The Distorted View Show
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The Distorted View Show (also known as Distorted View, Distorted View Daily, or DV) is an adult-oriented comedy podcast
hosted by Tim Henson
and broadcast weekdays.
. On December 6, 2004, Distorted View began as a podcast and has continued ever since, resulting in over 1,300 episodes of the show.
. All of the components of Henson's podcast deal with adult themes, including (but not limited to) sex and sexual fetishes, drugs, domestic violence, unusual accidents, bunny crush audio and racism. Henson approaches these topics with parodies
, skit
s, and off-the-cuff commentary.
While the light and insensitive manner Henson uses while discussing these topics may be considered offensive by some, he insists on the show that it is all done in jest
. Upon the listing of Distorted View on the UK
iTunes
he recommended that the potential new European listeners should keep an open mind and treat the show as a "daily 30-minute vacation from compassion."
or the unfortunate Levenge Group legal firm), a bizarre or satirical song.
Standard advice show structure—but with the Devil.
Satan also makes irregular "appearances" during the show—often when the devil is casually spoken of, abruptly interrupting with a deep and sinister laugh. He will then have a chatty exchange with Henson, expressing a gripe, threat or an attempt at self-exoneration.
Segment concluded with Satan dramatically hissing, "Satan, away!" followed by a zooming sound ordinarily associated with super-heroes leaping to flight.
The short-lived Black and White segment consisted of the playing of two clips: one of black
participants and one of white
participants. The clips were of the members of either race 'acting crazy,' as Henson put it. After playing both clips Henson would analyze them using a sophisticated computer named the Blackulator Caucasiatron (currently on loan from M.I.T.) , which would determine which race had emerged as the most crazy as defined by either clip.
The segment began and ran occasionally during early 2007, recurring again in spring 2008 for at least one episode.
A semi-regular segment, Black Friday is a bit wherein audio from television and especially radio trailers for blaxploitation
films are played. Previous Black Fridays have included Coffy
, Mandingo
, and Boss Nigger
. This segment began in early summer 2007 and aired every Friday. The bit has only aired occasionally since the Fall of that year, possibly due to the show running out of appropriate movie promotions.
The "Linda Finkle Hall of Fame" is a feature in which Henson showcases "musical" artists who are generally talentless and garner scathing reviews from Henson. Simply having a bad song is not enough for entry, the song must have been made and promoted with all seriousness and belief that it is in fact a good song. This of course adds to its comic value. The title of the segment refers to aspiring musician Linda Finkle, whose tracks such as "Georgie Porgie" and "Beautiful Day" set the standard for the rest of the Hall of Fame's
entries.
Stemming from Henson's playful infuriation at the 'uselessness' of the Yahoo! Answers
service, the Sabotage Yahoo! Answers segment began as an effort to—obviously—sabotage Yahoo! Answers. Listeners were to post ridiculous or offensive questions to Yahoo! Answers or respond to normal Yahoo! users' questions with ridiculous or offensive answers. Henson would then read the answers or questions his listeners submitted, in the latter case also reading the responses garnered from uninvolved Yahoo! users.
The segment eventually left the podcast to find a new home in the updated Distorted View Website, where listeners can post and view other listeners' efforts to sabotage Yahoo! Answers and any other site they attempt to sabotage as well
Sextastic Tuesday is the most well known recurring feature of Distorted View, and it is simply a bit in which Henson reads a pornographic story. However, the stories he reads are not normal. Usually, the stories involve either a bizarre fetish or weird fanfiction. Some of the most infamous Sextastic Tuesday stories include a story of a woman who inserted rotting meat and maggots into her vagina, and a story in which syrup mascots Aunt Jemima and Mrs. Butterworth have lesbian sex.
"Vagina Power" is an Atlanta based Public-access television
show hosted by Alexyss K. Tylor, an African American
woman. Aimed primarily for a female African American audience, the show mainly consists of Tylor speaking frankly and openly about various love and relationship issues in the African American community. Tylor is known for her very outspoken and in-your-face way of speaking, colorful vocabulary, and off-the-wall analogies. Alexyss also has a significant presence on YouTube, although a non-trivial portion of videos in this channel contain product endorsements or other material not entirely germane to her ideology.
"Nannerpus" is a parody ad used by Denny's
to promote their "Serious Breakfast" campaign. Nannerpus is a singing pancake stack topped with the top half of a partially peeled banana. The production values of the commercial are deliberately low. Tim has referred to Nannerpus as a real breakfast item, seemingly unaware that it is in fact a parody food intended to make fun if things like IHOP's Rooty Tooty Fresh N Fruity breakfast.
Henson's struggles in his niche market have also pitted him against the "Superfreak Sideshow" people for his use of that domain. Upon learning of this conflict, Henson defecated in his underpants and personally delivered them to the company in question.
losing control on his radio program are a beloved, occasional component of Distorted View. One particular clip features Kasem being unable to transition successfully to a more serious tone for a death dedication after coming out of an up-tempo record. In particular, Kasem expresses his exasperation this way:
Now it has become a recurring joke for Henson to, when, for instance, he is expressing his confusion at the sheer ludicrousness of a news story he is reading, say "I don't understand" and immediately follow it with "is Don on the phone?" Occasionally he will follow it up with more references from Kasem's tirade.
. It is also a common greeting between listeners.
Although the spelling of the word Jigoo! is disputed, the one currently given is the most widely accepted within the Distorted View Community.
men are working out. One man, instructing the other on the attitude one needs to successfully 'pump iron', likens the intensity to when one is going to have sex with someone. Specifically, "when you're fuckin' somebody...and your dick gets hard." In the man's manner of speech, however, the phrase sounded more like "And yo dick get hooaad". Deekgot Hooaad became a staple of the Distorted View culture when Henson returned to the show after a weekend and remarked that he was obsessed with the phrase and couldn't stop saying it (albeit in an exaggerated manner). Since then it has evolved into a reference Henson rarely brings up but comes back in waves occasionally during the voicemail segment. Therein a listener might comment on something Henson did or something they were doing that made their "deekgit hooaad."
The spelling of the phrase Mah Deekgot Hooaad is uncertain. Its shirt, sold at the show's website, spells it Digget Hoawd.
is a direct result of off-the-show attempts to irritate waiters and waitresses. His intent, he explained, was to insist on pronouncing commonplace items in bizarre ways and insist on that pronunciation when at restaurants. He therefore now pronounces mayonnaise on the show as 'meyownus', mustard
as 'mustred', parmesean cheese as 'pramesan', and banana
s as 'banaynays'.
The Sideshow features include full access to the Distorted View archive (over 1,000 shows), pre-recorded extensions of the regular podcast, live "aftershows," and a personalized RSS feed for each member. Membership is $5 (USD) per month or $50 per year and recently Lifetime membership are available for a 1 time charge of $200. The Monday-Friday Distorted View Show itself remained free. Starting in Summer 2008 Henson began moving more formerly free days (usually the Thursday show) into the paid-for Sideshow and added a regular Saturday show as a further incentive for listeners to become members. If the show is put on hiatus for a time to to a family emergency or loss of power Tim will usually post the first show he comes back with on the "free side" to make it up to all listeners. Starting in winter 2010 a new program called "Butt Fudge Sundae" began to be released on Sundays for only sideshow members. The show is produced and hosted by longtime show fan and contributor Corey Sundae and is focused on musical parodies, Internet clips and themed shows.
Aside from podcasting, Tim is also a self proclaimed "soda geek" and revels in all things soda related. In 2009 he started a parallel blog/vlog about soda related news, originally intending it to be a parallel podcast. Tim has since forget about Fizzled Out, as he tends to forget most things he does.
Podcast
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...
hosted by Tim Henson
Tim Henson
Timothy James Henson is the host of Distorted View Daily, an adult comedy podcast that focuses on bizarre news stories and brief comedic sketches and songs...
and broadcast weekdays.
History
Tim Henson began experimenting with Web-based comedy in 1996, and began producing episodes of the Distorted View Show in 2000 through telephony company Tellme, under the name Distorted View Daily. The show was broadcast over telephone to listeners. As its popularity increased, the show was soon featured on several Internet radio broadcasts and on FM radio. The show moved to Mp3NewsBreak in 2002, but the company ultimately collapsed. In 2003, Distorted View partnered briefly with Sirius Satellite RadioSirius Satellite Radio
Sirius Satellite Radio is a satellite radio service operating in North America, owned by Sirius XM Radio.Headquartered in New York City, with smaller studios in Los Angeles and Memphis, Sirius was officially launched on July 1, 2002 and currently provides 69 streams of music and 65 streams of...
. On December 6, 2004, Distorted View began as a podcast and has continued ever since, resulting in over 1,300 episodes of the show.
Features
While billed as primarily a podcast that presents bizarre news stories, the Distorted View show also integrates other sources of aberrant material, including audio clips ripped from videos (usually pornographic ones), unusual songs, or the occasional Canadian public service announcementPublic service announcement
A public service announcement or public service ad is a type of advertisement featured on television, radio, print or other media...
. All of the components of Henson's podcast deal with adult themes, including (but not limited to) sex and sexual fetishes, drugs, domestic violence, unusual accidents, bunny crush audio and racism. Henson approaches these topics with parodies
Parody
A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...
, skit
Sketch comedy
A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...
s, and off-the-cuff commentary.
While the light and insensitive manner Henson uses while discussing these topics may be considered offensive by some, he insists on the show that it is all done in jest
Satire
Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...
. Upon the listing of Distorted View on the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
he recommended that the potential new European listeners should keep an open mind and treat the show as a "daily 30-minute vacation from compassion."
Intro Clips
A typical episode of Distorted View will open with a selection of audio which will play uninterrupted by Henson's live commentary. This audio is very often a Great Moments introduction. Introduced with Henson's prerecorded "Distorted View Daily...proudly presents," followed by the clip's context, this intro is usually humorous audio of, for example, a bizarre or ludicrous situation or someone's ignorance or overreaction. Other possibilities include Fictional Sponsors (including Grandma Jigaboo's Old Negro-Style Waffle Batter, a parody of Aunt JemimaAunt Jemima
Aunt Jemima is a trademark for pancake flour, syrup, and other breakfast foods currently owned by the Quaker Oats Company of Chicago. The trademark dates to 1893, although Aunt Jemima pancake mix debuted in 1889. The Quaker Oats Company first registered the Aunt Jemima trademark in April 1937...
or the unfortunate Levenge Group legal firm), a bizarre or satirical song.
Bizarre Audio
After Henson's initial greeting, recitation of what news stories will be covered in the show, and the playing of the show's theme song, there is a block of time before said news stories' coverage during which Henson plays a variety of different featured strange clips. There is a veritable pantheon of different semi-regular segments and common themes which Henson touches upon. These include:Ask Satan
Standard advice show structure—but with the Devil.
Satan also makes irregular "appearances" during the show—often when the devil is casually spoken of, abruptly interrupting with a deep and sinister laugh. He will then have a chatty exchange with Henson, expressing a gripe, threat or an attempt at self-exoneration.
Segment concluded with Satan dramatically hissing, "Satan, away!" followed by a zooming sound ordinarily associated with super-heroes leaping to flight.
Black and White
The short-lived Black and White segment consisted of the playing of two clips: one of black
Black people
The term black people is used in systems of racial classification for humans of a dark skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups.Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as "black", and often social variables such as class, socio-economic status also plays a...
participants and one of white
White people
White people is a term which usually refers to human beings characterized, at least in part, by the light pigmentation of their skin...
participants. The clips were of the members of either race 'acting crazy,' as Henson put it. After playing both clips Henson would analyze them using a sophisticated computer named the Blackulator Caucasiatron (currently on loan from M.I.T.) , which would determine which race had emerged as the most crazy as defined by either clip.
The segment began and ran occasionally during early 2007, recurring again in spring 2008 for at least one episode.
Black Friday
A semi-regular segment, Black Friday is a bit wherein audio from television and especially radio trailers for blaxploitation
Blaxploitation
Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is a film genre which emerged in the United States circa 1970. It is considered an ethnic sub-genre of the general category of exploitation films. Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for an urban black audience, although the genre's audience...
films are played. Previous Black Fridays have included Coffy
Coffy
- Track listing :# "Coffy Is The Color" - 3:03Vocals – Dee Dee Bridgewater, Roy Ayers, Wayne Garfield# "Priscilla's Theme" - 3:58# "King George" - 3:00Vocals – Roy Ayers# "Aragon" - 2:55# "Coffy Sauna" - 2:16# "King's Last Ride" - 1:10# "Coffy Baby" - 2:26...
, Mandingo
Mandingo (film)
Mandingo is a 1975 film, based on the novel Mandingo by Kyle Onstott and upon the play based thereon by Jack Kirkland. The film was directed by Richard Fleischer and featured James Mason, Susan George, Perry King, Lillian Hayman, boxer-turned-actor Ken Norton, and bodybuilder and pro...
, and Boss Nigger
Boss Nigger
Boss Nigger is a 1975 blaxploitation film directed by Jack Arnold. It stars former football player Fred Williamson, who both wrote and co-produced the film. Boss Nigger is the first film for which Williamson was credited as screenwriter or producer....
. This segment began in early summer 2007 and aired every Friday. The bit has only aired occasionally since the Fall of that year, possibly due to the show running out of appropriate movie promotions.
Linda Finkle Hall of Fame
The "Linda Finkle Hall of Fame" is a feature in which Henson showcases "musical" artists who are generally talentless and garner scathing reviews from Henson. Simply having a bad song is not enough for entry, the song must have been made and promoted with all seriousness and belief that it is in fact a good song. This of course adds to its comic value. The title of the segment refers to aspiring musician Linda Finkle, whose tracks such as "Georgie Porgie" and "Beautiful Day" set the standard for the rest of the Hall of Fame's
Hall of Fame
A hall of fame, wall of fame, walk of fame, walk of stars or avenue of stars is a type of attraction established for any field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field...
entries.
'Sabotage'
Stemming from Henson's playful infuriation at the 'uselessness' of the Yahoo! Answers
Yahoo! Answers
Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven question-and-answer site or a knowledge market launched by Yahoo! on June 28, 2005 that allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users...
service, the Sabotage Yahoo! Answers segment began as an effort to—obviously—sabotage Yahoo! Answers. Listeners were to post ridiculous or offensive questions to Yahoo! Answers or respond to normal Yahoo! users' questions with ridiculous or offensive answers. Henson would then read the answers or questions his listeners submitted, in the latter case also reading the responses garnered from uninvolved Yahoo! users.
The segment eventually left the podcast to find a new home in the updated Distorted View Website, where listeners can post and view other listeners' efforts to sabotage Yahoo! Answers and any other site they attempt to sabotage as well
Sextastic Tuesday
Sextastic Tuesday is the most well known recurring feature of Distorted View, and it is simply a bit in which Henson reads a pornographic story. However, the stories he reads are not normal. Usually, the stories involve either a bizarre fetish or weird fanfiction. Some of the most infamous Sextastic Tuesday stories include a story of a woman who inserted rotting meat and maggots into her vagina, and a story in which syrup mascots Aunt Jemima and Mrs. Butterworth have lesbian sex.
Vagina Power
"Vagina Power" is an Atlanta based Public-access television
Public-access television
Public-access television is a form of non-commercial mass media where ordinary people can create content television programming which is cablecast through cable TV specialty channels...
show hosted by Alexyss K. Tylor, an African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
woman. Aimed primarily for a female African American audience, the show mainly consists of Tylor speaking frankly and openly about various love and relationship issues in the African American community. Tylor is known for her very outspoken and in-your-face way of speaking, colorful vocabulary, and off-the-wall analogies. Alexyss also has a significant presence on YouTube, although a non-trivial portion of videos in this channel contain product endorsements or other material not entirely germane to her ideology.
Nannerpus
"Nannerpus" is a parody ad used by Denny's
Denny's
Denny's is a full-service coffee shop/family restaurant chain. It operates over 1,500 restaurants in the United States , Canada, Curaçao, Costa Rica, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan , Mexico, New Zealand, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.Denny's is known for always being...
to promote their "Serious Breakfast" campaign. Nannerpus is a singing pancake stack topped with the top half of a partially peeled banana. The production values of the commercial are deliberately low. Tim has referred to Nannerpus as a real breakfast item, seemingly unaware that it is in fact a parody food intended to make fun if things like IHOP's Rooty Tooty Fresh N Fruity breakfast.
The "Distorted News"
Originally the news segment of the show was introduced by Henson as news of the weird. This phrasing introduction was scrutinized for its resemblance to a syndicated news humor column called "The News of the Weird." When Henson's use of the phrase was called into question, he caved in without resistance; and to distinguish his treatment from the column's timid satire, he rebranded it Distorted News or simply "Crazy, Bizarre, Twisted, Fucked-Up News".Henson's struggles in his niche market have also pitted him against the "Superfreak Sideshow" people for his use of that domain. Upon learning of this conflict, Henson defecated in his underpants and personally delivered them to the company in question.
Voice mails
At the end of every episode Tim will play about ten voice mails left for him by his listeners. Tim will also occasionally do entire episodes composed of voice mails to "clean out the box". Tim's reaction to his listeners calls varies from joy at their actions, to outrage (usually at his inability to hear the call) to complete nonchalance, sometimes ignoring the call all together. Voice mails have also created various new avenues for the listeners to contribute, such as coming up with the self explanatory "bizarre sex terms", callers leaving clips of themselves defecating, or informing Tim of something, often remarking about a mistake on Tim's part. As the Voice mail section has grown multiple callers have become regulars and this has actually lead to callers insulting and fighting each other over the phone, although Tim almost never gets involved. A long running joke on the Voice mail is that whenever multiple people inform Tim of something that is common knowledge, they end the call with "and Wing was on an episode of South Park" referring to when Tim debuted Wing on an episode and received a flood of people informing him that "Wing was on an episode of South Park"Other
While many recurring references come in the form of repeated audio clips, other references are merely things Henson says in the normal commentary or bits of his show. Many of them, predictably, are references to particularly memorable clips he has played.Feigned Antisemitism
Without fail, Henson will immediately follow up his assurances that he has no biases against any group of people with the phrase "...except the Jews." Occasionally he'll follow this up with the ominous pronouncement of "I'll get you, Jews!".Mandatory Euthanasia
Henson has a severe dislike for the elderly and promises that as soon as he is in any kind of powerful position, he will institute the mandatory euthanization of all people over the age of 65. He bases this dislike on the smell and overall crotchety, self-important demeanor of the elderly people he has encountered.Is Don on the Phone?
Clips of Casey KasemCasey Kasem
Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem is an American radio personality and voice actor who is best known for being the host of the nationally syndicated Top 40 countdown show American Top 40, and for voicing Shaggy in the popular Saturday morning cartoon franchise Scooby-Doo.Kasem, along with Don Bustany and...
losing control on his radio program are a beloved, occasional component of Distorted View. One particular clip features Kasem being unable to transition successfully to a more serious tone for a death dedication after coming out of an up-tempo record. In particular, Kasem expresses his exasperation this way:
- ...You know, they do this to me all the time. I don't know what the hell they do it for, but God damn it. If we can't come out of a slow record, I don't understand it. Is Don on the phone? Okay. I want a goddamn concerted effort to come out of a record that isn't a fucking up-tempo record every time I do a goddamn death dedication. Now, make it—and I also wanna know what happened to the pictures I was supposed to see this week!...
Now it has become a recurring joke for Henson to, when, for instance, he is expressing his confusion at the sheer ludicrousness of a news story he is reading, say "I don't understand" and immediately follow it with "is Don on the phone?" Occasionally he will follow it up with more references from Kasem's tirade.
Jigoo!
Jigoo! refers to audio from a pornographic video featuring men whose fetish is to have their head repeatedly smashed between a woman's thighs. One man in the clip, after being hit by the legs of one woman, shouted something that sounded a lot like jigoooooo!. It is now, within the Distorted View universe, an acceptable noise for a man to shout while climaxingOrgasm
Orgasm is the peak of the plateau phase of the sexual response cycle, characterized by an intense sensation of pleasure...
. It is also a common greeting between listeners.
Although the spelling of the word Jigoo! is disputed, the one currently given is the most widely accepted within the Distorted View Community.
Mah Deekgot Hooaad
The phrase Yo deekgit hooaad and eventually Mah Deekgot hooaad stems from a video in which two blackBlack people
The term black people is used in systems of racial classification for humans of a dark skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups.Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as "black", and often social variables such as class, socio-economic status also plays a...
men are working out. One man, instructing the other on the attitude one needs to successfully 'pump iron', likens the intensity to when one is going to have sex with someone. Specifically, "when you're fuckin' somebody...and your dick gets hard." In the man's manner of speech, however, the phrase sounded more like "And yo dick get hooaad". Deekgot Hooaad became a staple of the Distorted View culture when Henson returned to the show after a weekend and remarked that he was obsessed with the phrase and couldn't stop saying it (albeit in an exaggerated manner). Since then it has evolved into a reference Henson rarely brings up but comes back in waves occasionally during the voicemail segment. Therein a listener might comment on something Henson did or something they were doing that made their "deekgit hooaad."
The spelling of the phrase Mah Deekgot Hooaad is uncertain. Its shirt, sold at the show's website, spells it Digget Hoawd.
Meowness
Henson's alternative pronunciation of the word mayonnaiseMayonnaise
Mayonnaise, , often abbreviated as mayo, is a sauce. It is a stable emulsion of oil, egg yolk and either vinegar or lemon juice, with many options for embellishment with other herbs and spices. Lecithin in the egg yolk is the emulsifier. Mayonnaise varies in color but is often white, cream, or pale...
is a direct result of off-the-show attempts to irritate waiters and waitresses. His intent, he explained, was to insist on pronouncing commonplace items in bizarre ways and insist on that pronunciation when at restaurants. He therefore now pronounces mayonnaise on the show as 'meyownus', mustard
Mustard (condiment)
Mustard is a condiment made from the seeds of a mustard plant...
as 'mustred', parmesean cheese as 'pramesan', and banana
Banana
Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce. Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple, and red....
s as 'banaynays'.
"Our Friends at MIT"
Often Henson, in the need to feign some sort of objective or high-tech analysis system, will refer to an imaginary supercomputer "on loan from MIT" which is assisting him with whatever bit he is 'using' it for.Distorted View Sideshow
Henson had longed to be able to turn enough of a profit doing the show so he could quit his day job and focus on Distorted View full time. Donations and website sponsorships were his preferred method for this, however it became clear that source of income was simply not enough to live on. Also to insure donations of any kind Henson would have to dedicate a large portion of each show to, in his words, "beg for donations so I can quit my stupid job." This hindered the show's creativity as well. The solution was The Super Freak Sideshow, or Sideshow for short. Opened in November 2006, Distorted View Sideshow is a members-only extension of the Distorted View podcast and web site. This has the advantage of allowing DV to still remain accessible to the public at large, thus attracting new listeners, but also allows for a steady income for Henson (he was finally able to quit his day job in 2007).The Sideshow features include full access to the Distorted View archive (over 1,000 shows), pre-recorded extensions of the regular podcast, live "aftershows," and a personalized RSS feed for each member. Membership is $5 (USD) per month or $50 per year and recently Lifetime membership are available for a 1 time charge of $200. The Monday-Friday Distorted View Show itself remained free. Starting in Summer 2008 Henson began moving more formerly free days (usually the Thursday show) into the paid-for Sideshow and added a regular Saturday show as a further incentive for listeners to become members. If the show is put on hiatus for a time to to a family emergency or loss of power Tim will usually post the first show he comes back with on the "free side" to make it up to all listeners. Starting in winter 2010 a new program called "Butt Fudge Sundae" began to be released on Sundays for only sideshow members. The show is produced and hosted by longtime show fan and contributor Corey Sundae and is focused on musical parodies, Internet clips and themed shows.
Other works by Henson
Apart from Distorted View Tim Henson has done work for several other podcasts. He produced an episode for the Dawn and Drew show when they went on vacation, he has appeared on fellow Ohio podcast the PK and J show, with whom he is now good friends. Early on in his career as a podcaster he also produced a show called the "pseudo-cast" which were short on-off episodes from podcasts that he would like to hear, most notably a podcasts for and by a depressed, suicidal teenager, similar to Tim's Raine character. This same teenager later made an appearance on Tim's election day mini-casts, reading some "political" poetry.Aside from podcasting, Tim is also a self proclaimed "soda geek" and revels in all things soda related. In 2009 he started a parallel blog/vlog about soda related news, originally intending it to be a parallel podcast. Tim has since forget about Fizzled Out, as he tends to forget most things he does.
Awards
- In 2005 and 2006, Distorted View won Best Comedy Podcast at the Podcast AwardsPodcast AwardsThe People's Choice Podcast Awards, better known as the Podcast Awards, are an annual set of awards given to the best podcasts as voted by the people...
. - In 2007, Distorted View was nominated for Best Comedy Podcast at the Podcast Awards.
- In November 2005, Distorted View was a finalist for Best Podcast in The Weblog Awards.
- Distorted View typically ranks in the top ten user-nominated podcasts each month at Podcast Alley .
- On November 28, 2005, the Columbus Dispatch profiled Henson.
- In 2008, Distorted View won Best Mature Podcast at the Podcast Awards.