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as a featured weekly news segment. Many of the tracks on the album feature the radio hosts introducing each song; also there is the audible trademark Bob and Tom laughter on the tracks dubbed as the "On-Air" versions. At the end of the album, the duo placed the studio version of most of the tracks as
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was released. This album features their fan favorite, and often live concert closing track "The Captain's Wife's Lament" as well as other fan favorites such as "Count to Ten" and "A Better Version of You". It also featured a number of very short tracks that were titled "One Sentence Songs" and more
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well so that listeners could have a more traditional album experience. The song "Your Love Is" on the album was co-written by Jonathan Coulton.
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Before releasing an official debut album Paul and Storm released a demo EP of songs that would eventually be re-recorded for their debut album
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In October 2010, they were musical guests on the online MMO AQWorlds, in an event that celebrated the second birthday of the game.
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Musical!". A number of the songs released on this album were written for Quick Stop Entertainment's Masters of Song Fu contest.
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series of web cartoons, writing the songs "The Ballad of the Sneak" and "Theme from Stinkoman" for the website.
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publishing of secret government files. Within these tweets a person will mention a secret leaked from the
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In 2010 after a three-year lapse between albums, the duo released their fourth studio album
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At the end of 2013, they successfully crowdfunded a project in support of their new album,
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For twelve years Sabourin and DiCostanzo were one half of the a cappella comedy band
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in Seattle. In November 2009, they toured the United Kingdom alongside Coulton.
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added as text below the image. Following its success the meme was picked up by
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Paul and Storm co-created and starred in the webseries "Learning Town" on the
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as their biggest-fan-turned-puppeteer. Guest stars on the series included
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Paul and Storm Talk About Some Stuff for Five to Ten Minutes (On Average)
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universe. Following the success of the hashtag Storm was interviewed by
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Paul and Storm have toured all around the United States as well as in
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channel. The show was created and written by the duo and head writer
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Big Launch for Paul and Storm's New Album, BALL PIT - Kickstarter
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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In mid-2010 the duo created two separate internet memes via
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and Valerie Vigoda, Brendon Milburn, and Gene Lewin from
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As part of their tour, they opened for Coulton's act at
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