Jeff MacDonald

I had to immediately donate money to the show after listening. I can't justify just buying t-shirts from earwolf any longer, you deserve more. I only make a small amount at my job so my donation was modest, but I just couldn't go on listening to the best comedy that exists in any media without giving back at least a little bit.

@Jeff Little did you know is that Dirk is actually Psychic Andy. He found out about you and Elizabeth and planted the idea of her wanting a popular podcast in her head. This created you to go down the road you have all culminating in him making a comment on the forums so that you would reveal your secret. Now he has this clearly documented evidence of his wife's infedelity and can now cash in on her parents' oil fortune, the only reason he married her in the first place.

This week was surprisingly solid. I expected to not love a lot of it, but most hit the mark for me. I liked Left Handed Radio the most as it seems is the general consensus. The bottom would be The Fort for me. Although the delivery seemed to work the idea fell flat for me and was just far from funny. Totally Laime may have had a very weak delivery but at least I chuckled a few times. Also wanted to praise the F+ a bit. Although it wasn't the best sketch, I think they did a good job fitting their podcasts premise into a sketch (although I was kind of hoping for a creepy fetish sketch).

I wanted to post an addendum to my comment from earlier (yeah, I realize it is on the first page). I personally have a bias against Totally Laime because I haven't been grabbed by that podcast like a lot of other ones on this challenge (I've gone and listened to episodes of every cast on the challenge). So I guess what I'm saying is, take my criticisms about thinking there is a bias in favor of TL with a grain of salt as I have a bias for a few of the other shows. Also to add, this podcast gives me the motivation to get up in the morning on monday, tuesday, and wednesday. I now get less excited for every Thursday and Friday because I know I have to wait 5 days for another Challenge episode (although Sklarbro does turn my frown upside down). Earwolf is making the television obsolete.

I agree to an extent of what mark said about Totally Laime although I would have put it more delicately. I disagree that Matt is doing a poor job though; I find him to do a good job of defending podcasts when the judges seem to have criticisms that shouldn't apply because of the content or theme of their show. I could also do with more Announcer Matt throughout the show cause he does that amazingly. To re-iterate in a different way about Totally Laime; it is frustrating to hear someone like Marc talk about how he thought the segment was weak from TL, but then give them a pass because he thinks their show is funny on the whole. I realize this competition was set up to be totally unbiased, but I think some bias has snuck in with TL and I would like to see some hosts that have no idea what TL is and give a judgment free of unintentional bias.

Little Dum Dum Club was my winner this week. I'd be interested to hear if the judges have a favorite for the week from here on out. Just talking about the 3 worst is kind of a downer; lets get some positivity going with telling us who you think did the best.

I didn't think Jesse was as mean as people are saying. The comment of "I think you're going to win" was simply just funny, and if hosts of a comedy podcast can't take a joke, then maybe they should look into a different sort of ambition. Also I wanted to comment on giving the TVZ podcast guff about their audio quality. I do think it is somewhat unfair to judge them on that for the content submission, but if they didn't put them in the bottom three, then they wouldn't have been able to give them the constructive criticism on their audio quality that will definitely effect their chances when a production challenge comes up later. I think putting them in the bottom actually helps them because it gives them more criticism to work with and improve upon. Also, as an aside, I'm a regular listener of TVZ and will be quite excited to see them improve and become the next earwolf podcast. Lastly, I will be quite upset if the favorites of this challenge end up winning. Totally Laime and Little Dum Dum Club are definitely good podcasts, but it really feels like more of the same because they are both comedians interviewing comedians, which happens to be the same premise as most of the shows on earwolf.

Can I get someone to finish this analogy for me? Sweet Home Alabama : Good Place Arkansas :: Stairway to Heaven : ????