The Hourchive

Nick and John test the limits of their cohost relationship with a Christmas shopping season trip to everyone’s favorite Swedish temple of tax evasion, where they discuss how to avoid eye contact with people you know, why urban living is a growing movement, and which countries regularly eat horses.

Show Notes
Ep #04 | Toy Stores
IKEA catalog scene in Fight Club
Planet Hollywood St. Louis grand opening
IKEA Hackers
19 Behind-the-Scenes Secret of IKEA Employees
Nick and John try out an IKEA shower
Chinese IKEA napping phenomenon
IKEA Heights Episode #1
The IKEA Fancy Dress Dinner Party
BESTA Box
Ingvar Kamprad
IKEA: The World’s Largest Charity
ORDNING impulse buy display
IKEA store directory
14 Ready-To-Assemble Facts About IKEA
LACK
MALM
KALLAX
POANG
RENS
Horses in the IKEA Cafe
Cowhide wall
Death Star lights

Show Notes

Toastmasters
Whose Line is it Anyway?

Improv podcasts:
Comedy Bang Bang!
improv4humans
Off Book
Spontaneanation

Nicole Parker
IO (improv olympic)
Stanislavski’s “the system”
Viola Spolin
SCTV
Comedy Sportz
Don’t Think Twice

PLUGS

The Improv Shop
That 90s Shop
Viral Signs: Understanding HIV Medication Use

Make yours Marvel and join a full crew this week for a totally tasteful and not in any way exploitative tribute to the most profitable screen presence in history (and also the guy who changed comics forever).

Show Notes
JT Music: With Great Power
Armie Hammer’s dumb tweets
How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way
Pryde of the X-Men
Stan Lee Mallrats cameo
Key and Peele Stan Lee skit
Podcast: The Ride: What the hell is going on in Anaheim?
Rob Liefeld Levis 501 commercial

Kill some time while the turkey cooks as we dig up some classic Hourchive conversations, including two from the same episode.

Show Notes
Kirkwood-Webster Groves Turkey Day Game
Ep #210 | Holidays
Ep #289 | Parades

OPEN THE FANTASYLAND CASTLE IN THE NAME OF THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD… and join John and Drew for a land-by-land walk through the Happiest Place on Earth as they share personal reflections, dole (whip) out random trivia that may or may not be accurate, and plug other, better, theme park podcasts.

Show Notes
Ep #31 | Theme Parks (Disney)
The Advent Calendar House Podcast
Muppet Vision 3D
Thunder Mesa and the Western River Expedition
Disneyland entrance plaque
Disneyland Fire Dept.
”Partners” statue
Sleeping Beauty Castle
Snow White’s Scary Adventures
Claude Coates
Marc Davis
Peter Pan’s Flight
Skull Rock at Disneyland
Pinocchio’s Daring Journey
Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Mad Tea Party
Dumbo Flying Elephants
Casey Jr.’s Circus Train
Storybook Land Canal Boats
Storybookland with Matterhorn backdrop
Matterhorn Bobsleds
Kinetic energy in Tomorrowland
Shah of Iran and Walt Disney ride the Matterhorn
Basketball court inside the Matterhorn
Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage
Autopia
Space Mountain
Space Mountain concept art
PeopleMover
Astro Orbiter
Enchanted Tiki Room
Jungle Cruise
Indiana Jones Adventure
Tarzan’s Treehouse
View from the top of Tarzan’s Treehouse
Pirates of the Caribbean
Walt previews Pirates of the Caribbean
Disneyland Dream Suite

Other podcasts:
Podcast: The Ride
Hidden Mickeys
The Season Pass Podcast

Join us this week in the Hourchive hotbox as we go from dank to stank, determine the difference between a blunt and spliff, and play a new game called Toke, Soak, or Smoke (on the Water).

Show Notes
Ep #286 | Murderers
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue
”I lost a sai!”
Old D.A.R.E. song
Cream: White Room

Awesome Spooky Month 2018 concludes with a celebration spanning the entire history (er, HISTORY) of Halloween, from guising for good fortune to partying with skeletal pandas. Come trick or treat with us; no jokes required.

Show Notes
Ep #321 | The Halloween Franchise
Killing Joke: Eighties
Ep #46 | Trick-or-Treating
Harry Nilsson: I’d Rather Be Dead
Drew’s wizard costume
45 Grave: Partytime (Zombie Version)
Adam and Drew in costume through the years: Joker and the Doctor | Borg and Casey Jones | Zombie and Luigi | Ghostbuster and Scarecrow | Dia de los Muertos and Frankenstein’s Monster | Two-Face and Panda
Drew as a skeletal panda | With friends

Would you give a spider a high-five? Awesome Spooky Month continues as Adam weaves of web of fascinating facts and anecdotes regarding the most infamous of creepy crawlies, Nick kindly tortures one the most antagonistic arachnids around, and John is seized with fear, awe, and disgust.

Show Notes
Oingo Boingo: Spider
Spider scene from The Mist
Nick’s spider video
Camel spider photo
They Might Be Giants: Spider
Enemy ending

It’s a killer thriller tonight in the Hourchive as we compile another collection of spooky tunes for your seasonal pleasure.

Show Notes
Previous Awesome Spooky Mixtapes: 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016

Beach Bums: Spookylust
The Cure: Lullaby
Cobra Man: Bad Feeling
The Beatles: Helter Skelter
David Bowie: Running Gun Blues
They Might Be Giants: The Darlings of Lumberland
The Hellstroms: I Come Out All Night
Night Birds: Can’t Get Clean
Zombina and the Skeletones: I Hate Humans
Lou Reed: Halloween Parade
Eels: Your Lucky Day in Hell
Grizzly Bear: Mourning Sound
TV on the Radio: Wolf Like Me
The Guess Who: Clap for the Wolfman
Cat Power: Werewolf

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Gather ‘round our cauldron for a strange brew of history, humor, and references to grilled cheese sandwiches as Drew and John embark on a broomstick tour of witchery.

Show Notes
Matilda Joslyn Gage: Woman, Church, and State
Canon Episcopi
Malleus Maleficarum
Giles Corey pressed to death
Witch cake
The Sonics: The Witch
A Very British Witchcraft documentary on Gerald Gardner
John Travolta introduces “Adele Dazeem”
Wicked / Frozen similarities
Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel: Defying Gravity (Wicked)
”Top That” (Teen Witch)
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina trailer
Suspiria (2018) trailer
Thom Yorke: Suspirium (Suspiria)