Blake Ian

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Tawking From 38,000 Feet

Mar 7, 2013·21 visitors

Jordan Birnbaum

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Stage· 236 messages

Mar 7, 2013

Blake Ian · 11:25 PM

Mr. Birnbaum I presume...

Blake Ian · 11:27 PM

Let me start by saying, I am RARELY on a flight without thinking of George Carlin's airplane routine... Just 15 of the best minutes of standup! I can recite it verbatim

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:28 PM

OK so am I online?

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:29 PM

Cool. How are you enjoying your recycled oxygen?

Blake Ian · 11:29 PM

Dude there is the cryingest crying baby that has ever cried a few rows back

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:30 PM

That's why headphones were invented.

Blake Ian · 11:30 PM

How far we have come that the two of us can broadcast a text convo while I cruise at altitudes above the clouds

Blake Ian · 11:31 PM

Totally I have the Bose noise cancel on right now...and the baby is piercing the barrier

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:31 PM

So what's the vibe on the plane? Is everyone heading to saws?

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:32 PM

Sxsw

Blake Ian · 11:32 PM

I was annoyed until Rach mentioned the baby prob had a bad earache, and now I just feel really sad for the little thing

Blake Ian · 11:32 PM

Haha well no because we are going via Dallas road trip!

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:32 PM

Just had to get a glimpse of Cowboys stadium, didn't you?

Blake Ian · 11:33 PM

Totally.

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:33 PM

So there's some new movement I heard about on Colbert to transform TX into a blue state.

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:34 PM

Check the pulse of the populace.

Blake Ian · 11:34 PM

Using paint or political action?

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:34 PM

Both, if they're smart.

Blake Ian · 11:36 PM

Speaking of paint...Tawkers just got a fresh coat about an hour ago... Looking good yeah?

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:36 PM

Did you ever notice that all the people who live in the red states come from the very families who during McCarthyism believed "Better dead than red?"

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:37 PM

Very good.

Blake Ian · 11:38 PM

What's McCarthyism? ....Kidding!

Blake Ian · 11:39 PM

There were a ton of pretty interesting comparison charts going around Facebook during the election... Did u catch any of them?

Blake Ian · 11:39 PM

Like color of states compared to slave owning states ... That kind of thing

Blake Ian · 11:39 PM

Not sure how many we're accurate at all

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:41 PM

I say lets make it a popular vote and paint the entire country purple.

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:41 PM

Which is way funkier to boot. Just ask Prince.

Blake Ian · 11:42 PM

Purple Nation 2016!

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:44 PM

Yeah, the Green Party has had it's day. It's time for the purple people eaters. And by people, I mean politicians.

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:44 PM

Apparently they taste like chicken.

Blake Ian · 11:44 PM

Check this out....http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/forget-red-vs-blue-its-slave-states-vs-free-states-2012

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:45 PM

Speaking of slavery, how about that minimum wage, huh?! Not too mention the NCAA...

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:46 PM

Every typo makes me die a little inside...

Blake Ian · 11:48 PM

Well be more thoughtful Mr Birnbaum! You are on a public stage sir

Blake Ian · 11:48 PM

Soilent purple is people!!

Blake Ian · 11:49 PM

Hahah Soylent... Now we are even

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:49 PM

Well I'm trying to honor my sense of comedic timing. Doesn't always allow for a proofread.

Blake Ian · 11:49 PM

Have you seen the South Park about the NCAA / slavery??

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:50 PM

Oh that was just too delicious, Mr. Perfect.

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:51 PM

Yeah. I guess "Simpsons did it!" has become "South Park did it!"

Blake Ian · 11:52 PM

Fitting. South Park is the most relevant thing on television in my opinion

Blake Ian · 11:52 PM

Which is exactly what I would say about the Simpsons 15 years ago

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:53 PM

Hard to argue that one. Better you say something stupid so I can disagree.

Blake Ian · 11:54 PM

Ok I can do that.... Romney is the most relevant thing on television right now

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:55 PM

Wow. Can you imagine if we were actually tawking ABOUT something?!

Blake Ian · 11:55 PM

Hahah

Blake Ian · 11:55 PM

So lets give it a shot....I'll give you a topic. The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, nor Roman, nor an empire...discuss!

Blake Ian · 11:56 PM

No but for real...

Blake Ian · 11:56 PM

We are Tawking and I am, as Louis CK would put it...sitting in a chair in the sky!

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:57 PM

My take s that The Holy Roman Empire is only a slight step up from a tribe of poop throwing monkeys.

Blake Ian · 11:57 PM

A long way from the days of dial up kicking your sister off the phone huh??

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:58 PM

Please dude. I remember Betamax and pong.

Blake Ian · 11:58 PM

My dad worked for the company that made Pong! :)

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:58 PM

I remember when we used to say, "Remember when pay phones were just a dime?"

Blake Ian · 11:58 PM

Hahah ...what's a dime!?

Blake Ian · 11:59 PM

So what's the next wow moment ya think?

Jordan Birnbaum · 11:59 PM

3d printers

Blake Ian · 11:59 PM

Yeah! Going to see Bre in Austin!

Blake Ian · 12:00 AM

Met him at Newsfoo in Arizona this year...awesome dude.

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:00 AM

It's a Star Trek world, we're just livin in it.

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:01 AM

I'm looking forward to Synthehol.

Blake Ian · 12:01 AM

I'm thinking Apple's watch, Google Glass and Elon Musk's Mars colonists are the wows ahead

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:02 AM

Now here's a topic!

Jordan Birnbaum · 12:03 AM

Unfortunately, I am leaving right now to go enjoy the Knicks Thunder game at The Garden. Go Knicks! Go Tawkers! To be continued.

Blake Ian · 12:06 AM

Enjoy... We may catch a Mavericks game! ....Tawk soon dude

Blake Ian · 4:07 PM

I'm up at 38,000 feet again so I figured it would be a good time to jump back into this one...

Blake Ian · 4:08 PM

I believe I was heading to Austin for SXSW last time... I am now headed to SF

Blake Ian · 4:08 PM

Just read through some of the beginning of this Tawk and we tawked about Star Trek stuff coming to fruition, it made me think of this article I JUST read

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:08 PM

Oh my - isn't this a surprise.

Blake Ian · 4:09 PM

http://www.space.com/21695-scanadu-scout-tricorder-star-trek.html

Blake Ian · 4:10 PM

Scanadu!

Blake Ian · 4:10 PM

check it out

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:12 PM

I caught that when it first came out -no mention of strat trek averts my attention

Blake Ian · 4:12 PM

whats strat trek?

Blake Ian · 4:12 PM

hehehehe I know how much you HATE a typo

Blake Ian · 4:12 PM

you'll be punching yourself in the head for hours

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:13 PM

was re-reading our Tawk - boy are we a couple of smartasses

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:13 PM

ugh

Blake Ian · 4:13 PM

We sure is Mr. Birnbaum

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:13 PM

that's going to leave a mark

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:13 PM

so what's the scene on the plane?

Blake Ian · 4:14 PM

Mac Book Airs EVERYWHERE!

Blake Ian · 4:14 PM

its... its so beautiful ;(

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:14 PM

ah yes - the silent approval of slave labor is all around us...

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:15 PM

just think Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...

Blake Ian · 4:15 PM

Doctor Jones!

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:16 PM

Indy! I LOVE YOU!

Blake Ian · 4:16 PM

NO GOOGLING

Blake Ian · 4:16 PM

OK lightning round film trivia

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:16 PM

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:17 PM

In Fletch, he charges the entire thing to who's credit card?

Blake Ian · 4:17 PM

The underhill account

Blake Ian · 4:17 PM

come onnnnn

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:17 PM

vry good

Blake Ian · 4:17 PM

and bonus

Blake Ian · 4:18 PM

He will have a Steak Sandwich and?

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:18 PM

a steak sandwich

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:18 PM

the bad guy was Alan...

Blake Ian · 4:18 PM

OK ready?

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:18 PM

yeah

Blake Ian · 4:19 PM

Name the writer and director of the Indiana Jones Saga

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:19 PM

spielberg / lucas?

Blake Ian · 4:19 PM

yes but who did what?

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:20 PM

who cares? ask me about Short Round.

Blake Ian · 4:20 PM

if you were answering in order I asked then incorrect

Blake Ian · 4:20 PM

hahahaha

Blake Ian · 4:20 PM

what was the actor who played short round's OTHER famous character named?

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:21 PM

Omar Shariff

Blake Ian · 4:21 PM

DATA!

Blake Ian · 4:21 PM

name the first two leading lady actresses of the Indiana saga

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:22 PM

karen allen, kate capshaw

Blake Ian · 4:22 PM

ZANG ZABANG!

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:22 PM

i'm on fire

Blake Ian · 4:22 PM

which one of them was found in someone's backyard on ecstacy confused!

Blake Ian · 4:23 PM

AND what Jeff Bridges movie did she star in?

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:23 PM

karen allen -what was the name of the leading lady from Superman who also went crazy?

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:23 PM

starman

Blake Ian · 4:23 PM

Margot Kidder

Blake Ian · 4:23 PM

hha

Blake Ian · 4:23 PM

and I always confused them as a child too

Blake Ian · 4:23 PM

haha

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:23 PM

who is still alive from the cast of different strokes?

Blake Ian · 4:23 PM

WOW

Blake Ian · 4:24 PM

hmmm

Blake Ian · 4:24 PM

ohhh

Blake Ian · 4:24 PM

Willis

Blake Ian · 4:24 PM

hahah

Blake Ian · 4:24 PM

couldnt have called that one!

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:24 PM

correct - his real name?

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:24 PM

Todd Bridges

Blake Ian · 4:24 PM

yes Todd Bridges

Blake Ian · 4:24 PM

that took me a minute ... man they all died

Blake Ian · 4:25 PM

I think Mr Drummond like a year or two ago right?

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:25 PM

What was the name of the kid who wins the marathon at the end of Meatballs - last name and nickname required.

Blake Ian · 4:25 PM

and charlotte rae

Blake Ian · 4:25 PM

Rudy

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:25 PM

yes on Drummond and Rae -both gone now

Blake Ian · 4:25 PM

Wudy the wabbit!

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:25 PM

last name?

Blake Ian · 4:25 PM

wudy the wabbit

Blake Ian · 4:25 PM

hmmmm

Blake Ian · 4:25 PM

shit man

Blake Ian · 4:25 PM

I think you have me there

Blake Ian · 4:25 PM

can I get an initial

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:25 PM

starts with a g

Blake Ian · 4:26 PM

Damnit

Blake Ian · 4:26 PM

stumped

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:26 PM

garner

Blake Ian · 4:26 PM

WOW

Blake Ian · 4:26 PM

it was in my brain and I couldnt access it

Blake Ian · 4:26 PM

nice one

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:26 PM

not trying to Tawk shit here, but it seems you brought a knife to a gunfight

Blake Ian · 4:26 PM

oh its on

Blake Ian · 4:27 PM

What film did Larry David write and direct

Blake Ian · 4:27 PM

and what tv show was the star in

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:27 PM

guesing this new one on HBO with Jon Hamm from MadMen

Blake Ian · 4:28 PM

Sour Grapes - late 90s

Blake Ian · 4:28 PM

starring Steven Weber from Wings!

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:28 PM

never saw it - good?

Blake Ian · 4:28 PM

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:28 PM

Hey -let's move to TV for a sec

Blake Ian · 4:28 PM

ok lemme think of something that youll hate yourself for not getting

Blake Ian · 4:29 PM

What pop star had a recurring roll diffrnt strokes?

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:29 PM

On Cheers, when Cliff Clavin appeared on Jeopardy, what was his disputed final answer?

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:29 PM

I'm guessing Janet Jackson for your question

Blake Ian · 4:30 PM

great guess

Blake Ian · 4:30 PM

I do not know the answer alex

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:31 PM

"Who are 3 men who have never been in my kitchen?" Technically a correct answer.

Blake Ian · 4:31 PM

LOL

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:31 PM

throws the entire jeopardy paradigm into question

Blake Ian · 4:31 PM

Rudy's pudgy friends name on the cosby show

Blake Ian · 4:31 PM

this should hurt you if you dont get it

Blake Ian · 4:31 PM

but if you do - good for you!

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:32 PM

I mean, I'm not even in the ballpark...

Blake Ian · 4:32 PM

u can picture him thought right?

Blake Ian · 4:32 PM

fat little white kid

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:32 PM

redhead with glasses?

Blake Ian · 4:32 PM

yes

Blake Ian · 4:32 PM

no glasses I dont think

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:32 PM

yes -what a doofus

Blake Ian · 4:32 PM

but red head

Blake Ian · 4:32 PM

PETER!

Blake Ian · 4:32 PM

What was Boners actual name on growing pains

Blake Ian · 4:33 PM

and who was his father in real life?

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:33 PM

Who was Spicolli's pal in Fast Times and a cast member of ER?

Blake Ian · 4:33 PM

Eric Stoltz

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:33 PM

Wasn't a huge growing pains guy - couldn't tell you

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:33 PM

eric stoltz wasn't in ER

Blake Ian · 4:33 PM

Richard Stabone - and his dad was Walter Koenig

Blake Ian · 4:33 PM

wait

Blake Ian · 4:33 PM

ohhh

Blake Ian · 4:33 PM

im sorry

Blake Ian · 4:33 PM

Anthony Edwards

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:34 PM

vry good

Blake Ian · 4:34 PM

I never watched ER but I know both of spicollis friends

Blake Ian · 4:34 PM

haha

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:34 PM

what international spy thriller / comedy starred Anthony Edwards?

Blake Ian · 4:34 PM

OMG!!

Blake Ian · 4:34 PM

I WAS JUST TYPING THAT QUESTIONNNNN

Blake Ian · 4:34 PM

GOTCHA!

Blake Ian · 4:34 PM

dude

Blake Ian · 4:34 PM

I was TYPING THAT QUESTION

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:34 PM

Would you say....GOTCHA!

Blake Ian · 4:34 PM

hahah

Blake Ian · 4:35 PM

who was the co-star ?

Blake Ian · 4:35 PM

of Gotcha

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:35 PM

funny - I remember the darts with suction cups on the ends...

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:35 PM

was that linda fiorentino?

Blake Ian · 4:35 PM

it was indeed

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:35 PM

wow -with short hair

Blake Ian · 4:35 PM

so hot

Blake Ian · 4:36 PM

name 3 actors to play RUSTY GRISWALD

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:36 PM

Anthony-Michael Hall and 2 other guys

Blake Ian · 4:36 PM

hah

Blake Ian · 4:36 PM

well there were 4 movies so its 3 other guys

Blake Ian · 4:36 PM

but one of them is nameless

Blake Ian · 4:36 PM

haha

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:36 PM

you only asked for 3

Blake Ian · 4:37 PM

and you named 1

Blake Ian · 4:37 PM

Johnny Galecki and Ethan Embry

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:37 PM

but alluded to 2 more...

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:37 PM

yeah - those 2!

Blake Ian · 4:38 PM

though I will give it to you that you shouldnt necessarily know who Ethan Embry s

Blake Ian · 4:38 PM

Johnny Galecki was David in Roseanne

Blake Ian · 4:38 PM

ok dude - WHO WROTE HOME ALONE?

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:38 PM

dude - this is to be continued - I actually have a meeting to prep for tomorrow's depo

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:38 PM

and jon hughes - don't insult my intelligence

Blake Ian · 4:39 PM

nice

Blake Ian · 4:39 PM

ok peace bro

Blake Ian · 4:39 PM

watch the Office Episode The DEposition for what NOT to do

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:39 PM

safe flight, tawk tomorrow

Jordan Birnbaum · 4:39 PM

OK!

Blake Ian · 4:40 PM

I really have no control over that - the steering wheel is like in another room somewhere and its pretty heavily locked

Blake Ian · 12:02 PM

★ Spotlighted from Rachael Workman

“but wouldn't that be something - if TX went blue !?”

Blake Ian · 12:07 PM

★ Spotlighted from Rachael Workman

“not sure the political pulse at SXSW in Austin is really an accurate indication of the state's swing.”