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Strange Ride
by The Alchemical Actors
A pop culture nerd teaches her college professor the weirdest things she knows about theme parks, Broadway, video games, TV, and music. Episodes post on Thursdays.
Episodes
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3.3: EPIC Universe
Savannah explores what makes for a good and bad experience at Universal's EPIC Universe. Join us for a journey through the park.
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3.2: Stranger Ride, Stranger Things Review
Savannah reviews the entire series of Stranger Things and Rob does his best to keep up.
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3.1: Stranger Ride, the Conformity Gate Conspiracy Theory
Did you hate the Stranger Things ending? Did you hate it enough to imagine an entire conspiracy theory in which the ending is not truly the ending but an illusion created by the main villain and another episode is still forthcoming despite ample evidence to the contrary? Well, this episode is for...
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2.13: Naked in 1982 or Bombing in Paradise
In 1982, Phoebe Cates swam naked across movie screens nationwide and nobody cared. Cates had been willing to appear fully nude on camera but had soured on choices the production team had made while editing the film and turned against her own starring role. Paradise told the story of a young...
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2.12: Escape From Tomorrow
Walt Disney World is almost known for being a place that encourages you to take wholesome videos and pictures of your family while you’re there in the parks, but some people have taken that even further and have filmed an entire feature length movie in Disney World and Disneyland. This is…
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2.11: The Star Wars Holiday Special
There is so much Star Wars content out in the wide world. Some of it is loved, some of it hated, but there is one piece of Star Wars media that is so hated by its creator that it was almost lost media. If it wasn’t for fans making bootleg VCR copies during its one and only broadcast it would be...
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2.10: Sponge Bob Squarepants the Musical (Part Two)
The Broadway Musical, Part Two: The Review In today's episode of Strange Ride Savannah finally digs deeper into the set, costumes, design elements, and the plot of The SpongeBob SquarePants Broadway Musical.
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2.9: SpongeBob SquarePants the Musical (Part One)
The Broadway Musical, Part One: An Introduction SpongeBob Squarepants is a character that I’m sure needs no introduction. Even if you haven’t seen the show you have at least heard of him, but did you know that he had a Broadway Musical back in 2017? Today, Savannah goes over the history of the...
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2.8: The SCP Foundation
Secure. Contain. Protect. These are the core tenants of the SCP Foundation. But just what is this secret organization? Find out here on Strange Ride!
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2.7: Seeing the Saw Franchise, Part Two
Where we last left off we learned of the notorious Jigsaw killer who doesn’t actually kill people, but tests them to see if they have the will to live. He has kidnapped and tested a lot of people with not very many of them proving they “had the will to live”. Jigsaw, or his real name, John Kramer...
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2.6: Seeing the Saw Franchise, Part One
The Saw franchise is one of the most iconic and successful horror franchises of all time, and arguably the bloodiest. Believe it or not there are many things that make Saw an interesting topic, from its humble beginnings to the fact that it helped create and popularize the term “Torture Porn”.…
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2.5: My Little Goddess, Part Two
In the second part of our My Little Pony series, Rob discusses how the series draws on themes of occult practice to explore the nature of the self and the relationship between ego and sacrifice.
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2.4: My Little Goddess, Part One
For parents like me who chose to share 2010’s revival of My Little Pony with my children, the animated series’ emphasis on social-emotional learning is the primary draw; however, these lessons are framed in distinctly occult terms. The series is subtitled “friendship is magic” and while this may...
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2.3: Stockholm Syndrome
Everyone has heard of the phrase Stockholm Syndrome. Everyone seems to understand what it means as well. It’s when a person who has been taken hostage, usually a woman, ends up creating a bond with their captor where they are seen as friends and maybe even lovers. This “syndrome” is so ingrained...
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2.2: Splash Mountain’s Closure Part Two, Big Shoes to Fill
In this continuation of Splash Mountains closure, we go through the last operating day of the ride in Disney World. From the rope drop to the fight to be the last person in line to ever ride Splash Mountain. Ride along with us as we experience what it was like to be in the Magic Kingdom that day,...
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2.1: Splash Mountain’s Closure Part One, It’s Time to be Movin’ Along
There have always been the three mountains in Disney World. Space Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, and possibly the most loved flume ride of all time Splash Mountain. No trip to Disney World would be complete without riding all three mountains, but there was something incredibly special about…
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1.18: The Secret Space Program (Part Two)
In the last episode we talked about how the reptilians and humans ended up on earth and the war that we have been a part of for not just our lifetime, but our previous lifetimes as well. We’re trapped on earth and are kept stupid so that we won’t learn that our souls will be the keys to freeing…
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1.17: The Secret Space Program (Part One)
In this Strange Ride/Occult Confessions crossover episode Savannah kicks off OC’s newest season “cults that aren’t cults” by looking at the Secret Space Program conspiracy theory. The human race is under attack, and the earth needs all of our help if we’re going to survive to the end of this war....
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1.16: Death by Stunt
Rob takes over hosting duties to share his newest research topic: performers who die in front of audiences. In this episode, Rob traces the stories of three performers who died while performing dangerous stunts. The careers of these performers span almost two hundred years of American history and...
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1.15: One Hour One Life
One Hour One Life is a game you’ve probably never heard of, but is a game you should know about. It is an MMO (massive multiplayer online) where you are born as a helpless infant to another player. Every minute from then counts as a year, and you only get 60 of them to live your life to the...
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1.14: Love, a Leash, and the World’s Worst Date Movie
"Love on a Leash" is a movie with a composer but no soundtrack about a woman who falls in love with her dog once he turns into a man (but only at night) after talking to a pond. In this date-night special, Savannah shares the history of this very unusual movie and Rob talks about the fantasies...
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1.13: Disney World’s Stolen Animatronic, Where is Buzzy?!
Urban Exploring became a very popular trend online thanks to YouTube and Disney World was not immune to it. Now places like River Country and especially Discovery Island were not the easiest places to get to explore, but at the time EPCOTs security was surprisingly lax leaving one certain…
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1.12: We Built this City Part Two, Starship loses its Jefferson
Jefferson Airplane splits apart. Hot Tuna and Jefferson Starship come together. Jefferson Starship splits apart. Starship remains and builds "this city" in 1985, the first time any of the bands related to Jefferson Airplane chart a number one song. That song goes on to become one of the most...
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1.11: We Built This City Part One, On Rock and Roll
In 2011, Rolling Stone called Starship's "We Built this City" the worst song of 1980s. Blender and GQ labeled it the worst song of all time. this highly commercial chart-topping hit for a group with its roots in late 1960s counter-culture may be the most complex and bizarre pop song of the 80's…
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1.10: Floyd Collins and Sand Cave
On January 30th, 1925, a man named Floyd Collins entered Sand Cave hoping that one day he could turn this cave into a great tourist attraction. As he squeezes through the tight crevices that are so snug he must lie flat on his back with his arms pressed up against his sides, he accidentally…
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1.9: FNAF According to Savannah
Five Nights at Freddy’s started out as a simple idea and quickly grew into some sort of complicated monster to which the fans have been trying to study and learn about for 9 whole years. Each game that came out was meant to help clarify and add things to the overall hidden story of the games, but...
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1.8: Super Mutant Barbie Gremlins, why millennial childhood never ended
It is not enough for the 80s child to reflect wistfully on a simpler time. Rather, we often want to revive the mass cultural products of our youth in a way that maintains their appeal despite or perhaps because of the cognitive and hormonal shifts that come with adulthood. 80s children have done…
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1.7: Disney’s Star Wars Hotel, the Best Immersive Experience You’ll Never Have
The Disney theme parks have been known to push the boundaries of immersive entertainment since they were first created. In March 2022, they would push that boundary even further. Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, or it might be better known as “the Star Wars hotel” sought to take immersive...
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1.6: An Introduction to Five Nights at Freddy’s
August 8th, 2014 the first Five Nights at Freddy’s game released, and nine years later the game series has grown to feature 11 main series games, a novel trilogy, an anthology book series, graphic novels based off of the different book series, and a movie coming out later this year in October!…
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1.5: The Spider-Man Broadway Musical Part Three, Et tu Berger?
In theater there is a part of the rehearsal process called tech. This is where you watch your show you’ve worked so hard on for the past few months fall apart on you when all of your technical elements such as lighting, sound, and other effects are added to the scenes. In a normal production once...
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1.4: The Spider-Man Broadway Musical Part Two, Arachne Turns off the Dark featuring Spider-Man
The Broadway Mega Musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark had many things go wrong while the creative team was trying to get this project off the ground. Between arguments about the script with Marvel, firing and then hiring script writers, composers who are too busy to compose, and then the lead...
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1.3: The Spider-Man Broadway Musical Part One, Wanna Make a Spider-Man Musical?
The story behind the creation of the spiderman Broadway musical, Spiderman: Turn off the Dark is more compelling than the musical itself. It is a story about a group of creatives coming together and making some of the strangest decisions ever seen put into a Broadway show. It was a group of…
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1.2: Disney’s City of the Future Part Two, Finally EPCOT
It would be hard to find a single person that hasn’t heard the name Walt Disney. The way he was able to defy expectations and naysayers to make the impossible possible is how he left behind such a grandiose legacy. He changed the world of entertainment completely, from movies, shows, and even...
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1.1: Disney’s City of the Future Part One, The Road to EPCOT
The Walt Disney World resort currently sits on 47 square miles of land in Orlando, Florida. Within that land they have 4 theme parks, 2 water parks, 31 hotels, a giant shopping outlet, golf courses, a man made lagoon and more. And all of that stuff only takes up 7100 acres, out of the 30,000 that...
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A pop culture nerd teaches her college professor the weirdest things she knows about theme parks, Broadway, video games, TV, and music. Episodes post on Thursdays.
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