Awfully bad attitude to have with a name like Ebenezer Scrooge. Your boomer grandparents only wish they could be this intolerable of the poors. Hear as an old crotchety man is bullied by ghosts into being a good person. This should happen more often. Charles Dickens really crushed with this one in 1843

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Join us this month as we discuss Taylor's unexpected interests, we introduce Seth to Coil's Sniper, and we collectively lose our minds considering a Parahumans universe Matt Farley! If you'd like to contact us for suggestions or anything else our tumblr is: https://www.tumblr.com/coveredinworms If you want to follow us on twitter you can find us here: https://twitter.com/coveredinworms Make sure to check out our sister show the Bog Frog Book Pod! https://sites.libsyn.com/485343 Topics Discussed: Down on Arc 5 How many times can we switch between calling them Acts and Arcs I wonder Court Psychology oh she dumb Summary! What is wrong with me Arc 5 Retiring a bit Kaiser :( Wren LOVES Hookwolf Bitch my beloved Wren's secret Oop all drug addicts are ontologically evil Taylor knows about vodou? Kevin Smith :( We're watching you Wildbow Accepting nightmares to preserve the status quo I guess we're anti-battery now Genital Mutilation Counter: 3 I HATE EMMA Schools suck Alan Moore's Marvel Man Putting bugs in your clothes is not a hobby Taylor cannot be on psychadelics. Friend of the pod Hibi Citizens of the DC universe are canonically stronger Our guy Coil's Sniper You talk about black mirror once and your friends never let you forget about it JoJo Talk Travellers are fucked up strong Eye Crime :( Gregor the Snail my KING Rhythm of War is good :D! The Mormon Church is Evil :( Seth agrees that he is wrong Arc 6 Hong Kong Matchbox Apartment Oh my god Parahumans Matt Farley Can you iamgine if boston was a real city? Furniture Foreplay Taylor is so fuckin mean to Aisha oh my god Lisa doesn't do dating Just bullying Wren on mic in front of people Miraculous Ladybug Bonus Ep coming up Story of Eye radicalised me agianst the French Jenga Building Ward is a perfect object to rotate in your head (The ward arc we're talking about is Arc 9) YO EXTERMINATION NEXT EPISODE Omg it's the incredibles She has a purposeful savegry Take that you Worm Genital Mutilation Counter: 4 Whatever, go my scarab TL:DR Regent is a Poster Circus is my beloved Leaving a bad yelp review for a psychiatrist.  Coil was bossman The Numbers Man How we feelin about Danny? We HATE Seth now We're Anti-Bioshoock Infinite The Hole Lung in a better place now Questions! If Annette was alive Taylor is a fundamentally different human Comic Books are the best The Louis Lunge Imagine being a Tyler Seth doesn't see race Our intro is "Ossuary 3 - Words" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Our outro is "Gymnopedie No. 3"by  Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

It's 2024 and nothing gets cancelled more than celebrities.  Not even Amazon orders.  It's in vogue and the friends wonder - why?  Catch this questionable episode of Conversations with Friends as they work their way through the ever-intriguing nature of cancel culture, one offense at a time.

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Air Date: 4-1-24 Today, Jay!, Amanda, Deon and Erin discuss: - how Trump uses humor to normalize his behavior and engage his supporters - how humor is not always a great weapon against fascism and autocracy REFERENCES: Can Parents Prevent Their Sons From Sliding to the Right? In on the Joke: The Comedic Trick Trump Uses to Normalize His Behavior  Laugh Riot  Laughing All the Way to Autocracy  Join our Discord Server Leave a message at 202-999-3991 Produced by: Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft  Contact me directly at [email protected]  Review the show on Apple Podcasts!

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