The Complete Disaster Podcast

Gas is expensive again. Cars are also expensive, largely due to dealership fees and taxes. Driving in general seems barely worth it. You don't need to drive to go to Tokyo, though, and with the yen as weak as it is the whole country is cheap. You do need to fly, but let the airlines worry about jet fuel prices.

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Gas prices are high

Buying a car is an unpleasant experience

Tokyo Disneyland is nice and cheap

Ellen is a foley artist with decades in the industry. What's foley? We're glad you asked, because that's what we talk about the entire episode. We're in the podcasting business, which means spending a lot of time agonizing over audio, so we're in a somewhat adjacent field. We find it all very interesting. Hopefully, so do you.

You can find Ellen's book If These Shoes Could Talk at her website, https://ellenheuerfoleyartist.com, or on Amazon.

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Bob calls in from his car to let us know that he doesn't think the Twins will win a world series ever again. Or something to that effect, anyway. Those women's teams though, they're sweeping. No wonder everyone wants to join them. And I mean everyone.

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It's really hot out

Minnesota Twins/Vikings are bad

Women's sports are good

MyGenderDolls in Minnesota schools

Transgender athletes

Alex almost dies to an errant hammer

Do we really need everything to be a 3 hour blockbuster that costs $250,000,000 to make? I say no. Hollywood disagrees. Except for Avatar Studios. They know how to put out a good, reasonably non-bloated film.

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Andy saw Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender

Movies continue to be too long

Carly Simon's numerous health issues

The Rails to Trails parade

Gabriel Langton almost broke his neck at the Commonwealth Games

KP has been coming on our show since nearly the first moment. His brother Joe also pops in from time to time. Today we're without Joe, but with plenty of stories about the Anderson family. We also ask why everyone is so hateful, because if we ask it enough we might one day get an answer.

Okay, it's not literally silent, but it does have very little dialogue. Next to none. Certainly less than the Evil Dead reboot, which is both wordier and gorier than Motor City. Sadly, the camp has left Hollywood for now, so both films take themselves quite seriously. At least they're not preaching at us.

Topics:

Tim's Buffalo Bill action figure

How a moment from two months ago can go viral

Motor City is all action, few words

Evil Dead Burn is extremely gory and not at all funny

Teddy Roosevelt has his own documentary

There's a new sensation sweeping the nation. No, it's not talk shows. They say Kimmel is building, but not like Jimothy the Raccoon. Next week we'll have moved onto the next thing, but though his reign will be as short as his spine, he'll always be remembered.

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Conan O'Brien's new hair

Talk shows are still bad

Jimothy the Raccoon

Early flights are also bad

Ethan has infinite energy

Alex went to the Guthrie

Why does nostalgic food taste so bad now?

Letterman's Stupid Human Tricks

 https://www.etsy.com/shop/DodOddity

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People are always selling their old stuff. Maybe someone in the family died, maybe it's spring cleaning, maybe the kids are off to college. You probably knew that you can get things for cheap this way, but did you know that you can make it a full time business? Buy what's valuable low, sell it high. That's what Kira does. She's also an author, because apparently spending a thousand hours a week on Etsy isn't enough to keep her occupied. Me, I'll be taking a nap.

If you're looking for some of Kira's stuff, why not start with fabric? You can find it at https://www.etsy.com/shop/DodOddity

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The State Fair is fast approaching, and the new foods have been announced. It's a lot of pickles. And sugar. And fat. Those last two shouldn't surprise you, but the pickle thing we didn't see coming. Make sure to save your dill dough - fair food isn't cheap. We also touch on microdramas, the latest craze why not.

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Neal Schon's letter to Jonathan Cain

Microdramas are like regular dramas but more micro

Every road is closed in Minnesota right now

State Fair experiences and foods