For the first time in a year and a half we actually met in person to record this one! Flash fiction writer Kayleigh Shoen joined us to talk about an episode of Punky Brewster that scared her as a child: The Perils of Punky!Cherie, Margaux, and Allan stuck in giant spiderweb in a cave in The Perils of PunkyHere’s Kayleigh’s hazy recollection:“I was very into Punky Brewster at an age when I was too young to read clocks, so even though I loved it, I had a hard time being a regular viewer. I think I remember it being part of a Saturday morning block with PeeWee’s Playhouse and Hey Vern, It’s Ernest, but I’m not 100% certain. Punky Brewster has some more famous episodes like the fridge episode and the Challenger explosion episode and the must-increase-our-busts episode, but I’ve chosen the episodes that were most memorable to me – THE SPIDER EPISODES!  So, I actually didn’t even realize this was 2 episodes because I think I only saw the first one and then – like I said I had no idea what time it was on or even the days of the week -- I probably didn’t see the show again for another month. I was so little that I couldn’t even really follow stories on tv. I think the first episode ends with Punky seeing a spider the size of a human adult and I was just like wow that was a really scary episode! I think I remember even thinking maybe Punky died at the end. I remember it’s set in a cave and she gets separated from her friends. Maybe they’re camping? The spider is very large and very furry.The first thing I’m looking forward to seeing again is Punky’s style. Punky was a style icon to me as a kindergarten/first grader. I was very much a dresses with pigtails girl, and thanks to Punky I added a lot of insouciant touches like bathrobe belts and mismatched socks to put my own stamp on everything.I’m also looking forward to seeing the opening credits so I can work out what Punky’s actual backstory is. What I remember can’t possibly be true – that her mom deserted her in a laundromat and then Punky went to juvie before she somehow dropped in on an old guy and convinced him to adopt her?  Maybe I should’ve suggested the first episode, actually.”So much to unpack here. First, Kayleigh was basically right about the actual premise of the show. It was very much grounded in real life issue special episodes, so this weird supernatural one where the kids go into a cave and get attacked by a giant spider is really out of the ordinary. Second, there’s a whole lot of Native American cultural appropriation that happens in this particular 2 part episode. It was the mid 80s, the same era as Poltergeist II, so this shouldn’t be terribly surprising, but it still definitely didn’t age well. We also talked about Mike the Headless Chicken… which was a real chicken who survived a botched beheading attempt and lived for 18 months longer. Wikipedia has details, but be warned that they aren’t for the squeamish. Geoffrey gives us a lesson on the history of the band Oingo Boingo, and Julia and Kayleigh share choice nuggets of trivia from oral histories of the Punky Brewster refrigerator episode and of The Perils of Punky.If you’re having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We’re also on Patreon if that’s your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we’re @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

This Is Why We're Like This

The Perils of Punky with Kayleigh Shoen

For the first time in a year and a half we actually met in person to record this one! Flash fiction writer Kayleigh Shoen joined us to talk about an episode of Punky Brewster that scared her as a child: The Perils of Punky!Cherie, Margaux, and Allan stuck in giant spiderweb in a cave in The Perils of PunkyHere’s Kayleigh’s hazy recollection:“I was very into Punky Brewster at an age when I was too young to read clocks, so even though I loved it, I had a hard time being a regular viewer. I think I remember it being part of a Saturday morning block with PeeWee’s Playhouse and Hey Vern, It’s Ernest, but I’m not 100% certain. Punky Brewster has some more famous episodes like the fridge episode and the Challenger explosion episode and the must-increase-our-busts episode, but I’ve chosen the episodes that were most memorable to me – THE SPIDER EPISODES!  So, I actually didn’t even realize this was 2 episodes because I think I only saw the first one and then – like I said I had no idea what time it was on or even the days of the week -- I probably didn’t see the show again for another month. I was so little that I couldn’t even really follow stories on tv. I think the first episode ends with Punky seeing a spider the size of a human adult and I was just like wow that was a really scary episode! I think I remember even thinking maybe Punky died at the end. I remember it’s set in a cave and she gets separated from her friends. Maybe they’re camping? The spider is very large and very furry.The first thing I’m looking forward to seeing again is Punky’s style. Punky was a style icon to me as a kindergarten/first grader. I was very much a dresses with pigtails girl, and thanks to Punky I added a lot of insouciant touches like bathrobe belts and mismatched socks to put my own stamp on everything.I’m also looking forward to seeing the opening credits so I can work out what Punky’s actual backstory is. What I remember can’t possibly be true – that her mom deserted her in a laundromat and then Punky went to juvie before she somehow dropped in on an old guy and convinced him to adopt her?  Maybe I should’ve suggested the first episode, actually.”So much to unpack here. First, Kayleigh was basically right about the actual premise of the show. It was very much grounded in real life issue special episodes, so this weird supernatural one where the kids go into a cave and get attacked by a giant spider is really out of the ordinary. Second, there’s a whole lot of Native American cultural appropriation that happens in this particular 2 part episode. It was the mid 80s, the same era as Poltergeist II, so this shouldn’t be terribly surprising, but it still definitely didn’t age well. We also talked about Mike the Headless Chicken… which was a real chicken who survived a botched beheading attempt and lived for 18 months longer. Wikipedia has details, but be warned that they aren’t for the squeamish. Geoffrey gives us a lesson on the history of the band Oingo Boingo, and Julia and Kayleigh share choice nuggets of trivia from oral histories of the Punky Brewster refrigerator episode and of The Perils of Punky.If you’re having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We’re also on Patreon if that’s your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we’re @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

After Garfield in Paradise we watched a few related vids, and had a pretty far reaching conversation about society and culture… But first, this 1957 Chevy Bel Air Commercial.We agree that this car does look really cool, and the commercial is effective. Geoffrey even cited topspeed.com’s claim that there has never been a more iconic American car. Next we watched this Jack Benny clip with Frank Nelson.Frank Nelson was the hotel clerk and the rental car clerk in Garfield in Paradise, and he seems to have been really famous for always performing as this character. We finished with Wolfman Jack signing off.This one opened the floodgates about parasocial relationships. We talked about modern stuff that encourages them, like TikTok and Podcasts, and Geoffrey even brought up the old story about the audience running away from a train on a screen in the 1890s. This also led to us talking about younger people trolling older people, and eventually Obvious Plant and the Italian artist who recently sold an invisible statue for $18,000. Geoffrey also referred to this clip from The Venture Brothers when we mentioned Gen X…Thanks for listening!If you’re having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We’re also on Patreon if that’s your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we’re @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

After These Messages: The 1957 Chevy Bel Air

After a long break we return just in time for Summer Vacation with a travel themed episode! It’s Garfield in Paradise! Paradise World, to be exact. Which is definitely not Hawaii. Garfield sings “Hello Hawaii” in a dream sequence while traveling third class on a plane to Paradise WorldHere’s Julia’s summary:“I remember watching this as a TV special, and mostly I remember that there is a volcano and that Garfield and Odie may get sacrificed? It erupts and possibly the lava is yellow? Also I think Garfield and Odie have flower anklets, like leis, but anklets. My biggest memory of this was that later at school a classmate of mine was very know-it-all about this and said that it was clear that the lava was actually just made of butter and was a special effect... because it smelled like butter... and that this was a smell-o-vision special. I still have no idea if she was serious or just completely messing with other kids.”Yes, the lava was sort of yellow, and there was a flower anklet, but not on any of the animals. Also, the plot of this was way weirder and full of Wolfman Jack than either of us remembered. Turns out Geoffrey can do a pretty good Wolfman Jack impression, too…If you’re having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We’re also on Patreon if that’s your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we’re @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

Garfield in Paradise

Julia’s sister Kat is back to talk Buttercream related things. Truly a noble deed, since, in Kat’s own words, “I’d rather watch a movie about butt cream.”We started with The Buttercream Gang in 30 secondsWe did not find this particularly representative of the whole of The Buttercream gang, though it does contain that song… Next we tackled The Buttercream Gang recut as horrorWe felt this one was a more accurate representation of the actual movie. Next we watched the Trailer for The Buttercream Gang 2: The Secret of Treasure MountainThis sequel apparently casts Eldon as the hero, and sends these kids to … a monastery? We guess? The discussion on this led us to the original viral video (which was a Vine. Remember Vine?) that was the basis for the macaroni in the pot line in WAP. This video is only 6 seconds long, but still manages to be not safe for work. Meanwhile, if you are unfamiliar with WAP, you can find that (also not safe for work) video here. We finished with some You Got the Right One Baby Diet Pepsi commercialsSo much going on here. This led us to discuss cola ad legends of yore. Like foreign markets claiming Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back From The Grave and Coca-Cola translating to Bite The Wax Tadpole. We also talkie about (but didn't watch) this commercial for Chloraseptic, which Julia mistakenly remembered as being for Triaminic. If you’re having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We’re also on Patreon if that’s your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we’re @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

After These Messages: The Buttercream Gang and Diet Pepsi with Kat

Julia’s sister Kat joins us to talk about a weird Christian movie that she watched in school and later begged her mom to buy for her: The Buttercream Gang. There’s so much to discuss about this movie that we had to break the show into two parts, and this is Part 2. Part 1 is here. Here’s the official trailer for this movie, which kind of seems like it makes more sense than the whole movie actually does. Last episode covered the plot analysis. In this part we get into the lessons this movie taught us, the most dated moments, and of course whether we would show it to a child (spoiler: we would not). Did you see this as a kid? Let us know!If you’re having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We’re also on Patreon if that’s your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we’re @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

The Buttercream Gang (part 2) with Kat

Content Note: We talk a lot about our experiences growing up in an area with a lot of conservative Christians and LDS church members. We also briefly touch on real gang violence and mention the death of one of Julia’s high school classmates. We don’t dwell on that for long, but it is mentioned. Julia’s sister Kat joins us to talk about a weird Christian movie that she watched in school and later begged her mom to buy for her: The Buttercream Gang. There’s so much to discuss about this movie that we had to break the show into two parts. Here’s a clip from the movie, containing the song that plays two full times in the movie and then again over the end credits. This clip contains one of the montages we discuss in depth, including the part where teens pull small children off a see-saw and start using it themselves. Here’s Kat’s hazy summary:My hazy blur at the moment is some kind of white boy soul redemption. Maybe there were bikes and a tree? And autumn was in there too. Pretty sure there were fallen leaves in the woods. My school had some weird program in which we watched the movie and then could buy it. I have no idea why that was a program for a lot of reasons. I was definitely pedaled the white Christian savior message. Only a few years later I moved on to watching Welcome To the Dollhouse on repeat. Big leap Basically Kat had forgotten the entire plot…Anyway, one of the weird things about this one is it is supposed to be set in Illinois, but it was filmed in Utah, which looks nothing like Illinois. However, Utah is also where Troll 2 was filmed! Which led us to have some questions about the possible supernatural underpinnings of this … odd … small town. If you haven’t watched Troll 2, we recommend it. Here's our episode about it. We will catch you next time, with the thrilling conclusion to our Buttercream Gang discussion!If you’re having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We’re also on Patreon if that’s your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we’re @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

The Buttercream Gang (part 1) with Kat

OMG it’s a big time nostalgia fest in this episode! Kate from Ignorance Was Bliss joins us to discuss one of her very favorites: The Princess Bride!We’d all seen this one too many times to count, so it’s definitely not a hazy memories sort of episode, but it’s still a lot of fun! We also talk about The Olsen Twins for a while in the middle for some reason. Because sure. Why not?We hope you enjoy listening to this one as much as we enjoyed making it. And, hey, why not check out Kate’s show when you’re done here? This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

The Princess Bride with Kate from Ignorance Was Bliss

Evan joined us to watch stuff related to Legend and D&D, since he played a lot of D&D around the time he also watched Legend as a teen. First we watched Lily’s Song, which is one of the Jerry Goldsmith songs that didn’t end up in the US release of Legend, but which IS in the European release. Next we watched the preview for Mazes and Monsters, a movie Julia had to watch and discuss in depth on The Skiffy and Fanty Show a few years back. That preview is kind of goofy, but the movie is pretty depressing. Annnnd, we dove deeper into depressing territory with our next thing, a 60 Minutes segment about kids killing themselves and others allegedly because of D&D. We don’t really recommend watching this one, because it’s a big downer. Also, content warning for this section. We don’t go into depth on suicide, but we do talk a little about viral challenges that have hurt and/or killed people in more recent years, like the cinnamon challenge and eyeball shots. After all that we needed a palate cleanser, so we watched this Carnival Cruise line commercial.This commercial showed up because Geoffrey was searching for Tom Cruise Commercial 1985, thinking he would get something to do with Tom Cruise. LOL nope.This led Julia to talk about the experience of trying to become a travel agent in the beginning of 2020, the worst possible time. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

After These Messages: Legend and D&D

Geoffrey’s friend Evan Dawley, author of Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s, joins us to talk about a movie he watched like ten times as a D&D-loving teenager: Legend. This movie was directed by Ridley Scott (what!?) and stars a pre-Top Gun Tom Cruise and his love interest, Mia Sara (AKA Sloane from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off).Tim Curry as The Darkness, AKA The Big D, in Legend (1985)Here’s Evan’s Summary:Legend was on cable back when I was in my early/mid-teens, not long after my family got cable, and when I was playing a lot of D&D, so I watched it many times. With all that, I was expecting to have a good memory of the plot, but as I sat down to write this, I realized that there are a lot of gaps in my memory—or maybe those are in the movie itself? So, here goes. The movie is set in some idyllic village, where the lead character, a young woman (Mia Sara), wanders in the fields on a perfect summer afternoon, to the sound of synthesizers. She heads for the forest, passing the cottage of a familiar older woman—who is evidently from a lower class—who warns her to be careful as she heads into the forest; the older woman specifically warns the young woman about “old oaks.” As she walks among the trees, the sky turns dark, the wind picks up, and she is suddenly in a different realm. I think she literally falls down a hole. In this new realm, which is dark and scary, she encounters a few characters who I guess are there to help her, but are really kind of weird. There is a seriously creepy, and shirtless, elf who does most of the initial talking; a short creature with a human body and a boar’s head who says less; and a dreamy, loin-clothed youth named Jack (Tom Cruise); this is the only name I remember from the entire film. They try to help her, I’m not sure initially from what, maybe to get home, maybe from the darkness in the realm. They go to some fancy house, where they encounter an impressively-designed demon (Tim Curry), who Boar’s Head refers to as “Big D!” The young woman falls under his spell and is transformed from Sweet Country Girl to Scary Goth Princess. Jack comes to her rescue, I think he wields a sword in the process, they escape from the demon, return to the place where she entered the realm, and then she crosses back into her familiar forest. She walks home on a perfect summer’s day to the sound of synthesizers.This movie had a synthtastic 80s soundtrack (well, the US version did, anyway), and great creature work, but tonally and plot wise, it is a hot messssss. Evan remembered a lot, but also forgot a lot of stuff, like Lily’s name, and that the Tim Curry demon was called “The Big D” because… of course he was. … Evan also forgot the unicorns… So there’s that.Geoffrey points out that this is the second movie we’ve done with a gump in it. Weird. This one is way different than the one in Return to Oz, though. Thanks to Evan for joining us!If you’re having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We’re also on Patreon if that’s your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we’re @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

Legend with Evan Dawley

Hot on the heels of the Futurama pilot episode, we decided to check out some Y2K related videos.First up, we watched this Y2K survival kit commercial.We followed that up with a news broadcast about people working overtime on New Year’s Eve in 1999.This one led us to talk about Dominos Pizza and reminisce about our episode on Will Vinton’s Claymation career, in which we watched some of the Dominos Noid commercials. Then we watched the trailer for Kull the Conqueror:This one because Geoffrey’s conspiracy theorist teacher had some idea that the creature in Kull the Conqueror looked exactly like a demon who had tried to pull his soul out of his body in a dream. This led to us talking a LOT about The Weekly World News. And finally as palate cleanser, we watched this video of someone feeding a farting wombat:Survey says: neither of us wants to try to feed a wombat. We’ll appreciate them from a distance, thanks. Happy 2021 again! May your year be full of wombats, but only from a distance, corn if you like that, banana flavored medicine if you like that… and if not? Break that syringe in half! You don’t have to take this!If you’re having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We’re also on Patreon if that’s your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we’re @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

After These Messages: Y2K

Hello! Wow, it’s 2021 and already things have gotten even more bonkers than they were in 2020. This future we’re living in can be pretty disorienting, so we thought this would be a great time to revisit a story about someone else having a pretty bonkers new year: Philip J. Fry. We watched the pilot episode of Futurama, which both of us have seen as adults, but not for a few years. Neither of us wrote a summary, but we both remembered the loose plot premise: Fry goes to deliver a pizza on New Year’s Eve in 1999 and falls into a cryochamber that freezes him for a thousand years. He wakes up to find out that he is now destined to be a delivery boy in the year 3,000. Image Description: Philip J. Fry accidentally frozen in a cryochamber with a beverage in hand on the night of December 31st, 1999. The New York skyline is visible outside. We had a lot of fun watching this one, which (spoilers for our lightning round questions) we both thought definitely did hold up. What we both didn’t remember was the extended joke sequence about a suicide booth, which we didn’t feel aged well. Inevitably, when talking about time travel and the year 2020, we had to bring up Julia Nolke’s “Explaining the Pandemic to My Past Self” series of videos. We talk a bunch about our memories of New Year’s Eve 1999 and the Y2K panic leading up to it, and Geoffrey tells us all about a job training class he took from a whack conspiracy theorist who warned him about “KY2000” and the impending collapse of society. Of course we then had to acknowledge how this might have influenced Geoffrey’s previous podcast, Doorway to the Hidden World. Julia wonders how past guest Kimberly Meyer feels about Futurama’s heads in jars. Anyway, Happy New Year! Our 2021 wish for you is a boring year where news calms doooooown! And may you have eggs outside your house! If you’re having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We’re also on Patreon if that’s your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we’re @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

New Year Special: The Futurama Pilot

Content warning: we end up talking about racist WWII propaganda, 9/11, and internment camps for a while around the 30 minute mark in this episode. If you want to skip that, we resume our talk about the Grinch at the 36 minute mark. We’d also like to apologize for the sound quality. We’re not exactly sure what happened between this episode and the last one, which we recorded on the same evening, but Gillian’s connection seems to have been full of feedback this time. We did our best to take out the worst blips, but if things sound odd, that’s why. We blame 2020.Gillian Daniels joins us again to talk about a Christmas special she remembers liking as a kid even though she never celebrated Christmas. Gillian is a fantasy and horror writer, and you can find her at gilliandaniels.com, on twitter as @gilldaniels, and on instagram as @gillianlynndaniels.We all agree: This one is a classic for a reason. It has great voice actors, great music, and great animation. Here’s Gillian’s summary:What I remember of the Grinch special from the seventies (?):- "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" song- Max the dog, reluctant and with antlers tied to his head- The Grinch joyfully stealing everything- Cindy Lou-Who meeting the Grinch and thinking Santa's real- The Whos down in Whoville being okay with all their stuff stolen the next morning and then singing it out- Grinch being okay with Christmas and getting to cut the roast beastThat was all pretty spot on. We really didn’t imagine going into this that we would end up talking about 9/11, beowulf, and kink shaming in the course of this conversation, but there you go. It’s a whole journey. Also, Geoffrey sings a lot! If you’re having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We’re also on Patreon if that’s your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we’re @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966) with Gillian Daniels

Gillian Daniels joins us to talk about A Rugrats Chanukah! Gillian is a fantasy and horror writer, and you can find her at gilliandaniels.com, on twitter as @gilldaniels, and on instagram as @gillianlynndaniels.Image Description: The Rugrats (Chuckie, Tommy, Phil, and Lillian) watch as Grandpa fills a menorah with oil.This special is 25 minutes long. We talk for… an hour and 20 minutes… We have a lot to say about the Rugrats, apparently!We also have a digression into the world of TGIF, and particularly the time travel special night of linked episodes. And here’s a whole write up about bathing boots, which were apparently optional. You just… you just never know where this podcast is gonna take you.Happy Chanukah! We hope you have a mirable (noooo, why is this the worst word?) of perfect latkes!If you’re having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We’re also on Patreon if that’s your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we’re @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

A Rugrats Chanukah with Gillian Daniels

Gwendolyn Kiste joins us again to talk about stuff related to Red Wind, and stuff she remembers from her childood. Hills Department Store: Where the toys are. This commercial from 1986 inspired some unease. Perhaps, dare we say, terror? But Gwendolyn SWEARS Hills was actually really fun and not scary. Somehow we ended up watching the live birth of a Cabbage Patch Baby. This a thing you yourself could go see in person in Georgia….Gwendolyn was quite taken with the Babyland USA website, and said she’d go there herself if we weren’t in the middle of a global pandemic. Next up, we watched Elvira selling Coors Light. Gwendolyn remembered loving Elvira as a kid.The Geoffrey founds this Best of putting things into the shredder. We thought we were going to just watch like one or two minutes of this, and then we all ended up being mesmerized by it and watched the whole thing. Thankfully, no humans were shredded in this video, but we all agreed that possibly scarier than Red Wind was the idea that this person seems not to be wearing eye protection. YIKES!If you’re having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We’re also on Patreon if that’s your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we’re @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

After These Messages: Cabbage Patch Live Birth with Gwendolyn Kiste

Boston area comedians Julia Rios and Geoffrey Pelton discuss the movies we watched as children that shaped who we are today, for better ... or for worse thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com

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This Is Why We're Like This

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