The Creeps | Ep #16

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Are you afraid of the dark? Then turn on some lights as we reveal the things that scare us. 

Show Notes: 

03:14 The dark
06:20 Ghosts
16:35 Interlude: The Days of Our Lives Exorcism 
17:13 Haunted places
18:10 The Lemp Mansion

26:15 Crazies

28:24 Interlude: Laurie's Theme (Halloween) 

39:25 Sleep paralysis

36:09 Nightmares

39:15 Voyurism gone awry!

43:04 Interlude: ELO: "Fire on High"

44:09 Scary cinema: The Ring / The Woman in Black / The Blair Witch Project / Alien / The Haunting

1:01:26 Hidden tracks and backmasking

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The Creeps | Ep #16

Addendums | Eps 1-15

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We dive back into the Hourchive this week with a pile of stickey notes and a bottle of White-Out and make a few additions, corrections, and clarifications to our first batch of topics. It's a celebration of minutiae, administrative details, and Eddie Vedder impressions we call Addendums. 

Show Notes: 

02:38 Arcades -- Planet SoCal / boardwalks / home arcades / crazy Japanese arcade games 
09:05 Interlude: Luna City (RIP)
12:55 Pizza -- Bagel Bites / California-style
16:35 Interlude: Bagel Bites commercial (1997)
19:06 Toy Stores -- Drew's Children Palace jingle

20:07 Interlude: Children's Palace commercial (1979) 

21:25 Polymaths -- Crichton correction / Darwin's disappointed chimpanzee / Maya Angelou 

26:20 Interlude: Third Eye Blind: "Semi-charmed Life"

27:30 90s Music -- Third Eye Blind / Everclear / Weezer / Blind Melon (the bee girl) / grunge fallout 

38:00 Interlude: Soul Aslyum: "Somebody to Shove" 

39:02 Movie Monsters (1 / 2) -- Zombies / the Gizmo Song

44:22 The Mall -- Avoiding/chasing chicks / our stage / Mall Madness / the Mall of America

52:35 Interlude: Mall Madness commercial

59:58 Doomsday -- Fallout shelfters / Blast From the Past / Gleaming the Cube

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Addendums #01 | Eps 1-15

Fast Food | Ep #15

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This week we pull up to the drive-thru an order an overview and history of fast food, from Ray Croc to roast beef (ugh). Would you like fries with that shake? 

Show Notes: 

01:25 A defining moment 
04:30 McWorld
05:40 The McMenu Song / Big Mac Jingle
06:18 Communist fowl
11:01 Drew's fry/shake combination/abomination 

13:03 Interlude: Wesley Willis: "Rock n' Roll McDonald's"

14:12 Ray Croc: the original dude 

16:34 The Cool McD McDLT

22:18 Ronald McDonald: No Child Left Behind 

23:48 The McDonaldland Characters 

25:30 McToys: McDonaldland Playset | Playskool McDonald's

27:33 Happy Meal Hall of Fame: Changeables | Astrosniks

28:34 Interlude: Teenage Bottlerocket: "Blood Bath at Burger King" 

29:35 Burger King: The Pepsi to McDonald's Coke

32:03 Jack in the Box: The Mountain Dew to Burger King's Pepsi

37:05 Monterey Jack's

39:20 Taco Bell

45:15 Interlude: Das Racist: "The Combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell"

47:31 Roast beef: ugh

50:58 Whatsamatter, McFly; chicken?

52:42 Outliers

1:00:44 Fast Food Nation

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Doomsday | Ep #14

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Enraptured with the rapture but not sure where to start? Stop worrying and learn to love the bomb (and various other doomsday scenarios) with our guide to Mayan calendars, mushroom clouds, and Moore's law. It's the end of the world as we know it, and we...eh, you know.

Show Notes:

01:34 Armageddonology
03:10 The Mayan calendar
05:20 The (jolly) red giant theory
09:52 Sword Interval
13:12 Timewave Zero

16:15 Interlude: Nancy Sinatra - "The End of the World"

17:25 Singularity

17:47 Moore's law

24:23 When do the zombies come in?

25:46 All-star doomsday scenario team-up

28:05 Interlude: Pennywise - "30 Seconds Till the End of the World"

28:55 Why 2K?

32:06 Nostradamus

33:55 The Nibiru high-five

38:40 The original holy-crap, end-of-the-world story

43:35 Interlude: REM - "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"

44:46 Doomsday lit

50:13 End of the world flicks

55:17 Cthulu

57:34 The Kraken

Retraction
Via NASA.com's FAQ:
Q: Could phenomena occur where planets align in a way that impacts Earth?
A: There are no planetary alignments in the next few decades, Earth will not cross the galactic plane in 2012, and even if these alignments were to occur, their effects on the Earth would be negligible. Each December the Earth and sun align with the approximate center of the Milky Way Galaxy but that is an annual event of no consequence.

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Doomsday | Ep #14

Snow Days | Ep #13

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Don your snow pants and start making wampa noises, 'cause you're not going anywhere in this storm. Might as well make the most of it and join us as we talk broken coccyges and Calvin & Hobbes. 

Show Notes:  

03:50 Our three favorite words: "No school today" 
07:28 The forbidden pleasures of daytime TV
09:00 Snow pants 
10:33 The best bowl of cereal of the year
13:48 Right in the coccyx

18:36 Interlude: Sled wax (National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation)

19:26 Snow forts > snow balls

20:21 Donald's Snow Fight

21:40 Calvin's snowmen dioramas

27:21 The snowman inferiority complex

29:31 Snowdays nowadays

31:20 Interlude: Let's Build a Snowman (Cannibal the Musical)

32:29 Snowbound cinema

36:20 Right outta snowwhere

39:20 There's snow stopping these drivers

41:05 Snowsports

51:55 Interlude: Thundersnow

52:25 Let's go exploring

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Snow Days | Ep #13