Bobus #7 - TWOAPW: Origins

Also, what an excellent selection of musicals to get with your own menu (original Assassins and revival Sweeney Todd) And yaaaaay I love Edwin Drood! Probably my favorite musical that doesn’t get too depressing and my favorite one that I can’t find enough people that like it.

Is the play about King of Anything available online somewhere where I can read it? That sounds really cool.

Josh, I just wanted to say that I'm still thinking about your spiritual formulation of "hell is real because we live in it" a week later, and it will probably stick with me for a long time - it struck a very deep chord with me, more so even than the show usually does. I think it speaks to some subtle specific aspects of leaving Calvinism that I struggle to articulate even to people who left other types of evangelicalism, much less people who've never been christian at all - existential questions about suffering and labor and fulfillment that arise from having been soaked in an ideology with a deeply fucked relationship to all three. I dunno. Much to consider. Thanks for making me feel seen.

Thanks for the response to my question! At least from the 2 indistinguishable white male voices that did answer it.

If you do play a CRPG, I can't recommend Planescape: Torment highly enough. To me it's more approachable gameplay wise, and the writing is some of the best in any video game ever. That may sound like an exaggeration, but it's both so much more interesting thanks to the inherent weirdness of the Planescape setting, and so much more willing to experiment with the writing and how it's presented to you than almost any CRPG I've played. It's definitely not your run of the mill fantasy story.

listened to the whole thing and I'm a little disappointed that AJ didn't find a way to sneak in I2I, completing the trifecta of A Goofy Movie songs

Holy heck I had no idea you guys did a FLCL episode! Gotta go binge the back catalog clearly 👀

shout out to MUNA and The Grubes!! 🙏

This was fun! I completely dropped the ball on writing in questions, but thought of one just now that's more directed at A.J. in specific than the whole group anyway. A.J., as a fellow Danganronpa enjoyer, have you by any chance also played the Zero Escape series? And if so, what's your vibe on it? I revisited ZE recently and found that I could still count VLR as one of my all-time favorites, even as I couldn't bother to finish ZTD.

Re: Books and "finding the media that speaks to you". As a kid, my imagination was captured by the Redwall books. And then as a "young adult", Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti crushed that imagination. And i didn't read much for a long time. And then 2 years ago, I inherited a small collection of Terry Pratchett from my uncle (about the same time that Shaun released his Terry Pratchett vid). And i absolutley devoured them. It felt good to read something actually... clever. and imaginative. and moral without the evangelical moralizing. And a deep cynicism of the world matched only by a vast optimism and empathy for people. Also, it should be noted, apparently Terry Pratchett was a fan of the games Thief, and also of Thief 2

completely dissociated finding out josh is only other american that listens to kent

graphic design is the WOW series' passion and they have pursued it doggedly for almost 30 years

My first episode was when Nate Bethea added you to the Nate Bethea Podcastiverse. In a serious note, I think part of why I enjoy the podcast so much is that, while I was denied a lot of good theater when growing up because I lived in the middle of nowhere, I can experience it now via people of my age cohort who know a lot about it.

CHVRCHES slaps. I played death stranding on oxy after a surgery and had no idea this song was in it! Playing that and watching The Leftovers on opiods made for a very uncanny recovery.

My first episode was actually Alice talking about Hitman, but then my second one was Scott.

Brian Wayne Transeau mentioned, Hell Yes!! Force of Gravity, Satellite, Never Gonna Come Back Down, holy shit fucking love his stuff. As another former (oh my God, Newsboys are the greatest), getting copies of 1080 and XGRA for GameCube really opened up my eyes(ears). XGRA is how I discovered BT. Absolute electronic king, also hot as shit.

Also School of Seven Bells is excellent

I would also say from the electro indie side that Bloc Party's Intimacy is underrated

The Norwegian guys cover of Major Tom is really good, so thanks for that recommendation Josh. On the electro side I would also mention Electric Callboy. The checkpoints podcast also had a really good interview with the older guy from Chvrches which is worth a look