On This Episode: Kevin and Joe take a break from the oral history of the marathons in Columbus to focus on the upcoming Shock Around the Clock, the 8th Annual 24-hour Horror Movie Marathon. They chat about the films in the line-up and answer a slate of listener questions. Get a peek behind what goes into programming an event like this and how the marathons in Ohio stay unique among other events.
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On This Episode: Kevin and Joe continue their look back at the history of the all-night movie marathons to discuss the infamous years of the Incredible Two-Headed Marathon, from 2004 to 2008! Also included is a little tease of the upcoming Shock-A-Rama at the Drexel, featuring the original Evil Dead trilogy!
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On This Episode: Kevin and Joe take the upcoming 7th Annual Shock Around the Clock, the Ohio 24-Hour Horror Movie Marathon. They discuss the newly announced movies and a couple other marathon tidbits in regards to scheduling and planning the event.
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On This Episode: Kevin and Joe continue the history of the Columbus marathons, including the missing Science Fiction marathon, the Psychorama Film Festival and the others at Studio 35. This includes the marathon that never took place and the classic guest Joe Bob Briggs.
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On This Episode: Kevin and Joe continue the marathon history by looking at the next destination for the 24-hour Sci-Fi Marathon: the Continent Theater (along with the origin of retrograde projection). They also explain how things moved forward for the 24-hour Horror Marathon during the years of Studio 35.
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On This Episode: Kevin and Joe continue delving into marathon history. They travel to Joe’s sister’s basement to discover the archives of at-home marathoning, and they also follow the revival of the full-blown marathons at the Riffe Center. Later, they take a quick look at the crooked path the horror marathons followed, and then tease ahead to the glory years with the return of the 24-hour horror event.
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On This Episode: Kevin and Joe return to the Magical Studio in the Sky to continue their discussion of marathon history. Kevin fills in some gaps from the 80s and 90s while Joe tells the intimate details of his passionate marathon experiences, including the turning point in history where he might have never been involved with them ever again. It’s a long, bloated, but entirely enjoyable 2-hour look at the last years of the halcyon days of the Drexel North and what it meant to be a marathoid during this era!
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On This Episode: Now that the 32nd Annual Sci-Fi Marathon is a thing of the past, and the 7th Annual Horror Marathon is in the not-so-distant future, Joe decides to sit down with Kevin and give their own oral history of the marathon experience. In this first installment of this mini-series, Joe and Kevin reflect on what it was like to experience their first marathon and how the old Drexel North days influenced their movie-watching experience over the years. It’s a trip down memory lane, delving into the fascinating decades of human history: the 1980s and 1990s!
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On This Episode: Shock Around the Clock master of scaremonies Joe Neff returns to the Magical Studio in the Sky for a free-form conversation about more movies playing at the 666th Annual 24-Hour Horror Movie Marathon. In fact, things are so free-form that things derail from the marathon discussion before they even get started. (Thanks, Man of Steel!) Still, Kevin and Joe chat in depth about the other three films announced already: You’re Next, The Wicker Man and The Manitou!
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On This Episode: Kevin starts a new series in the Second Reel set of podcasts from Fat Guys at the Movies. Marathon Chat features Kevin having free-form conversations with Shock Around the Clock master of scaremonies Joe Neff in the months leading up to the 666th Annual 24- Hour Horror Movie Marathon. During this episode, Kevin and Joe talk in depth about three of the films coming to the Drexel Theater on Marathon weekend in October. Listen carefully for cameos by Werner Herzog and Jimmy Stewart!
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