Today's Topic: People Who Rock

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Nathan: Remember that time we talked about people who sucked?

Holden: And things too.

Nathan: Yeah, and things. Well I wanted to try something a little different. I want to mention all the people who make the world a better place. People who rock.

Holden: I dig it. Hit me.

Nathan: Neil Degrasse Tyson. He’s inspiring a new generation of people who appreciate the wonders of science.

Holden: A stone cold gangster in the Bill Nye mold, who also rocks.

Nathan: Equally as important as actively engaging science denial, eating delicious food. My girlfriend makes a mean fried rice dish, she rocks.

Holden: Couldn’t sing higher praise for the egg/carrot/pea combo. And I got to give a shout out to the main man Possum and Winter Life Co-Op for providing the night’s (quasi) legal pot that made the fried rice taste even better.

Nathan: Indeed. How about John Stewart? Now that his winter break is over, I can hear about the crazy shit that people around the world continually do/get away with again (although I already miss John Oliver.)

Holden: Amen. I nominate Jennifer Lawrence for her role in American Hustle. Hot damn. She rocked.

Nathan: Yes, everything about that movie rocked. Bale deserves an Academy Award.

Holden: I wouldn’t go that far.The movie was decent. Jennifer Lawrence, though, was legendary in so many ways.

Nathan: Best actor and supporting actress (she really does deserve it).

Holden: Whatever you say. She was hot as all hell in it.

Nathan: Yes, yes she was. Can’t forget Ishamel Beah. Child soldier who survived and wrote about his experiences.

Holden: You’re a sucker for those kind of foreign and inspirational, against-all-odds stories.

Nathan: Maybe, it’s more proof that education can help anyone beat even the worst odds.

Holden: Holler. One last one for me: Billie Jean King, the badass former tennis player and outspoken lesbian who’s headed to Russia, where homophobia is running rampant like … STD’s in a UC Santa Barbara dorm?

Nathan: Or Jews towards a clearance sale.

Holden: Like awkward boners at the AVN convention.

Nathan:  Or Illiterate hicks at a Nickelback concert.

Holden: Like thinly veiled racism at a Tea Party rally.

Nathan: Or obesity in America.

Holden: Like liberal pretension between two upper middle class white college kids.

Nathan: Oy.

P.S. Billie Jean King’s segment with Colbert last night was brilliant.

Please comment with anyone else you feel deserves a shoutout for being awesome.