Ep 8: The 27 Deadly Sins
Dave Albritton comes onboard to throw down the podcast rivalry gauntlet. We enter the world of Catfishing, numerology, the 27 club, Gilligan's Island, and Lindsey Lohan's secret twin sister. If you've been hoping we would take the show down a notch, this is your episode!
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- Hippie nonsense
- The liminal space between the voice of reason and the voice of chaos
- Dave “The Gray Area” Albritton
- Neuroscience
- The Topic Du Jour
- Ryan's Hulk moment, and the subsequently ripped shirt
- Castaway
- How to start a fire with a tshirt
- Into the Wild
- The Lord of the Flies
- Gilligan’s Island
- Hunger Games meets Crocodile Dundee
- Flipper vs Jaws
- Macabre Google search suggestions
- Godzilla vs Monster Zero
- Team Edward vs Team Jacob
- Micah's resident expertise on Twilight
- Team Ginger vs Team Maryann
- Team Wilma vs Team Betty
- Team Wilma and Betty vs Team Ginger and Maryanne
- One is fiery and fun and adventurous
- One is more laid-back but also could be cool
- Your favorite Beatle
- The internet can be a dark place
- That's why there's Google for kids!
- What about the romantic tension of Gilligan’s Island?
- "Marriage: Being Romantically Involved by Definition"
- Asexual Predators
- Gilligan’s Island and the seven deadly sins
- Se7en, the movie
- The Upcoming Unnecessary Abstraction movie night
- Short stack
- Pacific Rim
- Movies with Davids
- A girl named David
- A book about a David
- The conspiracy behind movie titles with numbers
- Our great podcast rivalry with Ben Howard
- We, the American Industrialists
- pod‘Casting our pearls before swine
- The Glee Karaoke App
- Twinsies Russell Crowe and Britney Spears
- Twinsie Movies:
- Armageddon, Deep Impact
- Antz, A Bug’s Life
- No Strings Attached, Friends with Benefits
- Chasing Liberty, and Katie Holmes as First Daughter
- Vanilla Sky and Open Your Eyes
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Google Fu
- And then there are the Triplet and the Quadrupsies movies:
- Black Hawk Down, White House Down, Olympus Has Fallen, Zero Dark Thirty
- The Abyss, Grumpy Old Men, and some other movie at McDonalds for $5
- How Atlas Shrugged (aka “Cloud Atlas”) was basically just Love Actually
- How Atlas Shrugged was basically The Social Network, but with trains
- Lana Wachowski, babe
- Lindsey Lohan and her twin sister, Leslie Lohan
- Dante’s Peak, Twister
- Judging books by their covers: "The cover is a book’s aspiration"
- T Pain app
- Autotune Rap App
- Microsoft Songsmith
- Shownotes
- “Castration, it leaves a mark” - Dave Albritton misquote
- “Everything is a revolving door” - Dave Albritton
- and more Fortune Cookies from Dave!
- Rap-ertoire
- words like Somber, Sonorous, Loquacious, Solenoid
- Turning 28
- 28 is Micah’s year zero
- 27 Club
- 700 Club
- Poseurs and Pretenders
- Ryan’s younger and more vulnerable days
- Name-dropping
- The six degrees of Kid President:
- ...brother of
- Jeffrey Novak
- ...who appeared in the movie with
- Jay Reatard
- The Illuminati
- "The weird thing about the 27 club is that they didn’t make it to 28" - Dave Albritton
- What about the 28 club?
- Magical occult connotations of 9, 3, 27. Some authoritative sources: 1, 2
- 3^3 = 9 x 3 = 3x3x3
- 13 x 2 = 27 - 1
- And other math lessons like these!
- It takes about 7 years to become good at something
- Your 11 lifetimes
- Are all the cells in your body replaced every seven years?
- The 7 year itch
- Cloud Atlas and the idea of seven lives
- Petrified Wood
- the waters of life can carve you out, like a pebble in a stream
- Work cliches:
- Another day, another dollar
- It is what it is
- Another day in paradise
- Living the dream
- A case of the Mondays
- Hump Day!
- Manic Depression, by Jimi Hendrix
- The Phoenix
- "Live feverishly!"
- Livin la vida loca
- YODO, not YOLO
- A Wikipedia loop
- Occam’s Razor
- A hard break
- The ambition of this podcast: to loop back on ourselves, like monkeys randomly [generating the complete works of Shakespeare](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem), to recreate verbatim our [first episode](http://brickcaster.com/abstraction/1) - [A ferris wheel? More like a terrorist wheel!](http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/three-girls-hurt-in-ferris-wheel-terror-plunge/story-e6freuy9-1225850193114) - [Zeno’s Paradox](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes) - Source Code Ouroboros: a [Quine Relay](https://github.com/mame/quine-relay), a Quine, [Equine](http://www.equine.com/index.html), [Thomas Aquinas](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/), [Quinoa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa), a [Quine Relay](http://www.quora.com/Computer-Programming/How-does-Quine-Relay-work) - [Nihilism](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/quotes?item=qt0464761) doesn’t mean much anyway - [If Nihilism is true, then there is meaning in the world](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheAntiNihilist) - [Do people really believe their bumper stickers?](http://www.naturalnews.com/029998_bumper_stickers_environmental_protection.html) - Some mumbling - Why wear sports jerseys? I don’t really know, or know why this is being discussed on this podcast. - Bumper stickers and sports jerseys are [self-congratulatory phenomenon](http://flavorwire.com/179734/10-self-congratulatory-songs-to-strut-your-stuff-to) - "In case of rapture, this car will be empty"...but what about when it’s empty during normal times? That’s a bad rapture barometer. - [Follow the right Twitter account, get out of purgatory](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pope-offers-indulgences-to-twitter-followers.php) - A coming Twitter reformation, in which we publicly secede from following the pope, and follow ourselves - [Could you follow yourself on Twitter?](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110311062117AA3wqUI) - [Ben Howard’s tweets about online Christian Dating](https://twitter.com/BenHoward87/status/356832781462024192) (and [here](https://twitter.com/BenHoward87/status/356833006784233473) and [here](https://twitter.com/BenHoward87/status/356833128872026112) and [here](https://twitter.com/BenHoward87/status/356833291514552321)) - Bring us [the world's weirdest catfish scenario](https://twitter.com/micahtredding/status/356902671929708544) - [Catfishing](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Catfishing) + Phishing = Catphishing - [Consolidate my life into pieces, this is my last resort](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20jvV-BPNSk) - Opening up a can of spam - [Sushi made with spam](http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2008/04/tutorial-how-to-make-hawaiian-spam-musubi-sushi.html) - "Hawaii is a paradise of spam!" - Is spam composed of [vestigial organs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_vestigiality)? - This podcast is like a beef hot dog made with steak. No Fillers! - “You can make a bad decision, but not with a steak frank” - Dave Albritton - Lewd gestures with balloons are totally okay, though - An approved list of things to make lewd gestures with: - [Balloons](http://www.crnobelo.com/images/stories/2012/09/koj-e-za-letanje-so-balon-na-topol-vozduh-7.jpg) - [Stuffed animals](http://www.thingamababy.com/baby/2007/09/stuffedanimals.html) - […](http://cl.jroo.me/z3/7/B/2/d/a.aaa-Awesome-Weird-Hot-Air-Balloo.jpg) - The 27 Deadly Sins: - Heroine - Cocaine - PCP - ... - [Enter The Void](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1191111/) - If my life was a biography, Morgan Freeman would be my narrator - [Through the Wormhole](http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/through-the-wormhole/), a sister show of: - [Quantum Leap](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096684/), a sister show of: - [Gilligan’s Island](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057751/) - (and a sister of a sister is my friend) - [Nathan and David](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Samuel+12&version=NIV) in [“The Sword in the Sheep!”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_in_the_Stone) - Dave takes a phone call - We help Dave answer a simple text message