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It's fiiiiine Hunter! For those who don't know what's going on: EARWOLF POOOOOL PAAAAARTY!

@Mark BOY I wish Earwolf had an official pool! BBQ U GUYZ!

The way I'm choosing my list is what 3 comedians, if they were in town, would I cancel major plans (like, wedding-level) to see and pay absolutely anything. The answers surprised me: Kumail Nanjiani Aziz Ansari Donald Glover Boy, I sure hate white people huh? (I'm a white person, just FYI) Also, I've seen two of these people live already for close-to-nothing, so lucky me!

Is it the "It's Paul F. Tompkins Time" intro song?

GAAAAIL! You TRICKSTER! - I went to Borders today for their big everything-must-go-going-out-of-business-sale. I picked up 4 trades/graphic novels: The Li'l Obsessed Boy (I just read it....ehh, I have some issues with it) Ghost World (just never got around to it, but I'm excited to read it) Batman Heart of Hush (Paul Dini is one of my favorites, as is Dustin Nguyen, as are all the Hush books) The Strange Adventures of HP Lovecraft (I'm going to read it next. i'm excited)

I'm having trouble accessing that link. Anyone else?

Apparently Beyonce has a song called 1+1. I can only assume that it's MATH ROCK!

I suppose I could email this, but posting it as a comment feels less time-wastey. I've always really wanted to hear Aaron Bleyaert on the show. He runs Team Coco and hosts the Team Coco Podcast. The internet was a major part of Conan's whole...ordeal and I think we can all agree that he wouldn't have had his chance with TBS were it not for the internet response. Plus, Team Coco is one of the ABSOLUTE BEST websites for a television show, complete with podcasts and deleted and extended and reheasal takes. It's amazing and I think he'd be really interesting on the show.

You guys, I straight-up JUST got the pun of "chart transplant" MATH ROCK!

You can have a three-a-thon of Ben Schwartz and will quite enjoy yourself.

Mr. Pete, I'm going to take you up on that. Can you tell me the difference between Baroque Pop and Twee? I know that I like both, and 90% of the music I listen to is ONE of those two, I just can't figure out which is which. Or is it like squares and rectangles where all Baroque Pop is Twee but not all Twee is Baroque Pop?

Chris, email me (fanmail@earwolf.com) and I'll get you in touch with Frank who can help with overseas shipping. That goes for any international fan who wants a shirt.

@Gym Sockerman : Superfan AND new member of the Earwolf team! If you haven't caught her blogs yet, go do so now! Her Kevin Nealon interview in particular is great.

...charts...

Oooooor, you can just watch the This Too Shall Pass OKGO music video a bunch!

Dirk, which is your favorite of the contestants?

Nerd question for all my fellow Nerdy McNerdensteins: During Chart Goose, when the question was "What's the best way to see America?" did anyone else think the answer was State By State with The State (a rare, out or print guide to America by, you guessed it, The State) ???

Chester, I'm going to have to disagree with you on the "singing is still just singing" comment. I trained for 10 years as an opera singer (please, please, everyone stay calm. I realize that's pretty much the COOLEST thing a person can do) and as a result, I am ABSOLUTE GARBAGE at singing pop music. I try, trust me. I really do. When nobody else is home I pull up karaoke tracks on Youtube and see if I can approximate good-sounding-ness, but the technique is just SO different that I can't handle it. However, I can sorta pull of country music, and have done pretty well at musical theater. R&B is 50/50 (I can do Mariah Carey-esque runs, but none of the brassy low stuff). - All genres of music require different skill sets, although they share an instrument. I don't think comedy is too different. You are using the same muscle but in a different way. And if Scott Aukerman (and many others) can do sketches, interview comedians, interact with characters, perform comedy songs, and play improv games I don't think it's ludicrous to at least challenge the contestants to widen their range in a similar way. - Elizabeth Laime has sketch training and yet Totally Laime was still one of the weakest of the week. I think that should prove that it's not about ability but about execution.

Ben Garant's appearance means that OVER HALF OF THE STATE HAS BEEN ON EARWOLF! Yaaaaaay! - Also, just a quick note about Schlittebahn and the uphill slides Howard was talking about: When you arrive at Schlitterbahn, you basically put down your stuff, get in a tube, and never stand up until you leave. The whole place is connected by a flowing stream and instead of walking from slide to slide, the water takes you there. So in order to get you everywhere, there are a few points along the flowing stream where these crazy conveyor belts (aided by Schlitterbahn employees) elevate you. It's pretty rad.

Sorry about the break-up! I feel like Bob Ducca recently did an episode on dealing with break-ups.

I'm poised to enjoy anything Batman related (in spite of DC's recent attempts to turn me off, but we won't get into that), so I suppose it isn't a SPECTACULAR feat that Left Handed Radio accomplished, but holy hell did I enjoy that sketch. Totally solid start to finish, and it wasn't too long. Every beat worked. Great job Left Handed Radio!

Oh, absolutely Ronald. It CAN be done. I mean, I LOVE Andy Daly's Jerry O'Hearn character, and as I mentioned in the Earmail this week, I've been enjoying the hell out of Matt Besser's own web series Masterclass, an undeniably meta series of videos taking place in an improv masterclass. In both scenarios you have INCREDIBLY skilled comedians making the comedy. - I'm not super well versed on Eminem, but he's clearly doing something right. I'd use as a personal example Meat Loaf who has several songs about rock and roll that I really dig. And in my opera training I sang many a beautiful baroque aria about the glorious gift of music by composers like Purcell and Handel. But, compare that to Rebecca Black's My Moment or Starship's We Built This City or Prefab Sprout's King of Rock and Roll:

Ronald: I'm trying to understand your point from the perspective of music, which is where most of my education comes from. You said that you can make jokes about musicians without being a musician, so why can't you make jokes about comedy, or making jokes. - So, that lead me to think about musicians writing songs about being musicians, the equivalent in the scenario you laid out. I hate those. I hate those so much. I think they're dumb and pretentious and awful. I especially hate songs about rock and roll lifestyle, or how it's the singer's moment to shine. I hate songs that are only funny to musicians because they're so full of "musician jokes." - So, you said that if you can joke about musicians without being a musician, why can't you joke about comedy without being an established comedian. Because: You are using the craft of comedy to discuss the art of comedy. That is not the same as using the craft of comedy to discuss the art of music. It would be the same as using the craft of music to discuss the art of music, which I think I dislike as much as Matt dislikes the former. - Make sense? I'm probably not doing a great job of making my point.

Downloading right now! This is going to be epic! Thanks so much Brian! I didn't look at the tracklist because I didn't want it spoiled (I treat Girl Talk the same way) but just in typing this my eye couldn't avoid "De La Soul" so I'm mighty pumped to listen! Everyone- 'Load it and we can all jam together!

Mike Q: You just won the Earwolf Challenge. Congratulations. You can start submitting your podcast immediately.