The title of Matthew Broussard's debut album, Pedantic, suggests a sense of self-awareness, but that doesn't make Broussard any less insufferable. While the majority of his jokes are just fine and even a bit clever, he spends more time talking about his personal circumstances than delivering punchlines.
Something Wiki This Way Comes Ep. 10: How to Keep Your Crush a Secret (with Frances Koncan)
Posted by: Jesse Bergen • November 4, 2016 @ 3:22pm
Special guest Frances Koncan, local Winnipeg playwright and actor, joins us this week to discuss how to win on the battlefield of love. As per usual, Jesse defends the core concept of the article as the others pick it apart. Thomas feels his "podcast voice" is on trial. Frances has a secret crush.
Something Wiki This Way Comes Ep. 9: How to Pretend You Understand Football (with Tristen Foy)
Posted by: Jesse Bergen • October 27, 2016 @ 4:08pm
Thomas and Jesse welcome special guest, improviser Tristen Foy, to the podcast! And hoo boy, this week we definitely hit our nonsense quotient and then some. Expect four quarters (periods?) full of scattershot football slang, wild stabs at sporty jargon, and what an imagined reboot of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids would look like.
On her first album released in 2003, Maria Bamford started her set by saying that she likes to use a lot of voices in her comedy because, "My own voice does not command the respect and the attention that I believe I deserve." At the time, this seemed like an accurate statement.
Don't feel too bad if you confuse Ahmed Bharoocha's name with the title of his debut album, Almond Badoody – it's probably not going to hurt his feelings. The twenty-five track album recorded in Madison, Wisconsin and put out by Comedy Central Records starts with some jokes about name pronunciation, and Bharoocha's laid back style is immediately apparent.
Something Wiki This Way Comes Ep. 8: How to Get Started in Parkour or Free Running
Posted by: Jesse Bergen • October 19, 2016 @ 10:19am
It's just Thomas and Jesse this week as we hit you with a fresh episode hot off the presses. Looking to get from point A to point B, while doing sick flips and neat stunts along the way? We've got you covered with all the parkour basics.
Something Wiki This Way Comes Ep. 7: How to Look Cool While Playing Your Nintendo Gaming System
Posted by: Jesse Bergen • October 9, 2016 @ 11:18am
In what is definitely our most reference-heavy episode yet, your three experts examine how to look cool while playing video games. It's a lot more complicated than it looks. Which games should you buy? What colours are "in"? Should you dye your hair? All these questions will be answered, letting you be "1-up" on the competition.
Something Wiki This Way Comes Ep. 6: How to Draw a Treehouse
Posted by: Jesse Bergen • September 25, 2016 @ 1:55pm
We're back with an episode we recorded before Luke went to Japan to undergo his super-secret ninja training. This time we examine exactly what it takes to draw the perfect treehouse. Thomas speculates about the dark origins of the article. Jesse warns of the dangers of illustrated weather.
Something Wiki This Way Comes Ep. 5: How to Be a Clown in Your Family (with Anjali Sandhu)
Posted by: Jesse Bergen • September 3, 2016 @ 7:04pm
Comedian Anjali Sandhu joins us this week as our special guest to lend her insight on how to be the "Family Clown". We talk about why not to plagiarize material, when you shouldn't talk trash about your cousin's choice in partners, and how fast Michael actually ran.
Something Wiki This Way Comes Ep. 4: How to Sneak Food Into a Movie Theatre
Posted by: Jesse Bergen • August 19, 2016 @ 7:44am
This week it's a feast for the ears as the boys dissect the secrets to sneaking food into a movie theatre. There are several techniques -- some very devious, and others, well, not so much.
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