Tim and Max Learnt Everything They Know About Life From Popular Culture Episode 8 – Comedy, or “The Desperately in Need of Validation Club AKA All Comedians”

Tim and Max Learnt Everything They Know About Life From Popular Culture Episode 8 – Comedy, or “The Desperately in Need of Validation Club AKA All Comedians”

 

 

Thanks to Geek Syndicate for being our host when we were more purely geek-focused. You can hear the old episodes here: http://geeksyndicate.co.uk/?s=solve+popular&x=0&y=0

Preamble:

“Ultralounge”
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Flatshare Slamdown:

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Tim and Max Learnt Everything They Know About Life From Popular Culture Episode 3 – Teenagehood and Romance, or “Consider the Patriarchy”

Tim and Max Learnt Everything They Know About Life From Popular Culture Episode 3 – Teenagehood and Romance, or “Consider the Patriarchy”

 

That’s right. Tim and Max is back after 3 years. Hosted this time around on the Psycomedia Network (a wholly owned subsidiary of Welcome To The Madness Productions). Thanks to Geek Syndicate for being our host when we were more purely geek-focused. You can hear the old episodes here: http://geeksyndicate.co.uk/?s=solve+popular&x=0&y=0

In this week’s podcast comparison, Maxy suggested that we might be similar to Unanswered – http://unansweredpodcast.wordpress.com/

 

We Learnt This Week:

That Maxy is conflicted about the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt:

(see also – Terry Crews on feminism – http://www.damemagazine.com/2015/03/06/terry-crews-feminist-millions-have-died-because-male-pride )

That Lizzy thinks Broad City is awesome and has been indoctrinated into video games:

 

(see also – Telltale Games):

That Tim thinks relationships run on Netflix:

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Psycomedia Episode 92 – Time Travelling South African Idiot Kevin Pietersen

Psycomedia Episode 92 – Time Travelling South African Idiot Kevin Pietersen

References:

  • Barber, N. (2001). Mustache fashion covaries with a good marriage market for women. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 25(4), 261-272.
  • Hargan, J. (1935). The psychology of prison language. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 30(3), 359.
  • Libin, E., & Libin, A. (2003). New diagnostic tool for robotic psychology and robotherapy studies. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 6(4), 369-374.
  • Pancer, S. M., & Meindl, J. R. (1978). Length of hair and beardedness as determinants of personality impressions. Perceptual and motor skills, 46(3c), 1328-1330.
  • Peterson, K., & Curran, J. P. (1976). Trait attribution as a function of hair length and correlates of subjects’ preferences for hair style. The Journal of Psychology, 93(2), 331-339.
  • Tiggemann, M., & Lewis, C. (2004). Attitudes toward women’s body hair: Relationship with disgust sensitivity. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 28(4), 381-387.

Which TFT episode should Ben listen to see why Tim ships him so much with Ryan? http://www.overthinkingit.com/2014/03/25/tft-podcast-greatest-hits/ is the best way to find out!

Of course the article is by Laurie Penny. Of course. http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/2014/01/why-patriarchy-fears-scissors-women-short-hair-political-statement

Decent #makeupselfie –

Sleazy #makeupselfie

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