Episode 7 - How Often Are You Drawing Bears? with Dennis Lingg
Release Date: 10/06/2025
Empathy at the Apocalypse
Dennis Lingg of the podcast Mary Versus the Movies joins Josh and Andy to talk about Lin-Manuel Miranda's Warriors musical, interviewing Tom Scharpling and calling into the Best Show, Josh confesses he was the one who got Joe Pera added to the Best Show's list of the Most Evil Comedians, Josh talks about meeting Neil Gaiman and Andy Richter, shaving/saving the king, mobile puzzle games, Facebook games, Dennis talks about No Man's Sky, Josh talks about Dropsy, Dennis talks about Rocket League, the guys talk about playing video games against racist youths online, Josh tells his Pitfall II story,...
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Jason Sims joins Josh and Andy to talk about the body of Christ, the meaninglessness of podcasting, Dubai chocolate, Jason's social media footprint, the relativity of transcendence, pools, Indiana Jones, clankers, the ubiquity of Marc Maron, Mel Blanc, rabbits, carrots, and Looney Tunes caricatures, Josh and Andy trade impressions of Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson, used book stores, Umberto Eco, Malazan Book of the Fallen, Michael Chabon novels, Michael Faber novels, horror movies, Weapons, drive-in theaters, Josh's dogs, if famous film directors did improv, testing your comedy on strangers,...
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Mary Jones from Mary Versus the Movies joins Josh and Andy to talk about chainsaw-based bands and homemade instruments, video games, the power of power washing things, Mary's summer, Sesame Street's delightful garbage, Josh's Fourth of July, the British finding Mister Rogers creepy, Mary and Dennis doing their podcast live for their 200th episode, B movies Josh has seen, The Big Picture (1989), porn for cowards, live music, too much news, internet fatigue, TV Guide, movie ads in newspapers, Frankenhooker and the value of trash, carnival coke mirrors, unicorns and Josh's fear of animals,...
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Bingo from halfwayokay joins Josh and Andy to talk about Zyn, smoking cigarettes, Gene Rayburn, Paul Lynde, Superman and other superhero movies, Clown in a Cornfield and other horror movies, Bruce news, sitcoms, cartoons, Bariocart, video games, Kool-Aid Man, webcomics of the 2000s, Drabble, Chick tracts, church, The Brutalist, Casey Frankenstein's show, odd internet stunts, TV programs that ended with weird cliffhangers, Bingo's Boppy zine machine, ALF, Steve Martin, M*A*S*H, the new Andy Kaufman documentary, The Simpsons, celebrities going down in flames, Mac and Me, Conan O'Brien, late...
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The boys talk about hair, hand/mouth noises, Bobcat Goldthwait, Bridget Everett, Jerry Seinfeld, AI podcasts, bathroom graffiti, Josh plugs somebody else’s podcast, Andy buys a cat tooth cleaning kit, retro video games and thinky games, Katamari Damacy, interacting with gamers online, media warnings, fantasy book series, Harry Potter, Philip Roth, quitting books, Josh and Andy share the books they got for Christmas but have yet to read, Tim Allen’s prison toilet story, motorcycle gangs, scary claymation, Pentagram, What’s In My Bag?, Matt Berry, folk music, Norma Tanega,...
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The boys talk about Josh needing a haircut, teenage dirtbags, The Oh Sees, Geordie Greep, Lodge 49, beer, Josh's furnace, Cosmopolitan Magazine, dogs, Andy's rough Wednesday, argument enders, kid fights, roller skating, Steely Dan, Ginger Baker, Lefty Gunplay, Empathy at the Apocalypse's f'd up "You Might Also Like" algorithm, famous jackals, Bingo and the post office, Bill Burr's podcast, Cameron Winter, The Doors, cryptic song lyrics, The New Pornographers and A.C. Newman, Liz Lawrence, Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX, Chappell Roan, the Best Show, halfwayokay, problematic podcasters,...
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The boys talk about dads, old-timey radio, Sarah Vowell, the show's theme song and origin story, dogs, avocado pie, friends and beverages, sleepover games, pimples, cubicle jobs, sandwiches, pierogies, convenience stores, annoying TV & movie tropes, pizza, retro video games, impressive dancing, regional accents, Anthony Fantano, Lingua Ignota, Idles, Tom Scharpling, Geordie Greep & Black Midi, Geese, Justin Hawkins & The Darkness, Cardiacs, Kirin J. Callinan, John Grant, Seven Second Delay, Built to Spill, CMJ, Dave Matthews Band, Rusted Root, Cheekface, Pacing, and Matan. Thank...
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A new podcast collaboration to keep you company. Andy (People are the Enemy) and Josh (Screaming at Clouds) try to make sense of a broken world. New episodes released whenever they are made. First episode available in mid January.
info_outlineDennis Lingg of the podcast Mary Versus the Movies joins Josh and Andy to talk about Lin-Manuel Miranda's Warriors musical, interviewing Tom Scharpling and calling into the Best Show, Josh confesses he was the one who got Joe Pera added to the Best Show's list of the Most Evil Comedians, Josh talks about meeting Neil Gaiman and Andy Richter, shaving/saving the king, mobile puzzle games, Facebook games, Dennis talks about No Man's Sky, Josh talks about Dropsy, Dennis talks about Rocket League, the guys talk about playing video games against racist youths online, Josh tells his Pitfall II story, Andy asks Dennis about the Mary Versus the Movies theme song, the kids are gonna be okay, Andy learns what a ponce is and probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a Philadelphia and a Pittsburgh accent, Dennis thinks he killed the Jason Sims is Calling You podcast, Andy gushes over Josh and Dennis' voices, Krull, Josh lists Star Wars ripoffs to figure out which ones Dennis has seen, Jeep ducking or Duck Duck Jeep, Labubus and Lewis Black, Vanilla Mace and blind boxes, Disney brings Jimmy Kimmel back after taking a hit, late night hosts are discussed, Hellboy is bad, Josh wants James Gunn to make an Ambush Bug movie, The Heckler, bad Star Wars art, the Yars' Revenge record, multiverse fatigue, Josh inherited his grandmother's Miss Piggy's Aerobique Exercise Workout Album, thin sheet promo vinyl records, Fun Fun and Kyle Mooney's odd music taste, the McDonald's flexi-disc, Where's Herb?, Captain Zoom's Happy Birthday Flexi-Discs, Spock, Star Trek, and Brave New Worlds, Dennis' dubbed Star Wars has Patreon potential, Josh's college buddy text thread is too inside baseball, walking through spiderwebs, walking through a cloud of gnats, pet talk, Larry Charles and animal hoarding, man feeds hot dogs to racoons, reasoning with animals, Dennis talks about being creative, Andy wants to know how often Josh and Dennis check their email, Hal Hartley movies, black box theaters, architecture in America, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, "Josh, do what you want to do", good lines from bad movies, Josh talks about his plans for Low Rent, 6-7, type $#!t, Skibidi Toilet, ded, punctuation in text messages, too many emojis, flags, offensive boardwalk T-shirts, the Simpsons, Duckman, Marine Boy, fictional oxygen, The Abyss and water movies, MTV, Take Me to the Sheetz, Ollie's, Halloween costumes, Josh wants Andy to have a mental breakdown while writing the show description, Tom Scharpling on Guys: With Bryan Quinby, Chuds and Chads, Josh invites Tom Scharpling on the show for $4,000.00, Joe Flaherty on the Best Show healed everything, Josh and Dennis talk about old video games, including: Cosmic Ark, Demon Attack, Dragonfire, and Keystone Kapers, classic video game systems, Dungeons & Dragons, and renaissance faires. Thank you for listening! Our theme song is by gypsymoths. Our avatar was created by Benjamin M. Hillman.