Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average) show

Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average)

Summary: Comedy/music duo Paul and Storm chat about the things that occur to them, but not for so long that you get too sick of it.

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 Show #138: Carl Sagan Never Did a Mic Drop | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:58

El 100 con 38 episode of Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average), is now online.This week's episode was recorded LIVE from DragonCon in Atlanta, GA, with special guests Molly Lewis, Lucky Yates, and Bad Astronomer Phil Plait, in which we gab about: impressive travel mugs and the TV Guide yacht; the Third Great American Age of Beards; the most dreaded questions; the "yes, and" world of improv; international candy bars and the metric system; Ellio's Pizza is terrible; meat-dropping seagulls; Science Getaways, the birthplace of smart thinkin', and improv in space; the Hulk vs. The Thing; Carl Sagan vs. Zooey Deschanel; cartoon Mr. T vs. an asteroid; and Abe Lincoln vs. Neil deGrasse Tyson.

 Show #137: Nerd Bagels in Hartford Center | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:58

Ye 1-3-7'd episode of our podcast, Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average), is now online.This week's episode was recorded LIVE from ConnectiCon in Hartford, CT, along with our guests (and good friends) Josh Cagan, Joseph Scrimshaw, and Mike Phirman, and features: mispronouncing places and cities; being at a comic-con without a costume, and being in awe of those who are; the persistence of anime and other nerd realms; the many faces of conventions; indoctrinating the next generation; Mike is not a fan of MAN OF STEEL (Spoilers Alerts!); the next big monster; Stormtroopers vs. Oompa Loopmas; hard-shell tacos vs. gummy bears; and Indiana Jones vs. Harry Potter.

 Show #136: Shrunken-head Fashion Accessory | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

This week's episode: the demise of the pay toilet; Superman, who goes to Canada, where people are not allowed to lie; storied venues, and The Bell House's chances of becoming one; Paul pwns fashion; animatronic iHeads; more musings on The Thrilling Adventure Hour, and Brooklyn; and the coolness of Luke Skywalker's clicky-clacky wrist space-pistons.

 Show #135: Redding Pub Tour | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:44

The one-hundred and thirty-FIIIIIIIVER episode of our podcast, Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average), is now online. This week's episode: bookshelf mores; P&S recommend Browsers; hipster-curmudgeon herb gardens; the Pokemon dividing line; was Star Wars the Beatles of movies?; Paul and Storm's massively cross-platform video game; and horehound, forced perspective, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Walt Disney.

 Show #134: The Paul Bunyan of Dairy Farmers | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:26

This week's very foodie episode: the many meanings of Panama; fancy kitchen appliances new and old, and Avery Schreiber; cheese making and cheese mongering; the beer-cheese connection; pretzel making; and some of the best pizza we've ever had.

 Show #133: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:29

This week's episode: Paul has too many computers, and too many details about same; the glamor of cows and plush laptops; Star Trek and flip phone design; we recommend Strip Search and My Drunk Kitchen; an aside about the "Shadow War!" debacle and charities; and John Hodgman and the lost art of the humorists.

 Show #132: Brisk and Crisp and Smellin’ Good | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:41

This week's episode: time travel and TARDIS skulls; recapping the past few months and secret projects; meeting podcast fans at PAX East and getting back on the podcast pot; discovering Magic the Gathering later than most, plus Minecraft and Game of Thrones; gunning for Game of Thrones HBO swank; man stank; root beer, Chipotle burritos, and other rewards; having your own personal Chipotle as a measure of personal success; supplanting "swag" with "swank", and never EVER using "schwag"; Storm's hillside dugout; whetstones, knives, being stabbed, and stropping; eternally sharp bargain knives; theories of serration; Paul's mom's recipes; and ice cream, donuts, and coal-fired pizza ovens.

 Show #131: Sushi Dragon Boat | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:49

This week's episode: first day of filming for LearningTown, our awesome and fun crew, crazy costumes, and Non-Disclosure Agreements; jumping right in and eating invertebrates; resist the urge to be a douchebag, and Hollywood Douchebags revisited; concurrent bonus material; Getting Excited About Space: meeting Bobak Ferdowsi, discovering planets, and terraforming; losing sleep to Civ 5 and Atari Adventure; Roderick on the Line; Clean Giant, Dirty Giant, and the entitled mobs shopping at Whole Foods; and here we come, Hal-Con!

 Show #130: Herring and Blondes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:00

This week's episode: Paul and Storm are in the SAME ROOM AS EACH OTHER, as they contemplate crapping randomly; cover their LearningTown creative process; dogs appear and disappear; their mutual procrastinatory tendencies, and possible Kickstarters to overcome them (and to take your money from you); their evolution from being Novelty T-shirt Guys; PAX Prime and the "rock star treatment;" our mutual ignorance of things Swedish; RyanAir complaints; and JoCo Cruise Crazy 3 excitement and site inspection cruise bragging. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION ALERT: If we were to take your money in a Kickstarter, what would you want us to do?

 Show #129: SwishAdidases | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:41

This week's episode: not paying attention to themes; leveling up through the power of video; the power of collaboration; why some of Prince's music sucks; a challenge to Freddie Wong to make a fart video; Air Kicks and SwishAdidases; "doy" vs. "duh"; a reiteration of Paul's Frat Boy Theory; EAT ME, the completely edible restaurant; serrated matzoh and Doy Jews; ice cups and drinking troughs; freakishly sweet Orange Juliuses, fortnightly; Paul looooves hot dogs; Storm is a centipede; Freedom vs. Liberty; motorcycle repair and nuclear detonations; Dr. Higgs and Dr. Boson; getting excited about space; Freedom Liberty Spacewagon; a tour of our very own; the Kings of Con and Hal-Con.

 Show #128: Fruit Borg and Zombie Cat (LIVE from NerdMelt) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:02:22

This week's episode: lying in front of an enthusiastic audience of 500 at NerdMelt; doing lots of work in Los Angeles; Mexican food and wall yogurt; franchising Yogurt Gloryhole; Kim Evey and Amy Berg join us for chatskies and it gets all sexy; the one TV in Los Angeles; Berg's TV career synopsis, and announcement that she's leaving Person of Interest; putting words and things in Michael Emerson's mouth; Kim's goings-on as web show creator and producer; making Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day kiss; how to be secret in show biz; the path to becoming a Hollywood writer; meeting Joss Whedon for reals; keeping shit straight when producing multiple shows; what the heck *is* a producer; doing things differently, craft series, and Hawaiian shave ice; is there a nerd cuisine, and is it cupcakes? Or bacon?; chocolate = nazis; valuing cultures by their cuisines; gastronauts and commissioning Alton Brown; Wil Wheaton is Jerry Lewis; Wil vs. Felicia (surviving a zombie apocalypse); Wil's weak ankles; the Yamato vs. the Enterprise (surviving Adam Savage); starting a wikipedia page for Kim and enhancing Amy's; filming a video for Write Like the Wind (GRRM song); hooray for Lindsey; more craft service; the Fruit Borg; working on Leverage and Eureka; Queen Elizabeth II's panties; the juggernaut that is TableTop; apologizing on the part of cats; "puppies are assholes"; cat and dog zombies; and impending awesomeness with Written by a Kid. MINION TASK: Create a wikipedia page for Kim Evey, and beef up Amy Berg's.

 Show #127: A Sophist in Memphis | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:43

This week's episode: Tuesdays sucks; knowledge for knowledge's sake; is Storm a sophist? is Sarah Palin?; our grudges against the Cub Scouts; Mensa Scouts; talking about music; a long speculative discourse about why songs classified as "Standards" are called "Standards"; why later-career pop artists sing "Standards"; the sheet music barons of the early 20th century; the one gigantic textile mill where everyone in Pittsburgh worked; Potatochipsburgh, where potatoes were invented; the no-mouth, bark-licking mummers of yore; Paul is vindicated in his naked-drying ways; and more smoochies for Geek and Sundry. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION ALERT:What would a Sophistry Merit Badge look like?

 Show #126: Carthago Delenda Est | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 30:26

This week's episode: the machine is chugging; that scraping teeth feeling that oogs you out; LearningTown, our new comedy musical on the new Geek and Sundry YouTube channel; Wil Wheaton's TableTop; smoochies for PAX; perfect songs; cockeyed theories involving music and brains and stuff; music that sucks but that you respect anyway; a technical boo-boo; and GET EXCITED ABOUT SPACE.

 Show #125: Paul Lynde as Grand Moff Tarkin (LIVE!) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 1:06:01

This week’s episode: A special, extra-size LIVE recording of the podcast! Recorded during JoCo Cruise Crazy 2, with a whole slew of special guests: webcomic creators Rob DenBleycker, David Willis and Joel Watson; professional podcast guest and funnyman Paul F. Tompkins; Joseph Scrimshaw as Ed McMahon; and special musical guests Molly Lewis, Marian Call and Vi Hart (with some nerd named Wil dropping in for some reason). Action-packed topics include living off of t-shirt monies; why is Rob so lazy?; comics artists as rock stars; the joys of a teenage fanbase; becoming a web comic drawing-person; success through internet; explaining what MySpace was; Watterson vs. Larson in a Safety Instruction Card battle; other awesome web comics; drawing dicks; building a fort out of cake…or pie?; the proper way to burn; a strained snake/stream of consciousness comedy metaphor; the comedy uniform; grumpy cruisers; boater or skimmer?; wrecking people with hubris; cake fort supremacy; the Thrilling Adventure Hour; and the King of Coffee vs. Cake Boss in a wedding catering showdown.

 Show #124: Bonercat | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 45:25

This week's episode: we are joined by our friend Josh A. Cagan, a Real Hollywood Screenwriter Person. Together, we dwell on the topic of Bonercat; discuss Josh's origin story; writing in TV vs. for films; moving to Los Angeles and drinking the Kool-Aid; movies for kids and tweens and giant robots; fictional vacation spots; and a Stalinist propaganda challenge. Also, Kim Evey but definitely not Greg Benson. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION ALERT: If you could spend a vacation in any location from fiction, where would you go?

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