Spencer Crittenden

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  1. Object Permanence & ADHD

    Jun 11

    Object Permanence & ADHD

    This week we've got a surprisingly lengthy debate about what "pomp without circumstance" actually means. (Spoiler: it's absurdity. The Spleen has strong feelings about this.) From there we spiral into our wheelhouse: the discourse around Graham Plattner's apparent fascist-adjacent situation and what it says about Maine's famously unclassifiable political identity, why the "this is not who we are" crowd are doing everyone a disservice, and how understanding why people become Nazis (racism, it turns out.. not that complicated) can actually reduce your emotional suffering. Spencer also revisits the 9/11-as-unique-tragedy conversation and makes the argument that Americans' inability to see their suffering as part of a global pattern has caused enormous downstream damage. We also cover: TikTok's hidden "Farlands", a creepy unlisted corner of AI-generated nightmare content that is somehow better than normal AI output; why AI might actually be most useful when it's making deeply disturbing uncanny valley content rather than generic slop; the depressing lifecycle of corporate loyalty and how Spencer's manager's lifelong single-employer career might explain an entire dysfunctional workplace. We also discuss loneliness, the ADHD "object permanence for people" problem, and solving every problem alone since childhood. We read listener mail, including heartfelt thanks, an emergency pants-exchange situation involving a missing house key, and the extremely fair note that Spencer spiraling about the podcast being bad is the only part of the podcast that's actually bad. We close, as always, with a word from our "sponsors": a very detailed, very earnest advertisement about pelvic floor dysfunction that Spencer found on TikTok and decided all of you needed to experience. You're welcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 18m
  2. Part Two: The Second American Civil War You Never Learned About

    04/23/2020

    Part Two: The Second American Civil War You Never Learned About

    Robert is joined by Spencer Crittenden to continue to discuss The Battle of Blair Mountain. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    1 hr
  3. Part One: The Second American Civil War You Never Learned About

    04/21/2020

    Part One: The Second American Civil War You Never Learned About

    Robert is joined by Spencer Crittenden to discuss The Battle of Blair Mountain. FOOTNOTES: The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America's Largest Labor Uprising ‘Rape Rooms’: How West Virginia Women Paid Off Coal Company Debts New Evidence for the Gutman-Hill Debate What was the Esau scrip? “Store Pay Is Our Ruin”: The Tyranny of the Company Store Mountaineer Mine Wars The Coal Mining Massacre America Forgot The Devil Is Here in These Hills Underground Coal Mine Disasters 1900 - 2010 Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    1h 4m
  4. Anime Binge Club: FLCL Episodes 3 & 4

    Jun 4

    Anime Binge Club: FLCL Episodes 3 & 4

    Spencer opens by casually mentioning that Spenpai is stuck in mandatory HR training after some "incidents," which is a sentence that raises more questions than it answers. Spencer soldiers on with Kevin, and the show kicks off with him describing in visceral, increasingly disturbing detail how he sliced his thumb open while cutting a Costco rotisserie chicken with entirely the wrong knife. Just when you think the medical drama is over, Spencer reveals he then contracted shingles, which he has traced directly to a catastrophically awkward lunch that sent him spiraling for three straight days. He makes a compelling case that social anxiety can, in fact, cause viral flare-ups. Between doctor's notes and nerve pain, Spencer has apparently been home watching anime, and boy does he have thoughts. He gives enthusiastic breakdowns of Beastars (anime for furries where a wolf has complicated feelings about a rabbit) and Orb: On the Movements of the Earth (anime where people get executed for looking at stars), before we dig into FLCL episodes three and four. Kevin and Spencer discuss cat ears, school plays, parental affairs, robots that need to use the bathroom, the Eva parallels, and what it all means about being a teenager who suspects adults are frauds. We round things out with a breathless recap of the Arlong Park arc of One Piece, which somehow involves a fish man pulling out his own teeth, a woman stealing everyone's wallets, and a coward setting someone on fire with rubbing alcohol. It all makes sense, somehow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 19m
  5. Sperm Count

    09/09/2015

    Sperm Count

    Kumail returns! The Lil' Cuties drop by, Harmon questions his sperm count and MORE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    2h 13m
  6. Row, Row, Row Your Boat

    06/17/2015

    Row, Row, Row Your Boat

    In what has become an instant classic episode of Harmontown, Mayor Harmon is joined by Paget Brewster, Curtis Armstrong, Jeff Davis, Erin McGathy, Spencer Crittenden, Demorge Brown and more for a non-stop insane episode. Watch the video at Harmontown.c... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 57m
  7. Twenty Sides of Booty

    11/22/2018

    Twenty Sides of Booty

    Dan and Spencer swap roles, with Dan taking the role of Dungeon Master. Spencer auto-tunes himself, becoming a robot from a magical land. Jeff immerses himself in a Vietnam era character. Featuring Dan Harmon, Jeff Bryan Davis and Spencer Crittenden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    2h 3m
  8. AWWW

    08/25/2015

    AWWW

    As we learned last week, the movie Boat Trip is insane, and a surprise drop in from Horatio Sanz discusses just how strange working on it really was. Later, the audiences awwws. Watch the video at harmontown.com/live! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    2h 8m
  9. Where My Technochromes At?

    06/09/2015

    Where My Technochromes At?

    Dan can see more colors than the average person and doesn't care because colors are dumb. Curtis Armstrong comptrolls. Watch the live video at harmontown.com/live! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    2h 1m
  10. Tylenol With Codeine (9.17.12)

    09/28/2012

    Tylenol With Codeine (9.17.12)

    The first appearance of Greg Proops provokes a fit of Mayor Harmon's pointless political rants and a D&D adventure that shall forever be remembered as involving unicorn pee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 34m
  11. Am I a Bad Person? Did I Not Have Lunch?

    May 28

    Am I a Bad Person? Did I Not Have Lunch?

    We kick things off by accidentally introducing the wrong show, arguing about Bonnie Tyler lyrics, and discovering that turning away from the camera reveals a wall-to-wall penny situation nobody knew was there. From there, things get real fast. Spencer is having kind of a rough go of it: missing his ex, stuck on video game programming, smoking too much weed to feel high anymore, but finds unexpected joy in the philosophical similarities between Minecraft and coding. The conversation meanders through THAC0 (the famously cursed old Dungeons & Dragons combat mechanic), the surprisingly cherry-forward nature of Mr. Pibb, Kevin's deeply controversial love of RC Cola, and a Diablo 4-branded Fanta that Spencer considers one of the great sodas of our time. We also wade into the current state of society: the FBI finding reports "credible" while nobody does anything about it, data centers making people on Threads suspicious for reasons that make no sense, the Goonbug mobile game phenomenon and the observation that the American Dream has quietly pivoted from "be a doctor" to "get hit by a truck for a settlement." Spencer also delivers a passionate sermon about labor vs. ideas, and the whole thing wraps up with an AI-generated email reply, a fantastic Hulk Hogan impression, and Spencer encouraging listeners to run him over with their cars as a form of support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 21m
  12. Examine Before You Fight (9.4.12)

    09/14/2012

    Examine Before You Fight (9.4.12)

    A discussion of the clarinet and nine eleven is briefly interrupted by an amazing D&D adventure before proceeding into an indictment of the Hugo Awards and concluding with a demonstration of how hard it is to conclude. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 33m
  13. FlagCop

    08/25/2014

    FlagCop

    Mayor Harmon is possibly a bit jealous of Spencer and Real Abed's budding friendship, and later we welcome Demorge Brown to the mix which spawns a TV pilot pitch, "FlagCop". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    2h 4m
  14. It's Not Personal, It's Business

    02/24/2014

    It's Not Personal, It's Business

    Mayor Harmon becomes label mates with Ice-T, which spurs Comptroller Jeff Davis into having Dan rattle off all his impressions. Mitch Hurwitz joins the group and when Spencer is out for the week, an abstract game of D&D ensues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 59m
  15. You Got That Baby To Tell The Truth

    08/02/2018

    You Got That Baby To Tell The Truth

    Dan, Jeff, Spencer, Brandon, Schrab and Steve all try to get to the bottom of some deep Harmontown mysteries. Is Spencer’s desk backwards? What does Steve Levy do with silly putty? Can Schrab reboot Sanford and Son? Featuring Dan Harmon, Brandon Johnson, Spencer Crittenden, Jeff Bryan Davis, Rob Schrab and Steve Levy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 52m
  16. While in Stealth Mode Press ‘X’ to Kiss Your Wife

    08/12/2015

    While in Stealth Mode Press ‘X’ to Kiss Your Wife

    Erin is out of the country and Harmon is playing a lot of video games and has strong opinions on them. Ryan Ridley comptrolls and the guys from Before You Were Funny make Harmon read one of his earliest short stories. Watch the video at harmontown.com/... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    2h 5m
  17. We Will Be There To Service The Aquarium

    11/03/2015

    We Will Be There To Service The Aquarium

    Back by popular demand, Rob Schrab returns to the show even to Harmon's detriment. Watch the video at harmontown.com/live! Become a member! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    2h 6m
  18. Language is Thought and Spiders are Black People

    05/13/2013

    Language is Thought and Spiders are Black People

    An all around provocapalooza surrounding language, race, religion, science, bugs, moms and fake dinosaurs. In D&D, the characters awake in Ye Olde Arena Milieu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 52m
  19. Crazy Gums

    11/26/2015

    Crazy Gums

    Thomas Middleditch joins Harmontown for some full body scrubbing, Shadow Run and possibly some deeply offensiveness. Watch the video at harmontown.com/live! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    2h 5m
  20. Taye Brigston, the Littlest Show Promoter

    07/07/2015

    Taye Brigston, the Littlest Show Promoter

    Meet Taye Brigston the world's Littlest Show Promoter of Tiny You! Become a member and watch the video! harmontown.com/live Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    1h 56m
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