Completely Conspicuous 161: You Are What You Is

Special guest Brian Salvatore joins me on the podcast as we discuss nutrition in America. Listen to the show in streaming audio or download it directly (right click and "save as").

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Topics:

- Check out Brian's podcast The Enthusiasts' Radio Hour

- Recorded before a live studio audience in Pompton Lakes, NJ

- Efforts to ban trans fats

- The Salvatores belong to a food co-op

- It's good to know where your food comes from

- McDonald's Instant Remorse

- Brian made enchilada lasagna last night, Jay had a Quarter Pounder with cheese

- Taco Bell: Less than 30% actual meat in tacos

- People should be able to choose to eat junk if they want

- Jay: We limit junk food for our kids

- Parents need to take responsibility for their kids' nutrition

- Jay watched a ton of TV as a kid

- You can't force people to eat right

- Having a busy schedule is no excuse to eat poorly

- Nutrition education is important

- Food assistance programs need funding

- Brian: Haven't noticed a difference in flavor at NYC restaurants since trans fat ban

- Tainted food outbreaks are biggest concerns

- Jay: In college, going off dining plan led to poor nutrition

- Food trucks were big hit in college

- Brian: Learned to cook for myself at a young age

- Government needs to step in to enforce child nutrition

- Once you're an adult, you know what's bad for you

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

The Feelies - Should Be Gone

Drive-By Truckers - Everybody Needs Love

Mind Spiders - Don't Let Her Go

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The Feelies song is on the forthcoming album Here Before on Bar/None Records. Download the song for free at Pitchfork.

The Drive-By Truckers song is on the forthcoming album Go-Go Boots on ATO Records. Download the song for free at Amazon.

The Mind Spiders song is on the band's self-titled album on Dirt Nap Records. Download the song for free at Altered Zones.

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 his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at his blog. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

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Completely Conspicuous 160: Cold as Ice

This week on the podcast, it's another installment of Driving With Kumar as I discuss life during winter. Listen to the show in streaming audio or download it directly (right click and "save as").

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Topics:

- Already more snow in Boston area than entire last winter

- Temps dropping into single digits to subzero

- Tough running weather

- People like to complain about winter

- Lack of daylight leads to depression

- Why do people choose to live in cold-weather climates?

- In Washington state, I dealt with the occasional sandstorm

- Extreme weather in Texas

- Seasonal Affect Disorder

- Bad drivers + snow = A mess

- Fall is the perfect season

- Local media drives snow hysteria

- Bonehead of the Week (HT: The Smoking Gun)

Music:

Buffalo Tom - Guilty Girls

Mike Watt - Arrow-Pierced-Egg-Man

Mogwai - San Pedro

Tapes 'N Tapes - Badaboom

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The Buffalo Tom song is on the forthcoming album Skins on Scrawny Records. Download the song for free (in exchange for your e-mail address) at Spin.

The Mike Watt song is on the album Hyphenated-Man on clenchedwrench Records. Download the song for free at Stereogum.

The Mogwai song is on the album Hardcore Will Never Die, but You Will on Sub Pop. Download the song for free at Stereogum.

The Tapes 'N Tapes song is on the album Outside on Ibid Records. Download the song for free at KEXP.

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 his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at his blog. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

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Completely Conspicuous 159: Pitch Perfect

Special guest Ric Dube joins me again on the podcast as we conclude our movie pitching extravaganza. Listen to the show in streaming audio or download it directly (right click and "save as").

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The show notes...

Topics:

- Check out Ric's podcast More Lost Time

- Dube's summer movie: "Camp Cruise Ship"

- Ric's an Andy Samberg fan

- Summer camp on a cruise ship; two businesses in big trouble

- Kumar: "Cell Block," it's "Memento" meets "Shawshank" meets "The Hangover"

- Dube: "Witness Revocation Program"

- James Franco, Emma Stone and Anne Hathaway would star

- Kumar: "Gilligan's Island" remake with troubled celebs

- Mel Gibson, Andy Dick and Charlie Sheen: "The Expendables" meets "Celebrity Rehab"

- Christian "Big Audio" Douglass makes a surprise appearance on the show

- Big Audio harasses Dube's neighbors

- Dube: "Freaky Festival," a body switching comedy

- Movie exec and screenwriter switch bodies

- Kumar: "The Claus Conundrum" with Tim Allen as department store Santa who realizes he's an assassin

- Christian makes us watch a Logitech commercial

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Weight of the Sun

Wire - Adapt

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The And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead song is on the forthcoming album Tao of the Dead on Richter Scale Records. Download the song for free at RCRDLBL.

The Wire song is on the album Red Barked Tree on Pink Flag Records. Download the song for free at RCRDLBL.

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 his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at his blog. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

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Completely Conspicuous 158: Hammering Out the Beats

Part 2 of my podcast conversation with special guest Ric Dube as we pitch more movie ideas. Listen to the show in streaming audio or download it directly here (right click and "save as").

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Topics:

- Check out Ric's podcast More Lost Time

- Kumar: "Judge Fredd" with Rob Schneider and Jim Belushi

- Wacky case of mistaken judicial identity

- Blanking on Nancy Grace

- Dube's got Bieber Fever

- Dube: "Extra Sensory Reception"

- Cavity filling gives Bieber ability to read minds

- Tracing Kurt Russell's career path

- Echoes of "Teen Wolf"

- The classic '80s bully/a-hole archetype

- Recalling Dube's similar baseball movie pitch

- Kumar: "Time's Up," with Flavor Flav and Jennifer Lopez

- Capitalizing on reality show fame

- "When Justin Met Kelly"

- Tom Green starred in a movie

- Glorifying the unhealthy relationship

- Ric owns the fine Leno-Morita vehicle "Collision Course"

- Contemplating J. Lo

- Lamenting short-lived excellent TV shows

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

Obits- You Gotta Lose

Best Coast - Boyfriend

Tommy Stinson - One Man Mutiny

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The show is sponsored by Budget, the country's premier car rental service with 900 locations. Go to Budget.com/CompCon and save 10% off any reservation or $30 off a weekly rental.

The Obits song is on theforthcoming album Moody, Standard and Poor on Sub Pop. Download the song for free at Pitchfork.

The Best Coast song is on the album Crazy for You on Mexican Summer Records. Download the song for free at Stereogum.

The Tommy Stinson song was given away as a thank you to fans for helping him raise money to benefit relief efforts in Haiti. Download the song for free at Slicing Up Eyeballs.

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 his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at his blog. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

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Completely Conspicuous 157: A Good Idea

Special guest Ric Dube joins me on the podcast as we pitch movie ideas for 2011. Listen to the show in streaming audio or download it directly (right click and "save as").

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The show notes...

Topics:

- Check out Ric's podcast More Lost Time

- Ric offers up some leftover reality show ideas

- "The Accountant"

- Dube: Reviving "Will Power" starring Chris Rock

- Ric's Sandler impression

- Releasing movies in the "dead zone"

- Debating the merits of Oscar hosts

- Kumar: "It Takes Two," a Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy

- Dube suggests combining it with suicidal vampire movie

- "Havin' a Snuh"

- Dube: "App-Lickable"

- Justin Long and an iPhone app

- Digitizing food

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

The National - Afraid of Everyone

Kurt Vile - In My Time

The Jameses - The Fifth Dimension

Completely Conspicuous is available through the iTunes podcast directory. Subscribe and write a review!

The show is sponsored by Eastbay/Footlocker.com. Use the following codes to get athletic gear from Nike, Adidas, Asics and more. AFCOMP15 will get you 10% off any order of $50 at Eastbay.com, AFCOMP20 will get you 15% off any order of $75 at Eastbay.com and AFCOMPFL will get you 10% off any order of $50 or more at Footlocker.com.

The National song is on the album High Violet on 4AD. Download the song for free at Stereogum.

The Kurt Vile song is on the EP In My Time on Matador Records, where you can download the song for free.

The Jameses song is the B-side of the 7-inch single "Caribou" on Captured Tracks. Download the song for free at Altered Zones.

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 his fine music blogs Clicky Clicky and Keeping Some Dark Secrets. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at his blog. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.

Completely Conspicuous is a Tan God Production. Word.