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This week Andy Iwancio joins us in the wake of her recent album release, Better Living Through Femistry. We have a lovely chat about music docs that stays pretty shockingly on the rails. We also debate what constitutes a music documentary from a concert film. Also, lots of puns. It's a party.     Weekly Rads: Kyle – Hellfire by Black Midi (album) Burnside – Proud of Myself: I restored a rusty wok and turned that motherfucker into a mirror (emotional response to an event) Andy – Best Day Brewing Hazy IPA (fake beer)     Go buy Andy's F#cking Album! https://music.apple.com/us/album/better-living-through-femmistry/1714831647   https://open.spotify.com/album/0T7JF3LelG6BZWfOkeznuu?si=J2T--rPFTV6BMIQ-WaUOlg   https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0CMDGCLBZ?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_WTz3V2fCKIbDban1jPNuNWHAr   https://andyiwancio.bandcamp.com/album/better-living-through-femmistry   Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get K

This week the boys are joined by the always delightful Jenny Chalikian (@romcomshow) for a chat about the supernatural sitcom The Good Place. Burnside has been on the record for years about loving the show. Jenny has become a huge fan in recent years. Can they sell Kyle, the world's grumpiest TV watcher to check it out?   Weekly Rads: Kyle – Quiz Lady (movie) Matthew – Jelly Doughnut that was good (food) Jenny – Bottoms (movie) dicks the musical (movie) Bonnie Tyler (singer)   Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut  You can go to www.kyleclarkcomed.bandcamp.com and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a Person” which includes 20 mins of unheard material, plus an additional 15 minutes of never released bonus live recordings!   Send Us Stuff! We have a PO Box! This Is Rad! / Kyle Clark PO Box #198 2470 Stearns St Simi Valley, CA 93063   Tales from an Analog Future Get it HERE: https://gumroad.com/analogfut

Kyle and Matthew are joined by Christer Schmidt for a chat about her life in the furry community. The ep is not as filthy as you think it's gonna be. So strap on your tail and grab your insanely expensive custom gloves and mask and join us for a journey into the wild...     Weekly Rads: Kyle – Anna Valenzuela's special taping (event) / The Comedy Fort in Fort Collins (club) / Filmic Pro (app) Burnside – Arnica Bruise Cream (topical cream) Christer – Road trips through the desert (activity)   Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut  You can go to www.kyleclarkcomed.bandcamp.com and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a Person” which includes 20 mins of unheard material, plus an additional 15 minutes of never released bonus live recordings!   Send Us Stuff! We have a PO Box! This Is Rad! / Kyle Clark PO Box #198 2470 Stearns St Simi Valley, CA 93063   Tales from an Analog Future Get it HERE: https://gumroa

Kyle is joined by Anna Valenzuela as they make their back to Los Angeles from Fort Collins, Colorado where they recorded Anna's first special. They recount their journey and you can find out what it's like to ride in between the two talkiest people on the plane. Congrats to Anna and special thanks to The Comedy Fort in Fort Collins!   Next week This Is Rad! will return to it's regularly scheduled programing. Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut  You can go to www.kyleclarkcomed.bandcamp.com and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a Person” which includes 20 mins of unheard material, plus an additional 15 minutes of never released bonus live recordings!   Send Us Stuff! We have a PO Box! This Is Rad! / Kyle Clark PO Box #198 2470 Stearns St Simi Valley, CA 93063   Tales from an Analog Future Get it HERE: https://gumroad.com/analogfuturecomic   Get Kyle's album "Absolute Terror" here: https://smarturl.i

Kyle and Matt catch up after nearly a month since their last podcast together. We chat halloween cruises, post-halloween exhaustion, and nothing else of note...   *Spoilers Ahead*   Weekly Rads: Kyle – Mike and Liz's Wedding (event) Matthew – Getting engaged to Laura Knight (event)   Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut  You can go to www.kyleclarkcomed.bandcamp.com and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a Person” which includes 20 mins of unheard material, plus an additional 15 minutes of never released bonus live recordings!   Send Us Stuff! We have a PO Box! This Is Rad! / Kyle Clark PO Box #198 2470 Stearns St Simi Valley, CA 93063   Tales from an Analog Future Get it HERE: https://gumroad.com/analogfuturecomic   Get Kyle's album "Absolute Terror" here: https://smarturl.it/absoluteterror    G  o  to www.Patreon.com/thisisrad and subscribe to send in questions for our Listener Questions episodes,

This week Burnside is out with the 'vid and so Kyle chats solo with musician and longtime radster Zack Stern (aka Codefreq). Zack had done the music for the majority of the TIR Halloween Specials but the duo have never really chatted about how the process. They chat about Zack's fascination with arcades despite growing up long after the heyday of arcades. Then they shift into an extended conversations about Zack's approach to composition and the evolving ways to define what it means to be a musician.   Weekly Rads: Kyle – Spiritual Cramp by Spiritual Cramp (album)  Zack – Super Eyepatch Wolf's pair of Simpsons video essays (youtube)   Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut  You can go to www.kyleclarkcomed.bandcamp.com and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a Person” which includes 20 mins of unheard material, plus an additional 15 minutes of never released bonus live recordings!   Send Us Stuff! We ha

Our very own Frank Gillen joins us to chat about the cable television block that created millions of anime fans. You wanna hear Kyle and Frank say the names of a bunch of anime? This is the episode for you! Plus, what makes kids programming cool and does it really make it cool?   Weekly Rads: Kyle – Cult of the Lamb (video game) Burnside – The Faculty (movie), Nightmare Weekend (movie) Frank – Bloodborne (video game)     Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut  You can go to www.kyleclarkcomed.bandcamp.com and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a Person” which includes 20 mins of unheard material, plus an additional 15 minutes of never released bonus live recordings!   Send Us Stuff! We have a PO Box! This Is Rad! / Kyle Clark PO Box #198 2470 Stearns St Simi Valley, CA 93063   Tales from an Analog Future Get it HERE: https://gumroad.com/analogfuturecomic   Get Kyle's album "Absolute Terror" here: https

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We got ourselves a crossover this week folks! Kyle is flanked by his TIR co-host Matthew Burnside and his EiS co-host Amy Drolet. The trio get together to chat about the glorious world of Asian splatter horror. The title gives you a pretty good idea of what we'll be covering. If you're looking for classy J-Horror, we did that ep years ago. Now we're traveling around Asia looking for gonzo goopy madness with Amy Drolet as our guide. Plus, this episode features a bonus mini ep: I Was an Atomic Radster!   Weekly Rads:   Kyle – Skeleton Crew by Stephen King, Grimscribe/Song of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti, and Perchance to Dream by Charles Beaumont (books) Matthew – Dead Alive (movie) Amy – Rose Red (mini series)   Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut  You can go to www.kyleclarkcomed.bandcamp.com and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a Person” which includes 20 mins of unheard material, plus an add

The dynamic duo of the spooky season, Brian Wylie and Daniel Nix join us to talk about the strangest entry is a franchise full of strange movies. John Carpenter's Halloween is classic. But what about the other aspects of the halloween season? You know, like Irish robots and alcoholic doctors. Plus, we chat Tom Atkins as the avatar for a very specific kind of dude. So strap on your Silver Shamrock mask and sit down in front of the TV. We have a very special broadcast for you...     Weekly Rads: Kyle – #Inktober (event), batman forever soundtrack (soundtrack) Matthew – Strays (1991) (bad) and Strays (2023) (better) (movies) Brian – Beyond Fest (event) David Cronenberg's Crash (movie), Disney's Oogie Boogie Bash (event) Daniel – Holly by Stephen King (book)   Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut  You can go to www.kyleclarkcomed.bandcamp.com and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a Person” which include

This week we are joined by Eye on Horror Podcast co-host Jacob Davidson (@jacob_davidson). Jacob joined us back in the Day for our Resident Evil episode but he's here today to share his extensive adventures in horror movie marathons. From triple features to all nighters, we look at what makes for the perfect cocktail of marathon-able movies. Leave a comment on our socials with your own horror movie marathon line ups!   Weekly Rads: Kyle – Universal Hollywood Horror Nights 2023 (seasonal event) Matthew – Rabid (movie) Jacob – Beyond Fest (film festival)   Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut  You can go to www.kyleclarkcomed.bandcamp.com and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a Person” which includes 20 mins of unheard material, plus an additional 15 minutes of never released bonus live recordings!   Send Us Stuff! We have a PO Box! This Is Rad! / Kyle Clark PO Box #198 2470 Stearns St Simi Valley, CA

This week the boys are joined by the one and only Carter Glasscock from our sister podcast The Good from the Woods. The trio chat about returning to live events post-lockdown. The chat about what has changed and what has stayed the same. It's also a good excuse to talk about bands... lots of bands. Check out Carter's album “The Crystal Pistol” on Radland Records!   Weekly Rads:  Kyle – Stoned Soul Picnic by Roy Ayers (album) Burnside – Apple Music / Whale City by Warmduscher (album) Carter – Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid by Stars of the Lid (album) Lydia Loveless (musician)   Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut  You can go to www.kyleclarkcomed.bandcamp.com and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a Person” which includes 20 mins of unheard material, plus an additional 15 minutes of never released bonus live recordings!   Send Us Stuff! We have a PO Box! This Is Rad! / Kyle Clark PO Box #198 2470 S

The boys are joined by the delightful Virginia Jones to chat about the phenomenon of neighborhood lending libraries. For those who don't know, a lil library sorta like a “take a penny, leave a penny” for used books. From trash to treasure you're never sure what you might find. Virginia even shares a few celebrity lending libraries she has found in LA. Plus, Virginia went on the ill fated Coachella Cruise and shares some stories about that. That leads to some talk about music specific cruises and boy does Burnside find some gems.   Weekly Rads: Kyle – Scowl, Militarie Gun, MS Paint, Entry, Expect The Worst (< the band I couldn't remember the name of!) (bands) Burnside – Sea of Stars (game) Virginia – I Speak Machines, Pulp, Wet Leg (bands)   Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut  You can go to www.kyleclarkcomed.bandcamp.com and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a Person” which includes 20 mins of unh

Grab your glow sticks as the boys sit down with comedian Jessica Lang (@nottheactresss) to chat about the world of raves. Jessica shares her story of discovering raves and the evolution in her music taste. Plus, we all nerd out about synthesizers for a minute. Drop your bean now, so you'll be peaking by mid-episode...   Weekly Rads: Kyle – Sad Park is playing the El Rey (event) Burnside – Dry Chili Salsa (food) Jessica – Cleaning something off with a hose (activity)   Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut  You can go to www.kyleclarkcomed.bandcamp.com and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a Person” which includes 20 mins of unheard material, plus an additional 15 minutes of never released bonus live recordings!   Send Us Stuff! We have a PO Box! This Is Rad! / Kyle Clark PO Box #198 2470 Stearns St Simi Valley, CA 93063   Tales from an Analog Future Get it HERE: https://gumroad.com/analogfuturecomic

The boys are joined by Kayla Rosenberg and Dean Gerard for a chat about the rise of the Cartoon Network's original animated programs. We chat about the anthology series that proved to be a testing ground for early programing. We chat about the strengths of early series like The Powerpuff Girls and Dexter's Lab and the strong identity the channel established. We compare and contrast early Cartoon Network with Nickelodeon's similar evolution.    Weekly Rads: Kyle – One Piece (Netflix series) (show) Matthew – Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (movie) and Love Island (Ohio for the win!) (show) Kayla – The Venture Bros: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart Dean – Renfield (movie)   Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut  You can go to www.kyleclarkcomed.bandcamp.com and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a Person” which includes 20 mins of unheard material, plus an additional 15 minutes of never

Author Mike Bockoven returns to the show to break down the finer points of Midwestern food. Matthew shares some of his favorite midwestern staples as well. Kyle learns the four food groups of Midwestern cuisine. Wheter you've eaten already or not, this episode will leave you stuffed. We also chat about Mike's new book "Killing It" about a group of stand ups trapped inside a comedy club by a crazed club owner. Kyle was a consultant on the manuscript for the details about stand up. They chat about the process of putting together a book about comedy and getting the weird little details right. P Go buy Mike's New Book “Killing It”!!!! amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Mike-Bockoven/dp/1957957190/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1693333987&sr=8-4 Not amazon: https://www.powells.com/book/killing-it-9781957957197     Weekly Rads: Kyle – How to Draw Manga book series Burnside – Takeshi's Castle (The Return!) (show) French Onion Grilled Cheese (grilled onions and Gruyère cheese) on bread (recipe)

Richard Eden makes his return to the show! Our favorite handsome Canadian podcaster returns with tales of his shift into the newspaper business. The boys have a grand reunion before they get down to the nitty gritty. Ai: is it gonna kill us all? Should we kill it before it kills us? Exactly HOW good is it at de-pixelating? Richard and Burnside exchange some interesting ideas about where Ai is headed. Kyle shares his experiences both with Ai easing work flow on creative projects and chatting with chat bots. It's an interesting topic that is still in it's infancy. Check back in like 10 years and see what we got right or wrong! (and, just in case, All hail our robot overlords!)     Weekly Rads: Kyle – Spiritual Cramp (band) Burnside – How to with John Wilson season 3 (show), Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (movie) Richard – Prescription drugs taken as prescribed (especially in Canada), Baldur's Gate 3 (game)   Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a

It finally happened. After numerous ritual sacrifices, This Is Rad! has finally appeased the podcasting gods. In celebration River's Langley presents us with “Oops all sides” and we discuss the shortcomings of west coast BBQ sides game. We may have learned the meats, but we still have much to learn. Also, burnside make some bangin' chicken wings, Laura made bomb ass cookies, and Taylor (with Kyle) made reese's peanut butter bars. Look below for River's recipies. We'll also share them on our social!   made reese's peanut butter bars. Look below for River's recipies. We'll also share them on our social!   Weekly Rads: Taylor – Spider Solitare apps Laura – Good Omens Season 2 (Show) Matthew – Sleepstalker (1995) (film) Rivers – Bass Pro Shop (retail chain) Kyle - Edward Scissorhands (movie)   ----- RECIPIES: Funeral Potatoes AKA Hashbrown Casserole Ingredients: - (1) 30 oz. Bag of frozen, shredded hash browns - (1) 10.5 oz Can of cream of chicken soup - (1) 8 oz Container of sour cream - (2) Red bell pepper - (

The podcast goblin continues its reign of terror. This week, you get a double feature. We start with a This Is Rad! first, Burnside and Laura open the show and do a segment together, without Kyle. They chat Ninja Turtles and Burnside's upcoming twitch streams. Plus, somebody may or may not have done some cool stuff for the turtle movie... Then, in part 2, Kyle sits down with Alex Blugerman and Devyn Kawata. Alex and Devyn took a trip to Japan this year and the trio chat about their adventure. They also chat projection mapping and the changing landscape of live entertainment. Plus, Devyn gives us some insights into the DIY burlesque scene in Los Angeles.   Weekly Rads: Part 1 Matt and Laura – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (movie) Part 2 Kyle – Barbenheimer (Barbie and Oppenheimer) (movies) Alex – Pokemon Kogei at Japan House Los Angeles (exhibit) Devyn – KISS (band)   Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cu

The always wonderful Tess Llanos returns to This Is Rad! To chat about the 2023 cultural phenomenon that is Barbie. The crew celebrate the movie and the fun of Barbenheimer weekend. Tess talks about her own history with Barbie. Plus, we explore some of the stranger Barbies that have come along.   Weekly Rads: Kyle – Shin Kamen Rider (movie) Matthew – Barbie (Cultural Phenomenon) Tess – Barbie (Cultural Phenomenon)   Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut  You can go to www.kyleclarkcomed.bandcamp.com and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a Person” which includes 20 mins of unheard material, plus an additional 15 minutes of never released bonus live recordings!   Send Us Stuff! We have a PO Box! This Is Rad! / Kyle Clark PO Box #198 2470 Stearns St Simi Valley, CA 93063   Tales from an Analog Future Get it HERE: https://gumroad.com/analogfuturecomic   Get Kyle's album "Absolute Terror" here: https://sm