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In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped the island of Elba, where he was exiled, and marched through France toward Paris, slowly but inexorably gaining soldiers and supporters with each passing day. Though his most powerful royalist enemies doubted him, even threatened him, they all eventually joined him as he walked through the capital. In August of 2018, Karl Rudeen finally broke the wills of the hosts of Free the Show, and was also banned to a small island to think about what he did. But slowly, inexorably, he marched back to Brooklyn, an army at his back as he crossed the bridge to land in Brooklyn Heights, turning generals to his cause on Tillary Street, marching then down Myrtle Avenue, until he reached Clinton Hill, and there reclaimed his seat in the studio of Free the Show.

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It’s the drug craze that’s tearing through the nation like a pot-addled teen opening a baggie of kind. Will and Jimmy decided to see what the fuss behind CBD is about. It turns out it’s the non-psychoactive component of cannabis that promotes tension and pain reduction. The boys settle in for a very calm round of the Leonard Maltin Game.

Listen to Episode 210

Will and Jimmy are personal assistants to some of the biggest male stars over forty, don’t you know? We call some restaurants and try to get reservations for tonight for some of our clients like Laurence Fishburne, William Shatner, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. We want to get these old boys a little peace and quiet and some fondue on a Sunday night, is that a crime in 2018?

Listen to Episode 209

Hospital waiting rooms are among the most stressful places to pass time on this god-damned planet Earth. No one wants to be there. Everyone hurts, in big or small ways. But when two men, fated to cross paths in a Fargo-season-one kinda way, meet and swap stories in this particular waiting room… well let’s just say it’s a podcast episode we’re not even sure we can bring you without getting in trouble with the police.

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The premise for this episode is that Will, one of the hosts of Free the Show, is in the closet for the whole episode. Not figuratively, it’s not some dumb joke. There is a closet right next to where Will and Jimmy record, and Will went inside of it and they recorded the podcast like that. Once again, after 200-plus episodes, the boundaries for sonic entertainment are still being pushed.

Listen to Episode 207

Once again, it is late October, and on Free the Show, we’re pretty keen on celebrating the holidays, no matter how trite and tired certain tropes might be. To wit - everyone knows what happens on Halloween, and yet here we are again bonding over an open fire, singing carols and exchanging gifts with loved ones, and it always manages to feel fresh and pure once again. Maybe it’s that untouched blanket of snow on the ground that purges any impurities away from our rotten souls. Merry Halloween, listeners, and to all a good night.

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As you know, Free the Show could not bring you the kind of groundbreaking and innovative content we do without the support of listeners like you. As we simply must once every year, we are taking this week off our normal content to spend an hour with you talking about why we need money from you. Give us any kind of money. Big money, small money, green money, gold money, funny money, dirty money, blood money, piss money, shit money, fart money, et cetera. We’d just like you to give us money is all.

Listen to Episode 205

Ba da ba ba baaah. It’s McDonald’s Time. Did you read that first sentence in sing-song, without even needing a primer to know it’s the McDonald’s jingle? Followed of course by we’re pretty sure the famous McDonald’s slogan? Well that’s because the marketing industry has so deeply laid its hooks into the American psyche that were subconsciously subordinate to our corporate masters. And we’re only pretty sure that’s the McDonald’s slogan cause Will and Jimmy forgot all the slogans. So they call some companies to try and remember.

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Y’all remember John Ambrosio, and his band Long Neck, and how they are a touring rock band that we have covered on this podcast before? Well, success has not yet eroded John’s ability to connect with the little people, and after returning from a 34 day tour across America, he returns to Clinton Hill to face the music and hear some more jokes at the expense of his appearance. Once again, the hook: Listen to find out if he got any road StRaNge.

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A nicely paced, well-executed monoscene about a man who escaped from a cult interviewing for a job at a juice company. This is enough of a description to hook the listener.

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