal, as a big new Steve Irwin special. The only difference is the surprise ending. “Oh crikey! I got a spine in me! What a beaut! Looks like that’s it for me, folks!” And then that’s it, the end of the Steve Irwin special, and the ending we were always anticipating.
September 12th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
What happened to Bogle and Chandler - poisonous gas welling up out of a river and suffocating them - happened on a larger scale at Lake Nyos in the Cameroon in 1986.
A cloud of carbon dioxide welled up killed everyone and their animals in a 23 km (14 mile) radius from the lake. 1,700 people died:
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Nyos.html
The whole world is sitting on a similar time-bomb. Due to global warming, the arctic permafrost is melting, and that contains billions of tons of greenhouse gases:
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2006/2006-09-07-01.asp
But the really scary thing is that under the oceans, clathrates hold trillions of tons of greenhouse gas. If the oceans get warm enough and they aret released, we’ll have a runaway greenhouse effect:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_4254246
So, what will probably kill us in the end will be trapped wind!
Anyway, back to Bogle and Chandler. The question of who covered Bogle with his clothes and Chandler with cardboard is still unexplained.
September 13th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
I forgot to say that in fact there is a possible body-coverer. A greyhound trainer was exercising his dogs nearby on the morning that the bodies were discovered. Apparently he returned home agitated and upset, and although he denied involvement to police, his obituary, which was published in a Greyhound magazine during the 1970s, stated that he was the person who discovered the bodies and covered them.
According to his son he was a very morally upright person who would have been most distressed by the naked bodies. Why he denied his involvement at the time is unclear, and I guess it will never be known for certain, but it does fit with the other facts known about the case.