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Podcasting Day: Battle Dome with Mark Mahoney 🌭

In 1999, trend-chasing producers tried to add pro wrestling and horniness to American Gladiators, a thing already pretty horny and pro wrestly. They called their monster Battle Dome.

2022-09-07 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Nerding Day: Mark Millar's Nemesis 🌭

Tired of amoral Superman parodies? The Batman ones are worse.

2022-09-06 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Upsetting Day: Anne Geddes' Baby Photos

If you don't know the name Anne Geddes you're probably still familiar with her work; she's a photographer who specializes in making babies as uncomfortable as possible. She constructs very cute prisons for babies. She photographs babies in positions that make you say, "wow, we come into this ...

Nerding Day: Barbie MAD LIBS 🌭

MAD LIBS are already one of the saddest ways to VERB with human language. They are designed to let pedestrian minds manufacture NOUN by clumsily beating reason to death-- like putting on a play about laughing at a badly translated FOREIGN FOOD menu. But with a little effort they can still be ...

Learning Day: Sleep Walkin'!

Hello would that I could greet you all in good cheer like a normal day but Im afraid that today is a learnin day charcterized by maybe dark powers of occults and terror. Perhaps you might want to make sure there are no children about or even some of your mor...

Podcasting Day: Congo with Lydia Bugg 🌭

You’ve had today marked on your calendar, but you never knew why. Circled in red, a crude eye in the margins, as though drawn by primate fingers. “Herkermer?” You wrote, certain you were having a stroke. But no, you just knew deep down that today… 2022-08-31 12:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Extra Wiener 89 - Lydia Bugg Dominates at WikiWhy

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Learning Day: Napoleon Bonaparte's Saucy Romance Novel

I can’t decide who’s a bigger weirdo: Napoleon Bonaparte, or his modern fans. I also don’t have to decide, because I can poop on them both within one column. Join me, Dearest Hotdoggers, for a journey into a crummy self-published “how to be masculine...

Learning Day: Is Your Pet Psychic?

At this point in my 🌭 career, I’ve read a lot of books about psychics. The common thing I’ve found about all of them is that they’re written to convince people they are unique and magical, but one brave psychic author has broken the mold because he wants you to believe that your pet ...

Upsetting Day: The Horror at Red Hook

I have sympathy for H.P. Lovecraft’s ghost. Most canonized American authors simply tiptoed around slavery and shoe polish to focus on their dads, leaving Lovecraft holding the bag for racism in the ideal career for opinionated recluses. This shade is too diffuse, let’s look at what he act...

Hot Dog Appreciation Day: The Rise of the Robots

Welcome, 🌭s, to your day of appreciation. We’re awesome. We know that. We know it so hard that we superglued our hands together so we’d always be high-fiving.

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

First ...

Podcasting Day: Twinkle Ninja Fantasy with Dirk Marshall 🌭

If you're discussing the impact madmen have had on pop culture, you eventually need to bring up Godfrey Ho, which is what we did on this episode of the Dogg Zzone 9000. To try to make sense of Godrey (sometimes known as...

Extra Wiener 89 - A Childish Book Game with Dirk Marshall

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Nerding Day: The Horny Christian Doom Novelization

Listen - the first thing you need to understand about paperback science fiction and horror novels of the 1990s is that they were all desperately horny. Depressingly horny. Horny in a way that made me ashamed to be a boy going through puberty. And I wasn’t going through it gracefull...

Nerding Day: Going Bananas! 🌭

Sometimes you run across a piece of art that's a great reminder of how the quality of the work doesn't matter. If it hits at the wrong time, or the wrong place, or if there's a problem with the cast, like, maybe you shouldn't have cast an orangutan as the main character, then even a masterpie...

Nerding Day: The Troubling Puzzles of Karly 🌭

I have a friend Mark who shares my taste in cinema, so he invited me over to watch knife fighting instructional videos in his basement. We studied the shadowy virgins pretending to murder each other before moving on to increasingly unexplainable tapes. But I'm not here to talk about the time ...

Podcasting Day: Think Big with Hana Michels 🌭

Welcome to Podcasting Day. It’s time to...

Extra Wiener 87 - Brothers & Barbarians: Think Big, with Hana Michels

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Fucking Day: Vanilla Ice's Now & Forever

What’s your favorite ’90s? Mine is 1994 because I had discovered The Mighty Mighty Bosstones but hadn’t yet learned about global warming. But 1994 was the low point for some icons of America’s last sane decade. By now I see you nodding at my reference to Vanilla Ice’s sophomore albu...

Upsetting Day: The Trial of the Hamburglar

Nothing is funnier to me than the McDonaldland commercials. Sometimes I feel like I've thought about the concept of McDonaldland 10,000 times more than any person who was ever paid real advertising dollars to come up with the concept of a tiny jail for children that will entice the...

Upsetting Day: Listen to My Heart: Lessons in Love, Laughter, and Lunacy

In 1995, Kathie Lee Gifford published a book with her 4-year-old son Cody about far less than nothing. Make no attempt to find meaning in this directionless collection of uninteresting anecdotes. Listen to My Heart: Lessons in Love, Laughter, and Lunacy is the scar left on your brain...

Podcasting Day: Traxx, Part 2 - The Murder of Traxx... with Jason Pargin! 🌭

Here are the faxx: we're still talking about Traxx. It's Part 2 of Brockway's investigation into the screenwriter of this forgotten movie abandoned by the broken timeline that spawned it (you can find 2022-08-10 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Extra Wiener 86 - An Extremely Real WikiWhy with Jason Pargin

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Learning Day: LDS Preparedness Manual

Hello to you my cousins in HotDog I post before you today that I want to acknowledge that times are tough! And sometimes if your like me you experience sadness and confusion because: are all these scary and bad happenings abnomalies? Or are they gonna keep happening and maybe even worse!? Som...

Upsetting Day: Titanic 666 🌭

I recently visited the Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, because there aren't many options for celebrating your birthday in Tennessee that are more fun than commemorating a national tragedy. The museum was pretty cool, but my favorite part was the gift shop where you could...

Upsetting Day: Monsters in My Closet... But Not for Long! 🌭

As the owner of a cursed library, I'm aware of literary genres that don't get a lot of promotion in bookstores. One of them is Sad Parent Solutions for Closet Monsters. Dozens of authors and filmmakers have tried to sell anti-monster schemes to children afraid of the dark. They're mostly what...

Podcasting Day: Traxx, Part 1 🌭

Welcome to a very special Podcasting Day. We’re talking to author and professional literary genius Jason Pargin, whose new book, If This Book Exists, You’re in the ...