Mt. Rushmore Podcast

Scrappy? Check.

Unconventional? Check.

5000 to 1 odds? Triple Check!

This episode we break down those facing an insurmountable challenge against a much more overpowering foe. Also a talking pig. On the Mt. Rushmore of Underdogs.

It's the end of the world and we...well, we don't feel fine at all. In fact, it's pretty depressing! We've had nothing to eat but canned pumpkin and Twinkies for the last three months and quite frankly, we're starting to get a little sick of each other. Also, sick from likely radiation poisoning.

On this episode we're discussing everything that has to do with the Post-Apocalyptic world as it has been portrayed in popular culture throughout the years. So, head down to your bomb shelter, crack open an MRE and blast this week's episode through your ham radio. It will give you something to do to break up the boredom. The maddening, maddening boredom.

SHOW NOTES

• Doomsday Bunkers (Michael's Choice)
• "The Day After" (Richard's Choice)
• "The Matrix" (Michael's Choice)
• "Fury Road" (Richard's Choice)
• "The Planet of the Apes" (Michael's Choice)
• Dogs (Richard's Choice)
• The Svalbard Global Seed Vault (Michael's Choice)
• "Wall-E" (Richard's Choice)

The "I do's" have been "We did-ed". The rings have been rung. And now the guests gear up all the hullabaloo around the Wedding Reception itself. This episode we Mount Rushmore the hell out of all the wonderful, joyous and infuriating aspects of the happy couple's party of their lives. If only they were around to enjoy it.

Richard may have come up with a ridiculously long title this week, but I, Michael, can sum it up with one word: Poseur.

And HE went to school to be a writer...

This week we debate all the things we pretend to like so that someone cool will like us. Look, have you met us? It's really the only way we're gonna get into the cool kids party.

From Punk Rock to Politics to Picasso. We put the P in Poseurs.

There's nothing like sitting through 30 minutes of trailers and two hours of movie only to feel like you need to sit through another 10 minutes of credits. Why? Not because you really want to find out who the Best Boy Grip was on the production - no, you're stuck there because you have to see if there's any extra scenes hidden in the credits.

This week we're taking on mid- and post-credit scenes. Amazingly, there once was a time when the movie actually ended before the credits! We remember this because we're old.

Stick around until the end and don't miss the bonus scene where Jeff acquires the Power Disc of Podcast Immortality. What will this mean for next week's episode?

SHOW NOTES

• The Avengers "Schwarma" (Richard's Choice)
• Iron Man "Avengers Initiative" (Michael's Choice)
• Cannonball Run "Outtakes" (Richard's Choice)
• Napoleon Dynamite "Kip's Wedding" (Michael's Choice)
• Airplane! "Taxi Fare" (Richard's Choice)
• Rumble in the Bronx "Outtakes" (Michael's Choice)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Out "Go Home" (Richard's Choice)
• Masters of the Universe "Skeletor's Line" (Michael's Choice)

Imagine if you had someone who looked and sounded JUST LIKE YOU. Except they had one difference that made them totally evil - like being the type of person who microwaves broccoli in the work lunchroom and smells the whole place up for the rest of the day. How frightening would THAT be?

This week we're exploring lookalikes - both as harbingers of pending doom and as wacky celebrity impersonators.

SHOW NOTES

• MyClone (Michael's Pick)
• Lincoln Doppelganger (Richard's Pick)
• Shadow Link from Legend of Zelda II (Michael's Pick)
• Nega-Scott from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Richard's Pick)
• Evil Spock (Michael's Choice)
• The video for "Bad Cover Version" by Pulp (Richard's Pick)
• Doppelganger Spider-Man (Michael's Pick)
• Toni Braxton Impersonator Trina Johnson-Finn (Richard's Pick)

This week's episode is about the act of losing something, which can go in many directions. It could mean losing something physical, like a toy or tickets to a sporting event. Or, it could mean something a little more ethereal, like a loss of innocence.

But mainly, it's about how annoying it is to keep losing your earbuds. Isn't that just the worst?

SHOW NOTES

Soccer tickets (Richard's Choice)

Moss Man action figure (Michael's Choice)

Your sense of invulnerability (Richard's Choice)

An old Hotmail account (Michael's Choice)

Earbuds (Richard's Choice)

Our Rushmore hard drive (Michael's Choice)

The contents of Richard's stomach (Richard's Choice)

A wedding ring (Michael's Choice)

A cat in the walls (Jeff's "Borglum's Bag" choice)

A great movie or TV shows transports you out of your normal, humdrum existence into another world. You become so absorbed in the people, places and things that are happening in front of you that you eventually forget that you're watching a screen and feel like you are actually part of everything happening in front of you.

And then some ding-dong actor swings his "full" coffee mug around and makes it clear that it's actually empty. RECORD SCRATCH and all of the illusion is ruined. So this week we're talking about the moments that take you completely out of a film or TV show and just ruin the whole experience.

SHOW NOTES

• Gift Wrapping (Michael's Choice)
• Empty Coffee Cups (Richard's Choice)
• Costumes That Are Way Too Good (Michael's Choice)
• Bad Accents (Richard's Choice)
• Adaptive Choices (Michael's Choice)
• Overplayed Songs (Richard's Choice)
• Video Games (Michael's Choice)
• Age Gaps (Richard's Choice)

We may have a Monopoly on the idea of what belongs on the Mt. Rushmore of Board Games, but that doesn't mean we have a Clue. This week we're looking at everyone's favorite time-waster/family fight starter. Our choices run the gamut from all-time classics to forgotten personal favorites.

Want to know if your top pick made the list? I guess you'll have to listen and Yahtzee. (Sorry, that last one was terrible. Nothing but Trouble if you ask me.)

SHOW NOTES

• Monopoly (Joint Choice)
• Risk (Richard's Choice)
• Oh, What a Mountain (Michael's Choice)
• Scrabble (Richard's Choice)
• Mouse Trap (Michael's Choice)
• Statis-Pro Baseball (Richard's Choice)
• Girl Talk Date Line (Michael's Choice)

This week we turn the magnifying glass on our younger selves to analyze those things we were just too young to appreciate. A good glass of brandy. A fine pair of sneakers. Hell, even the crushing, yet liberating, weight of being absolutely alone. But not in that Lydia Deetz sort of Beetlejuicey/goth way.