Who would have thought that the newest plan to the the United States out of the recession is through a website called Cash4gold.com, which gives you cash for your unused gold! I knew we could do it!
Or perhaps this isn’t the best plan of action for America, since they surely won’t get the true value of the gold they would be pawning. Thankfully, this isn’t a real news story, but rather a premise brought to us by the folks at the Onion. Now, if the president actually DOES start to think this is a good, let me be the first one to say that I disagree with this approach to settle our debt. It is not a good idea.
I have a feeling that over the past year Jon Hamm’s popularity has gone from Unknown to Vastly Underrated to Underrated to his present status of simply “rated.” He’s still under the radar of most main stream entertainment consumers, but he’s now getting enough exposure that people are starting to recognize him. In fact, he’s all over the place! I first saw him on Mad Men as the main character, Don Draper. Next, he hosted SNL and had some hilarious sketches, then he was on Bill Simmons’ podcast, then 30 Rock, and now he’s starring in videos on Funny or Die. He’s doing a great job of dealing with newfound fame and notoriety by taking on roles on main stream, yet still funny productions. Hopefully he doesn’t start making stupid movies and ruin his underrated status.
The reason why I like Jon Hamm is that he has been around in Hollywood for a long time, it just took his role on AMC’s Mad Men to propel him into notoriety. In listening to his interviews, it sounds like he spent a lot of time waiting tables in Hollywood and taking on bit roles in movies before this happened. I saw him in one of those bit roles last week, when We Were Soldiers was on TV. He was one of the soldiers.
Now that he is successful, he has the opportunity to gain even more notoriety by starring in sketch comedy and other roles. This video may be a little old, but it’s still relevant. In the video, he plays super villain and arch nemesis to Superman, Lex Luther. He is humbly asking for a bailout from the government… and is quite honest with his intentions. He’s trying to get Superman! You can tell that this Lex Luther seriously laments Superman.
“I’m sorry, but I work super hard on these things… and this f***ing guy comes in and he’s like “yeah, I’m the guy”
“I mean come on… I’m going to use the money to kill Superman. I’m Lex Luther… that’s what I do. I try to kill Superman”
Gotta hand it to South Park for always being relevant, no matter what the topic. I caught this video last night on a finance/economics blog of all places, and I have to say I laughed out loud. This video premise kind of reminds me of a previous South Park episode where they make fun of Family Guy, saying that all ideas for the show come from Manatees with Idea Balls.
Similarly, in this episode, bailout decisions are made from where an object falls on the mat of bailout options (similar to Tom Smykowski’s Jump to Conclusions Mat). In order to choose what to do with an ailing bank or insurance company, the government (in this case white wig wearing bureaucrats out of the 1700’s) cuts off the head of a chicken, and another person plays a Kazoo. The chicken runs around with its head cut off, and wherever it lands, we have our solution! Instant Bailout! I like the other options as well:
Let Fail
Try Again
$90 Trillion
$1 Billion
Indian Casinos
Tax The Rich
Telethon
Print Money
Given those options, I actually think that maybe South Park is right and we need a bailout!
