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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Fast Food | Ep #15

Pizza | Ep #02

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This week we hit your eye like a big...podcast about pizza, eluding the Napolese police, investigating the origins of provel cheese, and exposing the secret lobby behind the success of the Ninja Turtles. Grab a napkin; this one gets messy. 

Show Notes: 

00:30  Neapolitan (not the ice cream)
03:30  Variation is the slice of life (Chicago-style / St. Louis-style)
08:07  Ribbons of cheese (Uncle Provel's leather jacket)
16:30  New York-style (a less perilous pizza)
20:40  Interlude: "Pizza Day" (The Aquabats)
23:00  Step into my pizza parlor (the place for memories)
26:20  Everybody orders pizza (it was probably a bikini / one mace special: extra spicy)
42:13  "Wise man say: forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza."
44:18  'Noid Nerds
48:03  "Pizza Power" (flying saucer food delight)
50:40  I do pizza my way
54:58  The future is freeze-dried

Show Links:
The Aquabats: "Pizza Day"
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie
Dominoes: Avoid the 'Noid
Ninja Turtles Coming Out of Their Shells Tour
"Pizza Power"
Back to the Future Part II

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Ep. 02: Pizza