Oral Presentations

Oral Presentations episodes:

• 10.21.2022

  Episode 99 - LOTF by WG (part 3)

  Full collapse on deck and I blow through Piggy's Indiana Jones death to try and hide how much I don't like that part.

  
• 10.21.2022

  Episode 98 - Lord of the Flies by William Golding (part 2)

  Ralph musters his public speaking chops in hopes of restoring order and things get worse. 

  
• 10.21.2022

  Episode 97 - No way this many kids would have even survived a plane crash: Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Part 1)

  Part 1 from this year's Father's Day series on Patreon.

  
• 06.03.2022

  Episode 96 - Put a Hemi in it: Wright Brothers Part 3

  We rejoin the Brothers from Dayton as excellent bike shop employee Charlie Taylor jumps in to help with the mechanical work, the Smithsonian team has a rough run of it, and I forget how to say Potomac maybe 4 separate...

  
• 06.03.2022

  Episode 94 - Serial Killer on Tooth Medicine: Wright Brothers Part 1

  Main characters and setting are discussed, also a serial killer knocks out Wilber’s lower teeth. 

  
• 06.03.2022

  Episode 95 - Guy stole my blanket: Wright Brothers Part 2

  Kitty Hawk North Carolina plays host to the Brothers from Dayton for three rounds of testing and Wilber is pressured into headlining a science show in Chicago on ladies night. 

  
• 01.07.2022

  Episode 93 - Bad Luck Captain Phillips in a Sundress: The Sole Survivor from Rod Serling's Night Gallery

  Starting off 2022 w/ a Rod Serling Deep Cut.

  
• 11.11.2021

  Episode 92 - The Most Dangerous Game

  This was Patreon #8, it's from  early pandemic, like  3 weeks into the lockdown. Was into cookie bites at the time.

  
• 10.30.2021

  Episode 91: Twilight Zone Double Feature

  //FIRST UP// The Howling Man AKA Wait, is narrow face Peter Pan The Devil or what? Follows a man named David Ellington as he blacks out on the floor twice as a guest at a castle in Europe. and //Closing...

  
• 10.21.2021

  Episode 90 - Dracula goes to World War 2: Christopher Lee

  Information comes from the first 100 pages of Christopher Lee’s Autobiography, “Tall, Dark, and Gruesome.” Forgot to emphasize how much he got his ass beat by teachers as a boy for disciplinary reasons. "There was the Black Book," where misdeeds were...

  
• 10.14.2021

  Episode 89 - TMZ Edgar Allan Poe and The Cask of Amontillado

  The character Fortunato, who gets buried alive by the narrator, represents a person the author knew in real life.  The guy beat Poe up in the street the year prior over an argument about a girl's brother and wanting a...

  
• 10.01.2021

  Episode 88 - Dude you don't even notice it, you look good: Hammerhead Sharks

  These things swim around self hypnotized all day but I can't prove it. Hammerhead Sharks are discussed in detail.

  
• 09.24.2021

  Episode 87 - I Think It's Lombard: Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None Part 3

  Our remaining 4 pack of players get, shot, hung, drowned, and head crushed by a large white marble bear clock, then a short musical interlude, then we figure out what went on out there.

  
• 09.17.2021

  Staying Alive: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, (Part 2.)

  We recap our first three ghosts from part 1, then narrow the field from 7 down to 4 with help from an axe, hypodermic syringe, and revolver.

  
• 09.06.2021

  Episode 85 - Out Here Looking For Clues: Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. (Part 1)

  Curl up with your feet on the couch and a box of Laura's Fudge at the beach, it's world's best selling murder mystery book time.  

  
• 07.23.2021

  How did these things get back in the house oh my god SCORPIONS 2

  After using them as cover last week, a debt is paid as the Scorp facts runneth over in this nat geo departure.

  
• 07.16.2021

  Episode 83 - Crawling in my skinnn, these wounds they will not heallllll: SCORPIONS

  The title of this episode is a decoy.  This episode is not about Scorpions.  The actual episode is about what I leaned about how to travel to Europe with your girlfriend in your mid 20’s.  I have...

  
• 07.02.2021

  Episode 82 - ***Fourth of July Special*** Yo dude, we're serious, you need to get all the way naked right now: The American Revolution

  Pack up your folders and put on your construction paper tri-corner hats, it’s time for the American Revolution! In this episode we take a look at how the relationship between the American Colonies and the British Empire broke up. Even...

  
• 06.26.2021

  Ancient Greek Theatre Comprehension Test: Oedipus Rex

  // Time for some Guess and Check // Given the film version of the Canadian Stratford Festival Version of the William Butler Yeats adaptation of the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, the goal was to try and understand the story of...

  
• 06.11.2021

  Episode 80 - This Guy Got Hosed: Nikola Tesla

  Off a recommendation from an electrician named Ant from the last Patreon faculty meeting, we take a look at a visionary thinker who changed humanity forever however was also not the best with money. 

  
• 06.04.2021

  Episode 79 - Broken Zoltar: Hannibal Lecter's Favorite Bands

  This is a Broken  Zoltar Format Patreon Episode about Classical Composers.  A Broken Zoltar episode is a handful of loosely related topics done in smaller bursts and then strung together to make a larger episode, I try to do at...

  
• 05.28.2021

  Episode 78: Memorial Day Special: The Battle of the Bulge

  We take a break from books and science to enjoy some good old fashioned European theater World War 2 on a Friday.

  
• 05.19.2021

  Episode 77 - Goodbye Stranger: Albert Camus' The Stranger Part 2

  We wrap up L'Étranger, (Found out that's what they call, "The Stranger," in French,) by following nutbar Meursault. He gets thrown in jail for shooting that dude one time, and then four more times, and goes on trial.  

  
• 05.17.2021

  Episode 76 - French Psycho: Albert Camus’ The Stranger Part 1

  Albert Camus' The Stranger was named one of the the top 100 books of the last century and it's also a frequent pick for high school reading lists. Turns out, the main character is a space cadet who talks like...

  
• 05.10.2021

  Episode 75 - Eyes Wide Shut Empire: Venice, Italy

  Was supposed to be a mother's day special, then I found out those sex party masks from Eyes Wide Shut are from this place.  So although no longer appropriate as a mother's day special due to orgy mask related subject...

  
• 04.30.2021

  Episode 74 - IKEA Cheat Codes

  There are ten thousand different ways people try to explain this on the internet, so I contacted an old friend who has been in the interior design business his whole life, and asked if I could pick his brain. After...

  
• 04.20.2021

  Episode 73 - 4/20 Special: Caught Sleeping on the Job w/ Edgar Cayce

  A Teachers lounge episode where we all get stoned and talk about a Psychic from 1920's for 45 minutes. Rising to fame as a clairvoyant healer and controversial figure of the occult, Edgar Cayce has been called, "The Sleeping Profit," "An...

  
• 04.16.2021

  Episode 72 - If Genies and the Hope Diamond had a Baby: Ernest Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises

  This recommendation came from an ER nurse and I wanted to like the book so bad. I could not find a way to like this book. I quit after chapter 7.   It's about bunch of rich people getting hammered in...

  
• 04.05.2021

  Episode 71 - TRBOC: The Red Badge of Courage

  Much like coming back after other short term breakups, it’s time to not even ask any questions about anything, act like nothing happened, and enjoy a piece of classic American fiction together.

  
• 02.17.2021

  Episode 70 - The Theory of Flight

  A genuine attempt to explain how flight works including the concept of lift, mostly with toucan based examples.

  
• 02.10.2021

  Episode 69 - Sixty-Nineeeeeeeee: The Ministry of Love: George Orwell's 1984 Part 3/3

  We get onboard r/Partystreetbets and Prolo to the Moon at the Ministry of Love in the exciting conclusion of George Orwell’s 1984.

  
• 02.04.2021

  Episode 68 - Prolin' on a River: George Orwell's 1984 Part 2/3

  Fresh off a walk to clear his head after hearing about the neighbor's kids lighting a lady on fire, we rejoin our hero Winston back at his job.   // How does this girl at work thing continue play out? // Is O'Brien...

  
• 02.03.2021

  Episode 67 - Everybody Get Your Prole On: George Orwell's 1984 Part 1/3

  I was assigned to read this in high school and honestly can not remember if I did.   Part 1 goes up to the end of Chapter 8, we meet out main character Winston and see how he's living. (not the...

  
• 01.27.2021

  Episode 66 - How to Bust Up Chip's Card Game by Doyle Brunson

  A Texas Hold'em cram session  If I ever would have gotten into Chip's game, this is what I would have liked to have recorded and then played for myself on the drive over immediately before the game to try and remember...

  
• 01.20.2021

  Episode 65 - Total Side Piece Energy: Dante's Inferno

  A literary classic which is also pretty much one long Kevin Sorbo Hercules episode.

  
• 01.13.2021

  Episode 64 - The Oregon Trail and Lithuanian Mysticism

  ***Things I forgot: Gun accidents were responsible for a bunch of KO’s on the Oregon Trail. A lot of first time firearm owners had a similar attitude as my 6th grade self when hitting the General Store and bought way...

  
• 01.05.2021

  Episode 63: American Hero Astrochimpanzee: HAM

  Sick Week 2: 2/2 Patreon Episode from last early Spring. This one centers around how many animals people were chucking up into space during the Cold War, and the story of one Brave Little Toaster in particular. 

  
• 01.05.2021

  Episode 62 - Grigori Rasputin: How about you take care of your kids Greg?

  Sick Week 2: 1/2 Patreon ep from February 2020.  I still believe Stinky Greg knew when he was with those goobers doing summersaults in the mud for two years, he was going to use it as marketing for his David Blaine...

  
• 12.30.2020

  Episode 61: Joan of Arc: A French Army of Tebows hopped up on TBE

  Calling in Sick part 2/2 This was Patreon Episode 16.  It's pretty much the 50 Cent song Many Men but in 1400's France.

  
• 12.30.2020

  Episode 60: Philip K Dick: Do Alcoholics Dream of Electric Tweets?

  Calling in Sick Part 1/2 This was Patreon Episode #15, and maybe the only one I've felt genuinely lost lost on.

  
• 12.22.2020

  Episode 59 - Christmas Special: The Hockey Helmet Rule

  Keeping in tradition with the King Tut Christmas Special last year, this topic has almost nothing to do with Christmas and I also ruined the first recording of it due to either technical issues or ghosts. (1) Lady who looked like...

  
• 12.14.2020

  58 - Christmas in a Pandemic? Lemme get some John Candy.

  John Candy counts as holiday tradition so in an effort to enjoy watching his movies more this year, I wanted to find out how he came up.  

  
• 12.07.2020

  Episode 57 - Mortal Kombat of Pastry: THE MOF

  Remember when Christian Bale goes to that mountain in the first Batman movie and then they put him on mushrooms and kick him for awhile but he doesn't die so he becomes Batman? The MOF is that but in France...

  
• 11.30.2020

  Episode 56 - Kramptown Ladies Sing This Song and other Winter Demons

  The holiday season begins as we suss out Krampus and say hi to an an immortal sad Japanese ghost lady who can't stop murdering dudes in the woods.

  
• 11.23.2020

  Episode 55 - The Nina, The Pinta, and The Santa Maria: The Story of the First Thanksgiving

  Place your hand palm down on the paper bag and then trace around it with marker because it's hand turkey time.

  
• 11.17.2020

  Episode 54 - Studio 54: IS MY WIFE IN THERE!?!

  As rumors of a second impending lock down swirl, we take a look back at parties of yesteryear.  From April 1977 to Feb 1980, Studio 54 gets credit for starting that trend where a doorman tells you to fuck off and...

  
• 11.10.2020

  Episode 53 - Rob Ford: Take'n Care of Business

  The Canadian Whirlwind himself.  I read his brother's book about him and smashed that together with his known arrests.   

  
• 11.02.2020

  Episode 52 - The Dutch Masters: The Art Movement Behind the Cigars Everybody Smokes Weed Out Of.

  NOVEMBER // WE SOLVE A MYSTERY Out the gate, who are the dudes on the Dutch Masters wrapper // Why the pick // Dutch Golden Age of Painting // DEIC INC LOL GTFO // Hierarchy of Genres // Flex Based Gig...

  
• 10.26.2020

  Episode 51 - H.H. Holmes: If Charles Ponzi killed people

  Told a girlfriend 9 years ago I was gonna read The Devil In The White City, "Soon," just under a decade later I audio booked it for an electronic book report about just the serial killer parts. 

  
• 10.18.2020

  Episode 50 - Rod Serling - Chain Smoking Cigarettes and thinking about the Philippines

  An HBO 24/7 on the creator of The Twilight Zone.