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Episode 236: “With His Hand in Goofy’s Pants”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe goes to far and attacks another beloved cultural icon and is banned from the Times Square Disney Store for life. (Goofy knows what he did!) On the show this week, we keep up our vicious assault on beloved media companies by telling you all the reasons why Disney sucks! (We are definitely getting sued!)

Along the way we talk Walt, who was objectively a pretty horrible person and explain to you why. (Daddy issues.) Then we examine the myriad ways Disney has screwed over creators from it’s very beginning! (Names are named, just like the Black List) We take a long and not a little disturbing look for animated private parts in Disney flicks. (We’re not bad, we’re just drawn with need to look at cartoon poon.) Then we take you on a deep dive of all the reasons why the modern Disney corporation is WAY worse than Amazon and Google combined. (Still not as bad as Facebook, fuck you Zuck!) Finally, we wrap up with a partial list of all the looted portions of your childhood currently enriching Disney stockholders. (Don’t worry, Liz Warren is gonna get ‘em back!)

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Citations Needed:

The cruel reality of Disney's world

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/nov/26/film.usa

Walt Disney and the Communist Threat

http://jimhillmedia.com/alumni1/b/jim_korkis/archive/2003/08/18/1071.aspx

Walt Disney and Plagiarism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_The_Walt_Disney_Company#Plagiarism

15 years ago, Congress kept Mickey Mouse out of the public domain. Will they do it again?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/10/25/15-years-ago-congress-kept-mickey-mouse-out-of-the-public-domain-will-they-do-it-again/

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Show Notes Episode 235: " Boomer Are You OK? Are You OK Boomer?"

This week, Host Dave Bledsoe angrily denies that he is a Baby Boomer just because his drinking habit makes him appear to be much older than he is. (Seriously man, get help!) On the show this week we examine the hip new trend of the Youngs being cruel to the Olds by pointing out how the Olds squandered the Youngs future to pay for cocaine and luxury automobiles! (Man, the 80’s were wild)

Along the way we look at the confusion behind what generation got freaky to produce what generation. (It is all very confusing.) We discover a totally forgotten generation that actually DID all the stuff the Baby Boomers like to claim THEY did, The Silent Generation. (Maybe if they spoke up people would know about all the stuff they did!) We take a tour of what Generation X is up to these days, only to discover we are STILL sulking around in scruffy clothes and writing poetry in journals, only the now all the poetry is about how hard it is to communicate with our Gen Z kids because we don’t understand Snapchat. (OK, Gen Xer)

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Citations Needed:

Your Generational Identity Is A Lie

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/04/01/your-generational-identity-is-a-lie/

Living: Proceeding With Caution

http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,970634-1,00.html

OK, Boomer. The Kids Are Fighting Back

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ok-boomer-the-kids-are-fighting-back/2019/11/05/32894688-0011-11ea-9518-1e76abc088b6_story.html

Silent Generation A Voice In America

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-03-28-9903280125-story.html

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Show Notes Episode 234: “Dia de Gringos”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe honors the spirits of his ancestors by drinking an entire bottle of Irish Whiskey in one sitting. (How this is different from a normal Friday night is open to debate.) On the show this week, we engage in a little cultural appropriation and try to create a Dia de Muertos that white people won’t feel guilty about. (Not that any of us feel “guilt” over such things.)

Along the way we learn some sad facts about Dave and how he keeps friends. (Hint: he is very bad at it). Then we meet the cultural ancestors of White People in America, John Wayne, Howard Zinn and Fred Rogers and learn how to honor them on our special day. (Are there cigarettes? You betcha!) Finally, we teach you how to construct a culturally appropriate White Person Ofrenda and how to host your own Dia de Gringos festival! More importantly, we learn the horrible truth about Fred Rogers.

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Show Notes Episode 233: He’s On A Highway to Hell Spooktacular 2019 Part 2

This week Host Dave Bledsoe hits the road, meaning he tripped staggering home from the bar. ( Again.) On the show this week we wrap up Spooktacular 2019 with the chilling tale of The Highway Killer, Larry Eyler who killed at least twenty one young men across the Midwest in the early 1980’s. Trust us when we say, this is WAY scarier than any ghost stories we could tell you. (If for no other reason that the fashion, WHY DID WE DRESS LIKE THAT?!)

Along the way we introduce you to a cast of victims and villains who made Larry the twisted individual he became, featuring alcoholic abusive fathers, absentee mothers and you guessed it: The Catholic Church! (Homosexual serial murderer? You bet they were there!) We tell about the crimes, the manhunt (the police investigation not Larry on the prowl for victims) and the inevitable screw ups by the investigators that let Larry Eyler kill so many! (Can you say “Less Dead”?) Then we chart not one, not two but THREE trials related to the Highway Killer case. We aren’t a True Crime Podcast, but we did stay at Holiday Inn Express off an Indiana highway one night, so we think that should count.

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Citations Needed:

Hoo boy, were there citations

Murderpedia Larry Eyler

https://murderpedia.org/male.E/e/eyler-larry.htm

Wikipedia Larry Eyler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Eyler

Suspected serial slayer had two personalities

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/08/26/Suspected-serial-slayer-had-two-personalities/3346462340800/

KILLER CONFESSED TO 21 MORE DEATHS

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/03/09/killer-confessed-to-21-more-deaths/bc0c1a88-9b0d-4ebd-84e7-4a025a78e192/

Further Reading:

The Return of Larry Eyler

https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-return-of-larry-eyler/Content?oid=880169

LARRY EYLER – THE HIGHWAY MURDERER – FIGHTING A WAR WITH HIMSELF

https://wickedwe.com/larry-eyler/

LARRY EYLER – THE HIGHWAY MURDERER – FIGHTING A WAR WITH HIMSELF

https://allthatsinteresting.com/larry-eyler

EYLER'S ATTORNEY BECAME PRISONER OF HIS CONFESSIONS

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-03-21-9403210106-story.html

And MUCH MUCH MORE!

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Episode 232: “I’m Your Boogie Man” Spooktacular 2019 Part 1

This week Host Dave Bledsoe carefully checks the locks on his door, and checks beneath the bed to make sure no one is there. (It’s time to pay his bar tabs!) On the show this week, Dave takes you on a world tour of his childhood monsters! (Including YOU Anthony! YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID WITH THAT LEGO!)

We begin in East Tennessee,first with a campfire tale and then a randy fellow who gets what is coming to him for catting around with other men’s wives! (Usually a bill for a lawyer when his wife finds out!) Then we head west to Oklahoma City to find the scariest place in Oklahoma! (Besides the State Assembly, which is FULL of monsters!) After that we go across the ocean for our next tale of horror, to an island in the Pacific where legends say World War Two never ended! (Maybe NOW the Kurds can leap in and help us out!) Then we come back to Idaho for frankly the most boring ass ghost story we’ve ever heard. (Which is very on brand for Idaho, the land where interesting goes to die.) Finally, we go walking in Memphis to see if the ghost of Elvis really IS on Union Avenue. Follow him up to gates of Graceland and watch him get stopped by security because this is the third time the guy has tried to sneak in this week.

Our Sponsor this week is the Monster Beneath Your Bed, who would like to put some absorbent padding down for your bed wetters. We open the show with a Cherokee legend and close with a disco legend.

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Show Notes Episode 231: “There’s Whisky In the Pod-O”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe contemplates legal action against Glenlivet as he has had whiskey in a pod for over four years now! On the show this week we discuss all the ways Americans love to love their liquor for very short periods of time. (Remember Zima?)

Along the way we visit a young Dave as he is caught en flagrante de drinko by his parents. (Who drinks OJ and Rum?) Then we hit the history books for another in our recurring looks at how much Americans love getting shit faced! (Did you know modern martinis suck? Well, yes, but for a different reason.) We learn about the first “Professor” of Mixology and why all the cocktails you drink today tastes like a diabetic’s piss. (Prohibition ruined America) Finally, we walk through all the alcoholic abominations pop culture has produced over the past few years, and learn that there are in fact laws when drinking the Claw.

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Show Notes Episode 230: “What the World Needs Now Is Dudes, More Dudes”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe declares this aggression will not stand, man! As the bouncer tosses him headfirst into a dumpster behind a Schenectady dive bar. (Again.) On the show this week we are stressed from all the crazy business going on in the world and take a break to examine the World of Dudes. (Excellent!)

Along the way we learn the exact moment when Dave came into his identity as a Dude. (Oddly enough, he is still wearing the same shirt as he was in 1984, it is just WAY more revealing). We discuss the condition of Dudes in this our modern world with the help of Deadspin’s Drew Magary. (Drew knows nothing about this and our legal team would kindly ask you not mention it to him.) We examine why Dude Alternatives fail to capture the essence of Dudeatinity. Then we take a trip back in time to learn something about American history and how it is so much gayer than anyone thought! (Trust us, you will also be thoroughly delighted by this!) Then we embark on a tour of the Modern History of Dudeness in America, from Easy Rider to the Big Lebowski, everything you never wanted to know about Dudes, you will be forced to find out! (Take it easy Dude, it’s all good!) Finally, we explain why the world needs Dudes now more than ever.

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Show Notes Episode 229: “Moving the Country to do a Lot of Impeaches”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe has his little way and drinks whiskey every day. (Just like every week, really.) On the show this week we talk about, well what ELSE could we possibly about it? (Basically, we have this script ready to go every twenty episodes.)

Along the way we learn what the His Imperial Turdness did to get his dumb ass in trouble. Again. We head back to the beginning to see what Conservative fever dream conjured the imagined malfeasance of Joe Biden. (It was Fox News, it’s always Fox News). Then we discuss at length what Donny Dum Dum did and why Donny Dum Dum can NOT do what Donny Dum Dum DID. Again. (Seems like we do that rather a lot.) We talk whistle-blowing and what tune was blown on said whistle. (Peaches by Presidents of the USA, what else?) Then we deep dive into what exactly happens from here on out. (Procedurally, no one fucking knows what will ACTUALLY happen.) We instruct you on how to impeach a president, how to vote to remove them from office and ask the hard question: Say by some miracle we actually DO remove him from office, how are we going to get his delusional ass out of the White House? (We say drug his Diet Coke.)

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Citations Needed:

Giuliani contradicts himself over Ukraine probe of Biden

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/20/cuomo-rudy-giuliani-ukraine-biden-sot-cpt-vpx.cnn

Pelosi announces impeachment inquiry, says Trump’s courting of foreign political help is a ‘betrayal of national security’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/pelosi-top-democrats-privately-discuss-creation-of-select-committee-for-impeachment/2019/09/24/af6f735a-dedf-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html

The facts behind Trump’s bogus accusations about Biden and Ukraine

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/23/20879611/joe-biden-hunter-biden-ukraine-corruption-prosecutor-burisma-donald-trump-whistleblower-complaint

Giuliani pursued shadow Ukraine agenda as key foreign policy officials were sidelined

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/giuliani-pursued-shadow-ukraine-agenda-as-key-foreign-policy-officials-were-sidelined/2019/09/24/ee18aaec-deec-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html

Trump at private event: ‘Who gave the whistleblower the information? Because that’s close to a spy’

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-09-26/trump-at-private-breakfast-who-gave-the-whistle-blower-the-information-because-thats-almost-a-spy

How to Impeach a President

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/impeachment-process-remove-president-from-office-guide.html

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Show Notes Episode 228: “Chubby White Guy Blues”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe apologizes if anyone was offended by his statements at the bar last week, he wants everyone to know that he considered himself an artist and was pushing the boundaries of what he thought he could get away with. (He got his ass kicked by a 63 year old Grandma) On the show this week, we examine the boundaries of what chubby white guys CAN get away and find them appropriately shrinking. (Not fast enough though)

Along the way we learn how to homoerotically keep your child from swearing. (Rub that soap, rub it!) Then we take a tour through how NOT to push the boundaries of comedy by saying things Dave said on the playground when he was twelve. (That put pee pee in your coke joke was played when we told it Shane!) We take a turn through the White Dudes of Comedy who are VERY concerned about the things they are no longer allowed to say, even though they say them anyway. Finally, we take a look at Cancel Culture to find culture was canceled a LONG time ago.

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Show Notes Episode 227: “You Know I’m All About That Vape”

This week Host Dave Bledsoe comes back from vacation cranky and hungover, so basically nothing has changed. On the show this week we dive headfirst into the vaping panic sweeping the nation and it smells rather like our childhood breakfast cereal.

Along the way we find ourselves delighted to watch a full blown social panic unfold before our very eyes! (There are about seven or eight social panics going on right now, but this the newest and least offensive.) We discover where Dave’s nicotine addiction springs from. (He just wanted someone to love him!) Then we get to learn the history of how this highly annoying and utterly inane habit came from a desperate need to stabilize tobacco profits and grew into an activity for douche bros in a fedora! (Dude, check out my lightsaber vape!) We then turn to why vaping is the latest things to scare the crap out of aging white people. (Them durn kids again!) Before you accuse of being insensitive about the deaths, we remind you that six people died in the time it took you to read this paragraph.

Our Sponsor this week is Fast Eddie’s Vape Shops, when you want to smoke your breakfast, try Fast Eddies. We open with RJ Reynolds first failed e-cigarette and close with a little ditty from the Alan Cox Show.

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Citations Needed:

Electronic Cigarettes and Vaping, David Geffen School of Medicine UCLA

https://youtu.be/9dZS_Rniak0

WHEN DID VAPING BECOME A THING?

https://www.directvapor.com/blog/when-did-vaping-become-a-thing-187/

Vaping: e-cigarettes safer than smoking, says Public Health England

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/aug/19/public-health-england-e-cigarettes-safer-than-smoking

New Teen Trend Called ‘Juuling’ Is Raising Parental Concerns, Inside Edition

https://youtu.be/zawskRDd7uI

Sixth patient dies from vaping-related illness in U.S. CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vaping-deaths-kansas-confirms-first-death-linked-to-vaping-today-2019-09-10/

Trump administration aims to ban flavored e-cigarettes CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-administration-wants-to-ban-flavored-e-cigarettes-vaping-today-2019-09-11-live-stream/

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