Men In Gorilla Suits

See ya, motorscooters. I'm off to get a job with a drill. I say in the intro to this one that I don't really have a reason I picked this particular episode, but that might not be entirely true. Subconsciously, I might have been thinking about the disease of toxic masculinity, and the fake manhood that some people wear to pretend they're bigger, braver, and stronger than they are (unless we all believe Tiny Hands would have REALLY charged into a school shooting unarmed, which we do not). Manliness and masculinity can be useful, but they can also be horrible. And so of course, we talked about it that one time a year and a half ago. Enjoy!

Yes, it's time once again for one of those "serious" episodes of Men in Gorilla Suits. Polish your monocle and tell your butler to bring you a 25-year-old fine scotch...this time around, the subject is income inequality... * * * We begin with what seems like a question with an obvious answer, but for some people...well, it isn't: Do you think there’s a problem with income inequality in this country? After that we chat about income classes we've lived in during our lives...as well as where our spouses have been. Then we devote some time to differing financial views we may have had with early roommates or our spouses in the past. Find out what social class we sit in now...and what we think has caused the shrinking of the middle class. Along those lines, we ponder if people in different classes can truly understand the lives of those in other classes. Fast food workers: do they deserve $15/hour? We talk about that...and then move on to whether we should try invigorating the middle class...or if the middle clas

And sometimes, you go to a store and they give you leftovers. But sometimes, some of those leftovers are clips of audio you hadn't heard before and I really didn't think out this metaphor and I'm going to back out, thank you! In an effort to prove that yes, we really do talk like this even when we're not podcasting, we originally released two mini episodes: one on candy and one on Star Trek (again). In our most recent recording, Christopher captured another minisode, which has now been packaged with the other two for your listening pleasure (question mark?). Enjoy!

First: Today marks exactly five years since we loaded the first episode of Men in Gorilla Suits. Now, on to this week's episode... * * * Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude... Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude... Duuuuuu-- Duuuuuuuuuuuude, is that pizza? This week, we're talking about marijuana. (And just because Christopher mentions the tune, there's this:) * * * We kick off this week's episode talking about when we first became aware of marijuana. After that, we discuss if we've ever gotten high, the last time we got high, and our experiences with weed. Find out if either of us ever sold marijuana, a then listen to us talk about if we're for legalization (and why...or why not). We discuss medical marijuana and miraculous claims about the plant. We also devote a little time to people we know who have changed their views about marijuana over the years. Weed has reputed claims of making creative people even more creative. We talk about that and if we've ever used marijuana in a creative manne

Shawn rolled 1D20 for charisma. He got a zero. Somehow. Christopher 1D20 rolled for INT. He got a 19. Life ain't fair, motherfuckers. And neither are roleplaying games. But we take a(nother) look at them in this week's episode! Marvel at both gorillamen's awkward teen (and adult) years! Listen to the power rankings of the best and worst RPGs of all time! Stay up all night and play some damn games! Oh, to quote Shawn, "HEY MR. PUBILLONES I'M JUST MAKIN' SOME COFFEE CUZ I DON'T WANT MY MAGE TO GET KILLED!"

We're trying to think of something funny to say about healthcare in the United States, but it's really a situation of being so sad one can cry. Even those with coverage and savings are one serious incident away from bankruptcy. Just thinking about it can be unhealthy. Still, somewhere along the way in this week's episode, we did crack a joke or two. If you have been through it, prepare to nod your head and say, "Yup...been there..." And if you're from one of the Western countries that provides a better semblance of healthcare (or fortunate to come from a country that provides great healthcare), prepare to be horrified... * * * We begin in a time we were wee laddies first going to the hospital. Find out why...and also find out if we had healthcare throughout the entirety of tax year 2017. After that, we talk about working in healthcare...and if we'd ever do it again. Then it's on to our worst -- and best -- experiences with the U.S. healthcare industry. We devote some time to how we'd like to see the U.S. heal

Meh. Whatever, bro. It's a classic episode, or something. About... I didn't bother to listen to it. It's about something. I assume. So, like, enjoy it. Or don't. I'm not the boss of you.

BooooOOOOOOoOooOooOOOOoooooOOooooooo... G-g-g-ghoooOOOooOOooOOOoOOOOOoooooosts... SpooOOOOooOOOOOOOOOOoooOOOOOOoooky... We have cereal named after ghosts. Some of our biggest movies are about ghosts. As a species, we're obsessed with ghosts. So this week, we strap on our proton packs and go a-ghost huntin'! * * * Right away, we establish if we believe in ghosts...or think they're bullshit. After that, we chat about people close to us who believe in ghosts...and if we've ever had strange experiences that made us question if ghosts are real. We talk about why some people believe in ghosts, and then leap to our favorite ghost stories. Sticking to the thought of ghosts as entertainment, we discuss our thoughts about ghost hunting TV shows. Ghosts work in certain ways according to legends. We devote a bit of time to the weird aspects of the popular mechanics of how ghosts haunt shit on up, and then we talk about some of the shittiest people on the planet: mediums who claim to channel the spirits of the deceased. E

The aliens think they can just come into this country and take our jobs, get on our welfare, not pay taxes, and commit crimes! In this country! Look, I'm not saying it's everyone. But they're not sending us their best gleep-glorps. They're sending their vaporizers, their warp-jackers, and their intergalactic scum. And some of them, I assume, are good gleep-glorps. But they're coming here to commit crimes, and anything else the media tells you is just fake news. That's why the gorillamen propose a wall that goes into space. A wall will certainly keep Zeta Reticulans from crossing the space-time border. Also, I love Zeta Reticulans. The best gleep-glorp salads are made right here at gorillamen tower. Bigly. (also fuck that guy and his stupid baby hands)

To hear it from some people (like, say...an orange-tinged shitlord with a sulfurous-looking hairdo who's presumable in charge of the Western world), white people have it soooooooooo hard! That a middle-aged (or Baby Boomin') white guy can say with a straight face, "There's no other group who has it worse than Christian white males," says so much about white privilege. And so, Gorilla Shawn thought two white guys talking about white people would make for a good episode...and it did. (Although, some shitty white people might not agree...) * * * We kick it off talking about the first time we noticed the differences between white people and other races or cultures. We discuss what the experience was like, and then we move on to the whitest people we know. To that point, though...is there even such a thing as "being white," either racially or culturally? After that, we discuss if anyone should be proud of being white...and if anyone should be ashamed if they happened to be born white? Find out if we think we see t

Christopher and Shawn are both white dudes (if you didn't already know this, it'll definitely become clear next week), but they're somehow not greedy assholes. That's one of many reasons neither of them will be elected to the Senate, because they're just not greedy enough. With the new tax bill that just passed with the explicit aim of funneling still more money to the richest one percent of the country, it seemed like a good time to revisit the episode they did way back when (in 1848, I think) about greed! Sit back and enjoy this episode. It's all yours! *Also the audio quality on this one isn't great. This might-could have been one of our first Skype episodes ever.

We suppose a party should be held in February, to celebrate the five-year anniversary of the podcast. (Okay, so we really are fine without a party...but you'll see where we're going with this...) [Many] people love parties -- and many others do not. We devote this week's show to where we stand on the whole party thing... * * * First, we go back in time...to the first party we remember attending. (We tell you all about them.) And, also...we tell us about the last parties we've attended! After that, find out if we are party people! Then: whether we're party people (or not)...we chat about the craziest parties we've ever attended. Find out if we even like parties...and what the best party or gathering we've ever attended was -- as well as the worst! We devote some time to birthday party memories...and then talk about if we're good at putting together parties. Find out if parties are even important to us...and why we think parties are important to others. And we wrap it all up with this: if we could throw the bes

Christopher was a Dragon! Shawn was a Thunderbird! This episode is METAL AS FUCK! Oh, wait, no it isn’t. Those were their high school mascots. And Shawn’s wasn’t named after the mythical Native American beast, or even the massive car by Ford… nope, it was named after the Air Force Aerobatics team. NERRRRRRDDDDD. Did the Gorillamen dig high school? Were they the kings of the commons, or the nerds no one talked to? Are they still true to their schools? What stupid voices will Shawn do this show? What traumas from Christopher’s young life with they unearth? You’ll have to listen to find out!*   *or have listened in January 2016. Whatever. Dick.

Greetings and Felicitations, noble pod-people! Yes, I think I carried that off quite well. No way I fucked up that greeting! I am totally passing for one of you hew-mans! Today on the magical internet radiola programme, we're talking about all the times we fucked up! See, there's times when you just don't get it right, and it's kinda your fault. But that's OK! The Gorillamen aren't here to judge, because, as you will learn in this podcast, we're kind of masters of fucking up. We start, of course, with the first time we remember fucking up, before moving to our most recent fuckups. Then we shift gears a little bit to reminisce about the last time each of us was totally effed up on chemicals or booze or the like, and cover any embarrassing things we did while in our fucked-up states! Then we move to the last times our bodies fucked up on us, which is pretty recent for at least one of the Gorillamen. We cover our biggest fuckups, our funniest fuckups, and the worst fuckups to which we've borne witness, all befor

Apologies for the late post and no new intro to this week's classic episode. It's been a busy week! And due to certain medical issues, it's the first day in a long while your old pal Shawn hasn't had any caffeine. He is addicted to caffeine. Hmmm.... addiction would make a good episode topic! And if there's one thing about having done 250 episodes or so, it's that you've probably talked about a thing before! So this week, sit back, relax, and enjoy this classic Men in Gorilla Suits episode about addiction.

This is Gorilla 4-1 transmitting on frequency 1-1-5. I have no idea if this transmission is reaching you in the intended year of 2016, but be warned: the future is an apocalyptic hellscape now. You remember New York in the 70s? Like that, but with slightly more mutation. Oh. Well, shit. My scientists are telling me that the furthest back we can reach is 2017. I really wish they'd mentioned that earlier. Sooooooo... Mmmyep. That first thing I told you? Eh, go ahead and forget that. It was all...well, it was all true, but you can't do shit about it now anyway. They're saying we have like an hour of transmitting time left, so...I dunno. Here's an old episode of Men in Gorilla Suits. Sucks that they both died when the thing happened... I've said too much. End transmission.

The Gorillamen took long weekends off work, but they did manage to record their first Skype episode in some time. About Cultural appropriation. This is what they talked about: When was the first time you heard the term cultural appropriation? What was the context? My iPhone now auto-corrects cultural appropriation. Is that a sign of our times? Have you ever appropriated another culture? What is cultural appropriation to you? Is cultural appropriation a huge problem in today’s world? What’s the weirdest complaint of cultural appropriation you’ve seen? The dumbest? The most egregious example of cultural appropriation you’ve seen? How common is cultural appropriation? Where do we draw the line? How do we fix the problem of cultural appropriation?

Chris and Shawn are FUCKED UP, yo. No, they're not high, or anything. Nothing that would make them seem cool. It's more... well, when Shawn was in middle school, he saw an educational film about conditioning, and this dumb kid kept touching a hot stove burner. Christopher and Shawn are like that stupe, constantly injuring themselves in a vast array of blood and busted limbs. Also they get sick and sometimes it's not their fault.  But mainly stupid shit. Enjoy this classic episode!

Like a department store that puts its Christmas shit out waaaaaay too early, we just couldn’t hold our Halloween episode for the appropriate date (and by we, I mean Shawn). Hey, at least it’s in the correct month!   Travel back to Year One of Men in Gorilla Suits, and listen as we discuss shitty costumes, awesome candy, irrational fear of the month of October, and more! Probably!   BOO!

It's October and -- somehow -- we've not talked about horror movies in hundreds of episodes. So...we remedy that. * * * It's a busy week in Gorillamenville, so no real commentary -- just what we discuss this episode: What's the first horror movie you remember seeing? What impression did it make on you? Are you a fan of horror movies? What was the last horror movie you saw? When was the best era for horror movies? The worst? What's the best horror movie you've ever seen? The most fucked-up? What makes a horror movie work, in your opinion? Assuming you are exactly as you are now (no special powers, etc.), which horror movie could you best survive? What's the dumbest horror movie you've ever seen? What's the future of horror movies?