Maybe it's just because I do check those boxes, but the only one of those that I've noticed is the whole "don't live together before your married bit". And that one, maybe he really meant it the first time it came out, but now it just reads as him thinking it's funny to stubbornly stick with that take.

Yea. The "June doesn't understand the movie they just watched" stuff went from an organically developed secret weapon, to they know it's a thing but it's still a funny bit, to officially trying too hard.

No, it's 100% the 'riffing on absurd police blotter stories' format now. I don't think the sports stuff was any big loss. Like you said, at some point the humorous sports stories became a surprisingly weak part of the show.

Yea, even before the transition to DumbPeopleTown, I found myself only listening to the DVK/"County" episodes of Sklarbro anymore because they tended to be a little less repetitive and less focused on talking shop with the guest. Sklarbro Country was one of the first podcasts I listened to regularly, so it would feel…

Yea, nothing against the Smirl clan, who remain delightful. It just felt like they kind of ran out of things to talk about?

It has to be coincidence that he heard basically the exact same case 2 weeks in a row, just swapping "VR Room" for "3D Printer Room", right?

It's been awhile since I had a good podcast purge. I tend to accumulate more of them over the spring/summer when I start taking more and longer walks with the dog and a lot of the sportsball related things I listen to slow to a trickle. Then when it gets colder I start getting big backlogs and realize I only kind of…

I listen to a lot of podcasts, but I can also sympathize with what you're saying. There are a lot of shows with formats that lean on comedy people chatting with other comedy guests that absolutely fall into that trap.

That's kind of my point though. There was a time when the shared universe and one ongoing story approach were innovative and useful, but it seems like they've long since served their purpose. The big, crazy sandbox has been established. Now it seems like things would be better served by just letting creators play…

Are they, at least when it comes to the actual comics? It seems like where the books are concerned, they'd mostly just care about maintaining the IP generation machine. If anything, they'd probably benefit from relaxing that kind of thing because it would give them a greater breadth of things to cherry-pick from for…

Yes exactly. And the Hercules stories all still work fine on their own because just like Superman/Cap/Batman/etc. everybody pretty much knows the basic rules of the characters. It doesn't matter if minor details don't line up or the occasional story temporarily subverts one of them.

It was exactly as good as you'd imagine "one-shot comic commissioned to sell Combos" would be.

At one point as a kid I had an actual Combo-Man comic from a store display of Combos.

I've said it before, but how many things that people get worked up over with superhero comics would go away if they just took a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ approach to the SUPER IMPORTANT CANON? The industry loves pushing this idea of their characters as 'the modern mythology' but refuses to embrace the flexibility of that in favor of…

I wanted to like it more than I ultimately did. I thought it would scratch a similar itch as Squirrel Girl for me and it just never did.

Maybe it's just because I'm one of those "never actually played the game" listeners, but I really don't get the people who get so hung up on the gameplay aspects of the show. That's clearly not been what it's about from the get-go.

Who wouldn't want to listen to 20 minutes of prestige podcasting?

So excited that the McElroy Brothers are going to be in Trolls 2.

Belladonna Breadeaux Pizza?

Last year sometime? I feel like it happened pretty quick after they got done with that tour. I know he opend for Tig in Utah a few months back, but I kind of got the impression that he was putting a pin in the comdy thing to focus on starting his family.