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  1. I loved the scheduling bit. I actually think Scott is doing a bit by pretending not to be into it, like it's a bits Inception. There are bits in bits in bits (in bits).

     

    The intro and outro are both touching and the tone of them is spot on. As with all the other tributes, it's clear that Scott not only thought Harris was funny as fuck, but that he was just a good person and a good person to be around. I've been listening to some of Harris' previous Comedy Bang Bang appearances over the weekend, and they're always so good. It's really sad that he's gone, but the podcasts will always be there and I'll watch Parks and Recreation again and again when I own the complete box set, and he'll be making me laugh whenever I listen to the podcasts and I know that some of the lines that makes me laugh really hard in Parks will have been written by him too (as well as his on-screen appearances).

     

    RIP Harris.

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  2. The best bad John Lennon impression ever! I'd love Mike to be joined by three other people doing great bad Liverpudlian accents as the rest of the Beatles.

     

    American Football were game and Anders was funny too, so I would definitely give this episode a C+ and probably put it in my top 2 episodes of the year.

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  3. i'm glad scott mentioned the new yorker review... even though i don't like U2, i agree that sasha frere jones is an idiot and it was a super lazy article. it even bothered comparing the album, track by track, with the beyonce album. waht?

     

    Ah, that review. It made no sense at all to compare the two albums, and it was done so sarcastically that it made it totally obnoxious. The sad thing is that it's the way music criticism is going now. There are so many stunt reviews now, where an album will get 0/10 and an extremely snarky review so the website that publishes it can get publicity for giving a high profile release such a negative review. And they are almost always written by people who hate the music of the artists they're reviewing and have already decided they'll hate it before they even listen.

     

    And it's very easy to do that kind of thing for the latest U2 album, because people enjoy not liking U2 and getting annoyed by Bono, and because of how the album was initially released.

     

    So to sum up, like Scott said of NME's review, 'What dicks!'.

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  4. I literally (and I'm using the word properly) jumped out of bed to put my putes on and download this on iTunes when I saw it on Soundcloud this morning.

     

    The funny thing about Scott and Scott talking about the reaction to the albums release and the reviews of it is that they really are one of the few people who reviewed the album for its music, and not the method of release or a dislike of U2 anyway. They gave the album a fair review and so many 'real' reviewers didn't and didn't want to either.

     

    The logical next step for the podcast is for Scott and Scott to write their own definitive U2 biography, right?

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    I've been frustratingly trying to remember one that I have a vague memory of, something about songs being in real time I think

     

    Pretty sure it was in the Paul Banks episode, and he said songs should be as long as the events the lyrics describe took to play out. I was surprised that they didn't mention it at the time, but this would mean that One Week by The Barenaked Ladies would be one week long.

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    To be clear I wrote that comment before I heard the episode and although she did talk about it it wasn't as bad I was expecting. So yeah she didn't talk about so often this time. But she does overwhelmingly depend on it. I listen to PYHT, I watch PYHT live and I go to a lot of other stand up shows where she might perform so I stand by my critism. Listen to all her stand up material you can find online, go watch her live anytime you can. It gets tiring very fast.

     

    Hold on, are you now telling us that you said 'Here we go again. Take a shot every time Cameron mentions she's gay' before you even listened to the podcast?

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  7. "When you came out of your mother's vagina, did you look back and say, 'I could get used to this'?"

     

    I find myself kind of fascinated by this question. I found it funny and wasn't offended by it at all, but I've been thinking about how horrendous and offensive it would be if anyone said that to a lesbian in any other context, and how demonized the person that asked it would be when people heard it.

     

    I think it's a sign of great comedy though. It's like something Chris Morris would ask a guest on The Day Today, and one small part of a really great episode.

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  8. Only at 53 minutes in (had to rewind the Ramone impression five-plus times on my drive to work) so I'll have to save the other 42 minutes for the drive home. Still, I feel confident saying this ep is solid. C+ all the way. I'm an Interpol fan and was surprised at how well Paul fit in to the fold.

     

    However, when Brandon Curtis/Secret Machines came up and Scott asked whatever happened to them I cringed. Bringing up Benjamin Curtis' recent death would've made for a reeeeeally awkward moment.

     

    But Ben Curtis left the band in 2007, and a third Secret Machines album came out in 2008. And there was talk of a fourth album a few years ago too. So I don't think they would have needed to bring that up necessarily.


  9. of course they're gonna get tons of shit for it (mostly just because they're U2), but I actually like it a lot. aesthetically, it feels like something between the Boy and Joshua Tree covers... and it definitely fits the tone of the album much better than a plain white LP sleeve did.

     

    I think it should be the Larry photo in the album's booklet, like when an album's booklet has portraits of each member of the band, but it shouldn't be the cover of the album. Mind you, let's not forget that Adam Clay-2000lbs gets his old chap out on the Achtung Baby booklet, so it definitely could have been worse.


  10. 'Hi, I tried listening to this episode, but felt that the sound quality wasn't as high as previous live shows. Is there any chance of it being improved?'

     

    Maybe it's just me, but for me, it seems like you could post this, and the Earwolf team would do what they can to fix the problem. Insulting them and filling your posts with abuse seems counter-productive.

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  11. With Adam Scott mentioning Torque in this episode, now more than ever I think we need an Earwolf special called How Did U Torqueing U2 To Me Get Made?

     

    Where Scott and Scott and June and Jason and Paul all discuss the critically acclaimed* multi-award winning** masterpiece that is Torque plus special guest Joseph Kahn, who directed the film and has also worked with U2.

     

    *This is inaccurate

     

    **This is also inaccurate, although it received multiple nominations at the World Stunt Awards

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