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Regarding the time jump sound effects, what tracks are they on your sound effects record, and were they sampled from H.G. Wells' time machine?

Ah, it all makes sense now that off-mic PFT laughter™ was heard in the Joe Bongo ep!

Point of clarification: Colin Hanks stops by for TWO eps, and don't forget that Jensen Karp drops by on occasion for 'The Sock Report.' I second that this is a fun podcast! As I mentioned on last week's Spontaneanation thread, Pistol Shrimps Radio is "a great podcast to do other things to while listening. Matt's and Mark's broadcaster voices are great, and the play-by-play, while earnest, is hilariously spotty." OH! And as of yesterday's ep, Tig's radio sportscaster brother Renaud Notaro has been on Pistol Shrimps Radio!

People can post negative things. It's worth observing that if you're going to post negative things, people will challenge it. Take a second before posting negative stuff and ask yourself: "Can I back this up with a thoughtful discussion, and do I want to?" If the answers to either parts of this question are "nope!" then you should probably maybe not post it and spare everyone else. I mean, shit— the Earwolf reddit currently has a better discussion about this episode going on than this board does. I checked it out on a fluke and was like, "Oh, everyone here is saying fun stuff."

Btw, Pistol Shrimps Basketball is a great podcast to do other things to while listening. Matt's and Mark's broadcaster voices are great, and the play-by-play, while earnest, is hilariously spotty.

If you want more Fourvel, you can always drop a couple bucks on the CBB 2014 LIVE Tour ep in NYC with Fourvel and Alan Thicke. It's a good one. Just re-listened to it this weekend.

SCOTT: "Alright, we've gotta figure out if he's got any bombs in this store room." JIMMY: "According to Fitch, he's got nothing in his store room." SCOTT: "'ACCORDING TO FITCH'?!" JIMMY: "There's three bottles of glass cleaner and nothing else!" SCOTT: "I don't want to take Fitch's word for anything, alright?" JIMMY: "That's a good call." lol I love how exasperated Scott is with Fitch's credibility.

"Jinx! You owe me a Durst," may be the best thing I've ever heard.

I'm pretty sure that Horatio won't stop mining the history of famous murder stories until one of his characters claims responsibility for the Black Dahlia murder.

Horatio totally confused what Shelly and Chico do, but not how they sound. Horatio came on as Shelly, and Shelly sounds like a gentle, effeminate SoCal surfer who is ingrained in Hollywood and the back doors of showbiz, whereas Chico sounds like a grizzled, LA rock scene veteran and is writing a rock & roll memoir about the LA music scene. EDIT: He totally shifts gears from Shelly to Chico when they start talking about Shatner and the OJ books (which is probably when Horatio realized he meant to say he was Chico). Part of this confusion may be because both of these characters are Los Angelenos who know about the in's and out's of the music biz or showbiz, and also that Scott has asked them both for street-specific directions at one time or another because it's funny when Horatio does that (although that is technically Shelly's shtick). Scott didn't confuse the characters because Horatio established who he was first, affecting his Shelly voice off-mic. SHELLY: (off mic) "How about prism?" SCOTT: "Can we turn on his-" SHELLY: "HI!" SCOTT: "Who's this?" SHELLY: "It's Shelly." SCOTT: "Ah! Shelly Driftwood!"

I've brought everyone a Case Closed cake. Come on, y'all, lean in and blow out the candles...

Hi Paul, I was lucky enough to attend your taping for Crying and Driving. Your purple tie reminded me of the purple of the Spontaneanation logo, and you also had what looked like a pin on your lapel, but I could not make out what it was. Was it a Spontaneanation pin?

God I love PFT when he's riffing in front of a live audience. It's such a great time.

S I C K C L A V I C L E S B R O

Heynong man, why are none of us addressing Mike the Janitor's very cogent point about his erroneous CBB wiki entry due to Scott's inability to remember nor clearly communicate Mike's canon to the listeners? If you click on Mike the Janitor's name on Paul F. Tompkins' page, it leads to Lord Andrew Lloyd Weber's page, wherein is this description of Mike: Mike's name is a hotlink in that paragraph, and when you click it you are redirected to ALW's page again. Pretty insulting!

Haha Oh man, I was dying at how Brendon would start a sentence sounding very Victor-esque, then go into a German accent, then transmogrify into something that to me sounded Australian-y, then back to German. It happened so frequently that I started obsessing over whether it was a conscious choice or not.

It is most definitely rude. That's pretty much where I come down on it too, even if I wasn't clear in my ramblings. This person in my example may not be hateful towards women in his heart, but the language he was using is, which leaves him open to accusations of himself being hateful. Trash talk (and in the realm of video games, hatemail), like most things in this world, often is base and lazy, grasping at the shorthand trigger words to criticize and demean an opponent by comparing them to something considered 'less than,' i.e. whatever is not normal and therefore bad. Often times everything falls under the 'not normal' banner other than caucasian, hetero, and male. I thankfully do not get too much hatemail wherein people are using INSANELY offensive slurs, but when I do I have countered it by acknowledging there's nothing wrong with being a woman, or being gay, or being an ethnicity other than white, so the sore loser/winner should try again if their aim is to offend. Maybe they should be more specific and use their words if they wish to express what it is an opponent is doing/has done that offends them so much. Calling people babies or assholes is the way to go, imo. No one can deny they weren't once a fussy, whiny baby, and everyone is in possession of a stupid asshole.

oof pfchangs, out of context, this is pretty damning of your attitudes. Also, Lust-Addled Fuck Monsters is a great name for something, but I don't know what. lol

I would like to completely non-helpfully point out that calling someone a 'pussy' comes from being scared like a 'pussy cat,' otherwise known as a 'puss,' due to cats exhibiting a very stringent behavioral policy about staying out of the way of any perceived threats of danger, however slight. Of course, for 300+ years now, 'pussy' is also used to refer to ladies and their vaginas, so when I am playing a video game online and a guy calls me a 'pussy' because I hid for a second in order to get the drop on him and successfully kill him, I take it at face value that maybe he meant I was playing like a cat, but then when he follows it up by calling me a cunt and a little girl, then I'm like, "Oh, ok. He meant it the other way; the way where he's telling me I'm like a woman because women are bad and he thinks I'm bad like how women are." SO. That's like, trash talk. We're just (assumed) bros, this anonymous guy and me! Maybe this guy isn't a misogynist, but he's using the language of misogynists to express anger at me, a stranger, over a game. But even if I asked him point blank, "Do you hate women? And if not, why do you talk like that?" This guy, and a lot of people, would probably not have a well-thought out answer beyond, "It's just trash talk." It's fucking lazy short-hand hate. Let me pull up demeaning words for people who don't have the power, and equate a person I don't like to these people because I want to insult this person personally but get a whole group of people involved as well by using words that insult huge swathes of the population. Kind of an obtuse point. I'm not being entirely on-topic. I just ran into this example recently and was like, "UGH."

Whoa! Looking at the picture for this episode, is the dial of that old radio under the staircase the inspiration for the logo of the show, or is it some other old radio's dial?

Guys, like Daylight Savings time, the three time-flash sounds are not that hard to grasp. It's like L O S T. There's the FWOOSH which is flash-sideways. There's the harp thing that means we go back in ti-i-ime! And then there's the other one where we go back to the future/present because something's up with Marty's kids.

btw, guys, I attended Paul's comedy special recording this past Saturday for Crying and Driving. Got to sit in the front row! Paul came out and warmed up the audience before the special, and I wasn't sure what to expect in terms of crowd work/ interaction and whatnot. But just in case he asked if we liked any of his characters, I swear I locked and loaded 'Mitch and Dolores' and repeated it to myself a number of times because I figured it'd be a little bit of a deep cut, it'd be two characters for the price of one, and they're relatively new to Paul's character stable, keeping it fresh. Sadly, no character questions were asked, although PFT being PFT, there are some great voices sprinkled into all of his bits.

Guuuuuuuuys, why must we qualify our enjoyment of episodes via C+ ratings or affirmations of inclusion on our own potential year-end Best Of lists? Can't we all just give it a rating from 1 to 4 stars? 4 stars. 4. 4 Washington Avenue! The next clue is in the White House. GASP! I found chemicals. Guys, that's it! We should express how we're really into the episodes as if they were chemicals, and we all love chemicals so much we're all practically Walter White over here!

No worries! I didn't want to come off as pedantic and hadn't started the episode yet, so when I saw 'Joe LaRue' I thought that maybe Kyle was doing either a new character or a variation of Del but changed the name for whatever reason. Once I started the ep and heard Del introduce himself I was like, "Oh yeah, that was a little hard to understand his name right there."

Hey July, are you sure it isn't Del LaRue, Kyle's character with the same voice and personality from Professor Blastoff?