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Episode 142 - He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

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2020/07/06

By the Power of Grayskull! We open up the Listener Mailbag to grab a suggestion (Thanks!) and tackle one of the most iconic bits of 80’s pop culture ever - He-Man and the Masters of the Universe! The genius of it all is that Mattel (home of Barbie and Hot Wheels) figured out how to syndicate a 30-minute infomercial for toys by disguising it as a daily cartoon adventure that was part Conan the Barbarian, part Flash Gordon. And kids ate it up to the tune of over $1-billion. By 1987 the bottom

01:03:27

Episode 141 - The Hunt For Red October

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2020/06/29

The Cold War came to an end in 1989. A year later, Hollywood gave it a grand send-off with an adaptation of Tom Clancy’s breakout techno-thriller, The Hunt for Red October. Set in 1984 at the height of US-Soviet tensions, the movie slaps a fresh coat of paint on the classic Cold War tropes to do for submarines what Top Gun did for jets. The chase is on to find a rogue USSR nuclear sub trying to defect to the USA before the Motherland can blow it out of the water. Director John McTiernan was

01:05:48

Episode 140 - Robocop Vs Robocop

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2020/06/22

Question: Between the original 1987 version of Robocop and the 2014 reboot of Robocop, which is better? And why is it the original 1987 version? We’re diving into the universe of OCP’s most controversial crime fighting machine. We look at how such a goofy concept of a half-robot, half-human, all-crime fighter could have so much wit and black comedy in the middle of the Reagan era. We’ll also tear into it’s reboot, which had significantly better effects, higher budget, a cast of brilliant actors, and

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Episode 139 - 1999: The Movies

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2020/06/15

1999 was arguably the last big watershed movie year, one brimming with a crazy number of now-recognized classics that helped push cinema into the next millennium. That’s it, that’s our thesis. 1999 was crazy full of unique studio movies that would likely never see a green light in today’s franchise-driven climate: The Matrix; Office Space; Fight Club; Sixth Sense; American Pie; Being John Malkovich; Three Kings; Magnolia; Eyes Wide Shut; and more. The films are weird, personal, periodically profane,

01:10:51

Episode 138 - Funny Music Laugh & Listen Jamboree

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2020/06/02

As the historic Dr. Demento radio show proved, pretty much anyone can make a novelty song. But it takes a true talent to make an entire album of funny songs that stands out, much less build a whole career on it. Join us for a Laugh & Listen Jamboree of some all time favorites in the funny music biz - from Weird Al all the way back to Spike Jones, and everything in between! It’s all the hits and plenty that you may have missed from hilarious musical acts that have given us a ton of side-splitting

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Episode 137 - The Lost Art of the Comedy Record

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2020/05/25

Before you could call up any comedy special on streaming, before cable TV was bloating with stand-up comics.... There was the “party album.” Comedy sketches and audio laughs on a circular slab of vinyl. This week we dive headlong into the lost art of comedy albums. We also saved a bunch of these albums that are all available on YouTube. If you want to listen to any or all of them, check it out here: https://bit.ly/2XrCJea | 0:00 - Intros | 7:30 - Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo) | 9:45 -

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Episode 136 - Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man

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2020/05/18

Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man is a movie that probably shouldn’t exist, yet thankfully does. The 1991 actioner was supposed to be a big hit for stars Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson, the titular heroes with names that wander dangerously close to copyright infringement. The story is simple: It’s a modern western set in the near future of 1996 wherein two drifters literally rob a stagecoach to save their local saloon. There are gunfights and explosions galore, sure, but also a lot of goofy charm

01:04:03

Episode 135 - The Kids in the Hall

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2020/05/11

The Kids in the Hall is not only one of the funniest things to come out of Canada, it is also one of the funniest things we have ever watched on television. Five guys from the Great White North formed a sketch comedy troupe in the mid-80s that begat a hugely influential TV show that aired from 1988-1994 on HBO and helped kickstart the 90’s sketch show renaissance. With oddball characters placed in mundane situations, the show’s humor was always dark, strange and hilarious. But when they inserted

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Episode 134 - Star Wars: VII-VIII-IX

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2020/05/04

Welcome to the Magnificently Huge Podcast 3rd Anniversary Show! Which also happens to coincide with Star Wars Day, May 4. So, May the Something Something… We celebrate our 3 years in existence with our annual gabfest about all things Star Wars. Because why not? This time we look to the sins of the recent past and air our grievances about the final Skywalker Trilogy. What did they manage to get right? How very much did they get completely wrong? And are we the only podcast that dares to say out

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Episode 133 - Giorgio Moroder

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2020/04/27

Giorgio Moroder is the most influential musician you have probably never heard of. He was an early techno musician and producer before there was anything even called, “techno.” (In other words, without Giorgio Moroder, no Daft Punk.) He has written songs for David Bowie, Blondie, Janet Jackson, and a bunch more than I can put down here. He produced all of the best singles Donna Summer ever recorded, before becoming the most sought after soundtrack composer in the 70s and 80s.If you’re a fan of the

01:15:37

Episode 132 - T. Hanks for the 80’s

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2020/04/20

Before he was Forrest Gump...Before he became America’s Dad...Tom Hanks almost killed his career in the 1980’s with a string of mediocre, low-box-office comedies where he basically played the same role repeatedly - the charming, lovable, unthreatening, wisecracking everyman. Apart from making a big splash with enormous hits like Big and Splash, there is little to distinguish most of his movies made in the Me Decade. Which got us to thinking: How did the 80’s not manage to sink Tom Hanks entirely?

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Episode 131 - Netflix Party: Maharakshak Aryan

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2020/04/13

Heading into Week 5 of Pandemic Self-Isolation and we’re all a bit stir crazy. So we decided to test a new Chrome extension called Netflix Party, which makes it possible to watch something on the streaming service simultaneously from different places. For this grand experiment, we picked a low budget 2014 Indian sci-fi kids show called Maharakshak Aryan - because reasons. Long-story-short, we heckle the hell out of this bonkers Last Airbender-meets-Power Rangers-meets-Sid & Marty Kroft romp - that

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Episode 130 - Gen-X Takes A Sick Day

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2020/04/05

If you were stuck at home sick in the dark days before cable t.v., before VCR’s, and well before the internet, you had limited options to fill the day. Sure, you could’ve read Judy Blume or Encyclopedia Brown books, but that was just like being at school. Instead, you plopped yourself down in front of your best friend, the television, and watched whatever crap happened to be on. Like, all day. This involved a few cartoons, The Price Is Right, and endless re-runs of old shows so lackluster that you

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Episode 127 - This Podcast Is Rated R

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2020/03/09

Is seeing your first R-rated movie even considered a right of passage any more? Used to be you had to sneak into a theater to get nudity, profanity and some good old-fashioned ultra-violence. And then came PG-13, giving teenagers a watered-down version of what once passed for Rated R fun. But kids these days have the internet and can pretty much watch whatever they want, whenever they want. The poor bastards will never know the empty joy of circumventing an arbitrary MPAA ratings system in the

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Episode 126 - Little Podcast Of Horrors

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2020/03/02

Little Shop of Horrors! First it was a cult B-Movie! Then it was a hit off-Broadway musical! Which then became the highest-grossing cult movie musical of 1986 based on a stage show adapted from an old Roger Corman film! You don’t want to miss how we break it all down to explore why Little Shop of Horrors is so damn fun, considering it is about how everything sucks, people are inherently horrible, and we are all doomed. With yet another re-make on the horizon, all we can really say is, FEED ME,

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Episode 125 - The Fault In Our Former Child Stars

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2020/02/24

Child actors - one of the cruelest ways we tortured children until we started forcing them to sew Nike shoes. These people start out cute and precocious, but get thrown to the wolves with no job skills, unrealistic expectations of the world, and weird faces that kind of look like that kid from that show. In other words, hilarious. Schadenfreude for ugly people. And a cautionary tale for parents looking to Lohan their daughters: Hollywood eats the young. | 0:00 - Intros | 4:00 - Cruel World

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Episode 124 - Bands Named After Places

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2020/02/17

How many bands are named after places? A freakin’ crapload, that’s how many! Join the MagHuge crew as we explore the strange phenomenon of musical acts who can’t think of anything interesting to call themselves so they just pick a random place and run with it - like Chicago, Kansas, Asia, or Berlin. Think globally, name locally, that’s our motto for today. From streets and cities, to states and nations, all the way to continents, planets, galaxies and beyond, no place is safe! Plus, a bonus minisode

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Episode 123 - Terry Gilliam’s Brazil

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2020/02/10

Brazil, the 1985 movie by Terry Gilliam, is a dark-comedy masterpiece that is both a spoof of Orwell’s 1984, but also a brilliant satire of mindless bureaucracy run amok. And it is one of our all-time favorite films. In the world of Brazil, if you are not part of the system, then you are part of the problem. One lonely cog in the machine, a mid-level paper pusher and daydreamer named Sam Lowry, just wants to remain anonymous - until a benign computer mix-up embroils him in a Kafka-esque nightmare to

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Episode 122 - Mad About Max

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2020/01/27

Everyone has their first Mad Max, the titular anti-hero of the wasteland first brought to life in 1979 by filmmaker George Miller. Four films made across 40 years, they still pack a wallop and remain one of the most influential series ever made. So which one started it for you? The Road Warrior? Fury Road? Was it somehow Beyond Thunderdome? Join us as we explore the pockyclypse through dust, guzzleline, and epic car crashes. Plan? There ain’t no plan! We also talk about videogames, TV, movies,

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Episode 121 - The Costnerpocalypse: Waterworld Vs....

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2020/01/20

Kevin Costner was a cinematic superstar who starred in a series of massive hits from 1985 to 1992. He even won an Oscar for directing himself in Dances With Wolves, for Pete’s sake. And then, for some unfathomable reason, he made two vanity projects virtually back-to-back in the mid-90s that have become synonymous with Heaven’s Gate/Ishtar-level failure - Waterworld (1995) and The Postman (1997). Both films are bloated, meandering, budget-busting epics - self-serving star vehicles set in a

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