Summer Outings | Ep #84

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What are you doing on your computer? It's summer; get outside and sweat with the rest of us.  

 

Show Notes: 

08:11 World Naked Bike Ride
13:35 Interlude: Screeching Weasel: "I Wanna Be Naked"
15:30 Strassenfest
19:30 Allemande
20:03 Hill Valley festival (Back to the Future Part III)
21:50 Gypsy Caravan
26:45 Interlude: The Reagonomics: "Ren Fair"
27:15 St. Louis Renaissance Fair
41:40 Interlude: Donovan: "Ferris Wheel"
43:05 See also: Carnivals and Fairs | Ep #38
47:45 Applebutter Festival


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Summer Outings | Ep #84

Coffee | Ep #73

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This week we pay worship to the dark alchemy of coffee and reveal the secret origins of the Hourchive.  

 

Show Notes: 

02:45 Thanks to coffee and Twitter
10:30 Roasting

14:25 Interlude: Julie London: "Black Coffee"
15:05 French-pressing
21:05 The process
27:55 Interlude: Descendents: "Coffee Mug"
28:35 Would you like a little coffee with your sugar?
32:40 Drew meets Howard Shultz
39:30 Treasure Island hotel pirate show
43:20 Espresso
46:20 Interlude: The Tragically Hip: "Coffee Girl"
53:02 Murdoch Perk (RIP)
54:40 Kaldi's
55:54 Shaw's Coffee




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Coffee | Ep #73

Theme Restaurants | Ep #49

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There were no utencils in medieval times, hence there are no utencils at Medieval Times... but there are a lot of awesome things to talk about. 

 

Show Notes: 

04:15 Fauxthentic international cuisine (Macaroni Grill / Casa Gallardo)

07:08 Drew's Casa shirt
10:20 Appledays
11:34 Hard Rock Cafe 
14:05 Planet Hollywood
15:01 Interlude: Planet Hollywood London Opening (1993)
15:50 Planet Hollywood St. Louis
16:30 The Expendables
20:01 Halloween II credits sequence / Masters of the Universe soldier
24:40 Planet Hollywood Chicken Crunch
25:15 Lambert's Cafe
26:28 "Throwed rolls"
30:50 Cracker Barrel
32:45 Interlude: Medeival Times (The Cable Guy)
33:12 Medieval Times
35:09 John's skatepark restaurant
36:59 Drew's future-space restaurant
43:35 Interlude: Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater (audio)
45:10 Rainforest Cafe
45:50 T-Rex Cafe
48:30 Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater
49:41 Drew's giant monster restaurant
52:30 Animator's Palette (Disney Cruise Line)
54:10 Interlude: Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color theme 
55:15 Magic Time Machine Restaurant 

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Theme Restaurants | Ep #49

Movie Theaters | Ep #48

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Let's all go to the lobby, because we've got some stuff to discuss about movie theaters, and only jerks talk during the movie. But are those jerks the key to saving the cinema? Please silence your cell phones as our big-screen tribute takes an unexpected turn. 

 

Show Notes: 

01:58 St. Louis movie theaters

02:12 A crash course in theater history
02:50 United States vs. Paramount Pictures, Inc. 
03:25 Movie palaces (The Fox / Grauman's Chinese / The Egyptian)
07:40 Gimmicks (3-D / Cinemascope)
08:26 See also: Summer Blockbusters
09:02 The "New Hollywood"
10:20 Home theaters
12:05 The quality plateau
17:35 Interlude: The Drifters: "Saturday Night at the Movies"
18:27 Saving movie theaters
23:20 Simulcasts (This American Life / Rifftrax)
24:20 The teenage refuge
28:39 Interlude: "Intermission Time"
29:15 The wrong people
39:45 Interlude: Wehrenberg Theaters Theme
40:41 The experience argument
46:10 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
47:40 The Chase-Park Plaza Cinema 
48:20 Ronnie's 20 Cine
52:45 Projection notes
57:05 Rise of the Planet of the Apes
59:48 The Hi-Pointe Theatre

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Movie Theaters | Ep #48

Haunted Attractions | Ep #44

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Awesome Spooky Month continues with a walk through the hauntrepreneurial industry. Everybody stay together and maybe they won't see us. Drew, you're going first.   

Show Notes: 

03:03 Halloween in Salem, MA
09:10 Homegrown haunts
12:05 Interlude: Misfits: "Horror Business"
15:18 The Haunting of Lemp Brewery
17:30 Silo-X
21:17 TransWorld Halloween & Attractions Show
22:35 The haunted attraction experience
27:45 The Darkness
30:30 Interlude: Calabrese: "Midnight Spookshow"
32:56 Six Flags Fright Fest
38:35 Hell House
43:30 House of Shock
47:15 Interlude: Murderland: "October Sky"
49:55 Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights
54:50 Bill & Ted's Excellent Halloween (2012)
 

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Haunted Attractions | Ep #44