Mini-Water Cooler: Cunk on Earth, South Park, Freaks and Geeks, Trash Theory, and More
/Film Weekly
SlashFilm.com
4.4 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On the February 17, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by editor BJ Colangelo to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been up to.
Opening Banter:
At The Water Cooler:
- What we’ve been Doing:
- BJ has been screaming into the void but also falling down YouTube rabbit hole of “Trash Theory” video essays on music and searching for the last Vine compilation I’ve yet to see.
- What we’ve been Reading:
- BJ read: NOT THE NEW YORK TIMES. Half-kidding. But I also read Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Humans: Learning from Participatory Responses to the Representation of Native Americans in Twilight by Joanna L. Siegel
- What we’ve been Watching:
- Ben watched Cunk on Earth, James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket, Topper, and High Flying Bird.
- BJ watched: Hacks, New South Park, Freaks and Geeks.
What we’ve been Eating:
- BJ is being a human trash compactor and eating way too much Jack in the Box but tries to balance it off with Chop Stop’s overpriced salads because I haven’t been grocery shopping in a month.
- What we’ve been Playing:
- BJ has been playing Powerwash Simulator.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for Friday, February 17th, |
| 0:03.5 | 2023. On today's episode of the show, we are going to gather around the |
| 0:06.9 | virtual water cooler and talk about what we've been up to. My name is Ben Pearson. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm an editor at slash film.com and I'm joined on today's episode by |
| 0:13.3 | slash film editor Bijay Colangelo. Hi hi hi yeah. All right |
| 0:17.4 | B.J what have you been doing recently? Oh you know screaming into the void. |
| 0:21.2 | I mean that's my main hobby right now outside of work, but in all |
| 0:28.2 | seriousness I have been falling down a YouTube rabbit hole lately. I |
| 0:32.2 | discovered a channel called Trash Theory and they do a lot of video essays on music |
| 0:37.6 | Specifically a lot of British music and it is some fascinating stuff. So what kind of stuff are they diving into? |
| 0:44.4 | Are they talking about like the history of bands or what are we working with here? |
| 0:48.0 | So the thing that I find most interesting, like they have a couple of different like |
| 0:52.3 | areas of expertise but the one that I am the most interested in is what |
| 0:55.8 | he's been calling the new British canon and the idea is that like we have |
| 1:00.7 | analyzed the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and bands like that just to death at this point. |
| 1:06.7 | Like no one needs another video essay on why the Beatles are influential. Like we got it, we know. |
| 1:12.2 | So what he's been doing is he's been doing these |
| 1:14.7 | videos about other British artists that have been really influential. Like he |
| 1:19.8 | did one on Kate Bush and then did another video on Kate Bush after Stranger Things kind of exploded. |
| 1:25.4 | And it's just been really fascinating to look at the different ways that British artists have continued |
| 1:29.9 | to influence the global music sphere |
| 1:33.6 | in ways that we may not have ever realized |
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