Special Report: Ego Fest X (2020)

Special Guests: Rob St. Mary, Mondo Justin

We're wrapping up 2020 with the 10th Ego Fest! There's a sneak peek at what we're covering in January, discussion about our removal from Spotify, and a whole lot more. Rob St. Mary stops by to ask a bunch of questions that he wants answered immediately.

Mondo Justin dishes about what he's been up to since he left The Projection Booth including his 12 hour podcast on Tough Guys Don't Dance.

Mike talks a bit about the recent passing of Mike "McBeardo" McPadden and reads the shout outs due to all Patreon donors.

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Links:
Visit the Mike "McBeardo" McPadden Memorial Fund
Read Kat Ellinger's obituary for McBeardo
Listen to Bill Ackerman's interview with McBeardo
Buy Tomorrow I Will Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea on Blu-Ray
Buy Massacre at Central High on Blu-Ray
Buy American Tiger on Blu-Ray
Buy Survival of the Film Freaks on Blu-Ray
Support The Projection Booth on Patreon

Music:
"The Happy Organ" - Dave 'Baby' Cortez
"Wild Weekend" - The Rebels
"Underwater" - The Frogmen
"Classical Gas" - Mason Williams

Bonus: Mike on The Kulturecast's Lord of the Rings episode:
Listen to "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy" on Spreaker.

Special Report: Better Off Dead (1985)

Special Guests: Diane Franklin, Savage Steve Holland, Curtis Armstrong
Guest Co-Hosts: Mike "McBeardo" McPadden, Jess Byard

On this special episode we're discussing Better Off Dead (1985) from writer/director Savage Steve Holland. The film stars John Cusack as Lane Myer, a high school student obsessed with his girlfriend, Beth (Amanda Wyss). When Beth breaks up with him -- throwing Lane over for Roy Stalin (Aaron Dozier), a jock douchebag who can ski the most dangerous mountain around -- Lane attempts suicide several times... like you do in a good comedy.

Jess Byard and Mike "McBeardo" McPadden, author of Teen Movie Hell, join Mike to discuss the film and its fast follow-up, One Crazy Summer.

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Links:
Buy Better Off Dead on Blu-Ray
Buy One Crazy Summer on DVD
Buy How I Got Into College on DVD
Buy the books of Diane Franklin
Buy Revenge of the Nerd: Or . . . The Singular Adventures of the Man Who Would Be Booger by Curtis Armstrong

Music:
"Race the K-12" - Rupert Hine
"A Little Luck" - E.G. Daily
"Everybody Wants Some" - Van Halen
"One Way Love (Better Off Dead)" - E.G. Daily

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Special Report: McBeardo's Teen Movie Hell

Special Guest: Mike "McBeardo" McPadden

Mike "McBeardo" McPadden has done it again; trawling through the sludge of a film subgenre to find the commonalities while holding up both the gems and the most execrable examples of teen flicks in his latest book, Teen Movie Hell: A Crucible of Coming-of-Age Comedies from Animal House to Zapped!.

On this special episode of The Projection Booth, Mike talks to McBeardo about teen movies from the more goofy and subversive (Joysticks, Hamburger: The Motion Picture, Lemon Popsicle) to the mainstream (Sixteen Candles, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club) and so much more.

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Music:
"Kicking Up a Fuss" - Blow-Up
"Tryin' to Kill a Saturday Night" - Keane

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Episode 169: Black Roses (1988)

Special Guest: John Fasano

Are you ready to rock? A cautionary tale of the evils of Rock & Roll, Black Roses tells the story of a demonic group who descend on unsuspecting Mill Basin to unleash a fury of Satanic music, claiming the souls of those who would choose to rock out.

We're joined this week by Mike "McBeardo" McPadden, author of Heavy Metal Movies: Guitar Barbarians, Mutant Bimbos & Cult Zombies Amok in the 666 Most Ear- and Eye-Ripping Big-Scream Films Ever!

By the way, Captain B.J. Hunnicutt was from Mill Valley, California.

Links:
Buy Heavy Metal Movies by Mike "McBeardo" McPadden
Buy Black Roses on DVD
Visit the Bazillion Points website
Visit the official John Fasano website
Read more about Black Roses on Geek Juice
Listen to our episode about Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park
For more about the "Satanic Panic" listen to our episode on Ricky 6
Listen to us try to talk about Sexette on our Myra Breckinridge episode
Listen to the original review of Black Roses on Outside the Cinema

Music:
"Dance on Fire" - Bang Tango
"One" - Metallica (8-bit version)
"Sucks" - KMFDM
"Startin' Up a Posse" - Anthrax
"MTV Get Off the Air" - Dead Kennedys

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