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Anna-Elizabeth

I would guess that "Jellico" in Norton or ST:TNG would be a reference to Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, the 1st Earl Jellicoe was a Royal Navy officer most famous for commanding the Grand Fleet against the German High Seas Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in 1916. Jutland was a huge battle, the largest that had Dreadnoughts. The battle was indecisive, Jellicoe made no serious errors in judgement, but has been criticized ever since for not achieving a decisive defeat on the German Navy.

Derek Scott

“Applah-Cation of slacks…” Yet another ear worm by the dynamic duo.

The Last Human in Innsmouth

Happy birthday Chris! When I heard you say welcome to your 50s it hit me right in the chest, I remember you guys talking about your impending 40s and realized just HOW LONG I’ve really been listening to you all! Also, I too sing “revelations in black” and when I first saw the title for “the werewolf and the vampire” I immediately sang it in my head like the opening of Bullet with Butterfly Wings in Chads voice. 😂

The Spider Incident

Gentlemen, I am ashamed that I doubted you. Thanks for setting me straight!

Robert Curtin

I also vibe with Chad's violent indifference to Billy Joel, but Chris' renditions almost had me convinced to flip sides! In all semi-seriousness, Happy Birthday Chris, Rachel and Heather! May your Birthdays be full of revelations in black! Or whatever color suits your fancy.

Background Noise Comic

Space Episode = that Lizzo line: “Why men great ‘til they gotta be great?”

Jim Cannon

Oh, I wouldn't say that I liked _Quag Keep_, I just said that I read it. And that its weird. Its the first novel based on Dungeons & Dragons to be published. Although Norton (I believe) only ever sat in on one game session with Gygax and never actually played the game, she thought it was cool enough to springboard a whole novel out of it. I am not surprised Chris couldn't get far. I read it mostly as an artifact, a sort of waypoint on the journey between Conan the Barbarian and Drizzt Do'Urden. Nowadays when officially licensed D&D novels exist and even the majority of current writers today have slung dice at least once in their lives (yes, even George R. R. Martin!) we can forget that there was a time when the "Fantasy Industry" influenced the makers of D&D instead of D&D inspiring much of the "Fantasy Industry." _Quag Keep_ is, I think, an important link on that chain of evolution... but I couldn't honestly urge anyone to read it, unless they're a big Appendix N nerd like me.

Saint Fu

Fun fact: If you ever meet someone who’s favorite song is “Only the Good Die Young,” it’s legal to preemptively pepper-spray them. (This may not actually be a fact.)

Sweatin' to the Great Oldies

Welcome to the 50s, my boon companions! And many happy returns of the day to all the birthday folk.

MR ZEEL

Sorry to not make my point clearly about past bath habits as mentioned in Robert Aickman. It just felt a bit like you were ragging my long dead grandparents is all, soz. BUT- https://www.jmibathrooms.co.uk/the-history-of-bathrooms-and-toilets-part-2-early-modern-era/ To quote- "In the United States of America, sewerage systems also began to be installed in major cities such as Chicago in the 1850s. In parts of Britain, the industrial poor and lower classes housed in densely populated tenement buildings had to share a very limited allocation of bathrooms, baths and toilets for many decades to come."

MR ZEEL

Plus- "Once fresh-water plumbing became widely available, showers (modern antique-style unit shown above) became linked into it, and stopped recycling dirty rinse water as the earlier ones had done. " This means that before that a shower would have just run the same shower water over you repeatedly. SO the same water might have been used by a whole family or house of lodgers? Up until the late 1960's many new UK houses were still built without bathrooms. So folks would have had to get a galvanised metal tub and set it up in the kitchen or scullery , and then heat a whole lot of water up laboriously and expensively in order to take a bath. In the 60's (i think) My grandfather (in Tottenham, London) was up to date enough to build a permanent bath into the family kitchen and install an electric water heater near it to make the process easier. If you wander around modern London, you will find that many swimming pools and sports/ Leisure centers or what-have-you were originally BATH HOUSES ( like in ancient Rome sorta ) where you could go and pay to enjoy a nice hot deep bath, in private. To Illustrate this- you may remember there is a scene in the 1979 Film Quadrophenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrophenia#Film about a young working class mod called Jimmy, in the 1960's. He is shown preparing for a night out by having "proper" bath at a public bath house. There you go, a wander up social history lane. XZ.

Corey Wittig

Application of slacks/I found them on sale at Nordstrom Raaack

Jeremey Guttilla

The future is female volume 2 came out recently which I believe focuses on stories from the 70s

Joshua Weiss

A word of reassurance for Chris: I, personally, felt just as strong and healthy on my fiftieth birthday as the day before. Fifty-two is a different matter-- I really miss my old, strong knees...

Drix

If you guys are casting around for stories at all, I'd like to suggest a few: Walter De la Mare "A:B:O"- really odd, fairly disturbing, definitely Weird. Arthur Conan Doyle "The Terror of Blue John Gap"- cave monstery goodness Nathaniel Hawthorne "Rappacini's Daughter"- more mad science

It's a Ghost.

I watched The Lure this weekend and really enjoyed it! I really appreciate how you cover such unique movies like Matango, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, and The Lure.

Robby H.

What! CHRIS IS 50? That means Chad is 49? That can't be, Podcaster are supposed to be perpetually in their 30s! Seriously though, happy birthday to Chris, Rachel, and Heather. Talking about shows that I can't stand being in the same room when it's playing, for me it's Dr. Phil. I can't stand him. How healthy can it be to do therapy on national television? He isn't even a licensed therapist anymore. For me, his show is just another Jerry Springer type of show. (And on a lesser note, I can't stand it when people watch news 24/7. It's important to stay up to date in current events, but to watch the news all day poisons people's minds)