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So, I gave the most recent episode with Wil Anderson a try, after hating one of his previous appearances. I don't know if he was just high or drunk or what in the episode I hated, but he was really funny in this one! I'm glad they found the SD card with this episode on it.
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Dave gets the absolute perfect setup in the latest one. It's incredible.
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Sep 23, 2015 23:42
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Rochallor posted:I got bored a little ways into the Jack Parson episode and turned it off, and only now did I decided to go back and give it another shot. Like 30 seconds after I stopped listening originally, Aleister Crowley shows up, followed by sex magick with L. Ron Hubbard, and to top it all off, simultaneous incest/bestiality. The Forrest Gump of bad things, indeed. This was an episode where I actually knew the story going in, so it was frustrating at times - Dave and Gary not knowing stuff is only really funny when I don't know it either - but when they start getting to the payoff? Oh man, it was glorious.
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Sep 24, 2015 00:40
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:This was an episode where I actually knew the story going in, so it was frustrating at times - Dave and Gary not knowing stuff is only really funny when I don't know it either - but when they start getting to the payoff? Oh man, it was glorious. I probably know at least part of the story going into maybe every other episode. For the Charles Guiteau ep, for instance, I knew that it ended with him shooting Garfield. But I had no idea about his crazy sex cult shenanigans and support of whichever politician looked to be most popular. I'm definitely in it for the weird stuff they manage to dig up. They're doing a good job, too, of digging pretty deep at times; Grant's anti-Semitic order is really dipping way into the back catalog, but they still managed to wring a good half hour or so out of it,
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I loved this latest one when Dave just jumps over to "John Wilkes Booth" and Gary and Patton are both like "Wait, WHAT?"
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Sep 24, 2015 02:14
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Oh god. Get ready for a hearty dose of disheartening and angry podcasting. It's time for the Iraq war.
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Rusty Kettle posted:Oh god. Get ready for a hearty dose of disheartening and angry podcasting. It's time for the Iraq war. Which one?
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Rusty Kettle posted:Oh god. Get ready for a hearty dose of disheartening and angry podcasting. It's time for the Iraq war. this one was a doozy and it brought back a lot of forgotten anger. gently caress what a poo poo show.
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Oct 11, 2015 19:39
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Are the Iraq war episodes like the LAPD episodes? As in "skip if you don't want to be ultra bummed".
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Oct 11, 2015 22:33
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Ches Neckbeard posted:Are the Iraq war episodes like the LAPD episodes? As in "skip if you don't want to be ultra bummed". Wanna know how the US completely broke a country because of nepotism, blind ideology and incredible willful ignorance? And made it probably broken for decades? Cause that's what you're gonna get.
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Oct 12, 2015 01:05
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Grondoth posted:Wanna know how the US completely broke a country because of nepotism, blind ideology and incredible willful ignorance? And made it probably broken for decades? Cause that's what you're gonna get. It's really scary how two comedians in LA have a better and more grounded grasp on reality and politics than the people running the most powerful nation in the world.
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Oct 12, 2015 02:03
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Al-Saqr posted:It's really scary how two comedians in LA have a better and more grounded grasp on reality and politics than the people running the most powerful nation in the world. Well that's what a firm understanding of history will get you.
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Oct 12, 2015 04:29
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90 depressing minutes and it still felt like they barely scratched the surface
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oatgan posted:90 depressing minutes and it still felt like they barely scratched the surface Im currently 40ish minutes in and I've had to stop it a few times due to it making me so angry. This has to be the darkest Dollop.
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Billy Gnosis posted:Im currently 40ish minutes in and I've had to stop it a few times due to it making me so angry. This has to be the darkest Dollop. I think it's a real contender for it but I didn't feel as absolutely depressingly crushed by this one as I did by Ferguson.
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PantsOptional posted:I think it's a real contender for it but I didn't feel as absolutely depressingly crushed by this one as I did by Ferguson. I think in my mind Ferguson, at least when I listened to it back then, it was more "there was never hope for these black Americans ". So far in the Iraq one its been "We let someone intentionally make the wrong decisions over and over again " Billy Gnosis fucked around with this message at 17:29 on Oct 12, 2015 |
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Oct 12, 2015 17:17
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If you want to learn more about how utterly hosed up the Iraq War was (Because seriously, whatever's in the episode (I'm only partway through), it was even worse), PBS Frontline has a bunch of great episodes on the topic. "Losing Iraq" and "Bush's War" in particular are great overviews. "No End In Sight" is also an excellent documentary, and the book Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq is a Seriously, the decision to invade Iraq was probably the worst decision ever made by an American president and everyone involved should have been shot.
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Oct 12, 2015 17:20
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I think that the only good thing to come out of the Iraq war, all told is that it serves as a perfect showcase for why the train of thought of Reagan-style politics, neoconservatism, and free market capitalism is completely hosed and wrong. And we should be done with that poo poo. Unfortunately, we're not.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:If you want to learn more about how utterly hosed up the Iraq War was (Because seriously, whatever's in the episode (I'm only partway through), it was even worse), PBS Frontline has a bunch of great episodes on the topic. "Losing Iraq" and "Bush's War" in particular are great overviews. "No End In Sight" is also an excellent documentary, and the book Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq is a If you specifically want to look at the financial side of it as well, James Risen has a really accessible book called Pay Any Price which details the US mission to basically dump untold billions into a big hole at the start of the war. quote:Seriously, the decision to invade Iraq was probably the worst decision ever made by an American president and everyone involved should have been shot. I liked how the episode basically ended with Dave and Gar
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rotinaj posted:I think that the only good thing to come out of the Iraq war, all told is that it serves as a perfect showcase for why the train of thought of Reagan-style politics, neoconservatism, and free market capitalism is completely hosed and wrong. And we should be done with that poo poo. I would say we already learned the lesson that Reaganomics didn't work in post-Reagan America. Some dipshit on Twitter tried to argue that Operation Iraqi Freedom was worth all the lost lives and the unraveling of the country just to put the Husseins out of power. It's awful to have to argue that what we did was worse than Sadaam Hussein, but that's America!
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Oct 13, 2015 01:28
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50 minutes in and this isn't fun anymore. Here's to a followup episode about fuckin' Katrina.
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Bozarth posted:I would say we already learned the lesson that Reaganomics didn't work in post-Reagan America. It's a nice thought, but the fact that these ideas keep getting brought up means that we haven't learned that lesson fully. I'm hopeful for some nice, eighteenth-century US stupidity in the next episode. This one made me want to go give my Iraqi boss who fled all this poo poo a big ol' hug. He might take it the wrong way, though. Edit: Oh, by the way, did they say something during the Hugh Glass episode about the movie The Revenant? I don't know when it began production, but they're in Hollywood, maybe that's how Dave heard about the story? rotinaj fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Oct 13, 2015 |
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Oct 13, 2015 02:55
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Seriously. Watching all that poo poo happen over a few years was bad enough. Hearing it all in 90 minutes was just insanely depressing.
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stealie72 posted:Seriously. Watching all that poo poo happen over a few years was bad enough. Hearing it all in 90 minutes was just insanely depressing. More depressing than actually watching it at the time, as I was unaware how many chances they had to prove me wrong and not force the country into utter loving chaos. The entire time period from 9/11 through the economic crash is going to be an interesting one to explain to the kids in the future.
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catching up with the Dollop, still haven't listened to all the live eps since I'm not as much of a fan of live eps but the other episodes seem pretty cool so far. It's just too bad the Dollop guys are such conventional LA standup guys cuz at the end of the day some of their comedic podcast riffs are more likely to hit a dead end while they exercise some cliche like "RETARDED GUY VOICE LOL" or "MIKE TYSON VOICE", etc. Lot more misses than most of the humor podcasts I usually tolerate, but still decent. Loved the Scotsman on America schtick though, Gary's definitely read Trainspotting, they need to do a Scottish American history episode. Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Oct 14, 2015 |
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Oct 14, 2015 18:34
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The episode that came out today about the Yankee Pitchers was a great palate cleanser after the Iraq War. Too bad it was a Smollop.
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I was amazed how much material there was on 'these two dudes wanted to gently caress each other's wives' but it just kept coming.
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I am currently on a Dollop Binge after discovering the Boston Corbett episode (which I have listened to twice). I have a huge backlog of my other podcasts because the insanity of history is so god drat fascinating, hilarious, and depressing (see: Iraq War episode).
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I was listening to a really old episode (I think it was Leatherman?) and Dave mentioned that he was putting together material for an Iraq War ep. This was back at like episode 23.
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Oct 21, 2015 21:35
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How long did grover estimate the episode would take?
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Oct 21, 2015 21:43
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Meme Emulator posted:I was listening to a really old episode (I think it was Leatherman?) and Dave mentioned that he was putting together material for an Iraq War ep. This was back at like episode 23. The Leatherman rules. My local library has a portrait of him hanging prominently on the first floor.
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Oct 21, 2015 21:46
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I'm not sure what I liked more in the last podcast: Wil Anderson's bizarre Russian accent, or his preoccupation with how 'successful' the tours were despite the terribleness surrounding them.
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I watched Proect Nim about a year ago and have waited for the Dollop on this ever since. Great episode. Really reccommend watching the documentary, it has a ton of footage shot throughout Nim's life.
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Oct 31, 2015 19:48
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Illinois Smith posted:I watched Proect Nim about a year ago and have waited for the Dollop on this ever since. Great episode. I'd be rather pleased if Gary did an animal-historical Dollop every few months.
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Nov 4, 2015 00:31
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Have any of you listened to Point vs. Point? I'm downloading a bunch of episodes and I'm just curious what you all think.
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Nov 4, 2015 03:17
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I think Jose may be my favorite addition to recent Dollops.
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Nov 4, 2015 13:11
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:I think Jose may be my favorite addition to recent Dollops. "Welp, Jose just did a backflip".
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DangerDummy! posted:Have any of you listened to Point vs. Point? I'm downloading a bunch of episodes and I'm just curious what you all think. It's great. Be aware that there are many running jokes so it benefits listening from the beginning.
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