EP 82: CLOWNS VS. MAGICIANS
Added 2025-03-14 01:04:07 +0000 UTCPick a side of the ring and prepare to defend your arguments. Kay is delirious, and this is our most heinously asinine episode yet.
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alex you're very right about clowns and community. speaking as someone who studied clowning in the past - clowns by and large are ride or die. there's definitely a spiritual side to some of it as well. look into "sacred clowns." clowning can deal with vulnerability, trust, and making fun of the things you hate about yourself and/or society at large. important to note that in the USA there's a big history of clowns perpetuating racist stereotypes, along with stereotypes of most other marginalized groups
Leo
2025-03-16 20:32:27 +0000 UTCif ur ever curious about the making of kids shows esp that era of PBS/educational shows (always rlly fascinating and kind of leads u don’t rabbit holes u don’t expect!) defunctland on youtube has “defunctland TV” eps specifically about oobi, bear in the big blue house, zaboomafoo, and a bunch of others
gm
2025-03-16 15:27:11 +0000 UTCMy mom dressed the entire bear and the big blue house set!!! I can ask her what it was like
Ray
2025-03-16 03:21:22 +0000 UTCGo on tour and make your first stop victoria BC
em
2025-03-16 03:01:27 +0000 UTCI have information about the magician and clown community. I was friends with/in the scene of high class magicians in New York City. Many magicians have worked as clowns in the past and they are absolutely back stabbers like Alex mentioned. Many magicians are very cool and most of the women have solidarity with each other but the male magicians not so much. The magicians have group chats where they talk shit about each other I’ve seen it!!!
taylor cox
2025-03-16 02:38:44 +0000 UTCAlex not knowing what facetious means while being the most facetious on this podcast at all times lmao
Mad Vaun
2025-03-15 20:57:23 +0000 UTCFUCKKKK THE IOWA WRITER’S WORKSHOP WORST PEOPLE EVERRRR THEY RUINED THE WORKSHOP FORMAT FOR MILLIONS OF OF MFA STUDENTS EVERYWHERE 😒😒😒😒😒
Beaks
2025-03-15 10:54:38 +0000 UTCI love y’all but please move the mic closer to Kay
Fran Harrison
2025-03-14 17:55:59 +0000 UTCThere was a party that me and my friends somehow stuffed 10 of us into a fucking sedan to leave from + our friend who’s a rallycross driver dressed up as Jesus drove us back 💀 (clarifying that this was a Halloween party bc I somehow missed that)
Mia
2025-03-14 17:20:14 +0000 UTCWe need to go back to medieval intermittent napping
C. Dodge
2025-03-14 16:12:34 +0000 UTCBeautiful 😖
sofferd
2025-03-14 15:50:06 +0000 UTCAlex's mind is a beautiful cornucopia
Riley
2025-03-14 14:48:17 +0000 UTCI need you guys to talk shit about emelia perez
Blythe
2025-03-14 14:26:44 +0000 UTCyes it's very this vibe and you have to do a lot of meditation and mental exercises to, like, "get in touch"/"discover" your clown. it's kind of iconic but also unserious
soph
2025-03-14 11:47:14 +0000 UTCI feel very similarly about my fiance where I think he's really smart and he has a lot of random knowledge and I use him like Google. He'll also fuck with me and every time he tells me something crazy I assume he's fucking with me lol
Mollsewa
2025-03-14 06:33:28 +0000 UTCI feel like I remember this!
Mollsewa
2025-03-14 06:31:59 +0000 UTCi worked at a cafe with a theater major and she was failing a clown class and told me that her instructor clown said that everyone has a clown inside them some are silly some are sad some are evil etc
Jori
2025-03-14 04:11:21 +0000 UTCi LOST it when alex said that magicians have no community and want to stab each other in the back 😂
Jori
2025-03-14 03:52:01 +0000 UTCOmg zoboomafoo was a character in the game of nuclear winter my friends and I played this week
Max
2025-03-14 03:44:35 +0000 UTCI took a clowning class in college and it was more like a meditative practice than performance... it's about, like, getting in touch with your subconscious, which is part of why they don't talk. it's fun and a weirdly vulnerable/bonding thing to do with other people, but also very bizarre
soph
2025-03-14 03:43:41 +0000 UTCI lovedddddddd oobi
Sophie
2025-03-14 03:33:05 +0000 UTCdid i make this up or did kay once say she's a minions stan??
Jori
2025-03-14 03:31:16 +0000 UTCi love the kratt brothers/zaboomafoo so much. they raised me... the green girl is NANALAN! nanalan is so scary but it was my favorite show when I was a child. there's lot of clips on youtube i have watched and they're so liminal vibes now
soph
2025-03-14 03:12:44 +0000 UTCreferring to the kratt Brothers as the "two gay guys" 😭😭😭
ivy
2025-03-14 02:41:29 +0000 UTCNANALAN
AYii
2025-03-14 02:41:24 +0000 UTCIk exactly what Tom and Jerry episode ur talking abt lol
London
2025-03-14 02:10:13 +0000 UTCKay you have to get closer to the mic 😭 ❤️
Madeleine
2025-03-14 01:36:31 +0000 UTCU saying oobi felt edgy 😭
London
2025-03-14 01:23:58 +0000 UTC
