What's Your Mount Rushmore?

Mount Rushmore of Music Videos 📺 Like most Gen-X kids, we grew up in the era of MTV. You were just as likely to discover a new song by your favorite band on MTV as you were on the radio. If a band wanted to sell a lot of records, they had to make a decent video. And some bands & singers made GREAT videos. Most of the artists we talk about in this episode are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Is...

Canada is more than just our neighbors to the north. More than one of the closest allies to the United States. More than producers of great hockey and maple syrup. They are also some really nice people! Wouldn't you agree eh!? Some of the picks on our lists are pretty obvious. While others may leave you surprised that they were even Canadian. Some of our choices have been Hollywood legends for dec...

Mount Rushmore of Unbreakable Sports Records 🏀⚾ Sports are full of records. Single game records, season records, career records with hundreds of possibilities in between. Some records are broken every year. But others are so amazing, they just seem absolutely impossible to break. For this episode we decided to only take one record per sport that we felt will never be broken. And we left every sp...

Mount Rushmore of Slasher Movies 🔪 For the week of Halloween 🎃 we decided to do something a little... scary. For some reason, humans love a good scare. Well, not every human. Mark admits right up front that Slasher movies, and any movie with a good jump scare is not his cup of tea! That made it the perfect episode for us to bring in a guest host to help us out. Susan Hanson is one the biggest ho...

Mount Rushmore of Ultimate Party Songs 🎵 Imagine you are at a party, standing in front of a jukebox. The whole room is counting on you to get the party started, but you can only choose ONE song to get things going. What song would you pick? To help us pick the ultimate party songs, we decided to record this episode... AT A PARTY! We took our podcast on the road and recorded this episode live from...

We are honored to be joined by our friend, the always entertaining Blaine Fowler from the Blaine & Lauren show on 96.3 WDVD in Detroit! Blaine is a longtime radio personality who we knew from OUR radio days when he still worked in Minneapolis. He is a big fan of movies, just like us, so was an excellent guest for this topic. In addition to a few impressions, Blaine brought some awesome movie picks...

For this week's episode we were joined by our friend Kelly Jordan, the morning show host from Wild Country 99 radio. In this special episode we're sharing our Mount Rushmore of One Hit Wonders. Kelly has worked in radio for more than 20 years and is the perfect guest for this topic! Some bands and singers are lucky and talented enough to have hit after hit over the course of many years. While othe...

For this week's episode we welcome our friend Chris Shaffer, the chief meteorologist for WCCO TV in the Twin Cities. We worked with Chris back in our radio days when he was a radio DJ before he made the jump to TV. When we came up with the idea for this episode we immediately thought of Chris as a guest host. When you're talking about Natural Disaster Movies, who better to have join you then a TV...

We grew up watching professional wrestling, first in the early AWA years in Minnesota and then the rise of the WWF through the '80s. But neither of us has really followed wrestling since we were kids so we thought the best way to honor our early love of the "sport" would be to do a Mount Rushmore of Old School Wrestlers! For us old school means the guys who were there in the beginning of Wrestlema...

Saturday Night Live, also known simply as SNL is launching it's 50th season in the fall of 2024. We decided this is a great time for us to list our Mount Rushmore of SNL Skits. We both grew up watching Saturday Night Live and are so amazed at the talent that has passed through those doors. Starting with the early days of Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray to the '80s greats like E...

Quarterbacks are the leaders and field generals for any football team. They are often the glue that holds a winning team together, but also take most of the blame for losing teams. As lifelong NFL fans we had decades of quarterbacks to consider. A couple of our picks came very easy to each of us but we had to do some thinking to land on the others. Between us we actually came up with a list that i...

The Minnesota State Fair attracts more than 2 million visitors each year and is the largest state fair in the country by daily attendance. We both have a unique perspective of the State Fair due to our work histories. It's safe to say we have been to the fair a lot more than the average Minnesotan. One of the main draws of the fair each year is the food and many of our own personal memories of the...

Will Ferrell got his big break as a cast member of Saturday Night Live in the 1990's. Since then he has gone on to not only star in, but occasionally write and produce some of the funniest movies of the last 25 years. We've always been big fans of his work, both at SNL and on the big screen. Sometimes narrowing our choices down to four picks to put on the Mount Rushmore for each episode can be rea...

Some of the best songs in history tell a story. They could be as simple as a boy meets girl kind of story, or something deeper and more meaningful. A lot of songs are written to re-tell stories of events that actually happened in real life. This episode proved to be a very difficult one for us! There are so many outstanding story songs that we had a tough time narrowing down to only 4 songs. In fa...

Mount Rushmore of Food Pairings 🍳🥓 Some foods are perfectly fine on their own, but other foods just BEG to be eaten together. In fact some of the foods on our lists really only go well with each other and you'd never even consider eating them on their own. Cereal and Milk. Butter and Bread. Peanut Butter & Jelly. All fine examples of foods that are traditionally eaten together. Did any of them m...

Mount Rushmore of Summer Olympians 🥇 The 2024 Summer Olympics are here! We have always been fans of the Olympics, both Summer and Winter. As we discuss in this episode, many of the Olympic sports we only see (or even care about) once every four years, but the athletes competing still leave a strong impression on us. Imagine working hard training every day for four years, only to have one tenth of...

Mount Rushmore of HBO Series 📺 Some of the best TV series in the history of television have their roots on the HBO network, now part of the MAX streaming package. We have been watching HBO shows for a long time, but can you believe the network itself is more than 50 years old? In hindsight we could have done an episode of just HBO comedies and another with HBO drama / action shows. But it's too l...

We spun the wheel of names and landed on.... Gary. So we're listing out our top 4 favorite People Named Gary in this week's episode! Have you noticed the name Gary is becoming a name of the past? As we discuss in this episode, you don't see many young kids or babies named Gary. In fact, less than 250 babies named Gary were born in the United States for entire year of 2023. So lets honor them, and...

In honor of Independence Day this week, we wanted to do a special episode listing our favorite American Things. We approached this episode with the goal of choosing things that are American icons and were created in the USA, perfected in the USA or just make you think of this great country. Before anyone gets too upset, we purposely left off things like the 4th of July, American Flag, the Constitu...

We grew up with the original three Star Wars movies, the action figures and all the toys. At least one of us even had a Star Wars themed Halloween costume as a kid. We also enjoyed the prequels, the final trilogy and the various TV series that have taken us deeper into the Star Wars universe. All this means there are literally hundreds of characters to choose from. Humans, droids, aliens.... we ha...

The perfect movie soundtrack compliments the movie with every scene, to the point where you couldn't imagine any other song playing right at that moment. We know these songs and movies so well, in some cases you can name a song from the movie and we'll tell you the exact scene where that song was being played! In addition to adding an element to the movie, a great soundtrack lives on its own outsi...

Families are often at the heart of many TV shows. And on some shows the dads are the center of attention, whether they deserve it or not! This is particularly true in sitcoms, which make up a big chunk of our Mount Rushmore lists in this special Fathers Day episode. Some of the TV dads we mention are great fathers, great husbands and all around great guys. Others... well... not so much. But in the...

Maybe it's because neither of us ever really grew up, but to us our childhood feels like it was just yesterday. In this episode we take a look back at those years and list off our Childhood Celebrity Crushes. Some crushes were innocent, from our pre-teen years. Others sprouted a little later and may have been featured on posters in our teenage bedrooms. But all of them deserve to be remembered and...

Mount Rushmore of Video Games 🎮 Did you play video games growing up? Are you still a gamer? We may not play them much these days, but back in the day we both played them a LOT. In this episode we cover our top four video games across all platforms and genres. Everything from Nintendo and PC games to the old arcade. Grab some chips and your choice of beverage, and settle in for a trip backwards th...

Dreaming about cars is about as American as baseball and apple pie. From the time you were a kid you probably have had at least a few dream cars, and maybe as an adult you've been lucky enough to own one of them. In this episode we went ALL IN on our dreams. Did we dream big? Hell yes. Especially Mark. Neither of us have ever owned one of our dream cars and in the short term it's probably going to...