Welcome to a special Christmas GWC episode where we kick back and talk about a few things non-Galactica.
http://www.galacticawatercooler.com/2007/12/24/gwc-podcast-77/
HOHOHO. For all last minute shoppers, Larry is always a good gift.
And, incidentally, this is the only podcast where one of us wasn’t in the room. As Sean says, he “phoned it in.” Still, this 'cast was a lot of fun. Hope you enjoy.
Wow, all that talk of child/adult-hood toys took me back.
All the way to 1984, when I had a seasonal job at KB toys. Transformers and Cabbage Patch dolls were the big thing.
I remember we only took names on a list for the CP’s and called as they came in- no choice, you got what you got, and if you acted ugly, you got bumped to the bottom of the list! :eek:
Transformers. whew. We’d get the freight in and price gun them as fast as we could. Then we’d all grab a stack as high as we could carry out to the floor. The savvy parents were waiting by the stockroom door, and I remember trying to set my stack on the floor, and my arms would be empty before I reached it. I’m 5 feet tall! It was grueling.
It was my first real experience with cutthroat parents. I made a vow never to be that way when I had a kid- and I never have!
If I had only known- I would have sent you all an Optimus Prime!
PS: I think you can get a laminator at Michael’s. I got mine cheap at the Kmart close-out!
In order of appearance…
Audra!
Check out Star Trek: Bridge Commander.
Several years old, but very cheap (online). Excellent ship-to-ship combat, little mini-management, and the mod community is AMAZING.
bridgecommander.filefront.com
Grampa Goo:
http://imdb.com/name/nm0132655/
Only one listed under ‘Hybrid’ in the Razor credits.
Blargh… the die cast Hasbro toys…
They are so incredibly awesome, but Hasbro made about four of each, they are IMPOSSIBLE to find in store and unless you pay scalper prices online you’re never getting them.
Would very much like to stab some Hasbro people for this absolute bull craaaaaaaaap. Honestly… just enrages me.
My special prize is sleep!
Did this cast end abruptly, or is it my copy?
An early version snuck out that is missing the final minute (i.e. the outro and its few-second overlap). It was out for about four hours before I caught it and corrected it. My bad!
If you re-grab it from iTunes (or just d/l it off the blog) you’ll get the corrected one.
Oops.
BTW: Merry Christmas, all!
Just wanted to say, I didn’t think having Sean call in during the podcast would work, but y’all certainly pulled it off. Kudos.
Having the flu sucks, that’s for sure. Well, hope you get feeling better soon.
Peace and Glad Tidings, everyone!
Glim’s yuletide greeting looks like the perfect BSG Hylon ending!
bkitty, your sig rocks! I totally dig the way you made it you!
Also, I hope everybody got sweet gear and had a great time yesterday!
This is one of my favorite 'casts ever. It was great to hear you guys relaxed, kicked back and just talking. Sorry Sean was sick, but what a trouper for ‘phoning it in’!
Xmas podcast totally rocked – or, the first half so far has – and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. I didn’t get to check it out until today (the day after Xmas), and it was a nice way to keep the spirit rolling.
Re: Holiday specials… The Rankin-Bass Xmas jams are real hit-and-miss. Like, the Heatmiser-Coldmiser one (“The Year Without a Santa Claus”) doesn’t have much going for it except the Heatmiser-Coldmeiser song. Sometime in the last couple months, Kevin Smith’s Smodcast does a pretty good rundown on the subject. This year, the kids and I caught one called “Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July,” which I’m guessing is the last one. It’s a two-hour blowout that wraps up – or at least ties together – the entire Rankin-Bass mythos. Or most of it, anyway. I don’t want to spoil it for anyone (in case you’ve managed to avoid special for thirty years now), but it pulls in characters from all the major specials, all banding together to stop a new villain or two.
The thing isn’t especially good, and it lasts forever, but it has some neat moments/aspects. It’s a stop-motion production, so it pulls Frosty (and family) from cartoons to a different kind of animation. And it also has some real-time bits with marionette dragons (I think; that’s how it looks, anyway). It was on ABC-Family; if it’s too late, look for it next year.
And National Lampoon’s Xmas Vacation is totally underrated.
Merry new year, all.
ps. Glimfeather’s Christmas Cylons are awesome.
Hey guys, like dxf I’ve only just gotten through the first half of the 'cast on the day AFTER Christmas. So far it’s very nice to just laugh along with your stories. I so wish I could make a national meet-up and just kick back with the three of you!
I have to thank Sean for reminding me of Blackadder Christmas Carol, one of my favorite Christmas specials ever (I lose it every time on the Queen Asphyxia stuff in the future, particularly the stuff they make Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robins wear, or not wear, I suppose), but one that I forgot to watch this year. D’oh! I did, however, spend Christmas eve on the Satellite of Love watching the MST3K episode with “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians,” which is quickly becoming a Christmas tradition with me. AND I managed to serendipitously time it so that it ended just as Adult Swim started playing a Futurama mini-marathon of all the Christmas episodes. BOO-YAH!
Merry Xmas, meatbags!
Am I a bad person to want to know more about the illegal bathroom activity involving Pauly Shore?
I can’t help myself… but my mind has been racing on the various activities that Chuck could have walked in on…
You don’t need to spill… but my mind for one is simultaneously disturbed and fascinated.
Yes. Yes you are.
And really, there’s probably only one illegal bathroom activity that Chuck would have noticed that wouldn’t have resulted in a 911 call.
Well, maybe two, but he probably wouldn’t have mentioned it at all if it was that one.
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Chuck’s Pauly Shore story seems too much like a standard denial. “I may have been at a party/bathroom where there was some, but I personally never…” I understand that Chuck has to downplay it, but the rest of us can take some vicarious hipness points in knowing that’s how Chuck rolls…
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News excerpt from the future: “And that’s how GWC was eventually shut down: An offhand comment about a celebrity in a podcast that snowballed into a running joke, which culminated in libel suit.”
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GWC may be free, but it’s totally worth it.
ps. “8 Naked Sharons” = funny as frack.
I was listening to the podcast on my drive to work today and laughed at Chuck’s “oh, I forgot where I was going with that” story. On my way home, after finishing the 'cast, I thought of astory and said to myself, “Self, that would make a great comment on the forum.”
Now that I’m at home base and near my computer - Can’t remember. Nope. It’s gone. Craaaap.
My all-time can’t miss holiday special? Nestor, the Long-Eared Donkey. I realize it’s high on the animal cruelty meter, but I tear up every time Nestor’s mom dies to protect him and then when she looks down on him from Heaven and says “ears, Nestor”.
Hi,
Long time, first time…I just wanted to chime in on the side of the naggers of the length of your episodes. Phooey to them, truly. I, for one, am a huge fan of your longer episodes, as you tend to do in depth commentary and analysis on a great number of issues and ideas that need the kind of intellectual fleshing out that you all (including Sean…nootch!) give this series. I’ve taken a job with a pretty long daily commute, and your longer shows give me a great mental place to hang while stuck in traffic, sometimes over several trips. If it’s not killing your brains, your relationships or your ability to function in your daily lives, frak the nay-sayers and just talk until you can’t talk no more.
Anyhoo, you guys are the best. Thank you very much for all of the hard work and thoughtfulness you put into the show.
Aaron Krieger
Rock on Aaron and thank you for the kind words! Welcome to the forum 
We enjoy hanging with you guys just as much as you enjoy listening to our mindless banter for hours on end.