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Ransom Note is an online music, arts and culture magazine. We provide a home for readers and writers with boundless enthusiasm, esoteric knowledge, fierce opinions and impeccable taste. With our core team immersed in all aspects of dance music, we publish news, articles, and interviews covering the greatest in innovative, underground culture from across the globe. We offer regular, exclusive music and mixtapes from our favourite artists, and publish features shining a light on everything fro ...
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A Podcast About Something, nothing, anything, and everything. Join Kalvin and Nick each week as we dive deep into whatever it is we find interesting. Whether it be sports, movies, TV, comics, current news, pop culture or whatever else may pop into our brains, each week we bring you a new topic with a fresh and exciting outlook. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/apasomething/support
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Our first 81 episodes are what we now consider APNC 1.0 with our original crew: Opie, Pete, Kevin, Alex, and later, David. Through the onset of COVID and life changes, the podcast began to evolve. It was the end of an era, but we loved this crew and the memories we made. You'll notice that our earliest episodes are not on YouTube. The addition of video was never in the plans, but came to life as a surprise side effect of COVID. Going into 2022, Pete and Kevin took the show in a new direction ...
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The ultimate remix of Marvel fandom! Marvel/Method is a weekly podcast from Marvel and SiriusXM where actor and rapper Method Man interviews celebrity guests about life and all things fandom, Marvel comics, music and more. Guests will include DMC, Killer Mike, Jemele Hill, and many more! Like the show? SiriusXM subscribers can stream the entire first season now, available only on the SiriusXM app! Not a subscriber? Visit siriusxm.com/marvel to find out more.
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The In My Footsteps Podcast fills you up with a heaping helping of Gen-X nostalgia from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. There are fun lifestyle topics, a dash of history, a slice of humor, and more mixed into a buffet of topics you'll love to hear about. Created and hosted by New England author Christopher Setterlund.
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Send us a text What were some of the most infamous New England mental asylums? What was Halloween safety like in 1977? What about horror movies made into video games? Scares come in all shapes and sizes on Episode 166 of the podcast. Spooky Season doesn't get more terrifying than the reality of mental hospitals in the 19th and 20th centuries. We lo…
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It's a quick one, as it's just Kevin this week and he covers the latest episodes of From, The Penguin, Agatha All Along, as well as the new Salem's Lot film. Kevin starts off the show withe the latest episode of The Penguin. It's more of a Vic centered episode, though we do get a lot of Oz and Sofia (played by Cristin Milioti who Kevin owes a milli…
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“It fits every situation. From sailing to baptism to weddings and name days. Not ideal to listen in the sewer.”Jaakko Eino Kalevi returned at the end of last year with new album, Chaos Magic (the Greek concept of “kháos”) – a double album of elemental pop and baroque electronics. It was a wild, immersive experience written and recorded largely in h…
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Send us a text A pet bat? A look into the mind of a convicted serial killer? Some of the best horror movies of the 1990s? Episode 165 of the podcast is scary good. It kicks off with a terrifying look into the mind of a serial killer. Hadden Clark is a name longtime listeners might be familiar with due to his connection to the Lady of the Dunes docu…
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It’s funny how something so wrong might feel so right. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, the deck stacked against you and the rules all askew. Yet these were the cards that he had been dealt, perhaps dealing was healing after all?As he wandered through the city streets, a wildcard in the night, he wondered what people back home might think of his…
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Andrew's back!! That means we talk about stuff we just talked about... Transformers One, Agatha All Along, and The Penguin. And for something new... Speak No Evil (but the 2002 version, so... old?) That's right. After a months on the high seas (sort of) Andrew returns refreshed, so we immediately made him record for 3 hours! A good chunk of that is…
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This week we have something very special. Andrew's friend Bryant hooked us up with the opportunity to interview legendary comic writer Bill Spangler! This is our first true interview and Bill is an amazing guest. Many thanks to Bryant for setting this up for us! We cover a wide spread of topics here, including Bill's introduction to Sci-Fi, creator…
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It's Kevin and Lauren this week and they talk Agatha All Along, Blink Twice, The Penguin, The Uglies, Happy Death Day, and The Roommate. The show kicks off classy with Lauren taking us to Broadway again. She talks about the new Mia Farrow and patty Lupone play, The Roommate. It's a great story of two women, late in their lives and with very differe…
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Send us a text Inside the Hoosac Tunnel aka the 'Bloody Pit.' A look back at the connection between MTV and WWE in the 1980s. The funniest knock-off brand products. Spooky season kicks off here with Episode 164. The Hoosac Tunnel in Western Massachusetts is a marvel of 19th-century engineering. It is also one of the most haunted places in the entir…
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Send us a text The compact disc hits middle age. Wacky fast food fails of the disco era. More sights from a Northern New England road trip. Episode 163 kicks off autumn by falling into some fun nostalgia. It begins with Part 2 of a recent 3-day road trip into New Hampshire, Vermont, and Western Massachusetts. We'll get into more places that are wor…
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Kevin and Lauren are back this week with reviews of Transformers One, Twisters, Rebel Ridge, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Mother of the Bride. Lauren kicks off the show with a trip to the theater to see Twisters. It's not really a remake or a sequel, but it is about Glenn Powell, Daisy Edgar Jones, and Anthony Ramos chasing tornadoes, so it's not …
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Kevin and Lauren are back this week on a big Netflix binge with Love is Blind (UK), The Deliverance, The Perfect Couple, Irena's Vow, and Job. This episode starts with a heave dose of reality - both of the reality TV kind and some interesting true stories. Lauren kicks it off with Love is Blind UK. Unlike Kevin's favorite show, Love Island, Love is…
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Send us a text Details from a breathtaking road trip to Northern New England. 1980s diet and exercise fad fails. Another Top 5 with an AI challenger. Episode 162 runs the gamut of past, present, and future. It begins with Part 1 of a recent 3-day road trip into New Hampshire, Vermont, and Western Massachusetts. What places are worth visiting? What …
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Send us a text A movie so bad my grandmother made us walk out? Passing fads of the 1970s? A remix from the first episode of the podcast? Episode 161 looks ahead toward the fall while looking back with a heavy dose of nostalgia. It kicks off with a movie widely considered to be one of the worst of the 1980s. Howard the Duck was a somewhat popular Ma…
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This week Kevin and Lauren cover It Ends With Us, The Killer, Didi, The Gentlemen, Stalker, and Star Wars Outlaws. Lauren opens the show with the wildly successful, It Ends With Us. She gives a decent review and, of course, the subject of behind the scene drama comes up. That aside, the review is solid so it's worth a watch. Next up, Kevin talks ab…
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It's just Kevin this week and he covers the Series Finale of Evil and the paid streaming release of Longlegs. The folks at Starbucks pumpkin spice latter came out and saw it's shadow, or whatever, so fall has officially begun. And with the PSL also comes the beginning of spooky season. Thus Kevin's horror watch-a-palooza begins with the series fina…
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Send us a text Famous and infamous tabloid talk shows. Some of the myths you believed growing up. How school was different in the 1980s. Episode 160 of the podcast is a trip back in time as kids go back to school. It begins with some shows that might have been on rotation during school sick days in the 80s. With the recent death of pioneering talk …
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Send us a text What was Grunge Culture? What were some of the most memorable commercial jingles of the 1980s? What were some of the most dangerous toys ever made? Whose birthday is the same day as when this podcast drops? Episode 159 attempts to answer these questions. It begins with a look at Grunge music. However, this goes far deeper into the cu…
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This week we're covering the new Amazon Prime flick, Jackpot, Netflix's Emily in Paris, the modern Mad Max movies, The Watchers, and I Used To Be Funny. Kevin opens the show with the new John Cena/Awkwafina joint, Jackpot. It's a fun action fest that doesn't really do anything new. But the real question is... does it need to? It's about 80% action …
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This week we cover the Shyamalan film Trap, The Casey Affleck/Matt Damon flick The Instigators, and sequel-palooza that was D23. The episode kicks off with Lauren reviewing the new M Knight Shyamalan movie, Trap. It sort of falls into that, "it's not unwatchable category" but it won't really blow your mind. That said, Lauren enjoyed it enough and s…
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Send us a text Fights to the death between clay versions of celebrities? Some of the weirdest but true news stories of the 1970s? My favorite athletes of the 90s? How could so much fun nostalgia be stuffed into one show? Carefully. Episode 158 starts with news stories from the 1970s that are weird for different reasons. Some are hilarious, some are…
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Send us a text Getting paid full-time to sit at home for 9 months. The brief resurgence of Swing music in the 1990s. The top-ranked 80s movies as chosen by the people. Episode 157 of the podcast ranges from the unbelievable but true, to the meta nostalgia of nostalgia itself. It kicks off with Restaurant Storytime 9. In this installment, I tell the…
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This week is a lot of catching up, but we get A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Deadpool and Wolverine from Andrew, along with Civil War, some Where the Crawdads Sing and Saw X from Lauren and a bit more! We jump right into with Andrew's take on Deadpool and Wolverine. I know we hit it hard last week, but Andrew wasn't here and we've gotta let the man…
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Send us a text A sequel to a beloved music festival. The OG of reality TV shows. Some of the weirdest video games Atari could create. Episode 156 of the podcast will combine the warm and fuzzy with the confusing as we travel through the halls of nostalgia. It kicks off with a trip back 30 years. The original Woodstock was a seminal moment of the 20…
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We made it to 200 episodes!! It's a special OG episode where Kevin and Pete discuss Deadpool & Wolverine Marvel's Hall H (that RDJ reveal?!?) and more! THIS EPISODE IS SPOILER HEAVY!!! This description is short and sweet, unlike the episode... Thanks to a twist of scheduling fate, Pete was able to join this week. Kevin was on the verge of doing a s…
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It's a quick on this week, with lots of goodies! We cover Abigial, Supacell, Bodies, the Unbreakable trilogy, Brooklynn, and The Only Living Boy in New York. Andrew isn't here this week but his presence is felt, as Lauren took his recommendation and watched all 3 Unbreakable movies. She chose to watch in chronological order rather than release orde…
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Send us a text Memories of visiting local county fairs. The 1970s teach you about bus safety. Some classic 1970s teen movies. Episode 155 of the podcast is making a pit stop in the swinging 70s. It all starts with the history and memories of county fairs. On Cape Cod, the Barnstable County Fair has been a summer staple for well over 150 years. What…
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Send us a text 50 years ago in July 1974, Ruth Marie Terry, the woman who would be known as The Lady of the Dunes for most of that time, was murdered and left in the remote dunes of the Province Lands in Provincetown, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. Longtime listeners of the podcast know of my connection to this case. I wrote a book, Searching for the L…
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This week we cover IF, the penultimate episodes of The Acolyte and The Boys, and go off on reality TV, including Claim to Fame, Love Island, Arsenio Hall, Secrets of Playboy, and Gypsy Rose Blanchard. Ok, this episode is different for sure! Sure, it starts of relevant with Andrew. and Kevin digging into the latest episode of The Acolyte. There are …
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Send us a text Don't catch dysentery on the Oregon Trail. What spelled doom for McDonaldland? Some of the most accomplished musicians nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award. Episode 153 brings all the nostalgia you could possibly want. The show kicks off with a favorite memory of many school-aged kids of the 1980s and 1990s. Oregon Trail was more t…
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This week is packed! We talk A Quiet Place: Day One, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, The Boys, Federer: The Last Twelve Days, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, The Acolyte, and My Policeman. The show kicks off with Laurens rave review of A Quiet Place: Day One. It's not just "more of the same" which makes it exciting. Lupita Nyong'o and Joesph Quinn do a…
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Send us a text The anniversary of the OG of found-footage movies, Blair Witch Project. The trailblazing but ultimately failed attempt of the Sega Channel. The best As-Seen-On-TV products. Episode 152 is like an infomercial for nostalgia. We start with the ingenious trauma caused by the Blair Witch Project. 25 years ago this groundbreaking film expe…
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This one is DEEP as we cover Dark Matter on Apple TV+, the start of season 4 of The Boys, and The Acolyte. First things first! I tried a new video editor going forward so I HOPE this episode isn't jarringly different in feel. If you have opinions on the look and what we can improve on, please let us know in the comments! And now, back to the show! …
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This week we cover Sheri Papini: The Perfect Wife, White Lotus, house of the Dragon, The Bikeriders, Trigger Warning, and Cirque du Soleil's Ovo. It's just Kevin and Lauren this week and Kevin kicks it of by being our Dateline dream girl, watching the new Hulu documentary, Sheri Papini: The Perfect Wife. It's an absolutely insane take of the disapp…
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Send us a text A look back at the second half of 1994's year in music. Some beloved children's clothing brands of the 1980s. Iconic ice cream truck treats. Episode 151 of the podcast is diving headlong into the Fourth of July weekend with boatloads of nostalgia. It starts with a look at how we dressed in the 1980s. Several quintessential brands ado…
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Send us a text It's Listener's Choice as we celebrate 150 episodes of the podcast! All that is a part of this week's show was chosen by you, the listeners. Episode 150 kicks off with a new edition of the vintage employee training videos segment. This time we are going all the way back to 1988 to find out what goes into making pizzas at Pizza Hut. S…
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Its just Kevin and Lauren this week and they discuss Moulin Rouge (The Musical), Only Murders in the Building, The Iron Claw, Civil War, The Boys, and Ezra. Since last episode started off a hair dour, this one kicks off on Broadway with Lauren discussing the stage version of Moulin Rouge. She's not quite as taken with it as Kevin is with the origin…
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This week we are covering Quiet on Set, Hit Man, The Acolyte, Under Paris, and more! Andrew is late to the party so the episode kicks off with Lauren talking about the Netflix docuseries about the early days of Nickelodeon, Quiet on Set. It's a deep dive into the problematic man behind some of the early Nickelodeon afternoon shows for teens. It als…
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Send us a text The brief time when Boston had it's own music television station. The financial catastrophe of the bursting of the dot-com bubble. The highest-rated television show episodes ever. Episode 149 of the podcast turns up the heat with nostalgia as summer kicks off. As MTV was conquering cable television in the early 1980s a Boston-based r…
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Send us a text A pet story that needs to be heard to be believed. The anniversary of the world's most popular Napoleon. Some people who had their 15 minutes of fame in the 1980s. Episode 148 of the podcast is a crazy collection of nostalgic fun. We kick the show off with an anniversary. 20 years ago this week a small, low-budget indie flick burst o…
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This week we cover Godzilla Minus One, Back to Black, Castlevania, Evil, Mystere, Hacks, and Last Vegas. Andrew and Lauren are both in the house with Kevin this week and they have a lot of ground to cover. You know who else covers a lot of ground? Godzilla!! The big guy suddenly dropped on Netflix this week and Kevin jumped at the chance to watch i…
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It's a quick one this week, with Kevin focusing primarily on Atlas and Jurassic World Chaos Theory, both on Netflix. Kevin takes a pretty deep dive into Atlas this week. The film stars Jennifer Lopez and Simu Liu. It's your typical AI wants to kill everyone kind of film, but it is a solid action flick. Atypical of his usual bad attitude, Kevin does…
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Send us a text Could a mascot really tank a fast food franchise? Some of the weirdest jobs ever, including ones you can apply for today. The parody stickers Gen-X kids loved. Episode 147 starts June off with some fun and unusual nostalgia. Some advertising mascots become iconic. They seep into the very fabric of our consciousness. Then there's Mr. …
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Send us a text A new battle for supremacy with AI. A time before bloopers and practical jokes went viral. TV shows that were here and gone in the blink of an eye. Episode 146 ushers in the unofficial start of summer with plenty of blistering nostalgia. It kicks off with the return of Blink & You'll Miss It Retro. In this installment, we look at a s…
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Andrew is back and it's catch up time! Kevin talks Bodkin and Andrew finally digs into X-Men 97, The Bear, and Fallout. Kevin also covers Obituary and Dark Matter on Apple TV + Lauren is out this week, but we have Andrew again so you aren't stuck with just Kevin. They dive into the X-Men 97 finale, and the season in general. It's a great season wit…
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