Talking Futurama - A Clockwork Origin
Added 2025-02-10 05:00:08 +0000 UTCFuturama dives into more late '00s topics this month with an episode wholly devoted to the anti-evolution craze that swept the nation during the George W. Bush era. When Farnsworth chooses to leave the planet instead of dealing with creationists, he unwittingly finds himself the intelligent designer of robot-life—which challenges his cold, logical science brain. Who will win this battle of science vs. religion? Boil up the tastiest baseball glove you can find and listen in to hear the compelling resolution!
Comments
I realized while listening to this on some good earbuds that Henry is panned slightly to the right and Bob is slightly to the left. Thank you for giving me the audiophile experience of being across the table from you guys.
Monstromax
2025-03-21 16:32:17 +0000 UTCI have lived in Tennessee my whole life, and I'll never forget my biology teacher sophomore year of high school. She sat in front of us with tears in her eyes, letting us all know that she was required to teach us about evolution, but that she was a Christian and did not believe in it. This was the same woman who also gave honors high school students coloring sheets of cells as homework. A quality education for sure.
John Leaver
2025-02-23 16:03:31 +0000 UTCI think a lot of elder Millennials made it out the other end okay because at one point in history the internet was only on the computer, and we couldn't always be on the computer. - Bob
Talking Simpsons
2025-02-12 19:52:54 +0000 UTCThe Manfred Mann song surprisingly not mentioned in the episode or comments section is their cover of Blinded by the Light. Definitely in the realm of Hendrix’s All Along the Watchtower where the cover is likely more famous than the original.
Tyler M.
2025-02-12 02:13:03 +0000 UTCI'm gonna regret posting this, but if we're talking about "sexy cavemen/women" from the mid-90's, surely Halle Berry in the Flintstones movie qualifies, right? 😄
To Boldy Joe... Moore - Custodian of the Frank Sinatra Utility Closet - he,him
2025-02-12 01:20:11 +0000 UTCComing soon... Talking Smeg? (maybe not) 😁
To Boldy Joe... Moore - Custodian of the Frank Sinatra Utility Closet - he,him
2025-02-12 00:46:15 +0000 UTCRecall this being the ep I checked out of the Comedy Central years. It was obvious and predictable in a way futurama rarely was
Nexuscrawler
2025-02-11 22:40:36 +0000 UTCOh, smeg yeah, PLEASE do a Red Dwarf podcast, either as a special series or What A Cartoon. There are, of course, plenty of Red Dwarf podcasts out there, but as far as I can tell they are all UK and have abysmal sound quality. While the initial six or seven Series may be showing their age a bit, it would be a great show to finally be analyzed from an American perspective. And to get the thorough Talking Simpsons treatment!
Timothy Burleson
2025-02-11 21:09:25 +0000 UTCI think it must be a modern right of passage for nerdy men to get briefly sucked down the rabbit hole of weird esoteric online bigot movements. I know I was inundated with Gamergate shit in high school, and totally bought the “ethics in games journalism” propaganda. Watched a ton of Anti-SJW content when that was all the rage, too. Really, it was the fact that I’m black that snapped me out of how hateful and wrong that whole side of the Internet was. That and, you know… meeting tons of cool women and LGBT people in art college. I was glad to hear your stories of breaking free of the lameness before it corrupted your hearts like it does so many young men these days.
Tashmon Dimps
2025-02-11 06:12:44 +0000 UTCAll love, Bob
Dang
2025-02-11 02:31:34 +0000 UTCGot their asses
Bob Mackey
2025-02-11 02:30:38 +0000 UTCIn Encino Man they do dig up a cave woman who thaws out by the end of the movie. It is implied that she is Link’s girlfriend.
Seth
2025-02-10 19:48:52 +0000 UTCPineapple on pizza is something I enjoy, but I don't mind the digs here. Hermes, especially, is just so committed to his hatred of it that his matter of fact delivery of "poisoned with pineapple" does make me laugh.
Joe Hodgson
2025-02-10 19:18:16 +0000 UTCManfred Mann also had a big hit with a cover of Bob Dylan's "Mighty Quinn". Good song.
Aaron11001
2025-02-10 19:00:11 +0000 UTCYour brief discussion of Creationist "Museums" is very interesting to me, given that I lived five minutes from one for a few years when I was in elementary school. It was an extremely small building located on a back road in rural Oklahoma. My parents and I still went to church occasionally during those years. Still, whenever we passed it, and I saw the dinosaur drawings, my parents came up with an excuse for us not to go. I looked it up a few years later and saw it had a few token fossils, but mostly consisted of displays trying to demonstrate how Noah's flood was the reason dinosaurs died, and their bones were scattered around the earth. It has a page on our state's official travel website, but besides that, I see no reason anybody who isn't a dedicated creationist would even visit it.
Danny Duplex
2025-02-10 16:38:04 +0000 UTCmuch like Bob I had everyone tell me that Scott Pilgrim was right up my alley as a pillar to gamer/nerd culture and that I had to check it out. I took one look at the movie poster with the tagline "an epic of epic epicness" and did the biggest "NOPE!" I like Edgar Wright well enough but seeing his quotes such as calling the video game music he acquired the rights to as "nursery rhymes of a generation" just gave me secondhand embarrassment. Would eventually watch it on DVD and found it perfectly fine if not a bit insufferable.
Blake R.
2025-02-10 16:33:47 +0000 UTCTalking Futurama Drinking Game: Drink when... 1) Henry references his mother positively 2) Henry references his father negatively 3) “Bird Violence” mentioned 4) “End of history” mentioned 5) “My wife, Nina Matsumoto” - Bob 6) Someone went to Harvard - finish your drink if they worked on the Lampoon 7) Henry over explains a joke - finish your drink if “x = his penis” is the explanation 8) Bob comments on great foley / sfx 9) Henry is queasy about barfing or retching sounds 10) the guys dissect a Cohen-style word play joke
Dang
2025-02-10 13:21:14 +0000 UTCSylvester Stallone is trump worker now
Cossover
2025-02-10 13:08:28 +0000 UTC
