Ivory Tower Boiler Room

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom Our very own sponsor Jenine Cucchi (from The SoapBox NY) enters the ITBR to help us discuss Demonic Possession in The Conjuring and Exorcist Universe from “The Nun 2” and “The Exorcist: Believer." Andrew, Mary, and Jenine begin by questioning the wave of De...

Want to listen to this episode AD FREE? Go to ⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠ and become a subscriber today! Hey, true crime friends! This week we are discussing another major mass shooting in the US- The Virginia Tech Shooting. On April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 of his fellow classmates before turning the gun on himself. In our news update, I discuss the recent shooting in Lewistown, M...

Watch/Listen to the rest of our Real Housewives discussion on Patreon for only $5 a month! ⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom ⁠ Lenzi, the Housewife Historian enters the ITBR to discuss personal experiences with the Housewives cast, including a few from New Jersey who have doxed her. Lenzi and Andrew discuss their recent experience meeting Teresa Giudice and Jackie Goldschneider at live events, an...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $10 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom Digital Creator, Aaron Wallis enters the ITBR to discuss episode 3: "No Bris, No Shirt, No Service" of the iconic “Queer as Folk” 2000 American TV show! Aaron and Andrew discuss the taking back of offensive words by the queer community and how they no l...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom Animation Director and Writer, Sage Cotugno enters the ITBR to discuss their new graphic novel series “The Glass Scientists: Volume One." Sage discusses taking inspiration from the 1886 novella “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” written by Robert Louis...

Watch/Listen to the rest of our SCREAM discussion on Patreon for only $10 a month! ⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom ⁠ Andrew is joined with his college friend Lorentz and host of True Crime in Academia Mary DiPipi to watch and teach all about the 1996 horror/slasher film “Scream” directed by Wes Craven. Andrew and his guests discuss Drew Barrymore’s role in the movie and how she had scheduling co...

Hey, true crime friends! This week we will be discussing the University of Texas Tower Shooting that took place in early August 1966. Charles Whitman, an architectural engineering student and former US Marine, took the lives of 14 people and injured 31. However, this case is way more complicated than most mass shootings that have occurred since. In this week's News Update, Joran van der Sloot-...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $10 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ Welcome to the premiere episode of ITBR Rewatches the iconic "Smash" 2012 American TV show! Hosted by Christian Garcia (Host of That Ol' Gay Classic Cinema) Christian Garcia is joined by Dr. Andrew Rimby to discuss the “Pilot” episode of the NBC show...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom Aaron Hamburger, writer of "Nirvana is Here ," returns to ITBR to discuss with Andrew his new book “Hotel Cuba" a stunning novel about two Russian Jewish sisters (Pearl and Frieda Kahn) who are desperate to get to America to make a new life. But once...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ Nicolas DiDomizio, author of "Burn It All Down," returns to the ITBR to discuss his new novel "The Gay Best Friend" which is a wedding comedy told entirely from the POV of the gay best man. Nicolas shares with Andrew his inspiration for writing...

Want to listen to this episode AD FREE? Go to patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom and become a subscriber today! Hey, true crime friends! This week is a Patreon bonus episode week! On the News Update we have an update on the 2019 murder of Elijah McClain: one suspect has been apprehended in the Morgan State University shooting; and NJ Democratic Senator has been issued another indictment by federal p...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $10 a month! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ Welcome back to our ITBR Rewatches series where we're discussing and analyzing the iconic “Queer as Folk” 2000 American TV show! Andrew is joined with Pink Media President Matt Skallerud to discuss episode 2 of "Queer as Folk." They discuss the cast...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ Music journalist and pop culture expert Sowmya Krishnamurthy enters the ITBR to discuss how Hip-Hop revolutionized the fashion industry in her new upcoming book “Fashion Killa." Sowmya’s book details the timeline of when Hip-Hop was believed to have begun, on...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $10 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠⁠ Dr. Ramzi Fawaz, a queer scholar with a PhD in American Studies, and a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison rejoins the ITBR to cover this part 2 series on discussing the Barbie Movie.   Ramzi makes us ask the question: Is the Barbie Movie...

Want to listen to this episode AD FREE? Go to patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom and become a subscriber today! Hey, true crime friends! This week we are discussing the disappearance of University of Massachusetts nursing student, Maura Murray. Maura went missing on the night of February 9, 2004, after a car accident that landed her car in a ditch. Although two neighbors in the area who witnessed th...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ Sarah Fraser host of The Sarah Fraser Show podcast joins the ITBR to discuss: the writers’ strike, Bethenny Frankel’s Reality Reckoning and The New RHONY, and RHOBH. Sarah speaks on behalf of the writers’ strike and her personal theory of why Drew Barrymore paused...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $10 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠⁠ Join us in welcoming Kathy Rimby (Andrew's Mom) onto this special spooky season episode of ITBR Teaches where Andrew and Kathy discuss their likes and dislikes about two recent film releases: A Haunting in Venice and The Haunted Mansion. Listen with us as we...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ Australian writer, Nigel Featherstone gets vulnerable when he enters the ITBR and opens up about finding his queer male literary voice! Come listen to Nigel as he speaks about his creative journey and how he found his writerly voice. Why did library visits and his...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $10 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ Do you think the "Barbie" movie is feminist? Well, that's just what today's guest Sheena Rubino and Andrew debate in a very productive and healthy way...see we all can disagree and still be friends! Sheena brings her experience as a yoga instruc...

Want to listen to this episode AD FREE? Go to patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom and become a subscriber today! Hey, true crime friends! This week we are diving into Australia's most famous unsolved murder. On September 18, 1952, 22-year-old Betty Shanks was walking home from a lecture when she was brutally attacked and murdered. To this day, no one has been charged with her murder. In this week...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $10 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ Welcome to the premiere episode of ITBR Rewatches the iconic "Queer as Folk" 2000 American TV show! Andrew is joined with friend of the show Christian Garcia, who hosts the "That Ol' Gay Classic Cinema" podcast, and right away they question...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ Chris Adams, author of "Out for Blood: A Cultural History of Carrie the Musical" and co-host of the "Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical," joins Andrew in the ITBR to chat, of course, about all things Carrie! Chris reveals the origin...

A special podcast episode from our friend Christian Garcia's podcast, That Ol' Gay Classic Cinema: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/that-ol-gay-classic-cinema/id1652125150 Welcome back to That Ol' Gay Classic Cinema, I am joined by "Ivory Tower Boiler Room's" host, Andrew Rimby, "True Crime in Academia" host, Mary DiPipi & Travis Rountree as we discuss...

To listen to the full episode ad-free go to patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom and become a subscriber! Hey, true crime subscribers! This week we are wrapping up the kidnapping of Patty Hearst and discovering where she is today! In this week's News Update, we talk about three of the 5 prisoners released back to the US from Iran, another Bravolebrity is facing a DUI, Sophie Turner is suing Joe Jo...

Watch/Listen to this and all episodes ad free by joining the ITBR Patreon for only $5 a month!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/ivorytowerboilerroom⁠⁠ Dr. Andrew Lear, who holds a Ph. D. in Classics from UCLA, enters the ITBR to discuss his work on male-male love in ancient Greek society. First, he explores the state of Classics departments in American universities and why ancient Greek culture/history is such a...