This week, down in the eldritch unknown of the BRIG… we have returning guest, Cat Scully!
A talented artist, video game developer, writer and novelist … Cat is the author of Jennifer Strange and comes back to chat all about her hotly anticipated novel BELOW THE GRAND HOTEL! We’ve got the roaring 20s, flapper dresses, Ziegfeld Girls... Faustian bargains, mouths where there shouldn’t be mouths...you know, all the ingredients of a good time!
Pre-Order your copy of BELOW THE GRAND HOTEL from Copper Dog Books to lock in your enamel hotel key pin and drink recipe cards!
And then... keep up with all things Cat Scully on her website, browse her etsy shop Haints and Hollows and follow her on Instagram!
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Between 1980 and 2010, a total of eleven SNL movies were produced. Some are great, others are far from it and there are plenty in between. But love em or pan em, these comedies were foundational viewing for many of us who grew up in the 90s and beyond!
In this episode, Coop continues his Saturday Night Live theme and we spotlight a total of of our personal favorite SNL films, including the really obvious one! Party on, Wayne! And party on Garth!
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Hiya, Toonsters!
Parasite Steve and 8-Bit Alchemy had a totally toontastic time re-playing some classic Tiny Toon Adventures video games, and you're gonna hear about it! This is a property that produced more games than you realize and some of them are absolutely worth any retro gamer's time!
Covered meticulously in this episode are: • Tiny Toon Adventures (NES) • Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland (NES) • Tiny Toon Adventures: Babs' Big Break (Game Boy) • Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Montana's Movie Madness (Game Boy) • Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure (SEGA Genesis) • Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose! (Super Nintendo)
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LIVE FROM (somewhere on the internet) IT'S (a podcast about) SATURDAY NIGHT!!!
Saturday Night Live is more than a TV show, it's an American institution. As much a part of our lives as apple pie and cutting people off at intersections. Now in it's 50th season, the show is older than any of the Octo-hosts, but that just means that it's been a staple for our entire lives!
For this first part of 2 SNL themed episodes, we are concentrating on the sketches. Each of us picking out 3 of our all time favorites to spotlight and to (ahem) to to reproduce parts of. We had an awesome time with this episode and laughed more than usual!
Side note: There was a glitch with Parasite Steve's audio and it does get pretty distracting. We apologize and hope that it doesn't completely ruin the fun.
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Morgan Sylvia is an author from Maine with numerous published works including novels, short stories, poetry collections and everything in between. Whether she's writing long or short form, one thing is clear, the quality of the prose itself is always top of mind. This lends a musical quality to the language of her work. A poetic fingerprint that most authors never achieve. In other words, you should be reading her stuff!
Visit her official website for all things Morgan!
Snag your copy of the amazing (deluxe limited edition) The Withering Hours from Weird House Press!
And check out her author page on Amazon!
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Building on our Real Ghostbusters episode, we decided to not only focus on the sequel to that legendary cartoon, but spotlight three major animated series the helped shaped the 90s!
Drew Mollo (from Splash Pages) is back for the second week in a row, as we tackle The Extreme Ghostbusters, Men In Black The Series and Godzilla The Series! Aside from all being continuations of popular sci-fi/action movies, these fantastic shows were all produced by Richard Raynis and Jeff Kline and shared a unique visual design.
8-Bit Alchemy hosts and weighs in as the other three hosts each take one of the shows to present, along with one episode they loved most. Later, everyone will answer last week's Octo-Ponder This question, before Coopster Gold proves, once again, that HE'S GOT ISSUES!
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Who you gonna call? Why, Drew Mollo (from the Splash Pages podcast) that's who!
As a lifelong Ghostbusters super-fan, Drew has spent years memorizing Tobin's Spirit Guide and definitely knows how to read a P.K.E. Meter. A good thing too, because for this episode, we're be spotlighting 8 episodes from this seminal animated series! Expect plenty of Peter, Ray, Egon, Winston as well as a few buckets of slime as we stock up on Ecto-Cooler and get to work.
Later on, we'll read your Retroid answers to this week's Octoponder This question, before Parasite Steve pumps the breaks on the Ecto-1 in front of a class seven DIE MONSTER!
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Our Wild Wild Westerns theme continues! But before we ride off into the sunset, there's still some rip-roaring fun to be had!
Join your saddle-sore hosts Rattlesnake Steve, Doc Cooperday and The 8-Bit Kid as they rustle up some westerns in basically every media besides movies! We've got a wagon full of cartoons, video games, a short story collection and even (what some might call) a Power To The Metal in disguise. And after that, we'll answer the Octoponder This question from two weeks back ourselves, before we prove that Doc Cooperday has some serious issues!
And if you're looking to snag a copy of the book Steve mentioned, it's Tales of the Callamo Mountains by Larry Blamire!
#reddeadredemption2 #sunsetriders #wildarms #CowboysOfMoomesa
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On another episode of the BRIG… we’ve got a talented Brooklyn based filmmaker, actor, podcaster and award winning author. Marc Abbott!
Marc's short stories have been featured in numerous anthologies including the Bram Stoker Nominated horror anthologies New York State of Fright & Under Twin Suns, not to mention the two-time African American Literary Award-winning horror anthology, Hell at the Way Station. And if that wasn’t enough, he’s also the co-host of (one of my favorite shows) the BEEF WINE AND SHENANIGANS podcast and is here tonight to chat all about his new horror novel SINISTER ASCENSION!
And after treating us to a reading of Sinister Ascension's first explosive chapter, Marc sticks around to talk about his favorite 50s monster movies!
Order your copy of SINISTER ASCENSION from the Mocha Memoirs online shop!
Still wondering WHO IS MARC L. ABBOTT? Check out his official website!
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Hope you've packed plenty beans, bacon, whiskey and lard because we are headed WEST!
Hitch your wagon train to three nefarious-looking desperadoes by the names of Rattlesnake Steve, Doc Cooperday and The 8-Bit Kid because for this first episode of our Wild Wild Westerns theme, we cover some of our favorite Western MOVIES! From Wayne to Eastwood, Russell & Kilmer to...SCOTT GLENN?? We cover a wide breadth of this expansive genre that once ruled the silver screen!
Stick around to hear your answers for this week's Octoponder This and an rip roarin' edition of Compose Yo-self by our not so little buddy, the 8-bit Kid! And tune in in two weeks as we continue the fun, talking all about westerns in other media!
Yeehaww!!!
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