Episode #110 - "Star Wars Prime" - Show Notes

Download Episode (55MB, Running Time: 2h)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Title: "Sharing An Armrest With Strangers"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk); Ottopilot (Otto).
• Greetings to new FaceSpace Likers and the freebies/deals they got.
• It's mostly Star Wars talk as we open with trying to avoid spoilers.
• Lucasfilm invited fans waiting in line to see the premiere.
• Referenced: Us on the Centennial Vulture:
  

Episode #109 - "Beautifully Photographed Strap-On" - Show Notes

Download Episode (77MB, Running Time: 2h 48m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Title: "Odd Hot"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk); The Dude's Ballslap (Jim Beam+Bee Nectar Ales' "The Dude's Rug" Cider) (Otto).
• Greetings to new FaceSpace Likers and the freebies/deals they got.
• Behind the scenes of the race to get last Episode #108 - "Stirling Silver Polished" on the air in time.
• Referenced: The year of the strap-on.
• Google Play Music now offers a family plan.
• T.Swizzle takes her crew on vacation, but Camille Paglia doesn't like her.

Episode #108 - "Stirling Silver Polished" - Show Notes

Download Episode (101MB, Running Time: 3h 40m)

iTunes Podcast Subscribe Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/culture-vultures-podcast/id641892049
RSS feed: http://culturevultures.podomatic.com/rss2.xml
Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=55146&refid=stpr
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • E-mail : CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Title: "He Can Actually Sing!"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk & Bob); Labatt Blue (Stirling).
• Show Notes to come when Dirk gets a minute. Check back.

Episode #107 - "A Transgender Wallaby" - Show Notes

Download Episode (69MB, Running Time: 2h 30m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Title: "Dueling Asses At Ten Paces"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk & Bob); Royal Ballslap (Otto).
• Greetings to new FaceSpace Likers and the freebies and bargain deals they got and mop-up from last episode.
• Charlie Sheen has the HIV and blames "insipid women" for his poor lifestyle choices.
• Adele's 25 is selling a few copies.
• Discussion of how the move away from physical media to digital affects collectors.
• Referenced: The Google Play Music Pixies Radio station. 
• First Music Break: Iron Maiden vs. The Monkees: "The Trooper Believer" (Audio mix by DJ Schmolli) 

Episode #106 - "Restraining Order Is Unclear" - Show Notes

Download Episode (82MB, Running Time: 3h)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Title: "Puddin' Been Spoiled"

• Tonight's Beverages: Simple Times beer (Dirk); juice and water (Otto).
• Greetings to new FaceSpace Likers and the freebies they got including the annual Canned Film Festival (in the Detroit area) and latest Xbox Games With Gold.
• Trying to figure out our production schedule through the end of the year.
• The perils of finishing the last episode #105, "Inside Out with Lynda Mandolyn".
• Birthday presents for Otto:
  
• First Music Break: Watershed, "Can't Be Myself"

Episode #105 - "Inside Out with Lynda Mandolyn" - Show Notes

 

Alternate Title: "2-1/3 Years A Podcast"

• NOTES NOTE: This is a long-form interview/profile/retrospective of Lynda Mandolyn, the prolific musician who was part of bands including Inside Out, Fabulous Disaster, Tiger Bomb and about a dozen more as well as a friend of Dirk's since they met in high school.
  
  Since it's not about stories and topics of discussion like an usual episode, the usual piles of links and whatnot will be missing. Instead there will be general notes of what is discussed in a particular segment and the songs played. 
• Intro explaining what this episode will be like.
• First Music Break: Inside Out, "Love Letter Bomb"
• How Dirk and Lynda met in school.
• Her first exposure to music and seeing The Go-Go's on SNL.
• The formation of Inside Out, their first show and getting an indie record deal.

Inside Out circa 1987. (Lynda on left)

Episode #104 - "There Will Be Chewie" - Show Notes

Download Episode (55MB, Running Time: 2h)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Title: "True Love Will Prevent Pregnancy"

• Tonight's Beverages: Ococim beer (Dirk); Angry Orchard cider and Ococim beer (Otto).
• Dirk got stuck in an elevator. (And a parking garage!)
• Dirk reviews of the Garbage/TORRES show. Garbage's setlist for the show.
• Dirk's photos of TORRES:
  
• Janet Jackson is having Instagram accounts nuked and her ridonkulous photographer contract.

Episode #103 - "Wholesome All-American Porn" - Show Notes

Download Episode (105MB, Running Time: 3h 49m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "Everyone's Named Peanut Butter Banana Sandwich" or "Hogwarts Miami"

• Tonight's Beverages: Ococim beer (Dirk & Bob); Kentucky Ballslap (Otto).
• Third Vulture Bob "I'm Gonna Kill Somebody" Koski is in the house.
• The actual pronunciations of a listener's Latin name and musician Kawehi, the latter learned from this VOA show.
• The T.Swizzle GQ cover and her bikini shot with Haim:
  
  

Episode #102 - "Hannah North Dakota & No Direction" - Show Notes

Download Episode (69MB, Running Time: 2h 30m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "Spacey Bjorky"or "Big Meat Hands"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Blue (Dirk); Redd's Green Apple Ale, Jim Beam(Otto).
• We are now broadcasting "live" at Diffuse Radio.
• Recapping new FaceSpace Likes and the free goodies we've posted there.
• Otto's emcee give and previous episode mop-up.
• Reax to the new season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Dirk has too much TV to watch and blasts through the latest shows we discussed last episode.
• The season debuts of The Flash and Arrow discussed.

Episode #101 - "My Boner Is Terrified" - Show Notes

Download Episode (55MB, Running Time: 2h)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "Can't Have Any Pudding Unless You Beat Your Meat" or "CCH Poundermania"

• Tonight's Beverages: Okocim (Dirk); Ottopilot (Otto).
• Recapping new FaceSpace Likes and the free goodies we've posted.
• Fact Check: Unfortunately, Amazon closed the loophole for cheap Prime we detailed. Boo!!!
• Mop-up of last episode; links were in the Episode #100 show notes.
• Rtings.com's TV Size Calculator.
• FaceSpace link for the 20th Anniversary of the Static Records Big '80s Flashback Bash where Dirk will be performing Oct. 2, 2015.

Episode #100 - "Road House Virgin" - Show Notes

Download Episode (110MB, Running Time: 4h 0m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "Steve Jobs' Withered Cancer Balls" or "Newly-Minted Unjailbait Girl" or "5 Beers & 4 Hours Later"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Blue (Dirk & Bob); Royal Ottopilot (Otto).
• Third Vulture Bob "I'm Gonna Kill Somebody" Koski is in the house.
• Referenced: The Mass Effect 3 endorsement:
  
• The first block of new FaceSpace Likers and the massive pile of free music we'd posted.
• The previous 99 episodes' runtime tallied and announced. 

Episode #99 - "A Benevolent Cruel Overlord" - Show Notes

Download Episode (76MB, Running Time: 2h 45m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Title: "Alcohol: Nothing But Fun, No Downside"

• Tonight's Beverages: Okocim beer (Dirk); Ottopilot (Otto).
• Saluting our new FaceSpace Liker and listing the free/discount goodies.
• McDonald's will start serving breakfast items anytime!
• Jared Fogle is no longer the Subway spokesman. Because he's a sex freak pervert.
• Meet the electronics-sniffing dog that brought him down.
• Referenced: The freaky Quiznos spongmoneys ad.
• The CEO of cheating site Ashley Madison steps down after the hack. And he was cheating.
• Recapping the MTV VMAs, which we didn't watch and we're not going to bother linking to stories about. Use Google for this block.
• Referenced: Who wore it better - Kim Kardashian or Penquin?
  
• Taylor Swift, Kanye West and Dirk's theory of T.Swizzle's limitless power.
• Referenced: Dirk's review of Idiocracy.
• SJWs say Taylor Swift's new video is RAAAAAAACIST because of course.
• First Music Break: Queen, "Dead On Time"
• Under The Dome cancelled after three seasons, which is three seasons too late.
• Dirk discusses Garfunkel and Oates, the TV series starring the the comedy duo.
• The whole season of Denis Leary's Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll triggers discussion of Dirk and Otto's past musical adventures.
• The 2nd episode of Fear the Walking Dead doesn't impress us, so we try to fix it.
• Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger are splitting. Try to be strong.
• Referenced: Run-DMC, "You Be Illin'"
• Second Music Break: Queen, "If You Can't Beat Them"
• Discussing the passing of legendary horror filmmaker Wes Craven. The referenced Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back scene:
  
• Wayne Dyer RIP.
• Chrissie Hynde's controversial comments about rape. 
• Referenced: The Hacienda calendar:
  
• Sexist Star Wars armor leads to discussion of fringe Expanded Universe characters.
• Dirk reviews Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey and the discussion becomes contentious as to whether Journey needs to drop dead or not.
• Fact Check: The Arts, Beats & Eats Festival charges $3, $5 after 3 pm, and divvies proceeds, ".25 to Arts Advocacy, .25 to the City of Royal Oak, and 50% of the remaining admission fees to 13 local charities after gating costs....To date, over $4.5 million raised by the Arts, Beats & Eats Foundation has been donated to charity."
• Referenced: Steve Perry's surprise appearance with Eels in May 2014:
  
  
• Dirk reviews Violent & Daisy.
• Third Music Break: Queen, "Leaving Home Ain't Easy"
  
• Otto reviews the first half of Narcos on Netflix.
• Netflix loses another chunk of its meager movie offerings and Dirk explains just how slim the pickings are, though things are going to get crazy better in 2016 in one department.
  
• Fact Check: ScarJo's only Netflix offerings were Chef, Don Jon and Scoop. Melissa McCarthy's other movies are The Third Wheel and Pretty Ugly People. (Us neither.)
• We talk about some DVDs Dirk lent Otto and how Zoolander erased the World Trade Center.
• You can now download some movies and shows from Amazon Prime Video to your device.
• The author of a new James Bond novel slipped up and said Idris Elba would be "too street" to play Bond causing a hack from The Verge to spew a predictably outraged rant. Meanwhile, Elba dealt with it like the suave mofo he is.
• Fourth Music Break: Queen, "Let Me Entertain You"
• Movie trailers passingly mentioned:
  
  
• Google has changed its logo and this explains why people dislike it. Backstory on their reorganizing themselves into a new entity called Alphabet.
• Dirk has ordered a OnePlus Two. The referenced Android Police review and Marques Brownlee's review.
• Dirk rattles off what's in DIRKALINE®, his new computer.
• Disney icon Dean Jones RIP.

Episode #98 - "The Greatest Terrible Movie Ever" - Show Notes

Download Episode (97MB, Running Time: 3h 32m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "Backing Vocalists of the Vampire World" or "A Big Rubber Dildo the Size of the Washington Monument"

• Tonight's Beverages: Okocim beer (Dirk); Ottopilot (Otto).
• Explaining why we've been MIA for a couple of weeks and the possible issue with viewing the player above in Firefox. (i.e. If you don't see it, try a different browser and drop us a line.)
• New Amazon Underground app to get free Android apps.
• Following up on the aftermath of the failure of Fant Four Stic: 8% at RT; star and director fist-fighting; Josh Trank tweeting he had a good version; rumors of Fox cutting budget and action scenes like the Thing drop scene isn't in the movie; and Otto's hatred for H.E.R.B.I.E. the Robot on the cartoons (witness here).
• Referenced: Red Letter Media's channel; Mr. Plinkett's infamous critique of The Phantom Menace; the part about the terrible "part time" line reading in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull review.
• Dirk announces his new computer's name: DIRKALINE®! (pronounced "Der-KAY-line")
• Celebrating the 35th Anniversary of Xanadu.
• First Music Break: ELO, "I'm Alive" (clip from Xanadu so you can see the compositing issues)
• Sense8 is coming back for a 2nd season. Joy.
• Violett Beane is playing Jesse Quick on S2 of The Flash.
• Fact Check: The announcer on the old Batman TV series was William Dozier, the show's creator and executive producer.
• Original Batgirl Yvonne Craig RIP.
• Dirk quick reviews The Unbreakable Kimmie Schmitt, updates Portlandia progress, and gives New Girl another look.
• Cara Delevingne and St. Vincent out:
  
• Referenced: Taylor Swift, Beck and St. Vincent performing together:
  
• We discuss the premiere episode of Fear the Walking Dead and Dirk's thoughts on why zombies are worse than werewolves and they suck.
• Second Music Break: ELO, "All Over The World" (clip from Xanadu)
• The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies Extended Edition will be R-rated.
• Columbia Pictures' capricious use of DMCA copyright strikes results in their own Pixels trailer being taken down.
• Some of the movies we've issued Netflix F*ckery Alerts over may have been fixed.
• The benefit of buying your own cable modem.
• J.Law - an Official Girlfriend of the Culture Vultures - is super-rich, too!
• Fact Check: The third Official Girlfriend of the Culture Vultures (in addition to J.Law and Krysten Ritter) whom we couldn't remember is Emma Stone.
• Referenced:
  
• Third Music Break: Olivia Newton-John and The Tubes, "Dancin'" (so-so quality video of the whole number from the movie)
  
• #GAMERGATE/SAD PUPPIES-HUGO AWARDS/STAR WARS HITFIX/FELICIA DAY STUFF (time index ~1h 32m thru 3h 24m  -  112 mins)
• #GAMERGATE
• The list of previous episodes with substantial GamerGate content.
• Mundane Matt - "#GamerGate - 1 Year Later..." video.
• Nobel Prize-winning chemist Sir Tim Hunt's career destruction based on lies about a joke.
• The Australian Broadcasting Company investigates itself and declares it's not obligated to present balanced reports.
• Milo Yiannopoulis - "How Disgraced Blogger Leigh Alexander Torpedoed a Games Studio"
• Milo's three-part expose of big bully Randi Harper: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
• Ezra Klein's admission that the JournoList was strictly left-wing members.
• Referenced: The alternate opening of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension featuring Jamie Lee Curtis as his mother.
• Sargon of Akkad's 20-minute interview with Steven Crowder and the nearly three-hour after-conversation and how SJWs are harassing him and his wife.
• An interview with "Based Mom", Christina Hoff Sommers.
• The much heralded survey that teenage boys DON'T want sexy female videogame characters turned out to be bogus. Related Reddit thread.
• Allum Bokari - "How #GamerGate Shattered Gawker’s Myth of Invincibility"
• What Based Milo has learned from a year of playing videogames.
• The SPJ Airplay panel about GamerGate was interrupted by bombs threats; here's what Milo didn't get to say.
• Milo calls out conservative media for missing the boat on GamerGate.
• SAD PUPPIES vs. HUGO AWARDS:
• Milo Y - "Set Phasers to Kill! SJWs Burn Down The Hugo Awards To Prove How Tolerant And Welcoming They Are"
• Sad Puppies honcho Larry Correia's commentary on the debacle.
• io9's hilariously-unaware-of-own-hypocrisy article praising block-voting as a means to defeat block-voting. Wait, what?
• Fourth Music Break: ELO, "Don't Walk Away" (movie version)
• HITFIX ATTACKS STAR WARS:
• Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow named as Star Wars: Episode IX.
• Hitfix's Roth Cornet and Donna Dickens - "30 years later and 'Star Wars' still hasn't fixed its gender problem"
• Fifth Music Break: Olivia Newton-John, "Fool Country" (movie clip)
• FELICIA DAY BOOK AND REAX:
• Recapping previous discussion of Felicia Day in the context of our #GamerGate shows last year and how Dirk was attacked for trying to empathize with her Tumblr post.
• History Lesson: Rebecca Schaffer's murder in the NY Post, "The celebrity murder that changed how stalkers are treated" 
• The Ralph Retort staying classy, "Felicia Day is a Fraudulent Nutcase", and the Reddit thread Dirk worked OT replying on.
• Dirk reviews her book, "You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir" (affiliate link), and discusses her deeply flawed #GamerGate chapter and the depressingly nasty comments about her.
• Final thoughts on it all.
• Sixth Music Break: ELO+ON-J, "Xanadu" (full film ending, so-so quality)
• Fact Check: ONJ's songwriter was John Farrar.
• A story about Dirk signing a charge and the cashier thinking it was personalized to him.
• Alison Brie is engaged to Dave Franco.
• Chinese woman guzzles whole bottle of cognac when not allowed to carry it on.

Episode #97 - "Put The Warm Fuzzy In Me" - Show Notes

Download Episode (41MB, Running Time: 1h 30m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Title: "Paula Abdul Participant Ribbon Review"

• Tonight's Beverages: Kroger Diet Cola (Dirk); Royal Ottopilot (Otto).
• Salutes to new FaceSpace Likes and the deals and news they get.
• Discussion of Freddie Wong's Rocket Jump Film School channel; the real-life GTA video mentioned; the "Epic VFX Time" team-up with Epic Meal Time; and the "Why CG Sucks (Except It Doesn't)" video. Also: Corridor Digital. 
• The Verge - "Au unnaturale: why CGI nudity is here to stay." The scene from The Change-Up with digitally topless Leslie Mann. (NSFW link)
• Netflix F*ckery Alert: The Rock's version of Hercules is cropped on Netflix, proper on Amazon Prime.

Episode #96 - "We're Talking Kinky, Not Weird" - Show Notes

Download Episode (82MB, Running Time: 3h 0m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Title: "A Raincoat Filled With Cheetos"

• Tonight's Beverages: Okocim beer (Dirk); Okocim and Labatt Apple Harvest Ale (Bob); Royal Ball Slap (Otto).
• Third Vulture Bob "I'm Gonna Kill Somebody" Koski - "The Human Ring Tape" - is back and brought the booze.
• The announcement of a Satori Circus show that only mattered to live broadcast listeners.
• Otto's East German movie light story.

Episode #95 - "Is The Wookiee Wearing Pants?" - Show Notes

Download Episode (65MB, Running Time: 2h 22m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "In a Corner Next to Baby" or "It's a Little Ranty" or "Once You've Maxed-Out Evil"

• Tonight's Beverages: Okocim (Dirk); The Ottopilot (Otto).
• Recapping the deals posted to our FaceSpace page which is why you should give us a Like because free stuff!
• Leftist jerk Drew McWeeney gets his notebook found and returned by pro-GamerGate YouTuber Mundane Matt.
• The geography of Metropolis and Gotham City in Batman v Superman and dubbing the Nolan films with funnier voices.
• Correction: Christopher Lloyd played Dr. Emmet Brown.
• Michael Chiklis joins the Gotham cast.

Episode #94 - "The Fresh Prince of the Suicide Squad" - Show Notes

Download Episode (82MB, Running Time: 3h 0m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "Another Pig Buggery Case" or "Somewhat Racist Accessories"

• Tonight's Beverages: Okocim (Dirk); Kentucky Ball Slap and Okocim (Otto).
• Our disappointment of Amazon Prime Day which was shared by many.
• Mop-up of last week's Ariana Grande donut debacle (including the authorities claiming they can't find a crime to charge her with) and Ellen Pao quitting Reddit between taping and air.
• Instapundit item about the NY Times' egregious rewriting of the Pao story including the differences illustrated.
• Nerds upset over "too hot" Marissa Tomei cast as Aunt May.
• Forbes: "How Jessica Alba Built A $1 Billion Company, And $200 Million Fortune, Selling Parents Peace Of Mind"

Episode #93 - "Pop Tart Licks Donuts" - Show Notes

Download Episode (96MB, Running Time: 3h 30m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "Sex Fort!" or "The Human Ring Tape" or "Pizzas Are Part of My Sexual Fantasies"

• Tonight's Beverages: Okocim and Molson Ice Hangover Formula (Dirk & Bob); Kentucky Ball Slap (Otto).
• Third Vulture Bob "I'm Gonna Kill Somebody" Koski joins us and the explanation of his new nickname.
• The new show notes style explained.
• Greets to our new FaceSpace Likes and recapping the Bargain Ninja goodies they get.
• The trick of buying booze at border duty-free stores.
• Mop-up about David Morrissey and Dirk's Steam Summer Sale pickups including The Stanley Parable. 
• Discussing our musical artists of the evening, Missing Persons. The Creem photo that prompted Dirk to buy a ticket to the show:
  

Episode #92 - "Those Machines Don't Rape You" - Show Notes

Download Episode (47MB, Running Time: 2h 45m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "A Blister From Your Strap-On" or "The Weekend of Unfortunate Footwear" or "Dancing at Jumbo's Clown Room by the YYZ Airport"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Max Ice (Dirk); Ottopilot (Otto).
• Referenced: Bruno Kirby's scene in This Is Spinal Tap followed by a ton of outtake improv material:
• Thanks to our new Facebook Likes.
• Announcement on how old episodes podcasts will be handled. They'll be available to download, but the embedded player will go away and eventually they won't be on iTunes.
• Hermione disputes Dirk's portrayal of her thoughts on Ashton Kutcher.

Episode #91 - "Creepy Soulless Ginger Monster Man" - Show Notes

Download Episode (41MB, Running Time: 2h 22m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Title: "Not So Blue, But We're Still Hard"

• Tonight's Beverages: Rockstar Recovery (Dirk); Ottopilot (Otto).
• Dirk recaps the latest Satori Circus show, Dbwe'inini (aka The New Satori Circus Show), which he ended up participating in an impromptu manner. Detroit News article and the WDET interview mentioned.
• The Tee Fury shirt Dirk got, which is available beyond its initial run date for $20.
  
• First Music Break: XTC, "That's Really Super, Supergirl"
• Hermione notifies us of word that legendary Detroit DJ Alan Almond had passed away. A 1993 profile on him.
• Christopher Lee RIP.

Episode #90 - "Milk That Slurpee Machine" - Show Notes

Download Episode (50MB, Running Time: 2h 55m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "Hunky Mandingo Jimmy Olsen" or "Laying A Licking On Her" or "I'll Eat It, But I'm Not Going To Enjoy It"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk); Ottopilot (Otto).
• We start with a spontaneous debate on late-Seventies roller disco movies.
• Introducing ourselves to those discovering us at our new time slot.
• Mop-up from last week's show.
• "Mattress Girl" has made an "artistic sex tape" (which her mother calls a "performance piece" - SODH) and Milo Yiannopoulos is not impressed.
• Oh look, Miley Cyrus is getting naked again. Color us so shocked.

Episode #89 - "Hooker or Just Skank?" - Show Notes

Download Episode (50MB, Running Time: 2h 55m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "Fleshy Michelin Man"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk); Ottopilot (Otto).
• A lot of mop-up from last episode, much was already in those show notes.
• A non-Felicity Smoak shot of Emily Bett Rickards:
  
• Otto's first guest shot, Episode #7 - "Being Stupid Should Hurt"
• Actual comment on The Pirate Bay's listing for The Duff: "what a feminazi pile of garbage this movie was" - babygirlsparkleprincess. (Awesome user name!)

Episode #88 - "Furry Road: Fetishists in Australia" - Show Notes

Download Episode (46MB, Running Time: 2h 40m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "Virus-Enhanced Monkeys On Reddit" or "Sticking It In, Making It Gooey"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Max Ice (Dirk); Ottopilot (Otto).
• Whoops! Had the wrong date at the top - this was the May 14 episode, not May 13.
• Tips on how to get the best bang for your buck in home theater; why spend too much for a larger set when sitting closer solves the problem? AVS Forum is the place for advice, help and user reviews.
  
  To Calculate Perceived Sizes:
  
  1. Measure the distance from the screen to where your head will be and enter in the Viewing Distance box at Size Calc. 
  2. Go to Display Wars and enter a pair of TV sizes to compare like 55" and 60" (like Dirk discusses). Get the widths from stats boxes (in this case, 48" and 52.3") and enter the larger size in Physical Size box.
  3. The Perceived Size box now displays how many degrees of arc that width occupies in your vision. In this example, being 10 feet away from a 52.3 inch wide TV results in ~24.6 degrees.
  4. Click the lock next to the Perceived Size field to lock (duh) that number in.
  5. Now enter the size of the smaller set (e.g. 48") in the Physical Size field. The Distance field changes to 9.18 feet or 110 inches meaning that a 55-inch TV viewed from 110 inches away appears to be the same size as a 60-inch TV viewed from 120 inches (10 feet)!
  6. PROFIT!!!
• UPDATE (8/20/2018): This site makes calculations even easier and provides the recommendations for SMPTE and THX compliance.
• Why hotel TVs suck.

Episode #87 - "Getting Madface About It" - Show Notes

Download Episode (46MB, Running Time: 2h 40m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Title: "Like Nerd Oprah"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk); Ottopilot (Otto).
• A milestone in pre-taping the show.
• Mop-Up: A behind-the-scenes article about the Power/Rangers "fan" film; how ILM designed Ultron; Jeremy Renner doubles down on calling Black Widow a bad word.
• Otto reports on Space Dive and Avengers: Age of Ultron in 3D.
• Dirk's Bargain Ninja® scoring of Replacements tickets and show review.
• First Music Break: The Replacements, "Back To Back" (YouTube video)

Episode #86 - "Avultures Dissembled" - Show Notes

Download Episode (16MB, Running Time: 55m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "Giant Green Dong" or "Legendary Yellow Fever"

• Tonight's Beverages: Water (Dirk); Dude's Ballslap (Otto).
• A special short episode with an insta-review (spoiler-free!) of Avengers: Age of Ultron. And they were watching us record!
  

Episode #85 - "Horse Brutality?!" - Show Notes

Download Episode (34MB, Running Time: 2h 0m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "Terpsichorean Activity" or "Sitcom Monkey Girl Sisters" or "Oprah Wishes She Was Marvel" or "It's A Tarp!"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Max Ice (Dirk); The Ottopilot (Jim Beam and Diet Mountain Dew) (Otto).
• Proposed rundown and mop-up items.
• The OnePlus One can now be purchased without an invite. Yay!
• Detroit Zombie Apocalypse III recap.

Episode #84 - "Two Blahs, Two Woofs" - Show Notes

Download Episode (34MB, Running Time: 2h 0m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Title: "Double Triple Negative Super Double Secret Probation Overtime"

• Tonight's Beverages: Simple Times Pilsner (Dirk); Kentucky Ball Slap (Otto).
• Opening greetings and the benefits of Liking us on FaceSpace.
• The Humble Origin Bundle 2 which 100% supports charity. (Good thru 4/28/15) 
• The ridonkulous hassle of downloading Grand Theft Auto V for PC.
• Fact Check: There is no record of Laurence Fishburne and Ellen Barkin having dated. The thing Otto heard about "their sons playing" probably refers to his son (born in 1987) and her son (born in 1989) while making the 1995 release Bad Company.

Episode #83 - "Zapped By The Brain Police" - Show Notes

Download Episode (51MB, Running Time: 3h 0m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "All Tense On The Internet" or "Metaphysically Dropping Mics"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk); Kentucky Ball Slap (Otto).
• Opening greetings and the benefits of Liking us on FaceSpace.
• The SNL Riblet sketches prompted by the mic-dropping references:
  
  

Episode #82 - "There's God and There's Frank" - Show Notes

Download Episode (51MB, Running Time: 3h 0m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Title: "Monkeys Screwing A Football"

• Tonight's Beverages: Okocim (Dirk & Bob); Kentucky and Royal Ball Slaps (Otto).
• Special extended dance mix intro for our 2nd Anniversary and Third Vulture Bob "I don't need no stinking nickname" Koski is in the house.
• The total time of all previous episodes and this one: 8 days, 9 hours, 26 minutes
• Otto's Anniversary wish to Mrs. Otto.

Episode #81 - "Pedobear's Favorite Novel" - Show Notes

Download Episode (46MB, Running Time: 2h 40m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Title: "Taco Threesday"

• Tonight's Beverages: the last of the Ohio Labatt Ice (Dirk); Kentucky Ball Slap (Otto).
• Watching Emeril Lagasse in a cheap motel.
• Lions can unlock doors! (YouTube video)
• A shout-out to a friend of Otto's who had a health scare.
  

Episode #80 - "Your Apocalypse Girlfriend" - Show Notes

Download Episode (43MB, Running Time: 2h 30m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "Dude, You Shatnered It!" or "He Was No Feist" or "Hobbit Bettie Page"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt Ice (Dirk); Kentucky Ball Slap (Otto).
• Otto's back, but raspy, as we warn those lured in by last week's clean episode that the blue light will be back on.
• Some talk about the "Blurred Lines" verdict. Here's the legal beagle who won the suit comparing himself to Satan.
• Fact Check: The Marvin Gaye tune is "Got To Give It Up"; hear the two tracks back to back:
  
• Post-taping, Pharrell spoke about the verdict.
  
• Don't roofie people!

Episode #79 - "You Gotta Have Hartsoe" - Show Notes

Download Episode (36MB, Running Time: 2h 5m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Title: "Sweet Needa & the Jack Attack"

• Tonight's Beverages: Water (Dirk).
• Dirk's flying solo this week for the first time ever and recapping the free stuff our FaceSpace Likers get like Syndicate from EA On-the-House.
• Harrison Ford survives plane crash LIKE A BOSS!
• Thoughts on Chappie and how Neil Blomkamp shouldn't be allowed to make the next Alien movie.
• Jada Pinkett Smith is leaving Gotham.
• Is Agent Carter in danger of not being brought back for another season? This article sounds like BS.
• A tease of next week's Supergirl costume reveal discussion.
• American Sniper is #1 in box office for 2014.
• HBO NOW officially announced, but is exclusive to Apple products for the first three months.
• Thoughts on the Apple Watch (spoiler: It's stupid and crazy expensive) and the new MacBook.
• First Music Break:
  
• A 88-minute interview with Pete Wurdock, author of Love Will Steer The Stars: The History of the Dondero Pop Concert discussing his writing of the book and the fascinating history of the  (Interview starts 21 minutes in.)
• Pete's previous CVR appearance on Episode #38, "It Comes In Spurts", from a year ago and another podcast with Pete, Mr. Hartsoe and Dan Palmer from a couple weeks ago.
• A lengthy Oakland Press article previewing the book release.
• Pete's previous non-fiction book, Ashes, Art, Heroes and Heart.
• Correction: Moody Bible Institute is in Chicago.
• Fact Clarification: Bob Dylan went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.
• Learn about the Works Progress Administration.
• The Dondero murals discussed can be seen here, but here's one featuring the school at top:
  
• A digression about the swimming pools at Dondero and Kimball.
• The soundtrack of the Morenci road trip:
  
  
• The Diet Pepsi ad referenced:
  
• The story behind this photo of Dirk at 15:
  
• The 3500-word "fiveword" that was submitted for the book; three paragraphs made it in.
• Favorite Pop Concert performances and how Dirk secured his spot on a song.
• Pete plays the Deep Thoughts Musicians Quiz Game.
• Second Music Break:
  
• Battlefield: Hardline drops March 17 and who cares?
• The sad story of how No One Lives Forever can't get remastered and re-released.
• Detroit club The Magic Stick announces its new name: POPULUX.  (Because ANUTHRFUQINGDISKO would’ve been too hard to Google?)
• Zoolander 2 is happening. Yay. /s
• Trailer talk on these flicks:
  
  
• A review of The Machine.
  
• Quick thoughts on The Blacklist and The Returned.

Episode #78 - "Activism's Fattening" - Show Notes

Download Episode (46MB, Running Time: 2h 40m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Titles: "He Sneezed In His Pants" or "We Don't Need Guitars For This"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt's Ice (Dirk); cranberry juice (Otto).
• Announcements of events and new gear alert.
• FREE GAME: Syndicate from EA On-the-House.
• Downtown Brown's bassist, Ron (real name not Ron), is leaving band. They're recording a live album to be released for free, but are taking donations toward the production costs.
• Erotic Poetry Festival recap including Dena Luckett's saucy outfit:
  
• Mop-up of last week's show: Kelly Osbourne quits Fashion Police; the writer of The Imitation Game gets attacked for not preaching enough; the demand for quotas in Oscar nominations; and the prospect of cutting back to five Best Picture nominees.
• 1st Musical Break - Culture Bandits, "Kill City" 
• Order POP O.D.: The Songs of Iggy Pop here or listen on Spotify. (We get no money from sales.) 
• TV talk about Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Arrow S2, Made in the Motor City (that Third Vulture Bob Koski worked on).
• How American border cities are more familiar with Canuckian music than average bears.
• Dirk never remembered what he was going to say.
• Dean Cain and Helen Slater cast in the Supergirl series.
• Dirk reviews The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1. The actual quote:
  
• Second Musical Break: Acoustic Terminator, "I'm Bored"
• #GAMERGATE STUFF (time index ~56:30 thru 2:18:15 - 82 mins)
• SJWs rebranded as "Culture Vultures"? Hell to the no!
• The Internet Aristocrat Archives on YouTube.
• The female gamer used as a victim prop on Nightline says she was wildly taken out of context.
• Milo Y + 1: The Hugo Wars: How Sci-Fi's Most Prestigious Awards Became a Political Battleground.
• Felicia Day's latest Supernatural appearance. This is a Reader's Digest clip job condensing some of the episode's beats; the fight referenced starts at 2:30:
  
• Victimhood WAS quite lucrative for the former John Flynt:
  
  ...because she's now up to 654 patrons, but only taking in $3,449/mo. Seems like a few big dollar donors walked off.
• Victimhood IS quite lucrative for Prom Queen Sarko:
  
• Vox's specious mean tweets piece prompts this Twitchy article.
• Joystiq folds and Milo Y dances on their grave.
• Total Biscuit smacks down Extra Credits.
• The classy folks at Gawker got Coca-Cola's Twitter bot to retweet Mein Kampf. /facepalm
• Reactions to the Law & Order: SVU GamerGate episode from Hot Air ("as bad as you'd expect"), Forbes' Erik Kain ("Reefer Madness"), Mundane Matt (video link), and the Oliver Campbell blast read on the show. Campbell's Medium piece mentioned.
• Third Music Break: Cybertrybe, "Dog Food"
• Brianna Wu's latest victimhood fundraising attempt. (Trigger warning for sane people!)
• Milo Y's "The Wacky World of Wu" expose.
• A black female gamer dumps on Wu's game.
• The clown-at-birthday-party scene referenced by Otto:
  
• SJWs go crazy (OK, crazier) over Wu meeting with Brad Wardell.
• Cap'n Crunch donut hole snack at Taco Bell.
• The petition begging Polygon and Kotaku to stop being jerks. Ben "Mangina" Kuchera has a snit; Boogie punts; Mundane Matt's take.
• The changes at The Escapist: Sargon's video about the changes and his interview with the new hires; Twitchy's coverage on the butthurt and Seth Rogen's hypocrisy; 
• Lisa Foiles doing her countdown thing and getting iced down:
  
  
• The five-part series by Lianna Kerzner - Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5  - and the photo she referenced in the interview:
  
• Sargon's rapier takedown of some twit cheerleading Prom Queen Sarko:
  
• The destruction of the Jezebel and Daily Beast hit pieces on Gov. Scott Walker.
• Fourth Music Break: SPAT!, "TV Eye"
• Discussion of the final Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ex Machina trailers:
  
  
The Kara tech demo referenced. If she looks familiar, the actress (Valorie Curry) who did the performance capture was a regular on the first two seasons of The Following: Behind-the-scenes of the video:
• Leonard Nimoy RIP. Check out the 2nd video here where he explains where the Vulcan salute originated.  The referenced Simpsons appearance:
  
• The Steam Link and Nvidia Shield Console.
• The Samsung Galaxy S6 and Edge are pretty snazzy.
• Otto's going to Dallas for Walker Stalker Con next weekend.
• Bonus Outro Music - Leonard Nimoy, "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins"

Episode #77 - "12 Years A Movie" - Show Notes

Download Episode (64MB, Running Time: 3h 45m)

Subscribe to podcast via iTunes, Stitcher or RSS 
Like/Follow/Contact Us: Facebook • Twitter • CVRadio313@gmail.com

Alternate Title: "Down The Load" or "A Sea of Alcohol & Jocularity"

• Tonight's Beverages: Labatt's Blue (Dirk & Bob); Royal Ballslap (Crown Royal Apple + slice of apple + Angry Orchard Cider) (Otto).
• All hands on deck as Bob Koski, the Third Vulture, sits in again for the whole show.
• Madonna falls down, goes boom. Otto has a movie idea for her and Lady Gaga.
• Lady Gaga announces she'll be on American Horror Story: Hotel:
  
• Dane Cook's cameo in Mystery Men referenced:
  
• A 15-year-old Dirk catches some air in the photo mentioned:
  
  
• Recapping the disappointing SNL 40 show. Celebrity Jeopardy:
  
  The actual Tony Bennett Show sketch with the woman's foot reference:
  
  The pointless Eddie Murphy appearance:
  
  (Go find the crappy musical performances yourself.)
  Bass-O-Matic 2015
  
  
• The deets on Paul McCartney's secret show. 
• Was Victoria Jackson get snubbed over her beliefs?
• 1st Musical Break - Agent 009, "Search and Destroy" 
• Order POP O.D.: The Songs of Iggy Pop here or listen on Spotify. (We get no money from sales.)
• An addition to the Fortress of Dirkatude® - the 45th Anniversary edition of The Sound of Music which at the time of these show notes is up to $90(!!!) from the $57 mentioned in show. Here's the (affiliate) link to the upcoming 50th Anniversary set which adds another disc with a new documentary and digital copies:
  
• Much discussion of the 2015 Oscars starting with the best thing that happened:
  
  Killer! The second best thing:
  
• Links to Kevin Smith's nine-part series on Jason Mewes' addictions can be found here.
• Selma director Ava DuVernay waved off the Oscar protests.
• The referenced SNL sketch after stepping in it about The Imitation Game's writer who turns out isn't gay, but because he didn't preach from the stage about gay issues is now being attacked.
  
• Blue-on-Blue Violence breaks out as Patricia Arquette's stupid Oscar speech gets attacked by privileged white liberal hack Amanda Marcotte.
• 2nd Musical Break - Twitch, "Lust For Life"
• The controversies over Joan Rivers and Elaine Stritch being omitted from the Oscars Death Montage.
• Ratings were down and how it ties into #GamerGate. (Really! Sorta.)
• Racial drama over Fashion Police snark. (UPDATE: Kelly Osbourne quits.)
• Otto reports on his trip to Chicago for Walker Stalker Con. The scenery:
  
• The Giancarlo Esposito scene from Do The Right Thing referenced:
  
The video for "Da Butt". Fun Fact: The "Ernest" Spike Lee refers to in the beginning is Ernest Dickerson, who shot many of Spike's films and now frequently directs The Walking Dead.
• Otto cosplaying [redacted] on the far right...
  
  ...and Ash from Evil Dead II (on left, duh):
  
• The Bill Cosby "Buck Buck" routine referenced:
  
• CreepynCuteShop's Etsy page and FaceSpace page.
• Third Music Break - Kristiva featuring Skinhorse, "Funtime". The original Iggy version, which is somewhat different:
  
• What's coming and going from Netflix in March 2015.
• Adrienne Palicki is bumped up to series regular and Drea de Matteo will be a villain on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Dirk's thoughts on his Arrow binge and declares S2 of Sleepy Hollow to have been a total loss. Otto chimes in about the finale of Agent Carter. 
• The not at all Seventies cheesetastic trailer for Telefon:
  
• Dirk reviews RoboCop (2014), Selma, The Theory of Everything, Boyhood (which he has major problems with its fans)
• The ridonkulous emo butthurt diaper load by Slate's Dan Kois: "The Academy’s Failure to Recognize Boyhood Is Their Worst Mistake in 20 Years."
• A column on the Birdman/Boyhood divide.
• A more level-headed Slate piece ranking all 60 nominated films.
• CORRECTION: Laura Dern was also nominated for Wild.
• Dirk ranks the Best Pictures. 
• Why art is garbage:
  
• Fourth Music Break - Passenger to Nowhere, "Cock In My Pocket"
• An idiotic whine about listening to podcasts at normal speeds.
• Grand Theft Auto V delayed for PC. Again. Dammit!
• Tips for using Plex, the media management software.
• RIP Louis Jourdan, Gary Owens, Lesley Gore, Mirjana Puhar.