Episode 525: The Pollution of Modernity
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🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: fake southern accents lead to some movie talk; Merlin apologizes; Dan does not want to spend a night in The Box; please utilize the restroom that conforms to the color of your gender; a guardsman pitches Merlin's wife; Merlin goes off on a surprisingly long tangent on kung fu movies--especially the work of The Great Gordon Liu; Dan needs a syllabus to get Cash even more into Godzilla movies; there are some words on DC movies; your hosts begin a dive into the Kindle ecosystem that turns into a dive into ""The Kindle Ecosystem""; Friend-of-the-Show, Moisés, provides some beneficial real-time follow-up regarding the king of monsters; Merlin needs some movie backstory but also wants wants to make it extremely clear that he is very attracted to an English actress.
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- Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover.
- We Have All Hit a Wall - The New York Times
- The 36th Chamber of Shaolin - Wikipedia
- Gordon Liu - Wikipedia
- Dirty Ho (1979) - The Prince's Bodyguard - YouTube
- Dirty Ho (1979) - Wine Tasting - YouTube
- Amazon.com: Kindle Paperwhite – Now Waterproof with 2x the Storage – Ad-Supported
- Ex-Men: Gambit - YouTube
- Shin Godzilla - Wikipedia
- The Libby App by OverDrive: Free ebooks & audiobooks from the library
- calibre - E-book management
- Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks
- Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
- Amazon.com: Kindle Unlimited: Kindle Store
- Letterboxd: "Some Kung Fu Movies for Dan"
Merlin does some quick curation.
- Mr Show - Senator Tankerbell (season 1) - YouTube
- Terrigen Mist | Marvel Database | Fandom
Terrigen Mist is a mutagenic, or mutation-causing, substance arising as a vapor from the Terrigen Crystals, which are able to alter Inhuman biology.
- Rogue (Anna Marie) (Earth-616) | Marvel Database | Fandom
Rogue was not able to control her absorption power at first
- Rebecca Hall - IMDb
"Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover."
(The awesome website Merlin couldn't remember)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh, hello, Marilyn. How are you doing today? |
| 0:04.5 | I'm doing very well, Dan. How are you? |
| 0:07.0 | Wow. |
| 0:08.5 | Here we go. |
| 0:10.1 | I never know quite which personas we're going to inhabit. |
| 0:16.4 | That sort of thing. |
| 0:17.6 | The foghorn, lechorn, lawyer person. |
| 0:19.6 | This foghorn lechorn meets a Bob Bowden-Curk character known as Senator Howe Tanker |
| 0:27.2 | Bill. And this is a very deliberative, so- |
| 0:32.6 | Senator from the very close to the guy that ran the Cool Hand Luke chain gang. |
| 0:42.6 | Oh, you got to do that. You're going to do a Strudler Martin. You got to do a higher voice |
| 0:46.3 | for that. |
| 0:47.3 | Is that was he putting on heirs for that or is that his real voice? |
| 0:51.1 | Pretty fancy. |
| 0:52.1 | I mean, off the dome, all I know is he's one famous line. I haven't practiced. I haven't |
| 0:57.8 | even warmed up very early. |
| 1:00.2 | What we have here is a failure to commune. |
| 1:03.5 | That sounds like a lot of my other impressions, doesn't it? |
| 1:06.3 | Which we've got here is- |
| 1:07.3 | Sounds like he is. |
| 1:08.3 | John's here accused of- |
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