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  1. Riki Lindhome's doing her best Mckayla Maroney Kate Micucci face in that 3rd pic

     

    Kate Micucci is not impressed! This was totally the face I was picturing when the "Kate Face" was brought up, though I think it should be a little more wide-eyed "Well, that just happened" than "not impressed". The vocal impression was a delight.

     

    Fun episode overall (particularly the Ruffalo/Jackee summit), and I was sort of amazed that they hadn't had Riki on until now.


  2. Hey Guys, thanks for listening! I don't have schizophrenia.

     

     

    OK, then it WAS INTENTIONALLY funny!

     

    (Still totally not making light of schizophrenia.)

     

    PS, I don't know if it had already been recorded at the time, but I asked Kulap and Howard (on Twitter) to ask you about this episode if you do Tooch this week. Mostly I just want to hear their thoughts on the subject since each will surely be fascinating in their own way.

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    It actually took me half the show before I got used to how polished he is.

     

    Yeah, my initial (admittedly somewhat crazy) reaction was that I didn't like it, but thinking a bit more, I like it both for the change of pace factor and because it seems pretty clear that he's taking the show seriously and doing some real prep work.


  4. LL Cool Jason Alexander was brilliant in the Broadway adaptation of "Any Given Sunday". I remember the guys on Forgive This Intrusion raving about it at the time.

     

    I loved the episode, but have to admit my disappointment that the discussion of Mike's New Jersey/Italian accent and WTF didn't lead to a classic "MARC MA-RON!"

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  5. Despite a general distaste for Carolla and his brand of humor, and all the negative comments (which I pretty much never read in advance of listening to shows, but was curious about this one garnering far more comments than a typical SBC), I went ahead with my normal Sunday morning Sklarbro routine, and the show was pretty much what I expected, both good and bad. I'm glad that the Sklars addressed the elephant in the room, and while I wish they would have been a little tougher on Carolla, I can understand the need to be cordial hosts and not ruffle any feathers. I also agree that Carolla has the talent of a very funny guy, and I think the "if only he would use his powers for good" sentiment is spot-on. And the sound quality really wasn't that bad.

     

    Having said all that, Carolla deserves every bit of criticism he gets, and his defense against it is really weak. It's not like I took notes on the show or anything, but here are some things that stand out in my memory as being somewhere on the scale from "grating" to "outright offensive":

    - Constant use of "chick" and "brother"

    - The aforementioned Old Navy flap. Made worse by the fact that one of the Sklars presented a more logical, less offensive answer (outsourcing) and Carolla just steamrolled it in order to continue with his homophobic diatribe.

    - The idea of "I'm not an asshole, so I'm allowed to act like one." Translation - "I'm not a shitty person, just a shitty comic." Also, this was probably covered in the earlier tolerance discussion (which I admittedly only skimmed), but no one is saying he's not allowed to do anything, particularly given that his main platform is a self-produced podcast, but obviously we're allowed to not think it's funny. Also, as mentioned above, the assumption that everyone thinks this garbage and he's one of the brave few with the balls to express it.

    - Regarding the Old Navy and Hostess outlets, I cringe anytime a millionaire takes issue with how regular people choose to spend their money (not to mention the self-centered idea that just because these places are apparently a little off the beaten path from his neighborhood of fellow millionaires, any idiot going there must be driving a long way). Made worse by the "tough shit if I'm alienating the poor dirtbags" response to "don't complain about first class".


  6. I haven't seen/heard these discussed anywhere, but I just noticed some changes to the front page of the Earwolf Productions forum.

     

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    EDIT - OK, that showed up a lot smaller than I expected, and clicking on it doesn't seem to enlarge. Anyway, the new sections are "Nocturnal Emotions with Har Mar Superstar" and "Shortwave with Grant-Lee Phillips".


  7. WERNER HERZOG!

     

    PFT has completely ruined certain people for me in that I can't see/hear them without thinking of his characterizations and laughing. Then again, Herzog is pretty funny on his own.

     

    Glad to see more clips from this show, both were excellent. One of my favorite things in improv is when the performers manage to needle each other without really breaking character, like when Jason talked about Jessica pointing to Lennon (which she may or may not have actually done).

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  8. Did any of you listen to Jason on You Made it Weird? Really good show overall. The reason I'm bringing it up here is that there were two areas of overlap between that show and this one (not sure which show was recorded first) which I found pretty funny.

    1) There was a discussion involving an ice cream parlor, and a joke about using something gross as a mix-in.

    2) Jason told a story involving some major fecal blowthrough.

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  9. Yeah, the Buffy movie was the first thing I thought of as well.

     

    I'm glad Howard continued his streak of using the phrase "____-'em-up" in nearly every episode lately.

     

    This episode was fine, but it could have had the exact same content and been 20 minutes shorter if Dave Hill were capable of fluidly saying a sentence.


  10. So I guess this was one of the banked pre-cancer-diagnosis episodes? I kind of cringed when Tig was talking about the plane scare and jokingly said something like "My mother dies, I get C-dif, and just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, now I'm going to die in a plane crash."

     

    Kyle's impressions were great...luxurious, even.

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  11. I don't know if Scott works for the movie studio or if he's a freelance PR guy, but if he works in the music industry, he'd be an ideal candidate to promote Rodney Ogg's next album.

     

    Great episode, but Scott (Aukerman) missed out on a golden opportunity for a call-back to "My wi-fi!"

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    That's true, but in fairness the episode is an hour long which is close to twice as long as most episodes. Kevin Smith is probably the most 'industry' guy they've ever had, so you have to give him his space and let him talk. You have to expect that when he shows up. But lots of fun inside stuff and they did still get to talk about the movie a lot.

     

    Agreed. And I say that despite generally disliking Smith. I thought the stories were interesting (and relevant enough) and there was still plenty of time for discussion of the movie.

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