Road Trips | Ep #34

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Get your motor running and head out on the highway with us as we quite literally take the show on the road to talk about what makes road trips so great. No need to speed; the cruise control is set at "awesome."    

Show Notes: 

01:04 Ye olde Hourchive road show

02:54 I strive to drive

05:30 Interstate 44

06:55 Interlude: Lindsay Buckingham "Holiday Road"

07:58 The dangers of the road

08:28 Pee-Wee bonds with bikers

14:25 Interlude: Nelson Riddle "Route 66 Theme"

15:50 Route 66

18:00 Meremac Caverns / Antique Toy Museum / Jesse James Wax Museum

18:40 Jesse James' 102nd birthday party at Meremac Caverns

22:15 Interlude: Nat King Cole: "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66"

23:45 Dottie's Family Restaurant

30:25 Interlude: The Groovie Ghoulies: "The Highwayman"

31:25 Ruby's Homemade Ice Cream

33:20 Road games

40:20 Interlude: Betty Hutton: "Hit the Road to Dreamland" 

41:19 The final approach

42:06 Springfield, Missouri

46:00 Interlude: Van Halen: "Jump" 
47:05 1984
51:05 Interlude: Rancid: "The Highway"
52:16 The voyage home 

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Road Trips | Ep #34

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

Arcades | Ep #01

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Armed with a pocketful of quarters and nostalgia, we prowl through the ruins of Aladdin's Castle and contract Pac-Man fever in our quest to recall the glory days of the video arcade. Side-ponytails, cheese fries, and Revolution X are among the relics of questionable value we uncover along the way. 

Show Notes:
00:45 Early arcade memories (the Dogpatch / Training ground / redemption centers / Revolution X)
09:50 Arcade etiquette (co-op vs...versus? / stranger danger / Hypercolor jerk)
15:03 The dream (John Woo-style / there’s always a girl / performance anxiety / klutz on skates / a shared moment / to the victor go the cheese fries / “Oh, they have games here...”)
26:25 Interlude: “Lots of people are playing ‘em.”
26:45 Arcadar (the search / “I put a pin in that place.”)
29:50 It’s not the games, it’s the atmosphere (darkness / “just a bunch of dirty kids” / neon / vaguely post-apocalyptic / zones / a cacophony of noise)
33:10 It’s gotta be loud (arcade music / a certain type of song / the Lilith Fair arcade / Lisa Loeb in a coin belt)
36:05 Interlude: “Pac-Man Fever”
37:00 Peripherals (loitering / cheese products / laser tag: the seed of nemeses / bumper cars / VR)
42:38 The downfall
45:00 It can never be what it was (retro arcades / 1984 / “the card is the worst.” / Dave & Busters: too legit / Chuck E. Cheese: what happened?)

Show Links:
The Dogpatch 
Revolution X 
Collecovision: “This is the arcade experience” 
Lilith Fair
“Pac-Man Fever”
1984
Dave & Busters
Chuck E. Cheese

Related links:
Google Map of Classic U.S. Arcades
The Arcade Ambiance Project
Why kids like arcades (Aladdin’s Castle, 1990)
Arcade Nation

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Ep. 01: Arcades