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avsc – the 5 best phrases to say hear or read

phil — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:14:43 +0000

I fill Jake in on the week’s news and then proceed to explain to him the 5 best phrases to say, hear or read. I’m not sure how valid the list is, because I forgot to make Jake sign off on the list after it was announced. Careful listeners will hear clues about where I hid a pot of gold.

avsc – the 5 most important places to go before you die

jake — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:44:38 +0000

In this week’s episode, Phil & I talk about Vladimir Putin, Derek Boogaard, Tim Tebow, Amy Winehouse, wireless mobiles and Meredith Kercher. I then list for him the 5 Most Important Places to Go Before You Die.

If you want to know how to get into Thug Mansion, you have to listen to this podcast.

avsc – the 5 most important milestones in life

phil — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:15:33 +0000

In this episode I get Jake up to date on the news and then we proceed to figure out the 5 most important milestones in life. This is a must-listen episode with a surprise twist ending.

avsc – the 5 best commercial spokes-animals

jake — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:49:29 +0000

In this episode Phil & I discuss current affairs such as the recent spate of hand injuries amongst such athletes as Miguel Cotto and Ryan Braun, as well as the break-up of the Black Eyed Peas.

We also discuss my list of the 5 Best Commercial Spokes-Animals, with side-topics that include our endorsement of jokes about this year’s tsunami in Japan (and 9/11), Ton Loc’s “Funky Cold Medina“, Prohibition and much more.

By the way, all of the music in our podcast is by Victor Kenyon / Wiener Strauss.

avsc – the worst things that can happen to you while shaving

phil — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:25:15 +0000

In this episode Jake and I discuss the recent news about the Breaking Dawn premiere, Matt Kemp’s death in an avalanche, how English people call dog leashes “leads”, this scene from Selena and the Jennifer Lopez upcoming sequel to Selena, Selena 2011. We also discuss Extranormal on TV Azteca.

The list for today is of the worst things that can happen to you while shaving, a question that was first asked here.

avsc – movies with food names

jake — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:33:39 +0000

In this episode of A Very Serious Conversation, Phil and Jake discuss Robert Pattinson, Tiger Woods, Sylvio Berlusconi, and Jake’s list of the Top 5 Movies With Food Names (in the order of his preference for the food they’re named after). Other topics that come up during the conversation include TGI Friday’s, Mad Magazine, the theme of “slobs vs. snobs” and much more.

avsc – fictional drugs

phil — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 01:10:38 +0000

Jake and Phil announce the start of the new season of A Very Serious Conversation, discuss Ndamukong Suh, Conjoined Twins, Pixar, Roger Federer & Kim Kardashian. They then discuss the top 5 fictional drugs (Skurb 78, nuke, soma, love potion #9, stimpak & black lotus).

Phil gets about 100 things wrong, for example he says they use peyote in Brave New World when in reality they take mushrooms.

Armageddon

phil — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:14:49 +0000

I saw this last week thanks to my wife’s pregnancy and my ongoing war on Netflix. This is maybe the most 90′s action movie ever made.

It’s big and dumb in the way only Michael Bay can do it. But just like with the Island, at the core of it is a good idea this time about regular blue-collar types saving the world by drilling a hole in a meteorite. The biggest problem with that is that the regular guys are played by Owen Wilson, Steve Buscemi, Ben Affleck, Michael Clarke Duncan and Bruce Willis. If they’d undercasted it with lesser known people like the Coen brothers did with Ladykillers it might have worked but you don’t hire Michael Bay and then undercast something.

Of course Keith David as the top general is a standout but I thought Will Patton was great also and reminded me of George Kennedy from Flight of the Phoenix. Liv Tyler had nothing to do in the movie except wear sundresses and make the Liv Tyler face at Billy Bob Thornton. I have to put this below the Rock and Bad Boys, on par with the Island and ahead of Bad Boys 2.

I hope I can finish the whole Michael Bay oeuvre before my baby is born so I can then conceal their existence from him.

Strawberry Malted Milkshakes

phil — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:20:59 +0000

Strawberry malted milkshakes are the greatest. I’d never had one my whole life until a few weeks ago when I shared one with my wife. All I want now is to get another one. Why doesn’t anyone talk about these? All of you who have had one of these before, why didn’t you tell me to get one years ago?