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

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