this might seem like a stretch to those who didn't listen... but yes Jim Norton was baffled by the concept and existence of a mountain. He couldn't quite get his head around the idea of it not being just a hill or just a cliff. He was stunned to learn that snowboarders don't go straight down mountains like they are perfect white pyramids. He generally seemed unable to accept that mountains did not have uniform appearance and terrain.... and don't get him started on the physics behind snowboarding he seriously asked "how do you stop?"

his line of questioning suggests exactly that. it went from being confusing to embarrassing

I was listening to an old O&A bit last night where Jim brought in a hilarious news story about a dwarf being eaten by a hippo. I thought it was a bit that Jim didn't realize it was a fake news story, but when he got called out on it he acted as if it he actually believed the article. If that wasn't a bit then the only conclusion I am left with is that Jim Norton is a fucking moron.

Jim is bewilderingly out of touch and clueless with so many things like this. He has a set of life experiences that just end outside of NYC/whatever city his tour is in. Not only did he have to work his way through his introduction to mountains, he also was genuinely inquisitive about the mystery of the magic behind how snowboards stop.

He doesn't even leave his hotel room when he's touring. Only places he knows about in nyc is the cellar and his drafty apartment with celebrity pictures everywhere. What a sad sad man

Nothing would make me happier than for Jimmy to die alone in his apartment, and because he has no next of kin or loved ones the government takes his massive collection of celebrity autographs and just dumps them into a landfill.

He really is a closed off little worm, happy to just keep living inside his comfortable little apple (NYC...apple - do you see what I did there?).

I remember when he was arguing with Stanhope about why he doesn't do some shows in England and it was just some politically driven nonsense about how English people hate the US or look down on them or something.

Jimmy acts like a rich Ivy league alumni when they talk shit on all the uncultured people they have to put up. Anything that isn't important to Jimmy's life is dumb, waste of time, baby boy stuff. He does the same thing with movies.

I can't stand listening to any movie talk on the show (even moreso than just the regular garbage that is OnJ). It's so enraging listening to Jimmy shit on great movies because he only watches gangster movies and "a clockwork orange". He has the worst taste in movies, probably because anything with a theme or symbolism is lost on him.

When I went to England they were all super friendly to me. They don't have a reason not to be. They're the same as us just with a different accent. They're all as fat and stupid as the rest of us here in America.

When he was at his biggest (Monster Rain era) he would go to a city and just call a hooker to his room. That was it. It's Airport>hotel room>club>hotel room>airport. In every fucking city.

when you MUST edge for 13 hours a day, its hard to take in the sites.

Jim Norton thinks the island of Guam will tip over if there's too many soldiers on it.

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I killed her children! Then I raped her! Then I smashed her head in like this!

He's watched Game of Thrones. Do you think, if given HOURS to consider it, he would even know who The Mountain was?

Well, he hosts a UFC podcast with zero credentials, so your guess is as good as mine.

Well, what I mean is this: He had fucking D&D (hack frauds), showrunners/creators who aren't GRRM of Game of Thrones, on. Someone said he couldn't even name a character from the show, a show he watches. Stupid fucking imbecile.

Probably very similar to Opie when he "watches " TV he's just on his phone the whole time. In jims case refreshing his indiegogo page

*backpage.com

I always pictured Jimmy getting busted hookers from the yellow pages. But you're right and theres Def some babes on backpage

Can I ask what makes Weiss and Benioff hack frauds? Genuine curiosity.

Basically the last two seasons have been crap and I think compressing ADWD and AFFC down so far was stupid, when they could've treated the two books as two seasons. They were originally gunning for 7 seasons. If you could imagine MORE happening in seasons 5 and 6 without any buildup or emotion. Everything that occurred did so as though they were just checking off plot points they had to hit to get to the end. They want out. They're tired of GoT. Even now we're only getting 13 whole episodes for seasons 7+8. That's supposed to cover The Winds of Winter and A Dream of Spring? Really? I think they've also made some questionable changes along the way, most notably with Tyrion in S4. He could've been driven to vengeance against his family and gone to Danaerys seeking that instead of... going to Dany because he was bored and Varys told him to. Granted, in the books he was led to her by Illyrio and was going with Aegon and Jon Connington, but he at least had a REASON to be going. That's just a small example of a small change behind made that rippled outward and changed too many different things in bad ways. Even if they wanted to leave out Griff and Young Griff from the show, which I might add fucks with too many prophecies and setups to NOT be ridiculously stupid when the tri-headed dragon that symbolizes the Targaryens is represented by Jon Snow, Dany, and Aegon. Why include Oberyn Martell if they were going to abandon Aegon? Oberyn was solely in the story as a way of making the audience really remember the forgotten Targaryen children. Thoros bringing them up in a single scene in season 3 doesn't have the same memorability as YOU RAPED HER! YOU MURDERED HER! YOU KILLED HER CHILDREN!!!

Just an aside, this is literally the least I've ever written about Game of Thrones in a single sitting. I have no doubt I could've hit the goddamn character limit in a single post going over the differences between the books and the show, to the latter's detriment.

Too much to address here, but I would argue that two guys who made 4 seasons of a show you love and 2 seasons that you don't probably don't qualify as hacks and frauds.

GRRM made the first 4 seasons not suck. He left working on the show after S4. COINCIDENCE?! CONSPIRACY! THERMITE WILDFIRE DOESN'T MELT GREAT SEPTS

Speaking of which, whatever Dario and Jorah did to that Khal's tent to make it go up so easily had to be akin to 9/11 inside-job shit.

I guess Vaes Dothrak is built upon some super-combustible rock. Probably why the Dothraki were kept upon the heel of the Valyrians so well!

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dont trigger me into remembering that show was good once

Season 6 turned out great after the bust that 5 was.

hell no. it was written like high school kids rushing out a book report and went the most straightforward cliche possible with hundreds of mistakes. terrible.

My only real disappointments were Jon Snow's resurrection and the origin of the White Walkers. The season in general was pretty well-paced with some great arcs. Everything involving the Lannisters has been pretty ace.

Jon Snows storyline was TTEERRRRRIIIBBBLLLEEE and cheesy as fuck, they tricked the audience into liking it with fan service and "the best battle scene ever"(I guess everyone forgot about saving private ryan) which was nothing but good visuals. The explosion and Danaerys sailing off were the only good things, but even those...basically could have pretty much just happened in the first episode and the season could have been SO much better if these faggots had any idea what they were doing...its so obvious theyre just pandering with fanservice and molding things into a cliche storyline because they have no actual inspiration. Makes me sick they convinced dumb nerds into thinking it was "the best tv ever".

The only fanservice that really bugs me is the Jon Snow resurrection and how eager everyone is to suddenly team up with him.

well I saw that ham-handedness(I was not looking for it, it was glaringly obvious) in every single character's storyline. Even the Lannisters, which was probably the best one of the season, they pretty much just stalled out for the season until the explosion in the finale, which despite being the best moment, kind of fit in with the whole simplification/dumbing down of the show. I just thought it could have been so much better with a little inspiration and not just going by the numbers according to what the fans wanted. Even going how it did it still could have been good, but their overall execution has just gotten so cheesy and Hollywood style. It was like Jurassic World to GoT's Jurassic Park. Just give the fans some loud noises and some action and reference the original here and there and call it a day. But what do I know.

I can agree with everything you've said. I just posted a huge dissertation on the problems with GoT's adaption because I'm boring. But I wanted to take another tack and praise a few things that the show did well that you can't really do in books: A: Casting Jonathan Pryce as the High Sparrow was amazing. He looks so perfect for the role as Bernie Sanders meets Pope Francis. He's a crazy good actor who gave an excellent fucking performance. B: Ramin Djawadi, the composer for the series. Just the last episode can be isolated for proof of how good the music of the series is. It's always been that good, but the Light of the Seven suite was noteworthy for being basically the musical version of that one-take shot in True Detective when Rust was in the projects. C: Director of Hardhome, Snowbowl, and Winds of Winter (episode). Miguel Sapochnik, he's going places. Imagine how many people would've abandoned the show if Battle of the Bastards had been as sloppy as the Jaime + Bronn vs Sand Snakes fight in season 5.

Dumb and Dumber in the mornings

Jim is a moron for sure, but situations like this are why I miss Anthony. Ant is a dumb wop dropout and all, but he at least has a basic understanding of things like mountains, why the sky is blue, how an airplane flies, why salt water isn't drinkable, etc. It usually resulted in an endearing interaction between Jim and Anthony.

ant was incredibly dumb about some topics though. he once discussed how other languages seemed simplistic compared to english. I think because he might have heard a rosetta stone tape once and assumed that was exactly how native speakers talked. it was one of the times jim jefferies was in, can't remember which one.

he once discussed how other languages seemed simplistic compared to english. I think because he might have heard a rosetta stone tape once and assumed that was exactly how native speakers talked.

I remember this moment, and that's exactly the explanation I came up with as well.

All he has to do is look over at Opie's chest to see two of em.... tssss

How many jokes did he make about him having a mountain in his pants?

This is some "Have you ever really thought about water?" shit.

Erock

The only fanservice that really bugs me is the Jon Snow resurrection and how eager everyone is to suddenly team up with him.