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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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Tuesday Apr 11, 2017
Tuesday Apr 11, 2017
In 1899 two newspaper giants were fighting for control of the New York readership, and tried to squeeze their distributors for an extra advantage. Those distributors were self-employed child laborers, who organized themselves and halted the entire distribution system until their demands were met. This drama, a nearly forgotten footnote in US labor history, was dramatized in a commercial flop of a film, and re-dramatized in a successful Broadway musical. Can a success set a precedent if it's forgotten? Does an adaptation have a duty to be accurate; and what if the facts are lost? How can an unpopular work become more sucessful after being changed for the worse?
Links!
- Newsies (1992)
- Newsies the Musical
- Artemisia Gentileschi, Renaissance Painter, by listener Ciaran
- SEX ARCHIE (iTunes/Stitcher/RSS) twitter
- Warcraft on Alcohollywood
- Mouse Guard by Six Feats Under
Tuesday Mar 14, 2017
Tuesday Mar 14, 2017
In his short life, Jim Henson re-invented an art form, taught millions to read, and entertained the world. His life, career, and philosophy were even broader than that. Why does a work's intended audience devalue its creativity? How do you escape your image to break new ground? How would you make a children's show to end war? Happy Birthday, Alaina!
Links!
- Pierre the Rat
- Sam & Friends: News Skit, Old Black Magic
- Wilkins Coffee commercial sampler
- Tales of the Tinkerdee pilot
- Land of Tinkerdee clip
- Purina Puppy Chow ads
- Rowlf on the Jimmy Dean Show
- Time Piece clip, behind the scenes
- The Cube
- Run, Run; Wheels That Go; Ripples
- Tale of Sand
- Rolling Ball Number 3; Queen of Six
- The Muppet Musicians of Bremen
- Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince
- Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas
- Brian Froud's website
- Muppet*Vision 3D
- Jim Henson on Arsenio Hall
- Jim Henson's Memorial Service
- The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
- SEX ARCHIE (iTunes/Stitcher/RSS) twitter
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Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
Face front, True Believers! Grant takes us through the life and career of every nerd's grandpa, Stan Lee! From humble beginnings as a teenage office assistant, to luminary of the field, to midlife crisis, to global celebrity! His talent, bluster, and talent for bluster carried him through it all. Who deserves credit for a collaboration? Which characters were really being sold? What is the value of a figurehead that has no contact with the rest of the ship? Excelsior!
Links!
- Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee
- Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
- The Bullpen Bulletins Index
- Merry Marvel Marching Society record skit
- More on Funky Flashman
- Ads and press from A Marvel-ous Evening with Stan Lee, the Carnegie Hall event
- Footage of the Spider-Wedding
- Stan ripping on Liefeld and McFarlane
- Walk of Fame star
- The Stan Lee Foundation
- POW! Entertainment
- Mad Fuzz; Proceeds from purchases made before Februaey 11th will go to the ACLU. Please mention ACLU in the "notes to seller" area when ordering.
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
Alaina continues her Disney Parks series with an episode on Walt Disney World Resort's second gate: Epcot. Walt Disney's original idea for all that Florida land was a planned city so unique that the world would come to see how his people lived and worked. After his death, some of those ideas, and the name, were recycled to be a theme park that serves as a permanent World's Fair. Is high modernism the path to despotism? Even so, could it have worked? How can you hit a forever-moving target: the future? Who needs rides when you can visit 11 themed gift shops and drink?
Links!
- Epcot website
- Walt Disney's EPCOT film
- The Reedy Creek Improvement District
- Collections of concept art
- Epcot Center 1978 Preview Video; Featuring Card Walker
- Epcot dedication ceremony
- Opening Celebration TV Special
- Kitchen Kabaret
- Symbiosis
- Captain EO
- Abandoned - Journey Into Imagination
- Abandoned - Horizons
- Abandoned - Wonders of Life Pavilion
- The Making of Me
- Video comparison of Maelstrom and Frozen Ever After
- Epcot Festival of the Arts Trip report
Tuesday Sep 06, 2016
Tuesday Sep 06, 2016
As promised, here's the bonus episode with more letters and outtakes. Some of our favorite bits from Episode 8 fell on the cutting room floor, and here they are for you to enjoy.
Tuesday Aug 30, 2016
Tuesday Aug 30, 2016
Alaina brings us to the Most Magical Place on Earth, Magic Kingdom Park in the Walt Disney World Resort. We learn about the park's inception and development, and follow a number of notable attractions from opening day to the present. Does the Magic Kingdom have a unique identity, or is it just Disneyland 2? How does something so compelling come from the collision of family passion and profit-seeking? Is there really any hope they'll give us a free vacation for saying mostly nice things? This one went pretty long, so look out for deleted and extended conversations in a supplemental episode next Tuesday!
- 1965 Press Conference
- Yesterland
- An article on the history of Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room
- The Florida Project film, presented to the public just before Walt's death.
- Interactive map I LOVE MAPS!
- The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World, a Wonderful World of Disney special that aired October 29, 1971. A fun source of video of the park as it was, and early 70s television production.
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