The Worst of All Possible Worlds

THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE GO TO patreon.com/worstofall. Stanley read the episode notes for the podcast called “The Worst of All Possible Worlds #57: The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe.” He marveled at their ability to convey both the tone of the episode and the appropriate words necessary to take advantage of the SEO. Words like “Whizbang!“, “Gadzooks!“, and “The Truth About Vaccines!” None of these things were in the episode proper, of course, but Stanley could feel their power extending out to the furthest reaches of the world wide web. He gave thanks that these words would feed the Great Beast Algorith’m, whom Stanley knew all should fear and give praise. In fact, just thinking about the Great Beast Algorith’m made Stanley convulse with fright and involuntarily scream, but this terror was immediately satiated as Stanley grabbed hold of his Reassurance Bucket. “MMMM,” Stanley thought, “That’s GOOOOOOOOOOD Bucket.” TWOAPW Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll Theme by Brendan Dalton www.brendan-dalton.com https://brendandalton.bandcamp.com Media Referenced in this Episode: Davey Wreden & William Pugh: Life After The Stanley Parable by John Walker https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/davey-wreden-william-pugh-the-stanley-parable-interview

Abe Goldfarb (Beetlejuice: The Musical, First Time Caller) and the lads down a shot of the Green Fairy and can-can their way through Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 musical extravaganza: Moulin Rouge! Topics include the brilliance of Richard Roxburgh, the sexiest alien in Star Wars, and the untouchable style and frenetic earnestness of Bazmark Luhrmann. Abe’s Socials: Twitter: @abegoldfarb First Time Caller Streaming link at the Seattle Film Festival (through October 16): https://theseattlefilmfestival-2022onlinefestival.vhx.tv/products/the-settle-film-festival-2022-online-festival   TWOAPW Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll Theme by Brendan Dalton www.brendan-dalton.com https://brendandalton.bandcamp.com Media Referenced in the Episode: “Moulin Rogue Was Almost an Original Musical (And Other Soundtrack Secrets)” by Maureen Lee Lenker https://ew.com/movies/moulin-rouge-20th-anniversary-soundtrack-secrets/ Guardian Interviews at BFI: Baz Luhrmann Interviewed by Geoff Andrew https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/sep/07/1 “Rich Man’s Frug” from Sweet Charity: https://youtu.be/mcrZIK3gqbU ”Take Off With Us” from All That Jazz: https://youtu.be/DVBiZ5bEOLI Guest Starring Eleanor Philips as The Italian Moon

Ashleigh Stoneman (The Very Worst, The Merry Worst) returns to the pod to help the lads tackle two disastrous attempts by evangelicals to cover the subject of abortion: Odyssey’s infamous lost episode “Pamela Has a Problem” and Frank Peretti’s should-have-been-lost radio drama “Tilly”. Topics include the hubris of Paul McCusker, the brain worms of Frank Peretti, and the path forward as America becomes increasingly hostile towards access to basic healthcare. Ashleigh’s Socials: Twitter: @AshStoneman Instagram: @ashstoneman Media Referenced in the Episode: Adventures in Odyssey #134 - Pamela Has a Problem "Tilly" radio drama, originally aired on the Focus on the Family radio show https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/01/416421/five-years-after-abortion-nearly-all-women-say-it-was-right-decision-study https://www.guttmacher.org/evidence-you-can-use/later-abortion Abortion Funds You Can Donate To Right Now: National Network of Abortion Funds Alabama: Yellowhammer Fund Arizona: Abortion Fund of Arizona Kentucky: Kentucky Health Justice Network Louisiana: New Orleans Abortion Fund North Dakota: North Dakota Women in Need Abortion Access Fund South Dakota: South Dakota Access for Every Woman Idaho: Northwest Abortion Access Fund (Also Serves Alaska, Oregon, and Washington) Michigan: Reclaim MI WIN Fund Mississippi: Mississippi Reproductive Freedom Fund Missouri: Missouri Abortion Fund Tennessee: Abortion Care for Tennessee Texas: Texas Equal Access Fund Utah: Utah Abortion Fund Wyoming: Chelsea’s Fund TWOAPW Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll Theme by Brendan Dalton: brendan-dalton.com / brendandalton.bandcamp.com

Greg (@DadShammdad) and Jordan (@SLCLunk) from Brigham Young Money pull the lads together as they dance through the shifting tones and heavy fog of the 1989 Mormon musical extravaganza: Saturday’s Warrior. Topics include the similarities between Evangelicalism and Mormonism, the loose morals of San Diego, and the baffling surreality of watching a musical featuring greaser eco-terrorists and thirty clones of Donny Osmond.   Brigham Young Money: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brigham-young-money/id1519378716 Socials: Podcast: @BYMPodcast Greg: @DadShammdad Jordan: @SLCLunk Brigham Young Money Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brighamyoungmoney   TWOAPW Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll Theme by Brendan Dalton www.brendan-dalton.com https://brendandalton.bandcamp.com   Link to Saturday’s Warrior (1989): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--w9bOGpi2s

THIS IS A PREVIEW. CHECK OUT THE FULL EPISODE AT https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll Jeff Ronan (And Almost Starring…) joins the lads on the deck of the Nostromo as they battle xenomorphs and the specter of capitalism in Ridley Scott’s 1979 horror masterwork: Alien. Topics include H.R. Giger’s uncannily horny designs, Ripley’s place amongst the greatest action heroes of all time, and the pros and cons of bringing a cat to an alien fight. And Almost Starring… https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/and-almost-starring/id1516186984 And Almost Starring…Patreon https://www.patreon.com/andalmoststarring A.J.’s Episode of And Almost Starring…: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-95-scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world-w-aj-ditty/id1516186984?i=1000580014723 TWOAPW Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll Theme by Brendan Dalton www.brendan-dalton.com https://brendandalton.bandcamp.com Media Referenced In This Episode: “Screen: ‘Alien’ Brings Chills From the Far Galaxy: A Gothic Set in Space” by Vincent Canby https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/25/archives/screen-alien-brings-chills-from-the-far-galaxya-gothic-set-in-space.html The Variety Alien review: https://variety.com/1978/film/reviews/alien-1200424551/ Special thanks to David Armstrong for providing the voice of Sir John Hurt

Scott Benson (Night In the Woods) joins the lads in demonic combat as they battle the evils of satanic prophecy and New Age philosophy in Frank E. Peretti’s sophomoric superhit: This Present Darkness. Topics include the evils of carnivals, Peretti’s truly vile prose, and the lasting ramifications of This Present Darkness on the modern Christian fiction landscape. Scott’s Socials: Twitter: @bombsfall Instagram: @bombsfall TWOAPW Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll Theme by Brendan Dalton www.brendan-dalton.com https://brendandalton.bandcamp.com Media Referenced in this Episode:This Present Darkness (Unabridged): Part One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6rhuJB68BM&t=2s Part Two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VINkS29eGRM This Present Darkness (Abridged): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRnUSravKkU “Singer’s Plug Puts ‘This Present Darkness’ in Spotlight : Fundamentalist Novel Finds Wide Appeal” https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-09-23-me-550-story.html

THIS IS A PREVIEW. CHECK OUT THE FULL EPISODE AT https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll The lads take a staycation with the Barclays as they return to Odyssey for their first thrilling case with Harlow Doyle, their first romp with Ronald Edwin Blackgaard, and what might be the most boring episode of Odyssey ever conceived: “The Midnight Ride”. Topics include the genius of Will Ryan, the utility of side characters on The Simpsons, and the Republican obsession with the myths of the Revolutionary War.   Oh, and we discover the wod fam choc sod. Awful little thing   Episodes discussed: #79 Our Best Vacation Ever #207 The Case of the Candid Camera #203 Double Trouble #197 The Midnight Ride   TWOAPW Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll   Theme by Brendan Dalton www.brendan-dalton.com https://brendandalton.bandcamp.com

Alec Robbins (Mr. Boop, @alecrobbins) walks and talks the lads through the esteemed halls of the Paris Opera House of American Television™ that is Aaron Sorkin’s most notorious flop: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Topics include the racism of the mid-2000s, the surreality of the sketches, and the endlessly watchable nature of this truly calamitous foray into the writing process behind the world’s most controversial sketch: “Crazy Christians.” Alec Robbins’ Socials: Twitter: @alecrobbins Instagram: @Alecsrobbins Mr. Boop: https://store.silversprocket.net/products/mr-boop-by-alec-robbins   Media Referenced in this Episode:   Case File #1: Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip by Nathan Rabin https://www.avclub.com/case-file-1-studio-60-on-the-sunset-strip-1798228131   Pitting Their Idealism Against Show Business by Alessandra Stanley https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/arts/television/18stan.html   TWOAPW Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll   Theme by Brendan Dalton www.brendan-dalton.com https://brendandalton.bandcamp.com

Hey folks! Here's that live show. As you may remember, last year we talked to Crazy Levi Nayman about the history of pinball and a very strange company that rose and fell over the last few years. That episode can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/emergency-pod-56023528  This year, we've followed up with Pinside poster Blueberry Johnson to talk about the ruins and remains of what was once Deeproot Pinball, and handed out some Deeproot T-shirts we got at a liquidation auction.   Deeproot thread on Pinside: https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/twip-is-deeproot-the-next-misadventure-or-a-pinball-revolution TWOAPW Patreon https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll  Theme by Brendan Dalton www.brendan-dalton.com https://brendandalton.bandcamp.com

Yurié Collins (@babypinkhaus) and the lads race against the clock as they dive headlong into the soupy plotting and unrelenting patriotism of Fox’s torture-palooza: 24. Topics include the rampant Islamophobia of the early 2000s, the logistics of ski mask ownership in Los Angeles, and the ticking time-bomb of imprinting Jack Bauer’s ideology onto the American psyche. YURIE'S SOCIALS Tiktok: @babypinkhaus Instagram: @babypinkhaus **TICKETS FOR THE PINBALL LIVE SHOW** https://www.nycpinballchamps.com MEDIA REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE Josh's 24 parody from high school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmtiGRmVGfw Jon Bois’s 24 video: https://youtu.be/_P52G4Kyq5M Golden Rainbow at the 1968 Tony Awards: https://youtu.be/g4SF6QWxOPE Calorie Mate Commercial feat. Kiefer Sutherland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYwaMQ8ln3k The Los Angeles Times Review of the 24 Finale: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-may-25-la-et-0525-24-review-20100525-story.html TWOAPW PATREON https://www.patreon.com/WorstOfAll THEME BY BRENDAN DALTON www.brendan-dalton.com | https://brendandalton.bandcamp.com