Dangerously Eclectic

In loving memory of L (Allen S. Thomas) July 10, 1977- July 29, 2022. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L & Ben discuss their problems with the NFL in particular and sports in general including why we find sports so intoxicating and what it means to reach your personal ability cap. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L & Ben are back to talk about the evolution of Country music in our own eclectic fashion. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L & Ben are joined by the mighty April (@Psy_Ghoul) to discuss a cult classic and foundational movie for at least.....some of us. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L & Ben are joined by Buzz again to discuss their experiences with ghosts and other supernatural phenomena. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

It's October and we are talking about UFOs and Aliens with our friend Buzz. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L & Ben take a deep dive into Raiders of the Lost Ark. In our very odd way. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L & Ben return for season 3! L had a thesis, that gangsta rap was the spiritual successor of punk we discuss this by looking at albums by Biggie, NAS, Tupac, NWA, Dre, and Cube. Will L convince Ben? WIll L convince you? Let us know. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

Season two ends here!! L (@eclecticheretic) & Ben (@Bendangerously) are joined by Trae Wisecarver (@cliostrongstyle) and David Lynch (@whiskeysdemon) to talk about our favorite wrestlers of all time. It's a long one so lace those boots extra tight and we will call it in the ring. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L & Ben are back in the penultimate episode of the season to discuss their favorite actresses. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

In our longest episode thus far, L & B put on their GM hats and each Draft an NBA team. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L & Ben discuss their favorite singers and a (whole bunch) of honorable mentions. Although, they have a minor disagreement on what makes a great vocalist. A fun episode, check it out. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

Season two rolls on with L & Ben's picks for their top five tv shows of all time. Check it out! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L & Ben talk about their favorite authors, artists, and issues from the comic book genre. Please check out the following free comics. https://www.wfp.org/publications/ll3-living-level-3-south-sudan https://www.wfp.org/publications/ll3-living-level-3-iraq --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L & Ben break down there favorite comedians/comedy specials --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

Season 2 rolls on! This week L & Ben discuss their top five books, with a smattering of other things along the way. You can find L @eclecticheretic and Ben @Bendangerously --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L & Ben continue their tribute to High Fidelity by discussing their top 5 songs! What do you think of their list? What is yours? Hit them up @eclecticheretic or @bendangerously or on their Facebook fan page. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

Season two starts here! L and Ben discuss the particulars of their top five songs of all time. Join in the conversation! You can find L @eclecticheretic You can find Ben @bendangerously --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L (@eclecticheretic) and Ben (@Bendangerously) give you a taste of Season Two of Dangerously Eclectic. This season, in an ode to Nick Hornby’s novel High Fidelity, we will be giving you a series of episodes on various top fives. We start with our favorite songs. In this trailer, we talk about our criteria for selection and discuss a few of the tracks that just missed. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

During our last episode, a promise was made to have the next episode up for you in two weeks. Well, as of the writing of this it has been two weeks and we don't have a full episode. So, I recorded a short update to let you know what is going on and what the tentative plan for the next episode is. Hopefully, we will get that out to you this week. Please accept our apologies. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

After an unintentional hiatus L (@eclecticheretic) and Ben (@bendangerously) return to close out their first season. We hope you will come back to us after the delay as we talk about the Cold War, the IMF, and whatever else crosses our minds. We also preview Season Two and request feedback on topics to cover going forward. Thank you for your patience. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L (@eclecticheretic) and Ben (@bendangerously) are back for the penultimate episode of their first season. They talk through the history of games with what the various types meant to them. Including tales of gambling, dice rolling, and the time Ben nearly killed L over a videogame. Join in and share your gaming stories with us! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L (@eclecticheritic) and Ben (@bendangerously) are back with discussing the animation that impacted their lives. Of course, with these two, the conversation takes a few strange turns along the way. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L (@eclecticheretic) and Ben (@bendangerously) return to talk about the end. Death, how it has touched their lives, and what it all means. In the Dangerously Eclectic way only they can. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

The Christmas season is a huge movie-going time of year. L (@eclecticheretic) and Ben (@bendangerously) discuss the cinema that influenced them in their youth. Of course, it wouldn't be Dangerously Eclectic if they didn't also go deep on what movies and film mean to society. Grab some popcorn or a beer (maybe both) join us. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L (@eclecticheretic) & Ben (@bendangerously) return to discuss the books that informed there youth. From Tolkien to King and back through Lovecraft. The merits and place of fiction and what authors speak to their small town experience highlight this Dangerously Eclectic conversation. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L & Ben return to finish off their list of top 25 influences before the age of 25. Of course, no conversation between these two is ever that linear. Join us again as we discuss topics that range from Hee Haw to RA Salvatore to the philosophy of comedy. Join us again for another Dangerously Eclectic listen. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L and Ben are back to discuss one of their biggest influences, terrestrial radio. Whether the power of music, the influence of talk, or the greatness of the immensely missed Art Bell, we banter about how those invisible waves shaped us. With guest appearances by Canadian vampires and the poetry of Amelia Martens. As Queen once sang, "I'd sit alone and watch your light My only friend through teenage nights And everything I had to know I heard it on my radio." Please tune in and join the conversation. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

L and Ben return for another conversation about the cultural influences that shaped them. This week's conversation meanders through the movie Heathers, and Jaws through arena rock and the Southern Baptist Church before barreling through Monty Python. As always, when Ben and L get together it is Dangerously Eclectic. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message

Welcome to the first episode of Dangerously Eclectic. In which L and Ben two West Kentucky ex-pats get together and talk about a movie that was foundational to both of them Kevin Smith's 1994 debut Clerks. Which they kind of do...sorta....at least tangentially. Listen in to this conversation that weaves from discussions of technology and Freudian psychoanalysis to the movie and back again and see why together we are Dangerously Eclectic. You can find L on twitter @eclecticheretic and Ben @bendangerously. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dangerously-eclectic/message