r/Harmontown • u/lotsoflemons LiveStream Coordinator • Jun 05 '18

Video Available! Episode 289 Live Thread

Episode 289 - Live Thread

Video will start this Monday, June 4th, at approximately 8 PM PDT.

  • Eastern US: 11 PM
  • Central US: 10 PM
  • Mountain US: 9 PM
  • GMT / London UK: 4 AM (Monday Morning)
  • Sydney AU: 1 PM (Monday Afternoon)

We will have two threads for every episode: a live discussion thread for the video, and then a podcast thread once it drops on Wednesday afternoon.

Memberships are on sale now. Enjoy the live show!

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u/EmbracingHoffman Jun 05 '18

They're not. Reality television is cast by a casting agent and scripted. These are real human beings getting on stage.

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u/fraac ultimate empathist Jun 05 '18

So it's improv rather than scripted. Our relationship to them is still as characters not people. If they stopped entertaining you would stop watching.

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u/BaywatchNights Jun 06 '18

Watching you trying to figure out how life works is a unique blend of boring, infuriating, and mystifying.

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u/fraac ultimate empathist Jun 06 '18

Are you... a bot?

I was like "That's oddly acontextual. Who is this guy?"

All your comments are oddly acontextual. As my friend Marvin Gaye liked to say in situations really very similar to this, what's going on?

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u/lucidreamstate Jun 06 '18

As my friend the fictional character Marvin Gaye liked to say in situations really very similar to this, what's going on?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '18

You figured out the joke, good job.

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u/lucidreamstate Jun 06 '18

You A fictional character figured out the joke, good job.