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Comments Show 1 - Kool-Aid Manning (Patreon)

Published:
2018-05-24 22:06:53
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2025-05-18 02:57:30
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2026-06
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It's our first comments show and we're talking Tsathoggua, Burial of the Rats and Bartleby. Tune in!

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Sellers Burgener

Thanks for mentioning my comment, guys! It's really interesting to hear from the HPLLP MENSA community of minds. I definitely have had a "We dont need no education" moment with writing teachers who tried to instill the "show don't tell" cliche philosophy. I have loved Poe and Lovecraft since I was very young and never could stomach that their style wasn't valid. Obviously a ton of people still read their work. But, as you guys pointed out, if you're gonna write purple, you better have something to say! Also, the August Derleth stories have been some of my FAVORITE shows of the podcast. You guys should do all of them! He is great for being terrible and showing all of us who appreciate weird fiction what is good and what is bad. He has his place in the genre, even when he gets it right, which he does on occasion.

MortalGlare

Personally I absolutely loved the Patten episode, i think it's one of your best and definitely funniest in a while. I cant wait to see what hes in next. I certainly wont be deleting my last comment, this episode alone had me laughing several times. I also wanted to make not that i've been having a rough time of it recently and listening to this show is like the comfort i need right now. Im listening through from the beginning for the third time and just coming up on episode 100. I can just put one of these episodes on, lay back and relax.

Rafe Ball

Likewise I enjoyed the episode with Patton and looking forward to others - a bit of harsh language doesn't bother me personally but I agree that putting an advisory on the episode is probably a good idea for those who are not so fond. And there's only one thing to say about having the episode title picked from my comment - OOOOOOOOOHHHHH YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHH!

Forrest Rush

I really enjoyed this episode and wouldn't couldn't expect anything less of Patton. Please don't bleep Happy!

Tony Sleaze

Great job on the comments show, makes me want to get more involved on here than I was at the old Witchhouse forums. Can't wait for the other Patton episodes! Have you guys thought of covering Oliver Onions? I read The Beckoning Fair One not too long ago and just found it odd, funny, and a bit spooky. Plus I just dig the name Oliver Onions for some reason ha. Thanks again guys, you're doing fantastic!

Jason McKittrick

Loved the Tsathoggua episode and Patton! Keep more of that coming!

Allison Albright

I appreciated the f-bombs and discussion of social issues in the episode with Patton. I also liked the longer format. Personally, I wouldn't mind more politically oriented jokes either (since, as you say, it does just seem to be in the air these days), but understand that politics are becoming increasingly polarized and you don't want to necessarily make anyone feel unwelcome (except racists :) ). Anyway, awesome show! I look forward to it every week.

Nate

Thanks for the shout-out guys!! MIT-guy battles the vicious Student Loan Man

Billy

Anything that was political didn't feel preachy or drag on. More importantly you guys entertained. Looking forward to more Patton.

Jim Bassett

Enjoyed the show with Patton, and thought the comment episode was great. Looking forward to more of both!

Erin G.

I’ll take Chad in as my Ward, I’ve got my pantry full of Clown Flakes cereal.

Sweatin' to the Great Oldies

Consider me encouraged to start commenting. Great show, gents. "Kool-Aid Manning" will enter my lexicon somewhere near "gymkataing the pommel-horse of my heart". I suppose there is a short story to be written of the Mythos allusions made during commercials of the 70s and 80s. Doublemint Gum twins. The Tootsie Pop owl. What does the lonely Maytag repairman get up to? Whatever happened to Mikey - and what is the symbolism of him literally eating "Life"? Kool-Aid, of course. The dread vision of civilization falling to pieces underlying Victory Auto Wreckers is palpable to all...

Nickthulhu

Chris and Chad, you guys are the best! I’ve been listening since the beginning. I remember Chad saying in an earlier episode that he was pursuing a degree in literature, and he didn’t want to be that lonely figure whose silhouette could be spotted in a glowing library window, late at night, pouring over some esoteric text like a 6th Century monk. I too was in the exact same position, and dropped out because of it! But I don’t regret it a bit, seeing as I would much rather cover the whole canon of western literature with you guys (and a sprinkle of Eastern woman-on-dog eroticism of course — joking!). For real, it’s been a wonderful journey thus far, and I look forward to going another ten-thousand miles. I appreciate your willingness to be more personable with your fans, and even with criticism you two always manage to remain lighthearted somehow. ‘Tis a noble thing indeed. Thank you!

Blake Coleman

Indeed, for the last 4 years, I've gone back and listened to all of the H.P. reviews every year and always enjoy it now I can add even more classics to the list! Like I recently listened to "Horse of the Invisible" again, not because of the terrible story, but because of your hilarious rage at how terrible it is (while at the same time managing to glean what positive aspects there were.) Please don't stop making 80s and 90s references. There hasn't been a Sade namedrop in forever!

Cacodaemoniacal

Thank You for reading my letter! I did the rarest of all: The For-Reals, Double, Partial Spit-Take, Upon Knitting when I heard it. I think you can look at the rats as a metaphor of the monsters as monster only, or as a conditional situation. I think the latter and the rakes sort of reinforced it for me.

Darble Yarble

Re: Chris's idea that we have too many distractions to tolerate purple prose these days, a quote from the well-known social scientist Herb Simon - "In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients."