Cadillacs & Dinosaurs & Gargoyles Part I (w/Amalia Larson)

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Disney Plus is out, and in order to keep the Mouse King from haunting our doorstep, we must kneel before Cold Walter’s throne of content. Amalia “That’s Going In My Leaf Box” Larson joins us to discuss Gargoyles (now streaming in Mickey’s hou$e), and Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (too spicy for Mickeys).

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
Special Guest Amalia Larson perfectly recreates our theme song using only her mouth • The Noble Sacrifice of Chortis the Brave • I hope you brought your umbrellas, cause it’s Kwahoon season • Andy has another one of his Trek-blackouts • The Scots try out some fun accents • Gargoyle skincare is a complicated process

Today's Episode Sponsor: Most Toasters™

THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

  • Gargoyles - Episode 1, “Awakening, Part 1"

  • Cadillacs and Dinosaurs - Episode 1, "Rogue"

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

Over the Garden Wall Part IV - The Cow as Red as Milk

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All good things must come to an end, which we guess means our time with Over the Garden Wall was a good thing because it’s come to an end. So gather up your sickles and roasted barley and let’s get pumpkin drunk on gourd wine.

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
Wirt cooks up a stinky mixtape • Jason Funderburker is the complete package • Soylent Green Seinfeld is back with new revelations • Potatus et Molassus • Lorna reveals her bone crypt

THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

  • Over the Garden Wall - Episode 9, "Into the Unknown"

  • Over the Garden Wall - Episode 10, "Into the Unknown"

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

Over the Garden Wall Part III - The Outside Price

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Our Over the Garden Wall watch is nearing the end of its run, but not before we bust out our finely tuned English 101 skills and really just go to town. These juxtaposition is a real symbolism (Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967).

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
Austin blows his purgatory magic on a cold pickle • We were so close to getting through Cloud City without Star Wars references • There’s an episode here we kinda don’t like • Rory’s siren goes off • Nobody has a hundred nickels

Today's Episode Sponsors: The Janglin’ Man™, Spider-Brian™

THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

  • Over the Garden Wall - Episode 6, "Lullaby in Frogland"

  • Over the Garden Wall - Episode 7, "The Ringing of the Bell"

  • Over the Garden Wall - Episode 8, "Babes in the Wood"

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

Over the Garden Wall Part II - If a Skee-Balls in the Forest

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Garden walls? We’re still not over them! Our autumnal arc continues with a triad of acclaimed episodes about potato syrup, tavern singing, and doing horse crimes. Will Andy overcome his hatred of Skee-Ball and enjoy himself? Listen and find out!

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
All the man wanted was to teach animals how to count and spell • Rory delivers a spirited defense of Tank People • Fred just wants to steal • No one really addresses how highwaymen are actually horrible criminals who forcefully rob you • Andy and Austin are each other’s Rococo/Georgian architecture friend

Today's Episode Sponsors: Uber, but with Grandmas™, Trumplestiltskin™

THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

  • Over the Garden Wall - Episode 3, "Schooltown Follies"

  • Over the Garden Wall - Episode 4, "Songs of the Dark Lantern"

  • Over the Garden Wall - Episode 5, "Mad Love"

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

Over the Garden Wall Part I - Dawn of the Planet of the Anime Cat

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When the pumpkins come out to play and the breeze is as crisp as the leaves, there’s only one thing we could think to watch: Over the Garden Wall. Join us throughout October as we wander into the Unknown, which is just what we call watching a really good show for once.

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
Don’t forget to water your whispers • All three of us earned an A in English 101, yet the professor thinks we’re a little pretentious so we get an A- • Rory tries to spoil the show for our listeners, so Andy the Editing Hero bleeps his mischief • There was an awful turkey • Nick Cannon, teen tastemaker and Wretched King of Slime, walks the earth until another is chosen

Today's Episode Sponsor: The Caramel Secret™

THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

  • Over the Garden Wall - Episode 1, "The Old Grist Mill"

  • Over the Garden Wall - Episode 2, "Hard Times at the Huskin’ Bee"

The Boys: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland), Rory Voie (Seattle!?)
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)

King of the Hill Part III - The Great Podcast Wars

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This week we go into our tragic backstories and reveal why SMT is America’s new sweetheart! During our King of the Hill shouting time, we’ll gather a motley crew of dirtbags and derelicts to do MMA battles with Podcast Thanos, Joe Rogan. That’s a 2019 takedown, baybee!

This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:
Soft Austin’s tissue-paper bones were tickled by a honeybee • Jun’ichiro does sound a lot like Junky Joe, to be fair to Cotton • We don’t really talk about it in the podcast but Bohemian Rhapsody was so bad • BEES again • What’s that thing you walk through in the mall, though

Today's Episode Sponsor: Sega Games Tony™

THIS WEEK'S EPISODES

  • King of the Hill - S06E21/22, "Returning Japanese"

  • King of the Hill - S09E08, "Mutual of Omabwah"

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