Best Urban Teen Podcasts (2024)

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Ep 51 - 10 Things I Hate About You 1:33:44

2h ago1:33:44

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How exactly does one tame a shrew? It’s hard to say, but it does feel like a job for an Aussie, doesn’t it? This week on Save the Last Pod, it’s the 1999 classic high school Shakespeare adaptation that launched the career of everybody’s favorite heartthrob from down under – it’s 10 Things I Hate About You! This is a big film in the teen movie genre…

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Ep 50 - Halloween H20 1:12:44

3h ago1:12:44

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What do the Halloween franchise and Everything Everywhere All At Once have in common? Aside from the OG final girl, Jamie Lee Curtis, it's the multiverse! Sort of! We enter the mid-way point of the biggest horror-slasher franchise and reunite with the once former teen scream Queen, Laurie Strode, back from the dead - or was she ever gone? - in Hall…

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Ep. 192: Vermont Hauntings, Legends and Strangeness 1:03:03

3h ago1:03:03

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To wrap up the spooky season here on the show (though, let's be honest, that never really ends around these parts) we're taking a trip to beautiful Vermont, where the skiing is top-notch, the leaf-peeping is absolutely beautiful, and the ghosts...well, the ghosts seem to be all around, too. On our journey through the Green Mountain State we'll meet…

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Ep. 191: Weather Control 1:09:19

6d ago1:09:19

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A topical storm washes over the podcast this week as we wade into the controversy and conspiracy around weather modification. As conversation online takes a turn for the unhinged in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, we take a quick look at the reality of changing the weather, Ain't It Scary style. Sean does his best with the science (and ps…

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Ep 49 - Scream 4 1:14:27

6d ago1:14:27

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Happy Hallowteen! This one’s for all our Stab fanatics out there. We’re giving you three Stabs with a side of Scream. This week on Save the Last Pod, it is perhaps the most meta movie in the most meta franchise of all-time – it’s the 2011 classic Scream 4! In this episode, Amy & Dan rank the Screams and the Stabs, and talk all things Stu & Dew, and…

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Ep 48 - Jennifer's Body 1:08:19

13d ago1:08:19

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In the hierarchy of evil there are all manner of lesser imps and demons, but today’s movie tells us that Hell is a teenage girl. This week on Save the Last Pod, we’re talking about the 2009 late-emo, sleeper cult classic Jennifer’s Body. In this episode, Amy & Dan talk about succubi, whether or not Jenji Kohen and Diablo Cody are the same person (t…

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HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: Spooky Flicks and Halloween Party Invites 1:08:13

13d ago1:08:13

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In this pre-Halloween special edition of "Spooky Chat," Sean and Carrie run down announcements ranging from the mundane to the life-changing before discussing the flicks we've been watching this Halloween, and the best and worst possible Ain't It Scary party guests. 7:11 - Urban Legend 11:11 - Halloween (1978) 18:55 - The Addams Family 21:20 - Casp…

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Ep 47 - Final Destination 1:07:11

21d ago1:07:11

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Is there anything scarier than commercial air travel? TSA lines, airplane bathrooms, broken seat back entertainment systems – oh no! New Line took a gamble on that premise and spun it into 6 feature films. This week on Save the Last Pod, we’re covering the Rube Goldberg machine that started the franchise – it’s Final Destination! In this episode, A…

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Ep. 190: Halloween Urban Legends - Teens in Trouble 52:44

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Here on the show we love to get in the spooky season spirit by gathering around the virtual bonfire, throwing some sand into the flames, and getting into some famous urban legends. This year is no different - and now, along with our past explorations into the folklore surrounding tainted Halloween candy and the Bloody Mary ritual, we're adding thre…

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Ep 46 - Urban Legend 1:07:51

1M ago1:07:51

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Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary… say it again. We dare you. Candyman, Candyman… say it again. We dare you. Of course, you know nothing bad will come of it if you do, but deep in the recesses of your mind, you suspect that these aren’t just urban legends. Right? That’s the question posed by this week’s movie… Urban Legend! We’re back for Hallowteen, and th…

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Ep. 189: Legends of the New Jersey Pine Barrens - Ghosts, the Jersey Devil and Pirate Treasure 1:02:25

27d ago1:02:25

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The New Jersey Pine Barrens: Over one million acres of sparsely populated, occasionally-on-fire wilderness, where the soil isn't good for growing anything but legends. Join us on a tour of Jersey's Pinelands and all the creepies and cryptids that supposedly make them their home, from pirate ghosts to the famed Jersey Devil. Go easy on Sean, Jersey-…

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Ep. 188: The OceanGate Disaster 1:18:15

1M ago1:18:15

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On June 18th, 2023, the underwater tourism company OceanGate launched its Titan submersible, which was heading down with five passengers - billionaire adventurer Hamish Harding, deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and the CEO of OceanGate itself, Stockton Rush - to nearly 2.5 miles beneath the oc…

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Ep. 187: Son of Sam, Pt. 2 - Son of Hope 1:15:48

2M ago1:15:48

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Satanic Panic is back, baby, in the second of two parts on the Son of Sam murders! Sean takes us to the scenes of the last few shootings David Berkowitz committed in the summer of 1977, before covering Berkowitz's tumultuous transition to incarceration and eventual (inevitable?) cellblock conversion to evangelical Christianity. Oh, yes, and a talki…

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Ep. 186: Son of Sam, Pt. 1 - The Chubby Behemoth 1:14:21

2M ago1:14:21

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Trigger warnings for death and disco this week as we had back to mid-1970s New York to explore the "Son of Sam" murders that left the city in panic for one frantic year. From July 1976 to July 1977, David Berkowitz embarked on a string of cold-blooded murders with a .44 caliber pistol, killing six innocent people and wounding another seven more. Th…

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Ep. 185: The Tylenol Murders 51:45

2M ago51:45

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In late September 1982, seven residents of the Chicago metropolitan area collapsed mysteriously, dying mere hours or days later. It didn't take investigators long to realize all seven victims had taken Extra-Strength Tylenol just prior to their deaths. All of them had been murdered, by a stranger, with cyanide, which had tainted the Tylenol capsule…

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Ep. 184: Mothman, Pt. 3 - Unifying Theory of Mothman 1:00:21

2M ago1:00:21

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#HotMothSummer comes to a climactic end this week with the end of the first Mothman flap of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1966-1967 and the catastrophic collapse of the Silver Bridge, a tragedy in which 46 people lost their lives. Was the Mothman trying to warn those of the calamity to come...or merely a harbinger of their doom? And what was wit…

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A Late Summer Night's Scream: Chatting Horror Content, Spooky Season, Ancient Rome and Hypotheticals 1:11:38

3M ago1:11:38

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Thanks for your patience as we push through some tiring personal stuff to get to a great end to our Mothman series, and capping off #HotMothSummer just ahead of Labor Day! In the interest of our sanity, we kept it fairly loose this week with a late catch-up featuring Sean & Carrie gathering round the spooky campfire and talking their recently-consu…

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Ep. 183: Mothman, Pt. 2 - Pinkeye in Point Pleasant 1:03:51

3M ago1:03:51

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This week, we return to Point Pleasant for even more high strangeness as the Men in Black, a fleet of UFOs, and author John Keel descend on the town and get mixed up in a series of bizarre encounters including a little man with a ballpoint pen obsession, Indrid Cold and his posse of Lanulans (including our fave, Kletaw) and one very (and rightfully…

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Ep 45 - D2: The Mighty Ducks 1:12:26

3M ago1:12:26

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The Summer Olympics are in full swing but, like most good Americans, we’re more excited for the winter games so we can watch hockey – specifically Goodwill Games hockey. This week on Save the Last Pod, it’s a Disney teen movie sequel to the youth sports classic that banged so hard it spawned an NHL franchise. It’s D2: The Mighty Ducks! In this epis…

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Ep. 182: Mothman, Pt. 1 - Daddy Magneto 55:40

3M ago55:40

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This week, #HotMothSummer continues as we finally reach the story we've been building up to: the strange tale of the Mothman, a maybe-cryptid maybe-alien that descended upon the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in 1966 to freak out the locals and eventually nab himself his own festival, museum, and of course, a particularly bootylicious …

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Ep 44 - Lords of Dogtown 1:09:38

3M ago1:09:38

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The Summer Olympics is in full swing, and we are celebrating with a teen movie that sheds light on not one but two more modern Olympic sports. Yes, we are talking about surfing and skateboarding and specifically about how a rag-tag group of teen surfers in the Dogtown area of Venice Beach unintentionally innovated and launched skateboarding into th…

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Ep 43 - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 1:08:56

4M ago1:08:56

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While jeans are super American, this movie was not shot anywhere in America, but it stars four American TV show-led sweethearts, and one of them is named America! Have you figured out what movie we are talking about yet? Of course, you have, you are a teen Queen just like us! This week on Save the Last Pod, it's the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pan…

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Ep 42 - Summer School 1:13:43

4M ago1:13:43

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It’s summertime and that means it’s time to relax, beach and catch a tan. It’s certainly not time to be in class. You passed all of your classes, right? It’s actually fine if you didn’t because Mr. Schoop is teaching summer school this year. That’s right, this week on Save the Last Pod, it’s the definitive summer school movie, Summer School! In thi…

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Ep. 181: Men in Black, Pt. 2 - Good Cop, Bathroom Cop 1:12:16

4M ago1:12:16

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#HotMothSummer presses on this week with part 2 of our primer on the Men in Black! Sean takes us back to 1953 Bridgeport, Connecticut, as we hear in Albert Bender's own words what he says he experienced that fateful summer. What sounded from the outside like an intimidating visit from government officials quickly spins into a sci-fi thriller full o…

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Ep 41 - Summer Catch 1:11:49

4M ago1:11:49

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It’s a long season and we’re in the thick of it. Yes, these are the dog days of Summer, and nobody knows that better than the boys of the Cape Cod Baseball League – there’s no pay, they live like foreign exchange students with host families and they use wooden bats like it’s the 1800’s. This week on Save the Last Pod, it’s the definitive Cape Cod L…

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Ep. 180: Men in Black, Pt. 1 - Middle-Aged White Guy Activities 59:09

4M ago59:09

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Best known today for diminishing cinematic returns, the Men In Black have been one of the creepiest boogymen of the UFO community for nearly 80 years. This week, Sean takes us all the way back to 1947 and the first reported incident of someone being approached by a black-suited government agent after a UFO sighting and told to keep quiet. Next we j…

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Ep 40 - Brats 51:23

5M ago51:23

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This week on Save the Last Pod, we detour the teen movie-watching experience to the art of documentary filmmaking and discuss the newly released feature film from 1980’s teen centerpiece, Andrew McCarthy. A documentary so historical, so thought-provoking it can only be about one thing - the founding teens of teen movies - Emilio! Rob! Judd! Tom! Mo…

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Ep. 179: The Culper Spy Ring 1:14:53

5M ago1:14:53

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As an Independence Day treat, we hop into the time machine for a little "Ain't it Sneaky" here on the show with the twisting tale of the Culper Spy Ring, America's first foray into espionage during the Revolutionary War. Formed after the tragic execution of newbie colonial spy and forever Connecticut hero Nathan Hale, the Culper Spy Ring was the br…

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Ep 39 - Camp Nowhere 1:09:42

5M ago1:09:42

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Step back to the summer of 1994, a time when your parents were keen on sending you to computer camp, but you had other plans. You decided to hire a con man, a former drama teacher, to pose as a camp counselor and create your own camp, where the only rule was to have fun. This week on Save the Last Pod, we're taking you back to that unforgettable su…

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Ep. 178: Sam the Sandown Clown 1:00:47

5M ago1:00:47

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This week it's a summertime holiday story for the summertime holiday season as Sean introduces us to the creature fondly remembered as the Sandown Clown. This C-team cryptid (maybe) is reported to have chatted with two vacationing children on the Isle of Wight one warm day in 1973, introducing itself, "Hello and I am all colors, Sam." The "clown's"…

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Ep. 177: Haunted Lighthouses of the Northeastern U.S. 1:00:34

5M ago1:00:34

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Lighthouses have stood on the Northeastern coast of America for centuries, beacons of hope in dark night or a desperate storm...and, sometimes, silent witnesses to the many tragedies that can befall seafarers and their loved ones in the course of their sometimes dangerous work. This week, we take a trip through the past 300 years of American histor…

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Ep 38 - Holes 1:12:11

5M ago1:12:11

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Camp evokes positive memories for most of us – playing sports, swimming in a lake, maybe having your first kiss. But for some of us, camp was work. This week on Save the Last Pod, camp sucks, because we’re talking about the 2003 Disney forced child labor film Holes! In this episode, Amy and Dan discuss a Louis Sachar classic YA book turned movie. T…

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Ep. 176: John Reginald Christie - The Monster of Rillington Place 1:27:16

5M ago1:27:16

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We take a trip back to '40s and '50s London this week to cover the grimy and gruesome story of serial killer John Reginald Christie, who gassed and strangled 8 women to death and stowed their bodies in and around his London flat. Sean takes us through the case that helped get the death penalty abolished in the UK, and we tackle all the most importa…

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Ep. 175: Black Eyed Kids 1:06:45

5M ago1:06:45

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For our 175th episode, we're going back to our spooky roots to investigate another internet-popularized urban legend: Black Eyed Kids. In 1998, journalist Brian Bethel took to the fledgling interwebs to share a strange tale. Sitting in his car alone one night in 1996, he'd been approached by two strange children - children who insisted he let them …

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Ep 37 - The Girl Next Door 1:28:36

5M ago1:28:36

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What’s the craziest thing you’ve done lately? Run down the street naked with nothing but a tire to carry around your waist? Pool hop in your principal’s pool late at night? Order a Long Island Iced Tea at the strip club in the middle of the day and run into your dad’s BFF? Oh wait – that’s not you, that’s our movie this week! It’s the 2004 Emile Hi…

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Ep 36 - Twilight 1:17:37

6M ago1:17:37

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For millennials, there is not much more of a triggering question than, “Team Edward or Team Jacob?” and it's the one we are asking ourselves this week on Save the Last Pod! Round up all your Twi-Hard friends and family, we are flying up the trees of the Pacific Northwest to get into the Kristen Stewart, Edward Cullen Vampire Fantasy Romance that st…

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Ep. 174: Waiting for Vermeer - The Gardner Museum Heist 1:17:32

6M ago1:17:32

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This week we tackle the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, one of the most notorious and high-value art heists of all time. One March night in Boston, 1990, two men donned police disguises to enter the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Once inside, they subdued security and walked off with a collection of art potentially valued at over…

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Ep 35 - Sh!thouse 1:12:57

6M ago1:12:57

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Never judge a book by its cover is great advice – especially this week! Don’t let the scary title fool you, Sh!thouse is a real sweetie! That’s right prom kings and queens, this episode of Save the Last Pod is the teeny tiniest, sweetest little package of a film you’ve ever seen. In this ep, Amy and Dan talk indie filmmaking, freshman year dorms an…

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Ep 34 - Three O'Clock High 1:14:00

6M ago1:14:00

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The clock is ticking and that means it is time for a NEW episode of Save the Last Pod! This week, we're delving into a cult-classic that famously lost its backer, Mr. Steven Speilberg, once he saw the final cut. Brace yourself for the David vs. Goliath, anxiety-driven teen romp, “THREE O’CLOCK HIGH!” It's a journey you won't want to miss. That’s ri…

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Ep. 173: Modern Mummies - Crime, Tragedy, and Idolatry 1:06:02

6M ago1:06:02

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This week, we're celebrating all kinds of mums - but no, that isn't in observance of America's Mother's Day holiday this upcoming Sunday! No, the collection of mums we're discussing are of a decidedly drier type: mummified human remains. And these aren't the millennia-old corpses of ancient Egyptian Pharoahs; no, all the mummies we're discussing co…

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Ep. 172: Ancient Aliens 1:21:14

6M ago1:21:14

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This week we're tackling the "ancient astronaut" hypothesis: the idea that ancient humans had repeated contact with extraterrestrials that is borne out in their myths, art, and monumental achievements. How were the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Moai of Easter Island erected without modern technology? Could the Bible, the myths of the Babylonians an…

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Ep. 171: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping, Pt. 2 - Trial of the Century 1:20:51

7M ago1:20:51

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Last week we shared the first half of the dramatic tale of one of America's so-called "Crimes of the Century" - the kidnapping, and tragic murder, of Charles Lindbergh Jr., toddler son to one of the most famous men in the world: aviator Charles Lindbergh. In this, our 2nd and final part, we detail the painstaking investigation that eventually led t…

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Ep 233 - 13 Going on 30 1:19:44

7M ago1:19:44

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If you woke up tomorrow naked, next to a New York Ranger only to discover you somehow missed the last 17 years of your life, what would you do? This week on Save the Last Pod, we discuss the best case scenario in the kind of time travel/sort of body switching 2004 classic, 13 Going on 30! In this episode, Amy & Dan talk turk on Ben and Jen – rather…

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Ep. 170: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping, Pt. 1 - Crime of the Century 1:10:15

7M ago1:10:15

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On the night of March 1st, 1932, little Charles Lindbergh Jr. was tucked into his crib for a good night's sleep. Mere hours later, the family nurse discovered that Charles Jr. was no longer in his bed...nor was he anywhere else to be found. The disappearance kicked off the beginning of one of America's so-called "crimes of the century", and one of …

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Ep 32 - The Rules of Attraction 1:14:54

7M ago1:14:54

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Trigger Warning, Content Warning, Dark Dawson Warning! This week on Save the Last Pod, Dan raises Amy, another angsty teen movie. This time, it may be angstier than last week’s film. It's the 2002 art-house satire RULES OF ATTRACTION! Let’s go! In this episode, hear how the modern-day restaurant app Dorsia paved the way for the character of Sean Ba…

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Ep 31 - Empire Records 1:14:09

7M ago1:14:09

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Happy belated Rex Manning Day, y’all! If you know, you know – and since you’re a listener of Save the Last Pod, you probably know. This week on Save the Last Pod, we’re running on the angst and vibes of the 1995 cult classic, Empire Records! In this episode, Amy & Dan talk about music, baby. They talk soundtracks and physical media. They talk about…

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Ep. 169: The Bell Witch 1:18:49

7M ago1:18:49

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It's an old school ghost story this week - and we mean *way* old school, as we jump back to the early 19th century to explore the Bell Witch Haunting. From 1817 to 1821 John Bell Sr. and his family were harassed by an invisible presence with a clear, distinct voice and a penchant for slapping people around. This week Sean introduces us to the Bell …

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Ep. 168: Suicide Songs - 'Gloomy Sunday', Lavender Town Syndrome, and the 'My Way' Murders 1:07:50

7M ago1:07:50

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[Obvious TW this week for discussion of suicide.] Over the years, certain songs have attracted dark reputations. Reputations like that the songs might drive you mad enough to end your own life... or make others mad enough to end another's. This week, we discuss 3 famous examples of these "suicide songs": the morosely melancholic "Gloomy Sunday", th…

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Ep 30 - The Sandlot 1:17:46

7M ago1:17:46

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Do you ever wish you could go back in time to your salad days? To the dog days of summer when you desperately needed to learn how to play baseball to make friends and impress your step-dad? This week on Save the Last Pod, it’s a shot of nostalgia with a milk chaser. In this episode, Amy & Dan are talking about the 1993 pre-teen baseball classic, “T…

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Ep. 167: Leonarda Cianciulli - The Soap-Maker of Correggio 1:03:30

8M ago1:03:30

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Born in small-town Italy in 1893, Leonarda Cianciulli had led a hard and tragic life - but her friends and neighbors in Correggio, Reggio Emilia knew her as a kindly woman and a good neighbor. Naturally, they were all shocked when she was arrested for luring three local women to their violent deaths. Axe Murder March finishes with a bang (a whack?)…

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