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Coolest Alive

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The Coolest Alive Podcast with Jesse Blaze Snider. Every Tuesday, “Coolest Alive” dives into a fantastic album worthy of your time. No stuffy reviews here, just records from across genres getting deserved praise as must-listen classics, packed with cool vibes and reasons to hit play. Tune in for the best in music weekly. Wednesday’s “Coolest Alive” is all about comic books/graphic novels that shine bright. We’re not reviewing, we’re celebrating

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32:53

MUSIC: British Spinal Tap?! "BAD NEWS

Coolest Alive ·

2025/12/08

Hosted by Jesse Blaze Snider, "Coolest Alive" brings you FIVE brief NON-SPOILER RECOMMENDATIONS every week! With Music on Mondays! Animation on Tuesday! Comic Book Wednesday! Live-Action Thursday! And WildCard Friday! Today's episode is a rousing recommendation of the heavy metal comedy album "Bad News".

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39:54

JAWS: 13 GREATEST KILLER SHARK MOVIES EVER MADE! (2025)

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2025/12/06

Grab your floaties and a harpoon, because we’re ranking the 13 most badass shark movies ever made. We start with the undisputed king, Spielberg’s 1975 masterpiece JAWS, then dive headfirst into the glorious trash and treasure that followed: The Meg, Deep Blue Sea, 47 Meters Down, The Shallows, and a bunch more you forgot existed. We argue over which one has the best kill, the dumbest science, and the most iconic one-liner. Warning: you’ll never go back in the

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15:38

Tiger TEETH: "Burning Bright" the PG-13 Killer Tiger...

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2025/12/05

It's TEETH WEEK on COOLEST ALIVE with 6 days of gruesome killer animal offerings wholeheartedly recommended to you by the Coolest Man Alive, Jesse Blaze Snider. Today's creature feature is a simple but great instant classic, "Burning Bright," featuring a girl trapped in a house during a hurricane, protecting her highly autistic brother and herself from a LION that has not "been fed in weeks." Yikes. It's AWESOME!

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14:53

Lion TEETH: "Prey" (2007's LION-ATTACK TV-Movie, Not...

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2025/12/04

It's TEETH WEEK on COOLEST ALIVE with 6 days of gruesome killer animal offerings wholeheartedly recommended to you by the Coolest Man Alive, Jesse Blaze Snider. Today's creature feature is the excellent Lion-Attack film, "Prey", because apparently a lot of films have been called that. This one feels "real", has a great cast, and genuinely made me care about our heroes.

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15:17

Croc TEETH: A Crocodile-Slasher Movie Masterpiece?!...

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2025/12/04

It's TEETH WEEK on COOLEST ALIVE with 6 days of gruesome killer animal offerings wholeheartedly recommended to you by the Coolest Man Alive, Jesse Blaze Snider. Today's creature feature is the "Jaws" of crocodile movies, "BLACK WATER" featuring a barely seen croc that only makes him scarier & based loosely on a true story.

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16:18

Boar TEETH: Mutha-Truckin' BOAR!

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2025/12/02

Boar TEETH: Mutha-Truckin' BOAR! (Filmed in gorgeous Australian Outback w/ Practical EFFECTS!) It's TEETH WEEK on COOLEST ALIVE with 6 days of gruesome killer animal offerings wholeheartedly recommended to you by the Coolest Man Alive, Jesse Blaze Snider. Today's creature feature is an instant practical horror classic, "BOAR" featuring a giant wild pig stalking Australia's beautiful green pastures.

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21:51

Alligator TEETH: "Lake Placid" Gator-Slasher...

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2025/12/01

It's TEETH WEEK on COOLEST ALIVE with 6 days of gruesome killer animal offerings wholeheartedly recommended to you by the Coolest Man Alive, Jesse Blaze Snider. Today's creature feature is the absolute classic, "LAKE PLACID" featuring a giant gator stalking a...placid...lake.

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199:24

REBUILDING the MONOCULTURE (LISTENER CELEBRATION for...

Coolest Alive ·

2025/11/29

In this raw, unfiltered three-hour-plus marathon straight from the heart—no script, no safety net, no second takes—Joe goes all-in on why he’s obsessed with the idea of a real monoculture, the shared cultural air we all used to breathe together that’s been deliberately shattered over the last decade, and how this show (with its 1.3 million warriors) is quietly becoming the seed of a brand-new one: a tribe that laughs at the same jokes, sees through the

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25:48

GAMES: Legend of Zelda OG (The Holy Grail of Gaming...

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2025/11/28

The iconic gold five-screw cart, the second quest secret, the save battery revolution – why the original Zelda NES release is still the most legendary cartridge Nintendo ever made, almost 40 years LATER!

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24:03

LIVE-ACTION: Rogue (GREATEST Killer Croc Movie?! We...

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2025/11/27

Greg McLean’s sun-baked Aussie nightmare pits tourists against a monstrous saltwater croc in the outback – practical guts, smart CGI restraint, and tension that never lets up thank you to a killer script & direction from the same man!

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24:11

COMICS: The Flash: Iron Heights (Rogues Gallery...

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2025/11/26

Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver’s brutal 2001 graphic novel that built the metahuman Alcatraz, birthed Murmur, Double-Down & others, and dragged Wally West’s world into the dark for good & for BETTER!

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28:59

ANIMATED: Wreck-It Ralph – The Greatest Video-Game...

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2025/11/25

Disney’s arcade-hopping love letter to 8-bit and 16-bit glory – packed with real cameos, zero condescension, and what we think must be the best depiction of what it actually feels like to live inside a game ever “rendered”.

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30:36

MUSIC: The Distillers – “Coral Fang” (& the...

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2025/11/24

On the 22nd anniversary week of its release, we rip into Brody Dalle’s masterpiece “Coral Fang” – the divorce-fueled, major-label monster that turned The Distillers from cult heroes into legends!

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69:56

CRITTERS CELEBRATION (That RARE Creature Franchise w/...

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2025/11/22

This week on Coolest Alive, we’re celebrating one of the wildest, weirdest, most unexpectedly enduring franchises of the VHS era: CRITTERS! From the scrappy 1986 original that won over Siskel & Ebert, to the bonkers Easter-egg massacre of Critters 2, to Leonardo DiCaprio’s first film in Critters 3, to the deep-space madness of Critters 4, all the way through SyFy’s Critters Attack!, Shudder’s A New Binge, and the two fan-made shorts keeping the Krite

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38:56

MUSICALS – Little Shop of Horrors: The Stage...

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2025/11/21

Listen, I caught Little Shop of Horrors on Broadway (many years ago now) but holy crap, it’s hands-down the greatest musical I’ve ever seen live, the way Howard Ashman’s lyrics and Alan Menken’s tunes explode with that doo-wop soul and razor-sharp wit, turning a cheesy B-movie into this wild, hilarious monster mash of temptation and chaos on stage. The puppetry for Audrey II is always straight-up ingenuity or genius, devouring the set with attitude, while

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24:59

LIVE ACTION – Monty Python’s 5th MOVIE?!...

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2025/11/20

Bro, if you thought the Monty Python crew peaked with Holy Grail, you gotta hunt down Yellowbeard immediately, this batshit-insane 1983, Graham Chapman-led pirate comedy is basically the unsung fifth Python film, packed with legit Python royalty (Chapman starring, John Cleese, Eric Idle, plus Cheech & Chong, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, and even David Bowie in a cameo). Chapman plays the nastiest, drunkest, most treacherous pirate ever, staggering around looking for his

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24:38

COMICS – Torso: The Grisliest True Crime Hunt You’ll...

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2025/11/19

Yo, dive into Torso if you want a gut-punch of real American horror. Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko’s graphic novel rips open the unsolved Cleveland Torso Murders of the ‘30s, where Eliot Ness swaps bootleggers for a headless-body-dumping psycho, chasing clues through foggy streets and corrupt shadows. Packed with actual crime scene photos, gritty black-and-white art, and that noir vibe that’ll have you flipping pages like a detective on edge,

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22:53

ANIMATION – Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

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2025/11/18

Dude, if you’ve never seen Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, stop everything and fix that tonight. This 1993 theatrical gem is legit the best Batman movie, undisputed amongst fans, with that perfect ‘90s Animated Series vibe, jaw-dropping art deco animation, and a heartbreaking noir story that actually digs into Bruce Wayne’s soul like nothing else. You’ve got a mysterious masked killer bumping off mobsters, Bruce torn between vengeance and falling in love

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MUSIC – Dee Snider’s Heaviest RAGE: “Stand By for Pain”

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2025/11/17

Man, if you’re craving that raw, unfiltered heavy metal fury from the ‘90s that hits like a sledgehammer to the soul, Widowmaker’s Stand By for Pain is your fix, Dee Snider dialing up the grit post-Twisted Sister with killer riffs, snarling vocals, and tracks like “Killing Time” that dive straight into the dark underbelly of the mind. Recorded in a blistering 30 days, it’s got that urgent edge of a band pouring everything out before the metal

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56:35

“Gremlins 3” SPECULATION PARTY! (What COULD a...

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2025/11/15

Jesse Blaze Snider, lifelong Gremlins superfan, goes full mogwai-mad, dissecting the freshly announced “Gremlins 3”. From potential locations, resurrections, stars, practical vs. CGI, and wild pitches into the creative void, Jesse unpacks every delicious “what if” that could make this threequel the ultimate after-midnight monster mash that’ll leave you chanting “bright light!” in excitement.

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