Completely Conspicuous Episode 115: Pop Culture Principles, Part 1

Special guest Ric Dube joins me to discuss the underlying rules behind pop culture trends. 

Topics:

- 'Twas a dark and stormy night 

- Ric's dropping some science

- Wardrobe malfunctions at the Super Bowl (Janet Jackson, Pete Townshend)

- Super Bowl has older halftime acts every year

- All movies use fish-out-of-water premise

- On TV shows, star always has a wacky neighbor

- Dube's Principle of Ballistic Karma: 'splosions only get the bad guy

- Slow motion is a key indicator

- "Dolls should never be seen outdoors"

- Kumar: A-Team Principle of Ammo Dispersement

- That background noise is rain pounding on the windows

- '80s action shows always have bad guy's car flying off a ramp 

- Dube's Principle of Unadvanced Technology

- Glasses are always a prop

- Ric's 5th grade teacher was disgusting

- Computers in TV shows or movies are totally unrealistic

- Things Ric wants to do someday: Guess someone's password from trivial fact about person

- Kumar: The Principle of Hard Rock Album Progression

- Artists always say the new album is way better than the previous one

- Every celeb thinks he or she can write a children's book

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

- The New Pornographers - Your Hands (Together)

- Broken Social Scene - World Sick

- Black Rebel Motorcyle Club - Conscience Killer

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The New Pornographers song is on the forthcoming album Together on Matador Records. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/thenewpornographers and download the song for free at http://www.matadorrecords.com.

The Broken Social Scene song is on the forthcoming album Forgiveness Rock Record on Arts and Crafts Records. Find out more and download the track for free at http://brokensocialscene.ca.

The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club song is on the album Beat the Devil's Tattoo on Vagrant Records. Find out more at http://www.myspace.com/blackrebelmotorcycleclub. The song is courtesy of RCRDLBL; download it for free at http://rcrdlbl.com. 

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at http://clickyclickymusic.com and http://www.keepingsomedarksecrets.net. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/meandboristhebull. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at http://bobdurling.blogspot.com/.

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