by Tony Ditta and Austin Sisson
It's a cultural quiz show and so much more. Tony Ditta (PhD. student of economics) peppers Austin Sisson (generally polite "student of life") with questions about... well, culture gosh darn it. With carefully curated trivia categories and perfectly executed mirth-bombs, you're going to learn something and laugh along the way. Thank you for everything. Goodbye.
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January 7, 2022
<p>If there is one thing you can count on us for, it is normalcy. Consistency. Reliability. Episodes release at the same time, every third [redacted]. Topics that are grounded in the here and now. Now (and here), we break down what "normalcy" really means and why it's such a precious societal standard that we must preserve at all costs. Historically, normalcy has been really good for everyone. </p>
October 20, 2020
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Put on your 3D glasses now. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Remember when movies were silent for a long time and then The Jazz Singer came out and people lost their minds? This is kind of like that without blackface.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When I was researching this joke, I read through the Wikipedia entry on The Jazz Singer and there are, no lie, six full paragraphs dedicated to a discussion around whether it was cool that there were blackface scenes in that movie. Like, can we just acknowledge that it wasn't cool? </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I originally wanted to make this comparison because The Jazz Singer was the first talkie, and this is like, the first podcast that is SO evocative that you might as well be watching a movie. But then I got really sidetracked by that Wikipedia article.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I get that, at the time, cultural critics had different interpretations of what the blackface scenes signified, and that it's dangerous to erase those discussions lest we repeat our shitty past. But six paragraphs? The entire Wikipedia article on the fascinating French idiom "<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">L'esprit de l'escalier" is shorter than the The Jazz Singer's various stuffy critical defenses of blackface. I'm over it! We're ALL over it. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="fr" xml:lang= "fr">Anyway enjoy the podcast</span></span></p>
July 25, 2020
<p>When you listen to this episode, you'll have the unique opportunity to hear the first joke ever recorded (from some Sumerians), followed immediately by some of the best jokes ever recorded (from us and Josh Betts). Tune in next week for the last joke you'll ever hear. </p>
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It's a cultural quiz show and so much more.
Tony Ditta (PhD. student of economics) peppers Austin Sisson (generally polite "student of life") with questions about... well, culture gosh darn it. With carefully curated trivia categories and perfectly executed mirth-bombs, you're going to learn something and laugh along the way. Thank you for everything. Goodbye.
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