Dogg Zzone 9000 - Episode 188, Bangkok Knockout with Rusty Shackles

In 1992, Image Comics launched with an all-star lineup full of Hot Dog touchstones like Todd McFarlane, Rob Liefeld, and Exploding Fred. We'll let 1900HOTDOG's very own Rusty Shackles tell you why this was his cursed media origin story, and we'll let Exploding Fred explain why it still matters today. Fred? Fred? Buddy? Ah, he exploded. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriendd

This week Dan McQuade shares his start into the world of cursed media with an instructional Yo-Yo VHS Variety Show featuring the one and only Yo-Yo Man, Tom Smothers! Also featuring the Yo-Yo Master. Don't confuse the two, they absolutely hate each other and will flip out on you. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriendd

Mutant Chronicles is K-Mart Warhammer 40k. A grimdark TTRPG featuring shoulder pads, attainable middle class living, huge sexy broads, shoulder pads, skulls, blood, tables, tables, tables, and shoulder pads! And it was Tom Reimann's awakening to a world of cursed media. It's why he always wears those shoulder pads. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Two words: Gay barbarian death cult featuring Fred Williamson. Dirk Marshall's origin story is 1983's "Warriors of the Wasteland," quite possibly the most beautiful story of car-based anal revenge drilling ever put to VHS by a drunk Italian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend

Jason Pargin's favorite hotdog is a hamburger with a side of racism, an icey glass of sexual assualt and a garnish of songs that are maybe some of the best ever written. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend

Pierce Brosnan: Own it, enjoy it, don't worry about it. Words our guest Alex Schmidt lives by. Join us as the DOGGZZONE dives into what may be the most handsome origin story of any guest!

MORE Brosnan! Because one Brosnan is never enough. Just ask Schmidty, he'll tell ya!

The Dogg Zzone welcomes Dimitri Simakis from Everything Is Terrible for another Hot Dog origin story! Come learn how a pitcher of rapping sugar water led to the creation of the world's largest collection of Jerry Maguire VHS tapes! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend

The original Rock 'n' Roll High School was a fun punk rock classic. The sequel is a Corey Feldman musical. It's the farthest human art has fallen in the least amount of time, and fucking Zak Koonce insisted we watch it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend

Back in the 1990s we briefly mistook elaborate prosthetics for comedy. That's how we got The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys, a Howie Mandel production starring three suffocating improv comedians dying inside defective sex toys. Michael Swaim will explain how they influenced the course of his entire life. Presumably for the worse. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert will go to jail if you don't buy his book. I know what you're thinking... This is NOT the time to be a wise guy. BUY HIS BOOK. https://linktr.ee/killyourimaginaryfriend