Episode 171: Death to Ziggy

Newspaper comics are going to be a focal point of this here episode. Not to sound like an old man making complaints on behalf of past old men, but the funnies are an experience that's been a bit lost to the sands of time. At one point, the entire nation woke up and not only read a newspaper, but chuckled along at the comics page. Can you imagine? For one, can you imagine everyone reading newspapers every day? Hell, can you imagine everyone being interested in learning anything? Actually, can you imagine everyone taking the time to do something enriching with their morning rather than housing a coffee and wolf down some lousy food while you marinate in dread? Were things actually always like, or were people back in the 80s eating one of those giant feasts from the "balanced breakfast" photos? It's hard to say. Well, I guess we all have bigger problems right now.One of everyone's favorites- a three man/two topic episode. We attempt to atone by catching up on listener emails then building a tier list of all the most famous newspaper funnies. Somehow, this takes well over an hour. Then, for our two Guys, we have an ancient mathematician with a bunch of weird ideas about jacking off and beans, and a man who figured out an inventive way to get out from under his mortgage payments.Comic Funnies Tier List - 00:19:59Pythagoras - 01:34:49Dunstan Low - 01:54:44