Podcasting Day: The Man vs. The People of Comedy, with Jason Pargin 🌭
Joining us this week is friend of The 🌭 Zzone and beloved author of 2021-06-16 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Joining us this week is friend of The 🌭 Zzone and beloved author of 2021-06-16 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Bonus audio link for patrons.
2021-06-16 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostYou know how sometimes your friend tells you there's a Sci-Fi TV show about deep space travel where the ship is alive, and you're like, "Oh neat, what's it called?"
And then they say, "And the ship has ...
2021-06-15 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello! I’m here to show you a pop song from 1899. That’s right: the long-ago year 1899. I’m like a time traveler. I am basically H.G. Wells. But a version of H.G. Wells where the initials stand for some...
2021-06-14 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostOnce, long ago, there was a comedy website that only wanted three simple things: to make people laugh, to teach them a few things, and to surf a tsunami with Kurt Russell. It succeeded in two of those goals, ...
2021-06-11 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostLast month we looked at Couch Potato Workout, an aerobics instructional spoof for the home ...
2021-06-10 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Podcasting Day! A few weeks ago we called you all cowards who wouldn’t dare listen to a long and terrible podcast...
And you guys loved it!
So we did it again.
That...
2021-06-09 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBonus audio link for patrons.
2021-06-09 11:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral weeks ago, for reasons no good decision maker would ever understand, I was reading an issue of Mr. District Attorney. It's a comic from the late '40s about a district attorney who punches. It...
2021-06-08 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIf there were a Yikes That Didn't Age Well Olympics, Ally McBeal would be a shoe-in for the gold. Earlier this year, I was so out of feel-good television, and still not at all feeling good, that I th...
2021-06-07 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostKerth Barker is an author who survived a childhood of Satanic Nazi mind control cannibals to sort of "expose" them. Today, we're going to read his "real" life story re-published just two years ago, ANGELI...
2021-06-04 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostPre-vaccination I liked to joke that once I was vaccinated, I would lick an outdoor picnic table or touch a stranger's face just for the thrill of it, but I don't really want to do either of those things. I w...
2021-06-03 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTo speak on the subject of Mortal Kombat, <...
2021-06-02 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostBonus episode link for patrons.
2021-06-02 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostIf you missed Dick Fight Island, Part 1, you’re not reading this. You’re alr...
2021-06-01 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome, 🌭s, to your day of appreciation. We’re awesome. We know that. We know it so hard we spend two hours every Sunday just reading sonnets we wrote about each other. Brockway penned one called Ho...
2021-05-31 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt's a bold thing to proclaim yourself a voice of God on earth, but lots of authors take a shot at it. Usually, the tone they go for is calm and pious. The authors of more e-mail from God For Teens i...
2021-05-28 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt's Fucking Day, and I'm going to add an element of fate to today's 🌭. I'm going to close my eyes and grab a random thing from the expansive and disgusting "Sex" section of my library. Okay, I've picked.....
2021-05-27 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostToday's Dogg Zzone 9000 is a ver...
2021-05-26 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostBonus episode audio for patrons.
2021-05-26 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHi, 🌭s! It's Reflecting Day, and holy shit did I do some reflecting. I went back more than eleven years to put together The Man Comics Collection Volume One! It's...
2021-05-25 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHere’s how easy it is to accidentally ruin something beautiful:
Snakes On A Plane became a meme before it was even made thanks to how simple, succinct, and perfectly descriptive that title wa...
2021-05-24 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostYou know who used to write letters to GamePro magazine? Lonely, crazy, weird people. People who... you know, that's probably enough intro. I think you get where this is going. I went through the letters secti...
2021-05-21 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWho’s your favorite lounge singer? Wayne Newton? Gross. Neil Diamond? Basic. My favorite lounge singer ran an investment scheme on his own identity so he could invent home shopping before getting kidnapped ...
2021-05-20 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostFor decades, dorks and nerds have been trying to figure out the best video game ever. And it hasn't worked, until now. Brockway and I are joined by former editor-in-chief of Electronic Gaming Monthly...
2021-05-19 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostBonus audio link for patrons.
2021-05-19 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostPenn Badgley, the actor who played Gossip Girl in the CW show Gossip Girl, was once asked which acting job he was the least proud of, and he responded with no remorse. "I did a training video for a P...
2021-05-18 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostIf I showed you a comic book starring Cat-Man, Ragman, Pied Piper, and The Hood, you’d yawn the entire time you were cursing the monkey’s paw that granted a DC/Marvel crossover, but only starring D-lister...
2021-05-17 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Daily Affirmations” are self-hypnosis for people who get emotional at Hang In There kitty posters. It’s magic for saps. The basic idea is that you say positive things about yourself until you ...
2021-05-14 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s 1988. You want a VHS tape. You don’t know of what, or even why - you only know that we all need as many VHS tapes as possible to weigh down our bookcases and fluff our 2021-05-13 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post