David Walker: Back from Hawaii. Refreshed. Rested. Almost drowned and beaten up by the Pacific Ocean. Forced to watch a stingray do things no stingray should do. But at least he got to see the stingray. He never saw the turtles, and he is thiiiiis close to admitting he’ll never see the Bigfoot. But he still wants to believe, and that’s gotta be worth something. And then he’ll follow up his adventure to Hawaii by heading out to… Oakland. But just because it’s Oakland doesn’t mean it’s not worth a visit. In fact, Oakland inspires a fun discussion about film, and what movies best represent the cities they’re made in. It’s good to have the Bad Azz Mofo himself back on the block.
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Pheromoans dummy, it makes you smell good
My local giant arcade has had Ice Cold Beer since I was a little kid, but I’ve never played it. I always figured it was some sort of redemption game.
I love when I see dummy after a misspelled word. – It’s ‘Pheromone’. They aren’t about smelling good.
Anyways.
Bigfoot, a couple of things:
1) All kinds of animals are endangered, yet we still have logging.
2) Saying ‘we find animals all the time’ in no way adds credence to the existence of every animal that pops into your head.
There are basically two ways previously undiscovered creature come to light. Someone finds one and take a good picture of it, or captures it and shows it to a scientist. The other is that their are a lot of people saying it exists, and scientist go looking for it. Bigfoot would fall into the latter. Scientists look for:
poop, food, children, sounds, evidence of mating. All the things mammals do. After 40 years of looking with cameras by 100s if not thousands of people. The likelihood
of Bigfoot’s existences is zero.
3) In the extremely unlikely event that there is a creature, then it would need to be in such a tiny portion of the forest, not the entire forests of the US. Is it’s habitat was that large, finding it would be trivial.
And the religion argument? It’s like the fallacy that aliens end religion.
I would like to introduce you to the believers best friend: cognitive dissonance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
4) Whenever you argument has no evidence, no data, then jumping to a conspiracy that covers up all evidence, by a power that makes no mistakes, you need to stop and think. You have entered an emotion ego biased argument.
Population:
Fun facts, kids. If you took everyone in the world, stood them shoulder to shoulder, they would all fit in Los Angles.
If you put them a place with the same population density as New York, they would wall fit in Texas. the Population of the US would fill up an area about 1/5th that.
Naturally, actual evidence of Bigfoot, or any creature, would change my view. It’s just that you don’t spend decades looking for a creature in a well known area and find…nothing.
There is more evidence for Santa, then Bigfoot.
LA is a great place to visit. Assuming you have a plan, cause it’s big. You are talking about a place where you can find any geek item, and no matter how small you geek niche is, there is probably a store that specializes in that thing.
Tales from the Darkside ” A Case of the Stubborns”
I lived in Hawaii for about a year, the food is great but you have to find a restaurant not the fast food. I liked it there but because I lived in Portland before so it took me awhile to get adjusted to the climate. Great show today guys ^^
I can’t stop saying “Cortland Fatboy” I said it by accident and now I can’t get it out if me had. Cortland Fatboy, almost one word, not cort land Fatboy but more Cortlandfatboy.
Chyna is indeed doing pornography and her latest role happens to be She-Hulk in the Avengers porn parody.
Rocky would be for Philadelphia, right?
I brake for Squatch!
David Walker’s views on Big Foot were podcraft humor gold. Well done.
The truth is living with the Hendersons.
For me, I couldn’t stand Portlandia. Instead, I’m convinced that Grimm is the true Portland, and I worry constantly that you all will be eaten by trolls or blutbad.
In terms of Hawaiian food, you have what is traditional Native Hawaiian food, and then you have modern day Hawaiian “comfort food”. Actual Hawaiian food would be stuff like laulau, taro (which poi comes from), coconut, and then with meat you had fish and pork. Bobby was right in saying that much of what is considered Hawaiian food today comes from the mixture of cultures. Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and Filipinos were some of the first to be brought in for slave labor, when those who were taking up the land needed people to grow and nurture crops on the farms. Each of these ethnicities brought in something from home. Without a common language, food was a way to make an initial exchange of communication. Then late night plantation sex, which lead to the various mixtures of people, with the realization than those who owned the slaves were also having sex with the slaves. Aaah, commerce.
Modern day Hawaiian food is and has always been about comfort food, in many ways the equivalent of quality Mexican food at a taco truck. It should be cheap and easy to make, so on one hand you have the plate lunches with beef stew, curry stew, chicken or tonkatsu, hamburger patty with gravy, macaroni salad, lau lau, kalua pig, etc. Even these examples show how Japanese, Chinese, and Indian cultures made an impact. Then you have those who go for *true* Hawaiian food, the kind of food you would find out in the country at luaus or baby showers. Pipikaula (marinated steak), lomilomi salmon, some kulolo on the side, or whatever. There is an established and accepted balance between the “true” food of Hawai’i and the comfort food. The comfort food welcomes in the many ethnicities that make up what Hawai’i is today, and then those who will smell laulau from the pot, start singing old Hawaiian songs and start doing hula on the spot with auntie sharing old school stories about her “hanabata days” (youth. Hanabata is the Japanese word for boogers, so to talk about “hanabata days” is to reminisce about when we were “snot nosed kids”. Kicking it “old school”.)
On Spam, that goes back to the military and all canned meats, be it Vienna sausage, sardines, and corned beef. Spam was liked because it was cheap, didn’t require refrigeration, and when one can’t afford a nice cut of steak or prime rib, it was an issue of “let’s do something with what we have.” In other words, it was “broke food” vs. “not broke food”, and the “broke food” is very much what Hawaiian comfort food is: whatever’s left in the fridge or cupboard, that’s dinner. That is very much a “World War II” mentality, which came from people of my grandparent’s age, passed along to my mom. Having a plate lunch with two scoops of rice, two scoops of macaroni salad, and breaded fish, chicken, or beef is carb happy for a reason: to keep someone full so it might carry them over so they can forget that they might miss a meal this week. This is fortunately cured by good music, and sex in the Chevy in the backyard that doesn’t work.
As for the “hotel Hawaiian food”, as great as those chefs are, a lot of that is mythical B.S. As said in the episode, if you really want the good stuff, you have to leave the hotels/resort. There there’s good food, there’s good music, and that can be said for people of all backgrounds.