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158 – Top 5 Sports Mascots

Olé, Olé, Olé!

Something about watching a live sports game is so much different and unmatched compared to simply watching it on TV. The energy. The crowds. The overpriced concessions. All of it is elevated by the pure buzz you get from the excitement in the stadium. Alas, the true hero of all sports games is not the players themselves, but the one that keeps the crowd cranked to an 11 in an oversized (and probably overheated) novelty costume! So join Tuong La and Sports Aficionados Julian McKenzie, Eric Silver (Multitude, Join the Party, Tell Me About it), and Tom Zalatnai (No Bad Food) as they look through at the most chaotic side of sports and rank Top 5 Sports Mascots!

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128 – Top 5 Winter Olympic Sports

Ranking for the Gold!

It doesn’t seem like that long ago we were ranking Summer Olympic Sports. Our list of concerns in that episode about the social, political, environmental impacts of hosting this global competition on top of an ongoing pandemic well…is still very present all these months later. All that said, there is still something really special getting the world’s top athletes to compete on the bitter cold terrain of snow and ice competing for our love and for the gold! So join Tuong and Winter Olympians Desiree Connors Warmington, Al Connors, and Leslie Cserepy as they shred some gnarly hills and ‘hot dog’ their way to ranking a Top 5 Winter Olympic Sports list!

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116 – Top 5 Summer Olympic Games

Let the games begin! Okay let’s be real. The Olympics most probably shouldn’t be happening this year due to the ongoing pandemic let alone just the sheer negative environmental impact…

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Ep 83 – Midsommar (2019) with Spencer Dunn

“Well we think of life like the seasons.”

When people think of horror movies they often think about jump scares, lots of blood, gore, spooky creatures, ghosts, or…*shudder* children. But some horror movies opt for a different approach where it’s horror of the mind, slowly peeling away at your psyche as you watch it, such as on this week’s episode of Talkin’ Tuong. So join Tuong and Castle Rockettes’s Spencer Dunn as they take a look at the bright and disturbing Swedish folk horror/cultish nightmare that is 2019’s Midsommar.

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51 – Top 5 Best Things about Winter

Rankin’ in a Winter Wonderland.

Oh the weather outside sure can be frightful out in the cold, bitter, frosty Winter but it’s not all bad! There’s a certain magic and wonder that only comes out at this time of year and on this week’s episode we’re here to prove it! This week join Tuong La and Abominable Snow People Justin Godelie, Shannon Godelie,and Keish Saunders as they rank the Top 5 Best Things about Winter!

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