1984’s Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eight Dimension was a fun, pulpy mess of a sci-fi adventure, which promised us a sequel… which we never got. Nearly 40 years later, screenwriter Earl Mac Rauch wrangled the rights to the character away […]
Justin Termine, host of NBA Today on SiriusXM NBA Radio joins Tom, mostly just to give him a hard time!
In 1894, William T. Love broke ground on his grand vision — a utopian community which he called “Model City.” His dream, however, would never come to pass. In time, what remained of his project would become the epicenter of one […]
Friend of the show Scott Bunn (Run That Back, Recliner Notes) returns so we can co-pitch an adaptation of Lloyd Alexander’s delightful YA fantasy series The Chronicles of Prydain, which was upending genre tropes only a decade after Tolkein had established […]
Mike Florio (but not the one from Pro Football Talk, a different Mike Florio) joins Tom to run down the Bills’ draft and offseason moves.
It’s not a secret that Coca-Cola’s original formula included cocaine. But what’s less well-known is that the soft drink still uses coca leaf, just not the part that gets you high. One plant in all of America is legally allowed […]
Franklin Roosevelt was wildly popular when he was in office, and is universally acknowledged as one of our greatest presidents. But in 1933, not everyone agreed. Shortly after FDR took office, a cabal of wealthy businessmen who were worried the […]
For forty years, police in Saskatchewan, Canada were in the habit of arresting Indigenous men for minor offenses – or sometimes no reason at all. Rather than bring him to jail, the captive was instead abandoned outdoors at night – […]
Subject‘s resident Bills expert, Jason Thurston, joins Tom to talk about the Bills’ draft prospects on the eve of draft day (as well as those 31 other, lesser teams).
In 1959, nine friends went on a hike in Russia’s Ural Mountains and never returned. Their bodies were found with a bizarre set of injuries, including head trauma, internal bleeding, exposure, and traces of radiation. 60 years later, the Dyatlov […]
