SOS.156 - Odd Behavior

[Version3]

Starting out at Whataburger, Star Wars recast, pepper, fancy ketchup, Starbucks, clips, on the mics, ibuprofen, phones, odd work behavior, interviews, instructions, Jerry music, Garage Band, out

[thx_1227]

Heck yes, downloading now...

[Version3]

Bing, I'm not sure if this is how I'm going to handle direct downloads for you in the future... I think you may just have to visit the listen page for those, because I don't really want two copies of every show on the site.


Hope the quality works for everyone, with it being four hours and one of our listeners being some poor foreigner with limited bandwidth and shit audio editing capabilities (love you buddha!), I decided that maybe putting out slightly lower quality would help people out. I'm not willing to cut this show up just yet though.

[El Rustirino]

at 15:30...

My name is Graham.

[Version3]

What the heck happened at 15:30. Did someone make fun of your name?

[thx_1227]

In a roundabout way I guess. And I thought his name was Rusty...

[El Rustirino]

i dunno you guys were talkin' about uncle graham or something and i was like oh wait.

[Bucho]

Some of the stuff in the job interview segment had me literally bent over busting a gut, literally. I'd just had my lunch and started work again and my belly was full of pie and soup and toasted sandwiches and then ten minutes in it gets to the bit where the guy brings in the sack and says, "We caught one."

The picture it put in my head of this poor fucker who'd been going through the ringer with this interview and then a dude busts in with a sackful of creature and announces it as if the other guys will know exactly what he's talking about. I actually couldn't stand up straight, I bent over with my hands on my knees and damn near had to drop a knee to the floor, and my stomach muscles were spasming against my full gut, I thought my spleen was about to bust open.

Then a little while later when the, "Hold this rope and don't let it go no matter what happens," scenario hits I was already on one knee getting ready to cut with a dropsaw I had set up on the ground outside and I had to steady myself from spasming with the laughter again to stop myself actually rolling on the ground laughing. If the client hadn't been home I might have just let myself go but in the interests of professionalism I just laughed out loud like a fucking loon.

I don't know yet if it's the funniest thing I ever heard on Switched On, I love the hawk on the game show scenario from one of the earliest shows so much too and there are two or three things in other shows I don't even need to hear, I just think about them and I laugh, but the tormented job interview thing combined with the weird things to take into your work office thing was the longest sustained bit of funny I can remember. And it's the first time I really thought I might actually bust something inside me from laughing so long and hard and genuinely had some idea of what it must be like for Bryan when he loses it. Holy fuck, I could barely breath at times.

[Ivan]

I haven't listened to a podcast in over a year. Downloaded the show and am currently listening, and am near pissing myself from laughter a few minutes in.

[Bucho]

You better get that catheter inserted or strap a diaper on before you go much further Ivan because things are going to get mighty squeezy on that bladder in the next little while.

I know. (Cue squinted eyes, drag on imaginary cigarette and thousand yard stare)

I've been there.