Extreme Sports | Ep #68

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Hang ten; this week we're talking our way through all of the sports we were too scared to ever try. Skate or die! 

 

Show Notes: 

01:35 Origins of "extreme"
07:05 Skateboarding
09:25 The great hoverboard lie of 1988

12:26 Thrasher Magazine
12:48 Skate shops
13:05 Skateboard art
13:35 Interlude: Teenage Bottlerocket: "Skate or Die"
14:25 Safety last
16:45 BMX biking (see also: BMX Bandits | Ep #65)
17:01 Dyno VFR | Dyno Compe
19:00 Spills and scabs
28:35 Bones Brigade
29:35 Interlude: NOFX: "Separation of Church and Skate"
30:30 Rollerblades
32:40 Snowboarding
33:01 Hidden Valley
33:55 Skiing 
39:10 MTV Sports
42:35 Skate or Die
43:58 Top Skater
44:40 Tony Hawk Pro Skater series
46:50 Interlude: Adolescents: "Amoeba"
47:20 The X-Games
50:10 Tony Hawk's first 900
51:30 Warped Tour vert ramp
53:12 Razor scooters
56:12 Extreme flicks (Airborn / Thrashin' / Rad / Gleaming the Cube / Prayer of the Rollerboys / The Dirt Bike Kid)



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Extreme Sports | Ep #68

Space Travel | Ep #67

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Launch sequence initiated! 

 

Show Notes: 

02:25 'Nauts
05:40 50 years of space travel
08:40 The International Space Station

08:56 Curiosity
09:18 Naming rights
10:30 The Planetary Society
14:40 The lost cosmonauts
16:40 Moon flag
17:10 Moon map
17:45 The moon race
19:15 "To the moon..." and the other things
20:35 Interlude: Julie London: "Fly Me to the Moon" 
22:50 Why We Left Earth
24:30 Physical effects
28:20 Apollo 11 in real time
30:25 Interlude: "Yakko's Universe" (Animaniacs)
31:15 The shuttle program
31:55 Biosphere 2
32:30 The space elevator
34:45 Space X
36:20 Space Camp: The Movie
41:20 Houston Space Center
44:45 Interlude: Riverdales: "Rocketship X-M"
45:50 Space travel movies (Apollo 13 / 2001: A Space Odyssey / The Right Stuff / From the Earth to the Moon / Armageddon / Explorers / Moon / Sunshine)
56:16 The face on Mars
56:50 Cosmos
58:10 Neil Degrasse Tyson: Death by Black Hole
58:40 "We are all connected" (star stuff)



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Space Travel | Ep #67

Comic Books | Ep #66

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Grab your bags and boards, True Believers. We're raiding the longboxes for a very special issue that'll be worth millions some day.   

 

Show Notes: 

00:40 The Todd McFarlane technique
01:45 John hates "annuals"
03:00 Our first books

03:51 X-Men the Animated Series
04:49 My Secret Identity
09:10 Comic shops
14:15 Interlude: X-Men the Animated Series Opening Theme
15:20 It's hard out there for a comic shop
17:51 The publisher/distributor/retailer rut
19:10 Diamond Comics Distributors
25:10 The digital promise
28:30 Interlude: "Tracer" (Chasing Amy)
29:20 Comics lexicon
31:20 The collecting phenomenon
33:44 Amazing Fantasy #15
41:20 Comic book people
45:15 Interlude: Tripod: "Hot Girl in the Comic Shop"
47:05 Epic crossovers
48:20 Onslaught
50:50 Age of Apocalypse
53:20 No Man's Land
56:40 "Other" publishers


See also:
Marvel Cinematic Universe | Ep #23
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Ep #37
DC Cinematic Universe: Superman | Ep #53
DC Cinematic Universe: Batman | Ep #54

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Comic Books | Ep #66

BMX Bandits | Ep #65

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Two's company, but three will get you talked about - 1983, that is. We kick off our 30-year anniversary retrospectacle series on the films of 1983 with what is likely the first-ever hour-long discussion of Aussie kidsploitation masterpiece BMX Bandits.   

 

Show Notes: 

01:20 Movies of 1983
02:40 BMX Bandits
04:05 John's criteria for awesome movies

06:40 Interlude: Australian BMX Bandits TV promo
07:17 "The Australian Goonies"
27:45 Interlude: BMX Bandits Main Theme
34:30 The waterslide scene
43:20 Interlude: BMX Bandits End Credits
46:12 Brian Trenchard-Smith
49:35 The BMX Bandits saga
50:55 Gosling is Goose



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BMX Bandits | Ep #65

Saturday Night Live | Ep #64

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<applause> Thank you, thank you! It's an honor to be here on this stage. <applause> We've got a great show for you tonight. Musical guest Jeff Wilson is here. <applause> Stick around and we'll be right back!    

 

Show Notes: 

05:01 The history of SNL ("more troughs than peaks")
08:25 The casts
25:15 Interlude: "Lazy Sunday"

26:10 Digital shorts
26:50 "Jane, you ignorant slut"
28:30 The writers
33:01 "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy"
35:50 30 Rock
37:05 SNL Movies
45:55 David Spade cracks up
48:35 Interlude: "King Tut"
49:20 "Chopping Broccoli"
50:55 Consumer Probe Christmas
52:30 Bass-O-Matic 76
54:11 The Judy Miller Show
54:55 A Service for the Hearing Impaired
56:27 Synchronized Swimmers
57:15 The Census Taker
59:30 SNL Commercials


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Saturday Night Live | Ep #64