This Thing Rules
by Brian Altano and Max Scoville
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About this podcast
This Thing Rules is a show where we celebrate our favorite things. What kind of things, exactly? All kinds of things! Movies, foods, cities, bands, shows, books, albums, toys, pictures, moments. Each episode, join long-time collaborators and best pals Brian Altano and Max Scoville as they focus on a different subject, ask themselves what’s so great about it, share some anecdotes about how they grew to love it, unearth some trivia about it, and celebrate the fact that it exists.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 62 episodes
- Conventions Rule! · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 61From Comic-Cons on both coasts to gaming expos on multiple continents, we’ve attended our fair share of nerdy gatherings, and they’re great! This episode, we’re digging into that…
- Refrigerator Magnets, Short Stories and Breweries Rule! · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 60This episode, we’re extrapolating on the joys of the most functional souvenirs with magnetic properties, our favorite short-form fiction, and one of the more wholesome settings…
- Capsule Toy Machines Rule! · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 59You know! Those things that are like gumball machines, but for little toys! Growing up in the USA, they usually dispensed a sticky hand, some slime, maybe a lil Homie, but in…
- Yard Work, Sneakers & Cookies Rule! · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 58We’ve got another grab bag episode here, or rather, three very different bags: one’s a big paper bag full of dead leaves and grass clippings, another from a shoe store, and the…
- Road Trips Rule! · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 57Ah, hitting the open road! A timeless rite of passage and quintessentially American adventure, unless of course you’re stuck in the car with your whole family, taking the bus or…
- Carrot Cake Rules! ...Or Does It? (Featuring Alex "Kozibear" Kozina) · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 56This week, it’s our most politically-charged and divisive topic yet: Carrot Cake. We’re joined by Alex “Kozibear” Kozina, long time friend of the show and culinary adventurer, to…
- Lizards, Tunnels & Bubble Bobble Rule! · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 55It’s another grab bag of odds and ends that we love: lizards, those dogs of the reptile kingdom, tunnels, those underground bridges, and Bubble Bobble, which is sort of about…
- Movie Theaters Rule! · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 54Easily one of the top 5 best dark rooms you pay money to sit inside for several hours, movie theaters make for a singular experience, where people flock together to sit in…
- Willy Wonka Rules! · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 53Roald Dahl’s child-endangering chocolatier is one of the most beloved literary characters, turned into an iconic film character by Gene Wilder. We’ve gotten a Timothée Chalamet…
- Christmas Eve Rules! (Featuring Jared Petty) · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 52This episode, we’re joined by our most Santa Claus-like friend, Jared Petty, to discuss the night before Christmas. Like, the actual night, not the poem. We share some of our…
- Haircuts Rule! · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 51This week we’re taking a little off the top, and tipping our hat to the age-old ceremony of lowering one’s ears. Or, in laymen’s terms, getting a haircut. We recount some of our…
- Fridays Rule! · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 50Almost the weekend! Friday is technically a weekday, but it’s not like the other weekdays: it’s a COOL weekday. We discuss the origins, pop cultural significance, and our own…
- Autumn Rules! · 37 min · Season 1 Episode 49Or wait, is it fall? Whichever, it's great, and not just because of Halloween. You know, aside from our vestigial back-to-school anxiety, rapidly approaching seasonal depression…
- Bats, Gum & Nice New Pens Rule! · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 48This week, Max has a surprise grab bag for Brian! Will he think these things rule as much as Max does? We discuss everyone’s favorite flying rodent that isn’t a flying squirrel…
- Gingerbread Houses, Snaggletooth & Stegosauruses Rule! · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 47This week, Brian prepared a special surprise variety pack grab bag of things that he thinks Max might be a big fan of. Gingerbread Houses, those once-seasonal edible wiccan…
- Album Covers Rule! · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 46How music looks isn’t as important as how it sounds, but it certainly plays a role. This episode, we talk about our relationship with album covers, which sometimes look like the…
- Grilling Rules! · 47 minAt one point, using fire to cook stuff outside was part of daily life, but now it’s just a way of microdosing caveman life. Whether you’re using gas, charcoal, or a hot sidewalk…
- Toy Commercials Rule! · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 44This week, we’re delving into a very special sort of generational brain damage that we can specifically blame/thank the Reagan administration for: toy commercials! Growing up the…
- Travel Rules! (Live From Düsseldorf) · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 44This episode, we tried something new and recorded on location from a restaurant in Düsseldorf, Germany. We sampled the local beer and talked about some of our adventures in…
- Keith David, Fire & Bread Bag Clips Rule! · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 43This week, we’re tackling a few extremely unrelated things that rule: fire (the element), Keith David (the actor) and bread bag clips (the clips that come on bags of bread.) Why…
