Long ago Dave, Erik, Nat, and Aly recorded an episode revisiting Killer Klowns From Outer Space. Plagued with technical and audio issues, this episode remained in the can for months because the hours of repair required to make it publishable was just more work than I wanted to do. Thankfully, occasional co-host Tim decided to take a swing at editing it... and a couple of months later, I decided to finish it up and publish it. There are still a couple of issues with the editing, but we did our best to have something to put out for everyone until we come back this summer.

Horror Explorer Flashback #6: Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988)

Hairy Balls

We're back! This week Dave, Erik, Liam, and Tim take a bite out of the 1986 creature feature "Critters". Perhaps boosted by the success of "Gremlins", this moderately successful movie is perhaps the most memorable Small Creature Feature out of a small field of similar movies such as "Ghoulies" and "Munchies". Fuzzy little balls of hunger and destruction escape an space prison and land on planet Earth for a bite to eat but bite off more than they can chew in a midwestern town as intergalactic bounty hunters are in pursuit.

#63: Hairy Balls (Critters, 1986)

On this episode of the Horror Explorer Flashback, Dave, Erik, Tim and Liam take longing, awkward look at forgotten director Fred Decker's 1986 coming-of-age-and-kinda-gay-even-though-it's-the-80s sci-fi/horror homage "Night of the Creeps". Liam lusts for John Carpenter while Tim's eyes linger on an alien's groin as the gang all takes in this undeniable and obviously inspirational cult classic.

Horror Explorer Flashback #5: JOHN CARPENTER IS GAY (Night of the Creeps, 1986)

This week Dave, Liam, Erik, and Shaun look back on 1984's "Night of the Comet", a tale of two sisters trying to get laid (and survive) in the aftermath of a comet-spawned apocalypse that has left the world almost completely wiped clean of human life. They also spend a surprising amount of time discovering and discussing the career and achievements of Tami Holbrook.

Horror Explorer Flashback #4: Two Girls One Comet (Night of the Comet, 1984)

This week Dave is living out his podcasting fantasies as he gets to discuss the feminist slasher parody "The Slumber Party Massacre" again, but this time with 3 young women as Lauren, Aly, and Nat join him to talk about things like male gaze, voyeurism in horror, impotence, and phallic symbols. I'm sure he'll mention Carol Clover at least once.

Horror Explorer Flashback #3: Girl On Girl Action! (The Slumber Party Massacre, 1982)

This episode of the Horror Explorer Flashback revisits an uncommonly good offering from producer Charles Band, 1986's "Terrorvision". A gluttonous monster from another planet is beamed away for disposal only to end up arriving in the television set of an outrageous mid 80s family of archetypes, setting off a scathing indictment of 1980s society and  culture as well as commentary on the impact the availability of a wider range of TV  entertainment had on the American family.

Horror Explorer Flashback #2: Cry Like a Butthole (Terrorvision, 1986)

The first episode of our new "Flashback" podcast, in  which Mike hands the keys to the podcast off to his younger and newer  co-hosts so they can check out some of the movies we covered long ago in  our old format....and there's no better way to start this off  than with 1980's extra-obscure "Night of the Demon". This movie revolves  around a wildly irresponsible college professor's suicidal field trip  with his students into the killing spree of a rapist bigfoot.

The first episode of our new "Flashback" podcast, in which Mike hands the keys to the podcast off to his younger and newer co-hosts so they can check out some of the movies we covered long ago in our old format. ...and there's no better way to start this off than with 1980's extra-obscure "Night of the Demon". This movie revolves around a wildly irresponsible college professor's suicidal field trip with his students into the killing spree of a rapist bigfoot.

Horror Explorer Flashback #1: Sas-Crotch (Night of the Demon, 1980)

This week Mike, Lauren, Dave, and Liam take a look at one of Mike's favorite movies of all time, "The Hitcher"(1986). This is the story of a young man driving a car across the desert who makes the mistake of picking up a hitchhiker who is unfortunately also an unstoppable killing machine. The young man escapes, but The Hitcher follows him across the desert leaving a path of death and destruction. If you thought that "Mad Max: Fury Road" was wonderfully shot, you'll be amazed by what it's Director of Photography John Seale was able to do to the desert 30 years earlier (without the help of CGI) in this movie.

#62: My Mother Told Me Never To Do This (The Hitcher, 1986)

This week Mike introduces Lauren and Tim to "Jacob's Ladder"(1990).  A Vietnam veteran traumatized by the death of his young son struggles to maintain his grip on sanity as the line between horrific reality and horrific delusion is blurred not only for himself, but for us as well.

#61: Near Death Experience (Jacob's Ladder, 1990)

This week  Mike, Erik, Liam and MHMM Dave check out the one and only Chuck Norris horror movie, "Silent Rage". Obviously seizing upon the early 80s success of the Halloween franchise and the slasher craze in general, this movie features upcoming action star Chuck Norris going against a scientifically resurrected psychopathic Michael Myers clone whose only apparent vulnerability just happens to be roundhouse kicks. Do action and slasher go together like chocolate and peanut butter, or like toothpaste and orange juice?

#60: Five MILLION Units! (Silent Rage, 1982)

The Horror Explorer Podcast is dedicated to turning people on to obscure horror/sci-fi/gore/bizarre movies from days gone by and horror movies that didn't show up on the radar in recent years, as well as delving deeper into some of the more mainstream movies most people have heard of.A VHS-era horror aficionado makes his millennial co-hosts watch VHS-era horror movies that most people their age haven't seen or even heard of. The best new horror movie you see this year might be one from 30 years ago you didn't even know existed.

This Week Mike, Liam, and MHMM Dave welcome new panelist Erik as we get abducted by the 1989 box office flop "Communion", based on the NYT #1 best seller of the same name that pretty much mainstreamed UFO abduction mythology. Written and produced by the book's author, Whitley Strieber, this movie features Christopher Walken... it Stars Christopher Walken... it IS Christopher Walken, turned up to 11 and at the craziest you'll ever see him. Add an anal probe, another terrible child actor, an unsupportive wife, and some dancing aliens and you get one of the most baffling movies we've ever examined.

#59: I'm Walken Here! (Communion, 1989)

This week Lauren, Liam, MHMM Dave, and Mike explore "The Pit", the story of a 12 year old boy who has more than one hole on his mind. Walking a fine line between childhood innocence and full blown sexual assault, Jamie creeps out his entire community and has no friends besides a talking teddy bear who encourages his worst urges. The horny, warped child struggles to feed both of his obsessions - a young woman his distant parents have hired to care for him, and a pit hidden deep in the woods that is home to prehistoric monsters.

#58: That Boy Ain't Right (The Pit, 1981)

This week Mike, Dave, Liam and Lauren learn that duck and cover might  help you survive the initial blasts of a nuclear war but the only way to  survive the ensuing apocalypse is to crouch and walk cautiously. We  follow 5 army deserters as they do just that in an abandoned government  research lab that isn't completely abandoned because the experiment  hasn't left yet... and neither will they!

#57: Crouchazoids (Creepozoids, 1987)

We're back! We made good use of our time off gathering up fresh young  co-hosts. This week we welcome Liam and Lauren to the show and break  them in with the 1981 Corman sci-fi/horror flick "Galaxy of Terror".  Will the star power of a Happy Days actress and early performances by relatively young Sid Haig and Robert Englund be enough to win them over?

#56: Galaxy of Terrible (Galaxy of Terror, 1981)

This week we welcome TJ back to the show and take a look at the meta-horror/comedy "There's Nothing Out There". Predating other self-aware, fan servicing horrors such as Scream and Cabin in the Woods, this movie follows a group of friends out for some vacation debauchery as3 cliche couples endure one annoying loser who's obsessed with horror movies and uses his knowledge to try to warn them of the impending doom that they are sure to face.

#55: Cabin in the Weeds (There's Nothing Out There, 1991)

Since everyone loved The Toxic Avenger, Mike picked another original Troma movie for this episode, "Class of Nuke 'Em High". Once again we visit Tromaville, this time turning our attention to the local high school right next to a nuclear power plant that happens to spring a leak, changing some of the students into outlandish gang members that sell radioactive marijuana that causes birth defects.

#54: The Mutant Ate My Homework (Class of Nuke 'Em High, 1986)

Mike decided to change the schedule around a bit after last week's movie and string together a couple of Troma movies. This week we look at the the seminal Troma creation "The Toxic Avenger"(1984), a wildly transgressive movie for the times that would end up putting Troma on the map and lead to a spinoff cartoon and many sequels and crossovers in the Troma universe. Another 80s ode to the dangers of pollution, this movie dunks a dorky janitor into a drum of toxic waste and turns him into "New Jersey's First Super Hero", a deformed human monster who walks a gory and montage-laden path to vengeance and justice.

#53: MASTURBATING TO DEAD CHILDREN! (The Toxic Avenger, 1984)

Mike, Alicia, and Dave are just completely and utterly rekt by a 1-star iTunes review of the podcast from some mysterious person who claims to have listened to FIVE 1-hour episodes of a podcast they really hate. Dave has to be airlifted to the burn unit after experiencing multiple SICK burns at the hands of the world's most astute and witty podcast reviewer who is also chameleon-like in his ability to conceal his identity. After everyone recovers from being criticized by someone whose name resembles an Xbox gamertag, we move on to discussing this week's movie: "The Children"(1980), a movie in which a small New England town's children have gone missing after driving through a radioactive cloud from a nuclear power plant, only to return as freakishly grinning zombies with black fingernails that can cook people just by hugging them.

#52: Say NO To Hugs (The Children, 1980)

This week Mike has the gang take a bite out of "Cannibal Ferox", Umberto Lenzi's 1981 attempt to replicate the infamous Italian cannibal movie "Cannibal Holocaust", and gets some surprising reactions. If you check out the movie because of this episode (and we hope you do) please be aware that there is a lot of animal cruelty in it.

#51:  Counterfeit Holocaust (Cannibal Ferox, 1981)

This week we introduce a short new segment in which Critical Dave gets to review a screener that has been submitted to us. After that we discuss "C.H.U.D.", a movie in which corrupt government officials try to stop too many characters from spilling the beans on a missing persons epidemic that can be traced back to man eating monsters living in NYC's vast underground tunnels.

#50: Cinema's Homeless Usually Dirty (C.H.U.D., 1984)

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The Horror Explorer Podcast is dedicated to turning people on to obscure horror/sci-fi/gore/bizarre movies from days gone by and horror movies that didn't show up on the radar in recent years, as well as delving deeper into some of the more mainstream movies most people have heard of. A VHS-era horror aficionado makes his millennial co-hosts watch VHS-era horror movies that most people their age haven't seen or even heard of. The best new horror movie you see this year might be one from 30 years ago you didn't even know existed.

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This week Critical Dave gets something to sink his teeth into when Mike makes the gang watch the 1986 movie "Troll", perhaps best know for being the movie before "Troll 2". A new family moves into an apartment building and brings along the worst nuisance imaginable - children. The youngest daughter almost immediately unleashes an ancient evil that possesses her body and begins going door to door in the building, turning the residents into other trolls and their apartments into habitats. As the music tests our patience, the little girl's brother and the conveniently located "good witch" next door try to stop the troll before it's too late.

#48: Children make terrible neighbors (Troll, 1986)

We're back! The Horror Explorer Podcast has returned with a new and improved shorter and more focused format! VHS-era horror aficionado Mike chooses and older or obscure horror movie for his younger co-hosts to watch that most younger people have never seen, or maybe even heard of, and has them review it in a lively discussion of everything from cinematography or special effects to double penetration and butt-chugging. Go ahead and google it!This week, Mike makes our eager youths (Alicia, David and Jordan) watch the original 1978 Roger Corman classic "Piranha" directed by Joe Dante. Given the wide variety of quality in Corman movies, this could go either way! Is it just a JAWS ripoff? How does it compare to the 21st century remake? Was alcoholism just not that big of a deal in 1978? Press play to find out!

We're back! The Horror Explorer Podcast has returned with a new and improved shorter and more focused format! VHS-era horror aficionado Mike chooses and older or obscure horror movie for his younger co-hosts to watch that most younger people have never seen, or maybe even heard of, and has them review it in a lively discussion of everything from cinematography or special effects to double penetration and butt-chugging. Go ahead and google it! This week, Mike makes our eager youths (Alicia, David and Jordan) watch the original 1978 Roger Corman classic "Piranha" directed by Joe Dante. Given the wide variety of quality in Corman movies, this could go either way! Is it just a JAWS ripoff? How does it compare to the 21st century remake? Was alcoholism just not that big of a deal in 1978? Press play to find out!

#46: [NIBBLING INTENSIFIES] (Piranha, 1978)

The best podcast episodes on global issues affecting everyone. Covering topics such as the #metoo movement, climate change, the impact of technology and some of the biggest global issues facing us right now. For anyone interested in learning more about the world, and some of the issues we're facing, pick an episode below and start listening! Add episodes you're interested into your queue below!

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Elizabeth Kolbert covers climate change for the New Yorker. She's the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction. And she recently wrote a paragraph I can't stop thinking about. "The problem with global warming—and the reason it continues to resist illustration, even as the streets flood and the forests die and the mussels rot on the shores—is that experience is an inadequate guide to what’s going on. The climate operates on a time delay. When carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere, it takes decades—in a technical sense, millennia—for the earth to equilibrate. This summer’s fish kill was a product of warming that had become inevitable twenty or thirty years ago, and the warming that’s being locked in today won’t be fully felt until today’s toddlers reach middle age. In effect, we are living in the climate of the past, but already we’ve determined the climate’s future."Kolbert lives, to an unusual degree, in the planet's future. She travels to the places around the world where the climate of tomorrow is visible today. She has watched glaciers melting, and seen species dying. And she is able to convey both the science and the cost with a rare lucidity. Talking with Kolbert left me with an unnerving thought. We look back on past eras in human history and judge them morally failed. We think of the Spanish Inquisition or the Mongol hordes and believe ourselves civilized, rational, moral in a way our ancestors weren't. But if the science is right, and we do unto our descendants what the data says we are doing to them, we will be judged monsters. And it will be all the worse because we knew what we were doing and we knew how to stop, but we decided it was easier to disbelieve the science or ignore the consequences. Kolbert and I talk about the consequences, but also about what would be necessary to stabilize the climate and back off the mass extinction event that is currently underway. We discuss geoengineering, political will, the environmental cost of meat, and what individuals can and can't do. We talk about Trump's cabinet, about whether technological innovation will save us, and if pricing carbon is enough. We talk about whether hope remains a realistic emotion when it comes to our environmental future.Books:-Edward Abbe’s “Desert Solitaire”-Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”-David G. Haskell’s “The Forest Unseen”-Bill McKibben’s “The End of Nature” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Elizabeth Kolbert covers climate change for the New Yorker. She's the Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction. And she recently wrote a paragraph I can't stop thinking about. "The problem with global warming—and the reason it continues to resist illustration, even as the streets flood and the forests die and the mussels rot on the shores—is that experience is an inadequate guide to what’s going on. The climate operates on a time delay. When carbon dioxide is added to the atmosphere, it takes decades—in a technical sense, millennia—for the earth to equilibrate. This summer’s fish kill was a product of warming that had become inevitable twenty or thirty years ago, and the warming that’s being locked in today won’t be fully felt until today’s toddlers reach middle age. In effect, we are living in the climate of the past, but already we’ve determined the climate’s future."Kolbert lives, to an unusual degree, in the planet's future. She travels to the places around the world where the climate of tomorrow is visible today. She has watched glaciers melting, and seen species dying. And she is able to convey both the science and the cost with a rare lucidity. Talking with Kolbert left me with an unnerving thought. We look back on past eras in human history and judge them morally failed. We think of the Spanish Inquisition or the Mongol hordes and believe ourselves civilized, rational, moral in a way our ancestors weren't. But if the science is right, and we do unto our descendants what the data says we are doing to them, we will be judged monsters. And it will be all the worse because we knew what we were doing and we knew how to stop, but we decided it was easier to disbelieve the science or ignore the consequences. Kolbert and I talk about the consequences, but also about what would be necessary to stabilize the climate and back off the mass extinction event that is currently underway. We discuss geoengineering, political will, the environmental cost of meat, and what individuals can and can't do. We talk about Trump's cabinet, about whether technological innovation will save us, and if pricing carbon is enough. We talk about whether hope remains a realistic emotion when it comes to our environmental future.Books:-Edward Abbe’s “Desert Solitaire”-Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”-David G. Haskell’s “The Forest Unseen”-Bill McKibben’s “The End of Nature” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries of climate change

Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan delve deep on free speech for 3 hours! Somehow it gets more interesting through the episode, not less! Hear why often it's best to "be tolerant of the intolerable".
Canada tried to pass laws compelling people to use pronouns like zi and zur. Should you be compelled to call someone a certain pronoun? Jordan Peterson pushed back saying he had no problems using pronouns like zi and zur for people who have non-traditional genders, but that he had a problem being compelled by law to use certain pronouns. 
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire. 
We have gone from homosexuality being illegal in most of the west 60 years ago to same sex marriage being legal today. "Free speech is the master value because it is the value which allows us to update all other values." Sam Harris.

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Michael Sandel explores the philosophical justifications made for national borders. Using a pioneering state-of-the-art studio at the Harvard Business School, Professor Sandel is joined by 60 participants from over 30 countries in a truly global digital space. Is there any moral distinction between a political refugee and an economic migrant? If people have the right to exit a country, why not a right to enter? Do nations have the right to protect the affluence of their citizens? And is there such a thing as a 'national identity'? These are just some of the questions addressed by Professor Sandel in this first edition of The Global Philosopher.Audience producer: Louise ColettaProducer: David EdmondsEditor: Richard Knight(Image taken by Rose Lincoln)

The Public Philosopher

Michael Sandel explores the philosophical justifications made for national borders. Using a pioneering state-of-the-art studio at the Harvard Business School, Professor Sandel is joined by 60 participants from over 30 countries in a truly global digital space. Is there any moral distinction between a political refugee and an economic migrant? If people have the right to exit a country, why not a right to enter? Do nations have the right to protect the affluence of their citizens? And is there such a thing as a 'national identity'? These are just some of the questions addressed by Professor Sandel in this first edition of The Global Philosopher. Audience producer: Louise Coletta Producer: David Edmonds Editor: Richard Knight (Image taken by Rose Lincoln)

The Global Philosopher: Should Borders Matter?

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about his new book “21 Lessons for the 21st Century.” They discuss the importance of meditation for his intellectual life, the primacy of stories, the need to revise our fundamental assumptions about human civilization, the threats to liberal democracy, a world without work, universal basic income, the virtues of nationalism, the implications of AI and automation, and other topics. SUBSCRIBE to listen to the rest of this episode and gain access to all full-length episodes of the podcast at samharris.org/subscribe.

Making Sense with Sam Harris

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about his new book “21 Lessons for the 21st Century.” They discuss the importance of meditation for his intellectual life, the primacy of stories, the need to revise our fundamental assumptions about human civilization, the threats to liberal democracy, a world without work, universal basic income, the virtues of nationalism, the implications of AI and automation, and other topics. SUBSCRIBE to listen to the rest of this episode and gain access to all full-length episodes of the podcast at <a href="http://samharris.org/subscribe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">samharris.org/subscribe</a>.

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