Bobus #7 - TWOAPW: Origins
Added 2023-08-21 16:30:06 +0000 UTCThe lads answer your questions and take a long and winding trip down memory lane.
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You can actually watch the whole thing on A.J.'s website: ajditty.com/Playwriting You may have to scroll down a bit to find it. Enjoy!
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2023-09-05 03:43:48 +0000 UTCAlso, 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.
Elizabeth Power
2023-08-28 22:14:03 +0000 UTCIs the play about King of Anything available online somewhere where I can read it? That sounds really cool.
Elizabeth Power
2023-08-28 22:06:48 +0000 UTCJosh, 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.
Elah
2023-08-27 18:36:05 +0000 UTCI’ve got to second Planescape: Torment, as it’s my favorite game of all time! Just be aware that it’s essentially a novel with a little bit of video game sprinkled on top.
Ethan Ness
2023-08-26 00:09:20 +0000 UTCThanks for the response to my question! At least from the 2 indistinguishable white male voices that did answer it.
Nathan Woods
2023-08-24 02:36:49 +0000 UTCIf 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.
W. W. Wiklund
2023-08-23 21:58:40 +0000 UTClistened 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
Ciara Rhiannon
2023-08-23 08:51:00 +0000 UTCHoly heck I had no idea you guys did a FLCL episode! Gotta go binge the back catalog clearly 👀
Clark Schaefer
2023-08-22 21:13:57 +0000 UTCA.J. here! I don't want to say too much because I do really want to do an episode on those games someday, but your experience is pretty much beat for beat my own! VLR I hold up as being one of the greatest video games stories ever told and ZTD I find to be almost entirely incomprehensible!
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2023-08-22 20:49:35 +0000 UTCshout out to MUNA and The Grubes!! 🙏
Ciara Rhiannon
2023-08-22 20:48:00 +0000 UTCThis 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.
Elaine Åhlfeldt
2023-08-22 20:03:23 +0000 UTCvi blev som dom andra!
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2023-08-22 17:02:33 +0000 UTCRe: 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
TalkGibberish
2023-08-22 16:15:54 +0000 UTCcompletely dissociated finding out josh is only other american that listens to kent
titus virginia
2023-08-22 15:56:26 +0000 UTCIt was before the strike this year but I got to take my mom to a Mother’s Day performance of Chicago’s touring performance
Codsternation
2023-08-22 01:04:22 +0000 UTCyou can still experience broadway-caliber shows around the country by seeing touring productions. just make sure they’re equity (union) tours, as non-eq tours are of variable quality and many are outright bad https://www.actorsequity.org/resources/Tours/
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2023-08-22 00:57:07 +0000 UTCgraphic design is the WOW series' passion and they have pursued it doggedly for almost 30 years
Elah
2023-08-22 00:30:34 +0000 UTCMy 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.
Codsternation
2023-08-22 00:04:23 +0000 UTCCHVRCHES 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.
im so daddy i havent slept in a year
2023-08-21 21:13:08 +0000 UTCMy first episode was actually Alice talking about Hitman, but then my second one was Scott.
Frontlinecaster
2023-08-21 19:35:54 +0000 UTCBrian 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.
Dergon
2023-08-21 18:46:28 +0000 UTCAlso School of Seven Bells is excellent
Cam
2023-08-21 17:58:17 +0000 UTCI would also say from the electro indie side that Bloc Party's Intimacy is underrated
Cam
2023-08-21 17:56:11 +0000 UTCThe 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
Cam
2023-08-21 17:55:04 +0000 UTC
