Not a great year to be a British icon. I sure hope someone's keeping a watchful eye on Jeremy Irons.

I just tore through The Black Tapes and will probably turn my attention towards Tanis now. But The Black Tapes is pretty good, especially after the first few establishing episodes. I have a few production quibbles with it, but it's interesting enough to definitely give a go if you like a supernatural mystery story.

I'm thinking I got sucked into the serialized horror fiction world in the same thread that you did. While I haven't started Tanis yet, I tore through The Message and am about halfway through The Black Tapes, with an eye on moving to Tanis and/or Limetown after that.

Oh, I'm 100% in the bag for the Hey Gang episodes. There's a wonderful beauty in listening to Howard pour coffee beans and asking us to guess what we just heard.

Seriously. Howard makes this show. Even the most insane/inane Hey Gang was a welcome palette cleanser after that.

That episode of Who Charted was unlistenable for me. Fadem screechily steamrolled Kulap and Armen, at least up through the point in the episode that I decided listening to road noise in the car was a far more entertaining experience than finishing it would be.

How was the show?

They should also drop the Tweet Chart. They're either boring questions or they're goading Howard into playing Jaws is Better or something. Bring back the baffling Chart-Mart!

Good point. Although I'd probably argue that 'Stard is a pretty big fan too, and I usually enjoy the beautiful disasters that are those Two Charteds sans Kulap. Probably because Brett doesn't tend to shut Howard down as much as Kulap does (I think she does it for comedy, but telling him his idea is stupid or stopping…

I agree that there's a repetition to the show these recent weeks, but I think I'd put more of the blame on Kulap for that. She seems to lean very heavily on rehashing Howard's thoughts/ideas each week. She seems to think that reintroducing the idea of, say, space versus the ocean each week because it's new to the…

Yeah, it was kind of a letdown, although I'd probably listen to that one again over this week's episode.

I'll have to check that one out. I felt the same way about Slash's book: there was a lot of interesting things about being in GnR that made the book a great read, but there was also a lot of "I was driving drunk"-type stories that left behind a bad taste because of the "I'm so rock and roll" tone he used for those…

Duff's book was a great read. I'm a huge sucker for musician's bios and Duff's was one of my favorites.

Excellent. I enjoyed but didn't love episode 1 and was really meh on episode 2, but I'm glad to hear today's episode is fantastic. This podcast is getting a longer trial period from me because a) it's PFT and b) not all long-form improv scenarios are going to be my cup of tea. It's the nature of the beast.

That soundtrack was awesome.

He may have done it for the wrong reasons, but Petrov removing Claire was the smartest decision any leader made this season. She was a terrible ambassador.

Yeah, that was kind of a slog. The guest wasn't really engaging, Kulap wasn't doing too much and Howard was left floundering between picking up the hosting duties and being the comedian.

Les Claypool has so many side projects at this point that Primus is basically a side project, too.

Yep, in a Battle of the Bands for Delaware's Soul. George Thorogood played "Bad to the Bone". Destruktor waved his finger all "nuh uh" like and blew up Thorogood.

DELAWARE! KNEEL BEFORE YOUR NEW LEADER, DESTRUKTOR!