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red19fire posted:The most recent Race Wars with Tracy Morgan as the guest is amazing. 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.
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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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I've been jumping in and out of listening to the Nerdist podcast, and I get that Hardwick is a recovering alcoholic, but does he have to act like any mention of alcohol is like a five year old being taunted with cooties, and have to run in the opposite direction shrieking? I was listening to the recent one with George Carlin's kid and she made an offhand joke about tequila shots, and Hardwick... Well, see aforementioned. He's gotten way better at interviews since I stopped listening back in 2011, though. That's for sure.
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rotinaj posted:I've been jumping in and out of listening to the Nerdist podcast, and I get that Hardwick is a recovering alcoholic, but does he have to act like any mention of alcohol is like a five year old being taunted with cooties, and have to run in the opposite direction shrieking? I was listening to the recent one with George Carlin's kid and she made an offhand joke about tequila shots, and Hardwick... Well, see aforementioned. There was an episode a few years ago (I haven't listened recently) where he was talking to Jonah Ray weirdly seriously about how he might have a drinking problem and I just remember being extraordinarily uncomfortable. He mentions it every time there's a story or game about alcohol on @Midnight, too.
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Maybe for people who had serious physical and psychological dependence on alcohol, it's difficult to talk in a "normal" way about the thing that almost destroyed their lives.
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soru posted:Maybe for people who had serious physical and psychological dependence on alcohol, it's difficult to talk in a "normal" way about the thing that almost destroyed their lives. Hardwick is an alcoholic in a way that 95% of the people I knew growing up were alcoholics. He wasn't going on week long benders and banging 47 year old bar maids for a bottle and he didn't have to spend 8 stints in rehab to get clean. He was a chubby nerd who drank a bit too much and quit pretty easily one day once he realized it wasn't for him.
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Dec 14, 2015 03:38
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Nah he had a pretty Real Drinking Problem
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Ariza posted:Hardwick is an alcoholic in a way that 95% of the people I knew growing up were alcoholics. He wasn't going on week long benders and banging 47 year old bar maids for a bottle and he didn't have to spend 8 stints in rehab to get clean. He was a chubby nerd who drank a bit too much and quit pretty easily one day once he realized it wasn't for him. haha yeah I guess he wasn't a good enough alcoholic
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It figures that Chris Hardwick was a mediocre alcoholic.
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Ariza posted:Hardwick is an alcoholic in a way that 95% of the people I knew growing up were alcoholics. He wasn't going on week long benders and banging 47 year old bar maids for a bottle and he didn't have to spend 8 stints in rehab to get clean. He was a chubby nerd who drank a bit too much and quit pretty easily one day once he realized it wasn't for him. You seem fun.
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Ya, it only ruined a long term dating relationship and put his career on hold for nearly a decade but it's not like he needed a new liver or anything. What a pussy. I recall Jonah talking about getting up, drinking more and even taking beverages with him in the shower. He might not have gone off the deep-end but Chris may have helped a tiny bit.
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Bunk Rogers posted:Ya, it only ruined a long term dating relationship and put his career on hold for nearly a decade but it's not like he needed a new liver or anything. What a pussy. Shower beer is a goon staple good sir 
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Sandweed posted:You seem fun. Please explain
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GoutPatrol posted:Shower beer is a goon staple good sir I blame my lack of college education on having to be told something so clearly wonder/awful exists.
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Bunk Rogers posted:Ya, it only ruined a long term dating relationship and put his career on hold for nearly a decade but it's not like he needed a new liver or anything. What a pussy. What relationship did it ruin?
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Andrea Savage
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Bunk Rogers posted:Ya, it only ruined a long term dating relationship and put his career on hold for nearly a decade but it's not like he needed a new liver or anything. What a pussy. Oh yeah he was definitely on point in being concerned, but it was not something he should have said publicly. Jonah was really obviously uncomfortable. On the podcast I don't really mind preachiness (although I haven't listened for a while) it's just on the show where there's on 22 minutes and he's taking one of those to preface jokes about drinking with "I don't drink anymore". Every time. If the subject makes you uncomfortable, don't do things about drinking. I like him a lot but everything he does seems a little annoying and that's why it probably comes off more grating than when Jimmy Pardo or Marc Maron does it. Also distancing myself from "he's not a real alcoholic" dude because wtf.
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It chills my bones to think the world may have never gotten Talking Dead if he had kept drinking that demon rum.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:It figures that Chris Hardwick was a mediocre alcoholic.
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:Andrea Savage It must feel good to Andrea that Chris had to settle for a billionaire heiress instead
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:Andrea Savage Just checking Wikipedia. Might it actually be Janet Varney instead? VVV Thanks RoyKeen fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Dec 14, 2015 |
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The Ape of Naples posted:Just checking Wikipedia. Might it actually be Janet Varney instead? Both. The episode they did with Andrea was a really just a look back on Chris and not so much about her.
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The Ape of Naples posted:Just checking Wikipedia. Might it actually be Janet Varney instead? That's who I thought it was. She's Korra now, so I assume it worked out well for her.
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Dec 14, 2015 19:54
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He dated Janet Varney until long after he was sober. That just ended a couple of years ago.
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detectivemonkey posted:He dated Janet Varney until long after he was sober. That just ended a couple of years ago. I knew they called you "detective" monkey for a reason. 
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:Andrea Savage If you love red carpet pictures of a bloated, sweaty guy who is 25lbs overweight, you're gonna love Googling "Chris Hardwick Andrea Savage"
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Mordecai Sanchez posted:If you love red carpet pictures of a bloated, sweaty guy who is 25lbs overweight, you're gonna love Googling "Chris Hardwick Andrea Savage" loving jeepers. Add "ill fitting suit" to that as well.
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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."
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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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Suffering doesn't need to be a competition.
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See how productive he is now? My normal life is his rock bottom.
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Al! posted:Besser's Christmas sourgrapesathon is weird but good I think? It's great and not that weird.
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Is he the one from UCB that everyone says is an rear end in a top hat that likes denigrating everyone? I get him and the other ugly guy mixed up.
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He's from UCB and has a pretty famous temper and there are some horror stories floating around about him. The one I like most was he sent an angry email to the author of a "bad" Amazon review for his book. It only gave it 3 stars.
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People like to rag on Besser just because he's insane and impulsive but the comedy he's generated ought to give him a lot of leeway, and the Christmas I4H is amazing.
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The new Stop Podcasting Yourself bonus episode is absolutely amazing
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Thelonius Van Funk posted:The new Stop Podcasting Yourself bonus episode is absolutely amazing Gotta listen to that. The latest regular was just sad with the whole "My friend is a homeopath and..." bullshit. Dave did a smooth job steering away from that fast.
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GimpChimp posted:People like to rag on Besser just because he's insane and impulsive but the comedy he's generated ought to give him a lot of leeway, and the Christmas I4H is amazing. Besser is a famous douche about a lot of things but he's at least self aware enough to use his bitterness and poo poo to be funny most of the time, so yea he should get more a pass than some other dudes who are just kinda dicks and not funny about it. Also yes, the Christmas I4H is fantastic.
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Thelonius Van Funk posted:The new Stop Podcasting Yourself bonus episode is absolutely amazing Is this the 'Our Debut Album' thing on the site? I didn't even know it was out. Thanks for the heads up
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