Let's Do This! May 28th, 2009

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Comment by Azteca on May 29, 2009 at 7:01am

I am not sure if Austin gets this weekly column but it is fantastic it is simply Ask A Mexican! written by Gustavo Arellano. You can look it up online at http://askamexican.net/ and it is in my humble opinion one of the most intelligent columns in regards to a specific race and pretty much answers all things Mexican.

On a side note on Wed night I watched the classic flick The Professionals and I was just cracking up on how the Mexicans were portrayed not just by Jack Palance's acting (but had a bitchin stache) and I told my friends I was not offended at all. The point is that sometimes you have to embrace some stereotypes and own it as your very own. I am not going to deny Mexicans speak or act a certain way sometimes because for myself growing up in a huge Mexican Catholic family we are that sometimes!

Therefore where is the insult to begin with?

Comment by Len on May 29, 2009 at 6:19am

On your last LDT/IAGAIEMOM podcast, you implied that Filipinos were being too sensitive to Alec Baldwin’s statement of wanting to acquire a Filipina mail-order-bride.

As a Filipino member of your site, I feel I have to explain why Filipinos are sensitive on the matter: Filipinas selling their bodies in the form of mail-order-brides are a painful, tragic and all too common fact. You have to consider, these are women who agree to marry a man they hardly know, just so they can escape terrible poverty. These marriages are not for fun or adventure. It is not uncommon that these unions end up badly for the Filipina. This also perpetuates the idea that Filipinas are a commodity to be bought or sold.

I don’t know Mr. Baldwin personally, I don’t know if his comments were based on a low esteem for Filipinas, or if he was being mean. I would like to believe he is a good person and that his comments were without malice. But for Filipinos, whose resilience are continuously tested by tragedy upon ordeals, many with lives mired in grinding poverty, a sensitive matter is a sensitive matter. This stays however frequent you Google “mail-order-brides” and come up with rows of pictures of smiling Filipinas, inviting you to come and marry them.

Would anyone joke about the tragedy of African famine just because the Internet is filled with starving, skeletal African children? Should we joke about all those images of naked children on child-pornography sites, because they are prevalent when we search for them on the Internet? These are realities too. I don’t think Mr. Baldwin would dare make light of such topics, reality or not, if he wants to maintain a career.

Frankly I feel that Filipinos are too sensitive on some issues that impinge on national pride and dignity. I am especially irked when big-shot Filipino politicians take the soapbox on such matters, because most likely than not, these politicians would be one of the reasons our national pride and dignity has eroded: a lot of these indignant politicians are corrupt, self-serving thieves, who, tacitly or otherwise, actively degrade the lives of Filipinos.

As I began my letter, I stated that I simply want to explain the sensitivity of Filipinos on such matters. I am not telling you how to conduct yourselves in your podcasts, and I can’t blame you if you are “insensitive” on such topics such as “Filipina mail-order-brides”. However insensitive or sensitive your podcasts are on such matters, the blame should rest entirely on Filipinos for allowing such tragedies to perpetuate.

But also it would be nice if high profile people of more advanced nations like America (like Mr. Baldwin), would recognize the tragedy more than the humor in sad situations that other poorer countries like mine endure.

Let me also say I am highly entertained by Spill.com, I don’t think there is anything else like it on the interwebs and I wish you guys all the best.

Comment by Devin on May 29, 2009 at 5:07am

and Herbert "Tiny Tim" Khaury went a long-ass time without masturbating... he was saintly

Comment by Devin on May 29, 2009 at 4:35am

This show becomes 3 times more hilarious whenever Leon shows up.

Comment by MovieScriptEnding on May 29, 2009 at 4:02am

yes lets do this is finally here

Comment by MYTN on May 29, 2009 at 4:01am

Wow, this is probably one of my favorite podcasts. It makes me kind of wish that Leon and Cyrus would have their own podcast that DIDN'T only talk about what they read that week, because I think you guys are pretty insightful on other subjects as well.

Comment by sinshenlong on May 29, 2009 at 2:55am

in barbados cunt is prob used more than fuck lol

Comment by ChristianDB on May 29, 2009 at 2:35am

awesome podcast guys almost perfect but..

cyrus you gotta get closer to the mic, I'll be straining to listen to you but if I turn it up to high korey's laughter will blow out my ears, I have the same problem with leog and beau and his glorious drunkenness

Comment by Totaran on May 29, 2009 at 2:23am

A classic LDT. Thank you, Korey, for being captain of another LDT, and thank you Leon and Cyrus, for bringing the show to another level of bullshit.

Comment by BlackMagic on May 29, 2009 at 2:03am

I was just about to say The Onion Movie, but most of the sketches all tied together into the main plot, except maybe the Armed Gunman sketch.

As much as I enjoy hearing Korey and Co-Host bull about stuff, I really enjoyed this one with Leon and Cyrus, though those high pitched screams in the first half hour had me checking to see if I had gone deaf. Though I'll have to keep an eye out for "Raped Nuns" from now on. And the floppy disk...don't remind me. My days with those ended when a Chemistry teacher didn't accept them anymore, threw mine backwards- assuming I could catch it four desks away- and ended my life of disks until I met the flash drive.

I don't think you guys should say you probably shouldn't tell these "explicit" details. It's what most people listen to the show for and it's the straight up, no beating around the bush truth.

That being said, I'm sorry, but (all comes out here) I can't watch the vintage stuff for long, and vintage for my age is just early 90s stuff from stars like Hayley Jane Russell or Solange Lecarrio and anything from Color Climax, but the grainy black and white footage and Amazon rain forest bushes don't do it for me. I'm guessing it's because I'm younger and didn't grow up with black market, hard to find grainy VHS pornography. And Korey's right- any guy with a functioning sex drive who says they haven't rubbed one- if able to- or looked at something explicit is either lying or blind or part of some weird religious sect. There are probably the rare ones that haven't seen it at all, but there's always television and Playboy. And if not that, some life they must live. When some female asks if I have a girlfriend, I straight up tell them, "No, my mate is my right hand" but no in those words. Sure, it won't win them over, but it's the truth and I'd rather be known as the weird honest guy than the straight faced liar.

I've only heard of Andrew Dice Clay, but never seen his work. If he's as risque or an ugly reminder as you guys said, it sounds like it's worth hearing. And the whole Alec Baldwin thing blew over pretty quickly. People must've figured "Hey, the guy's on 30 Rock and gets to hang with Tina Fey. Leave him alone." I kind of wish we could've heard the rest of that conversation, though.

As far as terrible guilty pleasures, I'd go with the 1994 Street Fighter. It's miles better than the Chun Li movie and at least the '94 one was cheesy fun and knew it wanted to be a camp fest movie, and at least the people looked like the characters despite the bad acting, dialogue, and plot. The whole point you guys made about shock factor diving fans reminds me a lot about Bamboozled and the mixed reactions to the New Millennium Minstrel Show. Some will love the shocking details, others will warm up to it, and others will hate it. And it seems a lot of people say Toy Story 2 is the perfect movie. I enjoyed it and would consider the series perfect provided the third one is of the same caliber as the first. It will be hard to top Woody's back story, the Round Up Gang, theme of growing up, and Newman in one film. As others said, I consider the Back to the Future series to be one of the better movie series- not great, but still enjoyable films. I don't read much of Harry Potter, but the films do still have the same high caliber all the way through. I'd still say Prisoner of Azkaban is the best so far- ironically, the last book I read in the series.

Great Let's Do This, guys! Hope London goes well! And seriously, do you guys watch the British Office? That conversation on midgets and dwarfs felt ripped from a conversation in one of the episodes.

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