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Re: Episode 25: The Brain At Work

Craig Charles — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:18:46 -0000

Love it! I'm a big fan.

Re: Episode 5: Salt Water Blues

Stephenmarksarro — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:25:41 -0000

Thanks so much for taking the time to listen bro. PLEASE do me one more favor, and request that any of your friends who would appreciate this, take the time to listen, this show needs some support because 1. What kind of show it is and 2. Breaking a lot of podcast rules to be that kind of show.

I want it to remain what it is, and i want to be able to put the time into it and make it enjoyable for myself and others. I think the first 5 episodes are something special and i want to keep up this momentum, but there is no way i am going to be able to if there is nobody listening. The numbers are really low, and i don't think it is because of what the show is, although i am sure that plays a part to a usual podcast goer, but there are people out there like you and I who want to be entertained by this sort of genre and without the support, without the feedback and the encouragement of "hey i enjoy this, please keep going" i am just wasting my time. I can listen to my hd worth of music to myself and accept that i am the only person who likes this sort of thing, if that truly is the case. But i don't believe i found my audience yet, its only 5 episodes in, and there is more to do, so... please...keep coming back, and tell everyone who you know would dig on this, or is a fan of TOTM or my solo stuff, because that makes its way into every show in some small way or another.

THANK YOU 100x in advance!!!!

-Stephen

Re: Episode 5: Salt Water Blues

Mortimerbryson — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:35:11 -0000

I'm loving this so far. Dont disappoint me.

Re: Episode 4: I’m Not Shy Anymore

Stephenmarksarro — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:00:31 -0000

btw... i posted the playlist over at www.facebook.com/thetourist...

Re: Episode 4: I’m Not Shy Anymore

Stephenmarksarro — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:06:11 -0000

I'll get to it as soon as i get through this week :)))

Re: Episode 4: I’m Not Shy Anymore

Chris White — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:37:01 -0000

OK, so where are the notes?

Re: Episode 1: You Can’t Fart Around With Love

Stephenmarksarro — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:18:09 -0000

David, most if not all of this is completely out of print, rare, unknown, and public domain. Most of it. a few tracks are from bands that are just real underground. Im not really doing anything different than we have always done in the past. There isn't a dime coming in either for show support. Have you been checking out the new podcast? The Great Exchange? that one is a podcast i care about being shut down or not. This new show is all about having a good time.

how are you?

John - Thanks dude!!!

Re: Episode 1: You Can’t Fart Around With Love

David Moulton — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:25:30 -0000

Be careful. This is technically copyright infringement. I would recommend removing it from iTunes if you're going to continue in this manner. Or for future episodes, only use Creative Commons licensed materials.

Re: Episode 1: You Can’t Fart Around With Love

John Micah Rapp — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:48:38 -0000

Exactly awesome. No better, no worse.

Re: Uncommon-teries Episode 2: Mondo Cane (1962)

Stephenmarksarro — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:43:46 -0000

it really IS pronounced Mondo khan - aye . i was right about that.

Re: Episode 37: If You Ain’t Dutch, You Ain’t Much!

M. Joshua Cauller — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:33:42 -0000

Stephen, it looks like I'll be seeing you on Saturday. :)

Re: Episode 37: If You Ain’t Dutch, You Ain’t Much!

Chris White — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:37:03 -0000

Interesting re: roller derby--I don't know anything about it; every once in a while I run across a show or whatever, it could be King of the Hill, Whip It; somebody explains the basic strategy and rules of the game and it starts to make sense. Then I forget it all again. Seems like a fun sport. I've known a few people who are roller derbiers. Interesting to hear that Whip It wasn't really accurate, because otherwise, how would anyone know that unless they were already informed. So Stephen, do you skate at all? Just wondering, since you bring up weight, exercise, etc. from time to time. Seems like skating would get you in shape. I mean serious skating. I only went roller skating once in my life, that was about 7-8 years ago with a church thing. I went around the rink one time and my shins were on fire so bad I just quit right there. And I wasn't in bad shape overall, just that I wasn't used to those particular muscles being strained. I grew up ice skating pretty regularly, but it's been over 30 years.

I never watched much of Charlie Sheen. It is kind of a car wreck thing, you gotta stop and watch a bit. I saw about 10 minutes of the first season of 2 1/2 Men and realized I wasn't interested. I just feel bad for his kids and his dad, Martin. I like him, he seems like a decent guy. I always liked Emilio better than Charlie, Emilio was great in Repo Man. Back then in the early '80s before he was well known, I was like, "whoa, check out that kid, he looks just like Martin Sheen!"

Didn't watch the Oscars, but saw a few of the movies this year. Still haven't seen The Fighter, but I like Christian Bale a lot as well as Mark Wahlberg. I watched a doc from the '90s that had the real crackhead Dicky Eklund who Christian Bale portrayed. As good as Christian Bale is, he still appeared to have his teeth, and none of those crackheads in the doc did. Very depressing. But the real story is good and was already the story behind the Dropkick Murphys' "Warrior's Code".

I liked "Inception", but I'm kind of slow and got mixed up in the middle of it when they got a couple layers into the dreams. My wife and my son seemed to get it right away, but I had a little trouble even when I watched it again the other day...

The Social Network was good, but the soundtrack didn't make a huge impression on me. Not saying it wasn't Oscar-worthy, just didn't stand out either way. I never was a big Trent Reznor fan either, so going into it I didn't anticipate anything.

I just watched "Fathead" and I did like that. I'm not totally convinced about everything in it straight up, but it made some good points. Truth is, I didn't give a huge amount of thought to "Super-Size Me". I liked it OK, but yeah you gotta wonder why just eating at McDonald's would make a lean, healthy guy pack on 25 lbs and almost shut down his liver. A good question is--why did he have to eat so much? Naughton showed you could eat fast food and still keep the calories at a reasonable level. Why eat 4000-5000 calories? And I agree that the whole "fat=bad" mentality is not accurate. But I think that neither is the "fat=good, carbs=bad" thing. I think anytime a movie shows a simplistic argument with a cartoon graphic and pushes an extreme perspective, combined with somewhat of a conspiracy theory about the government, you gotta look at it a little closer. So this is a good starting place. His points about personal responsibility and choice were very good.
There's not one culprit behind modern obesity. Eating tons of fat isn't good, but definitely I think mass consumption of sugary drinks is a big cause of weight gain. And soda is soooo cheap to make and pushed so hard. Even diet drinks aren't too good for you, I don't trust those artificial sweeteners. I know people who have lost a lot of weight just by cutting out sodas. I think his point vegetable oil wasn't totally right. He made it sound like all vegetable oil was both terrible and a modern invention. Olive oil has been around for thousands of years, and is good for you. Corn oil isn't really good for you and is more recent. Canola oil is better than corn oil and while a recent development, was used in an older form 100s of years ago. So he makes it sound like it never would have occurred to ancient peoples to use vegetable based oils, but that's just not true.
I don't remember if he got into Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, but that's in about everything, and it is bad for you. Yeah I guess he did touch on that, because that's what trans-fats are. Margarine is hydrogenated. I avoid that as much as possible.
I think he also gave the impression that all breads, starches, grains etc. are bad for you and only modern cultures have eaten them, which also isn't quite right. People have eaten these things for 1000's of years too. The plain white versions don't have much nutritional value though and could be substituted with healthier alternatives.
His points about activity and exercise were good. You need to be active and get some kind of regular exercise, especially is you have a job where you sit on your butt all day. When I was a kid I was always running around and riding a bike everywhere. Even into adulthood I walked most places. I notice that when I'm out of work I put on weight. Then when I go back to work, activity increases, and the weight mostly drops off.

Re: Episode 37: If You Ain’t Dutch, You Ain’t Much!

M. Joshua Cauller — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:35:17 -0000

That would be rad. Let me see if I can make it.

About the Randy Newman thing, I feel you. I guess it's some kind of generational thing. I know it's against the law to make fun of him for some reason. I don't get it either.

Re: Episode 37: If You Ain’t Dutch, You Ain’t Much!

M. Joshua Cauller — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:17:16 -0000

I love the tiger's blood comments. Great show, guys. :)

Re: Episode 37: If You Ain’t Dutch, You Ain’t Much!

Stephenmarksarro — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:12:05 -0000

Thanks Josh. You should come hang out saturday night, at the bout. Should be a blast and a half!!!

Re: Episode 37: If You Ain’t Dutch, You Ain’t Much!

M. Joshua Cauller — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:48:54 -0000

I'm gonna go download this right now and synch to my 'pod. :)

Re: Episode 37: If You Ain’t Dutch, You Ain’t Much!

Stephenmarksarro — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:48:24 -0000

audio was weird when i first posted. I just fixed it. works and sounds way louder this time. enjoy

Re: Episode 35: Lost & Found

Stephenmarksarro — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:20:45 -0000

Josh - well put! its so hard. So freaking frustrating. Scott and I have been through so much this past year. Thanks for checking this episode out. This was our first episode with Scott as co-host. Before this, the show was quite different. Some not so good, some really awesome. Justin (who was in Narcissus, now my brother n law) was my co-host before.

we are starting to get on our feet again. Both in terms of podcasting, and work. Scott got a job this past week, and i am in the middle of interviews for a promising paint job. We shall see......

anyway, prayers to you for stability. It is always grating as you say, when we as Christian men are struggling to do our call.

here's to strong health and job security!

Re: Episode 35: Lost & Found

M. Joshua Cauller — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:47:44 -0000

I totally feel you in the area of being unemployed. I Just started the fourth job I've had in this depression and (thank God,) ended my second unemployment. There's something that seriously grates on your soul when you're not working.

Re: Uncommon-tery 1: Left Behind II – Tribulation Force

Andy — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:31:49 -0000

Yeah Stephen. Doing an apologetic for Amillenialism, or at least for Covenant Theology, is a 2 hour show in and of itself.

I did not know the leggy blonde was his wife. CURSES!

Re: Uncommon-tery 1: Left Behind II – Tribulation Force

Stephenmarksarro — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:29:44 -0000

Josh,
hahaha thats great that you listened in. How are you man???

Sure, join us when we do Thief In The Night. We arent going to do that for a bit yet, but i will keep you posted!!!

Hopefully I will see you before hand. hit me up on FB

- S

Re: Uncommon-tery 1: Left Behind II – Tribulation Force

M. Joshua Cauller — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:19:03 -0000

I can't believe you guys missed that "Miss Legs" is actually Kirk Caemeron's wife. So many joke opportunities missed. ;)

Re: Uncommon-tery 1: Left Behind II – Tribulation Force

M. Joshua Cauller — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:36:44 -0000

This is rich, guys. I'm listening to it right now. And I'm loving it.

Seriously, if you're going to do this exact same thing A Thief In The Night, you HAVE to let me in on it! It would be epic! Seriously! I mean we need to hang out, anyway!

And just for the record, I'm pretty sure Glen Beck didn't direct this movie, but he may have sponsored it! ;)

Re: Uncommon-tery 1: Left Behind II – Tribulation Force

Stephenmarksarro — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:24:55 -0000

and i will point out that whenever i would ask questions that would open up theological explanation, Andy said "Duuuuuude, thats getting into a deep discussion" haha

The floor was yours Andy.

no seriously, the commentaries are meant for fun, obviously you cannot fit your whole apologetic into a format like that, but... its good that we have links shared here, for more info, and you clearing that up helps too if somebody cared to debate you.

Re: Uncommon-tery 1: Left Behind II – Tribulation Force

Andy — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:28:34 -0000

I just wanted to clear that up 'cause I kind of came across like Amillenialism is the ONLY view held by the Reformed Church and even the Church throughout history. I didn't want to misrepresent that or downplay other views that weren't Dispensationalist.