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So have you heard yet about this sorta new podcast called Harmontown [harmontown.com]? It’s by Dan Harmon, the guy who infamously created and then got fired from the cultishly loved TV show “Community;” and that’s the big guilty confession I need to make and be done with right away, that I’ve never actually been much of a fan of “Community,” which I find okay but just a little too silly for my tastes, which with my new commitment in middle age to just be watching less television overall has meant that I’ve missed most of the episodes. But “Harmontown” is a very different thing than that, and something much more up my alley; it’s what Harmon calls his version of seeing a therapist, a daringly confessional and often blackly dark Spaulding-Grey-like dialogue he has on stage at a storefront theatre every week (literally the back room of a comicbook store in Los Angeles), riffing with a number of sidekicks like improv actor Jeff Davis (acting as Ed McMahon, DJ and time-keeper simultaneously), his girlfriend and fellow podcaster Erin McGathy, and an RPG “dungeonmaster” named Spencer who they literally