Wednesdays are Courtenay Hameister days, and those days? ALWAYS deliver. We start in a darkened theater, screaming our fool heads off at a scary movie, and then we discuss why our brains love to play tricks on us, and how we’ll go looking for the supernatural if left to our own devices in a darkened room with a few little noises. From there, we end up discussing the tragic story of Greg Oden, as revealed in a recent interview, and go over how things could have broken down like that, and why sometimes things get so horrible the only option you have is to laugh at it. Speaking of horrible things: Gay Marriage is still illegal in the majority of our 50 states. The president just came out in favor of it – what does this do to our political prognostications for 2012? Finally – the origins of Chocolate Milk, getting shot with a beanbag gun, eating an habanero pepper, and auditioning for a job on a shopping network.
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Frankenstein (with Benedict Cumberbatch! and Johnny Lee Miller switching roles between Victor Frankenstein and the Creature every performance) is being re-released in theaters through NTLive. They both won Olivier awards for it so…good for them. It’s not playing in a theater near me (I don’t think) so I can’t be bothered to go see it.
Jarjar on the home shopping network inbetween selling swords. “There is a dragon drawn right on the doll!”
As just another 20-something college student, I’m taking a sex and love class that’s touched on marriage. We haven’t quite gotten to the topic yet, but these are my thoughts on why gay marriage is so bad of an idea for people:
Marriage has always been a social thing. Before it was for sharing land and making familial connections with other groups, and now it is for the cohesion of society, because married people create emotionaly healthy children, married people move less (being “settled down”), and married people create a semblence of a well-functioning society. I don’t think these are all necessarily true, but I think that perception is there. It’s to the point that unmarried people (especially women) are just short of harassed by family members into getting married. So I think the reason people don’t want gay marriage is because they want to maintain some degree of a respectable image for marriage. We think of the high divorce rate and the (media imposed idea of the abundance of) shotgun weddings in vegas, and it’s not hard to see that modern american marriages have lots of problems.
So, in my view, “traditional” marriage is a sinking ship that the people are bucketing water out of, and they’re doing it by holding as hard as they can onto what’s familiar: heterosexual marriages. It’s the fear of change, that marriage isn’t anymore what it once was.
When the show hit the subject of breast feeding….I must admit i stopped the show then and there…..An i went to looking up breast feeding porn….Cort is always a turn on for me…..Hello Cort i have some nice nipples you can suck on….
Oh, Andrew. You scamp.
I too am hoping Pete Campbell falls out of a window. And by “falls” I mean “gets pushed out by Trudy/Peggy/his bastard while set on fire”.
In short, fuck Pete Campbell.
I honestly do think they seem to be setting Pete up for a suicide. He’s been saying some dark shit all season long, and he’s racing after total self-destruction as if there’s gonna be a ticker-tape parade for him at the end of it.
John Singleton also directed Poetic Justice, Higher Learning and Baby Boy. Quit sellin him short :p
I think you just did that for me.
Seriously though, Poetic Justice & Higher Learning were bad movies. Baby Boy was pretty decent.
Hmm, I can’t really think of another director lately who’s faded after a large-scale debut other than maybe the Napoleon Dynamite guy, this all clearly evidenced by the fact he’s gone back to the ND well as a TV show after some big screen shit bombs. On a much smaller scale (read: my tiny world) I can think of a few smaller movies I though were good or showed promise who’s directors haven’t done much since. Finn Taylor did a movie called Dream With Fishes in 97 that was really good, then Cherish in 02 which was good then The Darwin Awards which kinda sucked and then nothing since. He’s totally vanished. The guy who did Roger Dodger in 02 hasn’t done much since and Roman Coppola did a movie called CQ in 01 that was good and not much since although the last two guys have promising stuff coming out soon.
(This has been a TSW talks to himself interlude!)
I’ve had a taste of the precious Mother’s Milk. Definitely sweet, not bad tasting, but I wouldn’t sit down and have a glass full or pour it on my cereal. I remember reading awhile back that some women back East were making cheese out of their breast milk. Apparently it is way better for you, but it sounded disgusting especially the process to make it.
So I have a question…
Driving through the massive metropolis of Sioux Falls, SD this evening, I found myself behind a massive pickup truck with dual-wheels and a cowboy hat in the back window. The license plate said “Oregon” on top and “Salmon” on the bottom. Is there a Salmon county or is that the state fish or what?
I realize this has nothing to do with gay marriage, the Blair Witch or breast milk. I was just wondering.
That’s a special plate you can get that helps protect salmon from “road-related issues” – it gives money to the Salmon Watershed Board and Parks and Rec. (KNOPE 2012!!)
I guess that explains why the guy driving the truck was wearing a “The Other Pink Meat” t-shirt as well. Thanks.
The breast milk ice cream story was actually a store in Covent Garden in the center of London. Apparently it was selling for the equivalent of $20 a scoop and sold out before being shut down.
I too have read articles on how some milk sold in the U.S. do have a minute amount of blood and pus from the cow, due to how it is produced. Is that the reason milk producers created chocolate milk, probably not. However, strawberry milk? You get to have the blood and pus right there. Anyone remember the short-lived Buttermilk candy bar milk? That was human vomit and diarrhea.
The TFAW break/commercial had me laughing so hard I had to pull over on I-5… on the way to work. I’ve officially used you guys as an excuse for being late. As always, thanx for the laughs!