Electric Enthusiasm Katie Cobalt and Alexander Kjerulf

Mel Brooks' cult classic parody of Star Wars is dumb, yes... but Katie argues that it works so well for four main reasons - and she is happy to tell you all about them.

So dive in with us and get surrounded by assholes.

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Aliens is not only an EPIC 80s action movie it's also explicitly feminist and anti-capitalist. Alex argues that it is James Cameron's masterpiece and (heresy!) better than Ridley Scott's Alien.

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Katie was doomed by her parents to nerdiness from an early age, when they subjected her to a steady diet of Weird Al Yankovic. But there's much to be enthusiastic about in his decades-long musical career, including:


How being parodied by Weird Al is bigger than winning an Emmy
How he took first dates to see his own movie
His complete and utter niceness

Also, THIS IS EPISODE NUMBER 50!!! That's CRAZYCAKES!!!

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Is it the costumes? The visuals? Jenna Ortega? That dance scene? Christina Ricci?

Alex has never seen a single Addams Family movie or TV show episode. He doesn't particularly like Tim Burton and he's not a fan of high school drama. So why did he love Wednesday, Netflix's new hit show? Let's see if we can figure it out.

BTWs include Parks&Rec, Brooklyn 99 and Fred Armisen.

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Tim Minchin wants to be "the Boring Keith Richards." But while this red-headed Ozzie's homelife may be boring his musical comedy is anything but.

In this episode Katie gets to show Alex some highlights of Minchin's career and it is AWESOME!

BTWs include Hallelujah and assorted nerdiness.

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Kate Bush's song Running Up That Hill made it to #1 in the UK, 37 years after it was released when they used  it in Stranger Things.

Alex has been a fan of Kate Bush since the 80s and when a listener suggested we do an episode on her, he got to research her and find out just how awesome she is.

BTWs include drag queens vs. evil Disney queens.

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