Kansas Freakout - Marc Maron

Run time: 01:54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPMJUVNRJqU   Posted on YouTube: October 24, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 25, 2008 By DU Member: Aqaba Views on DU: 1242

 
This one cracked me up pretty good. Marc Maron and Sam Seder have this webcast they do everyday in the run up to the election. Marc is going across country getting people's opinions and stuff, and this was when he went into Kansas from Colorado.

Here's the link to their website, more clips and broadcasts there.

http://maronvseder.com/">Maron vs. Seder

No one does anything like this. No one. So human, so funny, so smart.

The Kansas Freakout was brilliant.

I just freak out over this venue. They'll rise to the top of the charts, mark my words.

Can't wait for the movie.

...I just started watching a couple days ago, catching up on old clips.

they must of picked up some bad weed, man. What a trip.


Good stuff.

:P

I wonder where in Kansas that is. At first I thought it was Highway 54-400 through Syracuse, Lakin, Garden City etc. The JC Penney is probably in one of the bigger cities like Garden or Dodge.

Dorothy, and Fred Phelps (and I'm not even gay)

Anything else I should know?

...geomorphologically speaking (one of my degrees is in Earth Science, the other is Biology). Its leaps and bounds better than the shithole known as Oklahoma.

I've done a good bit of academic geologic field work in Kansas, literally the entire breadth of I-70 and a good bit north and south of it.

Where Marc was reporting from, was the far western area around Goodland, also known as the high plains. Its that gentle upslope of the prarie that eventually meets the base of the Rockies, about 1 mile above sea level. Its incredibly flat, with that gentle upslope to the west, with a whole lot of wind. In the center of the state, you have what's known as the Flint Hills. You have these huge ass hills that are the result of a hard ass flint layer (silicon dioxide, quartz) with a whole lot of limestone/shale layers (weak) underneath. You get dissection of the topography with a whole bunch of resilient, stubborn flint hilltops. Its really quite stunning if you know what you are looking at. Deviating from I-70 in the Flint hills is definitely an adventure in driving.

One other really unique feature of Kansas is the Limestone Fenceposts. I guess they didn't have a whole lot of cedar in Kansas, because for some reason, back in the 1800's, the folks over there used big, heavy ass limestone as fenceposts, precisely because the particular type of limestone there was very easy to cleave into desired dimensions. Huge reticular pieces of limestone, roughly 1'x1'x6(?), used as fenceposts. Take a look at a fence sometime, and notice the iron/steel fenceposts that support it. Now, substitute these limestone things for that. Its really quite incredible, because there are untold numbers of these fenceposts. I could offer a number like, 10,000, and that would probably be a low ball estimate. Driving across I-70, east to west, you can see these things on the north side. You literally see miles of these fenceposts, stuck in the ground.

I didn't even get to talk about Cobra Rock in Kansas. Google is teh frend.

Before Prohibition, the leading wine and grape producer in America was not California.

It was Kansas and Missouri together.

Ever been to Wyldewood Cellars? :thumbsup:

it and it just wakes me up more. So damn funny.

The paranoia with music...shit. I driven through Kansas a few times, I had the exact same feeling. :rofl: