In this week's episode, we continue our month-long dive into spoopy-dom, starting with a *~body switch~* wherein Willie and Amy scream about things that annoyed them while Dylan actually wholeheartedly likes a thing!

Topics include: The Haunting of Bly Manor take 2, Emily in Paris is a pile of sexy rocks, Call My Agent!, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, reading Wikipedia articles on scary movies, ghost exposition, Sarah Kane's Blasted, and Dylan's continued efforts to sneak in some Bong Joon-Ho jabs.

After a digital ghost ate our first recording attempt (true story), your hosts are back with special guest Ezra Reaves to discuss all things horror movies!

Tune in to hear us discuss spoopy topics including the 90s big-animal-horror-movie renaissance, two versions of the same haunting, Patrick Wilson's big forehead, an Dylan's Bong Joon-Ho hot takes.

And, uh, also pinball? Did we talk about pinball? I can't remember. 

This week, all three of your hosts watched the documentary "Things That Go Bump in the Night: The Spooky Pinball Story" which, as the name implies, is about Spooky Pinball.

That's right, we talk about actual, literal pinball and pinball history... as well as small-town socialism, why there are only three pinball companies, Rob Zombie, the Noid, the overlap between the steampunk and pinball communities,  and (naturally) Satan.

Hold on to your hats folks, because this week we've returned to our roots and are discussing video games! We may have discovered that pinball is God, but there are still video games to play and by gum we're gonna figure out if they're pinball (or not).

Topics discussed this week include: actual pinball, Hades, Dark Souls (natch), Super Meat Boy, The Binding of Isaac, Zelda hot takes, Earthbound, Undertale, Dylan's healthy adult routine, Sonic drowning music, bricks, fedoras, and the return of the mail room!

Get out your giant mug of coffee and put on some Carol King because we're TALKIN' GILMORE GIRLS, that crown jewel of 2000s-era WB programming.

Joining your hosts this week is Shaina Wagner, Gilmore Girls expert. Together, we try to figure out 1) if Gilmore Girls is good and 2) how pinball is it all?

In this episode, we discuss Emily Gilmore, Dean Forester: pile of rocks, the forbidden 7th season, everything about Connecticut from two Connecticutians, and Googling "Amy Sherman-Palladino without hat?"

This week, your hosts discuss writer, director, and snake-eating-its-own-tail tale eater, Charlie Kaufman. We dive right into that meta surrealist lake and see what idiot fish we can dredge up from its depths.

Topics discussed include: Plato, everything is triangles, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, misogyny by way of narcissism, Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You, Garden State, the Matrix trilogy, the allegory of the cave, and the death of God.

The all-Cats episode awakened something in your hosts, and this week they're dishing up a deeper dive into musical theatre.

Joining us this week are special guests Bea Miranda and Ezra Reaves. Will they be able to figure out how pinball they are (and also how musicals are pinball)? Maybe!

Topics discussed include: Little Shop of Horrors, Evil Dead: the Musical, Gypsy, Jesus Christ Superstar, the pop-punk musical pantheon, and movies that became musicals that became movies,.

This week, your hosts start by talking about SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, and use it to springboard into conversations about tie-in games, "the medium is the message," the sweet spectacle of musical theater, when (and why) pinball is better than the original game, and the eternal meme-ability of that good square-pants'd sponge.

Topics discussed include: Super Mario Sunshine, Rugrats in Paris for the N64, Skyrim Pinball, there's no cable in Connecticut, and Dylan's love of ramps.

**CONTENT ADVISORY: Brief discussion of spousal abuse (re: Hemingway) at 40:15**

This episode, your hosts decided to get a little loosey-goosey and come in and just.... chat.

And, perhaps surprising no one, when given the opportunity to discuss literally anything, we ended up talking about LITERATURE (and Death to Smoochy).

Topics include: The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz, the time Willie was almost in a sex cult, Lennie hands, why did we all read House of Leaves?, and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. 

You might be tempted to think: "Ah, yes, another regular ol' episode with these three dummies." 

But in this episode, we talk about Cats the musical.

Buckle up: all three of your hosts have lots of opinions about those horny singing felines, Andrew Lloyd Webber's feelings about God, the unholy abomination that is Cats the musical: the movie, and how pinball it all is.

Also in this episode: Skyrim en espagnol, literally the first five minutes of Death Stranding, and more about Cats.