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Laser Time is a show featuring folks in the video games industry, although not necessarily about video games. It’s a hyper-silly, multimedia-infused look at film, TV, comics, music, pop culture, and nostalgia from the perspective of people who game for a living. Obviously, their opinions are their own and do not reflect that of their employers.
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Pigs and Spiders at the Vista Del Mar! Hope that's not giving anything away, since Laser Time's annual tardy tradition of chiming in on the year's best cinematic offerings has finally arrived! Listen, watch, chat, Patreon, etc. SPONSOR: This episode is brought to you by STORYBLOCKS. STORYBLOCKS makes it possible for content creators like you to bri…
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SPONSORED: During the 1-900 number craze of the Nineties, one company provided the vast majority of phone sex. American Telnet was an empire founded by the man who called himself “The Telephone Pimp.” He ran the company “like General Motors” and got filthy rich doing it. But for the (mostly) women who answered the calls and delivered fantasies 24-7…
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Norm Macdonald 1950-1961. We lost one of our most gifted, inimitable comedians recently, and it’s difficult to deal with. But before Norm departed our mortal coil, he left us this wonderful audio journey through his whole dang career. Yes, this is a rerun, but you know you’re a Legend when you reach Legendary Status while you’re still alive. Specia…
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What's on TV tonight? Does it matter?! Television shows remain great, while TV itself seems in an unstoppable cycle of decay. Have you noticed your favorite Nature or Music channel look alarmingly similar these days, when you need them most? In this episode we're examining why television channels are desperately abandoning their identity, and yes, …
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When it comes to cast members who spring boarded from Saturday Night Live into super stardom, there are almost too many names to mention. That's why we're talking about we're talking about kinda the opposite this week! We're looking back the SNL alum you might not even know are SNL alum, because for various reasons, they sputtered out on the show i…
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Continuing our annual tradition, we've once again watched all the movies nominated for Best Picture at the 93rd Academy Awards so you don't have to! A global pandemic has obviously made a giant mess of the Oscars this year, but there's certainly some viewing pleasure and sketch material to mine from the most depressing crop of films the Oscars has …
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We love ourselves some long lost subgenres, and film subgenres don't get much deader than the Erotic Thriller. As premium cable mainstays of the 80s and 90s, many of us grew up with sneaky late night HBO screenings as our highest form of titillation. But by the internet age, the American Erotic Thriller was all but extinct, and both porn and purita…
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SPONSORED: Hosted by Taraji P. Henson, Wondery (Dr. Death, Dirty John, The Shrink Next Door) and Universal Music Group present Jacked: Rise of the New Jack Sound. The story begins with a keyboard player in the heart of Harlem: Teddy Riley. Teddy’s entire world was music. Playing it. Composing it. Producing it. Teddy and his friend Timmy Gatling fol…
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At this point, our second of two episodes, we should probably clarify that we're talking about The Best/Worst of Stephen King ADAPTATIONS. But whatever, the guy is one of the few living authors that's a household name, he's made hundreds of millions of dollars off of his talent, and thus an undoubtedly very big boy. In this final episode of October…
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Stephen King's obviously one of pop culture's most famous authors, but for our October movie marathon purposes, he's also generated billions of dollars of box office revenue with dozens of film and TV adaptations. We've scoured box office reports, reviews, and the finest in internet user criticism to try and find a consensus of which of Stephen Kin…
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Still trying to watch a horror movie for every day in October? Well, have we got a cheat for you! The lost majesty of the horror anthology movie is an easy and wonderful way to ingest multiple stories within a single film! And that's saying nothing of how easy it is to commit to several short stories instead of one big two hour one. So join us as w…
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What happens when your favorite show gets canceled, or your favorite performer dies? Well, it turns out the medium of video games can offer you one last, and typically lost, appearance! We went and dug up some of our favorite characters and actors whose final performance is lost inside forgotten games…
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Some of your most beloved, adorable, indelible comic, movie, and video game stars have been quietly kneecapped by forgettable suits? Oh yes, never underestimate old people when it comes to making money by doing very little, because we're digging into the sordid history of pop cultures most litigated superstars!…
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The world's having a bit of a rough go right now, so feel free to take solace where ever you can. A great place to hide from the darkness is in your favorite music, which is exactly what we're doing in this Laser Time audio extravaganza! Come with us on a auditory journey back to not-so-long-ago when making peppy tunes about our upcoming apocalypse…
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Mount up, original bingers! We've got a got another fantabulous quizdown this week, and its guaranteed to activate something in the back of any TV obsessed brain. There's a little something at the end of every TV show that's slowly dying out in the streaming age, but before it does, we're gonna celebrate some of television's earwormiest jingles, wi…
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Computer... Generated... Imagery. IT'S TERRIBLE. Except when it isn't? Which is kind of a miracle given production schedules, budgets, and a... general respect for animation. Obviously, CG can be easily taken for granted, but its ubiquity has become commonplace enough to where most people don't even notice some of our favorite heroes, characters, b…
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Laser Time's favorite parodist, Dan Amrich of Palette-Swap Ninja, has a new superhero-inspired project to chat about called Hero Falls, so we're using that as a springboard to talk about the history of the song parody! It's a musical journey through the ages as we explore the beautiful offspring of comedy and music in a time before Weird Al, and ba…
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As a television institution that's kept chugging along for almost half a century now, Saturday Night Live has little choice but to be a reflection of our own abnormalities. So with SNL recently tapping out of socially distance sketch comedy for the season, Dave Rudden and Tony Wilson join Laser Time for a look back at some of the other weirdest mom…
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Since we're all stuck at home and mostly away from work, let's have a little chat at the emotional turmoil that can erupt when we're all trapped in the same room, with the same people, with little to no hope of intervention. Whether your budget's low or you're just hungry for an Emmy, a lot can be revealed when our favorite TV shows cut themselves …
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No, we're NOT talking about acts of animal cruelty, although we should warn the faint of heart, we will be talking about how entertainment uses the death of innocent animals to either tug on our hearts strings and/or the first line of suspense. It's a hack practice that has almost-but-not-entirely fallen out of fashion, but get ready to relive some…
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Even though we are practically overwhelmed with adaptions of our favorite books, comics, and games these days, getting the Hollywood treatment remains a massive accomplishment. Which is why it's strange that sometimes, whether good or bad, your favorite thing will get made into a film that just falls into obscurity. Or maybe Netflix just made a new…
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Movies, TV, video games, comics, sports and more. While not the most important things in the world right now, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a wrench into how all of that is produced and/or distributed. In this special episode, we're going through a relatively recent list of Coronavirus-related disruptions to our entertainment consumption, and ju…
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Modern media distribution has brought us untold accessibility… but has it come at the cost of discoverability? Streaming, digital rentals, and On Demand tend to favor the shiny, the new, the recently licensed exclusive or remake (and so do most of us TBH) so we figured there must be something genuinely special about having a favorite movie that cam…
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Children of the 80s had VHS. Kids of the 90s grew up with the internet. So how is it possible for any movie, TV show, or video game to completely disappear in a digital era? Turns out the missing media phenomena isn't exclusive to old timey film nitrates or video tapes, as you'll find out in Laser Time's exploration of Lost Media old and new!…
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Tis the season for spooktacular thrills, and Laser Time is tackling yet another horror subgenre and it’s a surprisingly robust one! It might surprise you that the killer do staggering amount of straight-to-video imitators. If you grew up watching schlock on late night cable, you’re in for a real treat!…
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It had to be done, Coulrophobics! With two new disturbing clown movies in theaters, we're examining how this once wholesome embodiment of family amusement became a default icon of pure terror. Is it earned or is it irony? We'll get to the bottom of It, as we dig into the origins of the creepy ass clown...…
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Kicking off yet another Laser Time spooktober with a bit of a cheat, yet a wonderful excuse to return to one of our favorite topics: Saturday Night Live. The latter half of SNL's almost fifty years on the air has featured exponentially more corpsing. Or rather, breaking character and laughing over your lines in front of a live television audience. …
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