Strange Ride

Savannah reviews the entire series of Stranger Things and Rob does his best to keep up.

Did you hate the Stranger Things ending? Did you hate it enough to imagine an entire conspiracy theory in which the ending is not truly the ending but an illusion created by the main villain and another episode is still forthcoming despite ample evidence to the contrary? Well, this episode is for you. Welcome back to Strange Ride.

In 1982, Phoebe Cates swam naked across movie screens nationwide and nobody cared. Cates had been willing to appear fully nude on camera but had soured on choices the production team had made while editing the film and turned against her own starring role. Paradise told the story of a young couple's sexual awakening in a desert oasis in the early ninenteenth-century. Despite Cates's and her co-sta...

Walt Disney World is almost known for being a place that encourages you to take wholesome videos and pictures of your family while you’re there in the parks, but some people have taken that even further and have filmed an entire feature length movie in Disney World and Disneyland. This is something that has actually happened and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in 2013. However this mo...

There is so much Star Wars content out in the wide world. Some of it is loved, some of it hated, but there is one piece of Star Wars media that is so hated by its creator that it was almost lost media. If it wasn’t for fans making bootleg VCR copies during its one and only broadcast it would be lost to time. I’m talking about of course the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special. A variety show set in...

The Broadway Musical, Part Two: The Review In today's episode of Strange Ride Savannah finally digs deeper into the set, costumes, design elements, and the plot of The SpongeBob SquarePants Broadway Musical.

The Broadway Musical, Part One: An Introduction SpongeBob Squarepants is a character that I’m sure needs no introduction. Even if you haven’t seen the show you have at least heard of him, but did you know that he had a Broadway Musical back in 2017? Today, Savannah goes over the history of the popular tv show and the musical itself.

Secure. Contain. Protect. These are the core tenants of the SCP Foundation. But just what is this secret organization? Find out here on Strange Ride!

Where we last left off we learned of the notorious Jigsaw killer who doesn’t actually kill people, but tests them to see if they have the will to live. He has kidnapped and tested a lot of people with not very many of them proving they “had the will to live”. Jigsaw, or his real name, John Kramer is a cancer patient who doesn’t have much longer to live. He takes on an apprentice by the name of Ama...

The Saw franchise is one of the most iconic and successful horror franchises of all time, and arguably the bloodiest. Believe it or not there are many things that make Saw an interesting topic, from its humble beginnings to the fact that it helped create and popularize the term “Torture Porn”. But Savannah’s favorite thing about the Saw series is just how much content there is, and just how convol...

In the second part of our My Little Pony series, Rob discusses how the series draws on themes of occult practice to explore the nature of the self and the relationship between ego and sacrifice.

For parents like me who chose to share 2010’s revival of My Little Pony with my children, the animated series’ emphasis on social-emotional learning is the primary draw; however, these lessons are framed in distinctly occult terms. The series is subtitled “friendship is magic” and while this may suggest that friendship is awesome, in the context of the show it often means that it is literally a ma...

Everyone has heard of the phrase Stockholm Syndrome. Everyone seems to understand what it means as well. It’s when a person who has been taken hostage, usually a woman, ends up creating a bond with their captor where they are seen as friends and maybe even lovers. This “syndrome” is so ingrained into pop culture that most people don’t question it’s validity. But is it actually a real thing? It’s n...

In this continuation of Splash Mountains closure, we go through the last operating day of the ride in Disney World. From the rope drop to the fight to be the last person in line to ever ride Splash Mountain. Ride along with us as we experience what it was like to be in the Magic Kingdom that day, but we’re not done yet! With Tiana’s Bayou Adventure opening June 28th, we also discuss how the ride w...

There have always been the three mountains in Disney World. Space Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, and possibly the most loved flume ride of all time Splash Mountain. No trip to Disney World would be complete without riding all three mountains, but there was something incredibly special about Splash Mountain in particular. It was a flume ride, a roller coaster, a dark ride, and a way to cool off al...

In the last episode we talked about how the reptilians and humans ended up on earth and the war that we have been a part of for not just our lifetime, but our previous lifetimes as well. We’re trapped on earth and are kept stupid so that we won’t learn that our souls will be the keys to freeing us from our reptilian overlords. Because the reptilians currently have control over us they kidnap us an...

In this Strange Ride/Occult Confessions crossover episode Savannah kicks off OC’s newest season “cults that aren’t cults” by looking at the Secret Space Program conspiracy theory. The human race is under attack, and the earth needs all of our help if we’re going to survive to the end of this war. You’ve already started your journey by listening to this podcast, but stick with us. It’ll be difficul...

Rob takes over hosting duties to share his newest research topic: performers who die in front of audiences. In this episode, Rob traces the stories of three performers who died while performing dangerous stunts. The careers of these performers span almost two hundred years of American history and all end tragically. WARNING: This episode contains references to suicide.

One Hour One Life is a game you’ve probably never heard of, but is a game you should know about. It is an MMO (massive multiplayer online) where you are born as a helpless infant to another player. Every minute from then counts as a year, and you only get 60 of them to live your life to the fullest. The art style is childish, the gameplay arguably simplistic, and yet it is unforgiving, absurdly in...

"Love on a Leash" is a movie with a composer but no soundtrack about a woman who falls in love with her dog once he turns into a man (but only at night) after talking to a pond. In this date-night special, Savannah shares the history of this very unusual movie and Rob talks about the fantasies underneath the puppy love.

Urban Exploring became a very popular trend online thanks to YouTube and Disney World was not immune to it. Now places like River Country and especially Discovery Island were not the easiest places to get to explore, but at the time EPCOTs security was surprisingly lax leaving one certain pavilion to become a hotspot of Urban Exploration. Roaming around the Wonders of Life Pavilion, Urban Explorer...

Jefferson Airplane splits apart. Hot Tuna and Jefferson Starship come together. Jefferson Starship splits apart. Starship remains and builds "this city" in 1985, the first time any of the bands related to Jefferson Airplane chart a number one song. That song goes on to become one of the most reviled songs in the history of rock music which says more about the culture of rock music than it does abo...

In 2011, Rolling Stone called Starship's "We Built this City" the worst song of 1980s. Blender and GQ labeled it the worst song of all time. this highly commercial chart-topping hit for a group with its roots in late 1960s counter-culture may be the most complex and bizarre pop song of the 80's if not the history of all pop music. Starship or rather the band it grew out of did, in many ways, build...

On January 30th, 1925, a man named Floyd Collins entered Sand Cave hoping that one day he could turn this cave into a great tourist attraction. As he squeezes through the tight crevices that are so snug he must lie flat on his back with his arms pressed up against his sides, he accidentally knocks over his lantern, and is now in pitch blackness. In this episode we will be talking about the nightma...

Five Nights at Freddy’s started out as a simple idea and quickly grew into some sort of complicated monster to which the fans have been trying to study and learn about for 9 whole years. Each game that came out was meant to help clarify and add things to the overall hidden story of the games, but things just sort of became more confusing. However there are concrete moments and things that can help...