Once upon a time there was a little girl named Dawn who carried around an ugly red monkey with no ears, and she liked that monkey and she played with it until she got older, and now she realizes why she liked the monkey, and how great it is that monkeys don’t care if they get unfollowed on twitter or defriended on Facebook, and monkeys don’t worry about whether they’re being funny enough or clever enough, and monkeys don’t suck at email and get screwed by multimedia corporations sticking them for unlimited text plans. They just swing through trees and throw poop at stupid things. But they don’t get to watch things like Downton Abbey and Justified, and they don’t get to go to awesome baby showers or eat applesauce and pork chops, and they’re kinda dumb, too. So as with most Ham-Fisted Radio episodes, it’s all about finding balance between the neurotic mess we often are, and the little red monkey we could be.
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I like the way the two of you put words to the angst of everyday existence. Instead of generic sentiments like “life sucks” most of us use to describe the crap that the world (and monkeys) throws at us, the hamfisted duo disects and examines every anxiety and searches for the underlying causes. The show’s slogan could be “Examining life so you don’t have to.”
There was also a red toy monkey in my childhood but I think he had cymbals in his paws, he wasn’t nearly as good a friend as the yarn lion my grandmother made me.
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I was very confused by you guys talking about eating apple sauce by itself, that was very bizarre to me, but then you asked why tomato sauce doesn’t come in tomato shaped containers and I rmeembered that we live in very different places.
In New Zealand we have these tomato shaped bottles. They cost about a buck US to buy seperately and then you put the sauce into them, but they’re very common:
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