That Thing With James

Listen here, blockhead. People have been insulting each other for as long as people have existed. So why not bolster your vocal arsenal with these old-world insults?

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A fake nose, a drunk moose, a schizophrenic friend who lives under the dinner table and makes accurate predictions — baby, this episode is a trip. And it all happened before the invention of the tele…

Behold! Bawdy words from the bard. 

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What if we shipped Newman?

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Folks, I tried my best with this one.

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This is it, kiddos. This is the finale of the story! I'll say no more.

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A cold case grows hot, as Lt. Columbo sets his sights on Light Yagami. Will the latter keep getting away with it? Or will the world's greatest detective pin the criminal before it's too late?

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Found this story on AO3, and I just had to read it on the pod. With that pesky L out of the way, Light believes it's smooth sailing to godhood, until the world's greatest detective joins the Kira Tas…

For those who have experienced war, it never truly ends. It's always there, screaming in their heads. Maybe that's why war keeps happening, it's that awful pressure letting out. Or maybe it's because…

The jaws of Oblivion have opened and they're consuming my time...but not so much that I couldn't get a new episode to you.

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A rock, a window, a protest, ski masks, racists, weapons, cops, and a baby all converge to rob me of what was supposed to be my first peaceful day in months.

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Ho Chi Minh — affectionately called "Uncle Ho" — was not always an old man. Whodathunk? Turns out, he was a veritable globe-trotter who helped spark revolution the world over. That's what this episod…

Sponge sticks, fleshy beans, bald heads, and beards! Classical Greece was a wild place.

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You don't need a time machine to time travel. You just need to pick the right kind of small town and, hey presto, you're back in the 1970s!

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Webs. Outer space. Italians. The flu. This episode has it all!

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How an act of isolationism led to, perhaps, one of the best things to happen over the last ten years. Maybe the world isn't scary. Maybe home is the thing to fear.

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It's the 200th episode! It's the 200th episode! (And if you count the bonus episodes, it all adds up to 311 episodes. 311. Like the band.)

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It's the first episode of 2025! And oh baby it's juicy like a mango. A terror mango.

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This is a true story about a wandering fortune teller. A warm spring wind blew him into town one night. I met him at a bar. Shade, displaced by Katrina.

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We dig into some reddit questions. The one that sticks out to me is: what would you do if you magically, accidentally, woke up twenty years in the past? Lots to consider, folks.

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