pimp post #12: cort & fatboy, lords of mediocrity.
You know what I listen to five days a week? Music, the hum of my computer and on bad weeks, my mother's voice.
But also Cort & Fatboy (wiki: here), two radio douchebags from Portland, Oregon, and their brilliant podcast (which they in self-deprecating fashion refuse to call anything beyond mediocre).
So download from their website or from iTunes here. If you like funny, geeky things, you'll like them. And once you get into them, they are a tough habit to kick. They have daily segments of snarking the news, snarking music news and then random discussions and rants about movies, TV, comics, low intellect of idiots, what the sausage of the plant world is, gay innuendo, battles of titans etc. Cool Portlandian guests grace the show with their presence, especially on Fridays.
Every now and then somebody calls in asking to blow Cort or to spew conservative bs, Fatboy ends up pronouncing an English word like a Chinese dish (wanton, wonton, same diff), fights break out over umlauts, Gremlins & Snoop Dogg, somebody famous gets interviewed (from Bruce Campbell to Kevin Smith to Henry Rollins to Chuck Palahniuk) and discussions about sex on bikes, whether Obama is Ackbar or Lando, zombies, candy commercials as mass hallucinations.. I could go on forever. Just listen, you fools. Sometimes even the podcast descriptions can provide entertainment: Cort and Fats discover a secret subculture: Gun Enthusiasts who murder phonebooks. Byron Beck maligns Fatty's upbringing and lures him into a Spelling Contest. Someone stupid had a baby. Fatboy plays the Bass! Matt Damon! Matt Damon! MATT DAMON!
I recommend April 15th of last year, April 3rd of last year, September 9th of last year, The Live Army of Darkness Show (November 7th, 2008) or the Live Ghostbusters Show (October 3rd, 2008). If you want something more recent, check out Wednesday May 28th, 2009. You don't even have to download! You can stream it on the site in a little pop up window thingy. Though it's better if you pop it into your mp3 player and listen on your way to work/school/store/while folding laundry.
I've pimped them before and trust me, I'll keep pimping. So just give 'em a chance. (And if you already did and didn't dig it at all, let me know as well. I welcome opposing opinions.)
But also Cort & Fatboy (wiki: here), two radio douchebags from Portland, Oregon, and their brilliant podcast (which they in self-deprecating fashion refuse to call anything beyond mediocre).
So download from their website or from iTunes here. If you like funny, geeky things, you'll like them. And once you get into them, they are a tough habit to kick. They have daily segments of snarking the news, snarking music news and then random discussions and rants about movies, TV, comics, low intellect of idiots, what the sausage of the plant world is, gay innuendo, battles of titans etc. Cool Portlandian guests grace the show with their presence, especially on Fridays.
Every now and then somebody calls in asking to blow Cort or to spew conservative bs, Fatboy ends up pronouncing an English word like a Chinese dish (wanton, wonton, same diff), fights break out over umlauts, Gremlins & Snoop Dogg, somebody famous gets interviewed (from Bruce Campbell to Kevin Smith to Henry Rollins to Chuck Palahniuk) and discussions about sex on bikes, whether Obama is Ackbar or Lando, zombies, candy commercials as mass hallucinations.. I could go on forever. Just listen, you fools. Sometimes even the podcast descriptions can provide entertainment: Cort and Fats discover a secret subculture: Gun Enthusiasts who murder phonebooks. Byron Beck maligns Fatty's upbringing and lures him into a Spelling Contest. Someone stupid had a baby. Fatboy plays the Bass! Matt Damon! Matt Damon! MATT DAMON!
I recommend April 15th of last year, April 3rd of last year, September 9th of last year, The Live Army of Darkness Show (November 7th, 2008) or the Live Ghostbusters Show (October 3rd, 2008). If you want something more recent, check out Wednesday May 28th, 2009. You don't even have to download! You can stream it on the site in a little pop up window thingy. Though it's better if you pop it into your mp3 player and listen on your way to work/school/store/while folding laundry.
I've pimped them before and trust me, I'll keep pimping. So just give 'em a chance. (And if you already did and didn't dig it at all, let me know as well. I welcome opposing opinions.)