At some point (and it may have been in a Pod F. Tompkast) Paul accused Scott of treating podcasts like a free-association test that nobody's actually giving him.

You know what Trent Reznor is holding in that header image?

Yeah, he needed that hat for this one "slide your fingers along the brim" move that everyone does because they think it makes them look like Bob Fosse.

As the old saying goes, "Halfway through? Huff some glue!"

Not enough people are showering you with praise for this.

Not a word.

Of course they're dry. They're on Mars.

It is. It may help to remember that Paul F. Tompkins was on the Tenacious D television show.

The tremendous silliness of having Cat Black's dress be the color of the green-screen, but then when they cut to a different angle, we see that her dress actually just looks like the weather map she was standing in front of, even though that doesn't make sense for even one second.

It was needed on the set of Mad Men.

Well, yes. I thought it would be distracting if I introduced my theory that Welles was better at radio than he was at movies. And considering that he created possibly the greatest movie ever, that's really saying something.

I usually just go to archive.org, which has a million old radio shows. Many of them are terrible, but there's some gold in there.

There was a radio show prequel called "The Lives of Harry Lime," which I highly recommend. It starred Orson Welles, who was great on the radio. And because it was a prequel, Harry Lime got to do all sorts of awful stuff with no comeuppance. Super-fun, although you will get a bit tired of the zither.

I forgot this week's theme, so the headline made me think this was going to be about "F For Fake." I got conned by an article about a movie about a con man!

My girlfriend is an extra in this movie. She's very pleased about that.

This isn't even a thing.

That suppressed smile was great. Unlike a lot of sitcom characters, Dietrich was being funny on purpose and deliberately screwing with people.

Dietrich. After a season or so, they worked out how to use the set to his advantage. He'd be talking with someone in the upper right of the screen, next to the coffee machine. He'd end the conversation with something cryptic and baffling ("Semantics is my life." And then he'd get to stroll back to his desk in the…

I like this show very much.

I was, but since my comment applies almost as well to Scott's decision to release the episode, I'm happy to agree with other people's interpretation.