It’s the Holiday season & you all know what that means! TOYS! Well, if you’re our regular audience it means bills, party planning & crushing depression, but when you were a kid, the holidays meant toys & toys meant TRANSFORMERS! Even competing against GI Joe, He-Man & Go-Bots, the Transformers toy line always stood on top, and over 40 years later, the franchise shows no signs of slowing down. Returning guest Melodi ventures down the basement once again to look back at all things Transformers: the figures, the cartoons, the movies, the bed tent…we cover EVERYTHING! What did we REALLY learn from the robots in disguise? Why do the characters still resonate today? Is the Transformers: The Movie soundtrack the perfect distillation of the 80’s? We tackle these questions and more as we kick off the holiday season celebrating an iconic toy franchise that became so much more! Till all are one! Just don’t tell Hot Rod he’s getting coal in his stocking….

Our opening and closing music was performed by THE CYBERTRONIC SPREE. You can find their albums and singles at their website:

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It’s the time of giving and since we’re in the holiday spirit, we’re dropping a special EARLY FESTIVUS miracle of a BONUS episode! Listen to (eventually) 3 old men bitch and moan about an arbitrary list of the 50 Greatest Rock Bands of All Time. What did they get right (not much!), what did they get wrong (a lot!), what the hell were we thinking, jumping on a podcast half drunk and with opinions?!?! Join Mike and his guests Anthony (@Tin Foil Consortium) and Bill Dunn (@DarthBill52) as they belly up to the proverbial bar and shoot the shit about rock music, pop culture, and why music from the 60’s-90’s is STILL the best! We’ve got thoughts folks!

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Thanksgiving is a time for family, friends, food, puppets in space with talking turtles...wait, WHAT NOW?!?! For our 1st annual Unconventional Thanksgiving episode I welcome author, podcaster, animation aficionado and all around nice guy MICHAEL LYONS down the basement to discuss the animated oddity PINOCCHIO IN OUTER SPACE. We share stories of Thanksgivings past, UHF deep dives and celebrate this little seen but interesting and entertaining cartoon anomaly. Loosen your belt, avoid your crazy uncle and join us in giving thanks for the weird Pop Culture we got to experience in our youth! Now pass the spinach casserole....

Look for Michael's books, Drawn to Greatness: Disney’s Animation Renaissance & Magic Moments: Stories, Lessons & Memories From a Twenty-Year Career at Walt Disney World, available on Amazon or personalized at his website:

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You can find his blog, SCREENSAVER, and his podcasts, FROM PENCILS TO PIXELS & DIS-ORDER, on Apple, Spotify and all podcast platforms, or find ALL at this link:

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1989 was the year of sequels, so why not have a sequel to our 1989: Pop Culture Awakening episode?!? I'm joined once again by Anthony (Tin Foil Consortium) to wade through not only the TV, movies and music of 1989, but the far reaching influence and the past influences that are connected to the pop culture we love from that magical year. There's SO MUCH to love about 1989, we had to get back together and record!Yeah, sequels can be tiresome, but sometimes they're even BETTER than the original! Especially if they're the middle of a trilogy....

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I'm a big wuss, this is no secret. I'm not really into horror movies, even though I came of age during the 80's, arguably the greatest decade for horror cinema ever. But I always had an affinity for vampires, and THE LOST BOYS was the kind of horror/comedy hybrid that was right up my alley. I welcome BRAD REITER (Big Beard Booty Daddy) back down into the basement for my HALLOWEEN episode to share our thoughts regarding this stylish, sexy and funny mash up with a killer young cast and an even better soundtrack! I still believe...do YOU?!?

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Super Friends introduced me to the world of DC super heroes, but it also introduced me to the concept of abject terror. For over 40 years, the episode UNIVERSE OF EVIL has nestled in my subconscious, a source of dread and fear that is never far from the surface. I welcome my partner in sleaze Andrew Gross back down into the basement to kick off SPOOKY SEASON & discuss this classic episode, it's effect on us both, it's pop culture footprint and the various weird/terrifying cartoon episodes we lived through as children of the 70's and 80's.

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When a documentary makes you ugly cry nonstop, you know damn well you need to talk about it immediately! Luckily, special guest MELISSA NICHOLSON abided my madness and joined me down in the basement to talk about the new Amazon documentary JOHN CANDY - I LIKE ME. Grab some Kleenex and listen in as Melissa and I talk about not only the film, but the legacy of laughter, kindness and decency John Candy has left for multiple generations of fans across the world. I'm getting choked up all over again...just listen, OK!

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Sitting down in the 1980's and turning on HBO, or your local cable equivalent, was an adventure like no other. What would we see, what would we discover, what would we grow to love? John Carpenter's BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA may very well be the greatest cult movie ever made, imprinted on the minds of impressionable 80's kids by catching it piece by piece on cable for what felt like forever. Join Mike as he welcomes BILL BERE from the BAT-POD down the basement to discuss our memories of BIG TROUBLE, local and national cable and the movies we discovered because of them, quotable movies, plus SO MUCH MORE! We really do shake the pillars of heaven with this one.

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What the hell is up with that title? Listen here, skippy! Podcast veteran TIM ROONEY visits the basement to sing the praises of the classic Batman collection STRANGE APPARITIONS while also sharing stories of comic book store experiences new and old. Along the way we somehow veer off into discussing the contents of the top drawer of my Dad's bedside table, piss off Snyderverse stalwarts and admire Hugo Strange's, ahem, friend, Magda. Thank goodness Tim was able to find his copy of the collection!

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No one reads anymore, that’s all I ever hear. Well I do, and my daughter does. And we're here to talk about our love of reading! Not only that, we're here to talk about the classic young adult novel BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA, a book that not only touched me profoundly as a child, but one that I got to share with my daughter all these years later. Just a warning, there MAY be tears shed during the episode! But please, join us anyway, you'll have a GREAT time!

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