Special - Daria (w/Amalia Larson)

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We’re joined in the studio once again by Amalia “Soap Toes” Larson to examine MTV’s patron saint of Generation X, Daria. So crank up the grunge, slam a pog, shred your denim, and remember those who bravely fought in the Boomer Uprising of ‘97.

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
Men really ought to add some entertainment features ~down there~ • The Vengaboys are coming to claim your bananas • Justice for Quinn Morgendorfer • The best days end with a bonus sock • If your teen has low self-esteem, you probably haven’t yelled at them enough

Today’s Episode Sponsor: The 2020 Alvin and the Chipmunks Convention™

THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

  • Daria Episode 1, “Esteemsters”

  • Daria Episode 2, “The Invitation”

The Boys: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland), Rory Voie (Seattle)
Fabulous Guest: Amalia Larson (Seattle)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)

Special - Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light

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Sometimes a show comes along that unites us in our desire to utterly and completely destroy it, and this time it’s 1987’s Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light. Join Merklynn the Centrist Wizard as he foists powers upon the ruling class in return for vague favors. Chaos, naturally, ensues.

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
Dirty nuts, clean nuts, you know I’ve had my share • No sooner is Merklynn done with his 20 minute explanation of the show than the Spectral Knights immediately disappoint us with their poor judgement • The eternal tale of a man and his trapdoor into our hearts • The power discrepancy between heroes and villains demands a balance patch

Today’s Episode Sponsor: Dad’s Old Big Box of Cables™

THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

  • Visionaries Episode 1, “The Age of Magic Begins”

  • Visionaries Episode 2, “The Dark Hand of Treachery”

The Boys: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland), Rory Voie (Seattle)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)

Klaus - A Saturday Morning Tuesdays Movie Night

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As our third season draws to a close, and Father Winter slinks down your domestic smokehole to deliver his damp secrets, we thought it’d be fun to watch an honest-to-goodness movie on the pod: the all-new, all-Netflix Santa origin tale, Klaus!

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
This is a Joan Cusack podcast and Andys don’t get a vote • Santa finally chops the Chekhov’s Wood by the end of the movie • Kids famously hate the mail • and Spielbergs hate the Internet • Learn the value of a dollar and a woman’s love

Today’s Episode Sponsor: Danny DeVito and the Christmas Mouse™

THIS WEEK'S MOVIE

  • Netflix’s “Klaus”

The Boys: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland), Rory Voie (San Diego)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)

Special - Mighty Max (w/Dominique Thomas)

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Don your historically accurate magic baseball cap and travel back to the world of ‘90s toy marketing. Special guest Dom “Not Mad At Us This Time” Thomas joins us for the story of a boy being routinely taken out of school to party with a chicken wizard.

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
Dom must’ve been playing Zelda recently • Max scientifically explains to children that monsters are legit real • The Pizza Loophole gets past all the warding charms • An eccentric Texan makes everything better • Kids continue to loooove contract law

THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

  • Mighty Max - Season 1, Episode 9, "Less than 20,000 Squid Heads Under the Sea"

  • Mighty Max - Season 2, Episode 8, "Along Came Arachnoid"

The Boys: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland), Rory Voie (San Diego)
Fabulous Guest: Dominique Thomas (Seattle)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)

A Modestly Haunted Adult Halloween

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It’s our Halloweeniest special of the year, but here’s the deal: we’re adults. We get to pick the candy and the shows, and this time it’s all treats baybee. King of the Hill returns with SMT newcomer Freakazoid! for the exact level of spooky we’re in the mood for: mild.

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
The safeguards remain in place for further Sinbad-based threats • A lightbulb expert makes a swing and a miss • Freakazoid can always turn to relentless shaming as a last resort • Hank teaches Luanne about the birds but definitely no bees • Austin ate the Goblin Corn from CVS

THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

  • Freakazoid! - Episode 2A, "Candle Jack”/”The Cloud"

  • King of the Hill - Season 7, Episode 9, "Pigmalion"

The Boys: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland), Rory Voie (San Diego)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)

100th Epizode Zuper-Zpecial: The Bots Master (w/Kyle Levien)

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We’ve officially been doing this for ONE HUNDRED EPISODES, and what better way to complete the ritual and welcome the End Times than choke down the worst(?) cartoon ever made, The Bots Master. Special guest and founding member Kyle “Was Born A Bird” Levien joins us once again to put a stake in its cold, evil heart. It’s Laser Time!

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
Austin thinks ‘Ninjzz’ was created to rhyme something with ‘hinges’ for the rap song • In a stunning display of hat stacking, there is a character that is your mom, a robot, and Napoleon Bonaparte • In this Bizarro Universe, a tiny shrieking child is the best part of the show • Jessica Fletcher’s Anime Mysteries really fires up the Small Boy

THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

  • The Bots Master - Episode 1, “Adios, ZZ”

  • The Bots Master - Episode 38, “Momzz”

The Boys: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Seattle), Rory Voie (Taipei)
Fabulous Guest: Kyle Levien (Seattle)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)

Bionic Six - Power Daddy Frog Wrestling (w/Spencer Davenport)

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Spencer “Greased Frightening” Davenport becomes a foster brother in our podcast family for our latest dispatch from the bowels of the 1980s. Today’s dump-truck truck-dump is Bionic Six, which follows a family of robo-frankensteins battling angry snow, hot cheese, and more than one Jonathan.

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
Don’t name the Japanese boy “Karate” • Eastern Europe has too many real trolls • This is what it sounds like—when frogs cry • Your mom and dad are sexually active, and your sister is too • To break the witch’s curse, enter the frog’s mouth tongue-first

THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

  • Bionic Six - Episode 10, “Bionics On! The First Adventure”

  • Bionic Six - Episode 43, “Once Upon a Crime”

The Boys: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Seattle), Rory Voie (Taipei)
Fabulous Guest: Spencer Davenport (Seattle)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)

The ‘Spiral Zone’ Zone - A Game of Zones

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We don’t like to throw around the term “unwatchable” all that often, but after seeing 1987’s Spiral Zone, we cancelled any and all other chances to watch it. How can a show starring Dirk Courage and the ass-whippingest theme song in existence suck so much? Welcome to the Zone, Mr. President.

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
Zone • zone • zone • zone • zone

THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

  • Spiral Zone - Episode 1, “Holographic Zone Battle”

  • Spiral Zone - Episode 12, “The Impostor”

The Boys: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Seattle), Rory Voie (Taipei)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)

I've Read Dune, Chapters 9-10: Mom Can't Know

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Today is our last recorded episode of “I’ve Read Dune, With Rory Voie” - but don’t be sad, because our regular cartoon podcast will resume in two weeks, on September 10. See you then, and thanks for listening!

The Boys: Rory Voie (Taipei), Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)
Beautiful Theme: Kyle Levien (Seattle)

I've Read Dune, Chapter 8: For Why Does A Young Boy Pine?

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Austin is sure to get an A in English 101 for his astute analysis of this week’s chapter. His juxtapositions are out of control, everyone knows that.

The Boys: Rory Voie (Taipei), Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)
Beautiful Theme: Kyle Levien (Seattle)

I've Read Dune, Chapter 7: Wiz-Bird, The Wizard Bird

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Grab your crysknives, you Well-Dippers, it’s time to head back to the planet voted “most sand-having” thirty centuries in a row.

The Boys: Rory Voie (Taipei), Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)
Beautiful Theme: Kyle Levien (Seattle)

I've Read Dune, Chapter 6: The Great De-Noodling

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Somehow we can’t discuss Dune without interpreting it through a Game of Thronesian lens, so come to class and let Maester Rory teach us about Sansa Atreides.

The Boys: Rory Voie (Taipei), Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)
Beautiful Theme: Kyle Levien (Seattle)

I've Read Dune, Chapter 3: Clams & Barnacles

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Here in Chapter 3 of Frank Herbert’s Dune, a lot of interesting worldbuilding is swept under the rug in favor of Rory’s questionable seafood metaphors.

The Boys: Rory Voie (Taipei), Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)
Beautiful Theme: Kyle Levien (Seattle)

I've Read Dune, Chapter 1: A Box Full of Hot Spaghetti

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Rory Voie has read Dune. Austin and Andy have not. Here at the crossroads of education and infuriation, the journey to learn Dune (without doing any actual work) begins.

The Boys: Rory Voie (Taipei), Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)
Beautiful Theme: Kyle Levien (Seattle)

Special - Vytor: The Starfire Champion (w/Nathan Cox)

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Fantasy becomes reality with Vytor: The Starfire Champion! Special guest Nathan “Banana Leaf Skort” Cox joins our summer garden party as we attempt to understand this short-lived 1989 cartoon about unsafe boomerangs, talking sky cars, and tree maintenance.

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
Special guest Nathan “We Told Him This One Was Good” Cox has a hilarious pants adventure • There’s a monkey in the garden, and we’d better go catch it • F-3PPO brings in the Star Wars target demo • Why don’t these science women believe in my manly magicks?? • Explore a world where ancient prophecies are about as old as the series finale of Frasier • Do you guys remember in SSX Tricky where

THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

  • Vytor: The Starfire Champion - Episode 1, “The Starfire Legacy”

  • Vytor: The Starfire Champion - Episode 3, “The Spirit Tree”

The Boys: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland), Rory Voie (Taipei)
Fabulous Guest: Nathan Cox (Seattle)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)

Special - Sky Dancers & Dragon Flyz (w/Alison Lührs)

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Special guest Alison “Promised Us Pasta” Lührs joins us in the studio to examine the smoking wreckage of the 90s “propeller weapon” craze that resulted in Sky Dancers and Dragon Flyz. Do their heavily gendered cartoons reach the heights of the toys?

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
Batten down your manes, horse girls • Dip ‘n’ rip off to the rocketship city of Airlandis, where we all share one dad • Let the power of dance magic turn off your stupid science brain • Queen Skyla lists every character in the show in extreme detail • Problematic representation, ahoy!

THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

  • Dragon Flyz - Episode 1, “Dragon Dawn”

  • Sky Dancers - Episode 1, “They Sky’s the Limit”

The Boys: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland), Rory Voie (Taipei)
Fabulous Guest: Alison Lührs (Seattle)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)

Earth Day Special (w/Annie Jansen)

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We have to skip the formalities this week because THEY MADE A FREE WILLY CARTOON WITH A CYBORG IN IT. Yeah we also watched Captain Planet send President Bush to Venus but seriously FREE WILLY TALKS LIKE HE’S PEOPLE AND FIGHTS A CYBORG.

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
Special Guest Annie “Niceberg Lettuce” Jansen leads us in a highly successful ASMR venture • Rory regales us with tales of when he was King of High School and a (sch)longshoreman • Wasps: America’s most ruthless lobbyists • Tim Curry completely phones it in again • Austin drops some grim Sonic the Hedgehog tidings that are way past upsetting

THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

  • Free Willy - Season 2, Episode 7, “Turmoil”

  • Captain Planet - Season 3, Episode 1, “Greenhouse Planet”

The Boys: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland), Rory Voie (Taipei)
Fabulous Guest: Annie Jansen (Seattle)
Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)