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Al-Saqr posted:In a really strange way, tony and the shotgun is probably one of the few truly 'feel good' stories to come out of the podcast. I found the one about the weirdo obsessed with the Boston Marathon had some touching and even inspiring moments. Even the "villain" of the story ends up coming across as very likeable and sympathetic in the end.
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DangerDummy! posted:I found the one about the weirdo obsessed with the Boston Marathon had some touching and even inspiring moments. Even the "villain" of the story ends up coming across as very likeable and sympathetic in the end. The marathon nut was much more "feel good" to me than the shotgun guy. If the hostage hadn't lost his job and his business and turned into a wreck afterwards, the shotgun might not be as depressing.
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Sep 13, 2016 15:25
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Are there any particularly bad or boring episodes one should avoid?
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Sep 13, 2016 22:08
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Are there any particularly bad or boring episodes one should avoid? This is a matter of personal preference, but I dislike a lot of the medical ones. The Childbirth in America one really got my goat in particular, but I have the necessary equipment for that and it really freaked me out. The Jade Helm, Iraq War, and Ferguson ones were really upsetting too, but in a different way. I'd say give those a try if you can stand it.
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Elitist Bitch posted:This is a matter of personal preference, but I dislike a lot of the medical ones. The Childbirth in America one really got my goat in particular, but I have the necessary equipment for that and it really freaked me out. I found Jade Helm hilarious anyway, because... well, lots of people didn't die in that one.
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Sep 14, 2016 00:15
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Midnight Voyager posted:I found Jade Helm hilarious anyway, because... well, lots of people didn't die in that one. It is hilarious, but I do get what they mean about it being upsetting. With other Dollops, it's easy to say "wow, America sure used to be stupid and crazy!" But with Jade Helm you really have to face the fact that our lunatic fringe is not only still alive and well, but being catered to by various politicians.
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Sep 14, 2016 00:26
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Oh my god, the audience in the beginning of the new one is almost legitimately creepy. It's like the Gary vault got infected by zombie-ism.
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Sep 14, 2016 01:21
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Single person biographies tend to be really hit or miss for me. I feel like half the time they're just "and then this clearly mentally ill person did another crazy thing!" Charles Guiteau is one that stands out like that on the boring end for me. The ones that are actually secretly an overview of a time period are a lot more fun (I love Boston Corbett, for example). Also the recent one on cars is one that I think should have been a lot more fun for the subject matter, but instead turned into a diatribe about how big companies are terrible (and to be clear, that's not a message I particularly object to, they just forgot to make it that funny along the way).
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Sep 14, 2016 01:54
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Dave's soliciting ideas for topics on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/thedollop/ "We are now taking suggestions for the Los Angeles Podcast Festival topic. A live streaming pass or a weekend pass to whomever suggests the topic we use." If you ever wanted Dollop infamy, now's the time.
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Sep 14, 2016 03:03
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rotinaj posted:Dave's soliciting ideas for topics on Facebook. someone there suggested alfred kinsey and that's definitely a guy I'd like to see covered. just his wikipedia bio alone is pretty wild.
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Sep 14, 2016 04:55
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I've always thought a Dollop on the history of roller coasters/theme park rides would be fun, but I don't know if Anthony would be up for doing the research himself, since I think you'd need to pull in a lot of sources. I know they have a lot of listeners do the research, how's that work? Do you pitch the idea first and then send in research, or do you just send a bunch of source links? (I think this is a good idea for a Dollop because many of the rides in the history of theme parks doubled as murder machines, such as the first looping coasters, which pulled like 12 Gs)
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Sep 14, 2016 05:40
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abraham linksys posted:I've always thought a Dollop on the history of roller coasters/theme park rides would be fun, but I don't know if Anthony would be up for doing the research himself, since I think you'd need to pull in a lot of sources. I know they have a lot of listeners do the research, how's that work? Do you pitch the idea first and then send in research, or do you just send a bunch of source links? I emailed Dave suggesting a topic saying I'd be happy to dig up info on it, he said it sounded interesting so I wrote a few pages of stuff with sources attached, sent it back, and they just ended up using it pretty much as it was written.
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Sep 14, 2016 07:48
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You probably mentioned this earlier but what topic was it?
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Sep 14, 2016 11:41
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"...and one of his cellmates was 26-year old William Walker, who would go on to invade Nicaragua in Dollop episode 21." I love that kind of thing. 
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Sep 14, 2016 11:44
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They never used my idea. I thought it was great (Nick Zapetti - a black marketeer, pizza impresario, jewel thief and professional wrestler who was kicking around in post war Japan making a nuisance of himself). I sent a mail with a few lines and an Amazon link to the book (there's very little online about Zapetti) and never heard anything from them. If I'd have known that a proper write up made it more likely to get done as an episode Id have done that.
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Sep 14, 2016 13:59
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Dr.Radical posted:You probably mentioned this earlier but what topic was it? Rod Ansell.
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Sep 14, 2016 14:38
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Does anybody know who or what "Arj" is?
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Sep 14, 2016 14:56
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Arj Barker, who's an American stand-up who is real goddamn popular over here.
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GlenMR posted:Arj Barker, who's an American stand-up who is real goddamn popular over here. Does he have a better known American credit than Flight of the Conchords? That's my go-to to explain him.
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Piquai Souban posted:Does he have a better known American credit than Flight of the Conchords? That's my go-to to explain him. He had an early comedy central presents that was pretty good but they used to air constantly.
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Sep 14, 2016 16:00
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Did they ever do Bernie Goetz?
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Sep 15, 2016 01:56
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Under the vegetable posted:Did they ever do Bernie Goetz? Yup, episode 26.
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Sep 15, 2016 02:19
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Can someone explain the Solder Children story a bit more? Like it's so strange and Dave unleashes so many loose ends...
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Sep 15, 2016 21:04
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JoshVanValkenburg posted:Can someone explain the Solder Children story a bit more? Like it's so strange and Dave unleashes so many loose ends... Guy turns down protection racket, racketeers burn down his house. His children all die in a fire. He spends the rest of his life looking for his dead children who he is convinced escaped.
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Sep 15, 2016 21:09
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uPen posted:Guy turns down protection racket, racketeers burn down his house. His children all die in a fire. He spends the rest of his life looking for his dead children who he is convinced escaped. Just half his kids disappeared -- I think it was five missing, five escaped from the fire.
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Sep 15, 2016 21:12
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uPen posted:Guy turns down protection racket, racketeers burn down his house. His children all die in a fire. He spends the rest of his life looking for his dead children who he is convinced escaped. I mean I guess. What the hell happened to the PI they sent to Kentucky? If it didn't matter why bring it up!?!!?
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JoshVanValkenburg posted:I mean I guess. What the hell happened to the PI they sent to Kentucky? If it didn't matter why bring it up!?!!? Likely took the money and ran. Remember the time period.
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Sep 15, 2016 22:11
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If I had the time, I''d love to do a writeup on the various comic book men, specifically Bob Kane being the greatest supervillain in Batman history, among other things.
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Yvonmukluk posted:If I had the time, I''d love to do a writeup on the various comic book men, specifically Bob Kane being the greatest supervillain in Batman history, among other things.  For those who haven't seen it: 
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JoshVanValkenburg posted:I mean I guess. What the hell happened to the PI they sent to Kentucky? If it didn't matter why bring it up!?!!? An old man gives you money to find his dead children. You have no morals. What would you do?
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prefect posted:Just half his kids disappeared -- I think it was five missing, five escaped from the fire. I can't remember if they mention it in the podcast but I thought one of his kids was grown and didn't live with them. So four escaped, 5 were missing, one wasn't there to begin with. Re: the protection racket angle, what did that have to do with the Mussolini talk? Was that just a red herring?
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Dr.Radical posted:I can't remember if they mention it in the podcast but I thought one of his kids was grown and didn't live with them. So four escaped, 5 were missing, one wasn't there to begin with. Yeah one didn't live there. And the Mussolini talk was in there because it was interesting and it was part of what the guy thought had happened to his kids. The story isn't about the fire itself, it's about what the guy thought "really happened."
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Sep 16, 2016 04:05
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No I meant why did the insurance salesman guy mention Mussolini if it was clearly a protection racket thing.
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Lord Hydronium posted:I'm just picturing the reaction to Kane's tombstone. It would be glorious. Dr.Radical posted:No I meant why did the insurance salesman guy mention Mussolini if it was clearly a protection racket thing. Clearly Mussolini was the fall guy. LEAVE MUSSOLINI ALONE! 
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Sep 16, 2016 11:37
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I want them to do one about the female ethics professor/disability advocate who convinced herself a diaper wearing black man with the mental capacity of a toddler secretly shared all her upper middle class interests and that the two of them were deeply in love. I'd love to hear Gary's reaction to "facilitated communication". https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3749863&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 My favourite quote from the article in the OP: "When Wesley told Anna he thought she had taken advantage of his brother, she could not muster a response. At last, with her help, D.J. began typing: ‘‘No one’s been taken advantage of. I’ve been trying to seduce Anna for years, and she resisted valiantly.’’ Then he typed another message, meant for Anna: ‘‘Kiss me.’’ Wesley walked out." PerilPastry fucked around with this message at 15:02 on Sep 16, 2016 |
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Sep 16, 2016 14:59
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Ph.D in Ethics? The gently caress? The gently caress???
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Sep 16, 2016 17:26
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ah, a sith doctor
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Sep 16, 2016 17:27
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I just listened to the Cereal Men episode again and Gary's reaction when he twigs what it has all actually been about is fantastic. Can anyone remember any others with a similar one horrified moment of dawning realisation? More than in most of them anyway. I mean I'm probably just going to go through them all again from the beginning but still.
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Calexio posted:I just listened to the Cereal Men episode again and Gary's reaction when he twigs what it has all actually been about is fantastic. Can anyone remember any others with a similar one horrified moment of dawning realisation? I remember Ep117 Boston Corbett having a moment like that. Ironically it also has Patton sitting in. Maybe that's why I thought of it. Revelatory moments aside: 56 Newport Sex Scandal 58 Lenny Dykstra 68 Centralia, Pennsylvania are all fantastic episodes.
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Death Of George Washington has one fairly early on into the episode, but it's still pretty good. G: He's going to die, I know that's what's about to happen! D: You don't know what's happening in this story. G: He's going to die. D: .... But, the title of this episode is "The Death of George Washington," by the way. G: Well, heeeeeeeeeere we go!
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