These past two months I’ve learned that I deal with stress through shopping.  Ordinarily it’s shopping for booze, but lately I’ve found myself buying lots and lots of clothes.  So countless orders later, I’m ready for spring.

So this podcasting patent troll thing is kind of interesting/terrible.  By the time Maron talked about it on Thursday's WTF episode I thought, "This would be a good episode topic for This American Life" only to then have Maron reference that there is one.  I'm going to have to check that out.

Yeah, I was a little bummed with this episode, mostly because I enjoy hearing Nick Thune and he was kind of lost in this one.  I wasn't a fan of Adomian's impression, it definitely made the episode feel long.

Yeah, my statement definitely includes rehashing the clench, the Austin Stories DVD ordering process, etc in the studio shows, too.  Howard is a gem.  He'll come up with new crazy things.  Let's not get bogged down with re-explaining old stuff.

Wait, does that mean you got a live performance of the gifts theme?!

That interview with Dustin was an interesting view into Earwolf. Thanks for the recommendation.  I missed your comment last week.

Agreed!  Howard's restructuring of Los Angeles was big, unexpected, and awesome.  Good energy in today's Twooch.

While I'll agree that Who Charted's live show was eh, I don't think Showalter was the reason.  His energy was fine and he seemed to really liven up when it was Chart Pinata time.  I think the problem may be the audience's presence.  It seems to throw Howard and Kulap off.  They probably shouldn't do live shows.

I forgot about those podcast episodes during the show's filming. David Wain's kid. Eesh.

@avclub-3158896b83bbf401523f27e5962f58dd:disqus I know. But I think it's true. At least I got some Howard, Kulap, and charts with the Gore episode.

I did enjoy his listing of things and people from Detroit.

I would love a special remarriage wedding episode of CBB, with guests like Bob Ducca trying to give a speech as anyone's new step-father.

I definitely found myself muttering Worst. Episode. Ever. when it was done.  I haven't quite figured out if the problem was that it wasn't really a Who Charted? episode and the issue was that it didn't meet what my expectations are, or if I just didn't like Steve-O.  But listening to that episode was like listening to…

The comedy X-games intro was great.

I was so waiting for Gore's name to be dropped.

I've really started to appreciate what Auckerman does on the podcast.  He seems to manage what could quickly become a rudder-less ship very well, letting things get off track in the right places and reigning them in before everything falls apart.

Yeah, I think it was in the Huebel episdoe where they did an ad for a survey about Who Charted and my first few thoughts were, "Have Kulap stop singing" and "Tell Kulap not to do any more 'crazy' character voices". She's been kind of getting on my nerves, too.  My tolerance for her ebbs and flows; sometimes I'm…

I was going to skip watching the VPN version, as I had listened to the podcast. But I decided to take a look at it this morning just to see what Daly looked like as Bill Cosby Bukowski.  Holy crap. That was insane/amazing. And so much Paul Rust tickling.

Stone is so good. I had their Lukcy Basartd, which is apparently a blend, and was really impressed.

Agreed. I was genuinely curious and kind of excited for VHS, mostly because of the AV Club review, and holy crap was I disappointed. Actually, mad. The wrapper of that movie was terrible in conceit and execution, the shorts were silly, and any time one of them approached interesting, it was derailed by terrible acting…