March 17, 2016

284: How to Deal with A-Holes, with Jane Harrison and Laremy

Show Notes

Vince is back from SXSW, and joined by Bret and Jane Harrison (of Viceland's Flophouse) to talk about how to deal with A-holes in a public situation, be they texting in movies or heckling at comedy shows. Seattle film critic Laremy Legel Skypes in to talk about Deadpool and other movie topics. Enjoy our #content

2:10 - Made it a whole two minutes without talking about Jane's pussy worms from last week. Impressive!

4:00 - Janes makes fun of me for my shirt with a bear on it - we try to define what makes a silly shirt "ironic."

10:45 - SXSW and GDC: Bret and I discuss the intense impulse to melvin nerds at tech conferences.

13:00 - Taking Skype calls on an airplane, this is the world we live in now.

15:39 - My first-hand account of Doug Benson forcibly removing a movie texter, and what that teaches us about how to deal with assholes and hecklers.

23:15 - North Korea's super weird video of the college kid (Otto Warmbier) they sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for trying to steal a banner.

32:00 - Jane experiments on chat roulette, which does still exist.

34:19 - Laremy joins via Skype

36:15 - Would Queer Eye For The Straight Guy be allowed today?

37:38 - Laremy experiences San Francisco homeless. What city has the most aggressive homeless?

47:30 - Bret has no interest in Deadpool. Is he wrong?

57:00 - Internet commenters HATE Flophouse on Viceland. Is that show a perfect storm of things internet commenters would hate?

1:06:00 - Unintentional sarcastiquotes in BBC headlines