Courtenay Hameister & Jason Rouse make today’s show one unlike any cortandfatboy episode ever done before. It involves Chekhov’s Gun. You’ll understand when you hear it. Jason discusses being one of the few lifelong Portlanders left in the city, and what it’s like to have our city defined, for a lot of people all over the rest of the world, by a single TV show. Also discussed: Rouse’s career as a quadruple-sport athlete in High School, and how he made the transition to art lover. This is where Courtenay comes in, fresh off a city council meeting where she’s trying to get arts programs reinstated in schools. Facts are dropped, arguments are had, and we all agree on that kids just can’t learn to their fullest potential if you deprive them of the arts. Other topics include – that Sorkin supercut, the passing of Nora Ephron, and the importance of style.
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I know I’m a terrible person for laughing at Jason scaring Courtenay, but I still listened to that part at least 10 times. So, sorry, Ms. Hameister.
Would it be possible to sell tickets to Thursday’s show or stream video of it? Because audio alone probably can’t do a meeting of Byron and Leia justice.
Thoughts…
-If you think Portland’s misrepresentation is bad, try having people being legitimately surprised that you have running water and electricity. Plus, there’s a reason I chose the handle “Buffalo Rider”. No, we do not still ride buffalo. We never rode buffalo. Ever. Not even in the biblical sense. Unless you count that one guy in the 1850s, but he was technically from Nebraska.
-Maybe I’m a dick, but I don’t get people being emotionally touched when celebrities die. I’ve been bummed to hear about celebrity passings, but I’ve never been truly sad. Maybe I reserve that for people I know. Maybe I’m dead inside. It’s 50-50.
-Courtenay is a trooper for putting up with that scare. I wish I could have heard the scream, though. I’m assuming it just pegged the mics, but still.
It’s there. It’s a very short, piercing shriek. It does peg the mic, but it’s not a long scream. It’s like the perfect verbal representation of a single exclamation point.
Cool. I’ma listen again for it.
I’ve been choked up by three “famous” endings in my life so far – John Denver’s death (I KNOW) because my parents used to play his 8 tracks on full blast during all our family’s road trips, REM breaking up because their music was around for almost all the significant moments of my teen-dom, and Nora Ephron’s death because of what her work’s meant to me over the years. See? It’s all selfish – it’s not at all the same as when a friend dies and I’m devastated at the loss of someone who means something to me personally – I’m mourning for a time in my own life that their death has put a definitive period on. If that makes sense.
I liked Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip – at first. The inner workings of a comedy show was interesting enough. But then it seemed like Sorkin lost interest and tried to make it into the West Wing again, by turning the focus on events in Afghanistan and events surrounding the September 11th attacks of 2001. I note that according to Wikipedia, while the ratings were slowly declining all through the season, the last six episodes had significantly worse ratings than the previous episodes.
I was looking for a resounding, “you fuckers!!” But “it’s your fucking furniture, and it’s your fucking fault, so deal with it” will do. You were more gracious than I would have been Courteney.
PS hilarious
Ahaha that Tyler Perry conversation just killed me because I knew what was about to come.