The Damn Dirty Drive-In

Think you know your obscure Mystery Science Theater 3000 trivia? Then come on down! Quiz show emcees Kate Page and Ron McAdams usurp the podcast and turn Greg and Ryan into their Vanna Whites, all while four teams from the studio audience compete to win gold, silver and bronze Tom Servo trophies! And you can play along at home, too! Three rounds, with the questions answered at the end of each round. Plus, the podcast gang finally interviews Jay Wolf Schlossberg-Cohen, all around Renaissance Man and director of “Cry Wilderness.” Even better, Ron sings; Bigfoot drinks Coca Cola, and Kate rocks a dinosaur hat. Recorded live in Paleo Joe’s at the Dino Hotel in Lakewood, Colorado, over Turkey Day weekend. Also, look for a very special upcoming radio play produced by the Revival League, our original black comedy, “Soylent Scrooge: Or Christmas Is Made Of People,” airing December 19. All this and a new Hallmark Channel holiday special about decorating some poison oak, “A Very Itchy Christmas Starring Valerie Bertinelli,” on this week’s episode of the Revival League Podcast! (This podcast does not represent Alternaversal, Shout Factory or the Kickstarter campaign in any official capacity). EDITOR’S NOTE: In June 2019, this podcast merged with the Damn Dirty Geeks Podcast and became The Damn Dirty Drive-in. These are our classic back catalog episodes, dating back to March 2016. Please enjoy! The new Drive-In podcast opens for business with original sketches, movie discussions, interviews, weird food tastings and more at Episode 168.

Happy Thanksgiving! It’s time for the annual Revival League Podcast Feast, this year featuring back-to-back interviews with “Samurai Cop's” Mathew J Karedas and “Eegah's” Arch Hall, Jr! The podcast gang breaks bread and eats an uneasy, dysfunctional family meal together. Erica won’t quit throwing food. James can’t stop crying. Greg gets drunk and verbally abuses everyone. Ryan unleashes a string of profanities and jealously guards the mashed potatoes and gravy, and threatens to hurt anyone who draws close. Ron is exiled to the kiddie table. Erik and Kate haze the very harried newbie Natalie in the kitchen, while Natalie just wants to give everybody the bird. Plus Erica and her hubby Cory deliver a special holiday message all the way from Miami. Also, look for a very special upcoming radio play produced by the Revival League, our original black comedy, “Soylent Scrooge: Or Christmas Is Made Of People,” airing December 19. All this, and an alternate dimension ruled by poultry where President Gobbles is pardoning a Thanksgiving human, on this week’s episode of the Revival League Podcast! (This podcast does not represent Alternaversal, Shout Factory or the Kickstarter campaign in any official capacity). EDITOR’S NOTE: In June 2019, this podcast merged with the Damn Dirty Geeks Podcast and became The Damn Dirty Drive-in. These are our classic back catalog episodes, dating back to March 2016. Please enjoy! The new Drive-In podcast opens for business with original sketches, movie discussions, interviews, weird food tastings and more at Episode 168.

Comedians Frank Conniff, Trace Beaulieu and Carolina Hidalgo drop by the studio and talk turkey with the podcast gang, and rage on Ryan for disliking pumpkin pie. Yes, it's Holiday Movies With The Mads! Along with the figgy pudding and pecan pie and that damned fruitcake, there are holiday movies out there are simply tradition. The Mads grab a fork and dig into Gremlins, Die Hard, A Christmas Story, Jingle All The Way, Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, and Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey. Then Frank, Trace and Carolina debate which foreign holiday food would be better for consumption: raw blubber and fermented birds (Greenland) or fried worms (South Africa)? In the “Mini Soda Review,” everyone samples Pelligrino Aranciata, a blood orange flavored beverage just not to Frank’s liking. The podcast gang also discusses a very special episode of the Revival League, our original black comedy, “Soylent Scrooge: Or Christmas Is Made Of People,” airing December 19. All this, and an Audrey II and a Stranger Things Demogorgon locking lips in a truly disturbing public display of affection, on this week’s episode of the Revival League Podcast! (This podcast does not represent Alternaversal, Shout Factory or the Kickstarter campaign in any official capacity). EDITOR’S NOTE: In June 2019, this podcast merged with the Damn Dirty Geeks Podcast and became The Damn Dirty Drive-in. These are our classic back catalog episodes, dating back to March 2016. Please enjoy! The new Drive-In podcast opens for business with original sketches, movie discussions, interviews, weird food tastings and more at Episode 168.

Ever wanted to know what goes into making a radio play? No? Too bad! On this episode of the Revival League Podcast, Greg, Ryan and special guest Erik Koski chat about the making of the Revival League's Halloween special, "War of the Worlds." Greg, Ryan and Erik talk about the writing, direction and production of the podcast's most ambitious episode yet, with side trips to chat about the Orson Welles radio play, the George Pal movie version, and the enduring themes of the H.G. Wells novel. Plus, we hear from Ron McAdams, Kate Page, James Rohling and Erica Rodriguez, who discuss their experience being part of an old-fashioned radio drama. All this and an insensitive Irish stereotype, this week on the Revival League Podcast! (This podcast does not represent Alternaversal, Shout Factory or the Kickstarter campaign in any official capacity). EDITOR’S NOTE: In June 2019, this podcast merged with the Damn Dirty Geeks Podcast and became The Damn Dirty Drive-in. These are our classic back catalog episodes, dating back to March 2016. Please enjoy! The new Drive-In podcast opens for business with original sketches, movie discussions, interviews, weird food tastings and more at Episode 168.

The Revival League Podcast proudly presents an original comedy-horror spoof of Orson Welles’s famous science fiction radio play, “The War of the Worlds.” It’s All Hallows Eve, 1939. Depression-era America goes blissfully about its trick or treating and Halloween parties, or tuning their Philco radios to the Independence Broadcasting Systems to laugh along with, “Clobber McGee & Irish Dave.” But America is startled when a massive alien cylinder slams into the New Jersey countryside, sending the Independence Broadcasting Systems news team scrambling to cover the extraordinary event. Soon cylinders are slamming into cities all over the United States and the world. Inside them are menacing Martian tripods, tall as skyscrapers, and armed with deadly alien technology. The body count rises and the Eastern Seaboard falls before the Martian onslaught, as the world’s combined military might proves not enough to stop the invasion. Humanity itself is threatened with extinction, and a team of earnest news reporters brings Armageddon right into your living room! Written and performed by the Revival League Podcast Gang, “War of the Worlds” promises thrills, chills, laughter… and hollowed out cows. Adult situations and language. Rated NSFW - Not Safe for Work. (Wear your earbuds! And keep watching the skies!) This radio play was written and produced by Ryan Smith and Greg Tally, based upon the novel by H.G. Wells and the radio drama by Orson Welles. Dramatization directed by Ryan Smith. Vintage commercials written by Ron McAdams, Erica Rodriguez and James Rohling. Starring Kate Page as Gilda Collins and Greg Tally as Wash Perry. Featuring Zach Thompson as Carl Phillips. Rebecca Herron as Hildy Blane. Ron McAdams as Floyd Gibbons and Knox Manning. Ryan Smith as Professor Pierson. James Rohling as Dr. Clayton Forrester and Professor Harold Tyson. Additional vocal performances by Deana Dolphin and Erik Koski. Commercials performed by Ron McAdams, Erica Rodriguez and James Rohling. Promotional artwork by Jaime Hitchcock. Radio play text copyright 2017 by Ryan Smith and Greg Tally. Commercial text copyright 2017 by Ron McAdams, Erica Rodriguez and James Rohling. Production copyright 2017 by Jefferson Hospitality, LLLP. (This podcast does not represent Alternaversal, Shout Factory or the Kickstarter campaign in any official capacity). EDITOR’S NOTE: In June 2019, this podcast merged with the Damn Dirty Geeks Podcast and became The Damn Dirty Drive-in. These are our classic back catalog episodes, dating back to March 2016. Please enjoy! The new Drive-In podcast opens for business with original sketches, movie discussions, interviews, weird food tastings and more at Episode 168.

It takes a lot of “BRAINNZ!” to enjoy this episode. We chat with the great Kevin Murphy of Rifftrax and MST3K fame about "Night of the Living Dead," the zombie flick as a vehicle for social commentary, making fun of "Casablanca," and the difference between art and schlock in the horror genre. Joining in the undead mayhem is Junkmouth podcast emcee Erik Koski as a guest host, because regular host Kate Page fled to Canada to avoid The Hunger. The podcast gang discusses a very special episode of the Revival League, our original comedy-horror retelling of “War of the Worlds,” airing this Halloween. In “Spooky Movies We’d Like to See Riffed,” an ancient Micmac burial ground that resurrects the dead, along with some heavy movie camp, rises from the grave with 1989’s “Pet Sematary.” Then it only takes four men to do Kate’s job in her absence. Our weekly installment of “Music! Science! Cats!” examines the music of Salt Lake-based wrestler/rapper Scott “Rhyme Time” Knopf, the astronomical discovery of two colliding neutron stars, and Fish and Chips, the backpacking adventure cats. Because Greg just can’t help tampering with eldritch horrors he doesn’t understand, he brings another pumpkin pie soda to the recording studio. Ryan’s reaction to R.W. Knudsen Sparkling Pumpkin Spice does not disappoint. And in “A Very Adamant Stance,” Erica dabbles in the occult to put her pushy boss in his place. Plus, James and Ron take on "Final Justice." All this and Nerf’s new line of “Lucille Be Kind" Soft Foam Bats for Kidz (for Negans of all ages!), on this week’s episode of the Revival League Podcast! (This podcast does not represent Alternaversal, Shout Factory or the Kickstarter campaign in any official capacity). EDITOR’S NOTE: In June 2019, this podcast merged with the Damn Dirty Geeks Podcast and became The Damn Dirty Drive-in. These are our classic back catalog episodes, dating back to March 2016. Please enjoy! The new Drive-In podcast opens for business with original sketches, movie discussions, interviews, weird food tastings and more at Episode 168.

It’s 1999. What do you do with your life after “Mystery Science Theater 3000” is cancelled? If you’re makeup artist Andrea “Action Jackson” DuCane, you become a world-renowned kettlebell instructor! Andrea discusses her many years at MST3K, as well as her life as a fitness guru. And podcast regular James Rohling drops by the show, mostly to heckle Greg. Meanwhile, the gang discusses their original comedy horror radio play, a Halloween special parody of “War of the Worlds.” In “Spooky Movies We’d Like To See Riffed,” Ryan and Greg enthusiastically endorse 1991’s dudebro fraternity slasher flick, “Hauntedween.” And Kate examines the new “Jaws”- themed album by the band Squalus, as well as a newly scientifically described species of beetle named after Neil Gaiman (and the philosophical underpinnings of attaching a GoPro to your cat). In the “Mini Soda Review,” the gang gives mixed reviews to New York State’s Johnnie Ryan Grape. Greg firmly schools Erica (again) on why there needs to be “A Very Adamant Stance” against dog shirts. But Erica is having none of it. And James and Ron discuss the classic MST3K short, “Mr. B Natural.” All this and a “Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics” roiled by a drug testing scandal, when the Yogi Yahooeys and Really Rottens test positive, but the Scooby Doobies are weirdly found to be clean, on this week’s episode of the Revival League Podcast! (This podcast does not represent Alternaversal, Shout Factory or the Kickstarter campaign in any official capacity). EDITOR’S NOTE: In June 2019, this podcast merged with the Damn Dirty Geeks Podcast and became The Damn Dirty Drive-in. These are our classic back catalog episodes, dating back to March 2016. Please enjoy! The new Drive-In podcast opens for business with original sketches, movie discussions, interviews, weird food tastings and more at Episode 168.

Meet Samantha Kuester, the chief costume designer for “Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return.” Samantha discusses her career, as well as Jonah’s "Many Loves of Hercules" toga and his many wardrobe malfunctions. Meanwhile, Captain Deana Dolphin of the “MSTie Minute" drops by to cohost with Ryan and Greg. The podcast gang discuss their original comedy horror radio play, a Halloween special parody of “War of the Worlds.” Then it’s off to celebrate the campy Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell horror classic, “Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn.” And the gang agrees that the haunting “Blade Runner 2049” is as near perfect a piece of sci-fi cinema as they’ve seen in years. Kate talks about rock musicians who are also scientists, a new species of Madagascan orchid, and the horrifying cat gadget, “Licki Brush.” In the Mini Soda Review, Deana, Ryan and Greg enthuse over Cock and Bull’s Cherry Ginger Beer. There’s a Very Adamant Stance against dog shirts that sort of fizzles out when writer Erica Rodriguez revolts mid-sketch. All this, and a General Mills Halloween play rehearsal grown horribly awkward when the Fruit Brute throws his script down and storms offstage, sobbing uncontrollably because he can’t work another minute with that stage-stealing hack Count Chocula, while a furious Frankenberry hurls profanity-laden abuse at both of them for their lack of professionalism, Boo Berry steals snacks from the dressing room, and a hungover Yummy Mummy furtively tugs on a flask of whiskey and tries to keep his shakes under control, on this week’s episode of the Revival League Podcast! (This podcast does not represent Alternaversal, Shout Factory or the Kickstarter campaign in any official capacity). EDITOR’S NOTE: In June 2019, this podcast merged with the Damn Dirty Geeks Podcast and became The Damn Dirty Drive-in. These are our classic back catalog episodes, dating back to March 2016. Please enjoy! The new Drive-In podcast opens for business with original sketches, movie discussions, interviews, weird food tastings and more at Episode 168.

Who put the, “La La La!” in Mystery Science Theater? DJ Chuck Love did! He penned the iconic theme song to our favorite cowtown puppet show with Joel Hodgson. Hear his story in the long-form interview. The podcast gang discusses the situation in Puerto Rico/Hurricane Maria relief efforts and #MST3KCARES, and how MSTies can help the ongoing humanitarian crisis at home and abroad. Meanwhile, Ryan, Greg and Kate discuss their original comedy horror radio play, a Halloween special parody of “War of the Worlds.” Kate talks about the uber-nerd band They Might Be Giants, the Parker Solar Probe that will dip into the atmosphere of the sun, and Japanese cat islands. In the Mini Soda Review, The gang quaffs a fantastic Spiffy Root beer from Orca Beverage Company. There’s a Very Adamant Stance against the GI tract horrors of Taco Bell. All this, and an adorable cartoon canary that can simply identify a feline in a low-key way by merely, “Seeing a cat,” on this week’s episode of the Revival League Podcast! (This podcast does not represent Alternaversal, Shout Factory or the Kickstarter campaign in any official capacity). EDITOR’S NOTE: In June 2019, this podcast merged with the Damn Dirty Geeks Podcast and became The Damn Dirty Drive-in. These are our classic back catalog episodes, dating back to March 2016. Please enjoy! The new Drive-In podcast opens for business with original sketches, movie discussions, interviews, weird food tastings and more at Episode 168.

Meet the talent behind Mystery Scribble Theater 3000! Artist Jaime Hitchcock brings Jonah, Crow, Gypsy, Tom Servo and the rest to live in her imaginative fan art. The gang discusses Hurricane Maria relief efforts and #MST3KCARES, and how MSTies can help the ongoing humanitarian crisis at home and abroad. Meanwhile, Ryan, Greg and Kate discuss their Halloween special broadcast of “War of the Worlds.” Kate returns to the music of “Rick and Morty,” replete with Intergalactic race riot love stories, royal marches for insect species that think they’re koalas, and a rap about the flu. Plus, Ryan frets over a German kid who places giant insects on his face, and how cats steal baby’s breath out of their cribs to take back to their witches. In the Mini Soda Review, The gang rails against a pale ghost of a non-soda, Avery Beverage Company’s Blood Orange. There’s a Very Adamant Stance in favor of decorating for Halloween early, while a frisky Greg dons his kitty whiskers and body glitter. Ron and James buzz about “The Killer Bees” in Reviewers In The MST. All this and a gleeful Wilford Brimley force feeding candy to brittle diabetics, on this week’s episode of the Revival League Podcast! (This podcast does not represent Alternaversal, Shout Factory or the Kickstarter campaign in any official capacity). EDITOR’S NOTE: In June 2019, this podcast merged with the Damn Dirty Geeks Podcast and became The Damn Dirty Drive-in. These are our classic back catalog episodes, dating back to March 2016. Please enjoy! The new Drive-In podcast opens for business with original sketches, movie discussions, interviews, weird food tastings and more at Episode 168.

On this episode of the MST3K Revival League Podcast, the gang chats with Alternaversal’s Seth Robinson, an artist, musician, and writer who worked as an associate producer, designer and creative manager on the new season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and the Watch Out For Snakes Tour. Seth chats about his artistic influences, meeting Joel, helping to design the look of the new season and more. Plus, guest host Erica Rodriguez talks about the aftermath of Hurricane Irma and how MSTies can help. Greg and Ryan discuss “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” and the original “Cape Fear” with Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. The guys try a ginger-flavored root beer, and the whole gang curses mosquitoes. In Reviewers in the MSTie, James tackles his 10 favorite episodes of the series. All this and a penguin out for revenge, on this week’s episode of the Revival League Podcast! (This podcast does not represent Alternaversal, Shout Factory or the Kickstarter campaign in any official capacity). EDITOR’S NOTE: In June 2019, this podcast merged with the Damn Dirty Geeks Podcast and became The Damn Dirty Drive-in. These are our classic back catalog episodes, dating back to March 2016. Please enjoy! The new Drive-In podcast opens for business with original sketches, movie discussions, interviews, weird food tastings and more at Episode 168.

Number Five Is Alive! When Gyspy’s puppeteer, Tim Blaney, drops by the podcast, he brings with him a grab bag of famous marionette and character voice work. Ryan, Kate and Greg marvel as Tim recreates his roles as “Short Circuit’s” Johnny Five, “Men In Black’s” Frank the Pug and Space Worm, as well as NPC characters from Skyrim and beyond. Oh, and he talks in detail about his Season 11 puppeteering work with Mystery Science Theater’s favorite purple ‘bot! The gang discusses Hurricane Irma relief efforts and #MST3KCARES, and how MSTies can help their fellow humans in need. Meanwhile, Kate celebrates Justin Roiland’s “Terryfolds” and the band Chaos Chaos, as well as the science of storing flamingos in men’s restrooms. Then Greg feeds Ryan after midnight in a discussion of 1984’s “Gremlins,” a horror comedy very much in the MST3K wheelhouse. The gang praises the new movie adaptation of Stephen King's “It” and Bill Skarsgård’s terrifying turn as Pennywise the Clown. In the Mini Soda Review, everyone peels back the foil on Pellegrino Aranciata Orange, and then take a Very Adamant Stance against heading back To school. And Ron and James tackle “The Clonus Horror” in Reviewers In The MST. All this and a plucky, likeable immigrant mouse in a Don Bluth cartoon, who sadly can’t quite make it over a newly built border wall, thus crushing his hopes and dreams of America, on this week’s episode of the Revival League Podcast! (This podcast does not represent Alternaversal, Shout Factory or the Kickstarter campaign in any official capacity). EDITOR’S NOTE: In June 2019, this podcast merged with the Damn Dirty Geeks Podcast and became The Damn Dirty Drive-in. These are our classic back catalog episodes, dating back to March 2016. Please enjoy! The new Drive-In podcast opens for business with original sketches, movie discussions, interviews, weird food tastings and more at Episode 168.

Grab your bobby socks and poodle skirts, flip up your leather collars and race your hot rods down to the old malt shop! It’s the Labor Day Soda Jerk Special, Daddy-O! Find out who’s the biggest jerk when podcast regulars Ron McAdams and James Rohling don their paper hats and bow ties, and start scooping up classic diner and drug store treats. Greg provides the homemade gelato and Ryan the color commentary as a dyspeptic cherry on top. Erik Koski from the Junkmouth Podcast also joins in the fun, although he won't stop hocking straw wrappers at everyone. In an expansion of the Mini-Soda Review, the gang combines various Boylan’s seltzers and sodas with gelato to make lime rickeys, orange creams, strawberry malts, purple cows and New York egg creams. Seattle’s Pig Iron Cola gets blended into a cola float. And James and Ron conduct a blind taste test of Hershey’s, Bosco’s and Fox’s U-Bet chocolate syrups. All these tasty concoctions are paired with episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Learn the history of these classic soda jerk treats while the jukebox plays boogie-woogie, rockabilly, doo wap, and '50s diner rock. It’s the perfect day to end summer and beat the Labor Day heat! All this, and a Kool Aid Man -- who, with the help of his therapist, is finally ready to breakdown some emotional walls -- on this week’s episode of the Revival League Podcast! (This podcast does not represent Alternaversal, Shout Factory or the Kickstarter campaign in any official capacity). EDITOR’S NOTE: In June 2019, this podcast merged with the Damn Dirty Geeks Podcast and became The Damn Dirty Drive-in. These are our classic back catalog episodes, dating back to March 2016. Please enjoy! The new Drive-In podcast opens for business with original sketches, movie discussions, interviews, weird food tastings and more at Episode 168.

On this episode of the MST3K Revival League Podcast, Greg, Kate and Ryan are joined by podcast favorites Ron McAdams, James Rohling and Erica Rodriguez to talk about how MSTies can help those impacted by Hurricane Harvey. The gang reads emails from MSTies who are weathering the storm in Texas and discusses how to make donations to charities that are on the ground helping right now. Plus, James and Ron discuss "The Wild World of Batwoman," and Kate discusses more ways to help in a special edition of "Music, Science, Cats!" Closing music by audionautix.com. (This podcast does not represent Alternaversal, Shout Factory or the Kickstarter campaign in any official capacity). EDITOR’S NOTE: In June 2019, this podcast merged with the Damn Dirty Geeks Podcast and became The Damn Dirty Drive-in. These are our classic back catalog episodes, dating back to March 2016. Please enjoy! The new Drive-In podcast opens for business with original sketches, movie discussions, interviews, weird food tastings and more at Episode 168.

On this episode of the Revival League Podcast, Greg chats with cartoonist, podcaster and MST3K superfan Len Peralta, who talks about providing art for board games, illustrating books by MST3K alums, and getting to interview geek royalty. Meanwhile, with Kate out enjoying her life, Greg and Ryan invite guests Ron McAdams and Erica Rodriguez to chat about the RiffTrax Live special, “The Five Doctors.” The gang also discusses the abomination that was “Wild Wild West,” Ryan complains about driving an extra 20 minutes to Greg’s apartment, and Erica introduces Greg and Ryan to Iron Beer, Cuba’s national soda. Then the gang complains about pop-up restaurants, and James and Ron tackle a little-known MSTie gem. All this and a spunky teen detective, on this week’s episode of the Revival League Podcast! (This podcast does not represent Alternaversal, Shout Factory or the Kickstarter campaign in any official capacity). EDITOR’S NOTE: In June 2019, this podcast merged with the Damn Dirty Geeks Podcast and became The Damn Dirty Drive-in. These are our classic back catalog episodes, dating back to March 2016. Please enjoy! The new Drive-In podcast opens for business with original sketches, movie discussions, interviews, weird food tastings and more at Episode 168.