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Kickpuncher

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  1. Hey Jeff, I was wondering something about these Mid Roll surveys. Is it helpful for us to fill one out for every show we listen to? I heard the promo on Sklarbro County and did it, and thought it might just be something the Sklars were doing, but then they also had a promo on today's Hooch. Since none of the questions were show-specific, it seems kind of pointless to put in the same answers a half-dozen times, but maybe the point is at least in part to see if there are differences in the various shows' audiences?


  2. The second is the Million Dollar Man Ted DeBiase's servant, Virgil. DeBiase would regularly humiliate Virgil during their stage intros and generally treat Virgil as shit. Virgil was black, by the way...

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    This is actually one of many, many examples where wrestling tries to walk a fine line, but ultimately has never shown anywhere near the level of nuance required to do it successfully. Their argument would be that DiBiase was a bad guy, and as long as that's understood (including the announcers, i.e. the most voice of the promotion, condemning his actions), then it's OK for him to be racist to get "heat" (note that wrestling good guys are virtually never racist). Virgil eventually turned on him, and (I'm guessing, because I don't specifically remember) probably beat him in a big match. Does that mean it's OK? Again, probably not given the specific ways they handle it.


  3. Clearly Andrew Ti doesn't play fantasy basketball, because Kevin Love was a top 10 pick across all of yahoo basketball this season, and the 3rd highest price in auction drafts... Even though he was injured and wasn't going to play for 2 months. Last year I believe he was top 3.

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    1) It was Jeff who brought up Kevin Love, not Andrew.

    2) He specifically compared him to LeBron, who is absolutely better in both real life and fantasy.


  4. Ooorrr soda mom.

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    Great episode. I loved the mix of semi-focused topical discussion and more philosophical stuff (and the usual allowance of riffing, obviously).

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    I'm glad that America's Hottest Comic and co. are doing well enough to be flung to the far corners of the world (or at least the far media capitals of America), but I'm really looking forward to hearing the full crew in the hatch again. I don't know if the wi-fi in the NY apartment is just terrible or what, but they have more problems with Skype (delay and drop-outs) in every episode than I have in a typical year of using it regularly.

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    Happy birthday, Dan.


  5. I watched it live and there were some problems with the stream (nothing terrible, just the usual hitches of a less-than-perfect video stream), so it was nice to have the podcast, because the greatness of New No-Nos and a lot of BCB's stuff are kind of lost if you even miss a few seconds. The "Riders on the Storm" bit was especially funny. Now excuse me while I go put some Jellotion on my Phylicia Rashad.


  6. Where's the video on youtube.com/vpn? I thought once they aired, they stayed for us to watch. There were a few that were on for maybe a day and now are gone. I was planning on watching Who Charted and the other Bang Bang but I guess not now. Yeah, I know. I'm whining.

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    Not every show is on VPN. Other than the initial Sundance shows (which were taken down for audio tweaking but I believe have been restored), there will one show (CBB this week and the next two, rotating after that) live on VPN every Thursday at 6 (Pacific time), then archived.

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    Also, your avatar is the best.


  7. I thought this was one of the most clear-cut "Yes, this is racist" questions ever. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but the mother must have been really concerned about it if she would actually ask that rather than just waiting to see for herself (either in person or a photo).


  8. Really? I get the impression from Dan's post that he was just simply asking if we're going to get the post watched jaws episode, to which PFT responded sarcastically.

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    I guess there's no way of knowing unless we could ask the guy directly, but we both agree on what question PFT is answering and that he's doing so sarcastically.

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  9. I think Howard just has a weird Adam-as-Richard-Dreyfuss fantasy

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    "What am I play?"

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    I loved that the Square Space promo went on so long that the Mancini compilation flipped over from the customary Baby Elephant Walk to the Pink Panther theme.

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    I also loved every other thing about this episode.


  10. Great episode. I found Heidecker a lot more tolerable in the context of discussing something as a normal human rather than using an actively unfunny jerk persona as he does on CBB.

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    The viral video with the kids was the first thing I thought of when this was announced, and I hoped they would discuss it. I'm glad that some people expressed discomfort with it, because while I do think it's really funny, I do get uncomfortable if I think about it at all. The parents laughing in the video and the general idea of recording it and putting it on YouTube is really shitty.

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