TRAPPO's Mail Bag #24!
It's that time again, dear listener! The first episode of the show that talks about you on purpose for season three! I know you've all been waiting patiently for the next edition of TRAPPO's Mail Bag, our first since August, if you can believe it. And now here we are! The Mail Bag is filled to the brim with your feedback, and we've upended that bag and are picking through all the dross in an attempt to find a few comments that might actually be with our valuable time. That's a joke, dear listener. We don't pick favorites with your feedback. we even read the lame comments, which we never get, because you're all very fine and interesting people.
So what are we talking about this time around? How about the state of modern cinema? Does that do anything for you? Because it's a topic that takes up the lion's share of this episode. And we had nothing to do with that. It's all your fault, because you folks decided to discuss this in our comments. Other topics include the slow death of the American shopping mall, nostalgic remembrances of smoking cigarettes in a slowly dying American shopping mall, the greatness of director Larry Cohen's 1985 consumerist satire The Stuff, and also some other things. We can't give everything away in the description. That would be senseless. So listen to the show, please! It's available below, and you can also find TRAPPO on Apple, Google, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, Spotify, Also Spotify, but for Podcasters, and Amazon, so choose your own adventure and join us as we channel our inner Andy Rooney and complain about the kids today...
Hey. Hi. Hello. Are you still reading this? If so, then perhaps I could convince you to join the conversation. What conversation? This conversation. The one that's happening right now, a little further down on this very page. It's called a "comment section". Take a look. Now maybe leave a comment. Share your thoughts on the state of modern cinema. Tell us what you think about quinoa. Magic mushrooms: yea or nay? Talk to TRAPPO. TRAPPO is an excellent listener. Just leave a comment below. As long as you're cool. If you're some kind of bigot, then you don't need to comment. If you're racist or transphobic, then just find an operating wood chipper and jump right into it. Head first. Otherwise, feel free to leave a comment below. We'd sure appreciate that.
You could also send us email if you were so inclined. Our address is trapposhow@gmail.com, so go ahead and use that. Send us an email. Tell us some stuff. Tell us what you think about The Stuff. In detail. Would you eat The Stuff? Tell us why you would eat The Stuff. Or anything else. Share some cherished family recipes. Did you watch Ghoulies II when you were a kid and the experience really stuck with you? We're all ears. We're also all over social media. TRAPPO is waiting for your engagement on Instagram, BlueSky, and Threads. We're on Threads now. And we really like it! So join us on Threads! Or don't. Some people just aren't into the whole social media thing.
Thanks for listening, and we'll be back next week for more shenanigans!
(By the by, Why Does The Earth Give Us People To Love? by Kara Jackson won its poll and has been formally inducted into the TRAPPO Essentials Can(n)on. Congratulations! -D)
This episode is boring. Just dumb conversation all over.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to be a bother, but I'm confused. I don't know what your show is supposed to be. I heard an episode that sounded like a radio show, and it played cool music and was a lot of fun. But this show is completely different. I think it's the same hosts, but they're using different names, and the show is called "Trappo" now. I guess that's the name of the blog here, but I didn't know that was the actual name of the podcast, too. Who's Trappo? Was the radio show a joke thing? I heard two of them in a row and I liked them, but is that it? Sorry if I'm asking dumb question but I dont know whats happening.
ReplyDeleteThanks for listening Moses. We occasionally make the KTRP episodes as our weird slice of fiction that oozes out of our brains. The rest of the shows are us talking about whatever random topic.
DeleteThnk you for answering my question. i found this blog through Threads and I was confused after hearing two episodes with what sounded like the same two people using different names and all the other stuff. I think I get it now. I'll keep listening from time to time.
DeleteOh no, THE MARVELS is underperforming! Whatever shall we do!? There are people having breakdowns on social media because the latest MCU thing isn't doing so hot in theaters. They're pointing fingers at toxic masculinity for all the bad reviews and blaming who knows what for the poor box office returns. None of this should matter to average people. We shouldn't care about the well-being of these corporations that don't give a damn about us. And what if the movie just isn't great? You need to be familiar with the first Captain Marvel movie, the Ms. Marvel TV show, the Wanda Vision TV show, and the Secret Invasion TV show to completely "get" The Marvels. Who wants to do homework to watch a blockbuster movie?
ReplyDeleteThe primary villain of The Marvels is one of the most forgettable antagonists we've ever seen in one of these movies. Her name is Dar-Benn. Who? Dar-Benn. We all remember Dar-Benn, right? Of course we don't. The mediocre plot of this movie is carried almost entirely by the charisma of the three leads. That's pretty much it. It has almost nothing else working in its favor. Stop championing mediocrity. What if the poor box office of The Marvels adversely affects the upcoming slate of MCU movies? Who gives a fuck? Don't build your identity around corporate products. Try watching a movie that hasn't been cranked out by a gigantic machine to steal your hard-earned money for a change.
And one of you hosts got upset when they read the word "crap" on this episode. What's wrong with the word crap? Am I missing something?