This Thing Rules @thisthingrules

A good show about great things from @agentbizzle and @maxscoville. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Overcast, and more. patreon.com/thisthingrules Bay Area, California Joined January 2024

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This Thing Rules @thisthingrules

3 weeks ago

#ThrowbackThursday 🎤 You’ve heard of Rage Against the Machine - but what about Rage on Top of the Machine?

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3 weeks ago

You know what rules? Conventions! Come hear Brian and Max chat about those giant, nerdy gatherings we all love to attend: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7AddA5… Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/thi… #Podcast #Conventions #ComicCon

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3 weeks ago

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 📽️ Love old-timey horror movies? Then you might want to pack a trip this summer to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania to attend "Blobfest" - a yearly festival/convention centered entirely around the 1958 cult horror movie "The Blob"!

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3 weeks ago

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🍖 Do you ever find yourself craving spam (the meat variety)? Then you might want to grab a ticket for the SPAM JAM, a festival/convention dedicated to the luncheon mainstay that’s held yearly in Honolulu. (Suspicious phone calls and emails need not apply!)

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3 weeks ago

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🚽 Toilets: a great tool for flushing stools, a fine throne for scrolling your phone…and the focus of an entire convention: the World Toilet Summit! Founded in 2001, this annual con is dedicated to tackling “the world's most urgent sanitation challenges.”

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3 weeks ago

you've given us, whether it's been sending us a few bucks, leaving nice comments, or just holding your arms over your head and sharing your energy so we can kill Majin Buu. Er, make a podcast. Thanks for bearing with us, we'll get back to it when we're able. You all rule! (2/2)

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3 weeks ago

We hope you enjoy our just-released episode about conventions! Alas, sweetness always comes with a little medicine: because we’re about to head into *busy* season, we’ve decided to put the show on hiatus, and pause billing on the Patreon. We appreciate all the support (1/2)

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a month ago

#ThrowbackThursday 🦕 Did the Stegosaurus have long, shaggy hair like a golden retriever? Scientists are divided:

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a month ago

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🍻 The oldest still-functional brewery in the world is Bavaria’s Weihenstephan brewery, which has been making beer (per most sources) since 1040. Its original brewers were Benedictine Monks, which had established a monastery at its location 300 years prior:

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a month ago

This Thing Rules is BACK with three new topics on the docket! Come hear Brian and Max talk about why Fridge Magnets, Short Stories and Breweries rule! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1tcHM5… Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ref… #Podcast #FridgeMagnets #Breweries

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a month ago

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 📖 The first short story ever published by Stephen King was "The Glass Floor," which debuted in the autumn 1967 issue of Startling Mystery Stories. King (who was a 19-year-old sophomore at the time) earned $35 for its publication - $338 in today's money!

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a month ago

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🧲 The Guinness World Record for the world’s largest collection of fridge magnets is held by Louise. J. Greenfarb - also known as “The Magnet Lady” - from Henderson, Nevada, who was recorded in 2013 as owning over 35,000 non-duplicated fridge magnets!

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2 months ago

Whoops, seems like there was a malfunction at the This Thing Rules factory this week - hopefully we’ll be back soon with another new episode 🙏

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2 months ago

#ThrowbackThursday 🔎 Are magnifying glasses secretly OP?! Max is on the case:

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2 months ago

You know what rules? Capsule toy machines! Come hear Brian and Max talk about the best way to win random baubles and trinkets: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6zUSxV… Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/thi… YT: youtu.be/uh5v_0ee_-E?si… #Podcast #CapsuleMachines #Toys

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2 months ago

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🪀 The single largest gachapon machine on record was constructed at Singapore’s Marina Square shopping mall for a pop-up event in late 2022. It measured nearly 5 meters tall(!) and was only available to costumers that spent at least $180 at the mall.

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2 months ago

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🪀 Why are gachapon machines called "gachapon," anyway? It's actually an onomatopoeia: the "gacha" part is meant to evoke the sound made by the machine when spinning its crank, and the "pon" is the sound of an item plopping out of it.

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2 months ago

#ThisThingRulesTrivia 🪀 The first Gachapon machine was invented in 1965 by Ryuzo Shigeta. Shigeta wanted to improve upon the haphazard way American vending machines dispensed their contents, and so he set up a machine in his Tokyo shop that sold items inside of plastic balls.