The comedy4cast Network. Let's dog ear that for now.
Oh hi, Clinton here. Welcome to the Dog Days of Pumpkin Spice Season.
Yes, August got away from me because life. So this is my unofficial extension of Dog Days.
For more information on that, go to dogdaysofpodcasting.com.
I always use Dog Days to give you 31 episodes full of some interesting,
yet totally useless, odd news.
And this year, to celebrate the Platinum Anniversary of comedy4cast
or PAC for short, I'll end each Dog Days episode with part of a classic comedy4cast
episode. So, let's get started with...
Odd News, PAC!Estonian
theater Kinoteater recently staged one of the most unusual versions
of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ever, featuring some unique performers in a most unusual setting.
Now, the story of Romeo and Juliet is a timeless tale of love,
loss, and fancy writing.
Not unlike this show. Well, minus the love and the loss and the fancy writing.
But let's switch it up just for this story.
Wheresoever young lovers take brief pause before their sad parting does come
to pass, wishing time to motionless stand because quickly sand falls within the hourglass.
This is the realm wherein our players live.
Surrounded by revenge and fate unkind, two ill-starred lovers who choose to
forgive, sacrifice all to be still intertwined.
But this Romeo and Juliet are contrary to the common subjects.
Conventions crash, replaced by Ambulet, as this telling becomes far more complex.
It ponders if sorrow is ours alone, or do passions stir outside our small zone.
Perhaps. I beseech thee to look to the west, or east, It does truly depend upon
your location, does it not?
In any wise, survey the horizon in search of Estonia, the great republic along
the Baltic Sea, birthplace of the ethereal ghost known to all simply as.
Skype. There, in a quest to see anew the bard's tale of two star-crossed lovers,
a band of artists set their imagination to a region far beyond the bounds of
any mere rectangular container made of cardboard. Why so?
Mayhap said portmanteau was air-occupied by a tabby, or a tom,
as is their mysterious want.
Natheless, they hit upon the notion of using motorized vehicles as the performers
in an unprecedented production of this timeless tale.
Truly a flash of inspiration, or is that glint simply the illumination of the check engine light?
Along the perimeter of, and within the confines of, the Rumma Quarry,
witness the unfolding romance betwixt Romeo ja Julia, or Romeo and Juliet, if you prefer,
wherein the experiences of Romeo Motorelli are viewed through the lens of a
rally truck, and Juliet Carbaretti is portrayed by a red Ford Ranger 4x4 pickup,
a reference not meant to besmirch the reputation of the fair maiden.
Marvel at the duel between Mercutio and Tybalt Acted out by an excavator and
a truck-mounted hydraulic hammer,
respectively Each swinging their armatures to
and fro in a dance of metal and madness And we cannot forsake a mention of the
other players on this stage of Earth and Rock Such as a semi-truck as Count
Paris A firetruck as Lord Carbaretti Samson in the form of a concrete mixer
and other manner of machinery,
both large and small, including city buses, a front loader, and an RC car.
Few words were spoken as we saw this unfold.
The text was now a mighty engine's roar. Yet somehow still the tale was fully
told amid limestone on Rumma's quarry floor.
A bold vision proving yet once again that love alone can melt hearts as cold
as steel, that endless feuds of so-called noblemen must yield when sits passion behind the wheel.
Go hence, inform the world that fondness thrives within all things, a car, a truck, a bus.
For we have seen that they surely have drives, and soon they will hunt down each one of us.
For never clearer did our demise show than here with Juliet.
And her Romeo.
And now, let's celebrate 20 years of comedy4cast with this classic clip.
In this clip, from January of 2008, I give some thoughts on the subject of coffee. Here's a sample.
I drink lots of coffee. To me, a cup of coffee is like a AA battery.
It gets you going, but you really need two of them. or four.
Yeah, four. So the cheaper, the better. Just like cheap AA batteries.
Ones with names like Leaky and Firestarter.
Okay, maybe that's a bit off topic, but that's because I drink lots of coffee.
I tried using one of those single cup coffee makers, but then I saw the size
of the single cup they were talking about. 10 ounces.
10 ounces? Please, I have a coffee mug at home the size of a kiddie pool.
It takes an hour and a half to
fill, and by law, I'm required to have a lifeguard on duty when I use it.
I drink lots of coffee. I went to a sandwich shop the other day just because
they had a sign outside that said, bottomless mug of coffee.
Bottomless? I said, just let me get my mouth under the thing and commence to
pouring. And don't stop until my head explodes.
As a matter of fact, if they let you keep pouring while the ambulance is in motion, go for it.
I drink lots of coffee.
That about wraps it up for today's Odd News Pack.
But first, a shout out to the comedy4cast Patreon patrons,
including our producer-level patrons, Paul Barrie from the A Window to the Magic
podcast, and Kirby Bartlett-Sloan from the 20-megabyte Doctor Who podcast.
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Script, voices, and original music by me, Clinton Alvord, copyright 2025, all rights reserved.
Talk to you again next time, but for now, that's it. We're done,
done, done, done, done. Bye-bye.