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I used to love The Adam Carolla Podcast, but the new format kills me. It strikes me as hypocritical, considering how much he used to rant about how awful morning radio shows are, that the new format is essentially morning radio. What were once great podcasts of hour long interviews has essentially become a morning radio show with insipid 20 minute interviews, constantly interrupted by idiotic news stories from Florida and fart sounds from the soundboard. He does tend to poo poo on everyone around him, because he's THE ONLY PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE WITH COMMON SENSE. My new favorite is the Nerdist. He does tend to sperg about iphones and the comedy process, but he's still a great interviewer, I especially liked the Drew Carey episode, and the live podcast with Craig Ferguson was awesome.
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benito posted:I think it's moving into the worst of both worlds right now. There's a lot of filler that just seems designed to waste time, like the Isaac Hayes fake conversations and the increasingly lackluster news segments. If the rants and politics bother you, those are present in full force. Also, keep in mind that it's creeping up to 2 hours a day--no commercials, no music, and no producer or boss to keep Adam's ego in check. What killed it for me was the interview with Peter North. Here's a guy with a 20+ year career in the porn industry, arguably the industry's biggest star (HAHA DICK JOKE!). Adam gets his 'origin story', and then goes on a 5 minute analogy-story about how North can still be straight even though he banged dudes early in his career, which makes North uncomfortable as hell. Then, rather than delve into what North thinks about the current state of the industry or the future (the furthest he gets is "What do you think about the modern 'anger porn' style?" "I don't like it"), He spends the rest of the interview making dick jokes and segueing into the insipid news segment, where he makes more dick jokes. He doesn't even mention the Nissan 300ZX North recently sold on ebay (http://tinyurl.com/2e8hrmo). Come on, it's an easy lollipop topic ripe for the picking (especially for a gearhead), and I personally would like to know what motivated North to do such a thing. Is the industry getting killed by torrents? Is his paycheck taking a hit because of tube sites? What does he think of the Stagliano obscenity trial? If only North had been on a few months ago, it would be a way better interview. Once or twice a week I could deal with the morning radio style and WACKY FLORIDA CRIMINALS, but now that it's EVERY EPISODE, it just sucks. I liked the interview style because it was more of a conversation between two people, and we get to know the interviewee a little bit better because it's not a rigid interview style. Adam's rants and repetitive stories suck, but the rest of the interviews made up for it.
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Aug 24, 2010 00:45
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Godspell posted:Doug really needs to find another place to do his podcast that won't limit him so much on time, that's were the frustration is really coming from. the UCB theater must have an opening on like a Wednesday night. I'm sure there's enough DLM fans that would come to like an 11:00 show. Or maybe an afternoon show. There just has to be space somewhere for him to have a two hour Leonard Maltin super-tournament 
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Sep 9, 2010 13:24
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The Banned posted:The bit in The Nerdist interview with Jonathon Coulton about Mario doing ventriloquism made me laugh so loving hard while I was driving today. I nearly crashed my car during the Hollywood Movies About Poop bit. I'm not sure if it was because the bit itself was funny, or if them cracking up during it made me crack up. Either way, There Will Be Blood is where I lost it. Who was the female singer on one of the live broadcasts who played the fiddle? She's an amazing singer, and I forgot to look her up before I deleted the podcast. Edit: nevermind, Sarah Watkins.
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Sep 15, 2010 01:11
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brainsforbrains posted:Yeah that whole thing was pretty ridiculous. For a dude who smokes that much weed Doug's pretty high-strung. Speaking of strange guests, did anyone else think Nick Swardson phoned it in for the last DLM? He was either hungover as hell or completely not interested in being on the show. I listened to the WTF where he talks about detoxing in his car immediately beforehand, and he was way more animated on WTF than DLM.
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Sep 28, 2010 13:56
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SHUT HIS MIKE OFF! YES I'M SERIOUS! SHUT IT OOOOOFF!
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Seriously, I think it's the foamy, verge-of-vomiting belches that turn everyone off. Can the new gimmick on PEC be the Michael MacDonald Game? I would pay for a podcast that consisted of an hour of that game. I also completely lost it when they said Lincoln freed the slaves to get a better basketball team. red19fire fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Dec 17, 2010 |
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The Banned posted:Hahahaha, so I just checked my email, and lo and behold, I got a terrific message from Dan Nainan, hack comedian extraordinaire. He's the guy that tried to bribe Marc Maron into bringing him on WTF. I guess I posted something about how he was a hack who writes the world's easiest jokeson one of his videos on youtube. I don't remember what it was, and I can't find about because he deleted it, but man, how sad of a human being do you have to be to personally email someone who posts a negative comment on your videos? And all of his jokes in Dubai, Moscow, etc are going to boil down to: Americans are fat lazy slobs, and/or white people are bad at dancing. I get paid a ton of money, therefore I am a great comedian. None of my peers have any respect for me, but that's because they're all just jealous of how much money I make, and wish they could write such great jokes. Does anyone else like Bill Cosby Bukowski? I found it hilarious, and Scott could barely keep a straight face towards the end.
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Dec 20, 2010 21:40
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King Lou posted:Hey guys. I just posted a new episode of Lou Reads. Its SUPER NSFW so headphones on please! Just reading the link name horrifies me. Also, if you're not listening to WTF, you're wrong. He was featured in the NYT! http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/arts/09maron.html?_r=1 It kind of sucks that Marc only barely breaks even. It's like a Catch-22: If he tried to monetize the show, he'll lose what makes it so good. By accepting more sponsors, doing commercials, or zany morning zoo poo poo he'd probably lose his core of fans, and the intimacy and openness of his interviews. It would be awesome if he could turn it into a show, but again, the presence of cameras and crews and such would probably ruin the candidness of the show, and the interviewees would put their 'shields' up. Although at this point, I think he's earned the reputation to be able to charge for his podcasts. A pittance, like 99 cents a show (or every-other-show), do one per week, and keep the quality level just as high. Isn't podcasting coming to a tipping point? I think it's proving to be a radio killer, because there's more content and less interruptions. Carolla does direct sponsorship, Pardo has the premium subscription style, and Marc operates on donations; Has any business model come out as the 'best' way?
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Jan 7, 2011 06:56
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A PRIZED MULE! posted:
I wish the PEC guys had PS3 so we could play Black Ops together  The 'All About the Benjamins' rifftrax-style episode had me in stitches in the car, and I've never even seen the movie. I love that they go off on tangents for 10 minutes and ignore the movie completely.Brice Cubell!
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Jan 18, 2011 21:05
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NecronSchmecron posted:I think they should do Torque. More humorous opportunities and gives me a reason to see it. I own this on DVD. The dvd commentary is basically rifftrax starring the actors & director. Everyone pretty much admits that it's a fun-but-lovely movie, except the actor playing the bad guy, who is A Serious Method Actor. There are so many movies I'd love to hear their commentary on: Road House, Willow, The Big Hit, Coyote Ugly, Tomcats; just to name a few from my dvd collection. red19fire fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Jan 19, 2011 |
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I just listened to the Gallagher WTF today, so forgive me for being late to the party. I'm pretty sure Gallagher sucks at chemistry. I only took Chem 1, but I'm 99% sure cell phones don't shoot protons at you. In the PYF history thing thread, there's a story of a russian nuclear scientist that got hit by a proton in a particle accelerator and his hair fell out, his skull swelled, lost memories, etc. The sense of entitlement was insane as well. I imagine arguing with Gallagher is much like arguing with Glenn Beck; he uses a bunch of logical fallacies, realizes he's not going to talk his way out, and just quits and leaves. I loved that he dislikes audiences in NYC/Seattle/LA because he'll get booed for telling racist & homophobic jokes.
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Feb 5, 2011 06:34
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Tenik posted:Gallagher was saying photon, not proton. And every chemistry related thing he said was correct. He just did a really bad job explaining it. I stand corrected, then. I could have sworn he said proton several times. A lot of it smacked of  How do we know cell phones & MRI's are safe when they shoot photons at our brains?!? I'M JUST ASKING QUESTIONS.It just blows my mind that Gallagher didn't understand or refused to understand what Marc was saying about the repercussions of racist & homophobic jokes.
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Feb 7, 2011 17:18
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Has anyone tried using the sponsorship codes for audible that Nerdist/WTF/DLM/etc gave out? I guess they expire after a month or so. I have a long road trip coming up, and I'd love to stock up on some audiobooks. The codes I've used so far are DLM, WTF, WTFPOD, NERDIST, & ACE to no avail.
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Mar 27, 2011 17:56
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Kim Jong Il posted:Natasha rules, people don't like her? I didn't like her on DLM, but she was pretty good on CDR. Opening the episode by calling out Martin Lawrence for being a hack won me over.
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Mar 31, 2011 01:08
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So Jay Mohr started a podcast, has anyone listened to it yet? I liked him on Sklarbro Country, I might just give it a shot.
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Jul 8, 2011 08:36
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I haven't seen it mentioned, but Podcast Eating Contest has been complaining about 'losing listeners like flies.' Considering that 3 podcasts in a row have been like nonstop poop/jizz/menses chat, I'm not too surprised. It might just be me, but it feels like they're skipping the humor that made early episodes hilarious and trying to squeeze comedy out of shock chat.
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Oct 1, 2011 16:37
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Loving Life Partner posted:RE: Jay Mohr.... has anyone else started shamelessly telling people that they can 'charge that to the game'? Because it's fantastic, especially in a Tracy Morgan voice + first and last name of the person who can do so at the end. I prefer Jay's Frank Gifford instead. PUT THAT ON MY TAB. That whole bit is just incredible, even across several episodes as they deconstruct it further.
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Oct 12, 2011 14:56
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FitFortDanga posted:I'm getting (mildly) sick of Dave Anthony, and I never thought I'd say that because I love WTR so much. But there are times when his laugh sounds incredibly forced, and the smugness in his voice can be off-putting, especially when he's talking about something he doesn't really know that much about. I like Dave a lot, I even met them both after Starfish Circus this year and they were cool as heck. I agree that his laugh sounds forced, at least on the Dollops, but I also don't think Gareth is that funny. It also seems like the Dollop is like 15 minutes too long sometimes, I couldn't finish the Andrew Jackson episode.
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Snowy posted:I tried a few minutes of Race Wars but they just seemed like unfunny dicks so I unsubbed. Maybe I'll give it another try. It sounds like its 2 guys who are once-a-month guests on shock jock radio trying to host a shock jock podcast.
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Sep 8, 2014 20:03
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Conduit for Sale! posted:People seem to think Graham Elwood is funny on that live episode of The Todd Glass Show. Even Todd and James. I don't get it. I guess there's just something about Elwood that makes it impossible for me to find anything he says or does funny. You're not alone. His shtick is basically "that kid in grade school that tried way too hard to be the class clown" all grown up. Just unbearable in everything, every time he's on screen in Super High Me I just cringed. Also, the editor of Cracked.com was on Sklarbro County and dropped a fark reference within 15 minutes, I didn't expect anything less.
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Binowru posted:Just heard this terribly sad news: Harris Wittels has died of an overdose. So shocking and sad. He'll be telling his Foam Corner jokes to God now That's awful. I just listened to him on You Made It Weird and his openness about his struggle with heroin is incredible. According to his friends on twitter, he said he was sober and in a good place last night. Either he relapsed today or has been covering it up. E: VV I think he even said on a podcast that he nearly died on his first relapse because his tolerance dropped. And I think there was another time he moved and there was a regional difference in heroin purity and he passed out with a needle in his arm. red19fire fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Feb 20, 2015 |
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I usually like the Joey Diaz podcast, but the one with the bunny ranch guy, his girlfriend, and Ron Jeremy was bad. He starts by saying he's not like the 'bad' pimps even though his stories are almost identical. And then bunny ranch guy opens his mouth about Baltimore  Vvv a book I think? I usually mash the 30s forward button during promos red19fire fucked around with this message at 00:26 on May 3, 2015 |
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May 2, 2015 23:02
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Ariza posted:Totinos have that crazy Tim & Eric ad (and I'm not into much that they do) they did which is one of my favorite things ever, so I guess this is their new way of advertising. Pasting from my phone so I have no idea if this will work. This is more like a sketch from their show. The best one is from Absolute Vodka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p0QtJMKt1s
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Jul 23, 2015 21:39
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The most recent Race Wars with Tracy Morgan as the guest is amazing. Tracy does a '...so you got my emails' joke that gets a bigger laugh than Sherrod's ever gotten in the past year of RW. It made me realize Sherrod has been doing a terrible Tracy impression all along Also occasional co-host Lisa Ann is the female pornstar version of Sherrod.
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Dec 7, 2015 19:28
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Ariza posted:I kinda quit listening after Tracy got there and was getting weird with the god/blessing stuff. It's the first one I've quit other than the one with the annoying conspiracy dumb gently caress. Maybe I'll go back and finish it because Tracy has always been funny as poo poo. He got that out of the way early, pretty golden after that. He hits on Lisa Ann, but is funny and not creepy like Sherrod. Race Wars is like a boat where Sherrod is furiously bailing water into the boat while everyone else is trying to row towards a shore marked with 'good and entertaining podcast'. Every other comedian guest is a stark reminder of how bad Sherrod is, and how he's riding the Chris-Rock-Is-My-Cousin train until the wheels fall off. It's almost like an elaborate troll by Kurt. And then Lisa Ann has to remind everyone she gets plowed on film almost as often as Sherrod reminds everyone he's black. The conspiracy guy was hilarious because almost all of his bullshit is disproven by a high school level understanding of physics. Like whenever he starts a sentence with "I'M NO EXPERT ______-OLOGIST, BUT" you can pretty much ignore everything afterwards. Like he doesn't understand that rockets need a certain amount of horizontal velocity to stay in orbit, he thinks that because they turn horizontal after liftoff that's proof that the earth is flat. As if you just fly straight up from Cape Canaveral and float in space indefinitely. I'm sure there's physics goons that know better than me, obviously. It's good radio because Kurt just keeps egging him on and never contradicts him, then the big reveal is the that the dude is like a fundamentalist christian, and all of these conspiracies exist as like... proof of god's existence or something. It's bananas, I thought it was a wacky morning zoo character.
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Mr. Squishy posted:Bumping this guy up from "poseur alcoholic" to "this guy's got a bit of a problem but still... c'mon. come back to me when you're on a transplant list." It's more like Hollywood alcoholic. An extra glass of merlot with your Cobb salad at lunch is rock bottom, and there's an intervention waiting for you at home.
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WoG posted:I'm sure glad I took this inside joke at face value and, having never listened to this show, grabbed it as my first ep. Not a waste of 3 minutes at all. I will attempt to explain the joke: The NFL only allows the RJVP to play music it already owns in its library, and the 3 songs in this episode are endless loops of some of the worst ones. Although I do like Goodell's xylophone solo. I hope someday they release the parts that get cut out every week. Jeselnik balling too hard is so good.
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prefect posted:For a good ten seconds, I was wondering how he crawled out of the grave. (Ron Ziegler was a Nixon sidekick who died in 2003.) AFewBricksShy posted:John Ziegler is a guy who believes that Sandusky and Paterno were wrongfully accused. I wish he would crawl into the grave. And die. Joey Diaz's podcast has a great interview with Andrew Dice Clay, but also features the world's least essential podcast guest, Eleanor Kerrigan. I also recommend listening to both Comedy Store podcasts with John Caparulo for a really interesting Diaz backstory on what a dickhead bully he is in general. E: VVV It's a  , but the only people who think there's a WM3 element are Penn State football fans. Back in the 90's Paterno himself caught Sandusky loving a kid in the wrestling practice room. His loving response was to take away Sandusky's keys to the wrestling room.My hometown had 2 child molester priests, one in the early 80's, and a different one again in the mid 90's. Same thing with Sandusky, there's parts of the town that denied and blamed mass hysteria on the kids, or tried to prove one of the 7 or 9 was lying so therefore all of them must be lying. It's just an unbelievable thing. red19fire fucked around with this message at 09:24 on May 19, 2016 |
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May 17, 2016 17:01
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Both Cum Town and Chapo Trap House have dropped SA references in the past few weeks. I'm onto you 
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LampkinsMateSteve posted:Already gone. What was the drama? https://twitter.com/SeanMcElwee/status/761254572044251136 I liked her on the Crabfeast, could only handle 20 minutes of her Netflix special before I got bored.
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Now I'm very worried about the Bodega Boys' Viceland contract  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxKtH5OnxI4 It's a 45 minute video, but the long and short is a popular youtuber actually looked at the contract Viceland sent him, and it's the kind of 'please sign without reading, you trust us, right?' exploitive bullshit you'd get from a company known for ripping off freelancers. Highlights include 10% of all current and future revenue streams in perpetuity, content control, auditing power, all for $1500/episode with no commission!
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