Podcast: Absurd Humor - Peter J. Manos: Recent Episodes

Peter J. Manos

You know how hard it is to get good advice if you’ve ever faced an indifferent life guard when you complained of an octopus in the public pool; if you’ve ever accidentally sprayed your face with gold paint and were afraid of being mistaken for a false idol; or if your husband failed to notice that you’d replaced yourself with a manikin. These and other common problems are addressed in Dear Babalu: Letters to an Advice Columnist by Peter J. Manos, illustrated by Toby Liebowitz.

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One of the best books on writing I have read is Leigh Michaels' On Writing Romance; How to Craft a Novel that Sells. The writer of this letter to Babalu should read it.

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Little Suzie-Q is a pretty good surgeon, but she's in trouble now.

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Falling in love at breakfast.

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Hope for this writer?

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A boy writes to Babalu about his sister.

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The host is at a loss with his current guest.

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Would you go into that room?

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An odd creature washes its hair in a stream in the woods.

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Taking off from Oklahoma, but ending where?

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We're talking aliens here, of course.

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One has some sympathy for a witch faced with this particular child.

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Surrounded, a man waits alone in a dark house.

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When the storytellers are weirder than the extraterrestrial.

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In the early 1960's Topo Gigio, a mouse puppet character famous in Italy, Spain, and Brazil,  appeared as a guest on the Ed Sullivan variety show. Here his grandson is interviewed. Don't forget this is a podcast of absurd humor.

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An interview

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It can't hurt to have nice ones.

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You can become one if you follow the instructions.

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A few chirps--interpreted.

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Terrorized by bathroom humor.

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Mr. Plutocrazney awakens

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Arkady Plutocrazney gives martial arts advice.

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Advice from a man who knows. Knows what, you ask.

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How one man reminds himself that dry shoes are good for his health.

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What happened to television sit coms.

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One chicken farmer's extremely humane way of killing chickens.

No cruelty whatsoever involved. Should be a model forchicken farmers everywhere.

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Each floater is a billboard.

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Aliens who abducted a power lifter were gentle.

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The school for childhood mountaineering sounds tough.

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Botanical revenge

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Girl doesn't laugh at his jokes and it bothers him.

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Ice cubes are the answer.

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Desperate man robbing candy stores

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tattoos to make his act classier?

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Her husband tries to have her committed.

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A man's wife is bewildered by the happenings.

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There's little to do down in the bunker.

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Man's wife starts painting black pentagons on the walls.

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Saguaro likes Marty Robbins

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The inspector who investigates is not what he should be.

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Secret society of masochists.

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Neighbor insults neighbor with high tech methods.

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Whistle wart souflage?

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There's a big pink spot there now.

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Practical proof of mindfulness.

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Oddball puts up political posters in the office, but people don't like it.

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She puts her clients in touch with kings or ordinary relatives.

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The tough candies have multiple potential uses.

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Father complains of fish in the water system.

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There are only pre-owned cars

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Perhaps the person's breakfast is responsible.

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Everyone in Paris wants to see this cat.

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Gecko-like.

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Instead of gonging it goes "shame! shame! shame!"

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He only publishes classics like Farewell to Prawns

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Babalu advises title change.

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But down in his bunker there's little to do.

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Various approaches to eliminating dog dander are offered.

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His owner doesn't appreciated the writing.

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Patron cannot stop drinking coffee.

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Girlfriend worries a little about boyfriend's snakes.

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Nobody comments on the what the writer has written.

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Controlling one's breath can be hard.

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Can any good come from a jungle in back of the house?

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Babalu teaches beginning channeling.

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Babalu has a solution.

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It's because they're cursed.

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An visit to an asteroid by a dog wouldn't be all that pleasant.

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Unusual tax shelters

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People worshipping him push him into the punch bowl at parties.

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Boyfriend thinks the questions are easy.

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Father is sad his son can't pursue his dream.

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Young woman sees roomate reach into a bowl of cereal grasping at her ideal man in miniature.

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Man who'd been bitten by an octopus when he was ten, unhappy to see one in the pool.

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The piano tuner regular performs an exorcism which seems to help.

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Teen has microchip implanted in his brain and acts differenly.

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Babalu advises they eat sittng on the floor.

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Portraits of pituitary with child; adrenals at the seashore.

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Several hypotheses are offered as well as advice on how not to be abducted.

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Venture capitalists uninterested in a product only professional wrestlers may use.

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LIttle brother wants the name of a game a girl won't like.

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She's a pretty good surgeon for her age.

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What can she do to stop his bad language.

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How to get revenge with style.

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Does this sound like Melville?

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Father-to-be asks for advice naming his children.

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Gecko-like aliens abducted a power lifter.

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A writer objects to advice being given in verse.

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An alien is denied purchase of a handgun because the wig he wears is a different shade of blond that the one on his ID.

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When a boy asks what pizzicato means, his father tells him it's a pizza for a cat.

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Woman reads boyfriend's email and is shocked.

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A husband seems frighteningly familiar with the ingredients for a witch's brew.

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He borrowed it to make his party extra bright, but the next day it was gone.

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Math teacher asks Babalu how to get colleagues to help.

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Abducted man on alien ship is afraid to be mistaken as a person who eats lizards.

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One cat is fluff. One is ferocious.

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Man's in laws are giants and very sensitive about it.

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Babalu uses analogies to explain quantum mechanics to the insomniac.

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She asks for advice on making the home safe for her children.