A good show about great things from @agentbizzle and @maxscoville. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Overcast, and more.
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You’ve heard of Rage Against the Machine - but what about Rage on Top of the Machine?
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You know what rules? Conventions! Come hear Brian and Max chat about those giant, nerdy gatherings we all love to attend:
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7Ad…
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcas…
#Podcast #Conventions #ComicCon
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#ThisThingRulesTrivia 📽️
Love old-timey horror movies? Then you might want to pack a trip this summer to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania to attend "Blobfest" - a yearly festival/convention centered entirely around the 1958 cult horror movie "The Blob"!
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#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🍖
Do you ever find yourself craving spam (the meat variety)? Then you might want to grab a ticket for the SPAM JAM, a festival/convention dedicated to the luncheon mainstay that’s held yearly in Honolulu. (Suspicious phone calls and emails need not apply!)
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Toilets: a great tool for flushing stools, a fine throne for scrolling your phone…and the focus of an entire convention: the World Toilet Summit! Founded in 2001, this annual con is dedicated to tackling “the world's most urgent sanitation challenges.”
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We hope you enjoy our just-released episode about conventions! Alas, sweetness always comes with a little medicine: because we’re about to head into *busy* season, we’ve decided to put the show on hiatus, and pause billing on the Patreon.
We appreciate all the support (1/2)
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you've given us, whether it's been sending us a few bucks, leaving nice comments, or just holding your arms over your head and sharing your energy so we can kill Majin Buu. Er, make a podcast.
Thanks for bearing with us, we'll get back to it when we're able. You all rule! (2/2)
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Did the Stegosaurus have long, shaggy hair like a golden retriever? Scientists are divided:
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The oldest still-functional brewery in the world is Bavaria’s Weihenstephan brewery, which has been making beer (per most sources) since 1040. Its original brewers were Benedictine Monks, which had established a monastery at its location 300 years prior:
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This Thing Rules is BACK with three new topics on the docket! Come hear Brian and Max talk about why Fridge Magnets, Short Stories and Breweries rule!
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1tc…
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
#Podcast #FridgeMagnets #Breweries
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#ThisThingRulesTrivia 📖
The first short story ever published by Stephen King was "The Glass Floor," which debuted in the autumn 1967 issue of Startling Mystery Stories. King (who was a 19-year-old sophomore at the time) earned $35 for its publication - $338 in today's money!
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The Guinness World Record for the world’s largest collection of fridge magnets is held by Louise. J. Greenfarb - also known as “The Magnet Lady” - from Henderson, Nevada, who was recorded in 2013 as owning over 35,000 non-duplicated fridge magnets!
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Whoops, seems like there was a malfunction at the This Thing Rules factory this week - hopefully we’ll be back soon with another new episode 🙏
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#ThrowbackThursday 🔎
Are magnifying glasses secretly OP?! Max is on the case:
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You know what rules? Capsule toy machines! Come hear Brian and Max talk about the best way to win random baubles and trinkets:
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6zU…
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcas…
YT: youtu.be/uh5v_0ee_-E?si=9qqP…
#Podcast #CapsuleMachines #Toys
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The single largest gachapon machine on record was constructed at Singapore’s Marina Square shopping mall for a pop-up event in late 2022. It measured nearly 5 meters tall(!) and was only available to costumers that spent at least $180 at the mall.
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Why are gachapon machines called "gachapon," anyway? It's actually an onomatopoeia: the "gacha" part is meant to evoke the sound made by the machine when spinning its crank, and the "pon" is the sound of an item plopping out of it.
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The first Gachapon machine was invented in 1965 by Ryuzo Shigeta. Shigeta wanted to improve upon the haphazard way American vending machines dispensed their contents, and so he set up a machine in his Tokyo shop that sold items inside of plastic balls.
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