Dead Authors Podcast - L. Ron Hubbard 

It literally should win an award for the most brilliant comedic acting ever. Andy Daly he used to be my neighbor is just beyond brilliant in this mixing in these hilarious things that are 100% true with his reactions and quick comebacks it just incredible

I would put episode 1 of the ADPPP right up there too.

best comedic performance of the last trillion years, certainly since earth got renamed from teegeeack.

It's an at-least yearly thing for me, usually when Scientology pops up in the news (thanks, linkin park) and i need to find some funny in all the awful crap.

Once you start researching L. Ron Hubbard you simply can't stop. He was jaw-droppingly bonkers. And audacious.

can we have #1 and #2?

I did

@@brazenbunniesI didn’t find out about it till now (7/25/24). Not sure if AS-L ever posted about this, but I’m extremely grateful to the person who posted the link in AS-L’s comments section that led me here. HILARIOUS. Thank you!

In PFT's defence on the gay thing, HG Wells was famously libertine regarding sex and relationships, firmly believing that monogamy was unnatural, in the equality of women and men in social and sexual spheres and so forth, so the idea that a H.G Wells that had spent any time in the modern era would consider homosexuality normal, is not unreasonable. I know that wasn't the actual reason for the reaction and it probably was just modern sensibilities reasserting themselves but as I say it's not actually totally out of character. But you are absolutely right on the Ackerman line, unfortunately I think he just lost the thread of the sentence half-way through and rather than push through just let it fizzle out. I also think while yes a master class by Daly on truth and fiction and the benefits of going big in improv, I think the way PFT asks follow-ups on things like "Do you remember the crash on Venus that broke your back?" or "Was there a ceremony in making you a Condor Scout?" are great questions in that they show trust in Daly to be able to work with them as prompts and expand on them in very funny moments, that would have been lost if they were allowed to be just skipped over.

Casual homophobia is okay if you compare it to being left-handed

After decades of PFT's improv tyranny, we common people have finally been provided with the incisive tool necessary to bring down his reign of terror: the nitpicking critique of some jackass on the internet.

​@@amandadube156 as a left handed person, not comparable.

​​@@TheAwnman that's very interesting, although I've read most of his books, I can't say that I know anything about HG the man. I'll definitely read more about him. - ok, he was a socialist, so I can appreciate the art, but despise the artist. 😊