Episode 19: Hug Daddy Game, Top 5 Norwegian Words, Small Talk, Expert Testimony: Ask the Marketer, Brother vs. Brother, Unchained Melodies, and East of Eden

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This week Dave and Steel are joined by their old friend Alan. Dave introduces the two men to a game he plays with his daughters called the “Hug Daddy Game,” Alan shares his fave favorite Norwegian words, and they run through a segment of small talk, discussing the latest FIFA scandals, Alan’s love of a well-edited Hobbit remake, and Nate DiMeo’s fantastic podcast the Memory Palace. We then present a very special feature, “Ask The Marketer,” in which we present several difficult to market products to Alan, a professional marketer, and he explains how he’d market these increasingly repulsive brands/products, following which we share great music about fictional characters from The Flaming Lips, The Brunettes, Mumford and Sons, The Spin Doctors, Suicide, and Duck Tales, and Alan closes the episode with some book wisdom from John Steinbeck’s East of Eden.

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Small Talk

• The latest in the FIFA scandals.
• The ‘Tolkien edit‘ of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy.
• Nate DiMeo’s excellent podcast The Memory Palace. Check out his “Forgotten Things” failed TV pilot for a taste of how great the show is.

Unchained Melodies

The Flaming Lips — Waitin’ for Superman

The Brunettes — Hulk is Hulk

Mumford and Sons — Timshel

The Spin Doctors — Jimmy Olsen’s Blues

Suicide — Ghost Rider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDKGohwlrZ4

Duck Tales — Theme Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUxuvs9vhKg

Book Wisdom

This week’s passage came from chapter 13 of John Steinbeck’s masterful novel East of Eden.