Hobo Radio 92 – A case of the Eddie Murphys
- Introduction
- A sad day for radio
- Man-eating robots
- A fountain is not a pool
- Public Enemies
- Contractually-obligated Batman discussion
Week 92 Spotlight: A case of the Eddie Murphys
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Not only is the U.S. government commissioning an army of gunship-building robots who can feed off of dead humans for energy, but as of today, the Mike O’Meara Show is officially no more.
However, neither one of these sad stories is as upsetting as Joel Murphy’s diagnosis of Christian Bale. Our Hobo Radio co-hosts are both huge fans of Bale, but after seeing his performances in The Dark Knight, Terminator Salvation and Public Enemies, Joel can’t help but wonder if Bale has developed a case of the Eddie Murphys.
What exactly are the Eddie Murphys? Why are parents forcing their children to play in a public fountain? And why is the government hellbent on killing us all? The answers to these questions and more are in this week’s podcast.
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I am of mixed opinion about the whole playing in the fountain thing. On the one hand, it’s a shopping plaza, not an amusement park, so it’s a little weird that parents would bring their kids there specifically for the purpose of playing in the fountain.
On the other hand, it is a public place, it’s quite hot out, and if there aren’t any signs saying specifically “don’t bring your bougie kids to play in the fountains, you idiots,” then I see no reason why it shouldn’t be used for that purpose.
Designers of public art (including sculpture, fountains, etc) always have to contend with the idea of how their work will actually be used by real people on a daily basis. When the WWII memorial thing was built in DC a few years ago, some of my family were annoyed that there were kids playing in the pool/fountain portion, thinking that it was disrespectful to the “memorial” aspect of the whole installation. But would they have been as annoyed if it were a really old monument that had been up for ages and ages, commemorating some war from long ago? Probably not. I think they were weirded out because it was new and still had the purpose of commemorating something in the recent past. Once a sculpture/fountain/whatever has been around for long enough, it takes on it’s own life and has purposes other than what the creator originally intended. That’s the nature of public art like that.
That was a bit of a tangent, but I think the shopping mall fountain, while perhaps originally intended to be just a decoration in a public place of commerce, now has a different purpose. As odd as it may be, I don’t think there’s really anything wrong with it, I guess is what I’m trying to say in my very rambly, tangent-filled way.
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