Balderdash Academy

In this episode of the Teacher's Lounge we take a trip to the Headmaster's office, Hear about Randy's new app, Learn about Caesar, Sit in on the book club, and attend Student Court.

Balderdash Academy: Teacher's Lounge features more relaxed bits that embrace our comedy improv roots. So kick back, relax, and have a laugh along with us in this podcast-only exclusive.

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Balderdash Academy: Teacher’s Lounge was produced and edited by Bob LeBlanc

Performed and written by

Copyright 2020 Robert J LeBlanc and Steve Corning. All rights reserved.

What do waffle irons, farm shares, and a bus pass have in common? They are all like sex. How? Watch and find out,in this bonus episode of Balderdash Academy.

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http://www.davidblairpoetry.com/

https://madhat-press.com/pages/david-blair?_pos=3&_sid=b5e37abed&_ss=r

Want to help Balderdash Academy? Purchase some of David’s books. Click on the Amazon Affiliate link below.

Ascension Days: https://amzn.to/3ix21jj

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See Bob’s “The Resurrectionists,” October 28 at  7:00 pm.

It’s a dark comedy where a pair of graverobbers discover that even the bad can do some good. It’s one of six plays being produced in The First Annual Firehouse Fright Night Festival. Tickets only $5

https://www.firehouse.org/event/firehouse-fright-night-festival-2/

“45 Plays for America’s First Ladies" by Chloe Johnston, Sharon Greene, Genevra Gallo-­Bayiates, Bilal Dardai, & Andy Bayiates. A biographical, meta-theatrical, genre-bending ride through race, gender, and everything else your history teacher never taught you about the founding of America.

Live Performances Oct 8th, 9th – 7:30 PM CST and Oct 11th – 2:00 PM CST

Or catch their recorded show: Oct 13th – Nov 2nd

Tickets are only $15 and the show is appropriate for high school-aged kids and up.

Find out more information at neofuturists.org

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Disclaimer: The following podcast was recorded on 16 July 2020 during the Coronavirus Pandemic. The performers and guests used whatever equipment they had on hand during the lockdown. Audio qualities may vary between performers.

Join us on October 5th when we welcome Visiting Professor David Blair. David is a Pittsburgh native and author of four books of poetry, Ascension Days, which was chosen by Thomas Lux for the Del Sol Poetry Prize, Arsonville, and Friends with Dogs. His fourth book of poetry, Barbarian Seasons, and his first collection of essays Walk Around: Essays about Poetry and Place are out now from MadHat Press.

We have it all in this episode. In the first installment, we learn our Word of the Day from Professor Molly McGill and learn about Pittsburg's greatest export in Four Questions. We talk to David about his writing, books, and his craft during the interview. Next, we learn about cyborgs from Professor Nate Greene. We learn why Daddy's always happy from Coach Steve Corning and see Professor Marie Stewart Harmon use her body and her props to try to help us guess a movie title. We end the episode with a recipe from Marie and the movies of Technically Correct.

It's a face-hurting episode that you don't want to miss.

EPISODE LINKS:

“The Defining Feature of George Romero’s Movies Wasn’t Their Zombies. It Was Their Brains.”

“ When There’s No Room in Hell: The Dead Will Walk the Earth“

THE ORIGINAL, BLEAKER ENDING

Katheryn Hollander interviewing David Blair

Marie at Dirigo Talent

"Daddy's always happy"

Captain Martin Crieff who?

Chia Pudding

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Watch the episodes on YouTube.

See Bob’s “The Resurrectionists,” October 28 at  7:00 pm.

"45 Plays for America's First Ladies" by Chloe Johnston, Sharon Greene, Genevra Gallo-­Bayiates, Bilal Dardai, & Andy Bayiates. A biographical, meta-theatrical, genre-bending ride through race, gender, and everything else your history teacher never taught you about the founding of America. Live Performances Oct 8th, 9th – 7:30 PM CST and Oct 11th – 2:00 PM CST or catch their recorded show: Oct 13th – Nov 2nd Tickets are only $15 and the show is appropriate for high school-aged kids and up.

Balderdash Academy Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/balderdashacademy

https://www.balderdashacademy.com/

Disclaimer: The following podcast was recorded on 16 July 2020 during the Coronavirus Pandemic. The p

When school is out our faculty plays.

In this episode, we hear pitches for new alternatives to curling stones, hear a moment of history about Alexander Dumas, prepare for the afternoon assembly, and interview candidates for our recently vacated equipment manager position, all on our new bonus show, Balderdash Academy: Teacher's Lounge.

When you know how to juggle knives, ride a unicycle, balance things on your face, lay on a bed of nails, Life with Me can really go to another level. Let’s see where Jason takes it on the next episode of Balderdash Academy.

#LifeWithMe #DatingMe

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See "The Naughty List" by our own Bob LeBlanc

See Bob’s “The Resurrectionists,” October 28 at  7:00 pm.

Music by ThinkFishTank: https://thinkfishtank.bandcamp.com/ & https://soundcloud.com/thinkfishtank

Support Balderdash Academy: https://anchor.fm/balderdashacademy/support

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Disclaimer: The following podcast was recorded on 9 July 2020 during the Coronavirus Pandemic. The performers and guests used whatever equipment they had on hand during the lockdown. Audio qualities may vary between performers.

Welcome our Visiting Professor, variety entertainer and electronic circus arts pioneer, Jason Tardy. He’s appeared on America’s Got Talent, CBS’s The Early Show, Inside Edition, and CBS Sunday Morning, and at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas, the Golden Phoenix Casino in Reno, and three times at the White House! He’s an innovator of the circus arts and a founding member of the internationally recognized electronic circus art duo, AudioBody.

The most impressive thing, however, is the fact that he appears regularly with our own Human Variety show Coach Steve Corning. I know! National television broadcasts, appearances at the White House, well-respected innovator in the circus arts aside, he performs with our very own coach!

Okay Coach, I added it, you can Venmo me the funds any time.

Jason was fantastic. What do you expect? He’s been performing since he was 15. He’s funny, engaging, and a heck of a Visiting Professor. Rumor has it breathes fire for us during the show!

Want to see the fire eating and breathing? The video will be released Tuesday, September 22nd at 3pm or follow our YouTube for details.

Balderdash Academy on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgYv-Wg0a9hSOLkCCje3WqA

Show Links:

“Halloween” by Robert Burns: http://www.mythicjourneys.org/mythkids_oct06_burns.html

We all Have a Story’s Interview with Bob: https://www.spreaker.com/user/therandyhunt/episode-2-bob-leblanc-entertainer-and-pl?utm_medium=widget&utm_source=user%3A12853957&utm_term=episode_title

Space Oddity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo

Pancake Frisbee: https://shop-time.net/the-pancake-frisbee/

Jeremy Lin’s Space Jam 3 Parody Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=359&v=FAy5Ms15YIM&feature=emb_logo

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https://jasontardy.com/

https://audiobody.com/

Audiobody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw8FFSCIx-w

World Record Attempts: https://www.youtube.com/user/i2ukus

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See "The Naughty List" by our own Bob LeBlanc

VIRTUAL 10 Minute Play Festival runs through September 30, 2020!

LEARN MORE → www.lakeshoreplayers.org/10mpf

BUY PASSES → https://bit.ly/10MPFTix

Music by ThinkFishTank: https://thinkfishtank.bandcamp.com/ & https://soundcloud.com/thinkfishtank

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Disclaimer: The following podcast was recorded on 8 July 2020 during the Coronavirus Pandemic. The performers and guests used whatever equipment they had on hand during the lockdown. Audio qualities may vary between performers.

We play Life With Me and the Balderdash Randomizer returned the subject of Dating. Do you know what that means? If you have ever taken a date to a buffet or to surgery, you’ll want to watch this bonus episode. We might have even spun the Randomizer twice! (SPOILER: we did and it came back with fan-favorite Sex With Me.)

Okay, those were pretty obscure. How about this? If you’ve ever been on an escalator or rollercoaster while eating salad then have sex with me at Balderdash Academy. BINGO! Boom. These practically write themselves. Watch it all go down on this BONUS episode of Balderdash Academy with Shawn French, video-game writer, and designer for Hyperkinetic Studios, lead writer of the RPG Epic Tavern, and writer/creator of Murder on the Midway for the Tales app, writer/co-creator of the comic book series Escape from Jesus Island, and the writer/director of the horror flick The Wrong House.

Shawn’s episode was particularly tight, so this is it for bonus material for the week. There will be a new video Friday when we get a sneak peek into next week’s Visiting Professor, variety entertainer Jason Tardy.

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The Wrong House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Ode1VMMx0

https://www.amazon.com/Wrong-House-ELite-Entertainment-Slingshot/dp/B00UGPZ5RC

Escape from Jesus Island: https://jesusisland.com/

Tales App: https://taleswriter.com/

Epic Tavern: https://www.epictaverngame.com/

Welcome, Visiting Professor Shawn French. Shawn is a video-game writer and designer for Hyperkinetic Studios, lead writer of the RPG Epic Tavern, and writer/creator of Murder on the Midway for the Tales app. Shawn was hilarious in this episode, which makes sense. Before finding his home in games, he paid the bills as a stand-up comic and comedy writer, sports journalist and videographer, and film critic. Shawn is the writer/co-creator of the comic book series Escape from Jesus Island, and the writer/director of the horror flick The Wrong House.  

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The Wrong House and on Amazon

Escape from Jesus Island

Tales

Epic Tavern  

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See "The Naughty List" by our own Bob LeBlanc VIRTUAL 10 Minute Play Festival runs through September!  

Music by ThinkFishTank: Bandcamp Soundcloud

Balderdash Academy Merchandise

Why have just one version After Hours  LIFE WITH ME? Let’s pull out all the stops and go on Vacation and eat toast, go to Work and file stuff, and hey, try living with me while dating me during a zombie apocalypse. Next, find out what Bob is drinking. After that, try not to space out when you need to check your math to make sure Nate’s not lying. Did that sentence work? It had a lot of forced references. Look, in short, did Nate go to Space Camp? All on this bonus episode of Balderdash Academy.

Balderdash Academy welcomes Emmy Award-winning anchor, singer, trombonist, hiker, vegan, and man-who-missed-his-comedy-calling, Jeff Peterson of WGME CBS 13 News, Portland and WPFO FOX23. Jeff took the time to stay up late and join us for a night of comedy as our Visiting Professor.

Seriously, this man should be on stage. He was quick with the one-liners, ribbed our Headmaster like a pro (we all do), and laughed hard along with the rest of the faculty. If this whole 30-year, Emmy Award-winning Journalism thing doesn't work out, he has a home Yes-Anding with us at the Academy.

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See "The Naughty List" by our own Bob LeBlanc

VIRTUAL 10 Minute Play Festival started this Friday, July 3rd!

LEARN MORE → www.lakeshoreplayers.org/10mpf

BUY PASSES → https://bit.ly/10MPFTix

Music by ThinkFishTank: https://thinkfishtank.bandcamp.com/ & https://soundcloud.com/thinkfishtank

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Disclaimer: The following podcast was recorded on 24 June 2020 during the Coronavirus Pandemic. The performers and guests used whatever equipment they had on hand during the lockdown. Audio qualities may vary between performers.