Gutterballs

Cowards, weaklings, bums, the waffliness of diegesis, the perfection of narrative spaghetti, high frame rate cameras for catching high speed crabs, the landlord as originally scripted, Thurston's future return, the temporal anomalies of round robin bowling tournaments, a listener comment from Gordon Lightfoot, the fluidity of dates in Lebowski's filmic dream, disconfirmations, Brad's ignorance of...

How Brad hates jobs, high quality digital representations of high quality paper, 150% Brandt finger splaying, cogent pieces of cultural criticism in a classic 80s film, voyaging inside The Dude's head, the resolution of paper, the season dump, more on PS-Hoff's amazing body control as evidenced by his caterpillar lip, the nihilosity of the word "gather", the jumping of the J, the unlikelihood of t...

Mo-Zurt, logical glossovers, a celebration of candelabras, the porn version of an old Jeff Bridges movie, a little dude in Tron, the strongly influential Babe Ruth of Japan, some interstates, the fallacy of the Prince symbol with a smiley face, Fargo's punctuated mundanity, duck stamp paintings, The Clive Owen that never shows up, the geographical boundaries of Yellowstone National Park, imagining...

The turntable's disreality infraction, the Dude's landlord's real name, Flea's dedication to River Phoenix, the different roads that all lead to the truth, Marty's (Monty's? Allan's?) extended universe adventures, the green ashtray containing the bowling ball pipe that later the cop handles, the dude's bongos, spider-man's amazing friends, the intimacy of the wide shot of the Dude's home, known un...

Walter stares into your soul, getting lost in the colors and patterns of space and time of The Dude's rug, The Dude's honest grit floor, the fancy treat of using an ice bucket even when you are the only one in your home, Captain Bee Farts, The Dude's cleanliness, the skinny bowler of Adam's nightmare, the curious small plastic bowling pin, contravening bylaws by brandishing a firearm, the non-Acke...

What happened to Thurston, Donnie as a member of the square community, Walter as an upside down triangle, the impossible geometries of the dream reality, the most coasterific line, the common pattern of tandem films, how to frame two people having a conversation in a car, the bel ami, a mysterious drip that can be heard, Walter's non-sensitive language.

Brad and Adam are joined by Christine the Playbill to talk about the dog's man mumbles, timelessness of firearms and their ability to make new slots in men, the secret sounds of the coffee grounds, a decade without Stereolab, Thurston as equivalent to coked up Asian firecracker-throwing man, mansplicing, the potential glass ceiling for 1st Assistant Directors, lines and rules, Stu's side job, Thur...

Brad and Adam finally introduce themselves, Mr. Potter as template for the titular Lebowski, repetitive and chanty music by American GIs who were based in Germany in the mid-to-late 1960s, the awkward name dropping of Cynthia and Marty Ackerman, lots about feet: both their scampering and proximity, leg embraces, the rule of thirds and the effectiveness of center framing, the universality of The Du...

Finding truth in a fictional world more true than our own, blu-ray chapter delineation, the second bottle of jack in the pool, lighting the dude's face with an artificial sun, the popularity of Brad's beat poetry cover of Viva Las Vegas, geospatial ramifications of camera move decisions, rhythmic nostril flares, the mysterious case of the suddenly empty pool, half clouded skies and the similaritie...

The experience of Lebowski with the virgin mind, the inflation of the pea-sized amount, half whip pans, the truth of the human paraquat, the sound of a bottle in the water, a possible second splash, Bunny's poor toenail painting technique and logistics, some clues as to why the titular Lebowski and Brandt think the dude may have been the man for the job, foreshadowed vengeful micturition, the two...

full on dude, the beauty of the free pass to say fuck, parsing the meaning of 0th birthdays, revisiting a la Doc Brown and Marty McFly, repetitive Sorkinisms, the aesthetics of the shimmy, the origins of giant dust motes, alternate William H Macy dudes, the dude solving his own problems, the filmically true way to walk 18 feet to a door, how to pronounce boo-shem-ee, a brief history of the medieva...

Brad and Adam are joined by psychologist and linguist Victoria Saxby to talk about the the doppelgangistic connection between the titular Lebowski and Walter, the efficacy of the New Dudely Lama, the real Maude Lebowskis and her Mid-Atlantic dialect, other pot-smoking private dicks in the mythical landscape of Los Angeles, we go deep inside Llewyn Davis, the evolution of The Dude's demeanor as the...

The uncomfortableness of asking for things from bombastic self-aggrandizing individuals. Why would the rich Lebowski take the meeting in the first place? The more you crow the less you know. The spanish verb parlar. Fractals of African villages. FDR's dog, Fala, and his relevance to Nazi Germany. The schedules of the rich lebowski's housekeeping service. Major revelation, new shit has come to ligh...

Our first ever mailbag segment! A listener question about suspension of disbelief, the importance of the human elements on the screen, the grandest of all moffs, the places Sam Neill doesn't belong, how a pair of eyes can salvage a movie in theory, and the limits of muppets and whimsical sci-fi fantasy.

P-Hoff vs PS-Hoff and the USS Sea Dog, solving the mystery of the tilted Urban Achievers plaque, definitive fin whale identification, empathy for Brandt, subtle birdly heavenly choruses, HFR dioramas, mumbled Chucks, the resolution of paint, remote controlled electronic doors, the chair's long approach, the evolution of the Time magazine font throughout the ages, John Milius, and Walt-rotica.

Brant's tells, the singing Guy Fawkes variety clubs mascot, why Orson Welles sucks, the banalities of plaques as evidenced by mirrored tchotchkes, how to buy a Big Gulp after civilization crumbles, T-bar versus fisherman style sandals, college trying, touching the hole in the shoe, and Brad and Adam get creeped out by photos of men's jellied legs.

The ludicrosity of Bluray extra features, Brad's desire to eliminate the Van Nuys, a little bit of patter, Lynch on Louie, how to properly introduce yourself to Styx, why all roads lead to Lebowski, revisiting the herky jerky blades of grass, a composite job, Walter as father figure, the fashion implications of Brad losing his grip on reality, supersonic background waitresses, doubles and triples...

We count down to predictions, fear of the unknown, the length and subtlety of diegetic Dylan songs, sad little mini-chapters of Donnie's journey, the Walters in our lives, the one shared pixel of a social Venn diagram, the Dude's mysterious approach, the utter failing of our inner manlinesses, blueblockers, the beautiful clarity of HD television without a television, wooden Eskimo goggles, the lim...

The hope that you are the guy that gets jettisoned back to earth,  the excellence of lists, Scarlett Johannsen's defining example of young hotness, ball swapping, sparrots, mullets, fancy waistlines, the search for the clip, continuity of peripheral bowlers, the Saddaminator and his well-honed finger position for effective vaporized sanitation delivery, ickiness of real-life Dude inspiration, and...

How you pronounce Googie, french fry and buffalo wing greased balls, supportive pants, continuity errors, T-Bone Burnett's hunger game, Jeff Golblum's Adam in 1998, Mary Zophres doesn't do shit (She only does the finest quality work), sputnik shapes, Chandler's big sleep, the physics of ball spin and the logistics of filming it, the little man in Adam, celebratory strike dances, and the present as...

In this episode Brad and Adam discuss moisture retention qualities of different hair and beard types, the artifice versus the spontaneous truth of film as played out on ping-pong-ball-sized bowling ball cracked tiles, the art of the reveal as practiced by experienced thugs, the timeliness and cadence of drips, the lack of sanitization of barbecue basting brushes, the slippery invisibility of refle...

Brad and Adam are joined by an interior designer to discuss the finer points of the dude's abode, including but not limited to: what Woo said, word dancing, the paradox of the poetic general and the muscle, raising one eyebrow at a possible out of character one-liner. The full Kenny Rogers Roasters Experience complete with psychedelic beaded curtain, shower curtain rod engineering, the inevitabili...

Adam and Brad are joined by a special marine biology expert to discuss the fourth minute of The Big Lebowski: the stranger concludes his VO, the dude's considerable considerate thought (CCT), rationales for half and half smelling, the September 11th connection, the sperms versus the blues, new world orders, realism or lack thereof in check register scribbles, Adam calls around LA, the affordabilit...

Included in this episode: Moribund age percentages and death stalkers, making entirely new dudes by removing a letter, dude emulations, hanging bundles of salamis abutting dairy aisles opposite dairy product booths, exaggerating abundance, the cost of flip flops in LA grocery markets, the riddle of the two Ralphs, upscale bean salad on a pizza shell, lack of interest in violating the patina, opule...

Listen to Adam and Brad discuss the second minute of The Big Lebowski, including dude definitions, the typecast confounding stranger, mood cinema, compositing LA vistas, our lack of tumbleweed research, evening taco shack math, hand wash, the probability of geographic inconsistencies, the professionalism of inky blackness, the liquid desert (aka the ocean), some follow up on high frame rates, resp...