before the whole arm porn appreciation nomination deal, when ever I hear Sean talk, I always pictured him to look like Tory from Mythbusters. After watching the nail gun clip, I still think Sean reminds me of Tory from Mythbusters.
hahahahahha!! I couldn’t stop laughing at the “chuck…chuck…” caller.
SEAN! If you accept the nomination, you gotta start wearing some wifebeaters while filming these nail gun videos. Show off those puppies!
And maybe, get some volume in that hair.
In the cast #117, Chuseandra mentions something about “unless you’re Audry Hepburn in Roman Holiday on a Vespa with Cary Grant on the back of it, in France, scooters are never cool.” This confuses me very much.
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I believe the movie you’re refering to is Charade, not Roman Holiday.
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I think you are confusing “bad-ass” and “cool”. Scooters are never “bad-ass”, but often very “cool”. Big-ass bikes are always “bad-ass”, and often very cool as well. In fact, perhaps not in rest of the places in America, but where I used to and currently live, Boston->SF->NYC->Seattle, scooters are an object of great admiration and desire. Reactions to scooters range, from positive to negative, as
“tragically hipster” -> “cute” -> “meh” -> “totally gay”.
On the other hand, reactions to motorcycles range
“totally bad-ass” -> “trying too hard to be rebellious” -> “meh” -> “compensating for inadequate schlonginator” -> “douchey”.
Really, this needs to be examined in a case-by-case basis. For example:
Chuck Norris on a Harley VROD (Verdict: Bad-ass)
The guy in Chuck’s story who rode Honda Elite, thinking he was being bad-ass (Verdict: Douchey)
Struggling Artist/Grad Student commuting from his loft in Bushwick to his bartending job in Lower East Side on a restored Lambretta (Verdict: Tragically Hip)
Fat guy on a Japanese supersport bike, in a full gimp suit, with a aftermarket pipe, revving it at the light (Verdict: Completely Douchey)
Very Grace-Park looking Asian girl on a Ducati Monster (Verdict: Completely Hot) *
In summary, scooters are never bad-ass, but often cool. Big bikes are often bad-ass, but does not guarantee coolness. What you drive or ride will merely shine a light on your inner coolness, or highlight your innate douchbaggery.
(Multiple sorrybarbs, apply where appropriate.)
- This girl lives in my building. I’m currently stalking her.
Scene from Roman Holiday
Audry and Audra are awesome
I was tired and had a pretty bad fever while recording #117, but I don’t remember discussing which specific Audrey Hepburn flick contained the scooter. Then again, I don’t remember much else about the 'cast, either. Thankfully, I’m feeling a little better today.
Best. Name. Ever. Audra and I used to sometimes play bar trivia as “Chudra.”
The problem is that the only two “good” terms in your continuum are “tragic hipster” and “cute” – neither of which I see as positive in terms of transportation. Nor, as was our true point regarding Sarah Connor’s ride, do they convey “I’m the leader of the revolution.”
Of course, this is all pretty funny coming from a guy who owns (among other vehicles) a Miata – the vehicular soulmate to many a “cute” fan. But I have my own strange reasons for ownership: I want one convertible, and I don’t want to have to work on it all the time. It fits the bill perfectly.
As far as bikes go, I’ll defer to Sean. I’m car crazy. He’s the bike nut. But just from shooting the s— with him, I’d say that the asian chick on the Ducati, while smokin’ hot, better know how to work on it. Of course, she’d still be smokin’ hot while pushing the bike right? (Hint: Maybe it’s not the bike.)
Just to clarify, Audrey Hepburn was on a scooter with Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday, in Rome. Audrey Hepburn was in France with Cary Grant in Charade, and there was no scooter involved. Both very fun movies, though.
And now, back to your regularly scheduled scifi…
The gun Ahhhnuld is rockin one handed is a stockless Armalite AR-18
Good resource for whenever you don’t know a gun in a movie, usually I can tell you what it is flat out but it’s a nice backup for when I haven’t seen a movie in awhile or can’t remember or what not, it’s where I got my sig pic too
Okay, I’ll be honest. I didn’t think I was gonna want to actually watch Terminator all the way through. When I heard we were doing a Terminator arc, I thot to myself “Well, I’ve see T1 a zillion times and it’s pretty outdated. I’ll just fastforward through it and watch a couple key scenes just so I’ll be able to keep up with the podcast discussion.”
So yesterday I sat down to do just that. But I ended up really getting hooked in and I WATCHED THE WHOLE THING and enjoyed every moment. I had forgotten what a truly compelling and exciting movie it is. This is really a classic sci-fi movie, and a breaktrough action/effects movie.
Well, I’m so looking forward to seeing T2 again—because I already know that’s awesome (probably my favorite of the three) and T3 I’ve probably seen bits on TV, but never sat down and watched it through, so it shoud be interesting.
With the Matrix, through the expanded verse and in the trilogy, we get an idea of why the machines are doing what they’re doing. With the terminator series, it basically all through the eyes of the humans fighting against them. Are there any of the comics that deal with Skynet and the machines motivations for eliminating the humans other than the fact that the humans are things that need to be eliminated for their logical brains to finish the equation? It does make for interesting storytelling to only get one side of the story, but it would be sweet to get an animated short from skynets perspective, maybe a propaganda piece that it programs into the terminators and hunter killers as to why they are doing what they’re doing, I mean, if they are sentient, maybe skynet needs to justify what it’s doing (unless skynet is the only sentient machine and everything else just obeys it’s commands). Fun stuff to think about!
Chuck & Audra, kudos to you: Brother’s in Arms probably one of the best albumns of all time. And I can’t believe I never imported it onto my iPod. I’m gonna do that right now.
Guy on the left: I am the Terminator. Are you Abigal Conner, great, great, great, great grandmother of Sarah Conner?
Abigal Conner: Why yes, I am Abigal Conner. How may I help you?
Benjamin Frankin: Come with me, my dear, if you want to live.
It’s been a long time since I saw T3 (and even longer since reading the comics), but I think it’s pretty well established that “Judgment Day” was an act of self-defense. When Skynet became self-aware, the technicians working on it freaked out and tried to pull the plug. From its point of view, they were trying to kill it, so it defended itself the only way it knew how. As humans retaliated, obviously that would only reinforce the “me or them” mentality of self-preservation. I believe I read somewhere that T2 has a deleted scene (on the DVD?) that indicated that Skynet put safeguards in place to prevent the Terminators from becoming self-aware and possibly turning against Skynet as it had turned against humanity.
Literal LOL 
Hi. My name’s Sarah too, and I want to go on record right now and say that I voted to cut spending on the Skynet grant long before any of this crap went down.
Thank you.
Wow. “If you’re ever stuck in the middle of nowhere and need to nail a bunch of stuff…” Lol. Also, my mental picture of Chuck and Sean shooting all sorts of unnecessary nails into Audra’s poor little bird feeder and then absconding before she returned to see the damage… that’s a pretty priceless mental image.
So, um, what if my reaction is all of these at once, plus, “I want one but I bet I’d look pretty stupid actually riding one”? Can it be all those things?
Very Grace-Park looking Asian girl on a Ducati Monster (Verdict: Completely Hot) *
Katee also enjoys motorcycles. I would venture to say that she looks more believably badsorrybarb-hot on one than Grace Park, but actual hotness level percieved varies according to taste.
I like to compete as Biff. Just to throw people off.
My love for 1776 is neverending. I am so glad to find fans in a sci-fi community!
Yeah, what’s up with that? The only thing that comes to mind is a zombie attack. :eek:
Katee also enjoys motorcycles. I would venture to say that she looks more believably badsorrybarb-hot on one than Grace Park, but actual hotness level percieved varies according to taste.
I’m sure the same could be said about scooters. 
There was a guy who tried to commit suicide a while back and made the news because he shot 12 nails into his head with a nailgun (a nailgun that clearly isn’t as badsorrybarb as Sean’s), but none of them pierced his brain at all- they basically zinged around the inside of his skull. The next day he went to the ER with a blinding headache, but didn’t tell them what he had done until they got back the x-ray and the docs were like, “OMG?!” This should not be a funny story. And yet…
And just for fun, with a little something for everyone:
John Connor: Sargent Reese, I’ve got a job for you. Strictly voluntary, but you’re the right man for the job. I need you to go back in time and stop the T-101 Terminator from killing my mother.
Kyle Reese: Of course, sir. I’m honored. But why me?
[COLOR=“Orange”]John Connor:[/COLOR] Because you are a bad-ass motherfrakker (and I mean that literally).
Ok – a few corrections and additions to this funny story:
First, the nails are in the fence itself, not the bird feeder. The bird feeder used to reside about five feet down the fence hanging off a hook mounted to a fence post. The bird feeder was removed many months ago for other reasons. Audra is simply giving us some crap for fun, and we’re taking it because, well, it’s fun. 
Next, the nail gun in question is (as those of you who listened to the video know) cordless. It functions by exploding butane in a small chamber. It’s very loud. In fact, it sounds like a muffled 22-caliber rifle. Firing a number of nails in a row tends to incite the neighbors.
This nail gun, however, is the absolute bomb for fixing residential fences. Every time the wind blows one down, you just pull this thing out, hold it in place, and BAM (BAMBAMBAMBAMBAM… BAM) it’s good to go.
And for those of you who yearn for more Sean:
YES!
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