Mt. Rushmore Podcast

It might be hard for our younger listeners to imagine, but there once was a time when the Internet wasn't entirely a cesspool filled with the worst dregs of humanity! Yes, the late 2000s and early 2010s were a glorious time where people enjoyed the dumbest things on the Internet without every comment section turning into a partisan scream fest. This week we're saluting some of the early Internet celebrities who time might have forgotten, but our browser cookies haven't

You can tell that it's the holiday season: the air is a little crisper, people are nicer...even your pets seem a little more jolly. But the holidays aren't always so "pleasant" and "nice" - sometimes the holidays can just plain suck.

This week we're discussing the times when the holidays turned out to be one big bummer. So listen along as we become audio Krampuses (Krampi?) and bring your holiday season down to Earth just a little bit.

This week we're looking at a range of pop culture rabbits, from Brooklyn-talking tough guys to singers of above-average country music in the 1980s.

SHOW NOTES

• Bugs Bunny (Joint Choice)
• Easter Bunny (Michael's Choice)
• The March Hare from "Alice in Wonderland" (Richard's Choice)
• The Playboy Bunny (Michael's Choice)
• The Roger Rabbit Dance (Joint Choice)
• Eddie Rabbitt (Richard's Choice)

Let this episode be a reminder to you that the start of 2022 is creeping closer and closer. Soon it will be January - a month of fresh beginnings, optimism and sitting on your duff eating nachos while watching football.

This week we're looking at some of the things that make January one of the 12 most interesting months of the year. We want you to make it an early New Year's resolution to listen to this episode!

SHOW NOTES

• Bowl Games (Joint Choice)
• New Year's Resolutions (Richard's Choice)
• Self-Care (Michael's Choice)
• Martin Luther King Day (Richard's Choice)
• Being Off By a Year (Michael's Choice)
• National Soup Month (Richard's Choice)
• The Rose Parade (Michael's Choice)

The Simpsons has featured Guest Stars since it's very first season way back in 1990. 913 have been featured on the tv show (917 if you include the movie... but you don't make friends with the movie) and we try to whittle it down to the four most important!

OK. Four seemingly random choices. But like, you know. Whatever.

This week Richard (Asshole!) and Michael (Slut!) take a jump to the left...and then a step to the right... as they debate the Late Night Science Fiction cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Jeff's here to make sure you all shiver with antici...

...pation.

Let's face it: most rockers aren't actually master thespians when put in front of a camera. So if you're going to cast one in your flick, why not give them the easiest role possible: playing themselves. We're discussing our favorite musician cameos where they were hardly stretched to their acting limits.

Panic in the streets of London! And a lot of other places Morrissey didn't even namecheck. This week we're discussing some of the panics that caused people to absolutely freak out over history.

SHOW NOTES

• Y2K (Michael's Choice)
• The Dancing Plague of 1518 (Richard's Choice)
• Razor Blades in Candies (Michael's Choice)
• The Red Scare (Richard's Choice)
• Clown Sightings (Michael's Choice)
• Dungeons & Dragons (Richard's Choice)
• Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" Radio Show (Michael's Choice)
• Toilet Paper Shortages (Richard's Choice)

Symbols of wealth have been a thing since way before entitled jerks in Teslas started cutting you off. However, a lot of things that we consider to be common today were the status symbols of yesterday. Join us as we look back at the things that everyone from the Vanderbilts to royalty just HAD TO HAVE!

SHOW NOTES

• Pineapple (Richard's Choice)
• Salt (Michael's Choice)
• Ice cream (Richard's Choice)
• Books (Michael's Choice)
• Red textiles (Richard's Choice)
• Purple textiles (Michael's Choice)
• Cars and carriages (Richard's Choice)
• Tulipmania (Michael's Choice)

The dream sequence has long been a popular trope in pop culture. In fact, sometimes the whole thing turns out to have been one big dream. Or was it?!?

SHOW NOTES

• Inception (Richard's Choice)
• The Wizard of Oz (Joint Choice)
• Alice in Wonderland (Michael's Choice)
• Dallas (Richard's Choice)
• The Matrix (Michael's Choice)
• Newhart (Joint Choice)