1 00:00:00,020 --> 00:00:05,000 The comedy4cast Network. Let's dog ear that for now. 2 00:00:07,220 --> 00:00:13,760 Oh hi, Clinton here. Welcome to the Dog Days of Pumpkin Spice Season. 3 00:00:14,060 --> 00:00:20,520 Yes, August got away from me because life. So this is my unofficial extension of Dog Days. 4 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:25,240 For more information on that, go to dogdaysofpodcasting.com. 5 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:30,020 I always use Dog Days to give you 31 episodes full of some interesting, 6 00:00:30,300 --> 00:00:32,799 yet totally useless, odd news. 7 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,420 And this year, to celebrate the Platinum Anniversary of comedy4cast 8 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:42,900 or PAC for short, I'll end each Dog Days episode with part of a classic comedy4cast 9 00:00:43,500 --> 00:00:46,720 episode. So, let's get started with... 10 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,760 Odd News, PAC!Estonian 11 00:00:50,760 --> 00:00:55,360 theater Kinoteater recently staged one of the most unusual versions 12 00:00:55,360 --> 00:01:02,500 of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ever, featuring some unique performers in a most unusual setting. 13 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:07,040 Now, the story of Romeo and Juliet is a timeless tale of love, 14 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:09,440 loss, and fancy writing. 15 00:01:09,780 --> 00:01:15,260 Not unlike this show. Well, minus the love and the loss and the fancy writing. 16 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:19,000 But let's switch it up just for this story. 17 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:26,760 Wheresoever young lovers take brief pause before their sad parting does come 18 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:34,380 to pass, wishing time to motionless stand because quickly sand falls within the hourglass. 19 00:01:34,860 --> 00:01:38,040 This is the realm wherein our players live. 20 00:01:38,420 --> 00:01:43,680 Surrounded by revenge and fate unkind, two ill-starred lovers who choose to 21 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:48,040 forgive, sacrifice all to be still intertwined. 22 00:01:48,420 --> 00:01:52,840 But this Romeo and Juliet are contrary to the common subjects. 23 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:59,860 Conventions crash, replaced by Ambulet, as this telling becomes far more complex. 24 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:08,220 It ponders if sorrow is ours alone, or do passions stir outside our small zone. 25 00:02:08,699 --> 00:02:15,560 Perhaps. I beseech thee to look to the west, or east, It does truly depend upon 26 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:17,020 your location, does it not? 27 00:02:17,260 --> 00:02:22,919 In any wise, survey the horizon in search of Estonia, the great republic along 28 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:28,639 the Baltic Sea, birthplace of the ethereal ghost known to all simply as. 29 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:35,860 Skype. There, in a quest to see anew the bard's tale of two star-crossed lovers, 30 00:02:36,220 --> 00:02:41,820 a band of artists set their imagination to a region far beyond the bounds of 31 00:02:41,820 --> 00:02:46,580 any mere rectangular container made of cardboard. Why so? 32 00:02:46,980 --> 00:02:51,880 Mayhap said portmanteau was air-occupied by a tabby, or a tom, 33 00:02:52,180 --> 00:02:54,180 as is their mysterious want. 34 00:02:54,720 --> 00:03:00,440 Natheless, they hit upon the notion of using motorized vehicles as the performers 35 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,820 in an unprecedented production of this timeless tale. 36 00:03:05,180 --> 00:03:11,480 Truly a flash of inspiration, or is that glint simply the illumination of the check engine light? 37 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:16,860 Along the perimeter of, and within the confines of, the Rumma Quarry, 38 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:24,460 witness the unfolding romance betwixt Romeo ja Julia, or Romeo and Juliet, if you prefer, 39 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:29,580 wherein the experiences of Romeo Motorelli are viewed through the lens of a 40 00:03:29,580 --> 00:03:35,980 rally truck, and Juliet Carbaretti is portrayed by a red Ford Ranger 4x4 pickup, 41 00:03:36,340 --> 00:03:40,320 a reference not meant to besmirch the reputation of the fair maiden. 42 00:03:40,940 --> 00:03:46,120 Marvel at the duel between Mercutio and Tybalt Acted out by an excavator and 43 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:47,600 a truck-mounted hydraulic hammer, 44 00:03:47,820 --> 00:03:51,060 respectively Each swinging their armatures to 45 00:03:51,060 --> 00:03:56,380 and fro in a dance of metal and madness And we cannot forsake a mention of the 46 00:03:56,380 --> 00:04:00,640 other players on this stage of Earth and Rock Such as a semi-truck as Count 47 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:06,100 Paris A firetruck as Lord Carbaretti Samson in the form of a concrete mixer 48 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:08,220 and other manner of machinery, 49 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:15,740 both large and small, including city buses, a front loader, and an RC car. 50 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,360 Few words were spoken as we saw this unfold. 51 00:04:19,860 --> 00:04:25,100 The text was now a mighty engine's roar. Yet somehow still the tale was fully 52 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:29,060 told amid limestone on Rumma's quarry floor. 53 00:04:29,060 --> 00:04:34,560 A bold vision proving yet once again that love alone can melt hearts as cold 54 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:41,920 as steel, that endless feuds of so-called noblemen must yield when sits passion behind the wheel. 55 00:04:42,300 --> 00:04:50,600 Go hence, inform the world that fondness thrives within all things, a car, a truck, a bus. 56 00:04:50,940 --> 00:04:58,200 For we have seen that they surely have drives, and soon they will hunt down each one of us. 57 00:04:58,500 --> 00:05:04,600 For never clearer did our demise show than here with Juliet. 58 00:05:05,300 --> 00:05:06,540 And her Romeo. 59 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:16,880 And now, let's celebrate 20 years of comedy4cast with this classic clip. 60 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:24,760 In this clip, from January of 2008, I give some thoughts on the subject of coffee. Here's a sample. 61 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:32,460 I drink lots of coffee. To me, a cup of coffee is like a AA battery. 62 00:05:32,660 --> 00:05:35,660 It gets you going, but you really need two of them. or four. 63 00:05:35,980 --> 00:05:40,500 Yeah, four. So the cheaper, the better. Just like cheap AA batteries. 64 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,580 Ones with names like Leaky and Firestarter. 65 00:05:44,020 --> 00:05:49,240 Okay, maybe that's a bit off topic, but that's because I drink lots of coffee. 66 00:05:49,399 --> 00:05:53,460 I tried using one of those single cup coffee makers, but then I saw the size 67 00:05:53,460 --> 00:05:56,180 of the single cup they were talking about. 10 ounces. 68 00:05:57,060 --> 00:06:01,860 10 ounces? Please, I have a coffee mug at home the size of a kiddie pool. 69 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:03,300 It takes an hour and a half to 70 00:06:03,300 --> 00:06:07,160 fill, and by law, I'm required to have a lifeguard on duty when I use it. 71 00:06:07,940 --> 00:06:13,320 I drink lots of coffee. I went to a sandwich shop the other day just because 72 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:17,100 they had a sign outside that said, bottomless mug of coffee. 73 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:21,860 Bottomless? I said, just let me get my mouth under the thing and commence to 74 00:06:21,860 --> 00:06:24,860 pouring. And don't stop until my head explodes. 75 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:30,840 As a matter of fact, if they let you keep pouring while the ambulance is in motion, go for it. 76 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,840 I drink lots of coffee. 77 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,560 That about wraps it up for today's Odd News Pack. 78 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:43,420 But first, a shout out to the comedy4cast Patreon patrons, 79 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:48,480 including our producer-level patrons, Paul Barrie from the A Window to the Magic 80 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:53,660 podcast, and Kirby Bartlett-Sloan from the 20-megabyte Doctor Who podcast. 81 00:06:54,100 --> 00:06:59,060 You too can support comedy4cast and get episodes before everyone else for 82 00:06:59,060 --> 00:07:00,940 as little as two dollars a month. 83 00:07:01,180 --> 00:07:07,400 Just search for comedy4cast, all one word with the number 4, on patreon.com. 84 00:07:07,860 --> 00:07:15,220 Script, voices, and original music by me, Clinton Alvord, copyright 2025, all rights reserved. 85 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:19,620 Talk to you again next time, but for now, that's it. We're done, 86 00:07:19,700 --> 00:07:21,380 done, done, done, done. Bye-bye.