Comments on: Show #002: Not Quite According to Plan

By: ripon

ripon — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:20:21 +0000

hi baby

By: the great Luke Ski

the great Luke Ski — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:02:14 +0000

Lumpy band: Old school rap pioneers, “The Fat Boys”

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:54:46 +0000

Popcorn is evil. And gets caught in your teeth. So you have evil teeth.

By: everysandwich

everysandwich — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:12:49 +0000

I think we need a “Radish Song.”

By: Adam H

Adam H — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 07:02:42 +0000

I’ve been on another Blues Brothers kick recently, so Joliet Jake/John Belushi popped right in my head for the lumpy category.

Possible topics for songs…

-(For Song Fu) Written from the perspective of the man in the moon, possibly how he thinks we’re all stupid and our faces are too tiny.

-The recent Bigfoot hoax
http://www.searchingforbigfoot.com/

-Athletes who are bitter at Michael Phelps.

That’s all I can come up with off the top of my head, but keep the podcasts coming, they’re awesome. I’d download them to my player if they weren’t so conveniently bite-sized for browser listenin’.

By: Budha Belly

Budha Belly — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:22:56 +0000

For Lumpy Band: Spinal Tap is classic, but I think Bowling For Soup would give them a run for their money.

By: Jack F

Jack F — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:05:36 +0000

“Just ignore the frustrated actuary’s comments in #12″

Oh, I also think the length is fine. But I’m not about to pass up on the chance to play internet gotcha.

By: Percephene

Percephene — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:17:19 +0000

Also, why can I not get the Pillsbury Cookie Dough song out of my head! It’s been playing all night long and tormenting me!

By: Percephene

Percephene — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:40:58 +0000

Wow, popcorn really ought to come with a health warning!
Keep it up guys, you actually popped my podcast-cherry, believe it or not!

Love the popcorn man song at the end, I assume thats a jingle from somewhere that I ought to know? Yet another reference I miss out on by not being American!

Would be interesting to see stats of how many ppl really are listening to these, I’m sure its more than 60!

By: Andrew Hackard

Andrew Hackard — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:11:07 +0000

I can’t believe neither of you thought of Spinal Tap in the “lumpy band” department. Possible also Division Bell-era Pink Floyd — Gilmour has REALLY let himself go.

Loving the show. I think the length is fine. Just ignore the frustrated actuary’s comments in #12.

By: Jack F

Jack F — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:00:03 +0000

FROM THE ANNOYINGLY PICKY INTERNETS DEPT.:

So far, your “five to ten minutes” is actually averaging 17.135 minutes. In order to get your average down to your announced time range, your next two podcasts will need to be just under 3 minutes each. But even though that gets the average right, you’ll still have a situation where all of your podcasts will be outside the target time.

Well, I guess if the next three podcasts are each 5.243 minutes, then you’ll have 60% of your podcasts in the correct time range, plus an overall average of 9.998 minutes.

(Wow. Even I find that comment really annoying.)

By: Dorian

Dorian — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:32:49 +0000

so I’m think throwing a song jingle here and there would spice things up. or showing how one makes such jingle (kinda like showing someone how butter is made)

By: Javier

Javier — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:43:50 +0000

@Roman V: Spiff brought that very point up in the comments of Show #001 (just in case you didn’t already know), and now he’s turning up the heat.

@P&S:
I also made my own butter this weekend. It’s creamier than store-bought butter, plus you can add your own flavors (like roasted garlic for example–my favorite flavored butter). Good stuff!

Are your igNobel performances going to find their way to the intertubes? That would be awesome!

By: Roman V.

Roman V. — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:57:42 +0000

@Spiff: The funny thing is, they already WROTE a theme song for themselves, for Song Fu…

By: Spiff

Spiff — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:43:50 +0000

How is it that the music on these musical comedian’s podcast isn’t their own music? They’re not in the mood to expose their best songs to new ears? Maybe they’re worried about having to pay themselves royalties? Don’t worry guys, it’s Creative Commons.

By: Roman V.

Roman V. — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:38:28 +0000

*Standard ‘you rock’ comment*

Also ‘Creepy Obsession Fear’ is the name of my screamo/hardcore/punk/metal/emo/etc band.

Have you thought about using some computer program like “Skype” or “Ekiga” which lets you make phone calls over the Intertubes? There’s a neat list to compare at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VoIP_software

Also this show is better than the last one, so keep it up, they are getting better. A lot better.

By: robgonzo

robgonzo — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:50:45 +0000

bands for the lumpy. don’t forget The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Blues Traveler.
Good work on the podcast guys! Did my blogpost ever show up on your google watch?

By: PonderousMan

PonderousMan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:12:14 +0000

Some content ideas:

- tell the story behind of one of your songs
- wacky/wild concert stories (now these you have to have a lot of, surely!)
- make up some completely silly story (kind of like brainstorming song ideas?)
- pick a news story, in the spirit of your work with Bob & Tom

these could be regular features, or ad hoc things…

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:56:46 +0000

Your comically musical (and musically comical) contributions to this year’s Ig Nobel Ceremony will most definitely be appreciated in an appropriately appreciative fashion, as we bring a small nerdy corner of the global world together as one to celebrate the joyous elation of Redundancy.

By: Betsy

Betsy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:56:09 +0000

Well, crud! Right before I sat down to listen to you guys, I put a small pot of water on to boil (making ramen noodles). I was so captivated by you two that I completely forgot about my water. When I finally got back to it, there was nothing left. So let that be a warning to people. Paul and Storm are too good at distracting you from possibly life threatening situations!

Keep the podcasts coming!

By: Jack F

Jack F — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:58:32 +0000

[One podcast behind comment.] I was amazed to find that wherespoochie.com is an available domain. I was going to buy it, but I can’t decide what I would do with it.

By: Lena

Lena — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:22:27 +0000

Ooh I get to be the first to comment (of course, it’s like 6:30 AM there).

“I was harvesting a bunch of our heads…”

I was listening to this at a cafe with a friend where we’re both (supposedly) working on our MA theses…and when it got to this point, I was laughing out loud, loudly enough that she had to turn away from her online dating life to find out just what was so funny.