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 https://www.mydadwroteaporno.com/ Feels weird to post a thread for a podcast that's for all intents and purposes over, but some people apparently have not yet experienced the works of Rocky Flintstone and this must be rectified. Hosted by Jamie Morton, James Cooper, and Alice Levine, this is the eye-streaming riff-through of an amateur, self-published porn story series by the retired Irish builder father of Jamie, accompanied by his two broadcasting-veteran friends who as a kitchen-table trio deliver some of the most gutbustingly witty live commentary I've ever heard. They begin with the existential horror of the very concept—your 60-year-old dad taking you aside one Christmas and handing you a manuscript of what you slowly realize with growing dread is a winsomely inept and impressively unsexy porno that he's been surreptitiously writing in his back patio—and rapidly develop a whole universe of injokes, real-life drama, callback commentary, and audience participation in the form of "footnotes" which grow to feature A-lister guests. Listen to this list from wikipedia: quote:Guests have included Hayley Atwell, Ben Barnes, Rachel Bloom, Charlotte Crosby, George Ezra, Josh Groban, Nicholas Hoult, Dan Levy, Joe Lycett, Stephen Mangan, Thomas Middleditch, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daisy Ridley, Michael Sheen, Emma Thompson, Samara Weaving, Mara Wilson, and Elijah Wood.  The show went on for six "seasons" covering the six books in the Belinda Blinked series, two of which were produced after the podcast came out and started rippling its way through millions of inwardly smirking commuters' phones to the point where, as one anecdote had it, someone on a subway saw their neighbor listening to My Dad Wrote a Porno and suddenly gasping in abject horror at whatever hellacious piece of imagery she'd just heard—and the person said, "Let me guess... Jim Stirling?" and she nodded furiously. Jamie's style in reading develops into a whole virtuoso performance in its own right as he proceeds through the series, and he creates a whole range of insane character voices that are the source of as much comedy as anything in the text. With his two friends goading him on, they weather the pandemic and eventually take the show on the road to do major stage shows on a world tour and everything. There's apparently an HBO special now too. Anyone who wants to spend a few dozen commutes laughing so hard they have to fight to not careen howling off into a ditch, please indulge and post when you absolutely must burst out with anything from "pomegranates" to "Ian Snail". Oh god I'm already losing it again Data Graham fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Aug 18, 2023 |
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“The Best of (And unheard bits) Part 1” just showed up in the feed this week, saving it for a longish drive on the weekend. It was an incredibly funny podcast (I thought I heard they were going to do a sitcom from it?) The early seasons were so good and really stuck with me, I learnt what a tombola was and all about horse riding equipment, how an office worked in the swinging 80s - before it got really into the special one, it was still enjoyable then and wild as ever but it felt like it changed. I loved James learning about the female reproductive system and his questions. I remember thinking Daisy Ridley was delightful on her episode but I can’t remember a single specific thing about it now. I wanted to write a spoiler here but I don’t want to take the amusement of hearing it on the podcast away from anyone. “Lids” is the funniest typo.
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Aug 4, 2023 06:27
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Life has never been the same after Belinda Blinked and I've grown as a man and a human after listening to the podcast. The books belong in all the royal libraries across the world, and the podcast should be used as sex-ed in middle school
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Aug 4, 2023 09:51
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Why should anyone give a poo poo about any of this?
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Aug 4, 2023 10:06
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b mad at me posted:Why should anyone give a poo poo about any of this? It's esoteric knowledge. You have to listen to understand
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Aug 4, 2023 10:07
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Anders posted:It's esoteric knowledge. You have to listen to understand oooh right...very esoteric much like Socrates that which moves without being moved
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Aug 4, 2023 10:10
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Anders posted:Life has never been the same after Belinda Blinked and I've grown as a man and a human after listening to the podcast. The books belong in all the royal libraries across the world, and the podcast should be used as sex-ed in middle school I didn't see this at first but maybe block this guy from accessing anything.
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Aug 4, 2023 10:17
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I'm just shitposting and you know it, relax
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Aug 4, 2023 10:22
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I don't think I've ever laughed at anything as hard as I did at whatever episode it was in season 5 or 6 when it was very important to know where something was in alphabetical order, and James couldn't alphabetize anything without singing the alphabet song. So he kept launching into a rapid-fire "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP..." over and over
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Aug 4, 2023 11:10
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Hello Blinkers. The podcast was a beacon of disgusting joy for me during the dark days of the pandemic. I can't think of any show/art/media that has ruined as many words for me as MDWAP. Book 5 spoilers: Spooner died so we could jizz.
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Aug 4, 2023 11:25
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I listen to My Dad Wrote A Porno in full every year or so, it's such a beautiful and baffling work of art.
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Aug 4, 2023 14:30
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I've started listening and yup it's great, I keep getting a nagging feeling it's all intentionally bad and was written by a comedian. Stuff like the boring office minitia bring me back round to thinking it's genuine though. Maybe, rocky just has a comedic streak and was going for a Carry On style to it? If it's real then it's insanely unerotic and bizarre and if it's a fake it's brilliant. The podcast is so old though I imagine the real vs fake arguement has been done to death.
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Aug 7, 2023 15:06
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It's genuinely erotic... ...to Rocky alone
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Aug 7, 2023 15:44
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It was certainly the nagging question I had in my head the whole time — not "are the three hosts just inventing it all", that never crossed my mind (it's very much a "you couldn't make this stuff up" kind of deal), but rather "is Jamie's dad just having a laugh"? Like by Episode 3 or 4 they're already talking about how Rocky is flattered and humbled by all the attention and appreciation, but I could never pin down whether he quite understood that they were laughing at him rather than with him. And the hosts cover this too from time to time, because it's an extremely common listener sentiment it seems. And of course that distinction means they have to tread the line very carefully so it doesn't come across like pure mean-spirited mockery. Somehow they manage it, and the humor retains the "unintentionally funny, and he doesn't mind being the butt of the joke I guess" vibe pretty much the whole way through, Tommy Wiseau style.
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Aug 7, 2023 15:50
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The thing that got me over the "theatre kid and comedian Jamie is defintely writing this" is that Rocky has written at least 10 books now, so he's doing whatever the hell he wants - if it makes him (and us) laugh and gives him (not us) a stiffy then good And bare in mind Hemale, it's all written truth from his personal experiences in the business world. Never forget that. Never.
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Aug 7, 2023 15:55
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Once I got to the end of Season 2 it stopped mattering to me, because even if you wrote Jim Sterling cumming blue out of his molting Frankenstein dick to be funny, you're still a weird lil gremlin and should be celebrated accordingly.
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Aug 7, 2023 16:43
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Lumbermouth posted:Once I got to the end of Season 2 it stopped mattering to me, because even if you wrote Jim Sterling cumming blue out of his molting Frankenstein dick to be funny, you're still a weird lil gremlin and should be celebrated accordingly. And they've confirmed multiple times that Rocky is trying to write great stuff (and thinks it is so himself). He's usually drunk while writing and doesn't belive in "editing" or "read what you've written before publishing" and well, I'm happy he doesn't
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Aug 8, 2023 09:04
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hemale in pain posted:I've started listening and yup it's great You'll never look at a pot or pan the same
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Aug 8, 2023 09:05
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I guess I need to jump back on this. I listened through S1 - S5 twice, and S6 once, great fun both times. I'll probably listen through the whole thing again as I've missed the ending episodes.
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Aug 17, 2023 12:59
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Looked up the memory I had of the sitcom and doesn’t seem to be happening but I did learn about the HBO special they did and while I couldn’t stream it, it is available on  .Weird seeing them for the first time but overall very funny with some nice sort-of-skit breaks from the reading.
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Aug 17, 2023 13:24
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Gotta say, underwhelming so far. Does it get better? Right now it just sounds like people reading a bad book and being like, "Wait wait, your dad thinks Chicago is in Florida??"
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Aug 17, 2023 15:53
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ElGroucho posted:Gotta say, underwhelming so far. Does it get better? Right now it just sounds like people reading a bad book and being like, "Wait wait, your dad thinks Chicago is in Florida??" It starts going off the rails around the Maze/Tombola in the first season and like REALLY off the rails around Season 2 (Forsters of Knightsbridge and Texas USA)
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ElGroucho posted:Right now it just sounds like people reading a bad book Well, that is the premise of the whole book - but it gets better by getting worse? How far in have you gotten? I think if you've gotten to Jim Sterling and still don't "get it", I don't think it's for you
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