What podcasts are you listening to?

[The Argonaut]

If you buy H&P, that gives you the right to stream and/or download it as often as you want. So you can stream it now and then come back in a month to download it so you can burn it to a disc for a friend. Then your hard drive dies next year, so you can come back again and just download/stream it again.

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Man. The guests on Doug Loves Movies are usually decent and it's been awhile since I've looked at the list and thought, "nah, not tonight" but after the last episode with Judy Gold etc. it looks like I have one.

Jacob Sirof is getting there with his slavish devotion to the prequels being good movies and The Force Awakens is "fan art".

[Simple Torture]

Man. The guests on Doug Loves Movies are usually decent and it's been awhile since I've looked at the list and thought, "nah, not tonight" but after the last episode with Judy Gold etc. it looks like I have one.

Jacob Sirof is getting there with his slavish devotion to the prequels being good movies and The Force Awakens is "fan art".

Sirof was recently on Star Wars Minute for an entire week. It was fucking brutal.

[LoathedVermin72]

sounds like my kinda guy

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Hating good things irrationally?

[LoathedVermin72]

Ha. Ugh.

Anyway, I can't imagine the appeal of listening to a Doug Benson podcast. There's no way in hell that guy has anything interesting to say about movies.

[Self]

I had to google who he was and then realized he's the one that does that stoner youtube thing is his cellar. I tried to watch a few based on the guests, but it's not that great.

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Ha. Ugh.

Anyway, I can't imagine the appeal of listening to a Doug Benson podcast. There's no way in hell that guy has anything interesting to say about movies.

He doesn't, actually. It's a cleverly-disguised game/comedy show and the guests talk more about movies than he does.

In 2006, Benson began hosting a weekly comedy podcast, titled Doug Loves Movies (formerly I Love Movies with Doug Benson), which is recorded in front of a live audience at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. The show typically tapes weekly, and is later archived on iTunes for fans to listen to for free. Benson and guests talk about movies and comedy both. Benson's guests have included such notables as Daniel Van Kirk as Mark Wahlberg, John Lithgow, Leonard Maltin, Brian Posehn, Joe Rogan, Zach Galifianakis, Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt, Jon Hamm, Adam Carolla, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Scott Aukerman, Adam Scott, Bill Simmons, Aziz Ansari, Amy Poehler, Wayne Federman, Elisabeth Shue, Aubrey Plaza, Michael Cera, Edgar Wright, Paul F. Tompkins, T.J. Miller, Kumail Nanjiani, Gillian Jacobs, Michael Sheen.

A regular feature of the podcast is the Leonard Maltin Game, which has been described as Name That Tune with movies instead of songs.[7] The game consists of Benson reading excerpts from a Leonard Maltin review and guests wagering how many names, read from the bottom of the cast list up, it would take for them to identify the movie.

Other regular features of the podcast include the segments Tweet Relief: Tweets About Movies, Watch This/Not That, Not for Emetophobes, and From the Corrections Department, as well as the games Build a Title, Name a Movie, A-B-C-Deez Nuts, How Much Did This Shit Make?, Lincoln or Bane?, Love, Like, Hate, Hate-Like, Doing Lines with Mark Wahlberg, The Seth Rogen Game (A.K.A. Last Man Stanton), Whose Tagline Is It Anyway, Now Buscemi Now You Don't, Tell The Truth! and F Marry Kill: Movies.

At the conclusion of many of the early podcasts, Doug would state "As always, Willem Dafoe is a Shithead," which resulted in so many people wondering about why, that Google searches began to automatically complete the phrase as a suggested match. The Willem Dafoe comment started as a joke based on the fact that it would seemingly be the only bad words ever uttered about Dafoe, but many people didn't catch on and, after explaining it a few times, Benson decided to let Dafoe rest. Now, the runners up in the Leonard Maltin game are allowed to name one shithead as a consolation prize.

In 2010, Benson started an annual, 2 hour Twelve Guests of Christmas special every holiday season. This episode features 12 guests (occasionally more) rather than the usual 3 guests and they play an elimination style Leonard Maltin Game. Scott Aukerman won the first year, while Graham Elwood dominated the next two years in a row.[8] The 2013 champion was podcast fan and Pardcast-A-Thon auction winner, Sean Sakimae. Sakimae also qualified for the next Tournament of Champions for naming the film Titanic in negative names and winning the game.[9] Riki Lindhome beat Jimmy Pardo in the finals of the 2014 edition when Pardo couldn't get the name Lori Singer when going negative three on Footloose. Scott Aukerman bested Sarah Silverman for his second win in 2015.

I don't listen for Doug, I listen for the guests. Some of whom - John Hamm - are amazingly funny. The episodes with Chris Evans are really good as well.

Some are just assholes like Cake Boss (not that Cake Boss) who is a persona of Paul F. Tompkins. One of many I might add as Doug's done a show just of PFT impressions.

[LoathedVermin72]

Okay, now I'm kinda intrigued.

[LoathedVermin72]

I've been listening to Doug Loves Movies for 12 minutes and it's intensely boring so far.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

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Minutes 13-14 are where Doug shines.

[LoathedVermin72]

UCB dudes talking about their Weezer-themed comedy show is the single whitest thing I have ever heard

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what episode are you listening to? The last one - the one I said was terrible - probably isn't the best one to start on.

I thought he was funny on last comic standing (yeah, it's been awhile) and I think his stand-up is pretty bad so maybe this podcast is just enough Doug for me.

[LoathedVermin72]

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what episode are you listening to? The last one - the one I said was terrible - probably isn't the best one to start on.

I thought he was funny on last comic standing (yeah, it's been awhile) and I think his stand-up is pretty bad so maybe this podcast is just enough Doug for me.

I listened to the one with Paul Scheer, Jacob Sirof, and Moshe Kasher from January. It seemed like a lot of aimless bullshitting.

[Simple Torture]

It seemed like a lot of aimless bullshitting.

Hey: welcome to podcasting!

Did you ever try In Our Time? They just did an episode on the neutron, and another on the Year Without a Summer. Both very good.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[LoathedVermin72]

It seemed like a lot of aimless bullshitting.

Hey: welcome to podcasting!

Did you ever try In Our Time? They just did an episode on the neutron, and another on the Year Without a Summer. Both very good.

That's a huge pet peeve of mine, and a big part of why I find it difficult to find podcasts I like.

I did, yes. I've only scratched the surface, but I like it quite a bit so far.

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It seemed like a lot of aimless bullshitting.

Hey: welcome to podcasting!

Did you ever try In Our Time? They just did an episode on the neutron, and another on the Year Without a Summer. Both very good.

That's a huge pet peeve of mine, and a big part of why I find it difficult to find podcasts I like.

I did, yes. I've only scratched the surface, but I like it quite a bit so far.

I'm amazed you can find podcasts to like if that's a pet peeve of yours. That's like, the genre, man.

[LoathedVermin72]

It seemed like a lot of aimless bullshitting.

Hey: welcome to podcasting!

Did you ever try In Our Time? They just did an episode on the neutron, and another on the Year Without a Summer. Both very good.

That's a huge pet peeve of mine, and a big part of why I find it difficult to find podcasts I like.

I did, yes. I've only scratched the surface, but I like it quite a bit so far.

I'm amazed you can find podcasts to like if that's a pet peeve of yours. That's like, the genre, man.

Not the good ones. The good ones try to eliminate that. (Usually.)