Drive-Time Ruminant 12: The Naked Truth

The drive-time Remnant format returns for another predictably eclectic broadcast. Today’s episode finds Jonah, Guy, ...

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The drive-time Remnant format returns for another predictably eclectic broadcast. Today’s episode finds Jonah, Guy, and Ryan perplexed by Madison Cawthorn’s claims about D.C. debauchery, amused by conspiracy theories about Will Smith’s Oscars slap, and fascinated by the lowest moments of otherwise great TV shows. They also touch on Jonah’s latent arachnophobia, Guy’s animated obsessions, and Ryan’s fondness for Lucky Charms. By the end of it all, the Remnant may have conclusively jumped the shark.

Show Notes:

– The Wednesday G-File

– Hungary eyes

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    Austin Byrd

    I am late to the podcast party, but I had to add my two cents to Guy's new neighborhood. As a young Marine 2ndLt training in Quantico, I had the good fortune to live in a fancy building directly on Logan Circle. No, I wasn't paying the bills on the $34k I was paid at the time, but it paid to have a rather wealthy girlfriend. For context, this was the summer of 2010.

    I returned home from Quantico one night and parked my car a block from the building. As I approached the front door, still in uniform, I noticed a bald man with a mustache wearing a suit approaching the same door. The man approaching, lo and behold, was none other than David Axelrod, then a "Senior Advisor" to President Obama. 

    I held the door for him and he breezed by me without so much as a glance. I happened to do so because it was the polite thing to do, and I still hold the door for Democrats, their politics notwithstanding. 

    As any testosterone-fueled young Marine with an unformed capacity for judgment would do, I loudly said, "You're not at the f*cking White House, David!" 

    He turned, looked at me with a sense of shock, thought about getting angry as he looked me from head to toe, and walked away with a look of extreme frustration. I can only assume his eminently political brain did the calculus of what the press would do with "David Axelrod hates the Marine Corps."

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    Alexander

    I'm a little late to the show, but for best sitcoms, I would definitely include All in the Family on the list.

    For best sitcom endings, I really liked the way King of the Hill ended, with Bobby becoming a competitive meat inspector and his father finally being proud of him.

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    Richard Maxton

    While we're talking about great television, how bout some love for Justified?

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    Daniel Standage

    “Or Bruno” 🧐

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    CP

    Best finales:

    Avatar: The Last Airbender

    Seinfeld

    Community

    Madmen

    Community is the best sitcom ever made. 30 Rock, The Office, Arrested Development, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Seinfeld, and Parks and Recreation are runners-up.

    I would love to see a fan-fiction made of Gilligan's Island where they get to the bottom of some of these plot inconsistencies. Seems likely that there was a conspiracy going on. Probably having something to do with the Bay of Pigs and cocaine orgies.

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    The Bell Tower

    1 Breaking Bad
    2 The Wire
    3 Mad Men

    Best dramatic television shows ever. Better Call Saul is right in there depending on how they finish it but Vince Gilligan is indeed the best in his business and it isn’t close.

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    Joel Alberto

    Jonah you are one of the smartest minds in politics. But can you please learn how a microphone works? Thanks.

    Unrelated: #thedispatchneedsanapp

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  8. Jordan

    I’m glad it was clarified who has and has not been to a cocaine orgy. I was getting really suspicious!

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    Rick Schwartz

    One of the best drive-times Ruminants.

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  10. Radicalartist

    No honorable mention for the original BBC version of The Office for best sitcom? I think it is worth mentioning at a minimum because it certainly is the most influential of the last 25 year. Maybe Guy just has an aversion to anything from his homeland? I still want to start a campaign for a weekly Pop Culture pod called "Goldbergs Reviews" for those who don't care for this type of conversation they can easily skip it!

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