The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show

[In reruns while the new Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Studios gets set up. Enjoy this classic episode, one of my all-time faves] In 1990, these three friends saw their school taken over by Nickelodeon. Here, they explain how and why. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sean Beard has what is almost certainly the world’s largest Beavis & Butt-head collection. Here, he explains how and why. To see what we're talking about, check out Sean's collection on Instagram at @beavisnbuttheadcollector See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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The Trade Journal Cooperative is Jeff's favorite new subscription service. Every three months they send out a new trade journal like the Elevator World, a magazine for people in the elevator industry. Here, The Trade Journal Cooperative's founder explains how such a wonderful service came to be. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priv...

Steven Applebaum is the editor-in-chief of SMBMovie.com, possibly the world's most in-depth website dedicated to a single movie. That movie is 1993's Super Mario Bros: The Movie. Here, Steven explains how and why. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jeff and Pat Cassels predict the Rotten Tomatoes scores of Summer 2019. We’ll revisit these in 2019, and whoever made the least accurate predictions will have to pay a terrible price. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

(fixing a previous technical blipblap - if you got the wrong episode before, listen to this one instead) Joel Schwartzberg (joelschwartzberg.net) has been teaching people about public speaking for years and has written a book on the subject called, Get to The Point: Sharpen Your Message and Make Your Words Matter. Amongst other accolades, he has won the United States Championship in After Dinner S...

Dani Rabaiotti is a zoologist who cowrote a book called "Does it Fart?" The book explains which animals fart, which don't, and which we're still not sure about. She's got a new book out called "True or Poo" and, oh yeah, she's also studying the impact of climate change on African wild dogs. All this and more on this week's Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show! See Privacy Policy at https://art19....

Eric Striffler runs one of the country's best haunted houses - Nyctophobia in Long Island. Here, he explains how and why. A classic (classic!) episode from 2014. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ashrita Furman has the Guinness World Record for most Guinness World Records. He did not get here by targeting easy records – he somersaulted the longest continuous distance (12 miles), ran the fastest mile with a milk bottle balanced on his head (7 minutes 47 seconds), and had the fastest time pogo sticking up the CN Tower (57 minutes, 51 sec). Here, he explains how and why. See Privacy Policy at...

Lindsay Oliver works at the EFF and Jordan Bunker constructs props. On any other Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show that's what we would be talking about, but today they are here in their capacity as friends who have constructed Battlebots and raced modded Power Wheels. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Pat Cassels stops by for the eighth year of our annual summer movie extravaganza. We discuss Mission Impossible and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week, Justin Brown of Aarow Sign Spinners tells us what it takes to be a sign spinner. Watch footage from the 2018 World Sign Spinning Championship here. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Lynn Barron was a custodian at Disneyland. He cowrote a book about the experience called Cleaning The Kingdom: Insider Tales of Keeping Walt's Dream Spotless and currently cohosts Disney podcast The Sweep Spot. Here, he explains how and why. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Revisit this classic Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show about the Beanie Baby Bubble book. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Yoshi Sudarso has played a Power Ranger and appears in the upcoming film Buffalo Boys, but all Jeff wants to discuss is his time in the Waterworld Stunt Spectacular. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Vicky Bennison created Pasta Grannies, a video series that documents grandmothers in Italy making pasta. Here, she explains how and why. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Scott Speiser is currently playing Overkill on Amazon's The Tick, and before that he has travelled the world performing with Blue Man Group. Here, he explains how all that happened. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Pitch Deck is a game about creating and pitching new businesses. Today we try it out with Mike Karnell, Jeff Rosenberg, and Amanda Ferri. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue is a 1990 animated special that brought together Bugs Bunny, Winnie the Pooh, the Smurfs, the Chipmunks, Slimer, ALF, and more to teach kids a lesson about drugs. Here we talk to Duane Pool about how he wrote the special, and why. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Justin Knapp has edited Wikipedia over 1.8 million times, putting him at #2 on the all-time list. Here, he explains how and why. Here's a link to Justin's Wikipedia account, "koavf". See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The hosts of Classic Simpsons Trivia Night in Brooklyn put together a quiz, and I gathered the three biggest Simpsons fans I know to see who could answer the most. Originally recorded in 2013, though the trivia only covers seasons 2 through 10 so nothing is out-of-date! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Robbie McCarthy was a Lego Maser Builder at Legoland, where he designed and built large-scale Lego sculptures. Here, he explains how and why. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Syd Bolton has one of the world's largest collections of videogames. He also collects computers, video discs, and runs the Personal Computer Museum in Brantford, Ontario. Here, he explains how and why. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.