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Oscar Nunez from The Office drops by the Mountain Chalet, Manor, or what-have-you. Enjoy!
Ep. 201 Bird Murder

The conversation about the parentage of Greg Behrendt made me think of new documentary The Other F Word about punk rock guys who are now fathers. I haven't seen it, but I saw the trailer, and wow, like five guys in it look just like Greg Behrendt.

14 year old me loved the hell out of Rising Sun. I too went through a big Crichton phase in the early 1990s, and somehow at the time I ended up embracing the outliers like Disclosure.

I really liked 'The Fortress' or 'Thorn Fortress' or whatever variation of fortess you used before. I like the idea of you bunkered down, fearlessly podcasting while the barbarian hordes hammer at the gates.

When I first read the name, I thought, "Oscar Nunez, that sounds familiar." Then, when you said "from the Office." I thought, "HOLY FUCK!"

He was so good. Got right into the vibe of the show. At first I thought the 'mom' thing was a bit.

I mean if David Gergen gets to hang out at Clooney's lake house, I don't see why Jordan and Jesse can't score an invite. They're sexier and usually less wrong about things.

Jesse -

Did you mean to say "B'nai B'rith" in reference to Rainn Wilson? I think you meant "Baha'i Faith".

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This is correct. I think I also messed up my loyalist/republican talk a little and said "nationalist" at some point.

Also, Captain Haddock.

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Okay, good that you addressed it now to avoid the avalanche of emails later.

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Nutmeg! THAT'S the secret flavor in Coke! GOD is that obvious!

Oh, that won't stop them. I'm writing five right now! DON'T MAKE MISTAKES IF YOU DON'T WANT EMAILS -the diary of a jerk

Stories about Jesse's step-mom are always the best. Her whole family seems so cool and a little scary.

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-- quote from Plato stolen from Donna Tartt

Jesse, I think you're wonderful, but let's be clear here, you did not say "I like Community a lot, but, [a joke about it]." You said "I mean, I like Archer a lot too, and I know people like Community because they like to recognize things that they know, but..." To a listener, and I know now that it was accidental, it sounds like that if anything you wanted specifically to make it clear that you didn't like Community.

I'm sounding angrier about this than I am. It annoyed me at the time, and everyone knows now it was accidental, but let's not pretend that people were making it up out of nothing.

My Father's family has the siblings stabbing each other with forks story, too. Repeatedly. It's a standard tactic. Three brothers, all within one year of age.

You literally can't walk away from your plate during Thanksgiving without everyone making the joke of, well, stealing all your food.

All the conversation this last holiday was about outrunning German police in the woods and getting chewed up by bugs; brutal skiing accidents; and our three generations of different, hyper-violent playground games.

I'm not even a little bit Irish.

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My stepmother got one piece of meat - a slice of bacon - per week. So that's what that was about.

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Jesse, sounds like I live near where your family's from, except on the other side of the giant wall - i.e. on the Shankill. It feels a lot like a little village, and making the switch from one set of murals when I cross over to the Falls, or even just walking into city centre, feels like I'm traversing a more significant geographic boundary. From what people say (meaning neighbours and history), it's changed a lot here, but it's certainly changed in a lot of different ways. People like your family were obviously profoundly impacted by the Troubles, but I've also talked to people who grew up in other parts of Belfast (i.e. in a different socio-economic class) where the impact was a lot rarer and a lot more confined to the evening news, making the sectarianism perhaps muted, or at least less overt, and the conflict a lot less personally inhibiting. The people of places like the Falls and the Shankill possibly have more in common than their demographic counterparts from middle-class areas (I think this comes out in the humour that you mentioned... some of the grimmest, most hilarious lot of whom I've had the pleasure of associating).

In any case, I love Belfast and like living where I do, for the most part. The power of images and mediated history here is extraordinary; I have friends from here who still refuse to come to the Shankill regardless of their political affiliations or family heritage. Reputation outpaces reality. However, the memories are still pretty vivid, and it's not like the signing of a legal document and the surrendering of weapons fixes years of pain and generations of economic alienation.

So I'm watching the Rik Martino video"pigeons killed by city", and I must say that I'm a little more than worried about this guy. Just bizarre behavior: he walks into traffic, he curses at an animal shelter, and he has homeless people sign a petition. He may even be a homeless man himself. But the scariest part is that someone is filming him do these things. I want to know who this director is.