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9 Chickweed Rage

By: Jeff Drake Brooke Dillman
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  • In 1993, Brooke McEldowney began writing and drawing the newspaper comic strip 9 Chickweed Lane. Nearly 30 years later, it's still going strong. For some dumb reason, Brooke Dillman and Jeff Drake read the comic strip, even though it only makes them angry. This is their podcast, certainly one of the worst ideas for a podcast ever: a podcast about a newspaper comic strip that (as far as they know) no one reads. This is 9 CHICKWEED RAGE.
    © 2024 Jeff Drake and Brooke Dillman
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Episodes
  • 036: I've Never Seen So Many Binoculars

    036: I've Never Seen So Many Binoculars
    Jul 2 2024
    Somehow, we limit ourselves to only five strips this episode. Seems impossible, but we actually did it. Brooke (Dillman) found a short run on one topic that, while only five-strips in length, carried all the fury-inducing content of a dozen or more ordinary strips. The journey begins with Ginger (Xiulan's friend whom we met at Xiulan's wedding to Hugh) and Gerald (the guy from the wedding she's now apparently involved with), who is apparently her boss. She seduces him on his own desk and Xiulan walks in on them, informing them that all of the people in the building next door are watching them with binoculars. Neither of them has so much as unbuttoned one button, so they're as covered up as can be, but somehow this behavior is enough to encourage dozens of people to get their binoculars out of their desks (naturally, I suppose?) so they can watch them. Everything gets kicked up a notch when Edda and Amos try to introduce Fleurrie and Sven to Xiulan and Hugh. The simple introduction of couples results immediately in Fleurrie and Xiulan simultaneously sticking their tongues out at each other. Fleurrie adds, while she does so, "Mine's bigger," referring obviously to the size of her husband. Sven then asks Fleurrie about what he thought he heard her say, which was "mine's's bigger," which of course makes no sense and no one would ever say. Fleurrie assures him it was only a typo and the editor caught it. Sven is stunned to discover they have an editor (as are we), so stunned in fact that his eyes point in two different directions. Xiulan then sends a question to Uncle Ethel (Thorax), asking for clarification the apostrophe's in the word "mine's's" which she claims to have heard used recently. But of course no one said "mine's's" around her at all. She types her question to Uncle Ethel on her computer and he responds immediately from his manual typewriter, sending back a single character, which is either a comma or an apostrophe. Neither would work as a punchline, of course, and neither really makes any sense. But that's par for the course in a run of strips where two people talk about a contraction that literally no one said. I mean, what the fuck? The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode: You can find all of the strips either on Twitter by clicking here (https://x.com/9chickweedRAGE/status/1807883380593512962), or on Instagram by clicking here (https://www.instagram.com/p/C85RK2DyoHG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link). This episode, which is bigger than mine's's, includes: The NEETs (https://fortune.com/2024/06/21/gen-z-neets-not-in-employment-education-or-training/) of the younger generation Yodel the cat Yodeling Whales aren't fish Brisket the dog The Green Egg (https://biggreenegg.com/why-buy-a-big-green-egg/?id=google18&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BigGreenEggBrand&utm_content=436967191188&utm_term=the%20green%20egg&utm_term=the%20green%20egg&utm_campaign=Big+Green+Egg+Brand+-+Sierra+Select+Cluster&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=3353618191&hsa_cam=10107530771&hsa_grp=107069594528&hsa_ad=436967191188&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-2078791122&hsa_kw=the%20green%20egg&hsa_mt=e&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwhIS0BhBqEiwADAUhcyqPoImZ3V8ki3MCHqSD482c7ClAgljhA5nPFfSwG4ebHo-hS2Wb5xoC5I4QAvD_BwE) Are banks companies? Dorothy Parker Bill spikes Little House on the Prairie Lashings Wimpy will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68eue5cpbsE) today Rat mites Double entendres Binoculars Voyeurism Talk to Us! Having trouble understanding what's going on in a 9 Chickweed Lane strip you just read? Send it our way! We'll take a shot at interpreting it for you! Or maybe you just want someone to talk to? We're on Twitter: @9ChickweedRAGE (https://twitter.com/9chickweedRAGE). And we're on Instagram: @9ChickweedRage (https://www.instagram.com/9chickweedrage/).
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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • 035: 45 Tablespoons Northeast of Surly

    035: 45 Tablespoons Northeast of Surly
    Jun 6 2024
    As it turns out, Juliette is a professor. But she's more than that, she's also a total asshole. She treats the new Visiting Assistant Professor -- or Vizassprof -- horribly, all for our entertainment! Because what's more fun than evergreen jokes about the upper echelons of academia? Nothing, if you ask ol' Brooke Mac-El-Dee. Here we get a solid ten-strip run of nothing but professorial hilarity, as a Vizassprof named Britneigh (spelled that way for literally no reason), comes to Juliette for advice? We can only guess that's what originally compelled her. Of course, Juliette is immediately a cunt to her, but then also has no physical boundaries with her and definitely crosses some professional lines. She touches her chin lightly, she grabs her by the shoulder and pulls her super close, she hugs her unexpectedly, and then brings up ear nibbling out of nowhere. Were this a male-female dynamic, no one would doubt that the professor was trying to viz this prof's ass. Zing! Good one, Jeff & Brooke! Mr. Mac-El-Dee has a lot, we mean A LOT, of thoughts about the underwear worn by female professors. But of course it's hard to tell whether his understanding of women's underthings is any more advanced than the understanding of a nine-year-old boy. After all, he uses the phrase "two-piece tiger thong," which is, in itself, nonsensical. But that's just par for the course here, guys. Just more of his typical bullshit. The Chickweed strips we discuss this episode: You can find all of the strips either on Twitter by clicking here (https://x.com/9chickweedRAGE/status/1798521840144707874), or on Instagram by clicking here (https://www.instagram.com/p/C72uylPPawp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==). This two-piece thonged episode includes: High school reunion Glass straws Diet Coke Sneezing Chicken N Pickle (https://chickennpickle.com/) Running in hot weather "Pegging the red" "Rocket Man" by Elton John France / Speaking French Turtlenecks! The end of 2001: A Space Odyssey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGQ6B0RNSG4) Septic tanks Underwire bras Crab-claw hands Red Lobster Smocks Automats McEldowney ellipsis Jungle Animal Underwear Turtlenecks Kung Fu (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7YDcLP2DeY) starring David Carradine Talk to Us! Having trouble understanding what's going on in a 9 Chickweed Lane strip you just read? Send it our way! We'll take a shot at interpreting it for you! Or maybe you just want someone to talk to? We're on Twitter: @9ChickweedRAGE (https://twitter.com/9chickweedRAGE). And we're on Instagram: @9ChickweedRage (https://www.instagram.com/9chickweedrage/).
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    1 hr and 30 mins
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