Podcast appearances and mentions of sam hell

The gang repopulates the earth this week, as they review Hell Comes to Frogtown. After a worldwide nuclear war, where 68% of the male population was wiped out and virile men becoming a rarity, Sam Hell, a scavenger and a highly virile man, is assigned to help rescue a group of fertile women kidnapped by humanoid frogs. How did Pete, Joseph, and Tyler enjoy this schlocky sci-fi? Tune in to find outVisit the YouTube channel Saturdays @ 12:30 PM Pacific to get in on the live stream, or just watch this episode rather than just listen!Channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI1lVsk1xjMSBgZK82uAzgQThis Episode:https://youtu.be/_exOde0u-kghttp://www.MCFCpodcast.comhttps://www.twitch.tv/MCFCpodcasthttp://www.facebook.com/MCFCpodcasthttp://www.twitter.com/podcastMCFChttp://www.tiktok.com/middleclassfilmclasshttp://www.instagram.com/middleclassfilmclass   Email: MCFCpodcast@gmail.comMerch store - https://middle-class-film-class.creator-spring.com/    Join the Patreon:www.patreon.con/middleclassfilmclass Patrons:JavierJoel ShinnemanLinda McCalisterHeather Sachs https://twitter.com/DorkOfAllDorksChris GeigerDylanMitch Burns Robert Stewart JasonAndrew Martin Dallas Terry Jack Fitzpatrick Mackenzie MinerBinge Daddy DanAngry Otter (Michael)The Maple Syrup Don: StephenJoseph Navarro     Pete Abeyta  and Tyler Noe

A new breed of podcast has taken over the world... Sam Hell has come to take it back. Analog Jones with the help of Jonathan and Paul London reviews Hell Comes to Frogtown starring the amazing Roddy Rowdy Piper! Jonathan and Paul London also tell us about their Kickstarter campaign for Paul London: Hero of the Prophecy. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/geekscapeforever/hero-of-the-prophecy-1-a-pro-wrestling-comedic-fantasy?ref=edwabq Quick Facts Directed by Donald G. Jackson and R. J. Kizer Screenplay by Donald G. Jackson and Randall Frakes Distributed by New World Pictures (Roger Corman) Release date: January 1988 Budget: $1.5 million Rotten Tomatoes: 60% Tomatometer (10 reviews) / 47% Popcornmeter Starring Roddy Piper as Sam Hell Sandahl Bergman as Spangle Cec Verrell as Centinella William Smith as Captain Devlin / Count Sodom Rory Calhoun as Looney Tunes How to listen and reach Analog Jones and the Temple of Film Discuss these movies and more on our Facebook page. You can also listen to us on iTunes, iHeartRADIO, Podbean, Spotify, and Youtube! Please email us at analogjonestof@gmail.com with any comments or questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're finally firing up the Breen machine. That's right, until now, we've never sat through one of Neil Breen's movies. Now that we've thoroughly flicked our Breens into submission, we can now say "Breen there, done that." Fateful Findings! A movie about... something. Confusing cascading cacophony of cubes, killing, and cuckoldry! Wanton destruction of laptops! Re-gag rescue! Soft-core stepdaughter skinny dip bubble bath! Nip slip polo shirt drip! Burgerless buns and bunless glizzers! No 911 for your overdosing girlfriend while you bury your cube in another woman's mushroom hole! Who is Mr. Insurance?! Sam Hell contract cameo? Faulty gauze protocol! Neil Breen's ass, and much, much more on this week's episode of The Worst Movie Ever Made! www.theworstmovieevermade.com 

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In a move that may destroy this podcast, Brandon and Steve give their instant reactions to the first Presidential #Debate2024, which appears to be the sixth-consecutive contest between Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich, thanks South Park. And nooowww...Hell Comes to Frogtown: In a post-apocalyptic world, women rule and men are judged not by the content of their character, but by the quality of their spermatozoa. Enter Sam Hell, a man with stronger swimmers than the US Olympic Team. A scavenger, drifter, and criminal-type, he opts to work with the government after he's captured, rather than face prison. His mission? To first rescue, then procreate with, a group of women who were taken captive by a race of Frogpeople. The human race needs more babies to survive, and only Sam Hell has the balls to save humanity. Is this setup stupid? Probably, but let's not got too teste. Hell Comes to Frogtown final grade: Steve maybe wasn't in a receptive mood for this one, but he calls this one "meh." Rowdy Roddy Piper misses as a leading man and bad #science knocks this one down several pegs. 2.69/5.0 Brandon This movie was ribbeting. Not a good movie, the nostalgia of a 1980s WWF icon and the low-brow humor hits in his soft spots. 3.45/5 Cocktail of the Week: Feeling Froggy? It Ain't Easy Being Green? Who knows... 1 oz vodka 1 oz Midori Melon Liqueur 1/2 oz Orange Liqueur 1/2 oz Coconut Rum 1 oz Pineapple Juice Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Strain over cherries in a frosted martini glass. Cocktail Grade: Brandon takes another shot at creating a cocktail. This one misses the mark, but it might be better if something about it were changed. 2/5 ------------------ Contact us with feedback or cocktail/movie recommendations to: boozeandbmovies@gmail.com X: @boozeandbmovies Instagram: @boozeandbmovies Threads: @boozeandbmovies www.facebook.com/boozeandbmovies --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/boozeandbmovies/support

"Rowdy" Roddy Piper is Sam Hell, an outlaw that just so happens to be one the last fertile men on Earth. The ladies of Medtech offer him a clean slate if he'll help them repopulate society! One little problem though. A town of mutant frog humanoids are stirring up trouble in their path. It's a classic B-Movie with charm, bewbs, and some badass moments. With practical effects by the iconic Steve Wang, and all the Frogman action you can shake a stick at, Dustin gives this film 3 Dancing Snakes up!

It's time to go back to the movies as the PWR Boys review Hell Comes to Frogtown! This flick is a 1988 American science fiction action film directed by Donald G. Jackson and R. J. Kizer, and written by Jackson and Randall Frakes. The film stars professional wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper as Sam Hell, one of the last remaining fertile men in a post-apocalyptic world populated by both humans and mutant amphibians! Tune in to see or hear The Professor and Tommy Wonders thoughts on this cult classic!   The Professor - @pwhustleprof Tommy Wonder - @TheeTommyWonder

It's time to go back to the movies as the PWR Boys review Hell Comes to Frogtown! This flick is a 1988 American science fiction action film directed by Donald G. Jackson and R. J. Kizer, and written by Jackson and Randall Frakes. The film stars professional wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper as Sam Hell, one of the last remaining fertile men in a post-apocalyptic world populated by both humans and mutant amphibians! Tune in to see or hear The Professor and Tommy Wonders thoughts on this cult classic!   The Professor - @pwhustleprof Tommy Wonder - @TheeTommyWonder

It's time to go back to the movies as the PWR Boys review Hell Comes to Frogtown! This flick is a 1988 American science fiction action film directed by Donald G. Jackson and R. J. Kizer, and written by Jackson and Randall Frakes. The film stars professional wrestler “Rowdy” Roddy Piper as Sam Hell, one of the last remaining fertile men in a post-apocalyptic world populated by both humans and mutant amphibians! Tune in to see or hear The Professor and Tommy Wonders thoughts on this cult classic!   The Professor - @pwhustleprof Tommy Wonder - @TheeTommyWonder

In this episode,  our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of being outstanding books that might have flown under your radar.  We will also share a thought provoking Book In Hand.  We're keeping these on our radar!Featured Books Sparrow by James Hynes (LP) The Prospectors by Ariel Djanikian (LP) The Magician's Daughter by H.G. Parry (LH) The Bridge Across the Ocean by Susan Meissner (LH) Books In HandAdelaide by Genevieve Wheeler (LP) Books Mentioned in this Episode:The Golden Compass by Phillip PullmanOnly the Beautiful and The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan MeissnerAdditional Books That Go With Our Stack:The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert DugoniHer Fearful Symmetry by Audrey NiffeneggerFifty Words for Rain by Asha LemmieWays to contact us:Follow us on Instagram - @thebookbumbleFacebook:  Book BumbleOur website:  https://thebookbumble.buzzsprout.comEmail:  bookbumblepodcast@gmail.comHey Friends, please rate and review us!

KÜSS DEN FROSCHDie Erde ist völlig zerstört, die meisten Männer können keine Kinder mehr zeugen. Eine der wenigen Ausnahmen ist der besonders potente Sam Hell, der einen Deal mit der Regierung eingeht, so viele Frauen wie möglich zu schwängern. Einige der fruchtbaren Frauen werden in Frogtown gefangen gehalten, einer Stadt in der Mutanten leben, deren Gene sich aus Frosch und Mensch gemischt haben. Gemeinsam mit der Medtech-Beauftragten Spangle und der Bordschützin Centinella dringt Sam in die verbotene Zone ein, um die Frauen zu befreien… (Mediabook-Klappentext X-Cess Ent.)Die Welt ist mal untergegangen, weil die machtgeilen Männer im internationalen Schwanzvergleich mal wieder die Knibbelfinger nicht vom roten Knopf lassen konnten. In HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN müssens jetzt die Damen der Schöpfung richten... indem sie "Verführungstechniken" studieren?!?Schon lange kreucht dieser trashige B-Endzeit-Klopper in meinem Sumpf aus Excel-Listen und Klebezetteln herum. Und was könnte mehr Spaß machen, als gemeinsam mit Hell im Barbie-Traumauto durch die Wüste zu brettern, Froschmutanten die Glubschaugen einzutreten und holde Damen in Not zu retten? Richtig, gar nichts!Also taucht mit dem Trashtaucher ab in diesen ranzig-dreckigen Actionsumpf von vor langer, langer Zeit.--- Feedback, Verbesserungen, Wünsche? Gerne hier zurückmelden!Unterstützen: Join the Trash-Gang | Merch-Shop | Kaffekasse (Ko-Fi) | Plaion Pictures Shop (Affiliate) | Auphonic-Credits spendenAbonnieren: iTunes | Spotify | Amazon Music | Google Podcasts | RSSFolgen: Youtube | Instagram | Facebook | WhatsApp-Kanal

You can find Huda at her website www.Hudafahmy.com. Our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook Perks of Being a BookLover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we talk to Huda Fahmy, a graphic novelist whose 4th book Huda F Cares? was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award in Young People's Literature. Her book focuses on a teenage Muslim girl named Huda who takes a road trip in the family's station wagon from Michigan to Florida to visit Disneyworld with her parents and many sisters. There she grapples with wanting to fit in with her peers but also wanting to stay true to her family and her Muslim religion with issues like wearing her hijab and praying in public. The character Huda in her book is based on the author's experience growing up in an Egyptian family that immigrated to the US. Huda talks about her love of comics and how she picked up English in part by reading Garfield comic books. Huda began writing graphic novels at the age of 30 when two of her sisters encouraged her to turn her essays of Muslim American life into illustrated stories. Books mentioned in This Episode: 1- Huda F Cares? by Huda Fahmy 2- Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy 3- Yes, I'm Hot in This by Huda Fahmy 4- Huda F Wants To Know by Huda Fahmy 5- That Can be Arranged by Huda Fahmy 6- Murder by Degrees by Rita Mukerji 7- Hide by Tracy Clark 8- Graveyard of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe 9- Erasure by Percival Everett 10- Mexikid by Pedro Martin 11- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang 12- Brave by Svetlana Chmakova 13- It Won't Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib 14- Love From A to Z by S.K. Ali 15- All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir 16- A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal 17- As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh 18- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Juno Diaz 19- Hidden Systems by Dan Nott 20- The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 21- Checkmate by Ali Hazelwood 22- Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman 23- The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni 24- The Falconer by Elizabeth May Shows/Films mentioned-- 1- Poor Things (2023) 2- American Fiction (2023) 3- The Old Man and the Pool (Netflix 2023)

You can find Huda at her website www.Hudafahmy.com. Our website at www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook Perks of Being a BookLover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we talk to Huda Fahmy, a graphic novelist whose 4th book Huda F Cares? was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award in Young People's Literature. Her book focuses on a teenage Muslim girl named Huda who takes a road trip in the family's station wagon from Michigan to Florida to visit Disneyworld with her parents and many sisters. There she grapples with wanting to fit in with her peers but also wanting to stay true to her family and her Muslim religion with issues like wearing her hijab and praying in public. The character Huda in her book is based on the author's experience growing up in an Egyptian family that immigrated to the US. Huda talks about her love of comics and how she picked up English in part by reading Garfield comic books. Huda began writing graphic novels at the age of 30 when two of her sisters encouraged her to turn her essays of Muslim American life into illustrated stories. Books mentioned in This Episode: 1- Huda F Cares? by Huda Fahmy 2- Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy 3- Yes, I'm Hot in This by Huda Fahmy 4- Huda F Wants To Know by Huda Fahmy 5- That Can be Arranged by Huda Fahmy 6- Murder by Degrees by Rita Mukerji 7- Hide by Tracy Clark 8- Graveyard of Lost Children by Katrina Monroe 9- Erasure by Percival Everett 10- Mexikid by Pedro Martin 11- American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang 12- Brave by Svetlana Chmakova 13- It Won't Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib 14- Love From A to Z by S.K. Ali 15- All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir 16- A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal 17- As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh 18- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Juno Diaz 19- Hidden Systems by Dan Nott 20- The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton 21- Checkmate by Ali Hazelwood 22- Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman 23- The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni 24- The Falconer by Elizabeth May Shows/Films mentioned-- 1- Poor Things (2023) 2- American Fiction (2023) 3- The Old Man and the Pool (Netflix 2023)

Today, our stack of books is tied together with the common theme of our favorite reads of 2023.   Join us as we say goodbye to a standout reading year!Featured Books:A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler  (LH)The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons (LH)The Lost Queen by Signe Pike  (LH)Weyward by Emilia Hart. (LH)Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. (LH)The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni. (LH)The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese  (LP)The Glass Chateau by Stephen P. Kiernan  (LP) Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash  (LP)Chenneville by Paulette Jiles  (LP)  The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters  (LP) Shark Heart by Emily Habeck  (LP)My Friend Anne Frank by Hannah Pick-Gosslar  (LP)Runner-Up Books  (We Warned You...)Salt to the Sea by Ruta SeptysThe Air Raid Book Club by Annie LyonsThe Weaver and the Witch Queen by Genevieve GornichecThey All Die In The End by Adam SilveraTom Lake by Ann PatchettNorth Woods by Daniel Mason Clytemnestra by Costanza CasatiThe House is on Fire by Rachel BeanlandThe River We Remember by William Kent Krueger Medusa's Sisters by Lauren J. A. BearA Few Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2024The Frozen River by Ariel LawhonThe Life Impossible by Matt HaigMaria by Michelle MoranThe Women by Kristen HannahThe Happiest Man Alive by Eddie JakuSomewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. KluneThe Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart TurtonWandering Stars by Tommy OrangeGrief is for People by Sloane CrosleyOther Books Mentioned in This EpisodeThe Air Raid Book Club by Annie LyonsThe Forgotten Kingdom by Signe PikeA Little Hope, A Quiet Life, The Same Bright Stars by Ethan JoellaThe Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne CroninWays to contact us:Follow us on Instagram - @thebookbumbleFacebook:  Book BumbleOur website:  https://thebookbumble.buzzsprout.comEmail:  bookbumblepodcast@gmail.comHey Friends, please rate and review us!

Join hosts Nathan and Ryan in this ribbiting episode of Drive-In Double Feature Podcast as they hop into the wild and weird world of "Hell Comes to Frogtown" (1988). Directed by Donald G. Jackson and R.J. Kizer, this post-apocalyptic sci-fi comedy follows the adventures of Sam Hell, a rugged loner tasked with a mission to rescue fertile women in a world ruled by humanoid frogs. Dive into the film's unique premise, bizarre characters, and the unexpected blend of sci-fi and frog-infested madness. Explore how "Hell Comes to Frogtown" became a cult classic in the realm of unconventional cinema. Get ready for a croak-tastic discussion as we unravel the quirks and charms of "Hell Comes to Frogtown."

Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and #1 Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell and The Cyanide Canary, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. His titles are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than thirty languages.Before Robert enthralled audiences with his blockbuster thrillers, he was editor of his high school newspaper in San Mateo, California. In this week's episode of You Are What You Read, Robert shares with us his experience of becoming a novelist and the books that shaped him along the way.  We'd also like to thank our sponsor Book of the Month.  Head over to bookofthemonth.com and use Promo Code ADRI to get your first book for just $9.99. Thank you for listening, and thank you for reading.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  Website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram- @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese 2- The Friend by Sigrid Nunez 3- Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 4- Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopolou 5- Krazyland by Mar Romasco-Moore 6- Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak 7- This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper 8- Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain by Andrew McCarthy 9- The Weight We Carry by Christina Consolino 10- The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp by Leonie Swann 11- House of Gold by CT Rwizi 12- The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni 13- Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead 14- Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead 15- Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge 16- Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind who changed the Bible and Why by Bart Ehrman 17- The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay 18- The Night Eaters by Marjorie Liu 19- Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy 20- I Am Not Your Eve by Devika Ponnambalam Five Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover Carol @pirotandpinot We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker Movies and TV series Discussed 1- Creature (2023/Netflix) 2- The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015-2017) 3- Mary Shelley (2015) 4- The Family Stone (2005) 5- Knock at the Cabin (2023)

Website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram- @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. Books Mentioned in this Episode: 1- Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese 2- The Friend by Sigrid Nunez 3- Prophet Song by Paul Lynch 4- Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopolou 5- Krazyland by Mar Romasco-Moore 6- Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak 7- This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper 8- Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain by Andrew McCarthy 9- The Weight We Carry by Christina Consolino 10- The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp by Leonie Swann 11- House of Gold by CT Rwizi 12- The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni 13- Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead 14- Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead 15- Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge 16- Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind who changed the Bible and Why by Bart Ehrman 17- The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay 18- The Night Eaters by Marjorie Liu 19- Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy 20- I Am Not Your Eve by Devika Ponnambalam Five Star Read Recommended by a Fellow Book Lover Carol @pirotandpinot We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker Movies and TV series Discussed 1- Creature (2023/Netflix) 2- The Frankenstein Chronicles (2015-2017) 3- Mary Shelley (2015) 4- The Family Stone (2005) 5- Knock at the Cabin (2023)

An all new Appreciation Month is upon us here at Cinema Degeneration and this time we are heading out into the Dystopian fueled nightmares of the Apocalypse with 'Wasteland Appreciation Month.' It's a month long celebration of all things Post-Apocalyptic so you can expect marauders, scavengers, mutants and mayhem, cool car chases, fights over water and fuel, and battles of epic proportions. Our first episode is on an all time B-Movie classic starring the late great Rowdy Roddy Piper with 1988's "HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN" from director Donald G. Jackson. Also starring Sandahl Bergman, William Smith, Rory Calhoun, Nicolas Worth and many more! It's a cautionary tale of what happens when 68% of the male population on earth is wiped out and virile men are a rarity. Piper portrays the character of Sam Hell, one of the last virile men on the planet who is tasked with the mission of rescuing a group of fertile women from a gang of humanoid frogs! If that sounds crazy to you, then you've got to see it to believe it. Our deep dive discussion is headed off by the Three Stooges of Cinema Degeneration... Eric Phillips (Sequel Too, Deja Vu), Korey Dawson (Without Warning) and Cameron Scott. You can expect digressions and rants on everything from legendary actor Royal Dano, John Cena and his eventual evolution into Ernest P. Worrell, multiple ideas for Frogtown reboots and recastings and sequels, and even the Brendan Frasier Mummy franchise. Buckle in because it's going to be a wild ride!   "Eat lead, Froggies!!!"

Thomas Manuel of the Indie RPG Newsletter and the Yes Indie'd podcast joins me to talk about Secondary Missions, a mechanic from Band of Blades by Off Guard Games.In Band of Blades, a grim military fantasy forged in the dark game, you and your party go off and do missions. Meanwhile, there's a whole other squad out there doing a whole other mission! What's up with them? This mechanic tells us. It's such a change in the mouthfeel of Band of Blades compare to other forged in the dark games.We get into how it supports the genre and themes of the game, all the tough choices it puts in front of players, and how mechanics like this one that couldn't exist in any other game are often our favorites.It's a classic Dice Exploder deep dive this week. Enjoy.Further reading:* Blades in the Dark* Malazan Book of the Fallen* Band of Brothers* Darkest Dungeon* The Watch* Dream Askew // Dream ApartSocials:Thomas on itch and Twitter.Sam on Bluesky, Twitter, dice.camp, and itch.Our logo was designed by sporgory, and our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Grey.Join the Dice Exploder Discord to talk about the show!Transcript:Sam: Hello and welcome to another episode of Dice Exploder. Each week we take a tabletop RPG mechanic and have its back as we head behind enemy lines. My name is Sam Dunnewold, and my co host is Thomas Manuel. Oh, so exciting. Thomas is an Indian playwright, journalist, and game designer. He runs the Indie RPG Newsletter, for my money one of the best sources of IndyRPG news on the internet and an easy subscribe. Plus he's the current host of the excellent Yes Indeed podcast. He's also the designer of This Ship is No Mother, a card based take on the kind of Mothership genre that's very much worth your time. Thomas is great, And he brought on a mechanic from Band of Blades, a grim military fantasy forged in the dark game from Off Guard Games and Evil Hat. Specifically, Thomas brought secondary missions.In Band of Blades, while you and your party are off doing one mission, there's a whole other squad over there doing a whole other mission's worth of stuff. What's up with them? This mechanic tells us.Secondary missions, have a deceptively big impact on the mouthfeel of Band of Blades. We get into how it supports the genre and themes of the game, all the tough choices it puts in front of players, and how mechanics like this one, that couldn't exist in any other game, are often at least my favorites. It's a classic Dice Exploder this week, a deep dive at its very best. Here is Thomas Manuel with Secondary Missions.Thomas, thanks for being here.Thomas: Thank you for inviting me. I'm so excited to talk about Band of Blades.Sam: Hell yeah. What is Band Blades?Thomas: Band of Blades is a sort of dark fantasy military take on the forge in the dark framework. Sam: Yeah. A band of Blades kind of play on Band of Brothers is where the name is coming from. Right?Thomas: Yeah, I, I assume it is a play on that, but it is also different enough from that show that I don't think people should use it as a touchstone. The premise of the game is that you play The Legion, which is an army that has just lost the decisive battle for the fate of humanity.There is an undead horde that is an existential threat to humanity. And we fought that battle and we lost it. And now the legion is in retreat. And it ends up being a kind of a point crawl where you're retreating from the location of the battle to a fort where you hope you can hold up there and figure things out and, you know, other pockets of the legion might end up there as well and that could be the last stand.Sam: Yeah. So we, before we get into specifics of what mechanic you brought from this I just wanna say, first of all, this game has like six different mechanics in it that I would be excited to do episodes on. Like truly there's so much innovative design in this game.And also I. I, I think it's okay. Like, I think it's a great game that was like an okay experience for me. It was like a little dark, like parts of it didn't quite, quite fit with me. Like, my experience with Band of Blades was that I'd started running a campaign in January of 2020 and it was going okay. We were like, kind of getting a feel for it when you know uh, March happened of 2020 and we were all like, this might be a little crunchier and darker than like, we wanna play right now.And I, I never really felt like it was something I was super drawn back to because I prefer a little bit more at that like minimalism level and there's, there's just so much game in this game but I, I really love so much of, of the innovation that went into this game.Thomas: I, I also think that this game is extremely innovative, like has, really interesting design. I think Off Guard Games, uh, Stras and John kind of have done so many interesting things that I am constantly coming back to it and learning stuff about design and like getting inspired by it. I ran, I think this is probably 2021. I, I ran the whole campaign uh, sort of reskinned for Malazan: Book of the Fallen and kinda set in that world if that, which, you know, I'm a big fan of that series. It's also sort of military fantasy and we ran the whole campaign and I, I really enjoyed it. I think it is, yeah, it does have some crunch. It does have some darkness, but I think it kind of balances it out really well for me. And yeah. I'm, glad we picked this one because this is in the spirit of taking something small that is not particularly discussed in the text and then kind of exploding it like, this is a great choice. Sam: Yeah, totally. So let's get into it. So what mechanic specifically did you bring?Thomas: So, yeah, we are gonna talk about secondary missions which I think in the text might be, you know, a page at most. And the idea is that like Blades or other games, one of the phases of play is a mission phase where you are going to take your player character and go out and do a mission that is going to help the legion.And then you come back and there's a second mission. There's a second mission that is other members of the Legion people you aren't controlling, what they did while you were out. And that is resolved with one dice roll. It's basically just the engagement roll. It's the same procedure as the engagement roll for the primary mission. You're gonna roll that engagement role and then just based on the result of that, of that one role, you're going to narrate how the secondary mission went. And yeah, it often goes really badly.Sam: Yeah, I mean, you have to do really well for like many people to not die. And band of Blades like has troupe play, so you're constantly rotating between characters. So you're often like sending out some of your faves onto this secondary mission. And whether or not they fucking die is gonna be determined by a single die roll.It's, it's hardcore.Thomas: It is. It is. And you know, I think it brings in that... like a war game needs to have a certain level of gravitas. And I think that's what the secondary mission is, is bringing.Sam: Yeah, totally. So, yeah, why did you bring this? Like what is it specifically about this that really made you wanna bring it on the show to talk?Thomas: Okay. So I have not seen a mechanic like this in another game. That isn't to say that it doesn't exist, but my experience of the secondary mission was that we would go on this primary mission ,and because this is a forged in the dark game, like our characters are awesome. We are going to go up against impossible odds and we are going to somehow, pull success out of the jaws of victory. And we are going to come home battered and bruised, but triumphant.And then we come back. And then we'd roll the secondary mission and we'd be like, fuck. War is hell. War is hell, and we can't save everybody. And it was often really powerful moments that led to things like, people like talking about like mourning and like how, you know, a character just died. Like how do we, how do we respond to that? Like what are the traditions around that stuff? Like in the Legion, it led to some really great moments. Yeah.Sam: Yeah. Another thing that it does with that sort of, you go off and like kick ass, then you come back to camp, is it gives you that feeling of you can't be everywhere at once. Like the Legion is bigger than just your playgroup. Like what? Any four of you, they're out on a mission or whatever. That there's all of these other people, like both doing their best and succeeding at times away from you and coming back victorious, but also often failing without you, and you just have to... it, it makes you feel small in this way that I think is really appropriate to that war setting.Thomas: Yeah. Yeah. I think through play is again, one of those other things that we could have been talking about today. And this is, yeah, it, it slots into troupe play like really well. And what it does and what true play really does is it makes this the story of the Legion.Sam: Yeah,Thomas: Like every individual character is, their own saga, living and dying. They have all the humanity that we associate, you know, that we want to inject into them and all of that stuff. But the story is the story of this Legion, which is, something greater than any individual.Sam: Yeah. You know, I was just in the Dice Exploder discord, hashtag Dice Exploder discord, this afternoon. We were having this like long conversation about the crew sheet in Blades and whether or not it's effective at what it's doing. Because a lot of people I think feel like the idea of the cruise sheet is really great and also people get attached to their own characters and don't want to... like you're focused on your character. You're not focused on the crew in the way that like Blades, I think, wants you to focus more on the crew at least according to my reading of the text.And I think Band of Blades really succeeds through troupe play explicitly and through mechanics like secondary missions at really doing the thing you're saying at, at foregrounding the story of the legion of the crew more than any individual in it.And that's really impressive.Thomas: Yeah, absolutely. I think that sort of gentle confusion about Blades as priorities is a part of the text. I think John Harper leaves the door open for troupe play but is also like, you know, people like to play their characters. So I'm gonna, I'm not gonna take a strong stance on that.But Band of Blades is like, there's a role called the Marshall, and they decide who goes on the mission, and they decide who's playing who.And I'm like, amazing.Sam: Well, it's, another thread from this conversation from this afternoon was like, a lot of people feeling like a lot of the mechanics on the Blades crew sheet are a bit unnecessary or just like not their favorite or a little bit more like paperwork like, as opposed to the mechanics on the playbooks. And band of Blades actually, like this is another mechanic from this game we could have spent a whole episode on like it's dividing up like the GM role in some ways and like all of this paperwork stuff among different roles at camp that all the players get to play like the Marshall, like you're saying. But somehow like bringing in even more crunch to that the, that crew role basically it, instead of feeling like, oh my God, I'm like drowning in the crunch, it, it really does pull you up into that Marshall level, that bird's eye view of the legion as a whole, as opposed to being down with your individual guy or, or whoever.Thomas: Yeah. Yeah. I think, you know, in terms of GM load, Band of Blades is doing something amazing with that restructuring that we're talking about. And in that sense, the secondary mission roll is also a part of that because what, what the secondary mission does, it takes the pressure off you as the GM to drive home a kind of misery in the primary mission.Like if you as the GM are like, I'm playing a war story. I need to bring these elements of tragedy into it, like the primary mission, players should and can succeed. And because the secondary mission and the design of the game is going to help you hit those notes and that is such a huge relief that the game allows you to simultaneously be a generous and a fan of the players while still still able to experience those themes, you know.Sam: yeah, yeah. Yeah. Another thing I like about it is how the choice of what mission is going to be the primary mission, what mission is going to be the secondary mission. And sometimes you have like a third mission that you just can't do because you don't have the people and you automatically fail it.And that choice of which of these are we gonna prioritize is a really interesting choice every time. I think a lot of that theme that we've been talking about of this being a game of is clearly a game about war and making almost like resource choices almost that like the kind of cold math you have to do in war with human life, I think it, is really highlighted every time you have to choose what mission is gonna be primary and what's gonna be secondary.Thomas: Yeah, I think there are a series of games, especially video games that have this trend of what you're actually doing is you're playing the world's worst HR manager. You know what I mean? Like, like Darkest Dungeon is a good example, right? Like, you are just sending these folks into a bad situation and then you're like, putting them in a, in a bar a church and saying, deal with your stress and come out and then you go back in.And there is a certain kind of inhumanity in that, that that cold calculating thing that you're doing. And I think Band of Blades for me specifically does a better job of that than those games. Like there is in some sense because it's a role playing game. Like you are never really treating anybody as a pawn, like you're feeling their feelings. And it is always like this hard choice to be like, Um, the most common result of the secondary mission roll is the four to five, right? Like that is, you know, it's very common to get one to three, but maybe six. And the critical result is the only result in which nothing bad happens. So, on the four to five, you are given this difficult choice of saying either fail the mission and all the troops return unharmed, or you succeed the mission, two squad members die and all the specialists take some harm. Which are wounds.And what is interesting is while so much of the game is very clear about who makes what call - Commander, you decide whether the Legion moves. Marshall, you decide who goes on the mission - the question of how the table decides this call is not explicit. The only way for us to decide, you know, it isn't the Marsh's decision, it's we all sit and we go like, oh my God, if we succeed, who is dying? And everyone has to kind of like have that thing of like, I don't, I, I don't know. And sometimes it's fine. Like it's a really important mission. You're like, we have to succeed. But sometimes you are like, nah, let's, let's fail this. Like we can eat the failure, but you know, we can't lose people.Sam: I will not have my wonderful bug man die. Like I'm too in love. Like... and no, that's, that's a great observation about Not having a specific person make this choice, unlike a lot of the rest of the game. It almost feels like you all have to get your hands bloody in this choice. Like, it's not letting anyone off the hook. You all have to put your stab into the murder victim's back, like,Thomas: Oh, that is so good. Yeah.Sam: It's, yeah, no one gets to sit this one out.Thomas: Yeah. And yeah, often you fail and then you just feel that failure. And that's, in some sense, that's easier. It's, it's simpler. It's simpler than the four to five, likeSam: If everyone is just sad, at least they're alive. But like sometimes, sometimes also the mission is like save a small town from being eaten by zombies and you're like I mean, they're probably gonna die when the zombies get here anyway. We'll save our two guys. Let's, let's move on. Let's move on. And it's, it's like, it's hard. It's hard choices.Thomas: Yeah, it is. It is. I think that is... a lot of this game is supposed to be hard choices, but I think there are various kinds of hard choices. There's the tactical choices, which is, you know, a lot of the crunch of the game is like, let's make cool tactical decisions about, you know, setting us up for success when we reach our, our destination, which is Skydagger Keep.But a lot of the, the decisions are also just emotional you know, just in terms of like what narrative we want and we've talked about like not letting people die. There's also this moment of your like, I think it's this character dies and I think that is appropriate. I think there's a moment in the Band of Blades actual play on the Actual Play channel where I think they fail a secondary roll or they get a four, five or whatever and they, two, two characters just had a fight in the, in the previous session, in, in the downtime phase or whatever, and they're like one of them died and the other person is going to have to live with the fact that the last thing that they interacted with this person was a fight. Sam: Yeah. Thomas: You know, and I'm like, awesome.Sam: We touched on this, but I really wanna highlight explicitly how this mechanic forces you into the position of doing the math with human life, but it does it without dehumanizing people. That the exact moment you just described is always the thing that you're thinking about as you make this decision that largely comes down to numbers.I, I also wanna say like, I think fundamentally the most interesting part of roleplaying games, oh, story games for me is characters making hard decisions. And not just this mechanic, but this game is absolutely riddled with hard decisions. You also were just saying that, but I, I just think it's so cool to see a mechanic that is so explicitly and reliably, that's the other thing, reliably putting a hard decision in front of people.Thomas: Yeah. You can play Band of Blades and you will have the experience that this game wants if you're willing to engage with the game on its terms and like treat these characters like as people and all this stuff, which most people playing this game will do.But that hard decision stuff, like, yeah, I think it's perfectly fine to flag that that can become grinding down. Like I know some people, Paul Beakley, I think on the Indie Game Reading Club has an article about Band of Blades. He describes how at the end of the campaign, everyone was kind of tired. And that was not my experience, but I, I get it. Like, I guess, you know, that is something that can happen both thematically and mechanically Sam: Yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah. That's like in a lot of ways that exhaustion I think is part of what the game is about.Thomas: But I, I mean, I think it's still supposed to be fun.Sam: Yeah. Yeah. It is. It is. And we did a whole episode in season one on The Watch. Right? Which is also, I think a lot about not like, can you win the war. But what is the cost of war? How do you live with the cost of war? And, and this is another game that is even more explicit about that, I think, than The Watch is, which is already pretty explicit about it.Like, you, you're not winning. You lost, like, what, cost are you gonna pay?Thomas: Yeah, I think if you are making a war game, you have to be really conscious about, you know, what you're saying about war. And yeah, both of these games, I think The Watch is, kind of using war as, as metaphor and Band of Blades is again, sort of like, very consciously stripping the glory out of this.Like, this is not that game. Which Band of brothers to some extent does have, right? It's, it's a show that it know, you know, war is awful, but like these characters are, are noble and brave and righteous and all of that to some extent. And this game is like, if we focus on the fact that it's a retreat, we can tell an interesting and sometimes under explored facet of war stories.Sam: Yeah, I should state for the record, I've never actually seen Band of Brothers, so I, I, I cannot actually speak to it, but but the, the other thing I wanted to just touch on in all that is just how brutal this game can be and like, very clearly and, and intentionally. And this particular mechanic as we've kind of discussed, I think is especially about brutality. Like when you fail, just three people die. And like several more are like critically wounded. Like you could just wipe out and every person who dies like Thomas: half a squad. Sam: And like the morale is hard to keep up in this game. And you fail one secondary mission and you're just, the whole legion is in so much trouble.It's a hard game. There's a, but you know what? You know what rule we really should have done a whole episode on is the single sentence in Band of Blades "this is a game you can lose." Like it's, yeah, it's a lot.Thomas: Again, like why is that sentence there? Why is this game that you can lose when role playing games usually aren't? And I think, again, that all flows from the decision to make a game about war. And you touched upon this adjacent mechanic, which is morale, which we should clarify that. Like, anytime a member of the legion dies, the legion loses morale and, you lose enough morale, you lose the game.Sam: Yeah. Yeah.Thomas: And other things also, but like yeah. Worse situation. Yeah. The game's over. And yeah, one failure can demoralize the squad in a huge way. And also like if you lose three squad members, a, a squad is like five people. They've lost more than half your squad. All your specialists are, you know, who went on the mission are beaten up. Yeah, it is. It is awful. And so what usually happens is that people will look at the primary mission and say, okay, we are going on this, so we failed the resource here. The fact that we are awesome and we can do stuff, let's load out the secondary mission with the best, best, you know, assets we can give it like Quartermaster, can we send them with like extra supplies? Like, you know what, what do we have to like, increase the odds there? And, and I think that is also like a kind of fun and meaningful choice. Yeah.Sam: There's something really nice in that, about how this mechanic is sort of indirectly encouraging you to be empathetic to that secondary squad. It's like, don't you love them? Don't you like feel for what they're about to go through? Like you should care about them, you should give them the extra ammo.Yeah, Is there anything about this mechanic that you have trouble with or that bumps you?Thomas: It can, if your primary mission has gone badly, it can be a second punch in the face. Like, I think, I think that is that is a thing. But otherwise nothing specifically that I can, that I can think of that is like an issue I have with it or I will change the design or something. Sam: Yeah. Thomas: Yeah. Sam: Another thing, look, one of the first things you said on this episode was that you've never seen another mechanic like this one. And I think that's a testament to how specific to the setting and genre and story that Band of Blades is telling this mechanic is.And I always love it. I love it when I see mechanics like that because I literally just before this recording, moments before this recording, wrapped up a forged in the dark Pirates campaign with one of my home groups where we just weren't using an established setting. We just like have played a lot of Blades and we were like, eh, I'll make up some special abilities and go. And it worked totally fine and for a lot of ideas I can just do that.But it, it takes. Like the new systems, the new games that are really interesting to me are the games that have mechanics like this one that are so bespoke, so tailor made to what this game is doing. And I really love that. I really really respect mechanics like that.Thomas: Yeah, and it is again a testament to band Blades, good design, and why I want to talk about, 'cause I think it's completely like under-discussed. I think we should all be talking about it all the time, is the fact that all of this is so like, enmeshed together. Right? In some sense the secondary roll is necessitated because forged in the dark is such an empowering framework for players.Right. Like, how do I tell a war story with this? And you, and you started that question and then something like this is almost, almost required. I would, I wouldn't have thought of it, but it does, it does like something like this is needed once you decide to go with this framework. And I think, yeah, it is, It does feel like something bespoke and tailor made that has then through play testing kind of integrated into everything smoothly and perfectly.Sam: Yeah. So after you've made the secondary mission roll and you've kind of determined the results of it, there's then this moment that the book encourages of you to sit at the table and sort of flesh out the story of what happened on that secondary mission. Like, you know what the goal of the mission was and you know how many people got fucked up and or died on the mission.But there's a lot between point A and point B there. So it kind of sets you up to devise this short story together of what happened on this secondary mission.And I think it does a good job of giving you enough handholds of what was the beginning and what was the end of that story, to kind of flesh it out such that it doesn't really need a framework of doing that in between. And that in itself is like pretty impressive to me.Sometimes you'll be given a mechanic as you're playing a game, like the game will present you with a mechanic where it, it has a little bit of that, like now draw the rest of the owl feeling to it. Where, where it's asking you to, fill in the blanks on something that it has not set you up well enough to fill in the blanks on. And this moment of fleshing out what happened on the secondary mission in some ways feels like drawing the rest of the owl, but in a way where like I feel empowered to draw the rest of the owl. And that's, that's cool.Thomas: And you know, one reason is that as a GM, before the Commander makes the decision of which is the primary and secondary mission, you fleshed out both equally, right? Like you have as much information on one than the other. So you're starting off in a good place, you're not taking it lightly.And then, yeah, when we get to the result, like there is this question like immediately that comes to mind of like, how did this happen? Like, you know we chose that as a secondary mission 'cause maybe we thought it was safer. And you know, we have to now, now sort of at the table discuss and figure it out because also we might be in the next primary mission playing the people who went on this mission, right?Like, we want to, we want to reflect the fact that, you know, I just broke my shoulder like last time and I'm coming like half patched up into this one. Stuff like that, like, yeah.Sam: Maybe we encountered like a new type of zombie for the first time. And so Thomas: Mm. Sam: that specialist is the only one who's seen that type of zombie before and that's gonna come up next time. They can be the person who's like Uhoh on the next mission and, and do that foreshadowing, but all that, all that.And they can also be like the person telling the horrible war story, like around the campfire, like the ghost story almost of what happened. That can be in itself, a cool downtime scene.Thomas: Yeah, I think that is actually a thing that comes up regularly often where you want to contextualize what happened on a mission to the other characters, not necessarily the players. So you wanna see it through one character's eye, like what they experienced and stuff like that. 'cause if you're going to limp home limp back to camp, you know, half your squad gone, people know it went horribly wrong. And you know, there is like, there is just this sense of like, you know, at some point we need to know why. And often it's at like the Commander Marshall level where, you know, you might role play like having a character debrief the senior officers going like, this is, this is what happened. And the senior officers had to sit around going, Yeah, it's our fault, you know, like, we made that call and we have to settle with it. Yeah.Sam: Yeah. Or like maybe you decide that one person who came back alive really was at fault and you hold a disciplinary meeting for them. Right? Like Thomas: Oh, wow. Yeah. Sam: Um, a specialist who comes back injured and carrying tons of guilt, like, yikes, I, let's do it.There's another line at the end of the procedure here that is, if any squad members died, ask someone what they remember most about one of them, which is really just like sticking a finger in the wound. Right. It, it, it's making sure if it wasn't clear enough already, like you are supposed to feel these deaths.Thomas: Yeah. Yeah. It is again, just and, and if people are sort of hearing this and going, oh, this is a bit, this is a bit much like I cannot overstate how much the primary missions can be just a joy, like a complete, like you can, you can be in this dark fantasy world of zombies. And you know, the humanity has lost the war.But like when you start a primary mission, like when I was playing it very often my players would absolutely flub the engagement roll. And they would start in like a desperate position and I'd really kind of revel in like, how screwed they were. And then they would just go, okay, flashback, this was the plan all along, this is the diversion. I'd be like, shut the.Sam: Flashback this, resist that. Yeah. I've got some explosives in my back pocket. It's all fine. There's, you, you say there's a broken themselves, one of the head zombies coming in to kill us? Like that's fine. We'll just collapse a church on their head. It'll be fine.Um, Thomas: We prepared for this all along.Sam: Yeah. Yeah. It's cool to have both of those dualities in the game, like to have the wild successes. 'cause that also feels like a part of war is like sometimes you do get those miraculous victories too.Thomas: Yeah, I will say that, and this is something that I'm still unpacking, but it can't be overstated how much culturally we have this fantasy, especially for young men of like the greatest destiny being that you gave your life on the battlefield, right? Like that you took a bullet for your comrade.Like that is such a powerful you know, cultural feeling, I think. So And it is hard to sort of have that feeling in games that don't, at the end of it, make you go, okay, yeah, I think we might have glorified war there.Sam: Yeah.Thomas: and it is this game this game lets you do that.So I am, I am going to unrelentingly recommend this to folks even though it can be dark. Like I think you have control of that dial to a huge extent. And you can You can make sure that this is a fun and pleasurable experience.Sam: All right. What mechanic from Band of Blades should I do an episode about next?Thomas: I mean, I think the immediate one that comes to mind is the idea of roles. That the one thing that players have continuity on is that they're either the Commander or the Marshal or the Quartermaster or optionally the spy or, and the Lorekeeper, I think.And yeah, they just, they just divide the GM role in a nice way. Primarily because like, those are now player responsibilities, right? It's the Marshal's responsibility to name every member in the squad as in when they need a name. It's not the GM's job, you know. And that you know, you might think that a small thing, but it's, it's a big thing.So I, I think that's an obvious other thing to kind of discuss all the ways in which Band of Blades gently and, sophisticatedly kind of divides that, GM experience.Sam: Yeah. It both distributes all the paperwork and bookkeeping that the GM or someone would have to be doing among several people so that no one person is fully responsible, and by doing so, it puts more hard choices into the hands of each player.Thomas: Yeah, and it also facilitates their mutual cooperation, right? Like when, when you have a sense of like, whose final call this is, like that doesn't mean you're not gonna discuss it. You're gonna discuss it and then someone has final call and you're going to respect that. And that does a lot for having straightforward and fluid like conversations.Sam: Yeah. Well maybe I'll have you back in a year or two uh, to do that one. Um, But uh, this was excellent. This was great. Thanks for for being here and talking about secondary missions with me.Thomas: Thanks so much. I am thinking about Band of Blades like all the time, you've just given me an opportunity to like talk about it, but if you had it, it'd just be me in my head thinking about it.Sam: Thanks again to Thomas for being here. You can find him on socials at chaibypost, C H A I B Y P O S T, but in my opinion, you're better off just subscribing to the Indie RPG Newsletter and the Yes Indie'd podcast. Links for all that in the show notes. As always, you can find me on socials at sdunnewold, bluesky, and itch preferred, and there's a Dice Exploder Discord! Come on by, talk about the show, and if you've backed the Kickstarter, claim your fancy pants roll. Our logo was designed by sporgory, and our theme song is Sunset Bridge by Purely Gray.Thanks, as always, to you for listening. See ya next time. This is a public episode. 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Finding joy in the midst of sadness, depression, grief, or just the everyday trials and tribulations of life can be hard. Remembering what delights you, brings a smile, or lifts your spirits can be difficult when life gets in the way. This week we are reflecting on a few of our favorite things, because sometimes, when we want more joy in our life, we have to dig deep and rekindle our love for things that bring us joy. Movies and books that we love. Bible verses that feed our soul. Scents that remind us of beautiful people and places.Join us for this light-hearted conversation and then check out the attached questions in the show notes to make it easy for you to spend a little time reflecting on your favorite things, too!EnJOY!Show Notes:Robin's Favorite Books: The Bible and The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert DugoniDenise's Favorite Books:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne LamottMan' s Search for Meaning by Viktor FranklThe Book of Joy by Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas AbramsThe Bible  To Help you Find a Few of YOUR Favorite ThingsI've always wanted to learn how to:I'd love to travel to:If I won the lottery I would buy:When I was younger, I love to:Favorite Disney movie:Favorite flower:I am the world's best:A perfect day would include:My favorite smell:Favorite food:Favorite musician/song:

In this interview, Nicole and I discuss The Long Way Back, social media and how it is impacting our lives today, using a multimedia format to write the story, how the title and cover came about, crafting a mother-daughter relationship, and much more. Nicole's recommended reads are: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni Check out my Summer Reading Guide for 2023 and my Houston Life segment. Want to hear Nicole's spoiler-filled conversation with me? Join my Lit Lovers Patreon group or purchase just our single conversation here.  Other ways to support the podcast can be found here.     The Long Way Back can be purchased at my Bookshop storefront.      If you enjoyed this episode and want to listen to more episodes, try Peng Shepherd, Lucy Clarke, Katherine St. John, Clare Mackintosh, and Megan Miranda. Connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Dugoni is a critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and #1 Amazon bestselling author, reaching over 9 million readers worldwide. He is best known for his Tracy Crosswhite police series set in Seattle. He is also the author of the Charles Jenkins espionage series, the David Sloane legal thriller series, and several stand-alone novels including The 7th Canon, Damage Control, The World Played Chess, and Her Deadly Game. His novel The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell received Suspense Magazine's 2018 Book of the Year, and Dugoni's narration won an AudioFile Earphones Award. Washington Post named his nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary a Best Book of the Year. Several of his novels have been optioned for movies and television series. Dugoni is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction and a three-time winner of the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award for best novel set in the Pacific Northwest. He has also been a finalist for many other awards including the International Thriller Award, the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, the Silver Falchion Award for mystery, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. Dugoni's books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than thirty languages. Website Show Host Podcast

Today, our stack of books is tied together with a common theme of coming of age.  We will discuss those formative years where the characters are coming into who they are right now, and who they want to be. We'll also share our books in hand. It's time to grow up!Featured Books:Sam by Allegra Goodman (LP)The Extraordinary of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni (LH)The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton (LP)Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amelie Wen Zhao (LH)Books in Hand:Little Broken Things by Nicole Baart (LH) The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (LP) Additional Books That Go Along With Our Theme:Everything We Didn't Say by Nicole BaartDaughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn TanTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithNormal People by Sally RooneyThe Great Alone by Kristin HannahConnect With Us!Follow us on Instagram - @thebookbumbleFacebook:  Book BumbleOur website:  https://thebookbumble.buzzsprout.comEmail:  bookbumblepodcast@gmail.comHey Friends, please rate and review us!

Alex's Birthday Episode is off to a wonderful start although he may not be too happy about it. If you are seeing this please give this episode a share, like, retweet or review! We celebrate Alex's revolution around the sun with two movies he saw growing up. ONE of these he remembers better as a kid and two of these Christina hasn't seen! We review NINJA 3 The DOMINATION (1984) about an aerobics instructor that is possessed by the dark spirit of an evil ninja that wants to exact his revenge on every officer he gunned him down. She battles with love and bullets in a 80's showdown in Los Angeles! Then we take on HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN (1988) Where the famous wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper plays Sam Hell in the apocalypse where women run the military and mutant frogs run the outlands. It's up to Sam Hell to procreate with the surviving women of earth and fight off the mutant frog people to bring back humanity. It's all here in one big Birthday Episode! JOIN US! Episode Link ► https://www.longlivethevoid.com/episodes/ep321 LinkTree ► https://linktr.ee/btvcast Time Stamps HORRORSHOTS - 3:52 Ninja 3 The Domination (1984) Spoiler Free Review - 16:41 Ninja 3 The Domination - Trivia & Spoilers Discussion - 36:58 Hell Comes To Frogtown (1988) Spoiler Free Review - 1:00:41 Hell Comes To Frogtown - Trivia & Spoilers - 1:19:03 End of Podcast Talk - 1:36:28 So grab your Frog Stompers and be sure to grab your Ninja Sword. Oh and please for the love of podcasts don't forget to bring your Aerobics Instructor as we travel Beyond The Void!

Välkommen till "Film till fikat"! Där vi varje vecka diskuterar en ny film vi sett, på ett lättsamt sätt till en fika i glada vänners lag. Säsong 3, avsnitt 16: Dagens film blir Hell Comes to Frogtown från år 1988... Director: Donald G. Jackson, R.J. Kizer Stars: Julius LeFlore, Roddy Piper, Sandahl Bergman Handling: Efter ett världsomspännande kärnvapenkrig, där 68 % av den manliga befolkningen utplånades och virila män blev en raritet, får Sam Hell, en mycket viril man, i uppdrag att hjälpa till att rädda en grupp fertila kvinnor som kidnappats av humanoida grodor. Vi finns på Facebook, instagram och twitter Mail: Filmtillfikat@gmail.com

On episode 58, we first ventured into the world of Roddy Piper acting when Andrew's brother Jacob joined us as we discussed They Live. During that episode, we discovered that Piper was in another movie during that time in his life, and this one might be a bit wacky. Hell Comes to Frogtown is the story of Sam Hell, who, after a devastating nuclear war, is tasked with repopulating the earth with humans during their war against frog/human mutant hybrids. It's sexier than it sounds. First, we discuss the Jurassic Park franchise and Kevin Smith's entire career because we don't get Jacob very often and he's the only one capable of scratching Dusty's cinema itch. For anyone who hasn't seen it, Clerks 3 is discussed but spoilers were mostly avoided because Andrew hasn't seen it yet. 00:00 - 50:23 - Dusty got married, Jurassic Park, Kevin Smith 50:23-2:24:20 - Hell Comes to Frogtown Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @SnarkMarksPod, follow Dusty on Twitter @SnarkMarkD, and subscribe to our YouTube channel!

We're slaying our reading goals, involved in book clubs, and listen to audiobooks, too! We've got lots of recommendations to spice up your summer reading list including recommendations from many genres of books: fiction, non-fiction, mystery/thriller, memoir/autobiography, self-help/self-care, and BRAD (beach read after dark, AKA romance or smut!!). Learn more about what books we loved and grow your TBR (to be read) list, while hopefully avoiding those DNFs (did not finish). Bookworms, unite! Patreon | Love what you're hearing? Help fund ongoing episodes through donations as little as $1/month. Learn more here! Leave a review | When you leave a five star iTunes review, it helps others with similar interests and passions find us when they're looking for new content. Thank you in advance! Resources and Show Notes Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens Body Respect A Promised Land (Barack Obama) Becoming (Michelle Obama) Jessica Simpson: An Open Book The Last Thing He Told Me, by Laura Dave The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid This Naked Mind, by Annie Grace The Funny Kid This is Where I Leave You, by Jonathan Tropper  -- This is the book Gina highly recommends, although she could barely remember the plot (in her defense, she read it probably ten years ago!).  It's good for a laugh, that's for sure. The Things You Save in a Fire, by Katherine Center The Heart's Invisible Furies: A Novel - Kindle edition by Boyne, John. The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski The One by John Marrs The Silent Patient Gone Girl by Gillian Fred Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica Crying in H-Mart Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey The Unhoneymooners Beautiful Bastard by Christina Lauren The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo The Invisible Life of Addie Larue

In this talk about podcasts in our podcasts, we examine "The Relationship" through Kevin Samuels and Kendra G. In this look into everything dealing with the "battle" between man vs woman we bring our own experiences to the relationship game and give our thoughts about the platforms belonging to Kevin Samuels and Kendra G. We are joined once again by J. Kitty as she feels triple-teamed at one point with the heavy testosterone on the cast. It's fun for all. As always join the discord by emailing us at logikovereverything@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/joseph-gillian/support

Lindsay (@theopinionatereader) may have been tasked with the most challenging podcast assignment yet, but it seemed fitting for a bookstagrammer that builds a brand on strong book opinions. So today we discuss three books she loved and three books she hated. Learn some of the best practices for sharing negative book reviews and what surprising author friendship blossomed from a positive book review.  CONTENT WARNINGS FOR TODAY (with timestamps):Today's episode does have trigger warnings for the last portion of our show (in the negative review section). The negative reviews do have spoilers.43:05- A rape case is mishandled and there is a discussion on how this case would actually be handled based on Lindsay's background (and her husband's background) working as a sex crime's detective and intern in the sex crimes unit. 52:52- May be triggering to those facing disabilities because it is about someone being dishonest about a health diagnosis. Mentioned in this episode:The Opinionated Reader on InstagramThe Lost Apothecary by Sarah PennerBath Haus by P.J. VernonA Little Hope by Ethan JoellaBath Haus Review on PatreonThe Things We Cannot Say by Kelly RimmerThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahBook of Harlan by Bernice McFaddenBook of Lost Names by Kristin HarmelThe Hearts Invisible Furies by John BoyneA Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaThe Prettiest Star by Carter SickelsThe Great Believers by Rebecca MakkaiA Ladder to the Sky by John BoyneExtraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert DugoniOrdinary Grace by William Kent KrugerSetting Free the Kites by Alex GeorgeA Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne FowlerSuch A Fun Age by Kylie ReidWhen You Hate Your Neighbor, and Then Your Kids Start Dating by Kiley Reid in the NY TimesThe Maidens by Alex MichaelidesThe Silent Patient by Alex MichaelidesLife's Too Short by Abby JimenezGet a Life Chloe Brown by Talia HibbertSeven Days in June by Tia WilliamsThe Spoon TheoryConnect With Us:Amy is @momadvice on InstagramLindsay is @theopinionatedreader on InstagramJoin the Book Gang on Patreon MomAdvice.com

WRITERS'S BLOCK Ron Block and Kristy Woodson Harvey are joined by Author Robert Dugoni whose book The Extraorinday Life of Sam Hell has been a long time favorite. They talk about why stories stay with us and about his stellar new book, The World Played Chess.

WATCHALONG EPISODE - Hell Comes to FrogtownHe came to kick ass and chew bubblegum....no wait that's the wrong film! He came to have sex with every woman on the planet and kill some mutant frogs...something like that anyway! Its our monthly film night and this month we are checking out Roddy Piper's starring role as Sam Hell, a virile man in a post apocalyptic world where men are no longer able to procreate. Hell Comes to Frogtown is a cult classic B Movie which features one of the most amazing pieces of dialogue in any movie! You people out there who like to spoil things...shut your HOLE! And well you had Better Call Creative!

Eat lead Froggies, The Shoot Show is going to Frogtown! We're headed back to the movies for another classic from the Roddy Piper filmography: "Hell Comes To Frogtown". It's yet another dong-heavy 'sode as Piper's titular character, Sam Hell, heads to Frogtown with the express purpose of impregnating women. Seriously. And it only gets more confusing.  Get your shotguns, government issue lingerie and a herpetology field guide handy, because these froggas are bringing you a HOPPIN HELL of a Shoot Show! 

Sam Hell embarks on a journey to impregnate as many women as humanly possible amidst a post-apocalyptic world. Chasity belts and frogs are on today's me menu. Ribbit. Gain access to bonus episodes (this month is Osmosis Jones), watch me watch trailers, watch movies with me, check out bonus Amityville & I'll Suck Your Blood content, vote on polls, and much more on patreon.com/horrorsoup Email movie suggestions to horrormovierequests@yahoo.com For business & other inquiries: horrorsoup@yahoo.com Instagram @horrorsoup (James @niteshiftvideo) Twitter: @horrorsoupsucks Letterboxd: @horrorsoupcaleb (James @niteshiftvideo) Music for Horror Soup has been done by Sonissam, Astroblk, and currently Ross Lee & The Mutant Members Only Club.

It has been over five years since Amy Allen Clark brought her amazing book recommendations and reader insights to Sorta Awesome, but this is no trick, it's all treat - she's back! Amy sits down with Meg this week to discuss the health and medical challenges she has overcome, and that ultimately led her to lauch her brand new podcast MomAdvice Book Gang, and she has brought a list of can't-miss under-the-radar books that are perfect for autumn reading. Plus a BUNCH of beauty fun in Awesome of the Week!Wanna get in on that texting fun with Meg and the Sorta Awesome team? Come join the Super Star Awesomes and get the texting perk along with bonus episodes, ad-free episodes, a Super Stars-only Facebook group, and more!THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:Best Fiends: Download Best Fiends FREE on the App Store or Google PlaySHOW NOTES:Olive & JuneMaking Mauves by ColourpopExtraordinary life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni (Bookshop link)Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (Bookshop link)Setting Free the Kites by Alex George (Bookshop link)How Lucky by Will Leitch (Bookshop link)In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner (Bookshop link)My Sweet Girl by Amanada Jayatissa (Bookshop link)You can find Meg on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!You can find Amy on her blog, on Twitter, and Instagram! Check out the MomAdvice Book Club on Facebook. You can find the MomAdvice Book Gang podcast on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Check out all the BONUSES on the Book Gang Patreon!Visit sortaawesomeshow.com for show notes on this and every episode. And don't forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook or @sortaawesomeshow on Instagram, and @sortaawesomepod on Twitter!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Deb and Nay talk about the book The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell and about bullies!!

The Fury of Sam Hell hits the Road. Hell Comes To Frogtown continues our Halloween A-Z! Will Sam be able to rescue the girls from the evil Toty? Why is Sam such a legendary lover? We discuss this and more on this episode of Podcastmagoria! http://ia601508.us.archive.org/29/items/hell-comes-to-frogtown/Hell%20Comes%20To%20Frogtown.mp3

Page One, produced and hosted by author Holly Lynn Payne, celebrates the craft that goes into writing the first sentence, first paragraph and first page of your favorite books. The first page is often the most rewritten page of any book because it has to work so hard to do so much—hook the reader. We interview master storytellers on the struggles and stories behind the first page of their books.About the guest author:Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series, which is set in Seattle and has sold more than seven million books worldwide. His latest book, The World Played Chess was published by Lake Union Publishing in October.He is also the author of the Charles Jenkins espionage series and the David Sloane series of legal thrillers. He has written several stand-alone books, including the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary, which was a Washington Post best book of the year and he's written three other stand alone novels The 7th Canon and Damage Control; The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, for which he won an AudioFile Earphones Award for narration. Several of his novels have been optioned for movies and television series, most recently The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell.Dugoni is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Book Award for fiction and a three-time winner of the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award for best novel set in the Pacific Northwest. He is a two-time finalist for the Thriller Awards and the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, and a finalist for the Silver Falchion Award for mystery and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards.Robert Dugoni's books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than thirty languages.You can visit his website at www.robertdugonibooks.com, and follow him on Twitter @robertdugoni and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/authorrobertdugoni. And many thanks to Tom Joyce, for submitting your first page to us! It was great to have you on the show and hear you read from your debut novel, The Missing Peace. Joyce is a creative director and designer at Creativewerks and partner at Company History Productions, with offices in Tiburon, California and Washington DC. Previously creative director at Cohn & Wells Advertising and Retail Concepts; associate creative director at Visa USA, and art director at Cunningham & Walsh, Doyle Dane Bernbach and Allen & Dorward, Tom was a founding partner of Johnson Joyce Brennan, Inc. in San Francisco and a design consultant to other marketing communications agencies in the Bay Area. He has created corporate identities, print, broadcast and on-line advertising, product branding, B2B marketing, event graphics, posters, magazines, books, websites and social media campaigns.About the host and producer:Holly Lynn Payne is a writing coach and the CEO and founder of Booxby , a startup helping authors succeed. Holly is also an internationally published novelist in eleven countries whose work has been translated into nine languages. Her most recent novel, Damascena:The Tale of Roses and Rumi, has been optioned for a film series. She is the founder of Skywriter Books, an award-winning small press, publishing consultancy and writing coaching service. She lives in Marin County with her daughter and enjoys mountain biking, surfing and hiking with her labrador retriever, Lady Gaia. To learn more about her writing coaching and editing services, please visit hollylynnpayne.com. If you have a first page you'd like to submit to the Page One Podcast, please do so here.As an author and writing coach, I know that the first page of any book has to work so hard to do so much—hook the reader. So I thought to ask your favorite master storytellers how they do their magic to hook YOU. After the first few episodes, it occurred to me that maybe someone listening might be curious how their first page sits with an audience, so I'm opening up Page One to any writer who wants to submit the first page of a book they're currently writing. If your page is chosen, you'll be invited onto the show to read it and get live feedback from one of Page One's master storytellers. Page One exists to inspire, celebrate and promote the work of both well-known and unknown creative talent.  You can listen to Page One on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher and all your favorite podcast players. Hear past episodes.

Robert Dugoni is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and #1 Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series, which has sold more than 8 million books worldwide. In addition to being a two-time finalist for the International Thriller Award, the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, the Silver Falchion Award for mystery, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award, Robert is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction and the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award for Best Novel Set in the Pacific Northwest. His narration of his novel The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell won an AudioFile Earphones Award, and several of his novels have also been optioned for movies and television series. Robert's latest book, The World Played Chess, released on September 14, 2021. 

There's entirely too much happening at Metal Nerdery's 33rd Floor Inverted Bunkerpoon Studios!!! Just know we made liberal use of our speak-holes to discuss HELMET's third album, BETTY, and the multitude of things we love about them/it (including a tangentional tie-in to Black Sabbath!).   Fire up the grill, throw on some road lobster, porn dogs and hamburgers, and try out some of those fancy stoner banjo riffs as you prepare to JOIN US for a snort laugh or three, because the hills are alive and thriving with the sound of HELMET's BETTY!   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode   Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on the iTunes/Apple Podcasts - Spotify or your favorite Podcast app Listen on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your Podcasts. Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - Twitter   Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can't be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify   Show Notes: (00:01) - #veryhardintro #aboutthehardness #trexclinky #nineeleven #neverforget #alwaysremember #Slayer and #GodHatesUsAll #verySlayer and #Repentless (***HAIL and R.I.P. to the fallen***) / #lightanesthesia / #thisepisodes #beeroftheepisode #ohh #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode #duclawbrewingcompany #sourme #unicornfarts #sourell #sourale #glitter #brilliantname   (03:28) – Reminiscing to the recent concert experience with #TheSword at the #GeorgiaTheater (and some associated #showmemories #tangentionally connected with that venue) ***And NOW, a snippet from #RickshawBilliesBurgerPatrol #somuchfuzz #PeppyStonerDoom (a #killeropener for #TheSwordASMR) #SativaStonerMetalASMR and the #legendary #impression of #RussellsBurp #preforeshadowingbackshadowingASMR / ***CHECK OUT OUR METAL NERDERY PLAYLISTS ON THE SPOTIFY!!!*** #cantbeloudenough    (08:30) - #grandslam and the #sourcreamandarchives / HELMET's #sophomoreslam #Betty (#thesecondnewalbum) and a #perfect #metalogy with #BlackSabbath #markthetime #itsmarked / Feedback regarding Betty vs. Meantime (as a follow-up) #whatiloveaboutthehelmet / ***Cue the #ridiculousness #STFUASMR***  / A #Facebook #Messenger #messenge  #warmedcockles relative to the #MetallicaPodcast #hahahaha #nomnomnom #morehahahahahahahaha / ***IF YOU'D LIKE TO LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL, GIVE US A CALL AT 980-666-8182***#TheVoicemailSegment #toomanyrelaxers #feedbackpositivity #highroad #always #hail and #thankyou for the #positivefeedback  ***EMAIL US AT metalnerdery@gmail.com *** #9806668182ASMR   (15:41) – 06-21-1994 and #TheCrow / #KCQF / The Personnel on “Betty” / #shittyvision #killeropener WILMA'S RAINBOW #readthoselyrics (It's either a Q or a K and some #qlarification #noteven) / The #covergirl on the #albumcover for #Betty #thehillsarealive #ilovethehelmetcore I KNOW #groovemetal #bigly #genre (Borderline #stonermetal with a #straightedge look) / The difficulty of singing over something you're playing that's also in a strange time signature (or #complexicated #syncopated structure).  #burpimpressionASMR    (24:42) – BISCUITS FOR SMUT (#smut #thedog #tangentionalalityismness #thankyouforthat) #adifferentfeel #sickbass #grandpabones / MILQUETOAST #rightontime ***See also #TheCrowSoundtrack*** #BuildingDynamics Also of note…a #killerending #layers #lockedin #killergroove #usethoseheadphonesASMR    (31:58) - #incaseyouforgot TIC #cantbeloudenough #workyourpitch / #notasong #acoustramental ROLLO  #funky and #technical #groove / STREET CRAB ( #nottobeconfusedwith #roadlobster) #biggulps and #jazz and #theblackdogbrigade #maybe / ***The #PageHamilton vocal style relative to each song*** /  #Helmet #showmemory and #flashback to the #OldMasquerade prior to being #regentrificationized #downstairs from #Heaven (in #Hell) ***980-666-8182!!!*** CLEAN #fishfeed and #moodrings #readthoselyrics #boomerang / #gumrage and #TridentVibesWithdrawal   (45:18) – VACCINATION (#canyoufollowthebouncingballs?) #Math and #hamburgers #thehamburgersong #givingcredit (#listentofindout) / See also #TheJerkyBoysMovie for more #Helmet #tangentionalality to #BlackSabbath and #SymptomOfTheUniverse and #waittiltheend #ramjamalamb / BEAUTIFUL LOVE #jazziness and #jazzASMR #soundcheckjazzcore #what #okayturnitoffnow / SPEECHLESS (#heaviness in the #groove) / THE SILVER HAWAIIAN #relaxers #newstrainofrelaxer #BettyGood #comedygenius #noteven #snortlaugh    (54:10) – OVERRATED #ihavenoideawhatyoujustsaid #girlfriend / #dangole SAM HELL #stonerbanjocore #goodgravyandcat #weirdending / *** #ILoveTheHelmet doesn't follow the same #hashtagbag #rules as #TheBlackAlbum / (#thankyou) ***THANK YOU ALL FOR LISTENING TO METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** #IlovetheHelmetASMR #ILoveTheHelmetExtendedDanceMixASMR #untilthenext #staytuned #WhatILoveAboutTheHelmet ***SYMPTOM OF THE UNIVERSE*** #tangentionalality to #Sabbath / #letitringout #itsallbullshit #theresnomoon    

Ok, I botched this one.  They're not all home runs, folks.  We sit down with Doug Wicker and talk about Arizona, a movie that was better from memory.  It has some third act issues.  Put up against Frogtown, that has some third leg issues in the third act.  In a wasteland where only one man can possibly bang the human species back up into punching numbers.  Join us for this really weird episode of It's Just 2 Movies! Contact the show via email at itsjust2movies@gmail.comor on Instagram or Twitter @itsjust2movies Special thanks to @lamplighter_productions_il for our art, check them out on Instagram.Special thanks to Brad Sexton for our tunes.  Check out SUNDS at http://sunds.bandcamp.com/   

“You have aroused the three snakes!” This week the Distinguished Professors watch Rowdy Roddy Piper as the fertile meathead of the future in Hell Comes to Frogtown! Topics covered include a post-post apocalypse movie, the best action movie hero name ever (Sam Hell), identifying the accurate level of sexism for this movie, the butch hotness of Centinella, the one-note instrument of Mr. Piper, the old guys need to explain that the WWE was once the WWF, the eternal question of where pubic hair actually begins, the weird connection between this movie and the awfulness of Rollergator, a Hell Comes to Frogtown – 1988 into in medias res, the same setting used in Kirk's classic battle againstthe Gorn captain, 80s lingerie does no favors for the skinny, Chekov's necklace given to Centinella, the incredibly thin metaphor of “the dance of the three snakes,”comparisons with Y: The Last Man and Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, the solidness of the frog costumes, yet another reference to Mel Gibson's leather pants, comparisons with Mad Max: Fury Road and Flash Gordon, the old mengo on about classic video stores, a brief detour into polyamory with the ending, and Piper's inability to say “blouse.” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/because-you-watched/support

We begin our March to WrestleMania with a look at one of the more bizarre films in the career of pro wrestler turned actor, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. Join your hosts Chris the Brain, Chad Cruise and their guest commentator Todd Gaines as they look back at 1988's Hell Comes to Frogtown, also starring Sandahl Bergman and Rory Calhoun. What was the point of the chainsaw scene? How worthless was William Smith's disguise? And who would be some possible candidates to play Sam Hell if they ever reboot Frogtown?  This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

This week we tackle one of Chris' favorite gangster movies and Kevin Costner's breakout role, The Untouchables from 1987. We get to enjoy Sir Sean Connery's Irish accent from his repertoire and the movie that gave him his one Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. If you enjoy the show we have a Patreon, become a supporter. www.patreon.com/thevhsstrikesback Plot Summary: After a worldwide nuclear war, where 68% of the male population was wiped out and virile men becoming a rarity, Sam Hell, a scavenger and a highly virile man, is assigned to help rescue a group of fertile women kidnapped by humanoid frogs. www.twitter.com/vhsstrikesback thevhsstrikesback@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thevhsstrikesback/support

Bonus episode of 20 quiz questions to test your knowledge with. No prizes, this one's just for a bit of fun. If you enjoy the show we have a Patreon, become a supporter. www.patreon.com/thevhsstrikesback Plot Summary: After a worldwide nuclear war, where 68% of the male population was wiped out and virile men becoming a rarity, Sam Hell, a scavenger and a highly virile man, is assigned to help rescue a group of fertile women kidnapped by humanoid frogs. www.twitter.com/vhsstrikesback thevhsstrikesback@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thevhsstrikesback/support

This week we watched the 1988 cult-classic, Hell Comes to Frogtown. Starring wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Sandahl Bergman and William Smith. You can check out this whole movie on YouTube. If you enjoy the show we have a Patreon, become a supporter. www.patreon.com/thevhsstrikesback Plot Summary: After a worldwide nuclear war, where 68% of the male population was wiped out and virile men becoming a rarity, Sam Hell, a scavenger and a highly virile man, is assigned to help rescue a group of fertile women kidnapped by humanoid frogs. www.twitter.com/vhsstrikesback thevhsstrikesback@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thevhsstrikesback/support

After a worldwide nuclear war, where 68% of the male population was wiped out and virile men becoming a rarity, Sam Hell, a scavenger and a highly virile man, is assigned to help rescue a group of fertile women kidnapped by humanoid frogs. A new breed of enemy has taken over the world... Sam Hell has come to take it back. Join us for Hell Comes to Frogtown! Can you survive a nuclear war and the mutant frogs that follow? Find your answer with the Half Hour of Power as we visit Frogtown!

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On this episode, Doug reveals his attraction to Ape-Women and dry ice, Jamie recommends watching a movie that doesn't exist, and the two of them continually refer to characters by the wrong names, all while critiquing Rowdy Roddy's physique and eating habits. And of course, how can we possibly watch a movie about a race of frog people without talk of Alex Jones! Strap on your chasitity belt, heat up a bowl of very chunky turtle/lizard soup and join us as we follow Sam Hell and the gang into Frogtown! Consider supporting the show on Patreon Full episodes are available on:  Blame it on Rio The House on Sorority Row A He-Man and She-Ra Christmas The Hollywood Knights he Great Outdoors Silver Bullet One Magic Christmas The Cabbage Patch Kids First Christmas Under the Cherry Moon Haunted Honeymoon Commando, Beverly Hills Madam Happy Birthday to Me A Christmas Dream A Garfield Christmas Supergirl, Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers Who's Harry Crumb Missing in Action 2: The Beginning Revenge of the Stepford Wives  Evil Dead II & more..  Including our 80's Handshake 5, 90's Handshake 5, Questions and Answers, Interviews & covering/ranking all movies in the Friday the 13th Franchise!Merch on TeePublicVisit our WebsiteFollow us on TwitterAnd on InstagramFind us on Facebook

A new breed of enemy has taken over the world... Sam Hell has come to take it back. Roddy Piper, human-frog mutants, and metal underwear. This week, we're heading to a post-apocalyptic wasteland with the Rowdy One himself, as we watch Hell Comes to Frogtown , the most literal title we'll ever cover. Join us as we discuss the lack of exploitation, the frog suits, and Roddy Piper's genitals. You can find us on iTunes ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/they-called-this-a-movie/id1402043842 ) , Stitcher ( https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/anthony-del-vecchio/they-called-this-a-movie ) , and Google Play Podcasts ( https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?apn=com.google.android.music&ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&link=https%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fmusic%2Fm%2FIcdapdoslqccojy4vb2picclcaa%3Ft%3DThey_Called_This_a_Movie%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16 ). If you want to see more from us, check out the website ( https://theycalledthisamovie.podbean.com/TheyCalledThisaMovie/episode/themaindamie.com ) and follow us on Twitter ( https://theycalledthisamovie.podbean.com/TheyCalledThisaMovie/episode/twitter.com/themaindamie ) , Facebook ( https://theycalledthisamovie.podbean.com/TheyCalledThisaMovie/episode/facebook.com/themaindamie ) , and Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/themaindamie/ ). We are now part of Geek Vibes Nation ( https://gvnation.com/ ) , so be sure to check out their website and to look for us on their future podcast shows. This week's episode features music from Dave Katusa and you can follow him on Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/dkat888/ ). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/geek-vibes-nation/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

A new breed of enemy has taken over the world... Sam Hell has come to take it back. Roddy Piper, human-frog mutants, and metal underwear. This week, we're heading to a post-apocalyptic wasteland with the Rowdy One himself, as we watch Hell Comes to Frogtown, the most literal title we'll ever cover.  Join us as we discuss the lack of exploitation, the frog suits, and Roddy Piper's genitals.  You can find us on iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play Podcasts. If you want to see more from us, check out the website and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.   We are now part of Geek Vibes Nation, so be sure to check out their website and to look for us on their future podcast shows.  This week's episode features music from Dave Katusa and you can follow him on Instagram. 

What in the SAM HELL, Food Courtesans! It's time for FOOD COURT, your favorite podcast, where we brave the malls and the movie halls so you don't have to! Movie theaters no longer exist so Sean, Jon, and special guest Rob "Hot Sauce" Haynes watched Hell Comes To Frogtown, the Dystopian Mad Maxian sex romp starring "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. Will the Rowdy One bring us all the one-liner madness we love and respect? Or is the future so dark we don't gotta wear shades? Tune in to find out! So grab your popcorn, sneak in your snacks, and pop some antacid because you have aroused the three snakes! Bon Appetit!   Caption: Gods And Monsters

The Two Howlers recap the successful relaunch of the NRL 2020 season picking up with a fast furious Rd.3 filled with plenty of action, highlights and record setting footy showcased! Parramatta jump out to top the table early built on the stingiest defense in the NRL era, whilst the ever mercurial NZ Warriors play a near perfect game to set the record for highest set completion rate in NRL history! In general news, the North QLD Cowboys make a compelling argument for being Canadians' team in the NRL. The first Ashes Test Series between England & Australia for 17yrs is cancelled due to COVID-19. Ben Te'o is back in Rugby League; and Akuila Uate heads home to Aussie after being released from the last year of his contract with Huddersfield. In Super League news, all 12 clubs voted unanimously to maintain the 2020 salary cap at GBP2.1m in a show of solidarity for the sport and it's players. But is it as clear cut as that? The short answer, no. Listen in for more details. Turning ahead to this weekend & Rd.4 of the NRL is already underway and the Roosters have PUMPED the Broncos 59-0 in Thursday night's match up, but who will win the remaining fixtures? Will the Warriors continue where they left off? Will Parra keep their place a top the table, or will Canberra Raiders take the spoils of war vs. the Knights? And, at the foot of the table, will one head coach's fate be sealed come the full time whistle? Lastly, we ask the question: What in the Sam hell is a 'Giltini'? Tune in once again and come run with the Pack for answers to these questions and more!

In this episode of the Bad Movie Night Podcast we review the 1988 action fantasy movie with Roddy Piper, Hell Comes to Frogtown Support our show and get the bonus podcasts! https://www.patreon.com/badmovienightshow For our video show and other episodes please visit www.Bad-Movie-Night.com    Film: Hell Comes to Frogtown Plot: After a worldwide nuclear war, where 68% of the male population was wiped out and virile men becoming a rarity, Sam Hell, a scavenger and a highly virile man, is assigned to help rescue a group of fertile women kidnapped by humanoid frogs. Director: Donald G. Jackson, R.J. Kizer Year: 1988     Find Us On Social Media Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/badmovienightshow/ Twitter – http://twitter.com/_BadMovieNight Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/bad_movie_night/ Google+ – https://plus.google.com/102378654666304152117 Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/badmovienight

Look, look. I know. I know we only did one of these the other week when Mitch picked Eli Roth's Knock Knock but here we are again. The reason is simple. We have a LIVE show this week that is taking up a lot of our brainpower, not to mention the fact that the apparent runtime of Roland Emmerich's Godzilla is approximately 2 YEARS.  So with that in mind, we thought we would take it easy. So, it's Andy to choose... His chosen film? Hell Comes To Frogtown! 1988. The world was a very different place and especially as it relates to sexual politics and thundering it's way from this tumultuous era comes this film. A film whose plotline would not even get a sniff in if were pitched in 2020. A film spearheaded by late wrestler "Rowdy" Roddy Piper. A film with functional camouflage underwear. A film with fez-wearing frogs. It has it all... The synopsis is as follows:  With the 20th Century drawing to a close, nuclear war has wiped out civilization as we know it. The embattled human race s last remaining hope lies with one man and his loaded weapon. Sam Hell may be an ex-con, but he also happens to be one of the last surviving fertile men on the planet. Now, under the custody of a group of feisty female fighters, Sam finds himself enlisted on a mission to impregnate a harem of beauties. Sounds cushy enough, but the ladies in question are prisoners of Frogtown, home to a gang of mutant (and ill-mannered) amphibians! Please note that this episode contains strong language, conversations of an adult nature and EXTREMELY Scottish accents.  Remember, you can keep up to date with our news by following us via the usual social media outlets:  Facebook Twitter Instagram Plus you can drop us an email to stronglanguageviolentscenes@gmail.com. Strong Language & Violent Scenes theme by Mitch Bain. Edits & Artwork by Andy Stewart   Also, we love what we are doing and the response so far has been wonderful so if you enjoy what we do and want to help us continue to do it and help us to grow, then please consider sending us a few pounds via Paypal to stronglanguageviolentscenes@gmail.com! There is no lower or upper limit and every bit helps. 

Kaytee and Mindy are ready for a Currently Reading first: award season! You’ll hear a “bookish moment of the week” from each host: a buddy read with a daughter and thrifting for books Next, we discuss our current reads for the week. This week’s books are full of big sighs in ways both good and bad, and sweet stories that will stick with you. For our deep dive this week, we are giving out our first Golden Earbud Awards. During award season, we’re evaluating red carpet looks and the best stories to consume on audio and you won’t want to miss our categories! Finally, this week, we are Pressing Books into Your Hands: we’ve got a book that’s perfect for anyone who works with or love a young adult, and a memoir that is unforgettable. As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down!  *Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!*   . . . . . Bookish Moments: 1:50 - Book of the Month 1:53 - The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James Current Reads: 4:40 - Love from A to Z by SK Ali 7:03 - The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali 7:15 - To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han 7:46 - Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed 8:26 - Patreon (We do Patron buddy reads) 8:40 - Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain 11:52 - Black Enough by Ibi Zoboi 15:16 - Dataclysm by Christian Rudder 15:22 - Episode 19 of Season 1 with Scott Monday 20:04 - Lost for Words by Stephanie Butland 21:13 - Patreon (Patrons get bonus episodes) 20:32 - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman 20:33 - The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman 20:39 - Dante and Aristotle Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz 25:55 - The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell by Robert Dugoni Deep Dive - Golden Earbud Awards: Narrators are all linked to the audiobook. New members to Audible get a free audiobook on us! If It Weren’t Audio, I Would Have Skipped It: 30:47 - Shogun by James Clavell (narrated by Ralph Lister) 30:49 - The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russel (narrated by David Colacci) 30:53 - Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (narrated by Lee Horsley) 31:03 - 11/22/63 by Stephen King (narrated by Craig Wasson) Required to Listen: 32:47 - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (narrated by Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, and a full cast) 32:50 - Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (narrated by the author) 32:53 - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (narrated by Frazer Douglas) 33:01 - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (narrated by the author) Best Series on Audio: 34:13 - Harry Potter by JK Rowling (narrated by Jim Dale) 34:15 - The Passage by Justin Cronin (narrated by Scott Brick, Adenrele Ojo and Abby Craden) 34:19 - The Selection by Kiera Cass (narrated by Amy Rubinate) 34:24 - The Three Pines Series (staring with Still Life) by Louise Penny (narrated by Ralph Cosham [books 1-10] and Robert Bathurst [books 11+]) For Adult Ears Only: 36:29 - The Hating Game by Sally Thorne (narrated by Katie Schorr) 36:31 - A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole (narrated by Karen Chilton) 36:34 - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang (narrated by Carly Robbins) 36:47 - Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski (narrated by the author) Who Knew? 38:41 - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (narrated by Nick Offerman) 38:48 - Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery (narrated by Rachel McAdams) 38:54 - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (narrated by Jake Gyllenhaal) 39:05 - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (narrated by Tim Curry) Best True Story 40:07 - Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski (narrated by the author) 40:11 - The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton (narrated by Bryan Stevenson) 40:14 - White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (narrated by Amy Landon) 40:24 - I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott (narrated by the author) Best Read by the Author: 41:33 - Stories I Only Tell My Friends by Rob Lowe (narrated by the author) 41:45 - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (narrated by the author) 41:48 - Becoming by Michelle Obama (narrated by the author) 42:38 - Food: A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan (narrated by the author) Best Narrator: 44:36 - Guy Lockard 44:37 - Julia Whelan 44:39 - Jim Dale 44:55 - Bahni Turpin Best Full Cast: 46:23 - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (narrated by Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, Lena Dunham and a full cast) 46:26 - As You Wish by Carey Elwes (narrated by Carey Elwes and cast) 46:30 - Emma by Jane Austen (narrated by Emma Thompson & cast) 46:51 - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid (narrated by Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt & a full cast) Best Overall: 48:02 - Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (narrated by the author) 48:08 - Beartown by Fredrik Backman (narrated by Marin Ireland) 48:13 - 11/22/63 by Stephen King (narrated by Craig Wasson) 48:29 - A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (narrated by J.K. Simmons) Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands: 50:19 - Doing Life with Your Adult Children by Jim Burns 53:13 - Becoming by Michelle Obama (narrated by the author)

Hey there word nerds! Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Robert Dugoni. Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Internationally Best-Selling Author of 17 novels in The Tracy Crosswhite police detective series set in Seattle, the David Sloane legal thriller series, and the Charles Jenkins espionage series. He is also the author of several standalone novels including The Eighth Sister and The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, both #1 Amazon kindle downloads, as well as The 7th Canon and The Cyanide Canary, a Washington Post best book of the year. Several novels have been optioned for television series. Robert is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Award for fiction and many other awards. We’ll be talking about his book A Cold Trail which is out now. In this episode Robert and I discuss: The power of dedicated, daily work Revisiting an old crime in a new book The particular appeal of a small town as a mystery setting The interplay between setting, theme and characters The myth of originality Plus, his #1 tip for writers. For more info and shownotes: www.diymfa.com/291

Sam Hell is a man on a mission, he's gonna squirt his seed all over. We're watching Hell Comes To Frogtown, 1988, and it's gonna get weird.

Things get pretty strange when our boy Sam Hell finds out what his new job is... Repopulating the earth isn't as simple as it seems!

Robert Dugoni is the New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Amazon Internationally Bestselling Author of the Tracy Crosswhite Series : My Sister's Grave (2014), Her Final Breath (2015), In the Clearing (2015), The Trapped Girl (2016), Close to Home (2017) and A Steep Price (2018). Dugoni's espionage novel, The Eighth Sister, inspired by real events, released in April 2019.His critically acclaimed literary novel, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell (2018) won Suspense Magazine's Crimson Scribe Award as The Best Book of 2018 and has drawn comparison's to novelist John Irving's work. Dugoni also won a Golden Microphone for his narrationo that novel. Connect with him on Facebook @AuthorRobertDugoni, on Twitter @robertdugoni, and on Instagram, robertdugoni, authorDugoni is also the author of the David Sloane series: The Jury Master, Wrongful Death, Bodily Harm, Murder One and The Conviction. Dugoni is the winner of the 2015 Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction, has twice been a finalist for the Harper Lee Award for Legal Fiction, twice been a finalist for the Silver Falchion award for his mysteries, was a 2015 and 2017 International Thriller Writer's finalist for thriller of the year, and a 2017 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Finalist for his stand alone novel, The Seventh Canon. His books are sold world-wide in more than 30 countries and have been translated into dozens of languages including French, German, Italian and Spanish. Dugoni's first in the Tracy Crosswhite series, My Sister's Grave (Nov. 2014), became a months-long #1 Amazon Bestseller in the United States, France, Italy, Germany and in the UK, as well as a New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best Seller and won the 2014 Nancy Pearl Award for fiction. Library Journal gave it a Starred Review and said it "Combines the best of a police procedural with a legal thriller, and the end result is outstanding...Dugoni continues to deliver emotional and gut-wrenching, character-driven suspense stories that will resonate with any fan of the thriller genre."

Robert Dugoni's book "The Extraordinary life of Sam Hell" was just named the 2018 Crimson Scribe Award Winner. That is the highest honor Suspense Magazine can give to any book which is why only one book per year recieves this award. He will join us to talk about the book and much more About the book: Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni's coming-of-age story is, according to Booklist, "a novel that, if it doesn't cross entirely over into John Irving territory, certainly nestles in close to the border." Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called "Devil Boy" or Sam "Hell" by his classmates; "God's will" is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered, buoyed by his mother's devout faith, his father's practical wisdom, and his two other misfit friends. Sam believed it was God who sent Ernie Cantwell, the only African American kid in his class, to be the friend he so desperately needed. And that it was God's idea for Mickie Kennedy to storm into Our Lady of Mercy like a tornado, uprooting every rule Sam had been taught about boys and girls. Forty years later, Sam, a small-town eye doctor, is no longer certain anything was by design—especially not the tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends, his hometown, and the life he'd always known. Running from the pain, eyes closed, served little purpose. Now, as he looks back on his life, Sam embarks on a journey that will take him halfway around the world. This time, his eyes are wide open—bringing into clear view what changed him, defined him, and made him so afraid, until he can finally see what truly matters.

Robert Dugoni's book "The Extraordinary life of Sam Hell" was just named the 2018 Crimson Scribe Award Winner. That is the highest honor Suspense Magazine can give to any book which is why only one book per year recieves this award. He will join us to talk about the book and much more About the book:  Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s coming-of-age story is, according to Booklist, “a novel that, if it doesn’t cross entirely over into John Irving territory, certainly nestles in close to the border.” Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism. Her words were of little comfort, but Sam persevered, buoyed by his mother’s devout faith, his father’s practical wisdom, and his two other misfit friends. Sam believed it was God who sent Ernie Cantwell, the only African American kid in his class, to be the friend he so desperately needed. And that it was God’s idea for Mickie Kennedy to storm into Our Lady of Mercy like a tornado, uprooting every rule Sam had been taught about boys and girls. Forty years later, Sam, a small-town eye doctor, is no longer certain anything was by design—especially not the tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends, his hometown, and the life he’d always known. Running from the pain, eyes closed, served little purpose. Now, as he looks back on his life, Sam embarks on a journey that will take him halfway around the world. This time, his eyes are wide open—bringing into clear view what changed him, defined him, and made him so afraid, until he can finally see what truly matters.

............((Silence)).........((more silence)).....YOU HEAR THAT!!?? That's the silence before the storm....of JOKES. Jokes about this cooky conspiracy that is!! This week we delve into the latest and greatest political conspiracy Q-Anon. What in the Sam Hell is Q-Anon you might ask...well listen to the episode and you'll find out ya GLOBALIST SWINE!! BUUUT if you must know , in a nut shell it's a Conspiracy about Donald Damian Trump and his adminstrations war  against the Deep State and Every Democrat. Which probably means if you're a fan of this show you're on their list....sorry y'all freedom isn't free and neither are the laughs. But with that said , this was a very fun episode to record. Hope you love it ya'll!!

Bill welcomes bestselling novelist Robert Dugoni to the show. Robert  is the critically acclaimed New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Amazon Best Selling Author of The Tracy Crosswhite series: My Sister’s Grave, Her Final Breath, In the Clearing, and The Trapped Girl. The Crosswhite Series has sold more than 2,000,000 books and My Sister’s Grave has been optioned for television series development. He is also the author of the best-selling David Sloane series: The Jury Master, Wrongful Death, Bodily Harm Murder One and The Conviction, and the stand-alone novels The 7th Canon, a 2017 finalist for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for best novel, The Cyanide Canary, A Washington Post Best Book of the Year. He is a two time finalist for the International Thriller Writers award and the Mystery Writers of America Award for best novel. His books are sold world-wide in more than 25 countries and have been translated into more than two dozen languages. We'll be discussing his latest stand alone novel: The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell.

Bonjour! Whether you’re a dreamer, have a trip planned, or just love all things France, Georgeanne Brennan brings you along on her journey in Windows on Provence: Musings on the Food, Wine, and Culture of the South of France. You’ll get an insider’s look at the unique markets, landscapes, and even literature of the region. Georgeanne is the winner of a James Beard award and an International Association of Culinary Professionals award. An accomplished author of 30 cookbooks, she is also a culinary journalist and entrepreneur. New York Times and Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller Robert Dugoni joins us next to discuss his latest book, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, a deeply personal story about family, friendship, and finding your place in the world. A longtime Seattle resident, Robert is the critically acclaimed author of The Tracy Crosswhite series and the David Sloane series. His works have sold millions of copies around the world and garnered multiple awards. He will be appearing in person at a book launch event on April 25th in Burien.

This week, Matt is joined by old pal Dom Luongo to talk about what in Sam Hell happened for Loyola Chicago to end up in the Final Four, but here we are! They talk about Nova's dominance, Kansas's future unique ability to cover the spread, and Loyola's chances against Michigan (00:00). Then, Matt is joined by long-time friend Rob Harzer to talk about how BASEBALL IS BACK! The Yankees chances, how the Red Sox are a legit contender, the Dodgers continuing to dominate the NL, if the Nationals finally do it this year, and some predictions (25:25). Then, they tackle why Fortnite is the biggest video game experience of all time (57:15), and how we've all be absolutely positively been bamboozled by Facebook (1:10:55).  Rate, review, and subscribe! Leave us voicemails or text us questions: (209)-874-6251. This is a WTP Sports production. Check out www.wtpsports.com. Follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram, or email us. And don't forget to check out our website: www.middleurinal.com Check out our closeout song playlist on Spotify! Sponsors: BarkBox - Get 1 month free (do it for your dog, she earned it). Bombas - Get 15% off your first order, and each pair you buy gets a matching pair donated. Warby Parker - Get a free trial! A pair of glasses bought is a pair of glasses donated. Loot Crate - Get 10% off any new subscription with code bridge10. GameFly - Get a 30-day free trial.

Cody Taylor of Basketball Insiders has reported the Pelicans have displayed interest in Cavalier swingman Iman Shumpert following the torn hamstring to Solomon Hill and Quincy Pondexter dump in Chicago.  What in the Sam Hell are the Pelicans thinking playing him out of position and taking on his two year, $21.3 million in salary? But it beats the alternatives, right?  If Chase Budinger, Josh Smith, and Martell Webster are the alternatives you bet your sweet hiney it does!   Finally we break down Frank Jackson's reaggravated broken foot and call to question Misty Suri, yet again...

Oscars, La La Land, Deadpool, Bill Paxton, Scott's Week, Andy's Week, Automotive Woes, Space/Exoplanets, Mr. Brown Goes To Warrington, Questions and Answers: Camping, Raalf, Sam Hell, Moving Electronics Trans-Oceanic-ly, Aussie Andy, Master of the Metaverse, Razzies.

This week we talked to Matthew Johnson, aka Sam Hell, a about freestyle.

Donald G. Jackson, Roddy Piper, Sandahl Bergman, and Steve Wang all completely nail it in Hell Comes to Frogtown. It can be argued that there is no funner "bad movie" ever made, especially when how much little money was spent. Sam Hell enters Frogtown to gets some fertile women rescued and then make sweet sweet love to them. This movie rocks. We'll start with our dearly departed Roddy. There's no one out there that could have done a better job with the role of Sam Hell. Period. Roddy nails the role. He's snide, sarcastic, witty, action-packed, intense, funny, and charming. Sam Hell can rival just about anyone out there as for likable characters. Sam Hell is just as lovable as Ash (Evil Dead) or Danton (Deadly Prey). The guy is bad ass and too much fun. Our problem with this film is that its considered a bad movie. It's NOT. This is a high quality, well executed piece with absolutely no flaws. The acting is spot on, the effects are top notch, the story properly delivered, the script is incredible and the very well spent money make this a perfectly made film. Sure if you were to tell someone who has never heard of it that its a movie about a guy with superior sperm has to free some sexy ladies from giant mutated frogs it sounds like a typical bad movie. But this film is as high quality as 90% of films out there.

«DANCE! OR DIE!» I denne episoden snakker vi om den postapokylaptiske perlen «Hell Comes to Frogtown» med selveste «Rowdy» Roddie Piper i sin første hovedrolle. Han spiller nemlig Sam Hell, en av de få gjenværende fruktbare menn som er igjen på jorda. Sammen med den sexye (?) Spangle, Centinella og Looney Tunes må han redde en gjeng med fruktbare kvinner fra froskenes lår i Frogtown. Så sett deg godt til rette, ta deg en bud – weiser og hør hva vi synes om «Hell Comes to Frogtown»! PS! Jørgen synes Roddy Piper ligner på en viss realitystjerne i denne filmen. Her har viLes merEpisode 14: Hell Comes to Frogtown

This week we watched a movie that was weird, wrong, and awesome on so many levels. The movie we speak of is the 1988 cult classic ‘Hell Comes To Frogtown,’ starring the one and only Rowdy Roddy Piper! Most know Piper from his days as a professional wrestler or from the bubble gum chewing hero from ‘They Live,’ but very few know that he followed up ‘They Live’ with this over the top gem. The film is set in an post-apocalyptic wasteland where few fertile men and women exist due to atomic fallout and, as a result, the government places a high priority on those that can still breed. In comes Sam Hell, played by Piper, who is captured by the women ruled government and given a mission to rescue fertile women from Frogtown and fuck for freedom. Will Sam Hell make it out of Frogtown alive? Will he breed, like he’s never bred before? Will he defeat the leader of the frog-people Commander Toadie? Watch the movie in full on YouTube then listen to Episode 70 to find out! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bmoviebreakdown/support

Episode #028 | Revive! 028 with music from Fisso & Spark, Oleg Zubkov, Bl1tz, Hedflux, Unconscious Mind(s), feltric, Refracture, 8 Bit, Sam Hell and Vize! In the second hour you can listen to Deenk feat. Enterpryse's guest mix. PART 1 - RETROID Fisso & Spark - Stopfora Moment (Original Mix) [Ridiculoud] Alter Form - Symposium (Bl1tz & Sasser Remix) [Flextone] Too Dusty - Nazis Must Die (Oleg Zubkov remix) [Hard & Hits] AP3X - Power Struggle (Retroid Remix) [Ridiculoud] Hedflux & Neurodriver - Energy Vibration (Original Mix) [Broken Robot] Unconscious Mind(s) Versus Peak - Unconscious Peaks (Original Mix) [Psychoactive] Digibox -I See You (Bl1tz Remix) [VIM] Andrew_Maze - Too Late (Fletric Remix) [Morphosis Limited] TRO - The Beginning (Refracture Remix) [Definition:breaks] Metha - Dark Smile (Sam Hell Remix) [Breaks Sk] Deenk - I Kiss You Know (8 bit Remix) [Hard & Hits] Hironimus Bosch - The Pulse (Vize Remix) [VIM] PART 2 - DEENK & ENTERPRYSE 01.Quadrat Beat-Ligths(Deenk Remix) 02.Wah Zap- Music Behavior (EnterPryse Remix) 03.Deenk & Freeflow - Crazy Game 04.Deenk Feat EnterPryse- InterFerence 05.Mc Freeflow-Waiting For You(Deenk Remix) 06.EnterPryse Feat C.Jayne & Mc Michelle- Impact 07.Deenk Feat Mc Kyla - Kansas City Vs EnterPryse Remix 08.Deenk- Move 09.EnterPryse Feat C.Jayne Katy & Mc Michelle Vs David F.- Come On Everybody 10.Too Dusty - Insane (Deenk Remix) 11.EnterPryse Feat Mc's David, BassJax & C.Jayne- Sand Of Love 12.Deenk Feat Kyla - Monster Track

Lots of new tunage this week – kicks off on the prog tip then heads down tech funk lane – always deep tho 01. Idiotbox, Sam Hell – Lay Back Down [I-Box Recordings] 02. Mesmer – Double You TF [Scarcity Records] 03. Abdomen Burst – So Many Hopes (Oleg Zubkov remix) [Toes In The Sand] […] The post Disc Breaks with Llupa – 81 – 23rd July 2009 appeared first on Llupa.