Game Shows | Ep #21

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Pack your Plinko chips and pass the flag; it's the internet's most exciting hour of cash and prizes. Harvey, tell them what they've won!  

Show Notes: 

04:00 Teammate antagonism
09:00 Double Dare 
15:06 Interlude: Nickelodeon GUTS intro

15:31 Let's go to the leaderboard, Mo
18:00 The Aggro Crag controversy 

22:13 Nick Arcade

24:40 Finders Keepers

26:45 Legends of the Hidden Temple

29:35 Nick knock-offs (Fun House / I'm Telling)

31:45 Interlude: "I'll take the money!" (Let's Make a Deal)

33:12 The lost art

36:03 Let's Make a Deal
38:10 Wheel of Fish (UHF)

39:10 Match Game

40:20 Family Feud

41:30 Hollywood Squares

42:11 Press Your Luck

43:23 Michael Larson presses his luck

46:45 Interlude: Whammies

47:25 The Price is Right

59:20 Joy's ten chances

1:00:03 Internationally-inspired game shows (Ninja Warrior / Wipeout / Hole in the Wall)

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Game Shows | Ep #21

Social Media | Ep #20

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Friends, followers, plus-ones and pinheads; this week we get serious about social media and defend our natural right to narcisisim and nonsense. Like this podcast? Like this podcast! See what we did there?  

Show Notes: 

01:15 Can everyone "friend" everyone?
03:35 Usenet/Newsgroups 
05:24 Drew gets some e-guff

07:09 AOL/Prodigy and bulletin boards
10:50 The glamorous life of a forum moderator

15:56 Interlude: Blink 182: "Online Songs"

16:40 Friendster / Orkut / MySpace

19:30 Mark Faceberger

24:20 Interlude: "Facebook Manners and You"

24:55 Trolling for responses (but not Troll 2-ing) 

26:00 In defense of nothing

38:25 Keyboard activists
39:20 Interlude: "Do I have your full attention?" (The Social Network)

45:20 Facegram

49:25 Pinterest

53:59 The Google+ joke

57:50 Social everything

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Social Media | Ep #20

Grease 2 | Ep #19

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Grease may be the word, but Grease 2 is the topic of this week's show, and we've got a few words for it (mostly disparaging ones). It's the start of our new quarterly series looking back on memorable movies of 1982.   

Show Notes: 

00:00 Drew really wants vindication
03:00 Alamo Drafthouse's Summer of 1982  
07:15 Grease 2 promo spot

07:40 Grease is the worst
12:40 I can't believe you said "Cool Rider"

14:25 Interlude: "Back to School Again"

15:25 I wouldn't buy the soundtrack...

29:30 Interlude: "Score Tonight"

30:39 Let's talk about the T-Birds

34:05 Girl for All Seasons

36:30 Xanadu

41:10 Interlude: "Reproduction"
42:00 Grease 3 (Wrath of the Black Panther) 

49:05 Grease 4 (Cooler Rider)

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Grease 2 | Ep #19

Adolescence | Ep #18

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Drew's nephew Josh joins us in the Hourchive this week to school us on his favorite stuff (and even teaches us a thing or two about our favorite stuff).   

Show Notes: 

00:00 Drew's vindication
01:55  80s Child World Commercial
04:45  Can you relate to a fifth grader?

Josh's quiz: #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 | #9 | #10 | #11 | #12

19:06  Can you name the Pac-Man ghosts? 
20:50  Interlude: Pac-Man arcade play

21:30  Gaming is fun

23:53  Turtle Beach

26:33 "Waiting" (Josh's favorite Green Day song)

27:27  "Wishing Well" (Josh's favorite Blink 182 song)

28:40  Pocket God

30:03  Interlude: "The Double Rainbow Song"

31:00  What is the Internet?

31:44  Path of the Saiyans

38:22  Garfield Minus Garfield 

40:18  The Maze Runner Series

45:07  Interlude: Code Lyoko Theme (English Version)

46:30  Code Lyoko

48:03  Josh's drawing

54:10  Those boards don't work on water (unless you've got power) 

56:19  Quotin' comics

58:08  What's so great about physics?

1:00:36  Sci-Fi Science

1:02:10 The future -- where everything hovers

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Adolescence | Ep #18

Video Rental | Ep #17

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Be kind and rewind with us back to the days of big VHS boxes, browsing shelves, and stolen Blockbuster pens. Don't forget to adjust your tracking.  

Show Notes: 

00:00 Let's rent a video
01:00 Summer rental
04:18 The side-step move
05:38 Top-loaders
08:50 Blockbusted

11:20 Horror movie VHS covers

13:00 The apparati

15:10 Designed to rewind

17:37 Interlude: The Aquabats: "Video Nite!" 

18:29 Game console rental: the biggest clamshell ever

19:56 Sega CD

21:20 DVD killed the video star Star Video

24:00 Behind the counter

29:15 Interlude: Randall and the Ruse (Clerks)

30:35 Browsing vs. streaming

44:25 Interlude: The Onion News Network: Blockbuster Video Living Museum

49:56 Redbox

54:23 Tracking: the enduring enigma

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Video Rental | Ep #17