History Podcast / FastKarateForTheGentlemen

* {{NSFW}}: Language and content. As Dave put it for episode #134: "[[http://www.daveandjoel.com/?p=1285 I Have To Stop Saying ‘Vagina’ Into A Microphone]]".

* LeftFielder: ''Constantly''. Dave and Joel switch back and forth between topics without warning, particularly when the scheduled topic is boring.

Welcome to [[http://www.daveandjoel.com Dave and Joel's Fast Karate for the Gentlemen]], a podcast for your fist. Whereas most podcasts attempt some level of serious, on-topic discussion, Dave and Joel routinely go off topic, rambling on about 1980s action movies, ''LordOfTheRings'', ''Series/TwentyFour'', food or otherwise unrelated content. The podcast simply begins with them talking, and ends arbitrarily with a related clip of music and a [[TheStinger stinger]]. In between those two points are hilarious, unedited rambling conversations between two friends. Beware of a general {{NSFW}} status and no {{spoiler}} warnings.

** In "[[http://www.daveandjoel.com/?p=1003 This Isn’t Over, BABY!]]", Dave [[InsistentTerminology insists]] on referring to Cub from LoneWolfAndCub as a baby [[RuleOfFunny because it's funnier.]]

** During their VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution podcasts they got so much flak from [[AnimeWorldOrder Daryl Surat]] for not including spoiler warnings that they made a [[http://www.daveandjoel.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/sriracha.jpg special warning image]] just for him to use for later episodes.

--> ''Can I just take this moment as an aside to say that TV Tropes is like the shitty Wikipedia? Like, you can spend an equivalent amount of time lost in TV Tropes as you would in Wikipedia, essentially black out drunk on the internet, but where with Wikipedia there is a slight chance you might be edified, with TV Tropes, no such thing exists. You'll, in fact, push useful information out of your brain learning some of these absurdly long definitions they have for things.''

* HaremGenre: They dislike these shows and their related tropes, particularly when they come from an {{H-Game}} series. Unfortunately, it's hard for them to get worked up about them anymore after seeing shows like ''{{Kanon}}'' and (particularly) ''HeIsMyMaster''.
--> '''Dave''': Never has mankind experienced such pain except for those unlucky few that have watched ''HeIsMyMaster''! [[http://www.daveandjoel.com/?p=2521]]

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode is named after the funniest thing one of them said that episode[[hottip:*:Unless Dave was feeling lazy and named it after the first good joke in the episode]]. On their site, they list an alternate title for each episode, usually the second funniest thing one of them said. Some episodes have more than one alternate title, such as [[http://www.daveandjoel.com/?p=1823 #277]].

* LetsPlay: Dave has been posting clips and streaming videos of himself and others[[hottip:*:Generally his fiance, Graziella, but sometimes with Joel]] playing games for over a year now. He also has the [[LetsPlay ongoing saga of Super King Awesome]], his character from {{Morrowind}} and {{Skyrim}}.

* LetsPlay: Dave has been posting clips and streaming videos of himself and others[[hottip:*:Generally his fiance, Graziella, but sometimes with Joel]] playing games for over a year now. He also has the [[AfterActionReport ongoing saga of Super King Awesome]], his character from {{Morrowind}} and {{Skyrim}}.

* TheStinger: Most every episode has music related to topics discussed during the show (often not the scheduled topic). There's also often clips of technical difficulties, recording interruptions, [[GreatestMovieEver Paul Chapman]] and [[{{Otaku}} Cogswell Pepperbox]], or other random clips.

* ScheduleSlip: Noticeably fewer episodes came out in 2011 than in previous years, but non-Fast Karate site activity did increase in the form of guest appearances on other podcasts and {{Lets Play}}s.

* InvincibleHero: They generally dislike shows where the main characters is presented as an InvincibleHero such as {{Hellsing}} or PumpkinScissors, particularly when they're also {{Idiot Hero}}es. {{Trigun}} gets a pass, though.

** They got particularly good at it during their running reviews of Series/TwentyFour, which featured the President of Not-Iran, Agent Babykins, Track-Suit Terrorist and Secret Traitor Agent Starbuck.