Episode 421: And Then There’s Pumpy with Demi Lardner and Libby Watson

Your Kickstarter Sucks

Jesse Farrar & Mike Hale

Technology, Comedy

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 181 minutes

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Summary

Together, you’ve heard them 14 times on YKS, and on their streams and podcasts, perhaps millions more. But today is not about that. Today is about…pumpy. Actually I forget what that was. So let’s say that today is about Kickstarters. Even though it rarely is, of course. And as you can see by the prodigious runtime of this episode, it had very little chance to be the exception proving the rule. But what if it were? Well you’d probably hear about a celebrity’s crazy vanity project, a guy’s crazy book, and some crazy fake science. And there would be 4-5 of us going crazy thinking and talking about those things. Plus! Some very normal things as well. Just kidding.

Watch Demi’s new show, SYWWAPP 🍆 on Aunty Donna’s GrouseHouseTV! Three episodes are out now with more to come!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Mike, it's candle season, and you know what that means.
0:04.8	What does it mean?
0:06.5	I tell me now.
0:07.8	I thought that you would know that candle season meant that I'm getting candles and I'm lighting the candles.
0:12.7	And oh yeah, I'm smelling the candles too.
0:15.0	That's arguably the best part.
0:16.5	You know whose candles I really love?
0:18.2	And this is no joke.
0:19.2	Okay.
0:19.9	The Mount Eleanor Candle Company.
0:23.0	I'm glad that's not a joke because it wasn't funny.
0:25.2	I didn't, I, like, didn't laugh at all.
0:27.6	Like, I barely even cracked a smile.
0:29.9	You heard us talk about Mount Eleanor Candles, a dear friend of the show.
0:33.7	These candles are hand poured in the shadow of the Olympic mountains. We're talking about
0:38.7	that fantasy land, Mike and I love to project ourselves off to where there are no problems.
0:43.7	That's right. It's the Pacific Northwest.
0:47.2	Land of milk and honey. That's right. And now, candles.
0:52.0	Mount Eleanor Candles will help curate the perfect summer vibe for when you can't get to the top of the mountain.
0:57.2	Unlike me, I'm up there all the time.
0:59.1	The candles are made with premium wax and the scents are herbal, woody, and floral.
1:04.5	I love these scents.
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