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Julie's back! (Tell a friend)

I wish I had a more clever way of putting this but: I like when Besser reads old documents from his family. He did that today. I enjoyed it. Good ep.

THIS is the thing that bothers me. I've never had my brake lines cut, but I had a shitty old used car whose brakes just died one morning, and I noticed it before I got out of my driveway because what driveway is set up where you can just hop in your car, hit the gas, and GO? Let alone what neighborhoods is there where you can reach and merge onto a major road without once tapping touching your brakes?

So Gillian Jacobs auditioned for Never Back Down, right? Did she lose out to Amber Heard? If it weren't 4 in the morning, I'd be inspired to try making a poster. http://www.imdb.com/...ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Besser, please, drop ONE bunk episode. This winning streak is giving me vertigo.

A great way to break off a new anno

In that article, there's a detail that MIGHT assuage some of June's concerns - it wasn't two guys going "look how easily we can do this," it was two experts who'd spent two years doing research. Less comforting to her might be the account of the FBI agent who hacked a commercial flight in midair through his onflight video console - http://www.wired.com/2015/05/feds-say-banned-researcher-commandeered-plane/

Laura Wilcox reminded me of Michaela Watkins in the best way possible.

Fuck that, best episode of the semester! (Is that longer than a fiscal quarter? My escalation might be off) I listened to this episode once on the way to work. At work I listened to Dan Deacon's NPR tiny desk concert and the Adult Swim USA video he did with the Off the Air guy, then found out Adult Swim did a special project where they got a different animator to make a music video for each song on his new album (When I Was Done Dying has a gorgeous one). Then I listened to this episode again on the way home. I don't want to come off as to gushy, but this episode filled me with a serene happiness that I would abuse if it were a drug. Definitely keeping an eye out for Dan Deacon tickets next time he comes to NYC. Also the Bryan Bacon scene had me laughing like an idiot.

Yet another week where I've got nothing more to add but "Holy shit what a lineup"

On the next Case Closed: "Are Don't Stop or We'll Die a punk band?"

Only halfway through, but I am loving everything about this episode. So happy to finally be seeing Betsy Sodaro regularly again. I feel like she was gone for much too long. Also, in case anyone was interested, I'm pretty sure this was the article Huskey(?) mentioned: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/opinion/sunday/longing-for-the-innocence-of-playboy.html?_r=0 If I ever bump into him, I've got my conversation starter!

Normally, I'd feel a modicum of shame refreshing a webpage repeatedly before going to sleep just to find out who's going to be on a podcast I'll listen to in the morning, but the decision paid off. What a satisfying reveal seeing Ian Roberts' face pop up.

Oh, that's who it was. I thought Nick Kroll came in to do his Larry Bird doing Cher impression

So everyone freaks out when there's no Android app, but now that it's out, there's no acknowledgment? Well I, for one, as one of those who whinged, would like to say thank you to whoever's responsible. I wasn't expecting much, but this seems great. It functions and lets me download episodes! What more could I ask for?

It's 3am on the East Coast, and I'm already excited to wake up and hear this lineup in the morning.

So is there a way to get the full version of that plugs theme? It was already an amazing episode, but that song and the new plug-bag-closing-theme-tag really put a button on it all.

I'm not proud, but I spent about two hours arguing with my orthodox aunt over Kim Davis yesterday on Facebook. The validation of the discussion on this episode totally compensated for the shame I feel over becoming the sort of person who argues politics with family on Facebook. Also, I guess I should say something about how funny the episode was, but this show is so consistent that that seems like a granted.

I was listening to i4h today, which was so good, and thinking "Paul Rust is back! How long has it been?" And then I was reminded this episode exists, which felt pretty good. Overall good day. Good.

That is most definitely a lineup

They all do. Why were they having a Seder to break fast on Yom Kippur? Though holy shit, the ending to that scene

Ms. Muffin summed up my situation precisely. I have no problem with the price, and have already signed up, but I also don't have an iPhone, and I can't stream during my commute, and so I download the episodes every morning on Podcast FM. It's literally the second thing I do every day after turning off my alarm. I would also be very sad to lose the Reality Show Show and Hollywood Handbook ads, to say nothing of the ads on Spontaneanation and CBB. Losing the archive also just FEELS bad. Long story short, I was unemployed and depressed for most of 2014, and specifically having 100+ episodes of new shows to listen to really helped. I started off with HDTGM, listened to every one at least twice, and then burned through all of improv4humans however many times. I learned about almost every comedian I enjoy through Earwolf shows, by hearing someone new on an episode, and then going to listen to older appearances. I wouldn't know who Stephanie Allynne, Betsy Sodaro, Joe Wengert, Pamela Murphy, Neil Campbell, Paul Rust, etc... were if I wasn't able to dig through their appearances in the archives. And, being unemployed at the time, having access to all of this for free when I was completely broke was a huge help in making me feel less shitty every day. I want to make it clear I'm excited for the new shows (including a Wild Horses show? what?!), and the old albums, and I'm happy to pay. The problem is that even after I give you my money, my access to content is still restricted in comparison to before this announcement. I lose the ability to download old episodes, I can't listen to the exclusive content I'm paying for when I would most want to, and I lost all the old ads (Earwolf being the only place where that's a complaint). This complaint isn't just to vent frustration. I believe that Earwolf sincerely does care, and that they will be interested in solving the problems that seem to be fairly common across a not insignificant portion of your listenership. I just don't want less Earwolf in my life. It's a really silly thing that means a lot to me.

Another broke commuter with an Android phone here voicing my concern. I didn't care about the live episodes being available, since I had already bought them all, but as soon as they announced that new Gourley/Tompkins podcast, I was ready to sign up for this - before realizing I had no app to download. Then I saw there was a site, so I signed up there and... there's no way to download the episodes. I have a 40 minutes subway commute each way every day, and I have spent every one (alright, maybe 99%) of those rides listening to (again, 99%) Earwolf podcasts. I got into these shows specifically because I could download them, and this goes back beyond this commute. Even driving back and forth from school (2.5 hrs) between 2010 and 2013, I would listen downloaded episodes because I had a shitty phone that would freeze when streaming. Having access to the old episodes was also a major factor, since I'd always go through the backlogs of podcasts I'd never listened to to check out episodes with guests I knew I enjoyed. That's how I started listening to improv4humans, Hollywood Handbook, and the late Professor Blastoff (the first two of which I've listened to every episode now, many of them twice). Since I've caught up on these now, and listen to each episode the day it drops, I still manage to run out of new episodes to listen to through the day, and as a result still download and relisten to old episodes regularly. Yesterday I listened to Lance Bangs' UTU2TM, and I listened to two Reality Show Shows the day before that. I'm also worried about their touting 'ad-free' episodes. For the longest time, the ads were an equally entertaining part of the podcasts, which I thought was the whole key to their effectiveness (if I had any money to spend, I'd be throwing it at MeUndies thanks to PFTs efforts). But what with the corporate takeover, is this signaling a shift to more controlled advertising? The kind you want to skip? I guess, looking at what I've written, I'm realizing that it's more my problem than theirs the unreasonable amount of content I consume, but I just wanted to throw my voice in with the rest of the concerned here. I recognize how much amazing free comedy Earwolf has provided me, and I'm fully ready to give them my money, but I don't want these podcasts to get caught up in the corporate DRM/proprietary bullshit that drove me away from iTunes and Apple in the first place. Whinging aside - man! what a great episode! Always glad when PFT can drop by the studio, it's just a shame he so often has to leave halfway through.

Haven't yet listened to this episode, so maybe it's explained, but when did Colin Hanks turn into Jermaine Clement? Like, was it slowly or all of a sudden? Come to think of it, I've never seen them in the same room together, but, no... that's too crazy to even consider

If you need any more voices in this argument, I'm perfectly willing and available to call in.