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How I Met Your Monster

Zach Wincik, Danny Salemme, Casey Brewer

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Remember the first time you saw Leatherface? Freddy Krueger? Jason Voorhees? Join filmmakers and horror buffs Zach, Danny, and Casey as they discuss how the world was introduced to their favorite monsters! From the original film, to the umpteenth sequel, they discuss all the creative ways that horror filmmakers kept us coming back to meet our monsters.
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Paige Reynolds's book Modernism in Irish Women's Contemporary Writing: The Stubborn Mode (Oxford UP, 2023) examines the tangled relationship between contemporary Irish women writers and literary modernism. In the early decades of the twenty-first century, Irish women's fiction has drawn widespread critical acclaim and commercial success, with a sur…
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Celebrating SHARK WEEK the best way we know how - with genetically-enhanced super sharks in DEEP BLUE SEA. Joining us to chat about killer sharks with massive frontal lobes is Mark J. Parker, host of the RELEASE DATE REWIND podcast! Is Deep Blue Sea the best shark movie? How does it stack up against Jaws? Does Samuel L. Jackson reprise his role as …
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Shahmima Akhtar is a historian of race, migration and empire and an assistant professor of Black and Asian British History at the University of Birmingham. She previously worked at the Royal Historical Society to improve BME representation in UK History, whether working with schools and the curriculum, cultural institutions, community groups or oth…
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Kicking off our BUGGING OUT triple feature, we’re going on a wilderness retreat into blood-sucking, bug-boiling bedlam as we meet a horde of giant, hallucinogenic ticks in Tony Randel’s TICKS, starring Seth Green, Alfonso Ribeiro, Virginya Keehne, Clint Howard, Peter Scolari, and Rosalind Allen. Make sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or…
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In this interview, he discusses his new book The Land War in Ireland: Famine, Philanthropy and Moonlighting (Cork UP, 2023), a collection of interconnected essays on different aspects of agrarian agitation in 1870s and 1880s Ireland. The Land War in Ireland addresses perceived lacunae in the historiography of the Land War in late nineteenth-century…
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Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration (Boydell & Brewer, 2022) by Dr. Bronagh Ann McShane investigates the impact of the dissolution of the monasteries on women religious and examines their survival in the following decades, showing how, despite the state's official proscription of vocation living, rel…
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Wrapping up our WRITER’S SHOCK triple feature, we’re taking a weekend getaway into madness, monsters, and the unhinged nature of creative chaos that gave us Frankenstein, Dracula, and more in Ken Russell’s GOTHIC, starring Gabriel Byrne, Natasha Richardson, Julian Sands, Timothy Spall, and Myriam Cyr. Make sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spoti…
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In this episode, Dan, Deb, and Scott discuss New Glarus' brand-new splash series. Splash Watermelon is shipping to distributors the week of June 10th and will show up all around Wisconsin shortly after that. Splash Watermelon is an exceptionally light, fruited malt beverage clocking in at 4% ABV, 6.5 grams of carbs, and around 100 calories. Cheers!…
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Cian T. McMahon is an associate professor of history at University of Nevada-Las Vegas. His research focuses on the history and identity of the Irish Diaspora. In this interview, he discusses his new book The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine (NYU Press, 2021), a social history of migration during the Great Irish Fami…
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Continuing our WRITER’S SHOCK triple feature, we’re seeing how long we can last through a ​​mind-melting exercise in fear, faith, and five-star hotels as we meet an evil hotel room in Mikael Håfström’s adaptation of Stephen King's 1408, starring John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Jasmine Jessica Anthony, and Tony Shaloub. Make sure to …
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In this interview, Dr. Nicholas Taylor-Collins discusses his most recent book Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature (Manchester UP, 2022). Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English and modern Irish literature. Characterizing the relationship as 'dismemorial', the b…
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In this special BONUS episode, Zach and Danny journey beyond the nightclubs of Shanghai, over the Himalayans, and past the village of Mayapore to meet Mola Ram and his Thuggee cult in Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, starring Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone, and Roy Chiao. Mak…
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Marc McMenamin's Ireland's Secret War: Dan Bryan, G2 and the Lost Tapes that Reveal The Hunt for Ireland's Nazi Spies (Gill Books, 2022) is a thrilling account of the true extent of Irish-Allied co-operation during World War II. It reveals strategic Nazi intentions for Ireland and the real role of leading government figures of the time, placing Dan…
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Kicking off our WRITER’S SHOCK triple feature, we’re taking a mind-altering road trip through alternate dimensions to meet Sutter Cane and his army of cosmic monsters in John Carpenter’s IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, starring Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, Frances Bay, John Glover, and David Warner. Make sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, S…
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Marion Casey is a professor at Glucksman Ireland House at New York University where she also serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies. She has published widely on various aspects of Irish-American history and in 2006 she co-edited Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States with Joe Lee. In this interview, s…
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Wrapping up off our HALFWAY TO HALLOWEEN triple feature, we’re lighting the black flame candle on hallowed ground to meet the Sanderson Sisters in Kenny Ortega’s HOCUS POCUS, starring Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Omri Katz, Vinessa Shaw, Thora Birch, and Doug Jones. Make sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere…
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In this episode, Brewmaster Dan Carey invited retired brewing scientist and microbiologist Greg Casey on the podcast to discuss all things lager beer. Greg Casey has a PhD in Applied Microbiology & Food Science from the University of Saskatchewan and worked for Anheuser-Busch (1987-1991), Red Star Yeast and Products (1991-1992), The Stroh Brewery C…
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J.N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism (Oxford University Press, 2024) describes the work of one of the most important and under-studied theologians in the history of Christianity. In the late 1820s, John Nelson Darby abandoned his career as a priest in the Church of Ireland to become one of the principal leaders of a small but rapidly growi…
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Exploring both his life and legacy, the first full biography of William Sharman Crawford, the leading agrarian and democratic radical active in Ulster politics between the early 1830s and the 1850s. This biography places the life and ideas of William Sharman Crawford in the context of the development of radical liberalism in Ulster province over a …
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St. Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St. Patrick, she established a monastery for men and women at Kildare which became one of the most powerful and influential centres of the Church in early Ireland. The stories of Brigid's life and deeds survive in several early sources, but the most i…
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Continuing our HALFWAY TO HALLOWEEN triple feature, we’re hitting up an All Hallow’s Eve after party with Art the Clown in Damien Leone’s TERRIFIER, starring David Howard Thornton, Samantha Scaffidi, Jenna Kanell, and Catherine Corcoran. Make sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you get your podcasts. Want to support the show a…
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The Irish and the Jews are two of the classic outliers of modern Europe. Both struggled with their lack of formal political sovereignty in the nineteenth-century. Simultaneously European and not European, both endured a bifurcated status, perceived as racially inferior and yet also seen as a natural part of the European landscape. Both sought to de…
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Seamus O’Malley is an associate professor at Yeshiva University. His first book was Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative (Oxford University Press, 2015). He has co-edited three volumes, one of essays on Ford Madox Ford and America (Rodopi, 2010), a research companion to Ford (Routledge, 2018) and a volume of essays on the cartooni…
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Kicking off our HALFWAY TO HALLOWEEN triple feature, we’re playing ding dong ditch on Death’s doorstep and coming face-to-face with the ghosts of our past in Joel Schumacher’s FLATLINERS, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, Kimberly Scott, and Hope Davis. Make sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, S…
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In this episode, Dan and Scott discuss R&D Bourbon Barrel Scotch Ale (Aged in Jack Daniels barrels which we know is technically a Tennessee Whiskey) and Dan's recent trip to judge a beer competition in England and also Belgium where he visited Westvleteren and observed the crewing process at Cantillon. Cheers!…
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Coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud, pigs. Each of these objects were ubiquitous in the premodern cultural representation of the Irish. Through case studies of these five objects, Colleen Taylor’s new monograph Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830 (Oxford University Press, 2024) recovers the sometimes-oppress…
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Famine brought ruin to the Irish countryside in the nineteenth century. In response, people around the world and from myriad social, ethnic, and religious backgrounds became involved in Irish famine relief. They included enslaved Black people in Virginia, poor tenant farmers in rural New York, and members of the Cherokee and Choctaw nations, as wel…
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The story of Charles Stewart Parnell, one of the greatest Irish leaders of the nineteenth century and also one of the most renowned figures of the 1880s on the international stage, and John Dillon, the most celebrated, but also the most neglected, of Parnell's lieutenants. As Paul Bew shows in Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics: Judging Dillon and …
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Wrapping up our “Under the Influence” triple feature, we’re going viral — in the most demonic sense imaginable — with Danny and Michael Philippou’s (aka RackaRacka’s) TALK TO ME, starring Sophie Wilde, Joe Bird, Alexandra Jensen, Zoe Terakes, and Miranda Otto. Make sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you get your podcasts. Wan…
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Continuing our “Under the Influence” triple feature, we’re getting wiiiicked daaaahhhhk with floating demonic doppelgangers, the trials and turmoil of caregiving, and Lipstickgate in Bryan Bertino’s THE DARK AND THE WICKED, starring Marin Ireland, Michael Abbott Jr., Julie Oliver-Touchstone, and Xander Berkeley. Make sure to subscribe on Apple Podc…
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In this episode, Scott sits down with Chuck Bigler, owner of Puempel's Olde Tavern in New Glarus. Puempel's has been a continuously operating tavern in New Glarus since the late 1800s and Chuck is a fount of knowledge about all things New Glarus. The tavern has a rich history which Chuck will proudly tell you about if you stop in for a beer. Cheers…
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"Angela is having a party. Jason and Freddy are too scared to come. But you'll have a hell of a time." Angela must have known that we are celebrating our 100th episode because she threw us an awesome party! It's got the three things that every 80's Halloween party should have - beer, music, and demonic possession. We're kicking off our Under the In…
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Released just two months before Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" and showcasing just as much shock value, 1960's "Peeping Tom" explores fear, voyeurism, and the shame that society puts on our basic human needs. In this episode, we meet our monster MARK LEWIS in London and discuss his upbringing, the appropriate age to enjoy a glass of milk, and the igno…
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