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This is one of the best new podcasts this year and it would tragic if it kept going without a thread. What is The Dollop? From the ashes(?) of Walking the Room, Dave Anthony started his own podcast called The Dollop. The first few episodes were by himself, about small subjects or topics Dave wanted to complain about mostly. But soon he added a guest named Gary Reynolds, and it switched focus to the strangest tales from American history. Every week, Dave finds another tale to share with Gary and us. If you're familiar with Walking The Room, you can expect the same kind of humor, (Wil Anderson of TOFOP appeared at the Podfest episode, Patton Oswalt will be on a future episode,) but more focused and less about terrible neighbors. If you're not familiar, expect a lot of strong language and explicit discussions. The Hosts: Dave Anthony   Where should I start? The whole run can be found here. You should be able to start at the beginning and go from there, but anywhere is good to jump in. Personal favorites of mine are Dolphins, David Hahn, and The Two Dog Men. Other: LA Podfest 2014 show with Wil Anderson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlw3vIa66tI Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/thedollop Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thedollop?ty=h Maduo fucked around with this message at 11:43 on Jun 21, 2015 |
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New episode is up and it's on the internet's favorite history subject:
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Dec 1, 2014 00:14
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Wow, that looks really nice. Do they still operate on the pay-what-you-want system and give out sassy newspapers? I'm glad this one ended on a happy ending (  ), the 3rd chapter of this story is probably not going to be as sweet.
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Dec 16, 2014 06:35
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That is exactly what hooked me as well. You think you know the story of the guy who fed acid to dolphins and then all of a sudden dicks start getting removed bloodlessly.
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Dec 19, 2014 13:30
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Rodyle posted:I couldn't finish the test site episode because of their idiocy regarding nuclear politics. Rodyle posted:(oh my god that Talleyrand poo poo)
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Apr 9, 2015 00:19
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I thought Luke McGregor got a lot better by the second half of that one, once he slowed down and stopped squeaking enough that I could understand what he was saying. I also don't get bothered by the audio problems as much but I've been listening through speakers a lot more than headphones lately so 
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May 12, 2015 15:31
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abraham linksys posted:holy poo poo did my face light up when I saw the subject of today's episode ♪ Come huff spray paint and shoot your friends! At Action Park! ♪
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Jun 10, 2015 20:08
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DangerDummy! posted:I'm not a huge audio dork or anything, but the two channel hiccup on the funeral home episode is making it very tough to listen to for some reason. This reminds me; last week a dollop finally had the audio go bad enough that Dave didn't post it on the main feed. Instead he put it up Here. If you can stand a loud buzzing noise for 8 minutes, I thought it was a pretty funny one. I have a feeling some people will find this less annoying than some of the other issues  .
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Jun 11, 2015 09:39
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In general I find live podcasts to be a crapshoot because so many clubs have horrendous recording setups and/or the recording gets mangled. We Hate Movies live episodes are consistently unlistenable.caligulamprey posted:Didn't they ask for suggestions via email early on in the show? I remember sending in a few, but never got a response. My guess is they got enough entries in that first push to last for awhile. They asked a few episodes back as well, and there's a submission form up on the website. I doubt they're running out any time soon but I sent in a local story for kicks anyway.
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Jul 1, 2015 12:12
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tnimark posted:Honestly when I first heard about this I kinda assumed Dave would be a dick about it, although I'm disappointed to be right. He's always come across as a bit of a self-righteous prick. I don't think he's the 'admit fault and apologise' kind of guy. Yeah unfortunately this is kind of par for the course. If I had to make guesses at the future I'd say he'll probably change things around or find some way to credit his sources but be a real rear end in a top hat about it for a month or so. TheFallenEvincar posted:You don't even need to hire a dude for research, just skim a couple internet pages about a historical event and then just retell it to Gary. Literally using the exact same words is just pointless and dumb Eh, it needs to be written in a way that's easy to present and coherent, and I can see the argument that he just doesn't have the time to do that himself twice a week and still do comedy shows and write for TV. There's just a lot of gulf between that and having zero citations whatsoever. Just a little citation page on his website would be sufficient for me.
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Jul 10, 2015 13:37
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Practical Demon posted:I don't think a citation on a show page that most listeners won't see, or a mention at the very end will be enough for damninteresting, though. The way that post sounded, I don't think anything would be enough for damninteresting at this point. It's just enough to acknowledge that Dave is not writing these things and that the content of the show is really him and Gareth's banter and reactions. That seems to be enough to placate a lot of people here, and I assume a majority of fans. Whether that's enough for places like damninteresting that carry stories like this is a crazy gray area that a lot of internet content is skidding into, but Dave has to at least make an effort to be in that gray area.
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Jul 10, 2015 17:44
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TheFallenEvincar posted:Good thing I came into this podcast not thinking anything of Dave to begin with This is the correct approach. Dave Anthony is a very funny, deeply flawed man. I half-expected he would register an account to call us all cunts for poo poo talking him like this. That said he did the thing I wanted about as well as I thought he would, so I don't really feel any guilt listening to this going forward. Of course, assuming he's not lifting from DI or anyone against him citing their work for profit anymore. Again, content in the internet age: a series of crazy gray areas.
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Jul 11, 2015 02:49
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toanoradian posted:Also the twentieth president and first feline president of the USA, famously so. You could probably do a whole series on famous people murdered by awful 18th and 19th century doctors.
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Aug 2, 2015 07:27
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But that's the weird thing, the audio quality really wasn't bad at all. I could think of several podcasts put out this week, by people being paid real money from someone other than patreon, with much worse audio quality than that episode. At this point i'm much more annoyed by the people who complain constantly about audio quality than Dave Anthony's crazy spite brain. EDIT: also for the curious you didn't miss much, Ulysses S. Grant really, really hated jews, then pretended he didn't Maduo fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Aug 21, 2015 |
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Aug 21, 2015 06:47
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But did they celebrate and was it so nice?
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Aug 27, 2015 01:06
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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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Oct 15, 2015 05:01
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Drunkboxer posted:Because, although funny, both of these men are idiots Honestly, it's better this way.
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Dec 10, 2015 03:52
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Toxxupation posted:when it comes to crazy videogame stories, pretty much everything after ET is much more interesting than what came before. I mean, Sega's whole "extreme" attitude with Sonic all tappin' his feet and poo poo helped usher in the cultural sensibilities of the 90s, and it's pretty much the only reason that Sega even had a chance against the dual monsters of the NES and SNES. Sega was able to market itself as cooler and edgier which is what the 90s were all about That stuff is interesting in a History Of Videogames sense, but compared to other dollops the Atari story lines up better. The 599 US dollars and always online xbone stuff is dumb and funny in their own context, but it's not like Kaz Hirai and Don Mattrick were doing rails of coke in an abandoned roller rink. If anything there's some large chunks of the Atari story that were left out, like how the people actually making the games for the 2600 made almost no money off them and got no credit, or the real sputtering tail end Atari stuff like a couple of people have mentioned.
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Dec 17, 2015 00:33
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Reformed Pissboy posted:Rory Scovel is really loving funny and he was good (albeit maybe overly silly) in the live ep imho Agreed. He was channeling a little Todd Glass, which I guess is not everyone's thing?
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Feb 7, 2016 08:08
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That's what I meant by him channeling Todd Glass. He was trying to get that laugh to wrap around back to being funny again real hard. It just about squeaked over that line for me but boy am I not surprised it didn't make it there for others.
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Feb 10, 2016 10:51
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oatgan posted:all the best dollops are about baseball As the most American sport it should be no surprise its history is riddled with insanity
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May 8, 2016 02:46
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I love yelling about politics too guys, but we shouldn't force it on normal people and there are like 20 threads elsewhere on this forum you can have this discussion. I will say I do miss Greg though, I wish he'd guest on a dollop. That might go horribly wrong, but oh well.
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Jun 11, 2016 19:43
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The ones people have mentioned are definitely contenders but I'd like to add Nim The Chimp to the list of huge bummers to avoid. I'd also agree that most of the bummer episodes are really strong in their own right, (Macquarie Island might be my favorite episode now because I'm an awful person I guess,) so if you're in a certain mood, maybe swing back around to a couple of them.
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Dec 12, 2016 03:01
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InequalityGodzilla posted:
I think it depends on if they know whatever story Dave pulls. They've done some good reaction poo poo before.
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Feb 4, 2017 08:38
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Worlds are colliding here, goddamn.
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AriadneThread posted:a sponsorship with a therapist seems a little on the nose I like it when podcasters use the products they advertise for, it feels more authentic.
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Feb 8, 2017 04:20
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Unfinish3d posted:Been really into this podcast recently, after being recommended the episodes on Trump and the Iraq war, which are still some of my favorites. Are there any more episodes on recent political history stuff? Jade Helm does double duty in being recent political history and a hosed up thing you probably don't know the whole story on. It doesn't leave quite as big ripples on current politics like the Trump or Iraq episodes, but the parts with Alex Jones are maybe more relevant now than when the episode came out.
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Feb 19, 2018 22:29
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Rodyle posted:yeah I was about to say, jesus christ Dave It's not gonna stop until trump buys that talkspace subscription
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The complaint this time seems less like a direct accusation of plagiarism and more "sure I was cited but in the least respectful way possible." The Dollop is in a weird space between the comedy and history worlds at this point and the latter is way more rigid about how citations and transformative use works than the former, although the method of dealing with it being "yell at them in public until everyone boos them enough for them to stop" seems the same. Reading back on this thread the last time this came up (2015 was 4 years ago what is time) I thought what they're doing now would be sufficient. Now that I see how other podcasts handle the same kind of lane, it does come off as the bare minimum. I don't know that it's outright malicious though, and as I guessed last time Dave will probably make a stink and then come around to whatever makes sense, at least for single article Dollops like this one.
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