One of the greatest engineering feats in history, the modern U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier.

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- Veteran in need of help or someone to talk to? Call the Veterans Crisis Help Line at 988 (Then Press 1), or visit veteranscrisisline.net

- Find Fifth Year Coffee Roasters on Instagram (@fifthyearcoffeeroasters)

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Are we living in a simulation? That's the "theory" this documentary presents.

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This week, The Crew is joined by the science mind of Beard Al Your Science Pal (tiktok.com/@beard_al) to not only argue the validity of simulation theory but also to discredit the entire documentary by pointing out that it's only a hypothesis - not a theory at all!

If you've ever felt like you were being controlled or watched by an unseen and unknowable entity, join Jeff, the NPC Brice, Matt (aka Neo), and special guest Alex Michalak as we discuss why we think you might be right...

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Prepare to have your physical and mental limitations tested this evening, as we all consent to The Blackout Experiments

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This week, The Crew knocks three times on the door of a 2016 documentary called The Blackout Experiments to discuss the dark and immersive horror thrill experience of the same name. This documentary dives into the haunted house-type event where participants willingly take part in scares, torture, and mental anguish tailored to their own individual fears.

Jeff is joined by King James, Bird, and our good friend Kenesha Broom as we wrap ourselves in plastic and test our own limits.

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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of your soul. Human beings are energy - energy is a wave - a wave is a pattern - a pattern is rhythm.

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This week, The Crew paradiddles their way through a bangin' documentary from 2021 titled Count Me In, which hears from some of rock music's most influential drummers, about the thing they all collectively love most - the drums.

Jeff is joined by King James, Brice, and professional drummer, producer, sound engineer, and the man who taught Jeff to play the drums almost 30 years ago - Matthew Tobias. Join us for a kickass solo of an episode!

Find Matthew Tobias here:

- Website: Empty House Studio

- Instagram: @matthewdrummer

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Not even Captain Planet's glistening green mullet can handle the Great Pacific Garbage Patch...

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May we have your attention, please? We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a special news bulletin.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is GROWING! Our source for this information is a 57 minute documentary called Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Our news correspondent Jeff Kalasky has joined forces with the globe's most formidable environmental heroes: Captain Planet (King James), Lady Gaia (Katy VP), and Green Golly Miss Molly to discuss the danger plastic is to our environment - and the daunting realization that we may be too late to stop it.

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Happy National Tattoo Day!

Come with us as we visit with a master of the oldest art in the world - Tattooing.

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This week, to celebrate National Tattoo Day, we are flipping through the flash pages of history to discuss a 29-minute documentary from 1981 that is a quick peek into the incredible legacy of Leonard "Stoney" St. Clair through a documentary titled Stoney Knows How.

Stoney Knows How is a casual, funny, and inspiring conversation with the former circus sword-swallower who has learned to overcome his lifelong handicap of severe arthritis and confinement to a wheelchair to become one of the great legends of the tattoo community.

Jeff is joined by two heavy hitters in the tattoo world and the gold standard of being good dudes; Dave Koenig and Andrew Milko. Join us for their incredible insight into the world of tattooing, along with a few shop stories that will leave your butthole whistling.

Find Dave Koenig

- Web Page (dkoenigart.com)

- Instagram (@davekoenigart)

Find Andrew Milko

- Web Page (andrewmilko.com)

- Instagram (@andrew_milko)

- Instagram (@theotherclub.ri)

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Life changes rapidly for all of us, but an unexpected diagnosis of ALS intensifies those changes and tests the strength, courage, tenacity, and willpower of our friends, family, and ourselves.

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This week, through the documentary titled Gleason, The Crew takes a look into the life of Steve Gleason, former NFL superstar who was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a rare and incurable neurodegenerative disease, at the same time that he and his wife expect their first child.

Gleason is simultaneously an inspiring, rewarding, funny, and heartbreaking look at life, parenthood, and love.

Jeff is joined by Brice, Matt, and Molly for this powerful episode.

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Happy Independence Day!

If you were born and raised in Appalachian America, would you be proud to be called a Hillbilly?

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This week, to celebrate our nation's independence and the truly diverse cultures our nation represents, The Crew descended from hills with their favorite distilled beverages to flap their jaws about an eye-opening documentary called Hillbilly.

Hillbilly examines the iconic image in media and culture and explores more than 100 years of media representation of mountain and rural communities.

Local Pro-Wrestling Superstar and self-proclaimed "country boy" Moonshine Russell joins Jeff, Brice, and Matt to discuss this excellent documentary.

Find MOONSHINE RUSSELL on

- Facebook (Moonshine Russell)

- Instagram (@moonshine_russell)

- Twitter (@dabohemeiandream)

- Pro Wrestling Phoenix (Omaha) PWP Live

- Next Level Wrestling NLW

- MWA (Lincoln)

- Magnum Wrestling

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What if poop mushrooms are the reason humans evolved from the apes?

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This week, The Crew straps on their funny brown hats and forages their way into the magical mycelium network of mushrooms in a breathtaking visual documentary from 2019 titled Fantastic Fungi.

Combining time-lapse photography, interviews, and stunning CGI, this documentary tells the often misunderstood and underrepresented biology, environmental roles, and medicinal uses of mushrooms!

This episode puts Jeff alongside his new wife, Niki (aka Bird), and introduces her two brothers Andrew and Brent as they share an entire bag of magic mushrooms and go on a trip like we've never seen.

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