Episode 26: Nickelpuss
You Look Nice Today
You Look Nice Today
4.7 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2008
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
1930’s wandering troubadour Trinket Pills (? - 1939) scored a brief hit on the Wichita charts with his plaintive Ballad of Joey Nickelpuss:
Th’ evil alley boys taunted him,
But ole’ Young Joe made his way.
Terrible crash of bowlin’ pins
Th’ sound of a long long day.
Rags to riches to rags it went,
Th’ boy would rage and cuss.
“Mama ain’t mama for me no more,”
Spit poor little Joey Nickelpuss.
We’re bringing back ‘ole Young Joey Nickelpuss. A generation of children need a hero for these lean times.
Also: New directions in car horn technology, why does Adam’s car smell so good?, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”: A Synopsis, secular bands, paper swords, ad hoc ninjascapades, what’s on your wall.
Photo: Bowling
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| 0:00.0 | That's actually you know the plot of the diving bell and the butterfly right it was a guy had a stroke and he could only say two words bell and butterfly |
| 0:12.4 | So he told his story using just those two words. |
| 0:15.0 | So he came up with a Morse code-like system where he would just say |
| 0:18.0 | Butterfly Bell. |
| 0:20.0 | Bow, Bow, Bow, butterfly, bell. |
| 0:23.0 | It would get lectures, it would take four hours. You look nice today a journal of emotional hygiene. |
| 0:39.6 | Do you think that uh... I mean if you're Stephen I guess if you're Stephen Hawking that gets pretty old pretty quickly but you think you'd want the you'd |
| 0:46.6 | want to test out what the computerized voice sounds like when it's angry |
| 0:51.2 | or you know how it does when it comes to cursing, right? |
| 0:55.0 | Like, you'd want to know what the power is of the computer |
| 0:58.0 | that you're expressing yourself through. |
| 1:00.0 | Right, I mean, it would be a little bit like the horn on your car, |
| 1:02.0 | where like you kind of wish you had a second horn for when you really, really, really, really wanted to let it go. |
| 1:06.0 | So you could maybe have like the voice of like Robert Mitcham, like really, really loud. |
| 1:12.0 | And we'll just go, fuck, when you're really, really loud. |
| 1:12.6 | You know just go, fuck when you're really, really mad instead of that girly, |
| 1:15.9 | like computer voice. |
| 1:17.0 | Or you could speak to the tune of La Kucaracha if you really needed to. |
| 1:20.1 | I am so angry, I am so angry it is too bad I feel like the horn the horn is something that is so |
| 1:27.8 | base I mean it's nice that it's so basic it's clear where it comes from |
| 1:37.6 | but I feel like it's a it's too like you say Merlin it's too uniform. It's too generic a tool. It's like it's like only having a hammer in your toolbox yeah it's a one bit it's a one bit decision right you |
| 1:46.6 | you see there is either you're either like being a huge dick with the horn or you know you're |
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