Tall Talk
By Tall Talk
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Tall TalkJul 03, 2023
0024 TBD (Tall Be Determined) Part 2
Another Super Late Episode: The TallBoyz talk end of year miscellany some more!
0023 - TBD1 (Tall Be Determined)
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0026 AI Part 2 Chat GPT
The TallBoyz Talk AI Part 2
0025 - Food and Last of Us
The TallBoyz Talk LAST OF US and food requirements.
0022 DnD and OGL
Another Super Late Episode: The TallBoyz Talk The Toppling of Wizards of the Coast, diving deep into Connor (6'4)'s expansive knowledge of the situation and possible outcomes/ramifications. Will (6'2) makes jokes.
0021 High Art. Relevancy, and Branching Out
This ep the TallBoyz broach the topics of the relevancy of artistic effort in a post-AI world. Who knows, maybe this podcast will be AI soon. Maybe it already is. Maybe it always has been?
*X-Files theme*
*Or I don't know, the Ben-10 theme or whatever you children*
0028 - Mandalorian and Godzilla Again
The TallBoyz compare notes on the most recent season of MANDALORIAN, and Connor (6'2) manages to wedge a whole bunch of Godzilla talk into the conversation. We will pause here to contain your shock that Connor (6'2) managed to wedge a whole bunch of Godzilla talk into the conversation 🙄
0027 human condition and getting back into it
Well *Tall*-owers, been a while since last these dulcet voices from above echoed through our various earth-bound speakers -- but the Tallboyz are back and all stocked up with only-a-little-bit-dated content. Doing double-episode weeks for the next three weeks! Enjoy 🤗 Also: gonna aim for a little more consistency from here on out. We'll see.
This episode the TallBoyz Speak From Real(ish) Time and discuss the increasing weight of living in the modern era.
020 Twitter's Precipitously Public Decline
The TallBoyz approach the titular Twitter tomfoolery from an artistic perspective, specifically the rapidly-retreating ability to reach out directly to the folks who have the careers (and hiring power) that they hope to achieve for themselves.
019 Top Shelf Miscellany
Because all the other episodes are so laser-focused, the TallBoyz step back to do a wide-ranging philosophical discussion about the nerdiest thing on their phone (thanks Connor) and mostly out-of-date television dissection. Lotta Westworld.
Look, you know what this is. There's been 17 episodes of this bullshit so far so at this point, if you're listening, it's on you.
(but thanku4listening 🤗!)
018 AI, Art, & the Unbearable Agony of Tech Stealing All Our Jobs
Once more doomsaying co-host Will (6'2) introduces Connor to a brand new nightmare to keep him up at night: the coming decimation of art as a career at any level other than the highest peaks of the industry. Fortunately, the TallBoyz may be just altitudinous to keep up -- but we'll see!
017 Adaptations
The TallBoyz attempt to dissect what makes for an excellent adaptation (not to be confused with the already excellent Adaptation by Charlie Kaufman).
016 Tall Tales from the Long Box
Just a couple'a TallBoyz tallkin' funnybooks. Garth Ennis and Neil Gaiman feature prominently. Have you read any Garth Ennis? You should really be reading more Garth Ennis. Preacher is the absolute bee's knees.
015 The Discovery/HBOMax Merger? I Hardly Know 'Er!
After (the last foreseeable) extended hiatus, the TallBoyz are BACK with more bemoaning from the mountaintop as they scan the horizons of business and entertainment & make it all about them 🤗
014 Television Show POV vs Character POV or Why The Office Is A Dystopia
This week hosts Will (6'2) and Connor (6'4) attempt to understand and explain the difference between a television show's point of view, and the POVs of the characters within that show. A subtle, some* would say frivolous, distinction helpfully explicated by the TallBoyz, so crack open the latest podcast. It's lit, fam 🔥
* Idiots.
013 Connor's Top 10 Most Influential Movies
After our long, unheralded break, the TallBoyz are back for a saccharine journey of indulgent navel-gazing, as host Connor (6'4) takes co-host Will (6'2) through his list of "Top 10 Most Influential [on his writing] Movies of All Time".
Episodes should be more regular from this point forward :)
012 First R-Rated Movie
Connor (6'4) and Will (6'2) recount their first encounters with R-rated cinema, the pinnacle of movie ratings that you might be open to watching with your parents!
011 How Connor Works His Tall Boi Magic on 'Crit or Miss'
Connor (6'4) takes co-host Will (6'2) through his process for designing, building, and running his ongoing DnD podcast Crit or Miss. Connor's lectures are much more fun.
010 Objectivism from a Bird's-Eye View
Host Will (6'2) finally makes good on his threats and regales co-host Connor (6'4) with his unassailably accurate takes on Objectivism, its ancestors, and the modern-day descendants (aka "the good time ruiners", "jagoffs", etc).
In doing so he manages to mangle a wide assortment of references, particularly confusing Aristotle for Socrates (pronounced "So, crates?"), but eagle-eared listeners are welcome to lambast him online for the rest at @willmckim!
Meanwhile Connor's grace in the face of unwarranted vitriol remains boundless.
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009 TTRPGs For The Towering
This week the TallBoyz talk roleplaying games, with Connor (6’4) showcasing his expert knowledge of the D20 system, and Will (6’2) waxing nostalgic for Worlds of Darkness old.
008 The Internet Part Deux
This one’s a few weeks late because Will (6’2) is bad at time management and refuses to change.
The main tallpic is following up on the previous conversation about the internet – particularly the way it’s enabled cool guys like Connor (6’4) to engage in nerditry across the world, and how it’s all ultimately a miserable heap of attention-seeking capitalism in the bloodshot eyes of Will.
There’s also a touch of hip hollywood insider chat at the open.
The TallBoyz are who they are 🤷♂️
Pertinent Links:
007 The Internet & You
The internet has existed for the entirety of Connor's (6'4) life. Today he and co-host Will (6'2) talk about growing up in the age of an ever-changing system of tubes, along with rapidly-evolving society that built them.
Will also has some thoughts on the corporate centralization of what could be so much more!
006 The Spec-tacular Dynamics of Getting a Job feat. Dani
Tall Talk broadens our horizons (and lowers our average elevation) by welcoming our first guest to the podcast: Dani (5'6), of hotgirlnovels fame!
Together with Dani, Will (6'2) and Connor (6'4) -- each a synecdoche of sequential screenwriting micro-generations -- talk through the advice each received as a burgeoning art kid, and examine how the differences serve as a rough history of an ever-changing, wholly unpredictable industry.
005 Horror? I Hardly Know'er!
This week the towering twosome respond to a favorite question from the successfully-writing/producing-wife of Connor (6’4): “What is your favorite comfort-horror movie, guilty-pleasure-horror movie, and the horror movie you’re most likely to recommend?”
Comfort
ARMY OF DARKNESS (Will)
CABIN IN THE WOODS (Connor)
Most Likely to Recommend:
EVENT HORIZON (Will)
HALLOWEEN (1978) (Connor)
Guilty Pleasure:
YOU’RE NEXT (Will)
DAWN OF THE DEAD (2004) (Connor)
004 There's Something About Faerie(s)
Will (6'2) takes Connor (6'4) through his lifelong fascination with faeries, in a redux of the Connor-led Godzilla episode (but with a robust literary sensibility, rather than Connor's).
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003 Peak TV for the Peak of Humanity
The TallBoyz talk TV shows, digging into their top 3 each. Full list:
1. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Will)
1. 30 Rock (Connor)
2. The Terror | Season 1 (Will)
2. The Leftovers (Connor)
3. Person of Interest (Will)
3. The Haunting of Hill House (Connor)
Special thanks to Durry (https://durrymusic.bandcamp.com) for letting us use their rad music as a bumper!
002 Godzilla vs Ayn Rand; or: "Kaiju, the Tallest Monsters"
Tall Boy Connor (6'4) takes kaiju-naif Will (6'2) through the weird, wacky, incomprehensible history of Godzilla and his altitudinous pantheon of friends and foes. Will also gets to dunk on Ayn Rand.
Special thanks to Durry (https://durrymusic.bandcamp.com) for letting us use their rad music as a bumper!
001 The Introduction
Connor (6'4) doesn't get the joke and makes us actually talk tall.
Special thanks to Durry (https://durrymusic.bandcamp.com) for letting us use their rad music as a bumper!