Understood.  I didn't interpret it as insulting at all.

Would you still pay for NNF if it was donation-based?

Jesse's PRI deal is a minor part of the MaxFun Empire.  His syndication revenue for Bullseye isn't even sufficient to support himself, let alone his family or employees.  His PRI relationship does have other benefits that turn into money (e.g., audience outreach, legitimacy for guest booking, publicists sending him…

The NNF model would be much more to duplicate in 2012.  NNF was early enough in the game where listeners got addicted to Jimmy Pardo's comedy and there were fewer alternatives at the time that were in the same ballpark in quality.

There are plenty of podcasts that aren't rambling blather.  Some are entirely written and aren't entirely dissimilar to audiobooks.  "12 Byzantine Rulers" was so well done that a publisher paid Lars Brownworth to convert it into a book (and then an audiobook).  "The History of Rome" is of similar quality.

Britta pulled a Homer.

No shame in that. Plenty of people cried during Ken Burns's The Civil War.  I'm especially thinking of the Sullivan Ballou letter from the first episode.

In Houston, the first commercial during Community was for Depends.

AV Club's been supportive of Baroness in the past, so assume that's an honest mistake.

I use "There's a fish in your library" every few months.  It hasn't been recognized as a Barry quote, yet.

Il y'a un poisson dans votre bibliothèque.

"Gott in Himmel" - Monty Python

The two cars were one of the biggest prizes for winning a leg.  Until
the final leg, by far the most important concern is to avoid coming
last.  You're correct that doing a time consuming FF against another
team is a horrible decision unless you know you'll win.

Stacking 150 bales likely took longer than either of the Detour options.  They absolutely were screwed once they lost that FF race.  It's stupid from a game theory standpoint for any of these teams to go for the FF unless they knew that they're the only one doing it (or you know it's not out of the way relative to the…

After their FF debacle, it made sense for the Jersey Boys to do the NIAH task, since they needed to make up a lot of time and the oil-task was not likely to have much variance in completion time.  However, this NIAH task didn't involve as much luck or variance as each team had
their own 1000 apples to search through,…

From a strategic standpoint, when all the teams are tied, unless the Fast Forward was not far from the Route Marker, it's stupid to go for it unless you know that no one else is.  With the way this leg played out without a lot of chance of making up a failed FF bid, going for the FF made it 50-50 chance to be…

I live in Houston, but i'm naturally biased against Houston teams (except for Rice, my alma mater).  I don't see me rooting for the Dynamo.  I'm from Chicagoland, but apparently the Chicago Sting haven't existed since 1988.

I first listened when John Oliver was on several months ago.  I've continued listening since then because the hosts are funny and charming with excellent chemistry.

I haven't listened to this WTF, yet, but i adore Mary Mack.  Mack and Myq Kaplan are the best things i've got out of Last Comic Standing.

Right.  They were very careful with the Judge Amanda Williams case ("Very Tough Love").  They later issued two tiny corrections on their website, that i suspect most newspapers would have bothered with.