ROAD SIGNS

One of my earliest memories as a little kid has continued to inform my understanding of the world, as these things tend to do. It isn’t necessarily a specific memory, either, I should make clear, it’s more an amalgam of what it was to be me in the context of road trips, as a kid. Whenever my family would go on a trip that lasted longer than an hour, it became commonplace to just read signs out loud, first as a kid to show that I could read well, then as I got older to simply pass the time, then when I got old enough that I was picky about only reading aloud the funny ones. Though I’m sure, with my OCD, I read them ALL under my breath, because that’s how my OCD sometimes presents itself.
It’s the first of these examples – simply identifying things for the sake of it – that I think is so informative to anyone’s young mind. It’s similar to telling your first joke, provided either of those things result in the re

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Wade Scheel | Pratfalls of Parenting Ep 122

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“Right now it’s a struggle to make art and parent.”
Potter and visual artist Wade Scheel talks about making work for himself and making work for others. Wade talks about running his own art gallery with his wife, Camille, and having to recover after losing the gallery. He also talks very openly a…

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Dan and Jay’s Comedy Hour Podcast Episode 36 – Its Blue Now

Dan and Jay talk about MAGnet, Part II for some reason.  They then discover the fantastical secret ingredient in Shock Top’s Honey Bourbon Cask Wheat.  Hint: It’s extinct.

Here’s the trailer for our feature-length home videos that is the reason for the title of this episode.  Toward the end

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Comedy on Vinyl Podcast Episode 131 – Mark Miller on Robert Klein – Child of the 50s

This week, with author Mark Miller, we revisit Robert Klein, this time covering the fantastic “Child of the 50s.”  Mark talks about his love of comedy, and starting out in stand up in San Francisco, and moving on to writing for Carol Burnett, Jimmy Walker and Dana Carvey, to name a

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Kenny Blumenfeld | Pratfalls of Parenting Ep 121

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“When I’m afraid of something it means something big. It means I find something fascinating.”
Kenny Blumenfeld’s bio starts “There once was a boy who was terrified of thunderstorms…” Kenny is a weather expert, a weather researcher, a science communicator, a documentarian, storyteller, and writer….

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Dan and Jay’s Comedy Hour Podcast Episode 35 – The Whole Couch

Dan and Jay discuss puppetry and a sketch in which Jason gets bored real quick.

Find DJCHOUR on Twitter #TheWholeCouch
Do the same for Dan Gomiller & Jason Klamm

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Why Did I Buy This Episode 020: The Hard Way

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0020posterIn this episode Ari and Dan discuss the very eighties nineties buddy cop film The Hard Way (1991).  An examination of whether or not Michael J. Fox makes a convincing action star as well as the purpose and decline o

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