Post Game October 2, 2017

In Post Game - On Demand by Gigi Manukyan28 Comments

Today’s post game centers around Ana’s problems with Chuck E. Cheese and Cenk’s son discovering Google.

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  1. The world is depressing (partly) because, as our earliest ancestors quickly figured out, being happy or complacent used to get killed very quickly. Our minds have been biologically hardwired since we Neanderthals to focus on the fear and the pain. Pessimism is a survival trait.
    So the school of thought that is “focusing on the positive” may seem cliché, but its not natural, and it certainly takes some learning. Good luck and God Speed to anyone out there still trying to figure out.

  3. That’s just how it was back when I was a child. I thought they had changed everything to plastic by the time you were a child.

  5. Cenk should be very wary of new gadgets and voice activated tools from the home. Or in homes his sons visits. In this day and age you can just say “Ok Google, play the latest video by Cenk Uygur on the TV in the living room”.

    Though will Google Home or Alexa know the pronunciation for Cenk Uygur? Time to test it!

  10. Ana, you’re right. My daughter turns 1 today and her new favorite hobby is hitting me in the face. Must be some weird instinct.

  11. As a poorer kid who had his finger in all the video game and vending machine change slots to find nickels or quarters, I totally relate to Cenk’s experience. Recently went to a bachelor party at a gaming place where we each put $30 on our card, and despite reluctance, I too started swiping at every game and just having fun.

    We are truly living the dream.

  12. So instead of wondering if there is an engineering reason for the slides being made of metal, they assume its the stupidity of the all slide makers? Maybe because metals can be made with a smooth finish that is not easily scratched? Maybe because its cheaper and lighter than marble or granite?

  13. Lol Cenk my kids do the same. All about butts and poop and I come close to laughing and sometimes I do, but gotta be responsible sometimes so I gotta say, “Hey we don’t say that especially in public”, but they get a pass once in a while. You guys are awesome and so down to earth. Much love guys.

  14. Welcome to our new show, “Scat Chat with Ana Kasperian”! And no, we’re not all animals, because I hear that animals are innocent…

  15. Cenk and Ana, you guys gave me the good laugh I needed on my birthday, which came earlier in Tokyo than over there in LA.

    Yeah kids LOVE topics about poop, butts and throw-up, they laugh their little heads off. I guess I never grew out of it because that ball-pit story had me in stitches. Years ago I was trying to teach two little Japanese students the English pronunciation of ‘sitting’ and the boy kept saying ‘shitting’ so I told him what he was saying meant in Japanese and he ROLLED on the floor, couldn’t stop laughing/crying. His sister laughed till she cried just looking at him.

    Once I was teaching three preschool French triplets the Alphabet, we got to ‘Z’ and the three of them broke out laughing and couldn’t stop. They got worse when I repeated that letter. Then their mom came in the room and the kids asked me to say it again for her, upon which SHE broke out laughing with the kids. The mom told me the American pronunciation of the letter ‘Z’ means ‘dick’ in French. Then I broke out laughing with them.

    Pretty hilarious to sing the English alphabet song and go ‘W, X, Y and DICK, Now I know my ABCs…

  16. Actually, Chuck E. Cheese just announced in August that they will be getting rid of the animatronics show. They are going to start renovating the restaurants nationwide and replacing the animatronic band with a dance floor area where a “live” Chuck (human in costume) will come out and dance with kids.
    If you’re a fan of the animatronic singing rodents, you might want to visit sooner than later.

  17. Sounds like you need to put some parental locks on your Google, Cenk. Maybe Wendy should be in charge of that, tho ;)

  19. I got my own metal slide story too. Junior school (I think I was six or so), I was in shorts, and it was a typical summer day in Calcutta, India, month of May (if you know what I mean). Right before sliding down, I put my bare legs on the metal, figured out what was going on with a little cockroach-on-a-hot-griddle dance, and tried to back out of the slide. The mean bastard behind me pushed me down. When I got to the bottom, I figured that smartass was getting forced down that toaster by the kid behind him. Only this time, I was there waiting for him at the bottom, and I pinned his legs to the slide for about 10 seconds, before he wrestled out. Man, we were a wonderfully vicious bunch.

  22. Yah gotta teach the kid to be frugal with Google, Cenk.

    Cenk is right about the pleasures we derive from the foibles of everyone else.

    When my nephew was growing up, I would bump into walls, and pretend that it propelled me over the sofa. Or I’d stack up a bunch of boxes, in a way that it would all fall apart, on top of me. Then I’d stand in front of the boxes, give them an imperceptible kick, and entertain my nephew as I fell on the floor, buried by these cardboard boxes. Or I’d take a water bottle, lift it above my head, look up at the bottle and say, “huh, that’s interesting, what’s in there?”, and the water would spill on my head & eyes.

    All the while, to really make the kid laugh, you have to use sound effects. Argh! Ooowww! Waaah! , and anything else you could think of.

    Sometimes the kid would be literally on his back, holding his stomach from laughing so hard. And my sister would be laughing almost as hard, from watching her son crack up.

    Kids are the best audience. You can say the stupidest rhymes, make the dumbest faces, and get them to laugh. At least until they’re 12 and realize that adult are idiots.

    Regarding diaharrea – Classic Pepto Bismol Diarrhea Commercial 1975 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v1I4OqlquM

    Yes. It is important to try and find some positives. And it’s an absolute miracle, that we can go through the day without collapsing, after the news of the past 24 hours. Thank the stars for humor, and for our capacity to find glimmers of hope.

  24. Guys, thanks for the laughs. Really, I continue to laugh just hearing Cenk say, “I was badly burned” over and over in my head.

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