Oral Presentations

Doing the live show that goes with this podcast this Saturday @ 3:30pm @ Helium Comedy Club in Philadelphia.Ticket link below.https://philadelphia.heliumcomedy.com/shows/255401Also, The Willows by Algernon Blackwood is the movie Deliverance but in Europe and instead of mountain people on blew chews our boys get mobbed by forest demons.

Live show that goes with this podcast is this Saturday @ 3:30pm @ Helium Comedy Club in Philadelphia. Ticket link below. https://philadelphia.heliumcomedy.com/shows/255401Also, the story of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein choking people out. 

Full collapse on deck and I blow through Piggy's Indiana Jones death to try and hide how much I don't like that part.

Ralph musters his public speaking chops in hopes of restoring order and things get worse. 

Part 1 from this year's Father's Day series on Patreon.

We rejoin the Brothers from Dayton as excellent bike shop employee Charlie Taylor jumps in to help with the mechanical work, the Smithsonian team has a rough run of it, and I forget how to say Potomac maybe 4 separate times. 

Kitty Hawk North Carolina plays host to the Brothers from Dayton for three rounds of testing and Wilber is pressured into headlining a science show in Chicago on ladies night. 

Main characters and setting are discussed, also a serial killer knocks out Wilber's lower teeth. 

Starting off 2022 w/ a Rod Serling Deep Cut.

This was Patreon #8, it's from  early pandemic, like  3 weeks into the lockdown. Was into cookie bites at the time.

//FIRST UP//The Howling Man AKA Wait, is narrow face Peter Pan The Devil or what?Follows a man named David Ellington as he blacks out on the floor twice as a guest at a castle in Europe.and//Closing the Show//Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up AKA Who the fuck walked outta Tracy's lake?Is a Clue board game style murder mystery episode about a Diner, and somebody in there possibly being a secret alien.

Information comes from the first 100 pages of Christopher Lee's Autobiography, “Tall, Dark, and Gruesome.” Forgot to emphasize how much he got his ass beat by teachers as a boy for disciplinary reasons. "There was the Black Book," where misdeeds were recorded and canceled out with the cane at the end of the week."Also on the back on some positive medical news, we went no notes allowed while recording for this.

The character Fortunato, who gets buried alive by the narrator, represents a person the author knew in real life.  The guy beat Poe up in the street the year prior over an argument about a girl's brother and wanting a gun.

These things swim around self hypnotized all day but I can't prove it. Hammerhead Sharks are discussed in detail.

Our remaining 4 pack of players get, shot, hung, drowned, and head crushed by a large white marble bear clock, then a short musical interlude, then we figure out what went on out there.

We recap our first three ghosts from part 1, then narrow the field from 7 down to 4 with help from an axe, hypodermic syringe, and revolver.

Curl up with your feet on the couch and a box of Laura's Fudge at the beach, it's world's best selling murder mystery book time.  

After using them as cover last week, a debt is paid as the Scorp facts runneth over in this nat geo departure.

The title of this episode is a decoy. This episode is not about Scorpions. The actual episode is about what I leaned about how to travel to Europe with your girlfriend in your mid 20's. I have a good friend who's a little younger than me and is going to Italy to meet his girl's family soon, so I made him a travel guide with what I learned from doing a similar thing in my 20's with this episode. I used a decoy title because if I named the episode about what it is actually about, his girl may see it and I want him to take full credit if he actually uses any of the ideas on his trip if he wants to.

Pack up your folders and put on your construction paper tri-corner hats, it's time for the American Revolution!In this episode we take a look at how the relationship between the American Colonies and the British Empire broke up. Even though they both really really liked certain parts of each other's personalities, it was just tough to make it work after a certain amount of time. 

// Time for some Guess and Check //Given the film version of the Canadian Stratford Festival Version of the William Butler Yeats adaptation of the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, the goal was to try and understand the story of the play as completely as possible according to the following rules:- I was only allowed to watch the full play one time.- During that one time, I was only allowed to hit pause two times, but was allowed to use those two pauses whenever.- I was not allowed to rewind or rewatch any part of the play.- I was allowed to take all the notes I could while the play was running.The first half of the episode is my best guess at understanding the plot from the play, the second part is an actual plot summary of Oedipus Rex to check and see how we did.  

Off a recommendation from an electrician named Ant from the last Patreon faculty meeting, we take a look at a visionary thinker who changed humanity forever however was also not the best with money. 

This is a Broken  Zoltar Format Patreon Episode about Classical Composers.  A Broken Zoltar episode is a handful of loosely related topics done in smaller bursts and then strung together to make a larger episode, I try to do at least one a month on the Patreon. This one covers Frederic Chopin, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Ludwig Van Beethoven.  Also RIP to one of the Patreon's class pets, Rose the Koala. 

We take a break from books and science to enjoy some good old fashioned European theater World War 2 on a Friday.

We wrap up L'Étranger, (Found out that's what they call, "The Stranger," in French,) by following nutbar Meursault. He gets thrown in jail for shooting that dude one time, and then four more times, and goes on trial. 

Albert Camus' The Stranger was named one of the the top 100 books of the last century and it's also a frequent pick for high school reading lists. Turns out, the main character is a space cadet who talks like Patrick Bateman from the movie American Psycho. Part 2 later this week. 

Was supposed to be a mother's day special, then I found out those sex party masks from Eyes Wide Shut are from this place.  So although no longer appropriate as a mother's day special due to orgy mask related subject matter, the seabirds were still a cool group of people to learn about.

There are ten thousand different ways people try to explain this on the internet, so I contacted an old friend who has been in the interior design business his whole life, and asked if I could pick his brain. After a four hour conversation I still don't understand it, but I did learn about the lost city of Pompeii, along the way, so that's cool.

A Teachers lounge episode where we all get stoned and talk about a Psychic from 1920's for 45 minutes. Rising to fame as a clairvoyant healer and controversial figure of the occult, Edgar Cayce has been called, "The Sleeping Profit," "An American Mystic," and "A Total fuckn Liar," by people who have interpreted his work in different ways over the years.Claiming access to a universal hive subconscious mind which allows him to access hidden levels of human consciousness and ancient knowledge, and with a dedicated team behind him, Cayce looks to make a statement tonight in this, his debut, in the UFC Octagon.  

This recommendation came from an ER nurse and I wanted to like the book so bad. I could not find a way to like this book. I quit after chapter 7.  It's about bunch of rich people getting hammered in Paris 24/7 while acting like they're friends. They are complete garbage to each other. 

Much like coming back after other short term breakups, it’s time to not even ask any questions about anything, act like nothing happened, and enjoy a piece of classic American fiction together.

A genuine attempt to explain how flight works including the concept of lift, mostly with toucan based examples.

We get on board r/Partystreetbets and Prolo to the Moon at the Ministry of Love in the exciting conclusion of George Orwell’s 1984.

Fresh off a walk to clear his head after hearing about the neighbor's kids lighting a lady on fire, we rejoin our hero Winston back at his job. // How does this girl at work thing continue play out?// Is O'Brien actually cool or naw?// Is the relationship with that sad Antique Store owner too weird to ever shop there again?!?All these questions and more answered in this exciting part 2 of George Orwell's 1984!

I was assigned to read this in high school and honestly can not remember if I did. Part 1 goes up to the end of Chapter 8, we meet out main character Winston and see how he's living. (not the best)

A Texas Hold'em cram session If I ever would have gotten into Chip's game, this is what I would have liked to have recorded and then played for myself on the drive over immediately before the game to try and remember how to play cards.I would then deny making and listening to a home made strategy guide to prepare for that game.All poker information comes from Doyle Brunson's book The Super System from 1978.

A literary classic which is also pretty much one long Kevin Sorbo Hercules episode.

***Things I forgot:Gun accidents were responsible for a bunch of KO’s on the Oregon Trail. A lot of first time firearm owners had a similar attitude as my 6th grade self when hitting the General Store and bought way too many guns before they set out. Because of this, by the end in 1869 it was not uncommon to find firearms discarded along the trail. Also The Oregon Trail did end in 1869, the Transcontinental railroad was completed. This linked East to West by rail so nobody was walking that ~3219K anymore.

Sick Week 2: 2/2Patreon Episode from last early Spring. This one centers around how many animals people were chucking up into space during the Cold War, and the story of one Brave Little Toaster in particular.

Sick Week 2: 1/2Patreon ep from February 2020. I still believe Stinky Greg knew when we was with those goobers doing summersaults in the mud for two years, he was going to be able to use that as marketing for his David Blaine shit once he hit Moscow.

Calling in Sick part 2/2This was Patreon Episode 16. It's pretty much the 50 Cent song Many Men but in 1400's France.

Calling in Sick Part 1/2This was Patreon Episode #15, and maybe the only one I've felt genuinely lost lost on.

Keeping in tradition with the King Tut Christmas Special last year, this topic has almost nothing to do with Christmas and I also ruined the first recording of it due to either technical issues or ghosts.(1) Lady who looked like an ex's mom yells at me about Honda Fits(2) Helmet Rule(3) Types of Checks(4) Fighting in Hockey(5) The Code(6) If you find yourself in an Ice Hockey Fight, Two Proven Strategies used by Enforcers.

John Candy counts as holiday tradition so in an effort to enjoy watching his movies more this year, I wanted to find out how he came up.

Remember when Christian Bale goes to that mountain in the first Batman movie and then they put him on mushrooms and kick him for awhile but he doesn't die so he becomes Batman? The MOF is that but in France and about dessert.

The holiday season begins as we suss out Krampus and say hi to an an immortal sad Japanese ghost lady who can't stop murdering dudes in the woods.

Place your hand palm down on the paper bag and then trace around it with marker because it's hand turkey time.

As rumors of a second impending lock down swirl, we take a look back at parties of yesteryear. From April 1977 to Feb 1980, Studio 54 gets credit for starting that trend where a doorman tells you to fuck off and go home for no reason and for giving away a trip to the Caribbean based upon ejack distance. It was a lot like World War One.

The Canadian Whirlwind himself. I read his brother's book about him and smashed that together with his known arrests.

NOVEMBER // WE SOLVE A MYSTERYOut the gate, who are the dudes on the Dutch Masters wrapper // Why the pick // Dutch Golden Age of Painting // DEIC INC LOL GTFO // Hierarchy of Genres // Flex Based Gig Economy.

Told a girlfriend 9 years ago I was gonna read The Devil In The White City, "Soon," just under a decade later I audio booked it for an electronic book report about just the serial killer parts.