Is This Pinball?

Weekly podcast discussing the issues of today, namely: Is this pinball? Is this not pinball? How pinball is it?

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I don't know. But when sixty pages fly by that are condensed into half of a reprise, you have to wonder why what gets added gets added.

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Javert is even more pathetic in the novel than in the musical, and that's nice.

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Which is fine, if it's public domain do whatever you want, but also--if you're going to take the time to adapt the thing you might as well do the best job you can. Is this that? Is Les Mis the musical the best Les Mis the musical we could possibly have?

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Of course it makes the moment richer, less pat, and of course the novel is in all ways superior, but how are you going to come back from your protagonist robbing a child in the first ten minutes of a musical? I guess trust the audience, but that's not inherent to the medium.

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Alright, well, the show's about to start back up and I've been reading Les Miserables, so let's talk about that.

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So, Valjean took the silver and experienced his catastrophe. Worth noting that he robs a ten year old boy between the Bishop "buying" his soul and the conversion that becomes "Who Am I?" in the musical.

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Trailer for the new Ghostbusters had exactly no jokes in it.

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Now he's eating Plato's Symposium

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three month old puppy is furiously trying to tweet alphanumeric gibberish from the laptop. Not on my fucking w`at2ch5hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
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At day job: This sucks. I wish I got paid to do theater.
At paid theater gig: This sucks. I wish I got paid to get drunk.
At paid theater gig where I get drunk onstage: I swear to god, if I have dance again after pounding this forty, I'm gonna be too sick to whip my dick out.

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@williewaldwell Do they offer any rare figures that aren't the floor? Can I find that weird Trump that looks like Hillary from right after the election?

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Every time I find an article defending The Taming of the Shrew it turns out to have been written by a Catholic priest or, like, a guy that died of old age in the 1930's

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Oh, yeah, we're still doing the podcast and it's still nominally about pinball. Listen to it. I'm not gonna link it, you get it.