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Learning Day: The Tomima Edmark Academic Study on Creative Bankruptcy

In 1991, a woman named Tomima Edmark wrote a book about kissing. It wasn’t a good book, or a useful book, and she called it Kissing. Most people today would recognize her style of writing as the Google results for “kiss -band” with the safe search very much on, but it inspired a career and the terrible books she wrote over the next decade allow for a unique opportunity for science. This i...

Nerding Day: L.I.F.E. Brigade 2 🌭

In L.I.F.E. Brigade, Issue 1, we met a cast of fascinating characters four times and then watched them hide in caves twice. Writer, maniac, artist, editor, maniac, publisher and maniac Craig Stormon started the indie comic company Blue Comet Press and was the sole driving force beh...

Extra Wiener 127 - A Hysterical Book Game with Abe Epperson

Michael Swaim has escaped the podcast! But Seanbaby trapped Brockway and Abe Epperson in his sinister labyrinth of anti-jokes and unsolvable punchline puzzles. It's a Seanbaby's Book Game!

Podcasting Day: Sexual Martial Arts with Michael Swaim and Abe Epperson 🌭

This week we’re joined by Michael Swaim and Abe Epperson, former Cracked wunderkinds and current Bean prodigies. They’re making a touching and hilarious movie called Papa Bear, about a true story from Swaim’s teenage years when his dad came out as a gay cyberbear. That’s real, that’s what it’s really about – minus the cyber stuff. That didn’t make the movie. That’s the bad new...

Nerding Day: Jokes, Puns & Riddles

Four thousand years ago, in ancient Sumeria, somebody carved this joke:

“A dog walks into a bar and says, ‘I cannot see a thing. I’ll open this one.’”

Not funny! However, this joke might’ve been funny four thousand years ago. Maybe the joke teller did a wacky Sumerian ...

Upsetting Day: TikTok Shrimp Dance Man

Quick, there’s no time. I need to warn you about the TikTok Shrimp Dance Man. Don’t say his name out loud. It will only summon him. Keep calm, read this article straight through once, and then delete it from your email forever like it’s a coupon for one free conversation with Twitter founder Elon Musk.

When the TikTok shrimp dancing man was first brought to my attention, I knew I had to lear...

Punching Day: 1001 Street Fighting Secrets

1001 is probably too many secrets to be keeping about street fighting, but in 1997, Sammy Franco wrote this:

My experience with books starting with “1,001” suggests I shouldn’t bother looking inside 1001 Street Fighting SECRETS: The Principles of Contemporary Fighting Arts. This number is too ...

Nerding Day: L.I.F.E. Brigade #1 🌭

L.I.F.E. Brigade was a 1986 comic book series by artist and writer Craig Stormon, and the flagship title of indie publisher Blue Comet Press. It was about a group of space mercenaries who gained mysterious superpowers and returned to Earth only to find it destroyed, so they waged war against the aliens who forced the entire planet into reverse evolution. You might recognize that as three too ma...

Extra Wiener 126 - WikiWhy with John Bull

Brockway tricks Seanbaby and guest, John Bull, into a game of banal madness and confident wrongness: WikiWhy! They don't even realize this information is poisoning their brains!

Podcasting Day: It's a Royal Knockout with John Bull 🌭

In 1987, Meat Loaf, Christopher Reeve, Mr. Bean, Walter Payton, and dozens of other celebrities and athletes you would not fucking believe teamed up with the British royal family to bumble and slop through poorly planned obstacle courses. Depending on which royal you ask it was either quite silly or exceedingly important, but everyone agrees it was a catastrophe. Just a neverending volcano of expensive ...

Learning Day: Ligertown

I never watched that Tigerking show because out of respect for some dear cousins o mine what lived through a period of trauma that makes a show like that just hit to close too home. Them of you what also have lived in the south-eastern area of Idaho or perhaps bought or purr oozed certain issues of the National Enguierer probly also know what im talkin about which is:

2023-06-06 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Upsetting Day: Ambush Universe Reese’s Puffs

Certain words put positive emotions about food into our brains, words like “sizzling,” “flavor-blasted,” “pasta shapes inspired by the film Batman Returns,” etc. One thing you do not expect food to do is “AMBUSH” you. You don’t want to be like, “Oh no, oh fuck, it’s Reese’s Puffs cereal!” Yet…

2023-06-05 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Nerding Day: The Incredible Hulk Hostess Snack Ads 🌭

Sometime during my career of making jokes about weird things I accidentally became the planet’s preeminent Hostess snack ad expert. It wasn’t hard. I mean, collecting and cataloging them took several years and thousands of dollars, but they aren’t complicated. A superhero would run into a problem they’d normally solve with violence, and instead throw a cupcake at it. They were stupid and insane,...

Hot Dog Appreciation Day: Nic Cage's Cool Octopus 🌭

Welcome, 🌭s, to your day of appreciation. We’re awesome. We know that. We know it so hard that we fuse together like the little machines in Zelda, but no amount of shaking will tear us apart.

But this isn’t about us. This is about you. Did you know you’re awesome? Because you are. We have proof!

First let’s check in on Sissyneck Corner, where there’s ju...

Extra Wiener 125 - Brainfuck to Godhood with Natalie Dee and Drew Toothpaste

Brockway uses his newly acquired psychic ape powers to challenge Seanbaby and guests, Drew Toothpaste and Natalie Dee, to Brainfuck Their Way to Godhood! It is the next logical step after becoming an Immortal Bigfoot Magician.

Podcasting Day: Bigfoot Lives! with Drew Toothpaste and Natalie Dee 🌭

Bust out your best demon crystals and the fancy guest space goblets, we're going Bigfoot hunting with Drew Toothpaste and Natalie ...

Learning Day: Van-Pires 🌭

You may recall that the previously-discussed Snailiens at some point came under the ownership of a company called Abrams Gentile Entertainment. Founded in 1986 by John Gentile, Anthony Gentile, and Marty Abrams, AGE was a toy and media company that was the successor to the Mego Corporation. They cr...

Upsetting Day: Pregnant in Heels 🌭

In 2011 Bravo premiered a new TV show that fit perfectly with their station slogan– Bravo: This is Why Women Deserve It! The show was called Pregnant In Heels, and it was about New York City’s most famous pregnancy concierge. What does that mean exactly? In the pilot, Rosie Pope explains it like this: “Women are bitchy anyway, so take a rich bitchy woman and put a baby inside of ...

Monster Wars: Filler Time 🌭

Monster Wars’ only flaw is time. The god-tier promos? Thirty seconds. The tanks flopping through the air? Ten seconds, if they take it slow.

Then there’s the dead air stitched to each episode, like goat loins on a 1920’s patient or 2020’s fitness guru. That could probably go.

2023-05-26 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Monster Wars: Best Dressed 🌭

By now, you’re familiar with Monster Wars, thanks to the steadfast work of my hotdog colleagues. When I was introduced to Monster Wars, I said I felt like I could write an entire article just on the costume choices these maniacs made for their monster truck personas. Sadly no sane website would pay me American cash dollars to do that. Wait, I don’t work for a sane website! We’ve ...

Extra Wiener 124 - That Airwolf From Guy with Napoleon Blownapart

Brockway challenges guest, Napoleon Blownapart, to a high stakes game of Airwolfing, where to win one must not be Seanbaby. His opponent? Seanbaby. Will Seanbaby prevail against such impossible odds? No.

Podcasting Day: Monster Wars 3 with Napoleon Blownapart 🌭

By the skulled canary panties of Grave Digger, it is still Monster Wars Week! And on the Dogg Zzone 9000, we are talking about monster trucks becoming men and those men becoming legend. We knew we had to get an expert on these 10,000 pound car-crunching beasts, so we booked Napoleon Blownapart on th...

Teamworking Day: Monster Wars 2 🌭

Last time we talked about Monster Wars and their always angry, sometimes a cat, never coherent truck men. Today we’re talking about… Monster Wars again! Why would we talk about other things, when we have found the best thing?

Seanbaby: I’m so jealous of the joy spreading through you right now as you let yourself realize none of this is a bit. We really are ...

Teamworking Day: Monster Wars 🌭

Welcome to Monster Wars Week! Or should we say WELCOME TO MONSTER WARS WEEK. USHRA Monster Wars was a 1993 series of televised monster truck races, which sounds and is boring, so they hired a cast of large, wrestler-adjacent men and had them all pretend to be the monster trucks. It sounds too insane and confusing and beautiful for this world, it can’t be what you’r...

Punching Day: Man Comics for Jungle Ladies 🌭

The jungle bends to no law save one: Man! In this issue of Man Comics, the moist savagery of the jungle meets the savage moistness of man for the wettest impact! Can you sense what’s coming? The jungle can, for what is coming is MAN!

2023-05-19 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Upsetting Day: Orson Scott Card's Lost Boys

Hello here we have another one birthed into this Hot Dog world from the Friends of the Library Book Sale this one is about a author who made a pretty creatof story world and wrote lots of books about it and pretty much everyone who read em was like: this is great, good job, we love you, here is a lot of awards and money. The books were important for lots of folks for teachin us at a young age about brav...

Extra Wiener 123 - An Erotic WikiWhy with Michael Swaim and Abe Epperson

Brockway isn't done playing his confusing, erotic games. This time it's a sensual WikiWhy where Seanbaby and guests, Michael Swaim and Abe Epperson, sexually guess what the fuck WikiHow is talking about. Sexually!

Podcasting Day: Brad Stallion in Sex Olympics with Michael Swaim and Abe Epperson 🌭

On this week’s erotic Hot Dog Nights podcast: Masters of sexual mischief Michael Swaim and Abe Epperson will explore every damp nook of the year 1990’s most sensual point and click adventure game: Brad Stallion in Sex Olympics. They’re the perfect guests for 2023-05-17 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Learning Day: The Scam Cookbooks of Morishige Shunsen

As you know, 1900HOTDOG is a website about food (such as hot dogs). This is a food website. So like usual, like always, I’m back with another roundup of the hottest new cookbooks. This week I went to a leading online bookseller known for its ethics and well-curated stock to review three n...

Upsetting Day: Seth Speaks - The Eternal Validity of the Soul 🌭

Imagine you’re the type of person who wants to take advice from a ghost. In 1963, a science fiction and fantasy writer named Jane Roberts suddenly discovered the lucrative ability to channel an all-seeing being from another dimension who had lived through several reincarnations on Earth. And all that being wanted to do was write self-help books. So, damn, whatever’s going on in his post-life dimensi...