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    The Blues Brothers run reminds me that in not too many years when my generation reaches an age where we have teenaged kids, we're going to let nostalgia get the best of us and will subject them to movies like Office Space, Napoleon Dynamite, and Austin Powers, and they'll have to pretend they're really funny and didn't age terribly JUST LIKE my generation had to do when our parents made us watch movies like Animal House, Blues Brothers, and Caddyshack...

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    Eban's contemporaneous improvised incidental music was such a special part of the Pod F. Tompkast, and I was over-the-moon happy to hear it back for this new project. Other than just making it sound amazing, how does having that soundtrack change the the improvisation experience? There are times when Eban's piano feels like a fifth cast member...

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    Guys, guess what, this is what the show is now. If you don't like it, don't listen. At this point listening to this show and complaining that they're not focusing enough on gameplay/campaign is like listening to Who Charted and complaining that they're not talking enough about the music and movies on the charts. That's not what this show is about now, and whining about it isn't going to change the fact that Sark had other shit to do in his real life that gets in the way of giving you this free entertainment every week. There are plenty of more play/campaign-focused D+D podcasts you can listen to if that's what you want.

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    A strop doesn't sharpen the way a stone does, but straightens and "polishes" the blade; a very sharp razor blade dulls in part by the formation of microscopic indentations where the edge bends out of alignment, and stropping the blade (in an spine-first motion, away from the sharpened edge) bends those tiny indentations back into alignment with the rest of the blade.

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    You sure? It sounded to me like he hesitated a great deal right there at the start. Meh. Maybe I'm reading too much into it.

     

    I thought that for about half a second, but then remembered that they were there face-to-face in the same room, while we're all getting the audio stream, and I trust EVG's ability pick up on human cues (if not HMK's lol) enough that I have a feeling it was all cool.

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    Man, I keep coming back to this and I keep loving it more and more. The section before the song starts is just so great (I especially love the shot of the gu doing a magic trick for the baby gu and then waving it off).

     

    I feel like it really establishes that the gu is not just there as a prop for Howard's cruise, he's a fellow being who happens to give gu cruises to make a living but also has his own life and community. He's proud to be a cruise gu, but that's not all he is...

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    I think Paul's confusion re: Hood Canal stems from the body of water being misnamed--it's not actually a canal (which generally denotes a human-made channel) but rather a long narrow glacial fjord that forms part of the Puget Sound, and is so named possibly as a mistake--explorer Capt. George Vancouver actually wrote "Hood Channel" in his journals, but wrote it as "Hood Canal" on his charts, in a likely scrivener's error (of course, "channel" is also wrong, since it's not open at both ends, but whatever).

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    Cameron is presenting a caricature of lesbianism when she comes on CBB. She says things like "A woman would never hurt another woman" as an exaggeration of lesbian ideals. She doesn't actually believe this but exaggerates for comedy. Crazy!

     

    So now I will go "crawl back under my bridge" and you can get back on your high horse and ride away.

     

    Esposito's presentation on CBB is basically the same as her public persona in general, or at least no more an elevated version of the same than any other comedian coming on Comedy Bang Bang, none of whom receive this kind of scrutiny or accusation of "laying it on thick," let alone comments implicitly accusing them of making up their sexual orientation as a bit.

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    I don't think Cameron is gay, but Cameron Esposito the CBB character is a somewhat offensive lesbian caricature.

     

    So glad you came, lord-high-arbiter-of-how-people-are-allowed-to-present-their-identity. Fun how a gay man who is flamboyant in public gets praised for living their truth, but a lesbian who is at all "butch" is a "caricature." Go crawl back under your bridge.

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    Not English, but a bit of a student of board game history, so: Cluedo was actually the original name; it was called Clue when brought over to North America because the Pachisi variant "Ludo," upon which "Cluedo" is a pun, isn't well known this side of the pond.

     

    And now it's said and nobody else ever needs to.

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    Wow, the "F" in PFT suddenly stands for "F-bomb," heard more of them in 5 eps than I feel like I have in years of following Paul! Interesting hearing Paul in this more casual setting...

     

    :EDIT: Found this, which I vaguely remembered reading, and it makes sense in the context of more free-form improv versus his more written or established-character-based stuff:

     

    Even if people are laughing at something, I know when I could have done it better. An example is when I start a new bit, when I'm working on a new thing and it's the first time I'm doing it in front of an audience, I will tend to swear more than I ever do onstage because I'm filling in the idea very conversationally and I swear occasionally in life when I'm talking to people. . .

     

    (source)

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  23. Posted

    TIL:

    The band was commonly referred to simply as the Modal Nodes, although Figrin D'an insisted on placing his full name before the band's name at every show. As a bandleader, "Fiery" Figrin D'an was extremely demanding. He was highly critical of every performance and criticized the band heavily if they were to miss even a single note. . . . Figrin was never shy when it came to doling out orders to the others.

     

    (source)

     

    So basically D'an is the James Brown of Star Wars.

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