Jack Mangans Deadpan #247: Hello the Future

Guest: Nicole Dieker in/of/who is Hello, the Future!

Jack Mangans Deadpan #247: Hello the Future

The Palooza voting is tied! Send voicemail or recording to Jack on why we should watch one movie over the other. Your message could determine the tiebreaker!

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Lo Pan
DJ Bunny
DJ Bunny
DJ Bunny
ditto
Rhettro
Vanamonde (first of the week)

Nicole of Hello The Future (http://www.hello-the-future.net/)

Send in content: 480-788-JMDP(5637) or e-mail: sphericaljackmatgmaildotcom

Closing Music: The Really Awesome Johns (http://hello-the-future.bandcamp.com/)

292 thoughts on “Jack Mangans Deadpan #247: Hello the Future

  1. Normally, the Oatmeal just makes me annoyed or angry. This one, eh, I kind of agree with the point. But wanking on about flying bearded guys isn’t going to help change the mind of anyone who doesn’t already share this POV.

  2. Show Notes

    Jack Mangans Deadpan #247: Hello the Future

    The Palooza voting is tied! Send voicemail or recording to Jack on why we should watch one movie over the other

    Comments
    Lo Pan
    DJ Bunny
    DJ Bunny
    DJ Bunny
    ditto
    Rhettro
    Vanamonde (first of the week)

    Nichole of Hello The Future (http://www.hello-the-future.net/)

    Send in content: 480-788-JMDP(5637) or e-mail: sphericaljackmatgmaildotcom

    Closing Music: The Really Awesome Johns (http://hello-the-future.bandcamp.com/)

  3. This weeks episode fails the ‘ability to
    Listen with one earbud’. Jack is on the left Nicole on the right, i tend to listen to non music podcasts with the right earbud only I can’t hear Jack.

    I may or may not be weird.

    • I also listen to many podcasts with one ear because my co-workers often ask questions or I have to listen to the ever ringing phone. At home, they get played full blast šŸ™‚

    • Even on the odd occasion when I do listen with both ear buds in at the same time, I get a disorienting headache from podcasts that split the channels completely. I have been known to remix them in Audicity so that I can bear to listen. =)

  4. Jack,

    I’m perpetually a month behind nowadays. I probably won’t be participating in the buddies stuff again because of my time-lag issues.

    my mp3 player is dimensionally transcendental, it holds more podcasts than I can listen to.

  5. OMG, I’m gone a couple of hours and there are TWENTY new tweets in the WWC account. I’m lucky if I put something up once a week for WWC, let alone multiples in a day. Don’t people have anything better to do?

  6. Server is down at work and other client is caught up for 30 more minutes…. whatever will I do? If only I had my movie and my mic with me.

    • Well, since I find this a topical and relevant post… Ill reply to it.

      Its bullshit. And yeah, its an age old story and there’s nothing “surprising” here, but each time I see such and egregious smiting of human, individual, and personal right I want to just scream at whoever will listen. Then punch a wall. For fucks sake… “But its a travesty of the institution”. Lemme tell you whats a travesty – the HETEROSEXUAL divorce rate in ‘Merica for the first marriage is between 41% and 50%. Awful. SO how does that compare to the homosexual divorce OH WAIT WE DONT KNOW CAUSE IT DOESNT EXIST IN 90% OF THE STATES.

      Not even done, but I’ll stop.

  7. I have a (not really) dilemma.

    Should I give hubby his anniversary gift tomorrow when he comes home (sort of a welcome home I missed you/anniversary hift) or should I wait the week until our anniversary?

  8. Is it wrong that I so completely revolve around one person? Actually, I think the real question so, are you sick of hearing how much my hubby means to me?

    It is only our 16th anniversary after all. :wub:

  9. Bunny: I will never get sick of hearing about you and your hubby. It always makes my day a little brighter. :happy:

    Ed: Try planning for a road trip across the country starting on Saturday! We still have so much stuff to sort, pack, and deal with, and I’m only taking what I really need.

  10. CP: Yesterday’s Fresh Air w/ Bishop Leonard Blair about the LCWR bruhaha

    No offense to Ed and any other Catholics out there, but holy cow, what a inflexible and unrealistic view of planet earth.

    • Astounding article TEB. Thanks. I belonged to a club in college that had a kind of divide like this going. On the outside it seemed to be a haven for any and all types of geeks. However, once you were brought into the fold, there was a lot of factions and in-fighting between gamers vs. comics vs. literature etc. I really appreciate the perspective that we (geeks) should be as accepting a group as humanly possible.

  11. Crap joke printed on the stick of the Popsicle I just had –
    Q – “What did the buck call his wife?”
    A – “deer”

    Perhaps they should have Vanamonde write for them.

  12. Major packing, and the trial run of packing the trunk, have been completed. There’s more space left over than I thought there would be, which is a wonderful surprise. I still have more papers to sort and deal with tomorrow, but I look forward to it, because I’ve been ignoring some of them for a very, very long time.

    Also: Olympic opening ceremonies tomorrow night! Local radio said to tune in at 7:30 PM Pacific time.

    Night, Pan.

  13. BTW, just saw Jeff Loomis crush it – along with the world’s biggest Jeff Loomis fan.

    Pretty awesome. Jesus, that guy can play. Jesus, my ears are ringing.

    Goodnight :Miles of Machines:

  14. And it is here. California beckons and we head out today. I’ll have access to email if y’all need to reach me for something. Otherwise I’ll be running pretty silent for the next couple of weeks.

  15. Amy’s posts about packing her suitcase have reminded me of a game we used to play on looong car trips when we were kids. Each person would (in turn) say “I packed my Grandmother’s trunk and in it I put …”
    Then you would add an item starting with the first letter of the alphabet and the next person would get the letter “B”, the next the letter “C” and so on.
    The catch was, before you could add your item you had to repeat every item that had been added before you … in the original order!

    I’ll bet we drove our parents crazy with that game.

  16. So here is a new thing the kids are doing these days.

    /e-mail I received/
    Hey TMBG, Jonathan Coulton, OK Go, and MC Frontalot are all part of this “pay what you dare” Humble Bundle for charity thing–it’s VERY cool. Get it today and hear some new music!
    http://www.humblebundle.com/
    /e-mail I received/

    I’m probably late to this party (just now read about humble bundle) but you get to pay what you want and for that amount you get all these artist AND you can indicate how much of that money you paid gets divided between the artist and charity.

    Interesting concept.

  17. Ok, you know they are fishing when they start telling you the designers of the clothing each nation is wearing. I was really hoping Canadian commentators was above that

  18. Not a spoiler but I’m hoping someone can answer a question. The parade of nations. At the front of each country ther is the flag bears, the Mersin with the name of the country and someone holding a copper…what? Seriously, what is that thing. Looks sort of like a cornucopia? Maybe it’s to represent flowers? The torch? Really, what the hell is that? It’s bugging me and the commentators haven’t said a thing about it.

  19. Re: Bunny’s earlier comment on how the Canadian TV commentators talked about fashion designers:

    The US TV commentators only mentioned that once – they said that the outfits for Team USA were designed by Ralph Lauren. (Hardly necessary – the logos on the shirts were gigantic.) The most notable thing about our commentary on the Olympic opening ceremony, in my opinion, was that our commentators said several times that the Parade of Nations was going so fast that they were having to edit through their notes. They said they’d never seen one of those go by that quickly in all the years they’d been commenting on the Olympics. I thought it was great that it went so fast, so we could get to the cauldron-lighting part sooner. (That’s got to be one of the coolest cauldron designs ever, by the way.)

  20. Nice nod to Pink Floyd in the Olympic Ceremonies opening video.
    Surely I wasn’t the only one to catch it?

    Total LOOSE, that they didn’t have a Blue Police phone box sitting somewhere in all of that pageantry. They didn’t even have to make a big deal about it. Just have it in the corner of frame somewhere like they did for Pink Floyd.

    They can have Poppins but no Who?

    Bah.

  21. We just came back from seeing Batman. I, personally, thought it was the best of the three. That being said, I knew who the bad guy was right from the moment of their first scene. (see, no spoilers šŸ˜‰ )

  22. You know,mthey showed some scenes of men’s beach volleyball. In the spirit of equality and fairness, I think the men should be dressed along a similar vein of the women… Very little and very tight

  23. Cool, the tv cut to an emergency alert for tornado. Don’t see many of those around here. Come to think of it, I don’t think Calgary has ever had a tornado. They occasionally get them north of here but never south. Hmmm…

  24. Bunny and Van: I take off my geek hat to you both. I was absolutely floored by both of the Big Spoilers you were discussing above. Judging from what I read on TVTropes after seeing the movie, I might have figured out the Big Spoiler pertaining to the cop if I had been more familiar with the comics.

    CW: NBC coverage of the Olympics

  25. A nice Gibson vibe from this twitter user:

    remotevoices
    the sky above the monastery was the colour of an old testament tuned to a dead god.

    Off to get a MRI scan, later pan.

  26. Currently addicted to on-line Olympic coverage.

    Watched replay of women’s air pistol. Weight lifting, fencing, others.

    Getting to see the whole event instead of just a highlite shot of the winner = WIN!

  27. US wins its 2nd gold medal in women’s skeet shooting. NBC, of course, shows the medal ceremony. I must say, I like the instrumental recording of the US’s national anthem they’re using. šŸ™‚

  28. Also, I am very upset to learn that NBC censored (yes, I know it’s a strong word and they’ll deny it, but I’m using it) one of the best parts of the opening ceremonies last night – the tribute to the victims of the 2005 terror attack in London. NBC is absolutely wrong about what I, as an American, am interested in and not interested in.

    This is the very first time I’ve ever seriously wanted to start a petition. I was pleasantly unsurprised to see that someone beat me to it. Join me in signing here, if you care to.

    • I found it ironic that NBC’s commentator chastised the Olympic committee for NOT commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Munich Olympic massacre( I believe the words he used was “shame on them” … just minutes from NBC choosing NOT to show a commemoration of the London attacks.

      Hello pot, come in pot, this is kettle calling, do you hear me?

    • Crap joke for the day:

      BLISSFUL HARMONY
      DATING AGENCY

      Dear sir

      We regret that your application to join our match making service has been rejected.
      You failed Q. 23 “What do you like most in a woman”

      “My Bell End ” was not an acceptable answer.

    • This is what happens when you give them coffee during the day. They just don’t go to sleep at night. Try giving them decaf.

  29. Your crap joke for the day:

    BLISSFUL HARMONY
    DATING AGENCY

    Dear sir

    We regret that your application to join our match making service has been rejected.
    You failed Q. 23 “What do you like most in a woman”

    “My Bell End ” was not an acceptable answer.

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