034: Hannibal 2x04 "Takiawase" - Fridging, Mushroom Whispers, Murder Dungeons, and Frippery

SPOILERS UP TO (and including) HANNIBAL 2x04, as well as potential spoilers for HANNIBAL 2x05

In this episode:

• Cleolinda joins us again! Hi Cleo!
• Discussion of Hannibal 2x04 "Takiawase," including the ungainly horror of the uncanny valley (yes, again), Amanda Plummer's portrayal of the Killer of the Week (KotW for all you kool katz in the housebutKATZOHNOBEVERLY), Zeller and his ability to deliver one hell of a side-eye (BEVERLY WHYYYYYYYY), and Beverly, whether or not she was fridged, what that means for the show's plot and what we can glean about the philosophy of the writing from this decision.
• Wild Walls are a thing, by the way. Don't say we never taught you nothin'.
• Aside from that, we also manage to get into a weird discussion of the Worf Effect, Will's memory palace, and a whole lot of other nonsense.
• Cleolinda introduces us to the most disturbing idea for a fanfic ever. Seriously, not safe for your soul, guise.
• We speculate a little more on the Admirer storyline, what this means for our previous speculations (mostly just egg on our face. Eggy eggy egg on the face of the Matter of Taste podcasters. Or at least, that's what I'm assuming now. If I'm wrong about this, does that make it double egg or single egg because being right in Hassun negates going back on it now? Something to ponder.)
• We talk about Constantine for a little bit. I'm SO EXCITED but SO NERVOUS, you have no idea.
• Oh, here's a link to Bryan Fuller's AV Club interview re: Takiawase

 THERE'S ALWAYS AN ADDENDUM:

• There's no way we can actually be as nuanced as one would need to be to give due deference to both the complaints about the way the show has handled Bev's departure from it and the defenses of the writers in how heavily they weighed the decision before they made it. That said...
• This is an in-depth essay by Tumblr user bonearenaofmyskull  and her perspective on the Bev situation.
• Here's Hetienne Park weighing in on the episode and the response it's garnered online.
• This is an image from a game Ian was referencing in regards to Beverly stepping down into the murder dungeon. Is it from Silent Hill? Is it from some other game series it's from Silent Hill.
• This is the mixed media piece that Ian references.
• Without further ado, here's some highlights from Ian's timestamps this week:
• 34:49 - Splice “Pathetique” in right here if you want--I uploaded the section I was talking about to the Google Drive (Piano Sonata in C minor). I would fade it out around the 30 second mark if you do use it.
  Or you can delete my tangent into Romantic-era music; I won’t be hurt. It’s also my dream that Sleepy Hollow uses “Broken Crown” by Mumford & Sons for a night-time horse chase scene, if they ever have more of those.
  (...Der Erlkönig would be another cool one for Hannibal. I’ll stop now.)
• 1:01:03 - 1:02:15 - You can totally cut my comparison to the screencap from Silent Hill if it feels like too much of a tangent. It’s kind of dumb. I’m DUMB, Fio. SO DUMB. [/cries in a corner clutching a Pyramid Head doll]
• 1:31:13 - This is when I first mention we should start wrapping things up. There’s still 22 minutes left in the recording. X)

• IAN EDIT FROM THE FUTURE: For those curious, this is the Beethoven piece I was referring to--the 1st movement of his "Pathetique." The 2nd movement is possibly more famous, but has a MUCH different feel than what I was talking about.

Music:

• Intro: "Taps," which is... it's "Taps," you guise. Also, "This is My Design" - original song, music by Ian. More on this as it develops.
• Outro: "Cups" - Anna Kendrick | YouTube | iTunes |

http://archive.org/download/AMOT034/AMOT034.mp3

033: Hannibal 2x03 "Hassun" - I Am 100% Behind Neutral Evil

SPOILERS UP TO (and including) HANNIBAL 2x03, as well as potential spoilers for HANNIBAL 2x05 (more details below on where these spoilers start)

In this episode:

• Ian resolves his mixed feelings over Bedelia. We know you were waiting with baited breath.
• Discussion of Hannibal 2x03 "Hassun," including Will's lawyer, Hannibal's feelings toward Will, Alana's feelings toward Will, Freddie Lounds and Chilton being their terrible self, and how things have gotten so messy so quickly.
• At 50:30, we begin our discussion of who we believe the admirer's TRUE identity to be. HUGE spoiler warning here, because although it's speculation, it's based on concrete evidence, some of which is meta. This essentially takes us to the end of the podcast, so you won't really miss anything else if you stop here.
• We take a detour into extreme nerdery and start assigning Dungeons & Dragons alignments to the characters of Hannibal. Here's an easy reference that gets the idea across with familiar pop culture figures, for those unfamiliar with the system.
• How human is Hannibal, really?
• Alana is the light of the universe.
• We joke about spinoffs and make everyone feel awful.
• Here's the AV Club interview with Bryan Fuller about "Hassun"

 THERE'S ALWAYS AN ADDENDUM:

• There are a few times in here where we both struggle to come to conclusions about certain things. For the record, we never promised answers--only mental distress.
• Once again, there's a TON of stuff that in retrospect we didn't spend much time on--e.g., Crawford's time on the stand, etc. Let us know if there's anything in particular you'd like us to hit on in the future.
• We're sorry we didn't have time for addressing listener comments/feedback this episode. Again, it's a work in progress.
• Highlights from Fio's timestamps:
• 0:02 - LOUD IAN. I’M FUCKING LOUD NOW. LOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUD. AND A GUN THAT SHOOTS RAZORBLADES. AND A FLAMETHROWER. Seriously, though, we’re probs gonna have to work on sound balance and junk
• 0:19 - 0:55 - The podcast’s taint. Now you’ve got me saying it, dammit.
• 28:34 - Dude, my cat is farting and it smells fucking awful. He sleeps right under my desk, he might as well be goddamn aiming them at me. It’s like his ass knows trigonometry.
• 41:51 - Cat’s farting again goddammit goddammit goddammit
• (Literally several hours after finishing the timestamps) Oh my jesus fucking christ, cat
• -DND ALIGNMENTS LIKE A MOTHAFUCKA
• -MOTHAFUCKA
• -Thematic rhyming? Dude we spent a whole lot of time doing alignments, haha       

Music:

• Intro: "This is My Design" - original song, music by Ian. More on this as it develops.
• Outro: "If I Only Had a Brain" - The Wizard of Oz (Original Motion Picture Sountrack) | YouTube | iTunes |

 (Header image taken from http://willgraham-dogcollector.tumblr.com/post/79665780597/u-cant-accuse-a-man-of-murder-that-has-rescued)

http://archive.org/download/AMOT033/AMOT033.mp3

032: Hannibal 2x02 "Sakizuki" - Damn the Floodgates

SPOILERS UP TO (and including) HANNIBAL 2x02 AND BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER  5x22. YES, REALLY.

In this episode:

• You all saw that, right? Holy crap, that episode hammered home the new status quo with aplomb.
• We get into the odd dynamic between Bedelia and Hannibal, why we're still worried for her life, and what exactly we think is going to come out of the reveal of their history together.
• There's a possibility that they're setting up Beverly to take up the Clarice Starling mantle, should the show progress to a Silence of the Lambs-y season without acquiring the rights to the character from MGM. And if that were to be the case, would that be a positive or negative development for the show as a whole?
• There's a huge Harry Potter and Buffy digression. It's ridiculous. 
• So Hannibal is going around one-upping the Killers of the Week up in this piece, and while that seems like a pretty major digression from last season, there are some lingering doubts about the Copycat Killer that we bring up here and discuss to see if we can parse out Hannibal's motives for killing James Grey, aside from "it's fun."
• Some people apparently really don't like Jack Crawford. We're certainly frustrated as hell with him  sometimes, but we don't hate the guy. We take a bit of a peek into where we think that impulse might come from.
• I baked a quiche for dinner and ate way, way, way too much of it and now I feel gross. That has nothing to do with the podcast, listeners, I'm attempting to build a rapport here. SEE HANNIBAL I CAN PEOPLE TOO.
• Links:
• Everyday Lecter
• Anglo-Filles featuring Cleolinda, in which some insights into the development of Bedelia's character are revealed.
• Cleolinda's Storify post for "Sakizuki"
• Our Silence of the Lambs Episode with Cleolinda, which Ian wanted me to post, although linking to an episode of our podcast in a newspost for a later episode of our podcast discussing an episode of a TV series designed as a mirror of the subject of the former podcast episode seems like some-kind of eight-pronged metatextual masturbation. (Messing with you, Ian)

THERE'S ALWAYS AN ADDENDUM:

• Jumping right into highlights from Ian's timestamps, because he's got some interesting points in there. And now that I've written that, I'm regretting it because I remember what the first timestamp was:
• 0:06 - 0:19 - The podcast’s taint (‘cause ‘tain’t the opening and ‘tain’t the podcast)
• Goddammit. Here are the rest:
•  1:18 - I had to take a moment and think about how enthusiastic my “Hello” was.
• It is really enthusiastic, isn't it? Okay, I'm done interrupting. That was the last one, I promise:
• 15:02 - I wanted to bring this up during the Bedelia/Hannibal conversation, but didn’t manage to: We do know that originally, Bedelia was written for an older woman--specifically, Bryan Fuller said he wanted Angela Lansbury (they mentioned this on the Anglo-Filles episode where they discussed Hannibal with Cleo). Then when they got Gillian Anderson, he realized he had to rewrite the character for a younger actress, and that’s where the attack backstory came from--he needed a reason for why a younger psychiatrist would have gone into retirement so early. That, I think, is where some of the shakiness with the Hannibal/Bedelia plot comes from, but again, I completely trust that the writers know where they’re going with it, and that the reveal will be awesome. On the other hand, we don’t know how far into writing season 1 they were when they knew the part would be played by a younger actress, so...who knows?
• 24:33 - Dude, with the number of times I’ve dropped Animorphs into discussion on this podcast, I think it’s okay if you discuss things in terms of Harry Potter. :)
• 27:50 - OKAY OKAY OKAY I REMEMBER NOW. Beverly says something like, “I can’t get my head off this case, Will--it’s getting in the way of accomplishing the other things I’ve been tasked to do”--one of those other things being her “new” investigation of the Copycat Killer case after hearing Will’s plea that she ignore all of the evidence against him. And then when she asks why the guy who killed James Grey took his leg, Will makes the comment, “Could have been taking a trophy,” which, as I mentioned, is supposed to be a keyword for Beverly to latch onto and realize it’s connected to the Chesapeake Ripper--the guy who takes organs from his victims as trophies.
• 43:30 - “Economy of character.” You’re looking for “economy of character,” Ian. WHY DOESN’T ME SPEAK GOOD.
• 46:10 - I don’t know what you were referencing with the “Not the way you’re thinking, gross, listeners,” but perhaps I don’t want to know.
• 47:50 - Is “damn the floodgates” a phrase? Or am I crossing two different phrases?
• It's totally not a phrase, which is why it's now the episode title. Ian's mixing "open the floodgates" and "damn the torpedos" together. Kinda sounds like it could be an idiom, though, doesn't it? And it doesn't count as interruption if it's at the end, right? Either way, I'm not a man who keeps my promises. You know that now, listeners, that makes us closer.

Music:

• Intro: "This is My Design" - original song, music by Ian. More on this as it develops.
• Outro: "Counting Blue Cars" - Dishwalla | YouTube | iTunes |

(Header image taken from http://leepaces-eyebrows.tumblr.com/post/79228462470)

http://archive.org/download/AMOT032/amot32.mp3

031: Hannibal 2x01 "Kaiseki" - Gone Fishin'

(I want this image to be a painting I can put on my wall.)

SPOILERS UP TO (and including) HANNIBAL 2x01 (as well as mild spoilers for 2x02)

In this episode:

• Hannibal is BACK! Let the mental distress commence!
• We both have been dealing with the bane of our existences, Windows 8, so please bear with us as we work out the audio issues we seem to be having. At least this time the recorder didn't eat up anyone's words.
• Discussion of Hannibal 2x01 "Kaiseki," Hannibal and Jack's BRUTAL fight scene, the fallout of the events from last season's brain-liquifying season finale, the introduction of Cynthia Nixon's character Kade Prurnell, Will imprisoned, Bedelia in fuck shit i messed up levels of danger, and Hannibal framing Will by AHHHH WHY IS THE SOUNDTRACK ATTACKING OUR EARS.
• Ian brings up a few things he heard on the Nerdist Writers Panel episode with Bryan Fuller, where Fuller had quite a few interesting things to say about season 2 without giving TOO much away.
• Based on Fuller's comment that this season will echo Silence of the Lambs in a lot of ways, we speculate about how Mads Mikkelsen's performance will differ from Anthony Hopkins' if/WHEN (please be "when") they reach season 5 and tell the SotL storyline.
• The Ravenstag is still around! Yay!
• Links:
• fetalnightmare's awesome Bull vs. Ravenstag painting 
• Halia Meguid's Ravenstag
• Deadshirt's Interview with Janice Poon, Hannibal's food stylist
• Janice Poon's blog entry for Kaiseki
• Cleolinda, the Lathe of Fandom

THERE'S ALWAYS AN ADDENDUM:

• There's a lot of stuff we could've talked about this episode that we didn't end up talking about (Alana and the dogs, Jack and Winston--mostly stuff with the dogs, I guess), so if there's anything in particular you'd like us to pick up, definitely comment, shoot us an email, or contact us on Tumblr/Twitter/Facebook.
• There's a bunch of stuff I said I would link to. I will attempt to do so when I've had the chance to give the episode a second listen.
• Highlights from Fio's timestamps:
• 15:18 - If you could clean up what I was trying to say about the bullroarer here, you’re a saint
• 24:30 - I’m clearly trying to say “make light of” here, why the fuck couldn’t I come up with “make light of?” 

Music:

• "This is My Design" - original song, music & lyrics by Ian. More on this as it develops.

(Screencap from http://screencapped.net/tv/hannibal/thumbnails.php?album=25&page=4)

http://archive.org/download/AMOT031/AMOT031.mp3

030: Prelude to a Cannibal Opera (Cannibopera?)

(Alternative title for this episode was "ONCE MORE INTO THE BREACH MY FILTHIES!" Seriously, for like 33 whole seconds that was totes gonna be the title)

SPOILERS FOR... TRUE DETECTIVE, SLEEPY HOLLOW, NBC'S DRACULA, and NBC'S HANNIBAL (SEASON 1 AND PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS FOR SEASON 2)

In this episode:

• Cleo's back with us! Hannibal's happening again soon! Things! Things, you guys! Things!
• Before we get started, we should apologize. Profusely. It seems like our recording equipment (strong word, there) malfunctioned during the first hour of the podcast. Did my best with the editing, but there are some awkward cuts, and little bits get left out in places. In my head, I refer to the time of the podcast when malfunctions were things that happened and the time when they were not as "Before Avocado" and "Avocado Domini" respectively.
• Alright *deep breath* here we go...
• We start off doing a quick roundup of the horror shows and horror-ish shows that we've been checking out this season:
• True Detective, the influence of The King in Yellow, people telling Matthew McConaughey to shut up for thirty minutes, Fio gets confused about what a spiral looks like, why the show is worth watching.
• Sleepy Hollow and the utter wackiness that has been the entire season, the (unnecessary) justifications for tree demons out of nowhere, why the characters are what really carries us through this show, and how we're holding out hope for the irreverent madcap delight to carry us onto the next season.
• Dracula and Cleo's crushing disappointment, the difference between sex and violence being used with nuance and being used in an exploitative manner, how everyone on this show is a total prick, and how the whiplash of switching between the show's love of barely-network-safe sexytimes and barely-network-safe headsplodies will afflict you with an acute crotch confusion (Crotchfusion? Never mind, that's like the opposite of what I meant).
• If you're just looking for Hannibal, that discussion starts in earnest around 58:30 (listen for a familiar sound) with a few bits and pieces hanging about on the end of Dracula. Tee hee, gross. Anyway, as far as Hannibal is concerned:
• We say "what the fuck?" a lot. Add exclamation points to that as necessary.
• There's a lot of speculation about what we might see in the upcoming season, who's going to die, how awful is it going to get, and who is not for eating. Not for eating. #notforeating
• We get into how wonderful the 13-Hour Devour was (even though Ian and Fio were total losers and couldn't take part), and how it's super cool that Fannibals have the ability to trend a hashtag of someone who gets around 2 minutes of screentime world-wide, which is just great.
• "Entree," "Sorbet," and "Fromage" form a sort of mini-arc that we get into some depth discussing on the podcast, since we're pretty sure it's the favorite arc of the show for all three of us (am I overstepping in saying that? Correct me if that's not the case).
• The casting of the Verger kids and how fancasting Lee Pace in the role of Mason probably would have made a lot of people very upset.
• There's a Mads Mikkelsen Q&A coming up soon. We broach that topic and start talking about the nature of fandom and the interesting age demographics the Fannibals seem to be spread across.

THERE'S ALWAYS AN ADDENDUM:

• For the True Detective fans in our audience, here are links to check out regarding The Yellow Sign and SCP-701, The Hanged King
• Here's a link to a round-up of Cleolinda's Storify recaps thus far
• Ohhhhhhhh, Franklin....
• Ian thinks we should post links to Cleo's custom "My Little Ravenstag" when she receives it. Fio concurs.
• This is the article that discusses the inspiration of the Hannibal character that we mention.
• Aside from the previous round-up, here's Cleo's Storify of the 13-Hour Devour
• CAPS LOCK IS HOW I FEEL ALL THE TIME RICK
• Highlights from Ian's timemarks:
• 39:40 - More Skype recorder demons. I think there’s enough of it there to figure out what I’m saying, but we’ll just have to throw up a disclaimer on the blogpost. Fuck me, this is annoying. AND IT’S ONLY WHEN I’M TALKING. *shakes fist at podcast gods*
• 41:18 - Pause as Cleo and I try to be polite as fuck and let the other speak.
• 1:00:00 - Re: the puns: I REGRET NOTHING.
• 1:20:11 - #DidYouStealMySperm. It actually flows into discussion about Hannibal and Twitter, so we might not need to cut it for an outtake.
• Before we go, I want to point out that, thanks to Ian's timestamps, our blog now contains the phrase "...Sperm. It flows..." So if that's something you came here for, umm... We have that now.
• ETA: THE THING. #thing

Music/Sounds:

• Intro Music: "Feel Good Inc." - Gorillaz | YouTube | iTunes |
• Outro Music: "la Folia" - performed by Emilie Autumn | YouTube | iTunes |

Image:

• A necessary sacrifice courtesy of Stefofthehill

http://archive.org/download/AMOT030/amot30.mp3

029: Horror Canon - Vol. 1

SPOILERS FOR... HANNIBAL S1, GASLIGHT, AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, JAWS, HELLRAISER, ALIEN, ALIENS, & THE EXORCIST

In this episode:

• We're talking about canon. What is it? Where can I buy one? Why is canon actually a useful tool when it comes to academic discussion?
• Is your interest piqued? Good, because we're going to spend a crapload of your time attempting to convince you of the films we believe to be worthy of inclusion in Horror Movie Canon (see the capitalization there? That's how you know it's important.)
• Some of the heavier discussion herein:
• Movies by decade, in which we touch on movies that may or may not have been informed by the limitations of film making at the time they were produced or movies that represented a certain zeitgeist or anxiety of an era.
• Movies by genre, which horror movies deserve inclusion in the canon by virtue of being the forerunners of some of the most popular genres that have emerged over the years in horror storytelling, or which films seem to present the purest or most intriguing take on the tropes of that genre.
• Death of the Author and why neither of us identify as New Critics. Namely whether these separate readings of a film are mutually exclusive, how they can inform one another, and whether or not any one reading can really be called a true reading.
• Ian gets really pumped over a discussion of how the nature of the horror genre affects the agency of its protagonists. He made special mention of it in the timestamps (d'awwww).
• It's not all dry academics though, we also broach
• The possibility of liveblogging a horror movie marathon with our followers. Anyone interested?
• They made an opera out of The Fly, you guise. There are no words for how amazing that is.
• We briefly fanboy over Alien: Isolation, which just looks... just... so wonderful.
• Exorcism/possession movies? Are they exploitative?
• The Blair Witch Project and the Found Footage genre and... man, I can't even get myself excited about this writing a blog post. You've all seen V/H/S by now, right?
• Our dear friend Cleolinda made some awesome Storify gathering-ing-things of various season finales and Lifetime movies (we're just going with it). We already linked to it on our Tumblr, but if you're one of the 2.25 listeners who don't follow through our Tumblr, we've got a lovely little link for you right here.
• Speaking of Cleo, she should be joining us for the episode just before Hannibal returns to us from a long and frightening hiatus... of... the night. So, that should be fun.

THERE'S ALWAYS AN ADDENDUM:

• Ian has some afterthoughts on An American Werewolf in London:
• "I think what makes American Werewolf in London work is that it does take the werewolf elements seriously and goes all-out with them, while addressing the absurdity of the werewolf as a concept. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the only way the "criticism," if we want to call it that, works is because it takes the werewolf mythology so seriously."
• Here's a link to that scene in Cursed where a werewolf flips off a bunch of teens/twentysomethings. I'm sorry about the quality, it was the best I could find, everything else was off screen. Here's a link to a video I found while searching for that clip titled "Sexy Big Bad Wolf" which I think we can all agree is the better video. 
• Ian wanted to include a link to the egregiously misinformed Halloween bracket put together by the website Fio used to write for, however it seems to have fallen away somewhere amongst a number of website redesigns. And nothing important was lost that day.
• When discussing the movie Poltergeist, we talk about it originating the trope of a place being built on a native american burial ground. This is because we are fools. In the timestamps, Ian pointed out that the Overlook from The Shining was built on such a burial ground, and that predates the release of Poltergeist by two years. There's certain to be other stories that used this trope before either, we just weren't thinking when we were speaking, clearly.
• Highlights from Ian's timemarks:
• 8:30 - STOP SAYING LIKE DAMMIT
• 53:15 - Brochure of the Dead. It'll make millions.
• 1:01:43 - "When people think of our podcast, they think nuance and authority." I think we have a new quote for the intro music.
• 1:58:46 - We should hold a contest to see who can transcribe the noise you make here.

Music/Sounds:

• Intro Music: "Tubular Bells" - Mike Oldfield | YouTube | iTunes |
• Outro Music: "Halloween Theme Main Title" - John Carpenter | YouTube | iTunes |

Image:

• One of the most iconic images in Nosferatu, pulled directly from its wikipedia page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NosferatuShadow.jpg

http://archive.org/download/amot29/amot29.mp3

028: A Sharknado of Awful Horror Movies

SPOILERS FOR SHARKNADO, THE HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET (2012), THE FOLLOWING 1x04, AND HANNIBAL SEASON 2 (but nothing beyond what we've seen in promo materials and the Margot Verger casting).

In this episode:

• Our friend Brandon joins us as we take on the other side of horror comedy: really, really bad horror movies that are fun to watch.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 and RiffTrax: God's friggin' gift to humanity.
• The Horror of Spider Island
• Manos: The Hands of Fate
• Space Mutiny
• The Many Names of David Ryder
• The Final Sacrifice 
• Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
• Some of the movies we discuss:
• Sharknado
• Sharktopus
• Megashark vs. Giant Octopus 
• Megalodon
• Ghost Shark 
• Birdemic 
• The Room 
• Holiday-themed horror
• Jack Frost
• Santa's Sleigh
• Black Christmas
• Leeches! 
• Garth Marenghi's Dark Place
• The Wicker Man (2006)
• Vampire's Kiss 
• Ghost Rider
• When a Stranger Calls
• The House at the End of the Street (2012) 
• The Reaping 
• The Omen (2006) 
• Dark Water (2005)
• The Saw, Hostel, and Final Destination franchises
• Alone in the Dark (2005)
• We take a detour into some of the less-than-stellar things we read in creative writing workshops back in college. Ah, memories. 
• Can a movie be "so bad it's good"?
• Horse_ebooks
• The Happening in 15 Minutes
• Also, at 1:25:45, we begin discussing the recent promotions for Hannibal Season 2. SPOILERS. (This was recorded on 1/21, so it's not quite up-to-date.)

THERE'S ALWAYS AN ADDENDUM:

• "If you fuck the tornado in the shark...then...with bombs...then resolution." Never were more beautiful words spoken.
• We spend a chunk of time on shark-related horror movies. Perhaps more than necessary. 
• I'm fairly confident the phrase "metatextual presence" and the movie The Room never been used in a sentence together before Fio used them on this podcast. He's a trailblazer, that one.
• We take another detour into the Marvel comics universe when we hit Ghost Rider. Not so horror-related.
• Holy crap, how did I mix up David Spade and James Spader.
• For some reason I thought we mentioned Nazis at the Center of the Earth on this episode, but we didn't. Sorry to disappoint.
• Highlights from Fio's timemarks:
• 14:40 - There’s a joke in here somewhere about surviving being swallowed, I just don’t think I’ve got a dirty enough mind to puzzle it out.
• 1:37:11 - How in the hell did I use the word “admission” in place of “acknowledgement” here when I clearly meant to say “acknowledgement,” Ian!? How!?!? HOWWWWWWWWWWWW!?!?!?!hjlkasdfuhgiuqweg 

Music/Sounds:

• Opening: Tara Reid Said What?
• Intro Music: "Wipeout" - The Surfaris | YouTube | iTunes |
• Outro Music: "Silent Hill (Otherside)" - Akira Yamaoka | YouTube |

(Picture taken from http://ladymanson.com/galleries/movies/MoviesRS/thumbnails.php?album=78&page=49)

http://archive.org/download/AMOT028/AMOT028.mp3