Episode Description
An episode after which Ashley will never be able to think about stomachaches the same way again.

Also, in honor of our Season 1 finale, it's a DOUBLE FEATURE, babaaaaaay!

How well did Ashley guess what these movies were about? ...well, her closest guess involved dairy products (and even then, calling that a "close" guess is generous).

Show Notes

1979's Alien was written by Dan O'Bannon and follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo in the year 2122, who respond to a distress signal. They discover the signal comes from a derelict alien ship and enter it (an objectively bad idea), losing communication with the Nostromo. Inside, the crew discovers a chamber containing hundreds of large, egg-like objects. A creature springs out of one and attaches to the face of a crew member. It later detaches on its own and is found dead. All's well that ends well, right? Not quite. Turns out, the crew wasn’t quite done with the Xenomorph, a deadly and aggressive extraterrestrial set loose on the ship.

1986's Aliens was written by James Cameron and continues Ellen Ripley's story. Ripley is rescued by a deep salvage team after being in hypersleep for 57 years. The moon that the Nostromo had visited in Alien has been colonized, but contact has been lost with the colonists. Support is being sent in the form of a team of colonial marines with impressive firepower, and Ripley goes in with them. They find the colony deserted. Inside, they find makeshift barricades and battle signs, but no bodies; two live facehuggers in containment tanks; and a traumatized young girl nicknamed Newt, the sole survivor. What happened to the rest of the colonists, and why are all their signals coming from beneath the fusion-powered atmosphere processing station?

Alien and Aliens kicked off a wildly successful franchise, largely due to a brilliant team of artists, and a revolutionary genre switch from horror to science fiction/action between the two films. So let's talk about it!

Sources
Alien Behind the Scenes Featurette
CineFix's Art of the Scene - Alien Chestburster
Aliens The Chestburster Mechanism - Stan Winston School
Credited As: Creature Performer - Academy of Motion Pictures
Alien - H.R. Giger's Beautiful Monster
Cosmavoid

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Episode Description
In the latest installment of, "WHY WASN'T I TAUGHT THIS IN SCHOOL?!" Ashley finally learns what a 401(k) is.

How well did Ashley guess how the retirement process works? ...well, she learned she's been pronouncing IRA incorrectly.

Show Notes
Have you ever dreamed what life will be like after retirement? You're not alone. Unfortunately, for Ashley, that dream is a long, LOOOOOONG, ways away. Still, it can seem like a daunting, expensive dream to have. So how the heck do you get started?

Let Ashley walk you through the basics, and then check out the sources below.

Sources
IRS - Retirement Topics
CNBC - Here's how much you should have in retirement at every age
Reddit - r/personalfinance
The Motley Fool - The Huge Retirement Mistake Millennials are Making
Next Level Life - Can YOU Afford to Retire?

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Episode Description
An episode in which Ashley begrudgingly makes her mother happy.

How well did Ashley guess what this movie was about? ...well, she didn't know Julie Andrews was in it.

Show Notes
"The hills are aliiiiiiiiive..." (surprisingly, at the beginning of the movie).

The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical of the same name, composed by Rodgers & Hammerstein.

Based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. The film takes place in 1938, and is about a young woman training to be a nun in Salzburg, Austria, who is sent to the villa of a retired widowed naval officer to serve as governess to his seven children.

While the children were initially rowdy, they grow to care for Maria, and she begins to care for them. After bringing love and music into the lives of the family, she marries the officer and, together with the children, finds a way to survive the loss of their homeland to the Nazis.

The movie won a sh*t ton of awards, but it's not entirely accurate to what really happened. So, let's talk about it.

Sources:
National Archives
The Sound of Music Website
Trapp Family Lodge

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