Fainting Into Quicksand: Episode 7

In this episode of Fainting Into Quicksand, Mark and Chris accidentally time-travel to the 1970s and 80s; a lawless era when "community porn" was hidden under trees, "free" phone numbers secretly connected you to New York, and the internet had to scream before it would let you in. They swap horror stories about phone cards, pagers that never paged, and the chaos of early dial-up life. The nostalgia spiral deepens with tales of answering machines that doubled as recording studios, beanbag chairs that qualified as furniture, and board games from the '70s apparently designed to cause minor injuries. A casual mention of tubas somehow becomes a full-blown brass symposium — complete with an ASU euphonium cameo and an impassioned defense of Rush. Things wrap up with a roast of The Shining conspiracy crowd, a pit stop in satanic backmasking panic, and a dramatic reading of one-star national-park reviews ("Too many rocks"). Give it a listen!