This Podcasting Day, Lydia Bugg gets her long-sworn revenge for that time we made her watch all three Conan movies back-to-back. She pulled that Ghostbusters shit and told us we would choose the form of our destroyer....
2021-11-03 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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2021-11-03 11:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostThey're found in church bathrooms and AA meeting garbage cans. They're more disappointing to get on Halloween than a Bit O’Honey around a razor blade. They've done more to humiliate Jesus than Pontious Pilate. They're Chick tracts:
If you're just joining us, we are fifteen minutes into Corey Haim's Me, Myself & I. If you haven't yet, read Part I for context, and also to help ease your soul into this unforgivin...
2021-11-01 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostOne day in the late '80s, Corey Haim's manager thought, "What if we could make money off the stuff Corey does when he's not working?" At the same time, Corey Haim thought, "What if I'm the most interesting and wise boy in all the land?" And then Corey Haim's publicist said, "It sounds like you guys...
2021-10-29 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostOnce, long ago, there was a comedy website that only wanted three simple things: to make people laugh, to teach them a few things, and to start an island where you could gamble against monkeys if all parties consented. It succeeded in two of those goals, before getting piledriven into the dirt by corp...
2021-10-28 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt's a very spooky Podcasting Day starring the Internet's own 2021-10-27 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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2021-10-27 11:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere are reasons giant robots show up again and again in our fables and legends. One, they’re big enough that they don’t have to listen to what their mom tells them to do. Two, they let someone engage in physical combat even if that someone has incredibly soft hands and is sitting in a comfortabl...
2021-10-26 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs I’ve established in previous articles, I’m fascinated by the mind and world experience of romance cover model Fabio. I want to understand Fabio, but at the same time, I’m certain Fabio can never be understood. Still, I’ll continue on this quest like Lancelot, but my Holy Grail is the mind o...
2021-10-25 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s Reflecting Day, and that means we’re supposed to take a good long look at ourselves. I don’t want to do that. I’m sick of looking at myself, I’m already too pretty and quite frankly I think it’s going to my head. Also my reflection is suspicious, I think this is turning into some Zeld...
2021-10-22 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSuperman has the powers and technology to end all life on Earth in minutes. We wouldn't even know he did it. He could hack every news site to read "EXPERTS SAY EVERYTHING FINE" while he flew through each of us at hyperluminal speed. He could push us into the sun and all we could do is ask why he was d...
2021-10-21 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we’re talking to adult film star, Dogg Zzone 9000 editor, and professional half-shirt wearer Jamie French!
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2021-10-20 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostIf you took a sentient bag of mescaline to Cirque Du Soleil, its Yelp review would be the Robocop screenplay. A film willed into existence by Paul Verhoeven, a gasoline-blooded sex wizard masquerading as a movie director, Robocop grabbed Reagan-era policies by the throat and chokeslamme...
2021-10-19 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostQuick, what’s your favorite children’s musical Broadway show that ends with the main character eating the heart of her best friend? Miss Piggy’s Foot Fetish Funtime Hour? Hmm, I’ve never seen that one. My favorite is Raggedy Ann The Musical. The only Broadway musical for kids wi...
2021-10-18 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI know it's not Reflecting Day here at 1900đźŚ, but like to talk about something very emotional anyway. It's an important event from 1985 that changed everything we knew about telev-- nay, art. You might be thinking, "This is a fun bit where he's leading to som...
2021-10-15 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I was a kid, my grandmother recorded a documentary for me on VHS about dogs. Grandma didn’t know that what she actually recorded wasn’t so much a documentary as a bizarre milieu of reenactments, staged scenes and ridiculous personal dog stories - almost exclusively from a town in Australia calle...
2021-10-14 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe year was sometime in the early '70s. Three people with one wet cough and zero erections tried to invent the first porn parody.
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2021-10-13 11:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostOnce, long ago, there was a comedy website that only wanted three simple things: to make people laugh, to teach them a few things, and to fight the entire cast of Step by Step in order of hilarity. It succeeded in two of those goals, before getting piledriven into the dirt by corporate scavenger...
2021-10-12 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I was in college, one of my professors once said, “Art can have no practical function,” and I was like, “Wow, so deep. If that’s your very narrow definition of what art is; then I think the only truly artistic film is Gremlins 2 The New Batch.”
2021-10-11 12:01:02 +0000 UTC
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There are so many things that make people smile. I bet you could think of a thousand and three of them if you really had to! Well, meet Lisa Birnbach, Ann Hodgman, Patricia Marx, three "authors" who took that bet as a team and lost.
Welcome, đźŚs, to your day of appreciation. We’re awesome. We know that. We know it so hard we took out rival billboards asking drivers to vote on which of us has the better ass. So many people died on that highway, but as a species, we came out of it richer. But this isn’t about us. This is about y...
2021-10-07 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Podcasting Day! This week we welcome -- you’ll never believe we got him! -- Jason Pargin to the podcast! Author Jason Pargin. Novelist Jason Pargin. Book-doer Jason Pargin! Substackist Jason Pargin! He wrot...
2021-10-06 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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2021-10-06 11:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostPeople are always talking about how hard parenting is, and I find that confusing. Parenting is easy as long as you think of it as being permanently at war with someone much smaller and dumber than you. Luckily, corporations are on the side of parents. Recent innovations in technology have created tons of...
2021-10-05 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostMost of the world's great heroes started as a childhood dream. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster dreamed of a baby rocketed to Earth from a doomed planet, gifted with powers beyond mortal man. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby dreamed of four bold adventurers changed by science to help humankind. And Emanuel P. Gill dr...
2021-10-04 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to Part 2 of our Marville Teamworking Day. In true Bill Jemas fashion, we’re going to give you a primer so you can understand all the jokes we’re about to make. Bill Jemas was a co...
2021-10-01 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIn 2002, comic book writers Bill Jemas and Peter David made a bet. The nature of that bet? You suck, Peter David. Peter David put his money on “nuh uh,” while Bill Jemas went all in on “yuh huh.” This resulted in the U-Decide contest - a run of three comics with the fans deciding which was best, ...
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