C.T.E. + Donkey Kong

⁠LISTEN AD-FREE AND WATCH THE VIDEO EPISODE BY SUPPORTING THE SHOW ON PATREON⁠ Communicating with the other side (for better or worse or not at all), Alfred Hitchcock's take on a Roald Dahl short story. Find Molly McAleer online Check out Rob Schulte's website LINKS Sylvia Browne lies to a 9/11 widow on Montel Lori Cowen's experience reading Dolly the Evil Cat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A 1997 animated feature about a pop star and the Internet that has inspired some of your favorite media, reading fan fiction as a form of protest. Listen to episodes ad-free and get the full video experience Rob's website Find Molly all over the Internet LINKS (all of this fan fiction is NSFW, obviously) Actually Romantic The One Where Taylor Swift Gets Radicalized by Luigi Mangione Marks (JFK x RFK) Joe Biden x Donald Trump x Taylor Swift Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The autopsy results for Shane Tamura, a former high school football player who entered the Midtown Manhattan office building where the N.F.L. headquarters are located and shot multiple people, came back and it turns out that his suspicions that he had C.T.E. were correct. Molly covers that in her half, then Rob lightens things up a bit by explaining the Donkey Kong Family Tree. Shout out to Candy Kong. Support the show and watch the video episode and listen ad-free Find all things Molly McAleer Check out Rob Schulte's website LINKS Gunman Who Attacked Midtown Office Building Had C.T.E. Rob's Dokey Kong Family Tree Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our first fullsies! Molly and Rob both caught the new documentary about Kanye West's journey from "Kanye" to "Ye," directed by Nico Ballesteros. ⁠Support the show and watch the video version of this episode on the SolidListen Patreon⁠ ⁠⁠Molly's stuff⁠⁠ ⁠Rob's website⁠ LINKS ⁠"In Whose Name?" IMDb⁠ ⁠"Kanye West Documentary Filmmaker Says ‘In Whose Name?’ Is About Fame, Not Breakdowns" - Hollywood Reporter⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

⁠WATCH THE VIDEO VERSION OF THIS EPISODE⁠ Ranking almost every depiction of The Joker in film and television and a discussion about the possible motive of the young Mormon man who shot conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. ⁠Learn more about Rob Schulte on his website⁠ ⁠Find Molly McAleer and more of her content⁠ LINKS "Groypers Got Donald Trump Elected" - She's Right (via TikTok) "Groyper misogyny fuels crimes because they don't know how to cope with loneliness" - She's Right (via TikTok) "It was a shitpost." - aidanetcetera (via TikTok) "Charlie Kirk vs. Groypers Compilation" (via YouTube) "There was a lot of gaming going on. Friends have confirmed that there was that deep, dark internet — Reddit culture and other dark places of the internet where this person was going deep. You saw that on the casings. I didn't have any idea what those inscriptions meant, but they are certainly the meme-ification that is happening in our society today." - Gov of Utah (via X) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Molly's favorite cookies and a sequel to one of Rob's favorite shows.  Get episodes early and watch the video version on Patreon LINKS See Molly's cookie slides (made on an iPhone, sorry for the typos) Rob's website Molly's stuff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The hugely successful video game series by Hideo Kojima and the new Netflix documentary about the unthinkably sick and twisted Kendra Licari, a Michigan mom who stalked her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend though countless text messages for 22 months. Support the show and watch the video version of this episode PLUS listen ad-free and early on Patreon Find everything Molly here Check out Rob's website LINKS Who Was the Cyberbully Harassing Kendra Licari’s Teen Daughter? Parents and school officials were stumped. The culprit was under their noses all along (The Cut, no paywall) New Documentary Unknown Number Exposes a Ruthless Catfish Who Tormented a Teen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With the Donna Adelson trial kicking off, Molly explains the twisted web Florida prosecutors have had to untangle to get justice for Dan Markel. Rob is, as always, eager to shed light on A.J. and Big Justice's musical endeavors, including their new smash hit, "Big Fat Meatballs." GET THE VIDEO VERSION OF THIS EPISODE AND LISTEN TO THE AUDIO AD-FREE AND EARLY ON PATREON Check out Rob's website Find all things Molly here Links JusticeForDan.com (official family website) "Tally" - Over My Dead Body season 1 BIG FAT MEATBALLS music video Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rob talks about his late brother Will after finally spreading his ashes over the weekend, Molly digs into "The Life of a Show Girl" Easter Eggs Taylor Swift left behind on the set of the New Heights podcast. Watch the video episode and get the audio version ad-free and early on Patreon for $5 a month Check out Rob's website Find Molly's other work LINKS Watch the New Heights episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2lX9XESvDE&t=5776s Taylor Swift official store https://store.taylorswift.com/ TLOAS Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_a_Showgirl Documentary premiere at Vancouver Film Festival? https://www.tiktok.com/@beeperbolts/video/7539716890931875102?_t=ZP-8yy64iiE4kR&_r=1 Braille in the lights for Bejeweled? https://www.tiktok.com/@lunethemoviegal/video/7539024557739363614?_t=ZP-8yy4QPs6NXr&_r=1 Plaid https://www.tiktok.com/@eurosweetheart/video/7538274295026388279?_t=ZP-8yy48eSCL1j&_r=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

⁠Listen to and watch the video version of this episode and every episode ad-free and early on Patreon for $5 a month⁠ After a week of following Kendra, a woman on TikTok who claims to be in love with her psychiatrist, reading the New York Times piece about a man who wound up institutionalized after ONE MONTH of using a chatbot, and ChatGPT's 5o update, Molly can't get A.I. Psychosis. Rob just watched 2002's Auto Focus, a dramatized movie about Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane and his sick little adventures with a camera dealer that resulted in his death. Please check out BringJohnnyHome.com to help reunite a father with his son who was kidnapped by a non-custodial parent and brought out of the country. LINKS Get Molly's 12 page summary of Kendra's videos and listen to the bonus episode about it here (or use the free trial of SolidListen+ on Apple Podcasts for the same thing in The Afters feed) ChatBots can go into a delusional spiral. Here's how it happens - NYT piece (no paywall) A Twitter thread that has all of Kendra's videos (we do not endorse the language used to introduce the thread but this is a good resource for those who do not want to give her clicks or do not have TikTok) Henry trying to level with Kendra on TikTok live Kendra asks Claude to play devil's advocate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices