Amelia is officially moving us into Spooky Season with one of the most infamous mysteries from the September 11 tragedy: the strange disappearance of Dr. Sneha Anne Philip on September 10, 2001. Was she one of the many unidentified victims of the terrorist attack? Or is there more to the story?
Have y'all noticed how NOT funny most modern romantic comedies are? Amelia and Scotty have. So they look back at the romcoms of their youth and highlight two of their favorites--1987's "Overboard" (starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell) and 1993's "So I Married an Axe Murderer" (starring Mike Myers and Nancy Travis)--and discuss how these films exemplify a
We've got a very non-spooky episode to get y'all gently primed for Spooky Season. Scotty gives a very quick primer on the history of "spiritualism," and then tells Amelia about how one of the movement's most famous adherents--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle--allowed himself to be adorably hoodwinked by a pair of quite imaginative young girls.
Scotty and Amelia are starting a new series on the Pocket Size episodes of The Weirdest Thing. Thinking back to the movies of their youth, they realized there are entire subgenres of films that They Just Don't Make Anymore.
So this week they're taking on the first of those genres--the "Teenage Hijinks" movie
In our last full-sized episode, Scotty told the story of a real-life psychopath who inspired a notorious television character. Well, this week Amelia has her own tale of a notorious criminal mastermind who gave birth to a TV scammer.
Fans of HBO's "The Gilded Age" may not know that one of its characters is inspired by
A jetpack pilot going splat. A naked German guy going...well, splat. An epic (and low-rent) prank involving a drone and a Halloween decoration. One of the greatest (faux) movie trailers ever. Here are just a few of Scotty and Amelia's favorite viral Internet videos of all time.
While Scotty continues to maintain that David Simon's "The Wire" (2002-2008) is the greatest television show of all-time, NBC's under-seen but critically acclaimed "Homicide: Life on the Street" -- which ran from 1993 to 1999 and was based on Simon's 1991 nonfiction book "Homicide: A Year On the Killing Streets" -- is often seen is its spiritual
We lost a few real ones recently, including Chuck Mangione and Malcolm Jamal Warner. But Scotty and Amelia are gathering aboard the Crazy Train this week to pay tribute to the metal god himself, Ozzy Osbourne. They discuss his legacy both as a singer and as a man, and consider the triumph of his final concert mere weeks ago with Black Sabbath.
SURPRISE! In a follow-up to the last episode, where Scotty and Amelia discussed the brand-new horror novel "Come Knocking," author Mike Bockoven decided to crash the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about the book, his previous hit "FantasticLand" (2018), his work as a journalist, writing, horror, theatre, the Internet, fan culture, and more!
For better or worse, as younger Gen Xers Scotty and Amelia came of age with the advent of reality television. So for this week's Pocket Size episode, they take on three of their favorite reality shows.
Scotty starts with the one that created the template by talking about those first three