Podcast Guest: Noel Thingvall

Episode 207: B-Fest 2025

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Episode 207Dearest listeners, we have missed you! We come to you today from B-Fest 2025, a long-running annual 24-hour movie marathon of B movies, run on campus at Northwestern University in Chicago. Melissa is joined live on the ground by Kelvin Hatle and Noel Thingvall for all manner of travails and gloriously weird cinema.

Please pardon the sound quality of this episode. We were recording in environments with lots of background noise.

Movies discussed:
Sheba, Baby
The Thing That Couldn’t Die
Shack Out on 101
Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness
The Wizard of Speed and Time
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Night of the Comet
If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?
Death Wheelers (aka Psychomania)
Killer Workout
Shake, Rattle, and Rock
Transformers: The Movie
Six-String Samurai
Double Team
College Girl Murders
The Curse of the Demon

Episode 184: B-Fest 2024

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Episode 184Today, dear listeners, Melissa is joined by Noel Thingvall and Kelvin Hatle for tales from B-Fest 2024! Terrible movies! Bad jokes! Paper plates!

NOTE: We deeply apologize for the background noise during this episode. We were recording in live environments, including a moving car on Interstate 94. We did our best to reduce the background noise while emphasizing our voices.

Movies discussed:
Stunt Rock
Hot Potato
Wonder Women
The Wizard of Speed and Time
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Demonic Toys
Hard Rock Zombies
The Chilling
Runaway
A Boy and His Dog
The Apple
The Black Scorpion
She Devils on Wheels
The Monkey Hustle
Arcade
Tammy and the T-Rex

Other things discussed:
Stunt Rock trailer
A Xanadu Cinema Pleasure Dome episode all about The Apple

Episode 141: B-Fest 2023

Episode 141Dear listeners, this week Melissa brings you to the wilds of Evanston, Illinois for the 40th anniversary of B-Fest, a 24-hour film festival of bad movies, cult movies, and other mayhem. Killer children! Aliens resurrecting the dead! Space Camp!

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Episode 105: Punching Space Sharks

0105 Off-Topic 7Dear listeners, it is time for our seventh Off-Topic Extravaganza! That’s right, the episode number is a multiple of 15, which means this episode is entirely constructed of outtakes from the previous 14 episodes. These clips were sliced out because of time constraints, irrelevance, and/or inebriation, but we felt we could still put them to some good use.

During the course of the episode, you will hear the voices of:

Noel Thingvall
Kelvin Hatle
Pat Wick
Jerry Belich
Monte (aka Chris Bowlsby)

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Episode 92: A Jail of Cages: Part 2

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Nicolas CageThis week, dear listeners, Windy, Melissa, and Noel Thingvall bring you the exciting conclusion to our two-part episode about Nicolas Cage!

…and really, do we need to say anything more than that?

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