The Damn Dirty Drive-In

It's the Revival League Podcast Halloween special! Join Greg, Ryan and Blake, along with podcast favorites Erica Rodriguez, James Rohling and Ron McAdams, as we celebrate the spookiest of holidays! The gang talks about their favorite Halloween MST3K episodes, tells ghost stories, and more. Ryan reminds everyone of their own mortality, and Blake stops by to discuss the true meaning of the holiday. All this and a house built over an ancient graveyard, on this special edition 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.

This week on the Revival League Podcast, we talk with the one and only Jonah Ray! Jonah is the host of "Hidden America with Jonah Ray," "The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail" -- and, oh, yeah, a little show called "Mystery Science Theater 3000." Jonah talks about growing up in Hawaii, landing the role on MST3K, fandom and tons of other stuff in a wide-ranging conversation. Meanwhile, Greg and Ryan sample another flavor from Rocky Mountain Soda Company, James suffers through "San Francisco International," and Greg finally breaks Ryan's spirits. All this and some crazy, mixed-up plumbing 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.

In this episode of the Revival League Podcast, we talk with Deana Dolphin, who heads up Mystery Singles Theater 3000, the premier MST3K singles group on Facebook. Greg and Ryan discuss the merits of Commando and sample Lemmy's Sparkling Lemonade, and Peter Sheidle is back with the second installment of "Great Directors of MST3K." And make sure to stay tuned for the Marvel-style post-credits scene! All this and a planet where apes evolved from men, 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.

In this episode, the podcast crew talks to Tom Noel, MST3K collector extraordinaire and founder of mst3ktemple.com, about collecting rare memorabilia and his love for the show. Plus, Blake returns to tell us what he's been doing for the summer, the gang discusses the problems with The Lone Ranger, and Greg and Ryan find out that butterscotch may be good in ice cream, but it makes a hell of a bad soda. All this and angry Andy Rooney 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 a special post-set-visit podcast! In this spoiler-free episode, Greg, Ryan, and botbuilder.info’s Ron McAdams discuss their impressions of the new season of MST3K after visiting the set. Don’t worry — we don’t violate any NDAs! (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.

In this episode, Blake and Ryan chat to Joey Hollywood, creator of Midnight’s Haunted Drive-In, about running a Kickstarter, getting into the movie-riffing game, and the challenges of dealing with YouTube’s copyright strike policies. Plus, Greg and Ryan chat about their upcoming visit to the MST3K set, and the crew discusses “John Wick” and the prospect of yet another “Phantasm” movie, and Greg and Ryan sample Boylan’s Birch Beer. All this and a trained llama 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.

Back in June, the podcast crew had a chat with David Chadwick, aka Sugar Ray Dodge, author of the Mystery Science Storybook series, and we’re pleased to at last offer it for your consideration! In this episode, we talk to David about graphic design, the meaning of fandom and his creative process. Plus, Greg and Ryan tackle an Ed Wood “classic” – the ahead-of-its-time (but still awful) “Glen or Genda?” In the Mini-Soda Review, the podcast crew samples a listener-submitted drink, and James Rohling gets serious about why he’s a MSTIE. All this and gratuitous nudity 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.

In this blast from the past — recorded just before Denver Comic Con — the podcast crew talks to Kellie and Alex Rice, better known to LOTR fans as the Happy Hobbits. The Rices were in town to moderate several panels — including one about the monsters of MST3K. They sit down with Greg and Ryan to talk about fandom, building a network of fans, and how fans should interact with creators. The crew also dissects “The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies” and samples Tommyknocker root beer, and Ryan reveals that he has a contingency plan in case he ever has to kill Greg. All this and hobbits 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.

In this episode, Greg and Ryan chat with Zoe Plait, the manager for The Mads Are Back, about the challenges of scheduling a traveling comedy show, the impact of MST3K on her life, and her friendship with Trace and Frank. Plus, the podcast crew tackles the gloriously ludicrous Nic Cage vehicle, “Face/Off,” and approach a chocolate-flavored soda with understandable trepidation. And James discusses his affection for “Godzilla vs. Megalon.” All this and less on the latest 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.

In this super-size episode, Greg sits down with Jackie Neyman Jones, Tonjia Atomic and Rachel Jackson of “Manos Returns.” Greg talks to the Manos crew about the trials and tribulations of low-budget filmmaking — all while having his nails done. Plus, Ryan does not like “Suicide Squad,” the podcast crew tries a grape soda, and Ryan stands firm on the First Amendment while Greg weasels away like the coward he is. All this and a marginal amount more 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.

Ever wanted to contemplate Zap Rowsdower, Torgo or Tom Servo indulging in a sultry strip tease? Then prepare to pop a pastie and embark on a journey of arealogical, autoerotical, tubular boobular joy with an all MST3K-themed burlesque show! Ryan and Greg sit down with show organizer and performer extraordinaire Miss Mona De Plume. Mona is the mad genius behind Portland, Oregon’s “We've got Boobie Sign – A Burlesque Tribute to MST3K.” Mona decided to see what happens when burlesque lands on the Satellite of Love. Trust us, the results are spectacular! In “Cheesy Movies We’d Like to See Riffed,” the gang tackles a bandolier and mankini-wearing Sean Connery in the cinematic madness that is, “Zardoz.” And in the “Mini Soda Review,” the fellas wake up by quaffing World Market’s Coffee Soda, while reviewer James reviews the non-movie, “Monster A Go Go” in his “Reviewers in the MSTie” segment. All this and more in this PG-13, slightly NSFW-edition of the 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.

So Ryan, Greg and James ventured to Minneapolis to see the MST3K Reunion Show, and man was it a fun weekend! We met and chatted the entire cast of MST3K plus new Text Experiment Jonah Ray, went on field trips to the Blue Sun Soda Company for a livecast “Mini Soda Review,” as well an an excursion to the old HQ of Best Brains, Inc, where the original series was produced. Best part of all was meeting so many fellow MSTies, old friends and new, and reuniting all over again. (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.

In the countdown to the Rifftrax/Mystery Science Theater Reunion show, Greg sits down with writer, actress, comedienne and MST3K alum Bridget Nelson. In “Cheesy Movies We’d Like to See Riffed,” Ryan goes after no less than Bogie and Bacall’s film noir classic, “Dark Passage.” The Podcast Gang moseys on back to 1871 to slurp Sioux City Prickly Pear in their, “Mini Soda Review.” And reviewer James goes into stealth mode to critique the schlocky martial arts vehicle, “Master Ninja II.” It’s another inaction filled podcast! Please listen. (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.

Nuveena, Octavia and Mr. B Natural all walk into an interview, and they’re all the same amazing writer/comedian, Bridget Jones Nelson! Greg sits down with Bridget, and it’s a tale of small town dance halls, two bit magicians, and hustling Twin City stand-up comics. Oh, and a stint working on a little cowtown puppet show called MST3K. In this week’s, “Cheesy Movies We’d Like to See Riffed,” Ryan discusses Jeremy Irons’s potboiler performance in “Dungeons & Dragons.” And the hills are alive with the sounds of fizzing, as the Podcast gang tastes the national soft drink of Austria, Almdudler, in the, “Mini Soda Review.” Ryan thinks this elder flower cordial tastes of Mozart and Von Trapp tears; Blake stands by his plans to visit the Australian Alps. And in, “Reviewers In The MSTie,” James takes on the sweat stained swagger of, “Mitchell.” All this and even less in the 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 plug may have been pulled on the RenFest Kickstarter, but that doesn’t stop the Podcast Gang from going full on Renaissance Faire, anyway! Part Two of our interview with Dr. Clayton Forrester himself, Trace Beaulieu! This half of the interview tackles MST3K and The Mads Are Back. Plus, Host Ryan plugs his aquatic masterpiece, “Goodbye Angler Fish.” The results are fishy, at best. In the segment, “Cheesy Movies We’d Like to See Riffed,” the gang tackles 2006’s unhinged Nic Cage vehicle, “The Wicker Man.” In the “Mini Soda Review,” an old enemy resurfaces to haunt the gang in the form of Fentimans’s Lemonade Rose Soda. And James takes a long look at “I Accuse My Parents” in the “Reviewers in the MSTie” segment. All this and more in Ye Olde Podcaste! (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.