Vintage and pulp stories interrupted with jokes. Episodes come out on Tuesdays!
Episodes
Tuesday May 08, 2018
Tuesday May 08, 2018
This podcast, Alan and Rob take a moment to thank the Brit Pod Scene show for having us guest on the second episode of their podcast. Special shout-out to the Theme Park Film and Rough Giraffe podcasts for making it happen and for both being our favo(u)rite Brits!
Now onto "The Piper from Bhutan", a tale of murder, mystic pipes (the kind you play, not the fun kind), and really bad science! Straight from Weird Tales magazine, it dares to answer the question "what if you could kind of vaguely, sorta, maybe, barely cause the dead to come to life and how would this affect your university enrollment?" If you're a fan of crime or supernatural stories this one has you covered and if you're not you can just sit back and marvel at Alan's Ghost Whisperer references and uncovering of the deadly secrets of Toastmasters International
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Tuesday May 01, 2018
Tuesday May 01, 2018
Welcome to a special Super-Sized Sci-Fi Spectacular podcast with a Tale from HG Wells!
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In this episode, Rob embarrasses himself at the airport (as usual) and we read a tale from a titan of science fiction, the inventor of the idea of time travel as we know it, the man who predicted Martians could be killed by the common cold (it's actually HPV, but who wants to give them that?), the one and only HG Wells! The Man Who Could Work Miracles one is a story straight from the Twilight Zone, and we can only assume Wells actually invented a time machine, traveled forward 60-odd years, and came back so he could claim it as his own idea. Let's see Jules Verne do that!
Anyhoo, to honor Mr. Wells, this episode is a bit longer than most, but you'll not only receive a delightful parable of a man given the powers of a god, you'll also get to hear us potentially alienate our British listenership (wih love!) and continue our random beef with places in Florida in the hopes of starting something (we're willing to trade if anyone lives in Tucson, Detroit, or Binghamton, however). Plus the usual nonsense, jokes about walking sticks, and BIBO! Don't know about Bibo? One doesn't really know Bibo, one only experiences Bibo. Bring Bibo into your life, today. To gaze at Bibo is to gaze into the infinite.
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Tuesday Apr 24, 2018
Tuesday Apr 24, 2018
In this episode, we introduce you to the new IT Book Club (not a division of Reynholm Industries)! How do you become a member of the IT Book Club? It's easy, just leave a 5-star review on iTunes, Right over here! Membership has its perks; not only will we induct you as a member on the air, we will read your review, too. So please leave your thoughts, poems about turtles, and guacamole recipes on Apple Podcasts/iTunes today and join the exclusive IT Book Club!
Then come right back here and listen to this week's Tale, a doozy of a short story called "Love in a Cottage" by Francis A. Durivage all the way back from 1853! A story about a poor rich man who seeks to impress the lady of his dreams by becoming a rich (in spirit) poor man, it's classic Shakespearian romance in the sense that it's entirely built on lies but it's all okay because... love? Anyway, the story is a breezy hoot and Alan and Rob get to work out their... tasteful Irish accents (love you, Ireland!). So grab a glass of cheap beer and pull up a dusty, worn chair while we read you this week's tale.
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Tuesday Apr 17, 2018
Tuesday Apr 17, 2018
In this week's chugging podcast adventure: Rob and Alan discuss their brackets for Mundane Madness (always bet on binder clip!) and we read a story of a godly railroad man and the fallen women he believes are beyond saving. If you're looking for puritanical thinking and old-timey deep voices saying "t'ain't right" a lot, well, you're looking for some strangely specific things, but we have got you covered!
This Tale is from Stories of the Railroad published in 1899 by John A. Hill (1899's Slogan: "19-hundred-zero-zero, party over, wait, plenty of time"). John A. Hill was not only a railroad engineer, he became the "Hill" in McGraw-Hill publishing and a titan of our time! Just think of all the SAT prep books we owe to his writings in Locomotive Engineer magazine.
Get ready to ride the rails in this story of adventure and learn a lot about the economics of late 19th century dance halls! So grab your favorite bottle of hooch and curl up in your parlor car while we read you this week's tale.
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Tuesday Apr 10, 2018
Tuesday Apr 10, 2018
This thrilling episode: Rob reveals the true heights of his manliness (spoiler alert: ankle deep at best) and we read a science fiction story about a man who can turn invisible and his attempt to help the war effort by starring on the Great White Way!
From the January 1943 issue of Amazing Stories, "The Chameleon Man" by William P. Mcgivern (writer of the film The Big Heat and at least 3 episodes of Kojak) features a man so forgettable that he actually becomes invisible and just wants to join the Army to help the war effort. So our protagonist, a shady talent agent (shocking!), decides the best way to aid him is by taking him straight to Broadway to make a few bucks. Forget sneaking into a bunker to get Hitler, this guy could be stage crew without even wearing black! That's the perfect use of his abilities, genius!
This story also includes a long paranthetical about the reality of invisible people from the editors so if you don't listen to this for the humor, tune in because you might just learn something. It's like how we watch Spinal Tap as a cautionary tale about the dangers of spontaneous combustion. So grab your favorite clear beverage and curl up in your favorite flesh-toned chair while we read you this week's tale.
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Tuesday Apr 03, 2018
Tuesday Apr 03, 2018
This episode Alan drops some science about thermocouplers and how important they are in today's modern homes (hint: you cannot reverse the polarity of a thermocoupler and swing your house around the sun to travel back in time). The we read a seemingly lighthearted story about a baseball player that suddenly takes a swerve into Thrilltown! BTW, if you've passed the 7-11 on Chiller Road, you've gone too far.
From Wide-Awake Magazine in 1916, "The Shock" by Grant Trask Reeves (about whom little is known except he wrote baseball stories and either had an awesome name or great taste in pseudonyms) is about a drunk major leaguer (who is also a major league drunk) who gets in a bit of a bind with his manager and may have to pay the ultimate price. Is it jail? Being traded to Miami? Only time and this week's tale will tell! So curl up in your favorite dugout and grab some Big League Chew while we read you this week's tale.
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Tuesday Mar 27, 2018
Tuesday Mar 27, 2018
Rob shares a bittersweet family story involving animated balls of dough and naive immigrants followed by a short sci-fi tale from the utopian future of 1975! Will man still be alive? Will women survive? Will robots know how to shake their booty? All of these questions, and, well, not many more, but at least all of these questions will be answered!
"Don't Get Technatal" was written by science fiction luminary Ray Bradbury under a pseudonym way before he got famous as an author and was the lowly editor of a low-budget, but ultimately influential, fanzine called Futuria Fantasia. It was 1939 and Bradbury decided to riff on the little known and by then pretty much done political movement of Technocracy. Yes, a nerd writing about a future where the nerds have taken over. Who says science fiction is all about wish fulfillment? Bet they feel silly now! So have your robot butler grab your favorite drink and curl up on your knitted couch as we read you this week's tale.
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Tuesday Mar 20, 2018
Tuesday Mar 20, 2018
The Saga of Stairs, Part 2: The Submission of the Truth. Then, a fanciful fable from the island of the Azores with more crying than Solomon Burke's Cry to Me, which is, NOT COINCIDENTALLY, part of the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. This week's genre: Fairy Tales. Or Nymph Tales. But not Pony Tales, and not Cotton Tales.
"The Necklace of Pearls" as retold by Elsie Spicer Eells is from 1922's "The Islands of Magic: Legends, Folk and Fairy Tales from the Azores." So grab a philtre of tears, and curl up in your favorite embroidered saddle as we read you this week's tale.
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Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Tuesday Mar 13, 2018
Weird fruit part 3, then a jokey farce about a stranger-in-a-strange-land, a costume ball, quite a bit of lying and possible incestuous jewel thieving. All set against the background of 1940s Paris, which - now that we think about - seems like a weird time to have a ball but... well, you'll see what happens. This week's genre: Romantiheist.
"Scrambled Yeggs" is from the anthology "Night Life Tales" Vol. 1, No. 19, and it's a bit risque on the face but not very titillating inside, but obviously we've added a bunch of sexiness just through our husky voices. So grab an absinthe, and curl up on your favorite divan (that's the correct order in which you would do it, ROB) and sit back while we read you this week's tale.
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Tuesday Mar 06, 2018
Tuesday Mar 06, 2018
Dentistry and peeing your pants - true story? Then we plunge ourselves into a frightening TRUE ACCOUNT of promises, ghosts, and the noises they make in the dark. This week's genre: Ghoooossst Stories!
Our tale "My Irish Friend" comes from the collection "Real Ghost Stories" by William T. Stead, a man with a somewhat controversial reputation and a writing style that can best be praised as "note-takingish." So grab a bottle of laudanum and curl up in your favorite bedchamber while we read you this week's tale.
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