Breaking Bad, Blow Lines, and Being Funny

Tonight, the boys sit down to discuss their writing process, what it means to be funny, and why it's hard to listen to yourself recorded. You know, after we take a detour through The Matrix "Trilogy." Yes, we said "Trilogy."

Episode 9: Breaking Bad, Blow Lines, and Being Funny

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Insert Joke About Alanis Morissette Here

Ed asks a simple question and gets a simple answer. Will we ever get past all this cynical, ironic, post-post-modernism in comedy and pop culture?

Episode 8: Insert Joke About Alanis Morissette Here

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Minisode!

There's been this obvious trend over the last few (dozen?) years. Everything is ironic, nothing is sincere. Everything is cynical, nothing is earnest. Why is that? Does it mean something? Are we poised for a swing back into a more innocent, laugh-track based culture? Probably not, but it's fun to talk about anyway, right?

Anyway, no homework!

P.S:
That song is called Come Down, by the Pillows. It's off of the first soundtrack to FLCL. Sorry, we didn't see a download link.

Laughter, Late-Night, and Learning Your Voice

The boys sits down to discuss late night television, finding one's performance persona, and various other comedy related stuff. Also, something about Tom Jones & the film Unbreakable for some reason.

Episode 7: Laughter, Late-Night, and Learning Your Voice

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So, yeah, we kind of cheated with this title. Sorry.

The three of us are performers. Chris and Charlie do comedy, improv and stand-up; Ed is in a band and hosts an open mic. So, we spend a lot of time thinking about and analyzing performers. We spend most of this episode talking about how people put together their acts and find their niche, then what the end game is for someone with a career in comedy.

The N-Word (After-Dark)

This is the second half of the conversation we started about sexism. We ended up talking about a certain word that tends to upset everyone.

Episode 6a: The N-Word

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After our discussion on Sexism, in which we solved that problem forever, Ed became increasingly obnoxious after accidentally derailing the conversation to the word "Nigga." He and Chris debate whether the word itself is redeemable, while Charlie tries valiantly to not simply sit awkwardly in the corner. Some of us use that word a lot in this course of this recording, so avoid this episode if that will offend you. We'll go ahead and say that this is not the episode to blast through your boombox. 

Oh, and welcome to the second After Dark episode, available exclusively on this website. As before, our music is Jon Brion's track, Monday, best known from the I Heart Huckabees score. 

Thanks for listening.

Girls, Guys, and Gender Inequality

Today, we sit down to discuss the some of the ways gender inequality affects life in the States and abroad.

Episode 6: Girls, Guys, and Gender Inequality

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Chris brought to our attention the book The Underground Girls of Kabul, which details the Afgan practice of raising daughters as sons until they reach puberty. At that point they must begin to act, think, and function in society as women. It amounts to an externally enforced transgenderism that, we presume, must play havoc on the psychological and emotional states of these women. 

This is not a matter to take lightly, so we move on to discuss gender inequality in a few other arenas. Predictably, we veer off topic a bit.

Guests, Greatness, and Guilty Pleasures: After Dark

We continue our conversation wherein we defend our tastes after experiencing audio problems. Also, lots of superheroes. 

Episode 5: Guests, Greatness, and Guilty Pleasures: After Dark

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As we said before, this is a continuation of our conversation in Episode 5. We had an issue during the playback of the podcast that rendered the audio at too low of a volume. We also took a LONG digression where we just talk about comics. So, if you've enjoyed any of our other discussions (or share Chris's intense love of DC live-action shows), you'll enjoy this one.

Guests, Greatness, and Guilty Pleasures

Today we sit down to discuss the exceptions that prove the rule of our amazing tastes. Ed loves both the Speed Racer and Josie & The Pussycats movies, and he wanted to find out what movies (et. al) the other guys like, despite the public opinion that they're shitty.

Episode 5: Guests, Greatness, and Guilty Pleasures

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After two straight weeks of religious talk (with a third episode still to come), we decided to dial it back a bit and go with a less intense subject. After the small talk and pleasantries, we sit down to discuss something of the utmost importance: are movies bad just because someone else decided they were? Is Ed really that bizarre because he loves Speed Racer? Has Chris lost his mind because he doesn't see why Bram Stoker's Dracula currently has a 79% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes? Can James be forgiven for enjoying the Ang Lee's Hulk?