EPISODE 28 - Ben Schwartz: Second Chances with Donald Faulter

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Welcome back to Second Chances with Donald Faulter (Ben Schwartz), the show in which you can reach those in the afterlife including loved ones, historical figures, and celebrities. On the 1000th episode, Donald is joined by yogurt contest winner and famous acrobat Salmy McFurft all the way from India. Salmy gets closure as she communicates with her grandmother, father, and Bea Arthur. Plus, Traci Reardon finally gets to ask her grandmother a very important question as well as offer her advice to Twitter followers in her recurring segment, “Help Me, Rhonda.”

[McSmashington 521]

Solo Bolo!

[Where Dem Elephant Bones 363]

Solo Bolo!

 

Blasphemy. If anything, this is a bro-down hoedown.

[AstronautDown 282]

Holy shit, Benny Schwass (not sure about the proper spelling...) brought it with the improv! The character setup was meta-bonkers!

[Conzea 62]

Ah Benny and his singing

[Shannon 2953]

 

 

Heart eyes for days

[FaceLikeThunder 2114]

very excited to listen to this.

[AlbinLundholm 4020]

Love how this escalated

[AlbinLundholm 4020]

There better be a new CBB Solo Bolo soon

[Gym Sockerman 1326]

Come on, Ben! How do you not remember David the Gnome?!

[ieatpants 720]

this is so brilliant.

 

accents!

 

 

 

(what is benny's accent?)

[ApathyMonger 309]

Ben's grasp on his character is practically Pally-esque at times.

[McSmashington 521]

(Spoiler alert!) This post is gonna be a stone cold bummer.

 

Ben touched on one of the most heartbreaking moments i've heard in any podcast. It was his appearance on the dead authors podcast when he played Roald Dahl. (this is just from my terrible memroy) He was asked a question about Dahl's apparent anti-semitism based on a quote "There's a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity ... I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere, even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason".

 

I freaking love that Ben can find something funny in a situation as absolutely horrible as that. What a champ!

 

I hope there are many more Solo Bolo's and Bro-down Hoedowns to come!

 

House of Pies!!!!!!!!

[Royboy 430]

This episode is amazing. Possibly the fastest paced episode ever.

[hypnotizingchickens 1025]

dooon't you... forget about Dre

[adventureface 137]

METEOR BALLOONS

[Shannon 2953]

(Spoiler alert!) This post is gonna be a stone cold bummer.

 

Ben touched on one of the most heartbreaking moments i've heard in any podcast. It was his appearance on the dead authors podcast when he played Roald Dahl. (this is just from my terrible memroy) He was asked a question about Dahl's apparent anti-semitism based on a quote "There's a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity ... I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere, even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason".

 

 

I just listened to that episode last night and it seriously broke my heart when Benny was like, "well good thing I wasn't a little boy that really enjoyed those books" ...poor love

 

I also love times like during the 90s theme song segment Ben is too excited to share a Ben Schwartz story that he is literally unable to stay in character

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(Spoiler alert!) This post is gonna be a stone cold bummer.

 

Ben touched on one of the most heartbreaking moments i've heard in any podcast. It was his appearance on the dead authors podcast when he played Roald Dahl. (this is just from my terrible memroy) He was asked a question about Dahl's apparent anti-semitism based on a quote "There's a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity ... I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere, even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason".

 

Dahl also wrote the screenplay for You Only Live Twice, a contender for the most racist Bond movie of them all, and that's not an easy feat.

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I also love times like during the 90s theme song segment Ben is too excited to share a Ben Schwartz story that he is literally unable to stay in character

 

Even before that, Lauren was like "Oh, I know this..." and totally dropped the character voice. That whole part was amazing.

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I imagine the world plays out like a giant musical in ole benny schwaaaaazzzzs head. How many time he must get blank stares as he is seen ordering his food to the music of south pacific dancing on tables.

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oh god, I think I may have given myself a hernia trying to stifle laughter at Traci singing. I'm so glad this exists.

[Bumpy 1674]

These two are great. This episode is great. The 90s tv show theme song detour is great. Fat Albert dad is great. It's all great.

 

I've relistened to the part where she dismisses ever talking to her father again several times and I could swear there is some very off mic PFT laughter right there.

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The cartoon theme song segment got me so hard, both on an "these are references almost strategically targeted to my age" level and on a "this is just a joyful, beautiful moment" level.

[FaceLikeThunder 2114]

This was hilarious, wow.

[IanR 153]

The cartoon theme song segment got me so hard, both on an "these are references almost strategically targeted to my age" level and on a "this is just a joyful, beautiful moment" level.

the New Kids on The Block Step by Step part was perfect