Dicktown’s John Hodgman Says Posting Wordle Ratings Is Love Whistling

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The first component it’s miles a need to-possess to know about the FXX intelligent series Dicktown is that it’s brimming with nonsense and ridiculousness. The disguise follows a extinct famous person boy detective turned much less-impressive adult John Hunchman, carried out by author, comic and podcast host John Hodgman. In every episode, Hunchman and his extinct highschool archnemesis turned friend David Purefoy, carried out by comic and cartoonist David Rees, solve a mystery in their fatherland of Richardsville, North Carolina, which is nicknamed Dicktown.

The next component it’s miles a need to-possess to know about Dicktown is that the mysteries are as silly as they’re satisfying. Each and each episode’s title, love The Thriller of the Lacking Pimento Cheese Recipe or The Thriller of the Marauding Mascot, reflects the moderately straightforward task the 2 detectives need to unravel. But it’s Hunchman and Purefoy’s system and the inevitable boundaries they suffer that kind Dicktown a accurate gem.

The closing component it’s miles a need to-possess to know about Dicktown is that it’s made by Floyd Studios, which is in the reduction of the series Archer. Dicktown’s intelligent model attracts on ’80s cartoons love Scooby-Doo, Inspector Gadget and Hazard Mouse. I luxuriate in that Hunchman and Purefoy are drawn to gaze comparable to the categorical Hodgman and Rees.

Lucky for me Hodgman became my guest on CNET’s I’m So Obsessed podcast to chat about all issues connected to Dicktown. And as mighty as the disguise aspects Hodgman and Rees as a duo, there are some fabulous other folks serving to them out.

“It be no longer upright me and David Rees. Now we possess acquired Stephen Tobolowsky in here taking half in my dad. Kristen Schaal comes reduction in season 2 as Kendra the psychic. Jean Grae, my dear friend and an occasional guest bailiff and impossible polymathic artist, comes reduction as Monica cosplaying educated. Amy Sedaris is in this season. Jamie Lee Curtis is in this season,” talked about Hodgman. “There’s upright an incredibly talented sigh forged. Paul F. Tompkins and Janie Haddad Tompkins. We acquired to work with all of our chums, and they’re furthermore full of life.”

Contemporary episodes of Dicktown are out on Thursday nights on FXX, and you would possibly maybe well be in a feature to acknowledge the most important season as smartly as any on hand episodes for season 2 on Hulu. Listen to my full interview with Hodgman in the podcast player at the head of this article. He talks no longer simplest about Dicktown nonetheless furthermore his life as a podcast misleading preserve, what his extinct Each day Show disguise personality the Deranged Millionaire will be up to and the intention a lesson he realized from the enhance mic operator on Apple’s Mac and PC TV adverts applies to Wordle.

“To me, it [Wordle] comes down to the insight that became afforded to me by the enhance microphone operator on the sector of the Apple adverts. At some point I became whistling between takes. I became whistling a sexy tune, some roughly diddy. I whistle completely. And he talked about — he came down between takes and he talked about, ‘You already know, John, the component about whistling is the most efficient person that enjoys whistling is the one who’s whistling,'” talked about Hodgman. “It be very accurate whether it’s miles your job to possess me to your ears all day lengthy. I judge that sharing the Wordle ranking is a shrimp bit bit love whistling. But the fact is every person will get to whistle.”

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