If two times is the charm, then this podcast… is the charm. Recorded in The Enchanted Enclave™, this episode includes a special “Sweet 16” with Brendon Small (Metalocalypse, Home Movies), a tender conversation about the elusive Smoke Duck, a community sanctioned airing of “Rock and Scroll”, and an introduction to the world of Tree Mammiles Drella & Blim. You’re going to listen and be like “ok!”
QUESTION OF THE WEEK: What are your favorite things that comes in two’s? Also, DO YOU LIKE US??? (Hint: Even if you don’t, you can lie!) Please let us know in the comments.
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Selected Links from the Episode
- Brendon Small plays Game of Thrones theme on guitar live at VanJam
- Young Frankenstein scene that Brendon Small references
- Brendon Small’s dog Ernie, a Weimeraner
- Thetans
- Flash Gordon Opening Theme
- Freaks
- Dan Harris’s book
Show Notes
- Cold Open [0:00]
- Frimbles Forest [0:52]
- Train to Enchanted Enclave [3:40]
- 2’s My Lucky Number rap [4:00]
- Episode 2 Begins [4:37]
- GeoStats from Episode 1 [6:22]
- Call to Action Part 1 – What to call the Fans? (both hand and human) [10:31]
- Call to Action Part 2 – Make Some Art [12:15]
- Jamie and Vanessa’s Big Meeting [12:48]
- Vanessa & Jamie preview convo with Brendon Small [17:11]
- Jamie introduces Brendon Small [18:10]
- Jamie mentions epic live VanJam moment with Brendon Small [19:40]
- Brendon Small gives show pitching advice [23:11]
- Brendon Small answers the VanJam Sweet 16 [34:10]
- Ernie the Weimeraner [42:15]
- Thetans are mentioned [52:30] (Scientology)
- Star Wars and FlashGordon are mentioned, Freddie Mercury, Brian May [56:05]
- Vanessa makes a freaks reference “one of us” [58:35]
- Brendon Small played the flute on Comedy Bang Bang [1:03:45]
- Brendon Small’s Preferred Superpower [1:05:11]
- Archive Time: Rock and Scroll [1:07:38]
- Jamie & Vanessa Discuss Meditation [1:13:37]
- The Smoke Duck is born
- A Lot of Duck Noises and a Classic Duck Joke [1:25:20]
- Back to Drella & Blim [1:28:14]
- Om Your Way Home, beatboxing track by Long Shot listener Nathan [1:31:47]
- Outro: Twin Rap with Cereal ft. Count Chocula [1:32:59]
People Mentioned
- Freddie Mercury
- Brian May
- Dan Harris
Quotables
- “It’s locking yourself in with a monster” -Brendon Small on the hardest part of the creative process, referencing Young Frankenstein (somewhere around 36:45) (references young frankenstein
- “Never mind this bullshit. It gets way better after this”–Brendon Small (the plaque Brendon Small would leave at his high school)
- “Chasing the Smoke Duck”–an expression coined by Vanessa that refers to pursuing an elusive, probably impossible goal
- “True art is made when you’re communing with the universe, blah blah blah.” –Jamie
- “If you’re being threatened by a person, push them to their brink. Get out there, find your aggressors, and aggress back.” -Vanessa
