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Escape From Vault DisneyDeion's Double PlayIn this episode, just in time for the World Series and a new football season, the randomizer goes all the way back to 2019 to pick the first ESPN "30 For 30" sports documentary we've ever had to cover on this podcast! Specifically, a documentary about multi-hyphenate 90s superstar athlete Deion Sanders, aka "Prime Time," which is a nickname he gave himself, presumably for reasons. Sanders gained fame for playing professional baseball AND football at the same time, and once in October 1992, he attempted to play in an NFL game in between two postseason MLB games in a different state, all within...
2024-10-241h 03
Escape From Vault DisneyFrankenweenie (1984)This week, for our first of two Halloween episodes of the year, the randomizer goes all the way back to 1984 to cover one of the earliest live-action efforts of a rising young talent by the name of Tim Burton, who in this landmark early work explored many of the very same themes and motifs that would later become ubiquitous in his filmography, including the juxtaposition of mundane suburban life with horror-fantasy tropes, the celebration of misunderstood outsiders over bland conformists, and of course cool-looking German expressionist gothic art design absolutely slathered all over the screen. At the time it...
2023-10-181h 03
Escape From Vault DisneyBehind the Attraction S1E5 - Space MountainThe increasingly-inaccurately-titled PARKS MONTH on Escape From Vault Disney finally comes to a close, a mere two weeks after the month ended! For our fifth and final week of "Parks Month and a Half" I guess, the randomizer goes all the way back to 2021 to cover a made-for-Disney+ docuseries that attempts to blend theme park history lessons with postmodern fourth-wall-breaking wacky comedy (wow what a wild idea never seen anything like that before nope never not even once), specifically an episode about a mountain of pure space. Join Tony Goldmark, David Ganssle, Ben Lancaster and Gaby Tyrrell as they get...
2022-04-131h 16
the Podcast Without a Cool AcronymRecess: School's Out! | the Podcast Without a Cool AcronymSummer in January! Join Chandler, David Ganssle, Jonathan Harm, Gabby Tyrrell, and Micah Hirsch as they talk about Recess: School's Out (2001)! James Woods plays a former Secretary of Education who wants to plunge the world into a new ice age just so US test scores will go up. He also thinks it snows 24/7 in Iceland and Canada, so clearly, there's a reason why the President fired him. Oh, did I forget to introduce T.J. and his friends? Eh, well, so does the movie.
2021-01-051h 31