A New Duck

Can't believe this line-up. Incredible. That Scott is more committed to Ho-ho's catch phrase than Lauren is makes me so happy.

Weird Al would 1) be a great guest on UTU2TM and 2) totally change the tone, as I expect there'd be a lot less dick jokes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0h9FWfEvLk "Pride (in the name of Love)" by Hapa, one of my favorite Hawaiian bands

I can't choose which shirt I want (and not sure I can do both)! Will there be a specific cut-off date for when to pre-order these?

Timing aside, I'm pretty sure the wrong way to go about getting anyone at Earwolf on board for a project is a petition. Suggestions on social media (like this forum!) are as good as anything. Petitions probably sound pushy. Especially when it's basically non-paying work for them. Scott and Scott know there's a huge podcast fanbase for their dynamic together. I'm pretty sure they know we'd be on board with an REM podcast, redoing the U2 discography, a band-a-week type show, an expanded "I Love Films," occasionally reconvening in response to U2 news, or even just an occasional bullshit sesh.

I think I've brought up Harris's observation on "Best Day of My Life" in multiple real-world conversations. Fuck tenses. Harris is the funniest guy. I already miss him very, very much. I had already relistened to some of the Whooch appearances, but this was a fitting tribute that really shows how moment-to-moment, Harris is just constantly sharp and shining. Thanks Ku, Brett, and the interns. My thoughts are with the whole Earwolf family.

This is exactly the episode I hoped it would be. Harris's over-the-top belly laugh right before the sign off was perfect. Thanks so much for giving us this, Scott, Adam, Chelsea, Brett, everyone else, and most of all Harris. All brilliant, funny, and generous people. You've all made this motherfucker laugh.

I'm tempted to stay up and listen to the end, but I can't right now. Thank you, Scott, for the intro--it moved me--and for giving us this episode. Your comedy and Harris's comedy bring a lot of good to my life. And I started listening to the episode, that Harris immediately tears into Adam for eating a bagel was amazing.

This is devastating. Of all the comedy people I've come to love over the past few years, he was the one I most identified with and found the funniest. He's brought a lot of joy to my life, and I'm deeply sad for all of his loved ones.

Just think of how much joy it will give the Scotts (I think Scott in particular) to be hosting a show titled after U2 and then spend the actual entire time talking about a different band.

I mean this as no kind of slight to the guests--who were all great; the whole show was!--but Scott's first few minutes of solo wheel-spinning at the top of this episode, developing a bit out of nearly every stray thought he had, made me realize I would absolutely be on board for a two-hour Hot Saucerman super-solo buper-bolo tour de force. His bullshit is the best bullshit.

True. Whatever they do, it's gonna require some process tweaks.

Man, if this was a studio recording, they would have spent twenty minutes (incl. dick jokes) trying to figure out what U2 adding an extra third night in LA means when they had programmed a special two-night set of concerts along specific themes--that aren't even sold out yet!

I wish I could express to Scott and Scott exactly how much joy this podcast brings to me.

Good ep! Really loving all the Horatio lately.

That Howard's latching onto JFK as pro-ocean (at the expense of space) is an irony I sure hope isn't actually lost on him.

So what Howie's saying is that the only movies that should be made anymore are movies where someone goes to the beach, looks at a dolphin, and spends no more than three minutes there before the thing's over, right?

Would definitely be open to more straight up Wild Horses episodes. Fun stuff!

1) Of course GotG isn't Howard's kind of movie, if he even has a kind of movie anymore! It's the exactly opposite of what he wants to see. And I didn't like it either. 2) Still, I understand there's some delicate psychological things going on that make Howard want to keep distractions around and make him wary of committing to watching a movie, but I don't think any movie has ever looked great when half-watching it.

Love Andy Daly as a guest, though. He's just so charming! And he needs to get on U Talkin' U2 To Me? when his schedule clears up a little. I gotta say, as someone who has spent a lot of his adult life working behind counters, if I'm envisioning Howard's story properly, I would've reacted the exact same way the Walgreen's lady did.

They either need to kill the movie chart or someone has to challenge Howard on his position. Kulap or a guest or someone. It's getting really old for me.

I loved this episode. Like, really loved it. Mike Hanford knocked it out of the park. His snowboard charac has been a longtime fav, and John Lennon is maybe even better. There's something about the focus of his characters I adore. And everyone else was an exemplary first timer, too, including our two musical guests. I do want to say that while I don't like it when people are really negative or pissy about not liking something (bringing a load of bile in here should never be cool), I don't think it's invalid to mention what didn't work for you about an episode. Rosebuddy got maybe a little snarky at the end of their initial comment, but it wasn't hateful, and they spent subsequent comments not really anteing up the rising tension in the thread. Meanwhile, a lot of people piled on to really agitatedly hold Rosebuddy in contempt. People tend to get passionate and personal about the podcasts and other media they listen to, even when it's free (for example, all the people whose lives are apparently shitty enough that they spend time talking about how much they like these things, or write angry posts about how people shouldn't post negative feedback). I don't think people should be rude or mean to the guests or hosts, especially not in the way of personal attacks, but mentioning that you don't really dig musician episodes is not invalid, I don't think. Unless the rule of the forum really is that only enthusiastic positivity is allowed. Obviously, people who don't like MUSICAL GUEST episodes are in the minority. And Scott & co. can continue doing the show exactly how they like to. But especially if a lot of the audience wasn't into it, maybe it'd be good to have that feedback? I don't know. At any rate, I'd love to even see American Football come back. I can't imagine how fun it must be to be a non-comedian fan of the show and then get the opportunity to be doing it.

Having someone like Scotty-too-Hotty makes you realize how few guests are interested in challenging Howard's anti-movie, anti-everything-not-hip-hop stance. I love it when these three get together.

Weird countertheory: It might be possible for creativity, humor, and absurdity to exist without coming back to drugs.