HoopleCast: An IntroCast For HBO's Deadwood

Episode Eleven. If you're in the mood for crass sexposition, Deadwood's first blowjob monologue rears its :ahem: head. Stealing all our hoecakes is Will* from the What We Make, Down Below and Sense8 podcasts. Jewel ambulates across camp to acquire a bionic limb... Charlie makes friends as fire marshal... Deadwood appoints its first sheriff... Sol helps Trixie un-obstruct her cherry... E.B. dampens some potatoes... Al reveals his Dickensian backstory. ... Also, Alex argues that "the knights of the washtub" are charging too muchee for washee. (* Bring back our hoecakes, you long-tailed nanny-o!) | Send feedback to hooplecast@gmail.com. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded June 28, 2015. Released July 4, 2015. [Warning: Explicit Language.]

Episode Ten. Cait Lin of The Twin Peaks Podcast and Intro to Brisco helps us navigate the murky (bath)waters of Deadwood's racial divide. Two white dope fiends have robbed and murdered a Chinese courier, leaving Al and Wu to solve a sociopolitical math problem... The peace treaty with the heathens has led to overcrowding at breakfast... The door is shut to the titty-licker... The Man in Black becomes Al's wacky lackey... Reverend Smith out-ambulates Merrick... The hoopleheads contemplate becoming cannibals by proxy... Watch out for splinters! ... Also, Tammy is at the mercy of the "almond-eyed sons of daughters of the Flowery Kingdom" and their awful offal. | Send feedback to hooplecast@gmail.com. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded June 14, 2015. Released June 20, 2015. [Warning: Explicit Language.]

Episode Nine. The "Salma" shipping train is leaving the station, but is the legendary Nuchtchas of Long Island on board?? Johnny impresses with his initiative... Charlie feels self-conscious about his attire... Al rejects the beverages of the Bella Union... The reverend's eyes play tug of war... Jane holds up a building... An ad hoc municipal organization is created--but, STOP EVERYTHING--the new piano's here! ... Also, HoopleCast theme composer Chris warns us not to touch the accursed cup, lest we fill the drunkard's grave. | Send feedback to hooplecast@gmail.com. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded May 31, 2015. Released June 3, 2015. [Warning: Explicit Language.]

Episode Eight. Robin of The iZombie Podcast and The Defenders Podcast lends much needed levity to this brutal episode in which a beady-eyed ferret becomes late night vittles for Mister Wu's pigs. ... Trixie goes missing, and a hoarse Johnny teaches us the geometry of her snatch... Flora moves the dyke... The orphan squarehead finally reveals her name... Cy offers Joanie a longer leash... And the fellas of this podcast end up on Mel's shit list. (We deserved it.) | Send feedback to hooplecast@gmail.com. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded May 16, 2015. Released May 19, 2015. [Warning: Explicit Language.]

Episode Seven. With the Jack McCall business settled, Bullock returns to the camp in an aptly titled episode. Emily of the Yes, Mother podcast stops by and teaches us her jive-talkin forehead-related street slang. ... Veronica Mars beguiles a creepy Dan Dorrity. ... The reverend presides over a long anticipated funeral. ... We get our first event of the Deadwood Olympics. (Hint: It involves titty-licking.). ... We scrutinize a certain actor's abilities, yet again, in everyone's favorite recurring segment. ... Also, Nuchtchas tells us what happens on Saturday evenings in Deadwood circa 1877. (Dearest Hoopleheads, we welcome all comers, no matter how many buttons on your coats and frocks.) | Send feedback to hooplecast@gmail.com. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded May 3, 2015. Released May 8, 2015. [Warning: Explicit Language.]

Episode Six. Help yourselves to some canned peaches and another installment of HoopleCast, brought to you free gratis. Doctor Moira brings all the Pox Facts as we discuss "Plague." (Moira claims smallpox is not spread by genetically modified bees. Is she part of the conspiracy?!) Seth gets in a wee bit of a tussle with a native... Alma acts the widow randy, but fails to seduce the gentleman Farnum... The reverend smells burnt toast... Our Matt is perplexed by Yip Yips... A new series comes to PBS: Milliner and Haberdasher, Attorneys at Law. ... Also, Stephanie tells us about some Pest House shennigans. | Send feedback to hooplecast@gmail.com. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded April 19, 2015. Released April 23, 2015. [Warning: Explicit Language.]

Episode Five. What's better than an envelope of human hair? A new installment of HoopleCast! Technology was a cocksucker this week, so emergency guest Cory stops by to participate in some riveting courtroom drama. A rage-filled Seth Bullock delights our Mel... Al and Dan polish off their Statler and Waldorf impersonations... Soapy is way inappropriate... Jane becomes an ornithologist... Alma drinks tea... Other stuff happened... Also, Moira reads us the verdict in the McCall case and laments the burial of Wild Bill. Important Announcement: We're auditioning for a new cohost because Matt H dies of the plague by the end of this recording. | Send feedback to hooplecast@gmail.com. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded April 4. Released April 7. [Warning: Explicit Language.]

Episode Five. What's better than an envelope of human hair? A new installment of HoopleCast! Technology was a cocksucker this week, so emergency guest Cory stops by to participate in some riveting courtroom drama. A rage-filled Seth Bullock delights our Mel... Al and Dan perfect their Statler and Waldorf impersonations... Soapy is way inappropriate... Jane becomes an ornithologist... Alma drinks tea... Other stuff happened. ... Also, Moira reads us the verdict in the McCall case and laments the burial of Wild Bill. Important Announcement: We're auditioning for a new cohost because Matt H dies of the plague by the end of this recording. | Send feedback to hooplecast@gmail.com. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded April 4, 2015. Released April 7, 2015. [Warning: Explicit Language.]

Episode Four. Harold is our guest for this game-changing episode in which an act of kindness leads to a dark result. Alma is reunited with Brom and monologues her backstory... Ellsworth tells Dan the secret to long life... Wild Bill writes a letter to his darling Agnes... Noodle Girl and The Man-Eating Chicken are Alive! Alive! Alive!... The drama comes to a head and hereafter, Deadwood is known as Crazy Town... Also, Robin's multiple personality disorder is put to good use as he reads to us advertisements from August, 1876 and July, 1877. | Send feedback to hooplecast@gmail.com. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded March 22. Released March 25. [Warning: Explicit Language.]

Episode Four. Harold is our guest for this game-changing episode in which an act of kindness leads to a dark result. Alma is reunited with Brom and monologues her backstory... Ellsworth tells Dan the secret to long life... Wild Bill writes a letter to his darling Agnes... Noodle Girl and The Man-Eating Chicken are Alive! Alive! Alive!... The drama comes to a head and hereafter, Deadwood is known as Crazy Town. ... Also, Robin's multiple personality disorder is put to good use as he reads to us advertisements from August, 1876 and July, 1877. | Send feedback to hooplecast@gmail.com. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded March 22, 2015. Released March 25, 2015. [Warning: Explicit Language.]

Episode Three. Nuchtchas, our Lord and Savior from The Nutty Bites Podcast, assists us in reconnoitering a particularly perilous rim. There's a traitor in Al's midst... Jane is a total Tina Belcher and writes erotic friend fiction... Seth is a premature lumberer... Bill meets his number one fan (psst! he's craaazy!)... Brom takes a tumble... And the great Woodchuck-Beaver War of 1876 begins in earnest. ... Also, the effulgent Claire amuses us with the anecdotes of a 19th century confectioner. | Send feedback to hooplecast@gmail.com. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded March 8, 2015. Released March 12, 2015. [Warning: Explicit Language.]

Episode Three. Nuchtchas, our Lord and Savior from The Nutty Bites Podcast, assists us in reconnoitering a particularly perilous rim. There's a traitor in Al's midst... Jane is a total Tina Belcher and writes erotic friend fiction... Seth is a premature lumberer... Bill meets his number one fan (psst! he's craaazy!)... Brom takes a tumble... And the great Woodchuck-Beaver War of 1876 begins in earnest. ... Also, the effulgent Claire amuses us with the anecdotes of a 19th century confectioner. | Send feedback to hooplecast@gmail.com. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded March 8, 2015. Released March 12, 2015. [Warning: Explicit Language.]

Episode Two. Stephanie Smith of PotentialCast joins us to discuss "Deep Water" an episode featuring gross people doing gross things, like urinating in chamber pots, urinating in chaps, urinating on the sides of buildings... It's altogether disgusting. So, naturally our podcast devolves into a discussion of condoms (informative!) and colonoscopies (not informative), but not before we address the heart-warming tale of a saloon keeper who plots to murder a little orphan girl. ... Also, Alirio tells us about "the dwarfed and fast deteriorating savage" in our first installment of Readers Theatre. | Send feedback to hooplecast@gmail.com. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded February 22, 2015. Released February 25, 2015. [Warning: Explicit Language.]

Episode Two. Stephanie of PotentialCast joins us to discuss "Deep Water" an episode featuring gross people doing gross things, like urinating in chamber pots, urinating in chaps, urinating on the sides of buildings... It's altogether disgusting. So, naturally our podcast devolves into a discussion of condoms (informative!) and colonoscopies (not informative), but not before we address the heart-warming tale of a saloon keeper who plots to murder a little orphan girl. ... Also, Alirio tells us about "the dwarfed and fast deteriorating savage" in our first installment of Readers Theatre. | Send feedback to hooplecast@gmail.com. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded February 22, 2015. Released February 25, 2015. [Warning: Explicit Language.]

Episode One. Part 1 of 2. It's finally here. The pilot episode of Deadwood. Carol, Matt H & Mel are escorted through the outlaw camp by veteran viewer Matt A. We meet ex-Marshall Seth Bullock and his business partner, Sol Star... legends Calamity Jane & Wild Bill Hickok... nefarious saloon proprietor Al Swearengen, plus his various whores and goons... There's also a dandy, an addict, a too-earnest reverend, and a drunk with a droopy eye who remains unimpressed. Deals are made. Schemes are hatched. Folks are hanged, stabbed, shot, hacked and spread around... some are even fed to pigs. Shit, man. It's fucking Deadwood and it can be combative. | Thanks to everyone who sent in feedback for our first episode, and sincere and heartfelt gratitude to Chris JC for our original theme music. Send feedback to hooplecast@gmail.com. Find our recording schedule, show notes, discussion threads, and more at hooplecast.com. | Recorded February 8, 2015. Released February 13, 2015. [Warning: Explicit Language.]