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widunder: May 2, 2002

If I can get one person to listen to Uhh Yeah Dude / Straight talkin' with Schneer and Latern, then I'm happy. They've been slightly off in 2009 but got better in 2010. Listen to any episode around 50-130 or so (their Craigslist segment is probably the best way to get into them, so episodes in the 120s are a good specific start).

E: Moreover, they really only drifted away from segments recently, however, their segments were really, really funny and I miss some of them. The best ones were them reading out old stuff they (Jonathan's teenage poetry, Seth's school diary) or their friends (Amir's Whoooooo am I) had written in the past, along with the obvious mentions of recapping episodes of To Catch a Predator and reading insane Craiglist posts.

They've had exactly one guest host so far, which was Seth's mom which was really, really funny. As people say in this thread, getting to know them really is the greatest reward in a way. Jonathan is extremely upfront about basically everything in his life and past, but Seth seems really private in an odd way, yet you come to know the fact through his manners that the guy is pretty much loving nuts. It's really odd but I guess when you've listened to 230 or so hour-long episodes, (most of them 4-5 times, I hardly listened to anything else, music included), that's what you get.

widunder fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Aug 22, 2010

# ¿ Aug 22, 2010 23:39

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 17:22

widunder: May 2, 2002

Sock The Great posted:

I�m pretty certain that Seth is playing some sort of a character, either a really exaggerated version of himself or something made up entirely.� You can sort of tell when he shuts it on and off, like when he and Jah got into a fight in episode 67(?), the one where Seth was arguing that adoption is BS because the kid is never really yours.� Seth was rattled at how angry Jonathan became, and he backed off entirely.
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His mystery is what makes him great though.� Jonathan has his band and his father�s money, but has anyone besides me thought about what Seth does for work?� He probably makes some decent scratch from UYD merch and the occasional sponsorship, but there�s no way it�s paying the bills.

I listened to that episode just yesterday, it's ep 89 I think. Seth definitely gets into character but you can tell that the guy is pretty loving nuts and OCD as hell. Relisten to that episode though, you're misremembering it. The argument was about what constitutes being a parent and how adoption, according to Seth, can never live up to it. He backs off because Jonathan gets extremely upset at him (never has happened since as far as I know), not because he's playing some character. He's being super honest.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2010 09:42

widunder: May 2, 2002

Just listened to a few episodes of Doug Loves Movies, and it's a fun format. No laugh out loud moments yet, though.

I have a love-hate relationship with The Joe Rogan Experience. One the one hand, I really like Rogan as a MMA personality, good ones of which there aren't many. I'm also interested in standup so the show is fun in that way. Oh and Joey Diaz is the loving best. However, Joe Rogan and some of his friends can be one of the most annoying and dumbest dudes ever. He's incredibly dumb when it comes to movies (HAVE A PROPER ENDING NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN!!), his attitude towards women can sometimes be a little flaky and he believes incredibly dumb conspiracy theories. And Eddie Bravo is just about the most infurating person ever.

Yet I still listen on every drat 2,5 hour show. Because it can be really really funny.

# ¿ Aug 28, 2010 10:40

widunder: May 2, 2002

After listening to every ep of Doug Loves Movies, I'm gonna have to pass. I mostly think his improv is pretty dull, and while some of his guests are alright most of them are just mid-tier Twitter-era comedians. I've noticed that stand ups often don't improv well together if they don't have styles that jive poorly, so to speak. I really enjoyed the actual game, just not the banter before it.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2010 22:46

widunder: May 2, 2002

modeski posted:

I've just listened to the first nine episodes of Uhh Yeah Dude and I have to say I'm very impressed, and can't believe how much I have to catch up. I thought listening to the entire Smodcast archive over a few months was hard going...

And you haven't even gotten to their golden ages. I've basically stopped listening to music anyway, when I'm on a UYD kick, I can usually listen to a good three or four episodes a day.

On a side note: the latest episode of the Joe Rogan Experience is really funny because, like all funny episodes of that show, it features a heavy amount of Joey Diaz. Specifically, his experiences of going to prison which are a loving riot.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2010 11:00

widunder: May 2, 2002

zenguitarman posted:

This week's UYD and Seth discussing his sobriety is at the same time disturbing and goddamn hilarious. He's touched upon it a few times before (the few glimpses we get into his crazy life) but this week he really went into it... kinda.

Wanna little booger sugar???

Definitely. I relistened to episode 137 a few days ago. Around the 35:00 mark Seth has one of his sobriety fits, probably the craziest one yet, going on for like ten minutes straight. Fantastic.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2010 11:43

widunder: May 2, 2002

Borrego posted:

Rogan is great but he'd definitely a hype machine when it comes to conspiracies and other odd theories that he comes across.

Anyone listen to the latest TESD? I was curious to what they bleeped out but I'm going to assume it was Walt plugging another listener.

Thanks to you goons I've been listening to back episodes of UYD. Are there any episodes that would be considered a fan favorite or best. Ala "making hay" from TESD or Maron's interview with Mencia on WTF.

I'd go 40-45 and 125-130.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2010 19:50

widunder: May 2, 2002

On the most recent ep of the Joe Rogan podcast, Rogan starts going about a pretty interesting story about a pool player who also was addicted to junk. While the story is pretty fascinating by itself, it has a conclusion that really bothered me for some reason. Not because it was unexpected, but it just ended in a really weird and bit disturbing fashion.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2010 20:22

widunder: May 2, 2002

Majorian posted:

So I'm about a month late on replying to this, but yes, KPCS is an amazingly funny and interesting show. I've been onboard for about a year now, and it's easily my favorite podcast or internet series. He has lots of interesting folks on who I've never even heard of, or know very little about, and I usually end up fans of them after an hour and a half or so.

Probably my only complaint at this point is, while I do genuinely like Jaime and think she's funny, her increased presence on the show seems to kind of come at the expense of Sam Levine, who I think has great comedy chemistry with Kevin. But I do like her, so that's a pretty minor complaint.

Anyway, I have a tough time picking a favorite episode in the show, but James Urbaniak really impressed me. I'm so charmed to see that his natural voice really is Rusty Venture's.

Holy poo poo, Kevin Pollak has his own show? And the episodes seem to be over two hours? And guests include Eddie Izzard? Yeah, I'm flunking out of uni.

E: poo poo, they're videos? Can't fit those on the Nano.

widunder fucked around with this message at 08:02 on Sep 29, 2010

# ¿ Sep 29, 2010 07:48

widunder: May 2, 2002

Yeah I was down on DLM but this episode was pretty drat funny.

E: I think that apart from Lithgow, it's that Doug is an unfunny prick and it really didn't feature him that much.

# ¿ Oct 2, 2010 08:09

widunder: May 2, 2002

Whoever recommend The Complete Guide to Everything, thank you.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2010 18:01

widunder: May 2, 2002

A PRIZED MULE! posted:

I'll say! I've been sort of bumming out at the quality of UYD in recent days. And this is coming from someone who got their Christmas Stocking. So fresh! Hopefully a sign of an upturn in the show.

I know what you mean, but the last five-six episodes have really been vintage form. Hell, they even went back to some segments. I wonder if it was a thought out decision.

# ¿ Oct 30, 2010 22:33

widunder: May 2, 2002

CharlesWillisMaddox posted:

I've been going through the Ricky Gervais Show podcasts again, and as good as the 97% with Karl is, the random awkward stories of Stephen's life crack me up, like him going to Vietnam and people pointing and laughing at him.

In the Guide To episodes, Karl proves that he's not a complete idiot, he's just really really good at making Ricky extremely angry, or laugh really hard.

edit: I've never heard the Guide To The World Cup before today, and dammit Karl talking about how he was sitting in his garden with his head down and dripping drool seeing if he would run out for 15 minutes is probably the funniest drat mental image ever.

The Guide to... series was a really nice format. We all miss Monkey News and everything, but it had more meat. Like an expanding Education Karl (even though Educating Ricky was far superior).

# ¿ Nov 3, 2010 08:44

widunder: May 2, 2002

Sexy Randal posted:

So does the one guy from UYD stand the whole time they're recording? It looks that way from the videos on youtube. Something about that weirds me out...

However this clip has convinced me to give this show a listen.

Sethro doesn't sit for anything. He also can't have notes laying in a messy order. He also does not speak in restaurants.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2010 07:36

widunder: May 2, 2002

The latest episode of the Joe Rogan podcast made my realize one thing: While Joey Diaz is very, very funny, Joe Rogan impersonating Joey Diaz is even funnier.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2010 22:17

widunder: May 2, 2002

I don't even know where Jonathan works. It's sort of strange, he tells you so, so much about his weird hosed up life, yet you basically only get to know that he went through a divorce at some point, and that he earlier worked at some upscale pet store.

Strange Matter posted:

I just listened to my first Uhh Yeah Dude yesterday, show 243. You all were saying you have to listen to them from the beginning but I keyed into their humor and chemistry immediately, and it was pretty great. Them talking about axe/tag body spray had me in hysterics.

To be fair, they've sort of been on vintage form since having been sort of lackluster from like episode 180 (in my opinion). If 243 was funny to you then I don't think you should give the 120-140s a listen since it might probably kill you.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2010 23:27

widunder: May 2, 2002

Admiral Goodenough posted:

Any chance of video from the live UYD shows popping up anytime soon? As far as I can remember they promised to release video after the first one, but I haven't seen anything yet.

There's footage of the second one on YouTube, but that's the only one I've seen - and it's pretty crappy.

Besides, I don't really like the live shows. They don't seem very comfortable with an audience to me, a bit restrained, if you will. Morever, the crowd is annoying, as are UYD fans usually (just browse their forums, jeez...) it seems. I wish the video podcast would return though, their physical reactions to things are fantastic.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2010 13:06

widunder: May 2, 2002

benito posted:

Games on comedy podcasts. Discuss.

The Leonard Maltin Game doesn't count, because it's an essential component of Doug Loves Movies. But it is worth mentioning because of the many episodes that involve having to explain the game to the participants.

The various games are everywhere. Greg Fitzsimmons and Tell 'Em Steve Dave both used the same bit, the idea of telling stories and guessing which one is true. This is a terrible game because, at best you've got a 50/50 chance of getting it right, and most people get confused about the setup AND aren't really good at the necessary performance part of it.

Even worse is the recent new game on Kevin Smith's "Jay and Silent Bob Get Old", where Jason Mewes and some lucky winner from the audience get to act out a fictional sex act that neither of them are familiar with.

Why do I point this out? I used to be a corporate trainer, and would often have to employ various icebreakers and energizers during the course of a two-week class. I learned quickly to ditch the games that didn't make any drat sense and mostly frustrated the participants. The remainder were fun among the group, but would not have been entertaining to an outside audience.

Basically, these things are sometimes necessary to keep a captive audience from going to sleep, but they don't necessarily make for good broadcasting. Podcast listeners A) aren't participating and B) get really tired of hearing the rules explained every week.

The Preakness guessing game, real hobo or Seth hobo and spot the Grateful Dead track are all pretty much amazing games.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2011 08:57

widunder: May 2, 2002

Burb posted:

I've been listening to Joe Rogan podcasts alll day at work this week, and I'm really enjoying them. He's actually not as much of a conspiracy theorist as I thought he was from his twitter posts, and I like his guests. I already loved his standup and this podcast is making him one of my favourite comedians overall

He's nuts, you'll discover shortly.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2011 21:28

widunder: May 2, 2002

Jeff Wiiver posted:

There's no way in hell they even remember saying that.

To be fair, 262 being the end or not, I kind of feel that Jonathan has been kind of unenthusiastic and gloomy for the last almost 100 episodes or so, compared to the golden days.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2011 22:37

widunder: May 2, 2002

CharlesWillisMaddox posted:

Really? He seems just as pumped to be doing the show as he always has. At least to me. What makes you think that?

Maybe it's because he's eating meat and watching TV now?

listen to 100-150 and tell me it's the same. these days, and mind you i think it's still the best podcast out these, it's come to a point where he isn't mostly even trying to be funny.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2011 08:28

widunder: May 2, 2002

LentThem posted:

I've been working my way through UYD starting from Episode 1, made it up to 74 so far. I love when Jonathan will laughingly recall some story from his childhood that's just so shocking/hosed up that Seth is left at a total loss for words. Off the top of my head they were:

"As a teenager I'd heard somewhere that marijuana makes you infertile, so I always used to tell girls I was infertile so I could rawdog them."

"So my classmates and I were living in this Mexican village with a host family, and this one time the father gave us all some kind of laced weed and was playing hardcore mexican porn on a projector. So we're all watching the porn and I got so turned on that I pushed everyone else out of the room and boned down on a girl classmate that was there. I haven't talked to her since."

After both of those stories Seth couldn't say anything, it was just a long oh-god-what-do-I-say-next pause.

I just smoked the seeds, dog.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2011 07:41

widunder: May 2, 2002

Riptor posted:

Wait til he talks about the cantaloupe.

Honestly it drives me absolutely nuts when Jonathan talks about being broke, or forgetting to pay his phone bill, or the like. He's got to have, or at least have access to, an absurd amount of cash. Or maybe he doesnt, I dunno, but his dad's got cash and you always hear Seth go silent when Jonathan mentions money

Why do you think that? I mean, his dad is probably doing well and everything, but it's not like he's the son of George Clooney.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2011 07:42

widunder: May 2, 2002

redz posted:

Jah-nathan's poetry is the best feature of any podcast ever. Also, gently caress Florida.

She was the first of her tribe. She competed with the warriors of the tribe like she was a warrior herself. She didn't understand women being thought of the ones who care for the home. Her hunting and tracking skills were superb. She was never quite excepted though, until the war broke out between Spanish settlers and her tribe. She gave her life for her people. She fought hard and fierce, but a bullet was put through her. And no matter how strong and courageous she was asked to join the gods. She still dances through the fields where she was killed and plays her flute so that all can hear. The white man calls her flute playing: Wind.

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# ¿ Mar 22, 2011 16:03

widunder: May 2, 2002

for anyone like me who loves being annoyed by Brian on the Joe rogan podcast, dont miss the new episode where he makes an utter fool of himself for the last thirty minutes

# ¿ Mar 23, 2011 13:57

widunder: May 2, 2002

Evil Agita posted:

I hate Brian so much, if I listen will I hate him more or less?

More, but in a good way.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2011 21:03

widunder: May 2, 2002

wafflesnsegways posted:

I only really know UYD from their appearance on Jordan Jesse Go. One of them barely spoke, which was weird. I mainly remember thinking that they were funny and kind of off-putting. But from reading this, I guess that's kind of their thing, so I'll give them a shot.

It was painful, mostly because Seth was so much outside of his comfort zone. There was also a distinct lack of chemistry between them and the hosts.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2011 21:04

widunder: May 2, 2002

Saphire_flames posted:

haha i have the same thing, whenever there's like a repeat episode of this american life or something without fail i'll remember exactly where i was the first time i listened to it no matter how mundane it was. it's weird because my memory is normally total garbage.

Yeah me too, I remember the most random poo poo when relistening to episodes (understandly sometimes, like when I was stuck on the back of a pickup truck in a Peruvian desert for ten hours, but also insignificant stuff like "I was washing up the first time they did the Whoooooo am I segment").

# ¿ Mar 24, 2011 21:06

widunder: May 2, 2002

Fourth post in a row but it's really nice to see people actually discuss UYD poo poo outside of their forums because they are truly the worst.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2011 21:09

widunder: May 2, 2002

Admiral Goodenough posted:

Better just resign yourself right now to the fact that these are going to sneak their way into your daily vocabulary.

It especially suck when you live in a non-English speaking country and have friends who share your UYD interest

# ¿ Mar 24, 2011 21:10

widunder: May 2, 2002

Civil posted:

From the Rogan side, the latest is a Joey Diaz episode, so it's automatically 10x better than his usual Jiu Jitsu / MMA-themed podcast.

The common problematic denominator in the MMA themed podcasts isn't the subject, it's Eddie Bravo, The Worst Person in the World.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2011 19:51

widunder: May 2, 2002

Dip Facial posted:

Just started listening to Uhh Yeah Dude thanks to this thread and I'm hooked. I plan on listening to them all in reverse chronological order. Out of the 200+ episodes are there any that really stick out? I'm probably going to listen to them all so it doesn't really matter, but I'm curious if there is any consensus.

I relistened to 40 yesterday because it had the hobo segment. It was great.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2011 08:04

widunder: May 2, 2002

I never thought the show would survive to this point, but the latest live UYD show redeemed two years of mediocrity.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2011 10:41

widunder: May 2, 2002

Wallrod posted:

Does anyone else listen to The Complete Guide To Everything?
http://tcgte.com/

Updates are relatively slow and irregular but drat if i didn't enjoy every one. It took a little while for me to warm up but i suspect it's one of those things that works better once you're used to the hosts.

Big fan here. Funny and completely silly.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2011 19:56

widunder: May 2, 2002

shotgunbadger posted:

Yea I've tuned into AotS sometimes when an interesting story is teased, and he seems like a pretty neat dude.

So about Rogan's podcast, I'm a UFC fan who likes humor and all, should I be subscribed to his stuff, or is he still basically 'crazy Joe tells you the moon landing was faked, once in a while he has a guest that can keep him in check'?

Depends on the guest. If it's someone vaguely related to fighting, then there will be a lot of MMA stuff. He does go into stupid conspiracy stuff a bit too often, but there are some great episodes (anything Joey Diaz, the male pornstar dude, anything without Eddie Bravo really). I find the world of stand-up fascinating so there's mostly something for me too (other than being a MMA nut)

# ¿ Apr 12, 2011 19:58

widunder: May 2, 2002

Penis envy posted:

The Best Show was awesome until he started hating on UYD at the end.

Haha, want to hear this... was it from the latest episode?

Recently fell in love with Bill Burr from his appearances on Joe Rogan's podcast, downloading his now. I'm however as usual nervous that he won't be as funny as Rogan's impression of him.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2011 16:51

widunder: May 2, 2002

I sort of like Duncan, but he can be even more interminable than Rogan when it comes to dumb stoner rants.

His drunken history episode, however, is the greatest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gOR91oentQ

# ¿ May 4, 2011 19:56

widunder: May 2, 2002

I thought the Talking Funny special was unbearable. I'm a fan of all those guys, but Louis CK seemed to be the only really interesting guy to listen to. Seinfeld didn't really give a drat and Gervais just seemed like a small, insecure fish (they even made fun of his lack of experience at one point).

# ¿ May 6, 2011 07:59

widunder: May 2, 2002

Don't get me wrong, I liked the concept (hell, I listened to tons of comedian's podcasts just talking poo poo about comedy), it was just a bit... tame. Perhaps if I didn't have the interest in comedy it would've been different, but at the end of the day, both Gervais and Seinfeld are a pretty lovely standups and I just didn't really care about their opinions on the subject. I'd watch Gervais talk about comedy and writing for sure (I've listened to every single episode of is from XFM and onwards so many drat times), but this was just meh.

# ¿ May 6, 2011 08:43

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 17:22

widunder: May 2, 2002

A PRIZED MULE! posted:

In 2011 it might be easy to say that Seinfeld's a lovely stand up, but you have to admit that he's sort of the proto-stand up of the modern era of comedy. The stereotype of what a stand up is, largely, is based on him. Brick wall, blazer, "what's the deal with...", etc. He's not a bazillionaire for not being funny. (Tim Allen is, however)

I'm only two-thirds of the way through, but the thing I keep seeing is that Gervais keeps trying to deconstruct everything, while the other three just snk ay, "What are you talking about? That poo poo is just funny!" I wonder if that's a Gervais thing or a British thing. But admittedly I myself sometimes think about "Now, exactly WHY is that funny?" when sometimes I should just let it go and realize that funny isn't something you can contemplate too much.

Still, I can't help but think about comedy in an intellectual sense. And that may be to my detriment.

Well, I dunno. I don't think Seinfeld's a bad comedian, just a bad standup. His show was loving brilliant (obviously, he's the least funny thing about the show), but I've always thought his standup (back from the 80s and 90s at least) just is lame.

E: Moreover, as much as I like Gervais (especially his radio show and podcast series), I've always felt that he's more intelligent and clever than outright funny (to me, Stephen Merchant is the funnier and wittier of the two).

widunder fucked around with this message at 22:38 on May 6, 2011

# ¿ May 6, 2011 22:36

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