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Cum Town Podcast

Started by Large Noise, July 08, 2016, 12:14:34 AM

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Schnapple

I blow hot and cold with this podcast, but aside from their interest in button-pushing, Mullen is absolutely incomparable to Opie. The latter is a miserable tit lacking in depth and self-awareness, whereas Nick is genuinely funny and obviously just an engaged person fed up with almost everything, himself included.

Sin Agog

Quote from: Hank Venture on July 18, 2018, 03:04:52 PM
^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lDkJahcarY
^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvlj_JX_rSw

Opie is just a miserable old "the blacks should pull up their pants" guy. No self awareness whatsoever.

Nick dismissing stand up as "just a shitty alternative to bowling" says a lot.

I think that's Ant you're talking about.  Opie is more of a "the blacks should write me funny lines to say on mic and let me take the credit" kind of guy.

Speaking of, Nick's recent half-hearted battle with the Opie & Anthony sub-reddit was kind of amusing.  Though it was quoting the last episode, all about the Small Penis, Big Problems reddit page, that actually got me to make my dad laugh for the first time in months.  I'm almost thinking about introducing him to the pod as he's an old-school Sadowitz fan, but I'm not sure I can be asked explaining to him what a podcast is first.

amputeeporn

Still 100% onboard with this.

I don't see where the at-right thing comes from? Because they joke about it? They are all very obviously left wing dudes who will say anything to make each other laugh. Not sure I've mentioned this in-thread before but Mullen used to post on the Doug Stanhope forums when he was a kid (He was v funny and I used to google his name every so often for years after the site got unplugged, because I knew he'd do something).

What's undeniable is how wired he is for comedy. I've had hot streaks, particularly with good friends where the chemistry's established, but the stuff he can pull out of thin air on a daily basis is glorious - and in world where I've become less and less interested in comedy, Cum Town makes me laugh every day, occasionally to dangerous levels.

Z

I'd say Mullen has, on some level, a very high empathy streak tbh. Pretty much all the time when he's going on about some ludicrously grim person he found on youtube or w/e, a good deal of focus will be on what it must be like to be that person; there seems to be a sincere attempt to understand them.
He's a total misanthrope though.


These days I'm stunned I thought Stav was a low key douche for ages. I think it's the general all-male regressive camaraderie that the show works off is just ground that (it feels like) the alt right took over but I think Cum Town is different in that very very little of it is driven by hatred and bitterness towards the things they're laughing about.

Hank Venture

Quote from: Sin Agog on July 18, 2018, 06:56:46 PM
I think that's Ant you're talking about.  Opie is more of a "the blacks should write me funny lines to say on mic and let me take the credit" kind of guy.

Yes, that's the one. Never listened to them apart from clips on YouTube with Bill Burr and Patrice Oneal.

newbridge

I listened to O&A every day for several years (a long time ago) and I honestly can't recall Opie saying one funny thing. That's not an exaggeration for effect.

Hank Venture

Quote from: amputeeporn on July 18, 2018, 10:33:36 PM

What's undeniable is how wired he is for comedy. I've had hot streaks, particularly with good friends where the chemistry's established, but the stuff he can pull out of thin air on a daily basis is glorious - and in world where I've become less and less interested in comedy, Cum Town makes me laugh every day, occasionally to dangerous levels.

Yes, it is actually fascinating how nonchalantly he'll just riff something out that's insanely funny on a consistent basis. I'd also agree with him being a cynical misanthrope with finely tuned social antennas. I think he's read as alt-right by people who mistake his cynicism when it comes to bullshit surrounding the online left, and I say that because I'm aware I give off the same vibe. There are a lot of shameless opportunists latching on to the resurgence of leftist politics online, and ruthlessly exposing them can come across as alt-right. The thing is, though, that he does the exact same thing to the alt-right opportunists, and he embraces leftist economic policies every time he speaks candidly about politics. Stav and Adam does to. All of them voted for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently, for instance. Or at least Stav did.

whatever man shits boring who cares



non capisco

I ditched Cum Town at some point last year as it started getting on my nerves a bit but all the talk on this thread persuaded me to pick up where I left off. I'm happy to say I was nearly incapacitated with laughter today at an ostensibly feeble but somehow hilarious Nick Mullen riff with him just singing the theme from the Pokemon cartoon in a ridiculous falsetto with improvised lyrics about the Pokemon cartoon being all about fucking your own dad. "Pokemon! It's a show about fucking your dad! I know you think it's about animals but the truth is there's a bunch of subliminal messages that tell you to fuck your daaaaaaad! Except the theme song, the theme song is pretty explicit. You are supposed to fuck your dad after you watch the shooowwwww! Fuck your dad!" The wording "you are supposed to" had me helpless.

So I suppose I'm back in then, with about 40 episodes of this to listen to. I dunno if that much misanthropy might break my brain, it's a bit more of an undertaking than 40 episodes of, say, Athletico Mince. And also I dunno if like me you sometimes 'ghost hear' your text message/WhatsApp phone noise when you're half asleep because you're so used to it. I reckon listening to nothing but 40 episodes of Cum Town in a short space of time I'll start 'ghost hearing' Stav's cackle.

Is Adam the modern day Syd Little? Relentlessly bullied, adds virtually nothing.

hedgehog90

I dip in and out but I'm not familiar with that one.
(I want to hear the pokemon fuck-your-dad song)
Episode number?

non capisco

It's ep 71. Hope I haven't spoiled the impact by quoting it in full. So gleefully stupid though. "You are supposed to fuck your dad..." for crying out loud.

Pseudopath

Or you can listen to it here if you're lazy: https://youtu.be/JNFMUL5jOj8

alan nagsworth

I also ducked out for a while because the Adam stuff was getting boring, but I came back to it recently and was pleased that it had toned back down. The episode (105) where they spend the duration writing a fictionalised biopic about Chris Benoit's downfall was unbearably funny, and it just kept on going. The shit about Neil DeGrasse Tyson raping Benoit's wife during her college years, fucking hell.

Hank Venture

Quote from: alan nagsworth on July 20, 2018, 12:22:15 AM
I also ducked out for a while because the Adam stuff was getting boring, but I came back to it recently and was pleased that it had toned back down. The episode (105) where they spend the duration writing a fictionalised biopic about Chris Benoit's downfall was unbearably funny, and it just kept on going. The shit about Neil DeGrasse Tyson raping Benoit's wife during her college years, fucking hell.

You should watch this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cumtown/comments/8o1bkr/his_ears_start_ringing_and_hes_zoning_out/

iamcoop

Quote from: alan nagsworth on July 20, 2018, 12:22:15 AM
I also ducked out for a while because the Adam stuff was getting boring, but I came back to it recently and was pleased that it had toned back down. The episode (105) where they spend the duration writing a fictionalised biopic about Chris Benoit's downfall was unbearably funny, and it just kept on going. The shit about Neil DeGrasse Tyson raping Benoit's wife during her college years, fucking hell.

They seem to noticeably oscillate now with the Adam baiting so any episode that's just them slagging him off tends to follow with an episode where they're nice to him and actually treat him like a friend. I don't think he cares that much. The only time it ever seemed to get a bit nasty was a while ago when Adam told some joke which no one really laughed at and Nick went "yeah you've been trying to get that bit going for a while now" and sort of casually dismissed his stand up which seemed a bit harsh and it seemed to genuinely hurt Adam a bit.

Ironically Adam is easily the most accomplished stand-up out of the three, all stand up I've seen from Nick has on the whole been a bit shit.

hedgehog90

I like Adam, but I saw a clip of his stand up once and it was not good... Not that I could do any better, but compared to Nick, pure shite.

Hank Venture

Anyone who thinks Nick is just an Anthony Cumia clone should listen to the two last episodes. He's not doing very well, I think.

up_the_hampipe

I love Nick's impression of Jordan Peterson.

Quote from: alan nagsworth on July 20, 2018, 12:22:15 AM
I also ducked out for a while because the Adam stuff was getting boring, but I came back to it recently and was pleased that it had toned back down. The episode (105) where they spend the duration writing a fictionalised biopic about Chris Benoit's downfall was unbearably funny, and it just kept on going. The shit about Neil DeGrasse Tyson raping Benoit's wife during her college years, fucking hell.

This sounds great. Ima go listen.

Sin Agog

Quote from: Hank Venture on July 24, 2018, 10:14:22 PM
Anyone who thinks Nick is just an Anthony Cumia clone should listen to the two last episodes. He's not doing very well, I think.

To be fair, that doesn't leave much of a dent in that comparison.

These last two depression episodes have been weirdly riveting.  I hope he reads this post and carries on feeling like shit so he can keep up the good work.

Chollis

Just recently got into this, I've only listened to Tae Bo, Forbidden Zone and the Chris Benoit one. Fucking hilarious.

Any more recommended episodes or should I just start from the beginning?

Jerzy Bondov

Stav cackling as his friend dies in front of him is very funny to me.

Schnapple

Quote from: Hank Venture on July 24, 2018, 10:14:22 PM
Anyone who thinks Nick is just an Anthony Cumia clone should listen to the two last episodes. He's not doing very well, I think.

Yeah, anyone who thinks Nick is 'alt-right' or a troll, etc. would surely be disproven by the recent episode. I actually like it when they get a little more introspective, it makes it extra funny when they inevitably say something insincerely horrendous minutes later, but also because it's interesting. But I understand Nick's reluctance to do so, although yes, I think the sheer weight of the world is weighing down on him a bit. If he happens to read this on a narcissistic, coke-fuelled binge, I just wanna say: Hey Nick, you're alright mate.

Sin Agog

The second half of the last Patreon episode did counter a few of the criticisms here: he says his latest bout of depression is largely due to the fans mustering up a posse to go after almost anyone the pod happens to mention.  Must be a weird one for Nick as, however puerile the pod might appear, he regularly donates to the ACLU and it's as much about trying to salvage free speech, in a totally non-partisan way, as sucking your dad's dick.  But then the flipside of that are the antagonistic simpletons who glom onto the pod without seeing any of the nuance whatsoever and use it as an opportunity to fuck with random internetters' lives.  So Nick's put in the position of making hundreds of thousands from a pod that's genuinely hurting some people.  Unlike someone like Stav, who might appear more classically liberal on the surface, he's clearly not got the kind of personality that can just shrug that shit off, so he just ends up plunged in a horrific funk instead.  I mean, he sounded like someone podcasting from a hospital bed in the last episode.  I know it's creepy being that invested in a podcast(er), but this is why I get so pissed off when people just shrug him off as a 4channer.  Even Mr. Rogers probably inadvertently had a run-on effect that somehow ruined at least one person's life, but he went to sleep soundly at night, but the Cumia-clone 4channer racist homophobe is beating himself up for weeks on end.

Hank Venture

The fact Nick wrote on the n-word bit in the Sacha Baron Cohen bit is incredible. He's listes as a «consultant».

PlasticTom

That was great to hear. I wonder who reached out to him / is aware of him?


Sin Agog

Whereas Adam came up with Sacha's southern redneck accent.

kitsofan34

Does Nick Mullen really have herpes?