Before My Time with Gelsey Laurie

35 years ago the film Hairspray was released in theaters, the movie captured the energy of the many dance crazes at the time! To celebrate one of his favorite movies Producer Matt did a deep dive into the history of various 60's novelty dances to see if Gelsey knows how to do some of the steps!

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Now that the Titanic is back in theaters, Gelsey decided she wanted to teach us all about the building of the unsinkable ship (as well as various other fun facts). Get ready for a wild one!!

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With the Oscars just a month away instead of our usual episode Producer Matt tests Gelsey's knowledge of the Oscars by giving her a list of classic films and seeing if she can let us know if it won best picture or not! Have fun and play along!

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This week we decided to focus on our Top 5 favorite SNL sketches by a specific performer, with the recent success of Netflix's "You People" it seemed like a great time to look at Eddie Murphy's career and pick our favorites!

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In honor of the 50 Year Anniversary of Alice Cooper's biggest album "Billion Dollar Babies" Gelsey and Producer Matt dive into his career and all the things that makes him the God-Father of Shock Rock!

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This week Gelsey breaks down Howard Hughes life and the two films he directed (as well as his many many concussions).

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This week Producer Matt is showing us the difference between the iconic film The Princess Bride and the novel it's based on (which was released 50 years ago!) What major and minor changes where made when taking this beloved book and turning it into an even more beloved movie!

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This week Gelsey reads us from the document of The CIA's official Guide on how to annoy people. It's intentions were for silent low-key rebellion but it seems like it may have indirectly created the modern business office.

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This week in order of 50 Years since its debut Producer Matt jumps on to teach you about the history of the Schoolhouse Rock TV series. We also remember our favorite Schoolhouse Rock songs and even try to write our own!

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50 Years ago next week Aerosmith's debut album was released the band has continued to be part of the pop culture discussion since. Gelsey and Producer Matt decided to pick their Top 5 favorite Aerosmith songs for another fun countdown episode!

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This week's episode was recorded as part of the 3rd Annual Geekcape Holiday Livestream-Tacular. If you have any money this holiday season to donate the link for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Coastal and Northern New Jersey is below:

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With the 30 year anniversary of Muppet Christmas Carol this week, Gelsey and Matt as die-hard Muppet nerds decided to use this as an excuse to discuss the history of Dickens infamous novella.

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We've almost discussed Mel Brooks' classic comedy Young Frankenstein many times before but today we finally do. Gelsey has loved this movie for most of her life and today we share the love of it with all of you!

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This week in honor of Michael Jackson's album Thriller turning 40 years old; Gelsey and Producer Matt breakdown their Top 5 favorite Michael Jackson songs. Was your favorite included?

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To celebrate 80 years of Casablanca Gelsey and Producer Matt dive into the history of one of the greatest movies ever made .... 1942's Casablanca!

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Since Mickey Mouse's birthday is on the horizon (and Gelsey is under the employment of everyone's favorite Mouse) we decided it was time to tackle the history of his creation as well as why we love this jolly fellow! Hot Dog is it ever a good episode!

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This week Gelsey and Producer Matt try to do the impossible and rank their Top 5 favorite Beatles Songs. As I'm sure you can imagine there are ALOT of honorable mentions and even more singing!

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We're releasing today's episode a day early in honor of Halloween because we're talking about the silent German adaptation Nosferatu that celebrated it's 100 year anniversary!

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This week in honor of the upcoming Tim Burton adaptation Wednesday we decided to breakdown the history of America's favorite Creepy, Kooky, Mysterious and All Together Ookey misfits ... The Addams Family!

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This week we decide to go back to our first love ... Disney Parks ... in order to talk about 999 Happy Haunts that full up the Haunted Mansion!

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With the recent controversial release of Rob Zombie's "The Munsters" Producer Matt sits down to discuss the history of the famous residents of 1313 Mockingbird Lane and why the new movie kinda fits into what Herman, Lily and Grandpa have been up to for the last few decades

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This week to tie into Hocus Pocus 2 dropping on Disney+ Gelsey is going to teach us all about the infamous Salem Witch Trials.

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Kicking off our block of Spooky Season coverage we are breaking down our Top 5 favorite Twilight Zone episodes!

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This week just ahead of Netflix's new movie Blonde we are looking back on the tragic career of Marilyn Monroe!

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It may only be September 13th but we're already feeling that draw to talk about spooky stuff so Gelsey teaches us all about the creepy twisted crimes of Delphine LaLauries.

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This week to celebrate 50 years of Cabaret we look back on this cinematic masterpiece that almost swept the Oscars! Do we still find it to be a masterpiece? What's the best song in the film? What are the differences between the movie and the stage show? Additionally Gelsey teaches Matt all about the career of the films director Bob Fosse

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This week we breakdown the history of Surf Rock music. Gelsey teaches us all about the groups both the instrumental and vocal surf rock and discuss some of our favorites of each genre!

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This week Gelsey Laurie tells us the early history of Pin-Up modeling and how it stems from bicycles! Yes you read that right!

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With the 50 Year Anniversary of the release of David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust Gelsey and Matt decide to walk through David Bowie history and highlight the best songs in his career and why he's one of the best rock stars in music history!

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In honor of the 55 year anniversary of the Bonnie & Clyde movie getting released Gelsey teaches Matt about the entire history of the real life duo in order to see how much of the story the movie got wrong.

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Since the B-52s recently announced their final tour we figured it made sense for Gelsey to talk about one of her absolute favorite bands. Some people will incorrectly call the group a one hit wonder but beyond countless hits like Private Idaho, Roam and Rock Lobster their unique style and influence is far stretching.

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On July 2nd, 1997 Jimmy Stewart passed away. This week Producer Matt breaks down some of his favorite Stewart roles to explain why he was the original "America's favorite every man" and to convince Gelsey to watch more of his films

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In honor of the new Baz Luhrmann Elvis biopic we decided to breakdown our Top 5 favorite Elvis Presley songs! Did we list one of your favorites? 

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We will be back next week but until then enjoy this episode of Horror Movie Night that Gelsey was a guest on!

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Due to scheduling issues we were not able to record for the next two weeks so we will be releasing some of Gelsey's guest appearances on other shows. Enjoy this episode of One Hit Thunder (also produced by Matt) where Gelsey talks about her love of The Archie's song "Sugar Sugar"

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The second season of "Only Murders in the Building" is out now and to celebrate we are looking back on the early part of Steve Martin's career specifically the 1970's and into the early 80s! Beyond trailblazing a unique anti-comedy aesthetic, he also juggled between slapstick comedy and heartfelt drama throughout his career.

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On June 26th, 1987 Mel Brooks' send up to Star Wars was released in theaters. Now that we're about to celebrate the 35 year anniversary of this classic comedy Matt and Gelsey breakdown their histories with Spaceballs and what makes them love it so much!

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This week Gelsey gives us a history lesson of the exciting and unique life lived by Cleopatra. Did you know that she supposedly trojan horsed her way into meeting Julius Caesar and one could argue that she's the influence on two different Shakespeare plays.

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This week we are joined by Punchline Bassist and One Hit Thunder host Chris Fafalios to discuss his love of the Gene Wilder masterpiece Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory!

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This week on the podcast we breakdown the music that helped men get through the 2nd World War. Since yesterday was Memorial Day this felt like an extra special episode for us to drop out.

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This week we are joined by Philly Drag Queen Biddy Bee who has us breakdown the lyrics of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" to explain the historical significance of every lyric!!!

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This week Gelsey follows through on her promise to make Matt like The Rolling Stones more by having him listen to their classic album Exile on Main Street in honor of it's 50 year anniversary!

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This week we are joined by Femme Regard co-host Carolina Alvarez joins us to discuss her never-ending love of the opera Carmen! Even if you've never seen the show you definitely know the songs (even if you don't realize it).

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This week we kick off what ended up being Music May! We got deep into talking about Creedence Clearwater Revival while recording our Vietnam episode but today we dive DEEP into the entire career of Creedence Clearwater Revival and how much of an impact they made in their very short career.

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Today Producer Matt is in the hot seat to discuss the 1967 Mini-Series The Prisoner which he discovered through a random TV special in the 90s. After watching it in College it's become one of his favorite shows and he truly believes it's one of the most influential shows of all time. Can he convince Gelsey to watch it?

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This week on the podcast Gelsey teaches us everything about her namesake the infamous ballerina Gelsey Kirland

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To tie into his new podcast Weird Al-Gorithm all about Weird Al Yankovic Matt breaks down the artists from the 30's that his grandfather introduced him to that he believes influenced Weird Al's sound. This is the first episode of what we will call our "Show & Tell" segments!!!

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Not familiar with Zelda Fitzgerald? No worries neither was Producer Matt but this week Gelsey taught us all about this famous party girl and why Gelsey may have been her in a past life!

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This week we are joined by actress Katie Lohmann who discusses why she passionately loves the history of Egypt and collecting artifacts.

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It's been 50 years since John Waters released his infamous gross out film Pink Flamingos. To Celebrate Matt talks all about the history of John Waters and why he remains one of Matt's all time favorite filmmakers.

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One of the many things that bonded Matt and Gelsey as friends was a mutual love of the Busch Gardens' ride Escape from Pompeii. While Matt was a fan of the ride it was Gelsey that became a die-hard Pompeii Geek and studied about it. This week Gelsey teaches us all about the ill-fated city.

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As two musical nerds it should be zero shock that we decided to discuss Singing in the Rain... the only shocking thing is that it took us 20 episodes to do it! We geek out on all our favorite numbers, our attraction to Debbie Reynolds and do whatever we can to make 'em laugh!!

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This week on the show we get a little dark and discuss The Beatles infamous White album through Charles Manson's crazy interruptions. We do our best to avoid discussing the crimes of Manson and instead only focus on how he twisted the lyrics of songs like Helter Skelter, Blackbird and Rocky Raccoon to make his cult do many awful crimes.

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The Geekscape Podcast founder Jonathan London joined us as an extension to the Pre-Code Hollywood conversation to discuss one of his favorite films Double Indemnity. Arguably the best film noir movie of all time.

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This week on the podcast we are breaking down the history of Pre-Code Hollywood. Gelsey and Matt discuss what caused the code to be created and what some of the films were that came around the weakened the code's stronghold.

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Producer Matt is back in the teacher role to educate us on one of the founding members of National Lampoon; Doug Kinney. Doug took the Harvard Lampoon and transformed it into the National Lampoon. From there he basically found all the talent that became the original cast of SNL and cowrote Animal House and Caddyshack!

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This week we are joined by Jennifer Zhang, the filmmaker behind Charon who joins us to discuss the problematic history of Circus and Sideshow Freaks. It is both fascinating history as well as one full of inhuman treatment. Jennifer breaks down why she is both horrified by these stories but also relate to some of the plights they experienced in her own life.

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This week we go back to the decade defining sounds of the 60's that became the soundtrack to the controversial Vietnam war. We analyze some of the greatest songs from 1966 until 1970 that captured the mood of that period of time.

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This week on the podcast we are joined by Femme Regard co-host Tessa Markle to break down the history of dueling. We go through the origins with swords, into infamous gun duels and how Tessa is taking sword fighting classes now!

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During the Geekscape 15 Hour Charity Livestream we went live to discuss the first 5 years of Saturday Night Live. We break down some of our favorite cast members, sketches and behind the scenes stories!

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This week Gelsey is joined by her sister Giselle to talk about the 1978 musical smash GREASE and how it took over their family trip many years ago.

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Once again Gelsey teaches Producer Matt about something he'd never heard of; this time the Fearsome Pirate Trio. The less you know going in; the more fun you'll have!!!

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Happy Holidays from Before My Time! To Celebrate Gelsey and Matt discuss White Christmas; both the song (The best selling single of all time) and the movie that was made inspired by the songs popularity! 

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Today on the podcast Gelsey teaches Matt about the history of Pattie Boyd ... the woman she considers one of the greatest rock and roll muse. Some of your favorite love songs of the 70's was inspired by Pattie Boyd and her relationships with Eric Clapton and George Harrison.

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We are joined by Geek History Lesson host Ashley Victorian Robinson this week who discusses her love of the sitcom M_A_S_H_. We discuss her favorite episodes, favorite characters as well as her favoriting hiking trail and how that also ties into the hit sitcom.

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This week Gelsey and Producer Matt discuss their mutual love of the 50's aesthetic of the future; now known as Retro-Futurism. They break down their favorite aspects of these 50's artifacts and break down how many things it weirdly correctly predicted.

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This week we are joined by Katie Elsaesser of Geekscape's flagship show to discuss the impact Carol Burnett and specifically the Carol Burnett Show left on her as a comedian. We analyze the art of classic sketch comedy and how amazing this classic show's cast really was.

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While Disneyland is still here today and isn't going anywhere anytime soon; Gelsey sits down to educate us on the disastrous first day of Disneyland. It's both a comedy of errors as well as in inspirational story of what happens when you push through the worst day of your life.

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This week we are joined by Meghan Meeker who is a die-hard Some Like It Hot fan. For close to an hour Gelsey and Meghan geek out about the film many consider to be the best comedy ever made. They break down behind the scenes, rumors and favorite moments. Sometimes they get so excited that they lose track of what they were saying but hey, nobody's perfect.

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In Episode 2 of the podcast it's Producer Matt's turn on the hot seat to discuss his obsessive love with The Muppets but specifically the 70's variety show The Muppet Show. He discusses why the Muppets mean so much to him, remind him of his grandfather and shaped not just his sense of humor; but his sense of friendship.

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Welcome to Episode 1 of Before My Time. While the show will have a variety of guests, we wanted to kick off the show allowing you to get to know Gelsey better and also to celebrate Halloween by discussing Frankenstein and the life of Mary Shelley!

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