Pun Intensive
Brought to you by the producers of the famous O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships in Austin, TX. A wordplay game show from the people responsible for the granddaddy of all pun competitions.
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You may recognize our guest, Abby Hagan, from one of many pun competitions throughout the country. She's the one with the camera.
Her documentary about the punning community is almost done, and now she's fundraising for the next big push in the process. You can support the documentary at Abby's Indiegogo page:
https://poweredbyshunpike.org/c/PBS/a/abigailhagan/
Pun Intensive Season 3 is right around the corner! In the meantime, enjoy this fan favorite episode. While you're here, don't forget to subscribe to and recommend this podcast. We have some great new stuff coming down the pike!
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It's official! Pun-Off 2020 is a go. It'll be virtual, but they're putting a cool twist on it.
If you want to be in the 2020 Punniest of Show competition, throw your name into the hat at this link.
DEADLINE IS MONDAY OCTOBER 5TH! So do it now. Even if you're on the fence, you may as well sign up for the lottery. If you get picked but decide not to do it after all, you can just let them know.
This is a "rebroadcast" of a March 2019 interview episode featuring writer Cynthia MacGregor, who passed away this July.
Cynthia has hundreds of titles over her name, having published over a hundred books, not to mention newsletters, podcasts, and O. Henry Pun-Off contests (she didn't publish those, but her name's been under them).
You can find out more about her at her website, cynthiamacgregor.com
You can hear he...
This episode is in Memory of Brian Agler.
If you want to donate to his family, you can do so here: https://www.babylist.com/baby-claire-and-brian
And courtesy of Andy Balinsky, some more about Brian.
- Here is a brief bio of him from a website of a political writing collective that he is a member of.
- He is the co-author of a 141-issue weekly Humorous Writing newsletter.
- He has written humor columns for the New Yor...
No explicit tags, but FYI, there's a dirty word at the end of the podcast that you can barely hear, and it's me mis-hearing the word "sitting."
Support the showTwo of our favorites are back! Dav & Buster . . . er . . . Dav & Francis!
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Today we talk about:
- Nothing worthy of an "Explicit" tag, but there are a couple of jokes that may be considered ribald, so use discretion around the kids (as Ira Glass might say, we acknowledge the existence of sex shops)
- We Start a Business
- Comedy and Zoom
- And a ...
Part Two of our first ever live audience recording! Part One was published on February 24th.
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A New Old-Timer's episode!
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- The usual from-Texas gang of idiots (Aaron & Gary) are here, a repeat from-Texas guest (Jack), and a newbie from Texas (Lee)
- We talk soup
- We Pun-Off reminisce
- And of course, there's a punslingers competition that, speaking of going Bach in time, we do it PDQ
- Here's a Link to Gary's son's cornetti. <...
The Old-Timer's episode!
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- The usual from-Texas gang of idiots (Aaron & Gary) are here, plus we have two from-Texas guests. Those two are "reunited" after 23 years.
- We talk Headlines
- We discuss winning the Pun-Off in the 90s
- And of course, there's a gunslingers competition of epic (and worldwide) proportions.
- Here's a Link to ...
Seattle Repre-seeeent!
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- In addition to the usual gang of idiots (Aaron & Gary) coming out of Austin, we have two guests from Seattle. They neither know each other nor work together, with the occasional exception of one being a character in the others documentary. So they totally know each other.
- We talk classic movies
- We discuss the "pun commun...
Our First Full Panel Zoom Episode!
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- Relationships
- Howard Carter (the King Tut Guy)
- And more relationships.
- Plus we only mention CoVid-19 a couple of times. So consider it a nice little break from reality, not including the times we bring it up.
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- Play games at fa...
It's the Easter/Passover Episode!
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- Get egged on by Aaron, David, Gary, & Francis.
- More on homophonic homographs
- The last episode (for a while) not recorded online. (Maybe that will improve the sound quality) :-/
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- S...
Whelp, look what we did! If you can tolerate the Zoominess of the audio, take a listen!
This week's panelists are:
- Aaron Fasel (Check out his other business venture, Fantastic Magic Camp)
- Erika Ettin
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It's the St. Patrick's Day Episode!
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- Rush into this episode with four Aaron, David, Gary, & Francis.
- As if puns weren't hard enough, we have a heck of a challenge for you
- Don't be fooled by our levity. We've learned to stay home for future tapings.
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