In the years 1999 - 2001, pop culture was trying to find itself. Escaping the realism of the 90s into what would be fake reality of the 00s, a lot of projects were thrown at the wall to see what would stick. Freakylinks was one of those projects. The story of a paranormal invetigative team with a an accompanying website using the found footage genre as part of its draw was a new concept in 2000 (it would still be new today) - maybe too new. FOX executives sabotaged their X-Files replacement to the point where Freakylinks would become a freakylink in and of itself.

Join Ron Martin as he discusses the origins, the show, the interference, the downfall and what could have been on Freakylinks. He even discusses the show with fellow Freakylinks watcher, Gillman Joel.

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In this episode of the podcast, we take a look at Monsters Attack! magazine - a short run horror magazine from 1989/1990. Monsters Attack! was a spinoff of Cracked magazine and an homage to the popular monster magazines and horror comics of the 1950s and 60s.

In this episode we discuss the inspirations from Monsters Attack!, horror hosts, the quick downfall of Monsters Attack!, what the magazine did well and what it could have done better. We even end up with a TOP FIVE best things about Monsters Attacks!

Included is a conversation with Gillman Joel, who sneaks into the sleepover to steal our grandma's stale Marlboro cigarettes!

You can find Gillman Joel and Ron Martin as two of the ten Horror Avengers on Jay of the Dead's New Horror movies: https://www.newhorrormovies.com/

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From 1989 to 1999 the Disney company experience a measure of growth unlike any other time in its history. Executives Michael Eisner and Frank Wells dubbed the time period The Disney Decade and layed out their plans for the entire decade as far as theme park expansion, animated films, Disney experiences for the masses and other creative endeavors.

Unforseen challenges followed and its long been questioned whether or not the Disney Decade was successful. However, for those who grew up in the 90s, that decade of Disney products certainly spoke to them with the Disney Channel at its height, the them park expansion as well as the movies.

Join the discussion as we try to figure out if the decade was overall successful and maybe even talk with one of those 90s Disney kids!

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