Summer Vacation | Ep #28

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No more pencils, no more books; this week we’re cannonballing into the pool and casting reflective looks back at summer vacation and all of its lazy, languid, langering (?) glory as we kick off a special series of summer-themed episodes. Come on in; the water’s great!  

Show Notes: 

02:40 Good Burger
05:29 Alice Cooper: "School's Out"

16:20 Interlude: Screeching Weasel: "The First Day of Summer"
24:45 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

28:30 The Real Ghostbusters Proton Pack

30:00 Interlude: Huntingtons: "No Pool Party Tonite"

39:12 Wet Willy's

40:40 Raging Rivers

42:15 Schlitterbahn / Master Blaster water coaster

46:05 Interlude: Palmdale: "Here Comes the Summer"

47:10 The grove

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Summer Vacation | Ep #28

The Schoolyard | Ep #24

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Red rover, red rover; we're coming over to talk about playground performances, blacktop brawls, and whatever that game is where you throw a tennis ball at a wall. Meet you at the bike racks!   

Show Notes: 

04:00 Snipers and sneakers
06:28 John's secret garden
08:55 Dicken holds court 

13:05 Interlude: Paul Simon: "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" 
13:45 Child's Delight

16:30 Drew's playground pipe

20:15 The confounding geodesic playground dome

26:18 Tussels and fisticuffs

31:40 Interlude: Gwen Stefani: "Hollaback Girl"

34:12 The Good Son

37:37 The purple scatter

39:30 Interlude: The Rules of Four Square

46:19 Mr. Savage, the four square tyrant

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The Schoolyard | Ep #24

Social Media | Ep #20

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Friends, followers, plus-ones and pinheads; this week we get serious about social media and defend our natural right to narcisisim and nonsense. Like this podcast? Like this podcast! See what we did there?  

Show Notes: 

01:15 Can everyone "friend" everyone?
03:35 Usenet/Newsgroups 
05:24 Drew gets some e-guff

07:09 AOL/Prodigy and bulletin boards
10:50 The glamorous life of a forum moderator

15:56 Interlude: Blink 182: "Online Songs"

16:40 Friendster / Orkut / MySpace

19:30 Mark Faceberger

24:20 Interlude: "Facebook Manners and You"

24:55 Trolling for responses (but not Troll 2-ing) 

26:00 In defense of nothing

38:25 Keyboard activists
39:20 Interlude: "Do I have your full attention?" (The Social Network)

45:20 Facegram

49:25 Pinterest

53:59 The Google+ joke

57:50 Social everything

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Social Media | Ep #20

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

Special Features | Ep #06

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The opinions expressed in the following audio commentaries, featurettes, deleted scenes, and spoiler alerts do not necessarily reflect the views of Hourchive management. But they probably do.

Show Notes:

02:12 From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga
03:30 Inside Jabba's tail
05:26 What do you mean by "bonus?"
07:30 Double-features
11:25 Trailers: special or not?
14:00 Interlude: Psycho trailer (1960)
13:20 The Making-Of VHS Phenomenon (Jurassic Park / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
25:25 Interlude: The surfer animator soliloquy
26:10 The "Big" Laserdisc Era
27:56 The Powers of 10 (Science!)

30:03 DVDs ("Let's see how these do.")

31:10 Special feature standbys

37:02 Interlude: Schwarzenegger on Total Recall (Best. Commentary. Ever)

37:50 The Criterion Collection (Read along with Drew!)

47:00 Favorite special features:

Drew: The Making of The Phantom Menace / Lord of the Rings Extended Edition behind-the-scenes / Mallrats audio commentary

John: "The shark is not working" (Jaws) / Sex Pistols on Bill Grundy (Sid & Nancy) / Evil Dead II commentary

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Special Features | Ep #06