Podcast appearances and mentions of kirk demarais

Visit the world-famous Rubber Chicken Museum located in the Archie McPhee store in Seattle, Washington. As the home to the world's largest rubber chicken and the world's smallest rubber chicken, you'll stand slack-jawed in awe in front of our display of plastic poultry. Open since 2018, this museum has set the rubber chicken world abuzz. Scholars from more than ten countries have visited in a quest to discover what makes rubber chickens funny. The exhibit features a scholarly essay by renowned rubber chicken expert Kirk Demarais that puts the rubber chicken in its correct historical context. You'll laugh, learn and take your picture next to the world's largest rubber chicken! As if that weren't enough, we also have a rotating display from Archie McPhee's owner Mark Pahlow's amazing collection of novelties. Called the “Room 6” collection after the locked room where he keeps his treasures. There truly is no other place to see items like this. You'll want to return when the next batch goes in. https://archiemcpheeseattle.com/rubber-chicken-museum/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/loren-alberts/message

Any comic book fan, especially those who read comics in the 60's and 70's, will remember all the crazy ads that ran monthly across the pages. Perhaps you remember, Sea Monkeys, Count Dante, Raquel Welch pillows and other amazing items that you just had to have. Well, Grown Ass Men have always been super interested in these so we contacted an expert on the subject, Kirk Demarais. His book "Mail Order Mysteries" is a definitive look at the ads and what was going on behind the scenes. Also in this episode - a brand new cover of the Traits classic "Nobody Loves the Hulk" by Sam Mastandrea and Adam Bernstein. Give a listen folks! Original music by Adam Bernstein

Venturing out of their “studio,” Noah and Kyle sit down with guest Kirk Demarais in his toy-filled home for a fun and very geeky interview. Listen as Kirk touches on the joys of teaching, the highs and lows of publishing his book “Mail-Order Mysteries,” and the funny tale of how he first began designing film family portraits for celebrities such as Kristen Wig, Nick Kroll, and John Mulaney. This is a good one, folks—we hope you enjoy it! New episodes EVERY Tuesday around noon! Please be sure to subscribe, check out our website Ominous.Media, and follow our official and personal accounts on Instagram! Noah & Kyle As always, thanks to Josh Flynn for our tasty intro and outro music. Check him out on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/joshdflynn/ SHOW NOTES: Chevy Chase interview mentioned around 50:11 by Kirk: https://goo.gl/fdrmbw KIRK LINKS: Blog: http://secretfunspot.blogspot.com/ Website: http://www.kirkdemarais.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kirkdemarais

The second half of our interview with art historian and novelty expert Kirk Demarais. We talk about his book Mail-Order Mysteries, swapping potatoes for orphans, inflatable lady legs and what you get when order Dracula Dirt. Check out picture and links on the Archie McPhee website. You can also check out Kirk Demarais.

In this episode, Chris (@AceComics) and Reggie (@reggiereggie) will teach you how to kill a man with one touch, become the life of any party, and pull six cars for one mile using only your neck! We'll go over some seminal comic book ads and detail the lives of novelty purveyor S.S. Adams and bodybuilder Charles Atlas. Then, a brief discussion about comic book advertising, and why we don't really see it anymore! Have some scissors ready to clip those mail-in coupons! weirdcomicshistory@gmail.com www.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com SOURCES: The Deadliest Ads Alive! A History of Martial Arts Ads in Comic Books by Dan Kelly, 2012, Hogan’s Alley PublishingLife of the Party:A Visual History of the S.S. Adams Company Makers of Pranks & Magic for 100 Years by Kirk Demarais, 2006, S.S. Adams LLCmagicmakersinc.com S.S. Adams Co.Charles Atlas: The Man, the Myth and the Muscles by David Baines, 2014 Birch Tree Publishingcharlesatlas.com Charles Atlas BREAK: "The Man Who Knew Charles Atlas"; Rich Alcott interviews Matou Panagopolous https://youtu.be/w3r1c4I2j00 TAGS: comic books, comics history, karate, judo, Count Dante, Dim Mak, S.S. Adams, novelties, dribble glass, joy buzzer, Charles Atlas, hero of the beach, bodybuilding, vaudeville, strongman

Our month-long series of weird animal stories starts this month on Ripley Radio with the story of how a veterinarian saved the life of seven baby squirrels whose tails had been fused together and our U.S. National Park expert Mike Oswald returns to tell us some strange and unbelievable stories about the animals that live in our parks. Additional Weird, Strange, and Unbelievable Stories in the July 8 Edition of Ripley Radio, the official broadcast station of Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, include: Jodi Pliszka, Ripley’s own guru of weird medical maladies reports on some of the most unbelievable body-part re-attachments in medical history; Kirk Demarais, author of Mail Order Mysteries, explains the items that he highlights in his book -the small items once available for order from the back of cereal boxes and comic books; Mitch English, TV personality and comedian joins us in the studios for some fun and frolic; and sideshow and carnival fan extraordinaire Wayne Keyser joins us to talk about his radio show, Ballycast. John Fogerty provides the musical egress this week with his 1970 hit, Lookin’ Out My Backdoor.