Episode 23: Selfish Express
You Look Nice Today
You Look Nice Today
4.8 • 899 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2008
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It’s YLNT VSOP, Part I! We convened a special session in San Francisco, featuring guests John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton. Aided by Hodgman’s expertise and Coulton’s hatred of poetry, we finally got to the bottom of our most lingering questions:
- Why is Kevin Bacon famously uncomfortable around FAX machines?
- How does Adam save the world by not wearing shoes?
- What are the slam poet’s secret romantic techniques?
- Why are short films so long? And also: vice versa?
- Why do alfalfa farmers know so much about the Renaissance?
- What food is best eaten deep-fried?
…and many more. Hodgman’s new book is More Information Than You Require. The YLNT Writers’ Retreat recently purchased 22 copies, one for each bathroom on the estate. The inmates—sorry, the “writers in residence”—seem to be enjoying it very much.
UPDATE: If you enjoyed this episode, you might like to learn more about how we made it. Check out the production journal.
Photo by Ryan Carver (detail). Check out his other great photos from that day here.
Special Guests: John Hodgman and Jonathan Coulton.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, I just, you know, I remember I called you guys and I was just like, |
| 0:03.3 | maybe I should come on your show and it seems like a pretty natural, |
| 0:06.7 | it was born out of enthusiasm. |
| 0:07.9 | Oh, we're so excited about this. |
| 0:09.3 | No, no, there's never been a good time to see. |
| 0:11.4 | And then I later, I thought that was kind of they really |
| 0:13.2 | do that stuff. Maybe I should come to your house and poop on your couch. Well if we can |
| 0:16.8 | record it sure. Right. What kind of catch do you? It's it's it's very comfortable. |
| 0:21.3 | It's it's got it's accessible. No no no. It's it's it's very comfortable. It's it's got it's accessible. No, no, no. It's low. Is it a leather couch? It's a leatherat. It's |
| 0:26.8 | No, no, no. It's got no pop. You look nice today, a journal of emotional hygiene and now I think we should we'll say |
| 0:46.4 | fly solo for once it's better to go without the the parishion I mean we're all five people |
| 0:51.2 | who I think really rely on the internet quite a bit to appear intelligent |
| 0:55.7 | in the world. |
| 0:56.7 | Now that we are transported in time back to the 70s here in the Swan Station station. You know what I feel like I feel like |
| 1:04.7 | spiritually we're in we're in a conversation pit we should yes exactly and there's a |
| 1:08.9 | rocket shaped fireplace I wish we were in a conversation pit. That would be very nice. |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah. Feel cozy and then we'd swap wives. |
| 1:17.2 | Maybe just the first stop on a progressive dinner evening, you know? |
| 1:20.8 | That's right. |
| 1:21.8 | Let's just just to describe to the listener where we are. We are in a |
| 1:24.8 | multi-textured room that was built in 1972 by the Dead counties. There's a beautifully |
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