Episode 16: Disney World, Small Talk, Ask OTC, Expert Testimony: OTC Comics, Unchained Melodies, and The Phantom Tollbooth
This week Dave and Steel are joined by their friend Oliver. Together they discuss Dave’s recent family vacation to Disney World (including a refreshing stop at Club Cool!), explore the benefits of Transcendental Meditation, learn more about the Rocky Mountain Land Library, speculate about the return of Full House (it’s going to be called Fuller House!), offer listeners moving advice and dance tips, discuss Dave and Oliver’s shared passion for cartooning and comic books, share their envy of the voices of Antony Heggarty, Prince Nelson, Van Morrison, Vic Chesnutt, Charlie Puth, and Bobby Hatfield & Bill Medley, and drop some wisdom from Norton Juster’s classic children’s adventure novel The Phantom Tollbooth.
Links
Disney World
Duffy the Disney Bear Club Cool
Small Talk
Transcendental Meditation
- Alec Baldwin and Jerry Seinfeld discuss Transcendental Meditation on Here’s the Thing.
- The Maharishi University of Management (which Steel kept mistakenly calling the Maharishi Institute of Management.
- The Golden Domes
The Rocky Mountain Land Library
TV Show Reunions
Expert Testimony: OTC Comics
- The Bone Series
- Family Circus
- Lynda Barry’s Tumblr
- John Porcellino’s The Hospital Suite
- Some of Oliver’s art and illustration
Unchained Melodies
Antony and the Johnsons — Dust & Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is3skKNNa1U
Prince — Kiss
Van Morrison — Ballerina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdB5N4meH9g
Vic Chesnutt — Flirted with You All My Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Z-kjr4BLs
Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth — See You Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgKAFK5djSk
Righteous Brothers — Unchained Melody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYj2hex99gY
Book Wisdom
For this week’s book wisdom, Oliver shared a lovely passage from Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth about how the watchdog Tock got his name.