Comments on: Jon Stewart, James ‘Babydoll’ Dixon, and Joshua Bell

By: matt

matt — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:46:02 +0000

Having Josh Bell talk about his Strat but not show it is like bringing on Jonah Falcon to talk about his hog but not whip it out… show the goods! Who cares if you had too much to drink…

And I know exactly what happened with the Telepictures deal…or at least I can guess based on 12 years of agenting and listening to Dixon. He got the contracts and sat on them and that pissed everyone else off. Lawyers (I’m sure Dixon doesn’t negotiate the contracts…the deals, yes – the contracts, no) are notorious for sitting on contracts and some people get pissed off. It sounds like a month passed from deal to execution and by that point it all went south.

Don’t get me wrong – K Smith is a D-Bag, but I blame the agent….

By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:49:00 +0000

Co-sign. Outstanding podcast but the corresponding website content falls short.

By: Tyrone Washington

Tyrone Washington — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:37:30 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. I remember listening to the ACS last February with Kevin Smith and Adam competing for which of them could get in more words per minute. Smith was promoting ‘Red State’ and, although I generally find his movies sophomoric, I was interested in checking it out. I should have known better. ‘Red State’ was an utter disappointment, a good idea which quickly disintegrated into silliness. He is supposed to be such a fantastic writer, yet, is own character is “Silent Bob”? I am surprised Adam would want to work with him in any capacity. When you listen to Smith’s version of the Telepictures fiasco, he is so verbally limited, each sentence has an F-bomb sprinkled in for dramatic effect or, presumably, to cover up his weak argument. I love how he complained about Adam leaving his phone number so he’d have to call him back, you know, like a friend would do, but, mandated Adam drive over to his house in order to watch his stupid movie. He basically refused to be on Adam’s show unless he watched it first. What a giant douchebag!

By: AdamC

AdamC — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:21:39 +0000

That’s false. If they work at a any sort of job illegally (meaning with faked ssn #’s), the job is still taking taxes out and paying the other half for SS and Medicare. So in fact, in many of the cases, they are paying taxes, unless they are paid under the table of course.

By: AdamC

AdamC — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:16:09 +0000

I like Kevin Smith and his movies ad have enjoyed Smodcast, but I think it’s obvious that’s he’s gone off the deep end. Kevin Smith has how many podcasts? A live morning he cut back from 4 hours? The guy is a narcissist. He is a great writer, but I think he puts a little too much stock in his talents. I mean he blamed the failure Zack and Miri Make a Porno on the Weinsteins. How about, it wasn’t that good and not a lot of women want to see a movie about pornography. He even made a comment on Smodcast once about how he had used the boy growing up formula before Apatow, but Apatow made money off of it. The reason is simple, Apatow movies may be adolescent, but the femail perspecitve is much better recognized than with Kevin putting “pegging” and Donkey shows in his movies. Women are turned off by his subject matter and it’s created a permanent barrier for him. He may be self-deprecating, but he’s a narciccist all the same. That’s why he realeased Red State the way he did, rather than face rejection again, he could sell his movie to the flock of people that always show up for his stuff. He cansay he was trying to change the movie business, but he’s just trying to avoid rejection.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:20:23 +0000

“That rate is low so people will invest the money they already paid taxes on into other companies to keep money in the economy.”

No. The rate is low because rich republicans don’t want to pay any taxes at all. They bought and paid their elected officials to do what they want. Republican lawmakers spin it however they can so their moronic racist/evangelical voters nod their heads and say “OK”, even though it is against their best interest.

For a long time capital gains, dividends, and capital gains were all taxed at the same rate – and the economy was just fine. You need to stop buying into the Republican spin.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:13:53 +0000

I agree %100. Every time AC starts talking about politics it is clear he has no idea what he is talking about. It is somewhat cringe worthy and embarrassing. He needs to watch 60 Minutes/Frontline, read the Economist, or listen to NPR instead of watching ESPN and passing out on red wine.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:06:47 +0000

A stagnet economy would be the worst.

Low-IQ Tea baggers don’t seem to remember that high income tax rates were around %90 when Eisenhower was in the oval office and the economy was one of the best in american history.

By: Pike

Pike — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:42:40 +0000

I agree as well. Kevin and Adam need to discuss the situation amongst themselves; there seems to be lots of confusion/different interpretations as to what went down. Discussing the situation on their podcasts will just make things worse, because it comes off like, “I’m completely fair and rational but that other guy is a nutcase.” As a listener, it’s interesting to listen to both sides of the story but it’s no way to deal with the problem.

I’m a big fan of Ace and the Fatman, so I’d love to see them get together to do a show.

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:36:21 +0000

Smith is crazy.