88. The Twilight Zone, Cochlear Implants, Ants, Barack Obama & More

Lighting (episode) strikes again as Phil & Jake rank The Twilight Zone media franchise, plastic straws, cochlear implants, mocha lattes, ants, belly button lint, hitting rock bottom and former U.S. President Barack Obama on the List of Every Damn Thing.

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SHOW NOTES:

• We mentioned several episodes of the original Twilight Zone TV series, such as It's a Good Life and Mirror Image. We didn't mention After Hours which is fantastic.
• The Twilight Zone 80s reboot has one really good episode "Button, Button" which we think was made into a movie. The way it works is a guy gives you a button to keep for a month and if you press the button you get a million dollars. 
• The Twilight Zone Jordan Peele reboot was OK but too long. The right amount of time for something like this is under 30 minutes. 
• Here’s some of the Twilight Zone episode with Buster Keaton. There’s a lot of jokes about the differences between the 1890s and the 1960s that don’t really hit in 2022.
• William Shatner bugs out in a Twilight Zone episode. A couple decades later, John Lithgow bugs out in a reboot of it from The Twilight Zone: The Movie.
• “You know, for kids” is one of our favorite things.
• Sound of Metal is a great movie about deafness. You should watch it. We don’t mention it in the episode, but Coda is also a great movie about deafness (and especially deafness as culture). You should watch it too.
• Cyborgs is short for "cybernetic organism". Phil has a very loose definition of cyborgs that his family doesn't agree with. Phil claims that not only is someone with a pacemaker a cyborg but also someone with glasses, a cell phone or shoes.
• Phil claimed that The Ants won E.O. Wilson the Pulitzer prize but he was actually thinking of Tales from the Ant World.
• Leiningen and the Ants is a 1938 short story you probably remember from school here's the full text but, I hasten to add, it's of (looks left and right) dubious legality.
• Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is a former wrestler and current movie star, his second most famous move was the Rock Bottom. Here are ten examples of him performing the move. Phil had it confused with the People's Elbow, which goes off the turnbuckles. The Rock Bottom is what's called a "side slam".
• Here’s the Between Two Ferns with Obama.

ALSO DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
The Twilight Zone pinball machine * Star Wars * Black Mirror * Peter Falk * The Outer Limits * EC Comics * Rod Serling * Saturday Night Live * alternative milks * Crocs * Spaceballs * Nerf guns * generation ships * Aerosmith * fast fashion * Plackers dental flossers * capitalism * Josta * sports team jerseys * bicycles * BIC lighters * earplugs * Charli XCX * hot cocoa * coffee * cold brew shandy * animal crackers * grilled cheese sandwich * dippin’ sauce * expresso with an “x” * Popeye’s chicken * Taco Bell * picnics * The Grasshopper and the Ants * crows * wool * radio edits * death * public humiliation * Guantanamo Bay * Theodore Roosevelt * Ice Cube * Gary Busey * Jessica Rabbit

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