The Slo'Reilly Factor
Geraldo Rivera and Bill O'Reilly arguing at half-speed. I am easily amused, and find this riotously funny when they start screaming at each other about a minute or so in. The Slo'Reilly Factor. Previously on Boing Boing: Angry Tyra Banks Godzilla, Angry Tyra Banks Chipmunk. (thanks Supersly!)
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Wow, two people whose opinions I cannot abide, yelling at each other.
So, a still shot of O'Reilly must send you into paroxysms, followed by catatonia?
I...really want to be in the room for that.
So, that's how it must look for those slow-headed, soft-brained neocons, huh?
Funny stuff. I really like when they start screaming at one another. Seriously. You know you've hit rock bottom when Geraldo is scolding you for your lack of journalistic integrity.
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By the way, I did a follow-up to Tyra Godzilla..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMiooR3VruE
They sound like Bigfoot from The Howard Stern Show arguing with himself. Possibly a very obscure reference here, but I was laughing even harder because of it.
You'd think these guys would cancel each other out.
"You'd think these guys would cancel each other out."
Their opinions were not sufficiently calibrated before the demonstration. If properly enacted, such a face-off can hit a sweet spot where each speaker is destructively interfering with the other, yielding total silence to the ears of the observer.
You should see it when they do the sound check right beforehand!
Steel yourselves for six weeks of posts of angry people in slow motion.
I wish someone would bite Bills finger off when he starts pointing it like that. Maybe we could arrange for Mike Tyson to be on the show or something.
This sort of thing (and it works for just about anything, not just the Wonder Twins up there chewing on each other's faces) is even more effective if you scale it in time but keep the pitch unshifted. The SAAATAANNN VOOOIIICCCE thing is good for a chuckle, but it masks what's a really nice effect:
A sense of slurring, blissed-out drunkenness from the conversants. There are all kinds of psychoacoustic cues that get tripped by the protracted annunciations and pauses of slowed-down correct-pitch speech.
A lot of free (or freely available OEM bundle) video-playback software will support half-speed playback; drop a DVD of your favorite movie into e.g. PowerDVD and let it rip. Call it Lebowskiization.
Oh and as an aside: I hate Geraldo with a passion.
His job in the Fox news circus is to take whatever scraps of news were not exciting enough in their own right for the regular news programs, pepper them with sensationalist hyperbole, and run them during his show to stretch their inane tripe out into something you can sell ad spaces between.
He is the news analog to processed meat. Whatever's left after making the halfway decent meat is ground up and extruded into something you otherwise couldn't have sold without adding so much adulterant that its contents are indistinguishable from the squicky animal-chunks it's derived from. It's something you can feed to the dog. Except in this case the dog is the kind of person who takes Geraldo seriously.
Wow, I have faint childhood memories that G used to be a substantive journalist?!?
Oh well, that's over-networked, toxic media de-evolution: we're going back in history/like serious toxic, retrograde sh-t...
Thanks those powerful Nets & other tellies-communicationies...
OMG! This is the only way to watch this sort of program! ;-)
I must be a fuddy-duddy. I just don't get this stuff at all. Oh, well. Can't get giggles from everything. Knock yourselves out.
DJ Screw is rolling in his grave.
Kids today: You never had the hilarity of playing a 33 1/3 LP at 78 rpm.
#12: I hate Geraldo with passion equal to your own, but the interesting thing about this clip is that he is actually right: it's ludicrous to spin this as an immigration story, it's a story about a drunk driver. Who cares where he's from? Is O'Reilly trying to say that immigrants are especially evil because they kill people when they drive drunk? But immigrants don't drunk-drive more than citizens, so what exactly is O'Reilly's point? That people die in traffic? Big shocker there.
I don't expect any better from him, but I was pleasantly surprised that the usually moronic moustache was arguing for the side of sense here.