Oral Presentations

Told a girlfriend 9 years ago I was gonna read The Devil In The White City, "Soon," just under a decade later I audio booked it for an electronic book report about just the serial killer parts. 

An HBO 24/7 on the creator of The Twilight Zone. 

OCTOBER // CURSE CITY Recap Plot of the Omen // Zeus plays for the Underworld // A Sad Chinese Business Trip // A Tiger Crane Games a Guy // The IRA shows up // Somebody gets their head cut off in Holland. 

Alright, it is October, and I am supposed to be doing spooky creepy shit all month, but somebody reco'd this one in an itunes review and there's no rules so I snuck it in. SYLLABUS  Get to know the fighters + A look at some stylistic differences + Intangibles leading into the fight = How it shook out.

The Roman Empire falls and becomes the Byzantine Empire. But it's ok, things are still looking up. Then the Byzantine Empire is humming along nicely and VOLCANO VOLCANO BLACK PLAGUE.

Mexican Boxing Style // Early Days in Tijuana // A Boxer's Pedigree + Slow Teach // Kermit the Cintron // Miguel Cotto + Dream Fulfilled // Ultimate Heel Turn + Things Go Bad.

Marine Biology but as you walk into class you catch the substitute sneaking half a cigarette in the closet where they keep the triple beam balances and he tries to hide it.   Octo Anatomy // Octo Behavior // Octo Intelligence + They die when they bang.  

TOOK A LONG LUNCH, GOOD TO BE BACK, also I hope you had a nice Labor Day man.  I lucked into the opportunity of learning the card game Spades from 3 different expert level players over the break. This was some of the most fun learning I've done, also there's a story about the hardest laugh I've had in a minute in this one.   

Dino faxxx on a Tuesday // Where the fuck did dinosaurs even come from? // Pangaea busting itself up all over the place // Warm blooded vs Cold Blooded Thermoregulation // The Cretaceous Red Carpet // Water Dinos // BOOM 

An absolute king.  Shawty on a Monday but this dude's life was pure 1997 Wild On! E.

Victor Hugo made this story up after he saw an ugly guy working on the restoration of a cathedral.  That is actually cited as being his inspiration for the character.  He wrote a 940 page book because of how ugly he thought a construction worker was.  The book was written over 3 years and published in 1831. This means there is a chance the construction worker who inspired the book was still alive...

How and why the Pentagon said that shit // Possible evolutionary paths for aliens to have taken aka what they may look like // Earth's plan in the event of invasion // Pleading with the brothers of my hypothetical future fiance not to show their Dad this shit // Possible Alien Races.

(Demon Info // Plot Summary) + 1 motorcycle accident - 1 carpenters thumb + 6 dead guys + 2 broken backs + a possible serial killer. Not a whole lot of science on this one but I thought it was a good, 'lean in and talk shit at work,' topic.

Hello // Thank you for the week off // Back to the Future 3 // Tiger Army // Mothman Faxxx // Pervert Crane // Kill Count // I tried to Learn Algebra // Why the Silver Bridge Actually Collapsed // Baldwin's Book Barn // Ocarina of Time // Gary Glitter // Aliens who hit a Boscov's // Gary Glitter

Almost Rug Doctor Kevorkian'd myself on Friday -> Honda Fit Panic Attack Saved by the Morristown Mall -> The Mothman Prophecies -> Genuine attempt to explain basic structural engineering w/ Goro -> Alley opp pass from Indiana Jones for simple suspension bridge mechanics -> Why in reality the Walt Whitman Bridge could probably eat a dropkick from the Colverfield monster no probl...

Most fun thing I've recorded in awhile. This is the middle piece of this week's Patreon Episode. I wanted an excuse to switch back to a Monday/Wednesday split and this is a nice work around. When I listened back it sounded a lot like the Ponzi Episode and I hope you get a laugh out of it.  New public episode this Monday and moving forward this'll be how it stays 'till we run ou...

Was planning to cover where the water comes from when you take a hot shower in both South Jersey and West Philly, but I nerded out so hard once I found out how a water tower works that when I sat down to record just the South Jersey part and it ended up being like 45 minutes long so we just went with that.  At the end the West Philly difference is grazed over, but honestly not in great detail.  Lo...

I had no idea how this actually works so I wanted to see if I could understand it.  Visual aids would have been helpful for explaining torque transfer between big and little gears and how the counter shaft gets involved, but hey we live and we learn. I thought finding out what "overdrive," actually means was pretty cool.

Turns out I didn't know what actually happened here. Also nobody gets their head cut off until 20 minutes in, but much like the French in the 18th century and Josh Hartnett when he hunts vampires in Alaska, one we get a taste for it the numbers start to pile up.

Look, I did this podcast to make myself learn new shit but it's Memorial Day and I'm taking one for me, Ike was the man, s/o Jaromir Jagr s/o Rob Ford RIP.

~2 years ago I asked my old boss Chip, "If I ever did a podcast, what would you want it to be about?" and he said, "Vampires," and he was the man so, EPISODE 31 = VAMPIRES 4 CHIP.

For my Mom about her favorite band with some famous librarians thrown into the mix. Also turns out if you were in the band Fleetwood Mac in 1977, it may have been both the best and worst time of your life.

A Magnitogorsk of a cross country trip. 

Guy on coke doing knuckle push-ups -> Kelly Pavlik had a rough night in 2008 -> Why the stock market appealed to the average American at the start of the 1920's -> How that went for awhile -> Economic Implosion.

Recess episode: Extraterrestrials + The Abduction of Barney and Betty Hill (1961)