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Our Visiting Professor for December is Ben Ramaeka, you’ve seen him on the final season of Broad City, Amazon Prime's Alpha House, The Iliza Schlesinger Sketch show on Netflix or in The Wolf Of Wall Street. Ben is a New England-raised graduate of the University Of Vermont. Then moved to New York City to attend the Actors Studio MFA program. He was a longtime improviser and teacher at UCB in New York City. He can be seen and heard on your tv, streaming services, and in commercials and voiceovers and currently calls Brooklyn his home. In this episode we play a game4 from our past, answer four questions about The Wolf of Wall Street, and we get a special game from Coach Steve.

Please Give this Holiday Season

The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services: https://www.raicestexas.org

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Show links

3D Burrito https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnR98JjRrII

Head to Head Competitive Trivia https://www.balderdashacademy.com/headtohead

The faculty and Allen Adams play Sex With Me to close out the show!

Our visiting professor today is Allen Adams. Allen is the editor and lead culture critic for The Maine Edge, an arts/entertainment weekly based in Bangor. He reviews films, books, plays and TV shows; he also writes about sports, local business and whatever else is of interest. He’s a Tomatometer-approved film critic and member of the National Book Critics Circle as well as a featured critic on LitHub's Book Marks site. He is the co-founder of The Focus Group, an improv troupe based in Bangor, and the curator of the ImprovME Festival. Allen can also be found regularly as a featured player at Penobscot Theatre Company, the Northeasternmost professional theatre company in the United States; He’s been a professional actor for almost 25 years now.

Get into the fun by submitting topics for us to riff on in our bonus episodes. Use the form and, if selected, we’ll use your idea in the show. If your topic is selected, you’ll be entered to win a special tee-shirt from our school store.

Learn more about Haunt ME

Watch and subscribe to their YouTube channel.

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Our visiting professor today is Allen Adams. Allen is the editor and lead culture critic for The Maine Edge, an arts/entertainment weekly based in Bangor. He reviews films, books, plays and TV shows; he also writes about sports, local business and whatever else is of interest. He’s a Tomatometer-approved film critic and member of the National Book Critics Circle as well as a featured critic on LitHub's Book Marks site. He is the co-founder of The Focus Group, an improv troupe based in Bangor, and the curator of the ImprovME Festival. Allen can also be found regularly as a featured player at Penobscot Theatre Company, the Northeasternmost professional theatre company in the United States; He’s been a professional actor for almost 25 years now.

PART 1

Avengers: The Complete Works: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/marvel-announces-william-shakespeares-avengers-the-complete-works/1100-6489218/

Cary Elwes on Andre's Farts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x7WGKtbUJY

James Conrad's Holy Shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHJ-GDKxo7c

Kevin Jones's World's Longest Ace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WP3UbT8w

What Shakespeare's English Sounded Like - and how we know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeW1eV7Oc5A

Music by ThinkFishTank: https://thinkfishtank.bandcamp.com/ & https://soundcloud.com/thinkfishtank Show your school pride: https://www.balderdashacademy.com/store Check out Balderdash Academy's Teacher's Lounge: https://www.balderdashacademy.com/teacherslounge

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There is a disturbance at the new store downtown and the BCPD are on the scene, kinda.

Balderdash Academy's Teacher's Lounge is available on your favorite podcast service.

https://www.balderdashacademy.com/teacherslounge

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Balderdash Academy: Teacher’s Lounge was produced and edited by Bob LeBlanc. Theme Music by ThinkFishTank.  Performed and written by Randy Hunt, Bob LeBlanc, Molly McGill, and Marie Stewart Harmon.

Copyright 2021 Balderdash Academy. All rights reserved.

The faculty and the Haunt ME crew play Sex With Me to close out the show!

Get into the fun by submitting topics for us to riff on in our bonus episodes. Use the form and, if selected, we’ll use your idea in the show. If your topic is selected, you’ll be entered to win a special tee-shirt from our school store.

Learn more about Haunt ME

Watch and subscribe to their YouTube channel.

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Our visiting professors today are Carol Cleveland, Ty Gowen, and Anna Halloran of Maine’s award-winning web series Haunt ME. They explore the legends and lore of the great state of Maine and beyond. Carol Cleveland, Ty Gowen, and Anna Halloran journey to uncover the ghostly secrets of the unknown and share them with viewers throughout seven seasons of investigations. Links to all of their work are in the description. They invite you to tune in and explore the best paranormal locations with the team and decide for yourself: is it haunted or not?

Learn more about Haunt ME

Watch and subscribe to their YouTube channel.

Professor CarlaRose Dubois at Kristen Wigg's birthday party.

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Your favorite clueless DJ from Balder 97.5 is back. Join Flip Axeman as he interviews former porn star-turned rock hero, Red Stallion.

Balderdash Academy's Teacher's Lounge is available on your favorite podcast service.

https://www.balderdashacademy.com/teacherslounge

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Balderdash Academy: Teacher’s Lounge was produced and edited by Bob LeBlanc. Theme Music by ThinkFishTank.  Performed and written by Nate Greene, Randy Hunt, Bob LeBlanc, and Molly McGill.

Copyright 2021 Balderdash Academy. All rights reserved.

See? We do listen to our fans. We got rid of the rest of the Life With Me lineup to go back to where it all began. We play Sex With Me to close out our first show of the season!

Get into the fun by submitting topics for us to riff on in our bonus episodes. Use the form and, if selected, we’ll use your idea in the show. If your topic is selected, you’ll be entered to win a special tee-shirt from our school store.

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Renee S DeCamillis online: https://reneesdecamillis.com/  

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

©2021 Balderdash Academy.

There's a disturbance in Balderdash County. A strange man in striped clothing has been seen loitering in the village. The BCPD are on the case.  

Balderdash Academy's Teacher's Lounge is available on your favorite podcast service.  

https://www.balderdashacademy.com/teacherslounge

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Balderdash Academy: Teacher’s Lounge was produced and edited by Bob LeBlanc. Theme Music by ThinkFishTank.  Performed and written by Nate Greene, Randy Hunt, Bob LeBlanc, and Marie Stewart Harmon.  

Copyright 2021 Balderdash Academy. All rights reserved.

We're back with Season 2! Our Visiting Professor Renee S. Decamillis is the author of the psychological thriller/supernatural horror novella The Bone Cutters, published through Eraserhead Press. The sequel to The Bone Cutters is in the works, with a publication date TBD. Renee’s short fiction appears in the Wicked Women anthology of New England Horror Writers from NEHW Press, Northern Frights: The Journal of Horror Writers of Maine: Issue 2.5, Lost; Deadman’s Tome: The Conspiracy Issue, Siren’s Call eZine Issue 37, The Other Stories Podcast. Her poetry appears in The Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase Volume FOUR. She has her first comic book forthcoming through Phi3 Comics, with a publication date TBD. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association, HWA. Fun fact, she is also a former gravedigger so she can get rid of a body fast without leaving a trace, and is not afraid of getting her hands dirty. Renee lives in the woods of Maine with her husband, their son, and a house full of ghosts. We're sure she didn't have any involvement in making the ghosts.

Learn more about Renee.

Read her work.

Toto's Africa, in Africa