98. That's Content, Baby!

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Lords:
* Hallie
* https://twitter.com/hallie_9000
* Christine
* http://thechrischerry.com
* https://twitter.com/chriscereza
Topics:
* Where are my glasses?
* Nighttime is the time of abstract possibility and imagination because the world is gone.
* This huge tub of homemade toum
* Turn Down For What
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU
* Unedited (syncable) commentary: https://youtu.be/Q9oXE3ibmmM
* Modern TV re-discovering the episodic format
Microtopics:
* Mining the pre-show banter for a clip.
* Dreaming of producing content every second of your life.
* Getting hooked up to the content matrix and spewing content out of every orifice.
* Burnt Notice.
* Watercresstine.
* Looking upon Burn Notice as your weird uncle who lives in your basement.
* A podcast about discussing episodes of a podcast discussing episodes of Burn Notice.
* Recording a song in the style of We Are The World except instead of the proceeds going to help children in Africa you keep the money.
* Recording a song in the style of We Are The World except instead of the proceeds going to help children in Africa, it goes to getting Doctor Who back on the air.
* We Are The Timelords.
* Doctor In Distress.
* Needing to stop making a podcast before your listeners can beg you to come back.
* How locals pronounce "Los Angeles."
* Not knowing how to look for your glasses in an apartment because your normally live in a farmhouse.
* How nobody in LA owns more than one chair.
* Whether Hallie's glasses were in the fridge.
* Posting photos of your apartment to the internet so people can help you find your glasses.
* Whether Winston answers the phone at a Korean BBQ restaurant in LA.
* Being awake during the day: terrible.
* The most concrete time of day.
* Going to preschool and answering phones for a Korean barbecue restaurant until daddy picks you up at 4.
* Loving 2am but being in bed by 9:30pm.
* Like a tree but shorter, louder with stickier hands.
* No responsibility except what you make for yourself.
* An emulsion like mayonnaise except instead of tasting like mayonnaise it tastes like garlic.
* Vampires hating garlic because they don't like the taste.
* Whether you can have the vampire gene but not be a vampire.
* Vampirism as a collection of traits that often manifest together, and you're only diagnosed with vampirism if these traits interfere with your ability to do your job.
* How many marshmallows go in fudge.
* Converting from marshmallows when the recipe calls for mini marshmallows.
* Using marshmallows as bait to catch God when everyone knows God hates marshmallows.
* Videos that love to start with a black screen that goes on a little too long when you're watching at one quarter speed.
* A man in a blue hoodie jiggling as something is taking him over.
* Shattering furniture with the power of your raw sexuality.
* The Scully stand-in who is extremely skeptical about how horny this guy is.
* St. Vitus' Dry Hump.
* Could I be a fish doing push-ups?
* Whether there is a Hitmonchan in this bra, and whether it's evolving, and whether we should push B.
* The relief of consuming media and not feeling the need to form any reaction whatsoever.
* Spiking the punch with LSD.
* A cop whose face melts because he doesn't know what you'd turn down for.
* Contracting a bad case of Original Sin and being very angry about it.
* A straight man who stole Elton John's sunglasses.
* Whether DJ Snake looks like a douchebag or just looks French.
* Characters who grow hornier and hornier as over the course of eight seasons.
* The 1943 Watchmen TV series.
* The Veronica Mars model of serialization.
* Whether the Columbo renaissance implies a Murder She Wrote renaissance.
* Whether that's content, baby.
* A character in a romantic comedy who makes web sites for everyone but who can't make a web site for herself.

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Lords:

Hallie

https://twitter.com/hallie_9000

Christine

http://thechrischerry.com
https://twitter.com/chriscereza

Topics:

Where are my glasses?
Nighttime is the time of abstract possibility and imagination because the world is gone.
This huge tub of homemade toum
Turn Down For What

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU
Unedited (syncable) commentary: https://youtu.be/Q9oXE3ibmmM

Modern TV re-discovering the episodic format

Microtopics:

Mining the pre-show banter for a clip.
Dreaming of producing content every second of your life.
Getting hooked up to the content matrix and spewing content out of every orifice.
Burnt Notice.
Watercresstine.
Looking upon Burn Notice as your weird uncle who lives in your basement.
A podcast about discussing episodes of a podcast discussing episodes of Burn Notice.
Recording a song in the style of We Are The World except instead of the proceeds going to help children in Africa you keep the money.
Recording a song in the style of We Are The World except instead of the proceeds going to help children in Africa, it goes to getting Doctor Who back on the air.
We Are The Timelords.
Doctor In Distress.
Needing to stop making a podcast before your listeners can beg you to come back.
How locals pronounce "Los Angeles."
Not knowing how to look for your glasses in an apartment because your normally live in a farmhouse.
How nobody in LA owns more than one chair.
Whether Hallie's glasses were in the fridge.
Posting photos of your apartment to the internet so people can help you find your glasses.
Whether Winston answers the phone at a Korean BBQ restaurant in LA.
Being awake during the day: terrible.
The most concrete time of day.
Going to preschool and answering phones for a Korean barbecue restaurant until daddy picks you up at 4.
Loving 2am but being in bed by 9:30pm.
Like a tree but shorter, louder with stickier hands.
No responsibility except what you make for yourself.
An emulsion like mayonnaise except instead of tasting like mayonnaise it tastes like garlic.
Vampires hating garlic because they don't like the taste.
Whether you can have the vampire gene but not be a vampire.
Vampirism as a collection of traits that often manifest together, and you're only diagnosed with vampirism if these traits interfere with your ability to do your job.
How many marshmallows go in fudge.
Converting from marshmallows when the recipe calls for mini marshmallows.
Using marshmallows as bait to catch God when everyone knows God hates marshmallows.
Videos that love to start with a black screen that goes on a little too long when you're watching at one quarter speed.
A man in a blue hoodie jiggling as something is taking him over.
Shattering furniture with the power of your raw sexuality.
The Scully stand-in who is extremely skeptical about how horny this guy is.
St. Vitus' Dry Hump.
Could I be a fish doing push-ups?
Whether there is a Hitmonchan in this bra, and whether it's evolving, and whether we should push B.
The relief of consuming media and not feeling the need to form any reaction whatsoever.
Spiking the punch with LSD.
A cop whose face melts because he doesn't know what you'd turn down for.
Contracting a bad case of Original Sin and being very angry about it.
A straight man who stole Elton John's sunglasses.
Whether DJ Snake looks like a douchebag or just looks French.
Characters who grow hornier and hornier as over the course of eight seasons.
The 1943 Watchmen TV series.
The Veronica Mars model of serialization.
Whether the Columbo renaissance implies a Murder She Wrote renaissance.
Whether that's content, baby.
A character in a romantic comedy who makes web sites for everyone but who can't make a web site for herself.

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