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No explicit tags, but FYI, there's a dirty word at the end of the podcast that you can barely hear, and it's me mis-hearing the word "sitting."
Two of our favorites are back! Dav & Buster . . . er . . . Dav & Francis!
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Today we talk about:
Nothing worthy of an "Explicit" tag, but there are a couple of jokes that may be considered ribald, so use discretion around the kids (as Ira Glass might say, we acknowledge the existence of sex shops)
We Start a Business
Comedy and Zoom
And a lost comrade in the pun community (see more below)
Links relevant to this episode:
Austin's Hideout Theater's Maestro (and their Twitch link)
The Limeliters staying six feet apart
SNL & RBG
Last Week Tonight
Marlon Bundo
Comedy Sports Austin
Francis McGrath's Music
And on a somber note, in this podcast we talk about the illness of a fellow punner, Brian Agler. Since the day this episode was recorded, Brian Passed away. Per Julia and Andy Balinsky, Brian was in the winner’s circle both years he competed at the O. Henry Pun-Off.
Here is a brief bio of him from a website of a political writing collective that he is a member of.
He is the co-author of a 141-issue weekly Humorous Writing newsletter
He has written humor columns for the New Yorker, Esquire, and McSweeny's
He has been a co-host of a series called the "Evening of Humorous Readings"
Here is the video of him in the semifinals in 2015 going against eventual champion Ben Ziek on Coverings & Coatings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvf_Hs35yOM&t=819s
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We want to give special thanks to the band Dark Meat, whose music ("When the Killers Came") we have come to love to use in our podcast.
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Part Two of our first ever live audience recording! Part One was published on February 24th.
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We want to give special thanks to the band Dark Meat, whose music ("When the Killers Came") we have come to love to use in our podcast.
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A New Old-Timer's episode!
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The usual from-Texas gang of idiots (Aaron & Gary) are here, a repeat from-Texas guest (Jack), and a newbie from Texas (Lee)
We talk soup
We Pun-Off reminisce
And of course, there's a punslingers competition that, speaking of going Bach in time, we do it PDQ
Here's a Link to Gary's son's cornetti.
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This week's panelists are:
Lee Jackson (and his new album!)
Jack Chambers (radio personality and Baylor Bear)
Aaron Fasel (Check out his other business venture, Fantastic Magic Camp)
Gary Hallock (now money curd)
We want to give special thanks to the band Dark Meat, whose music ("When the Killers Came") we have come to love to use in our podcast.
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The Old-Timer's episode!
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The usual from-Texas gang of idiots (Aaron & Gary) are here, plus we have two from-Texas guests. Those two are "reunited" after 23 years.
We talk Headlines
We discuss winning the Pun-Off in the 90s
And of course, there's a gunslingers competition of epic (and worldwide) proportions.
Here's a Link to the Texas Monthly magazine article about the Pun-Off.
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This week's panelists are:
Steve Brooks (musician and Limeliter with a brand new song out)
Jack Chambers (radio personality and Baylor Bear)
Aaron Fasel (Check out his other business venture, Fantastic Magic Camp)
Gary Hallock (moniker TBD)
We want to give special thanks to the band Dark Meat, whose music ("When the Killers Came") we have come to love to use in our podcast.
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Seattle Repre-seeeent!
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In addition to the usual gang of idiots (Aaron & Gary) coming out of Austin, we have two guests from Seattle. They neither know each other nor work together, with the occasional exception of one being a character in the others documentary. So they totally know each other.
We talk classic movies
We discuss the "pun community"
And we get into the aforementioned documentary
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This week's panelists are:
Adam "Atom" Engel (who has tons of credits, but there's a damn baseball player with his name so googling him's a pain)
Abigail Hagan (director of the film "Punderneath it All" which you can follow on Facebook)
Aaron Fasel (Check out his other business venture, Fantastic Magic Camp)
Gary Hallock (parenthetical_description_about_gary_dont_forget_to_delete_this)
We want to give special thanks to the band Dark Meat, whose music ("When the Killers Came") we have come to love to use in our podcast.
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Our First Full Panel Zoom Episode!
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Relationships
Howard Carter (the King Tut Guy)
And more relationships.
Plus we only mention CoVid-19 a couple of times. So consider it a nice little break from reality, not including the times we bring it up.
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This week's panelists are:
Aaron Fasel (Check out his other business venture, Fantastic Magic Camp)
Gary Hallock (for some reason he asks in the episode for this link to be here)
Annica Eagle (she's a big part of Punderground in Spokane)
Erika Ettin (her latest podcast episode is about dating during a pandemic!)
We want to give special thanks to the band Dark Meat, whose music ("When the Killers Came") we have come to love to use in our podcast.
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It's the Easter/Passover Episode!
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Get egged on by Aaron, David, Gary, & Francis.
More on homophonic homographs
The last episode (for a while) not recorded online. (Maybe that will improve the sound quality) :-/
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This week's panelists are:
Aaron Fasel (Check out his other business venture, Fantastic Magic Camp)
Gary Hallock (here's where you can join the PUNY group he mentions in this episode)
David Gugenheim
Francis McGrath (Here's a link to his latest album on iTunes, and here's where you can find out even more about his music)
We want to give special thanks to the band Dark Meat, whose music ("When the Killers Came") we have come to love to use in our podcast.
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It's the St. Patrick's Day Episode!
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Rush into this episode with four Aaron, David, Gary, & Francis.
As if puns weren't hard enough, we have a heck of a challenge for you
Don't be fooled by our levity. We've learned to stay home for future tapings.
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This week's panelists are:
Aaron Fasel (Check out his other business venture, Fantastic Magic Camp)
Gary Hallock (here's where you can join the PUNY group he mentions in this episode)
David Gugenheim
Francis McGrath (Here's a link to his latest album on iTunes, and here's where you can find out even more about his music)
We want to give special thanks to the band Dark Meat, whose music ("When the Killers Came") we have come to love to use in our podcast.
We'll see you in two weeks! (and please rate us on iTunes!)
It's the St. Patrick's Day Episode!
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This lucky episode has four panelists including Aaron, Dav, Gary, & Francis.
Riddles and/or puns?
It's not easy punning green!
A quick show note: In editing the episode, something that never occurred to the panelists became clear. Our first game included songs that ARE puns, i.e., a song that sounds like another song but is not the same song. Pretty nifty!
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This week's panelists are:
Aaron Fasel (Check out his other business venture, Fantastic Magic Camp)
Gary Hallock (here's where you can join the PUNY group he mentions in this episode)
Dav Wallace (If you like comedy and love or hate or are indifferent to sports, see him in North Austin at Comedy Sportz every Saturday at 7:30 PM)
Francis McGrath (Here's a link to his latest album on iTunes, and here's where you can find out even more about his music)
We want to give special thanks to the band Dark Meat, whose music ("When the Killers Came") we have come to love to use in our podcast.
We'll see you in two weeks! (and please rate us on iTunes!)
Protip: 4th Graders Don't Find this Fascinating. Trust Us.
Our first ever live audience recording! The original recording was over two hours, so we cobbled together the first 30 or so minutes of usable recording and here it is! As you may surmise, the fact that this is "Part 1" means that you can expect a "Part 2" sometime in the future.
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We want to give special thanks to the band Dark Meat, whose music ("When the Killers Came") we have come to love to use in our podcast.
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It's Valentine's-Day-Week!
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This episode of romance has four panelists including Aaron, Dav, & Gary, plus a very special new panelist, Francis McGrath!
The discussion segment BLUE up! We talk about talking dirty. Or is that offensive?
Either way, we're four middle aged white guys trying to be woke, so if for no other reason, that will make it a funny listen.
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This week's panelists are:
Aaron Fasel (Check out his other business venture, Fantastic Magic Camp)
Gary Hallock (If you like the idea of O. Henry meets Gilbert & Sullivan, come to Austin on Sunday, February 23, 2020 at 2 PM – 4:30 PM)
Dav Wallace (If you like comedy and love or hate or are indifferent to sports, see him in North Austin at Comedy Sportz every Saturday at 7:30 PM)
Francis McGrath (Here's a link to his latest album on iTunes, and here's where you can find out even more about his music)
We want to give special thanks to the band Dark Meat, whose music ("When the Killers Came") we have come to love to use in our podcast.
We'll see you in two weeks! (and please rate us on iTunes!)
Just a reminder that we'll be moving to a twice-monthly schedule for the foreseeable future, but hopefully we'll be back to a weekly schedule later in 2020.
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This episode was done with some of the regulars, plus special guest Bart Brehob
We discuss how to win the O. Henry Pun-Off in Austin, including the impact of the use of props and politics!
We'd love to hear from you if you have some advice or questions about the Pun-Off
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This week's panelists are:
David Gugenheim
Aaron Fasel
Gary Hallock
Arun Debry
Bart Brehob
We want to give special thanks to the band Dark Meat, whose music ("When the Killers Came") we have come to love to use in our podcast.
We'll see you in two weeks! (and please rate us on iTunes!)
Just a reminder that we'll be moving to a twice-monthly schedule for the foreseeable future, but hopefully we'll be back to a weekly schedule later in 2020.
Talk to us about this episode by sending an email to episode20@punintensive.com
This episode was, as was the previous one, recorded the day after the 2019 Pun-Off. So we took advantage of the opportunity and grabbed some out of town guests.
We'd love to hear from you if you have some advice or questions about the Pun-Off
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This week's panelists are:
David Gugenheim
Aaron Fasel
Gary Hallock
Arun Debry
Bart Brehob
We want to give special thanks to the band Dark Meat, whose music ("When the Killers Came") we have come to love to use in our podcast.
We'll see you in two weeks! (and please rate us on iTunes!)
Our Season 2 Premier!
This was an unexpectedly long hiatus due to Aaron's surgery (motioned in Episode 18) but we're back. We'll be moving to a twice-monthly schedule for the foreseeable future, but hopefully we'll be back to a weekly schedule later in 2020.
Talk to us about this episode by sending an email to episode19@punintensive.com
This episode was, as was the previous one, recorded the day after the 2019 Pun-Off. So we took advantage of the opportunity and grabbed some out of town guests.
We'd love to hear from you if you have some advice or questions about the Pun-Off
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This week's panelists are:
Alexandra Petri (you can order her book here)
Aaron Fasel
Erik Ettin
Gary Hallock
Annika Eagle
Ben Ziek
Adam Engel
We want to give special thanks to the band Dark Meat, whose music ("When the Killers Came") we have come to love to use in our podcast.
We'll see you in two weeks! (and please rate us on iTunes!)
Talk to us about this episode by sending an email to episode18@punintensive.com
This one was recorded the day after the 2019 Pun-Off. So we took advantage of the opportunity and grabbed some out of town guests.
We'd love to hear from you if you have some advice or questions about the Pun-Off
Want more?
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This week's panelists are:
Aaron Fasel
Gary Hallock
Annika Eagle
Ben Ziek
Adam Engel
We want to give special thanks to the band Dark Meat, whose music ("When the Killers Came") we have come to love to use in our podcast.
We'll see you next week! (and please rate us on iTunes!)