• Language,  Nostalgia,  Pop Culture,  Television

    Trampled Underfoot Podcast – 154 – Books, Cartoons, and Language

    Remember cartoons on TV like Space Ghost or Beanie and Cecil? Can you still sit through those as an adult? Did they age well, or are they too cringy to handle today? Years back we didn’t have internet, so reading comic books, or books in general, was a major part of our entertainment. What did you read for fun as a kid? Mark Lindsay and Eloy Escagedo talk about it all, along with other topics such as language variations, accents, dialects, and a whole lot more on this eclectic and entertaining episode of Trampled Underfoot Podcast! We record LIVE every Tuesday evening at 9:30 pm Eastern, 6:30 pm Pacific time.…

  • Pop Culture,  Social Media,  Society,  Technology

    Trampled Underfoot Podcast – 149 – WikiPodcastia

    In Episode 149 of the Trampled Underfoot Podcast: Has the internet made us smarter? With so much information literally at our fingertips, have we really become any smarter than we were when we relied on libraries and books for our information? Information is easier to find than it has ever been. Is that information correct, though? How do we check it? Do we even care? Eloy Escagedo and Mark Lindsay explore the topic with lots of references to Wikipedia, books, magazines, and even a video taken in France in 1899. In that video, modern Artificial Intelligence technology was used to colorize it, then bring it up to 60 fps. The…

  • Movies,  Music,  Pop Culture,  Social Media,  Society

    Trampled Underfoot Podcast – 137 – The Flat Pineapple Theory

    In Episode 137 of the Trampled Underfoot Podcast: Flat Earthers. Do they really believe their theories? Are they just trying to keep an argument alive? Are they just doing it for the lulz? Or are they just after attention? Eloy Escagedo and Mark Lindsay delve into it. A brief discussion of the Placebo Effect follows, which leaves folks scratching their heads. The hosts get into a discussion about the absurdity of taking a little bit of information, and running to the extreme with it, not even knowing why, and use Pineapples as the example. (Hint: Pineapples aren’t just for breakfast anymore…) Finally, Eloy asks Mark to name a song, a…