Ep. 262: Reading “Weird Al”‘s Mail
Los Angeles should be known as "Celebrity City", since this is where so many live. If you are an everyday person, and you happen to also live in Los Angeles,…
Ep. 261: Aliens, Crypto, & DMT
Project Blue Book was supposed to be the U.S. Government's official investigation into UFO's. The science advisor was a man named J. Allen Hynek. He was the one responsible for…
*Bonus* – The Gong Show in Cinema
Let's be serious: The Gong Show was a national phenomenon! Unfortunately like a lot of things in the 70's, once a movie was made, the fad was over. This is…
Ep. 260: The Importance of Being Gonged
If you didn't grow up in the 70's, you have no concept of just how popular "The Gong Show" was. This was a daytime show that destroyed the ratings,…
Ep. 259: The Knight Who Started a Role-playing Revolution
Sir Ian Livingstone is a real knight, known as the "Knight of the Nerds". Never has a moniker been more apt. Ian and his partner Steve Jackson were early fanatics…
Ep. 258: Learn to Harp a Slib of Boont
How many people reading this have attempted to learn a new language? I know that I have stopped and restarted Spanish lessons twice in the past 3 years. The grammar…
*Bonus* – TMNT in Video Games
One of the lucky breaks Eastman & Laird received was that Nintendo and Konami were looking for a new kind of game and the turtles came around at the perfect…
Ep. 257: TMNT – The Forty Year Phenomenon
1984 was a big year. Ghostbusters and Terminator were released, the events of George Orwell's novel take place, and in a Massachusetts suburb, two comic artists accidentally created one of…