The Stephen Spurling Podcast Show Program

3 Things Must Die S01E042
Billy Bennett climbs back aboard the podcast to talk about fiery paper plates, zombie vampires, shower curtains on airplanes, and more.

The Three Things
1. Confusing one of the Four Horsemen of the Anti-Apocalypse with a Disney expert.
2. Hiring a vampire to play a zombie.
3. Fake Shemping Bela Lugosi.

3 Things Must Die S01E037

Blues Musician Extraordinary, Ken Hurley, and Blue Musician Extraordinary Girlfriend Extraordinary, Kristie, has moved into a new place, but Ken still has time to talk about religion, politics, and the 1994 Little Rascals movie.

3 THINGS MUST DIE! S01E036

Stephen imagines himself wearing an unfiltered leaking bikini bathing suit, or does he?

This Movie Must Die! S01E012

Decades before Pixar took the magnifying glass to the micro-world, Max Fleischer and company imagined a grasshopper falling in love with a bee; and now Stephen and his crew use their own micro-brains to judge Fleischer's macro-effort.

Mikey (as played by Josh and Erin) hates everything, even Life cereal. (It's 2021 now, and we have Oreo O's.) But will Mikey hate ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1933)? After all, the Josh half of Mikey has read the books and both halves have seen and loved the Disney version. Will the fascinating weirdness of the 1933 movie win Mikey over, or will Cary Grant's blubbering as the Mock Turtle have the fickle brat flipping over the breakfast table?

Stephen talks about Lynne Patton, Noah Bookbinder, Park Cannon, bad cars, a rare comic book, and more.

Stephen dreams of a naked turtle and a penniless America.

Paper routes were bad, journalism is worse.

Here's a great clip from episode 1334 of COFFEE WITH SCOTT ADAMS, followed by a surprising event.

https://www.scottadamssays.com/2021/04/04/episode-1334-scott-adams-ill-change-some-of-your-lives-for-the-better-today-come-have-coffee-and-talk-about-the-news/

Billy and Matthew join Stephen to discuss movies and TV shows that have one or more chefs in them.

Stephen discusses: fatbergs; the overrating of crickets; the extortion of a U.S. rep; and more. Later, a musician, a chef and a Disney expert walk into a bong

Want to get some deep, relaxing sleep? Sleep that could last forever? Listen to my bonus episode of 3 Things Must Die!

3 Things Must Die! S01E028 (Part 2) (Bonus!)

A deathbed joke about an allegedly boring number leads Stephen to feelings of inadequacy

3 Things Must Die! S01E026

Stephen uses Francis the Talking Mule to remember the Pope. Marlee stops by to review a musical horror story featuring feminist cannibals.

Subjects include: the Suez Canal, Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Oprah Winfrey, Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne, AOL, the Associated Press, Reuters, Pope Francis, Francis the Talking Mule, Palm Sunday, Bowen Yang, Colin Jost, "Saturday Night Live," Eric Blore, "Two in the Dark" (1936), "Good Morning Britain," "The Talk," Satan the Devil, Egypt, Brandon Straka, GoFundMe, Cash App, "The Muse" (1999), John Simon, Sharon Stone, George Floyd, Mars, Zack Snyder, Joss Whedon, Cecilia Condit, Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, TikTok, "Possibly in Michigan' (1983), "Toy Story" (1995), "A Bug's LIfe" (1998), and more.

Stephen Cathy-Newmans all over the argument of Styxhexenhammer666.

3 Things Must Die! S01E024

Sharon Osbourne leaves some show or other. Bill Gates tries to dim the sun. Beverly Cleary and Larry McMurtry die because scientists are lazy. And more!

Three Things Must Die S01E023

Sharon Stone slams cancel culture. Chrissy Teigen leaves Twitter. Seth Meyer bans words. Nike and H&M face backlash in China.

In which:

* Erin improvises an annoying song based on the annoying pet name Marlene (Nicolle Andre) gives Sgt. Gatling (Edgar Kennedy) in HILLBILLY BLITZKRIEG (1942).

* Josh annoyingly imitates Mae West using this annoying pet name herself.

* Stephen, annoyingly, nearly coughs himself to death.

This Movie Must Die! S01E010

Stephen plunges to the depths of despair when he learns his co-hosts' true feelings about Mae West.

Stephen talks about Ghost Barbara Billingsley's role in Ellen DeGeneres' declining ratings and the 13-year-old girl spawned from two different human species.

THREE THINGS MUST DIE!

Stephen looks at forgotten old celebs that everyone remembers, TV doctors who slap JEOPARDY! fans in the face, and a soft drink that goes hard on mosquitoes and paint jobs.

Stephen talks about a giraffe that wears a bowtie, but is not a gorilla.

Billy, Ken, and brand-new guest Kristie, join Stephen to discuss Biden and pot, liberation from covid, spring break, Buddy Hackett, and more.

Sabotage hits Stephen's mic yet again, and Fantasy Horse is the prime suspect. Billy Bennett joins to discuss Chinese food, British swear words, and the comics section in the Indianapolis Star.

Billy Bennett joins Stephen to discuss the perils of ripped jeans, Subway Sandwich Shop tuna, Nostradamus or whoever that is on 4chan, misgendering in Canada, tweeting while teen-aged, and more.

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3 Things Must Die! S01E016

Stephen looks at the racism of Sharon Osbourne's tears, the hotness of the naked arsonist who burned a potato chip rack at an Anaheim Subway restaurant, and the sudden return of onetime child actor Tommy Cook.

This Movie Must Die! S01E009

It's time for Crabbe vs. Crocodile when the trio reviews the 1944 jungle picture featuring Ice Ice Gorilla, the Pantene Witch, and Fifi Marie the French-Canadian hooker.

3 Things Must Die! S01E015

Stephen struggles his way through the bad writing in a once-popular magazine. Later, Ken joins Stephen to discuss the wonders of those illegal things that naughty persons will sometimes illegally and naughtily ingest.

Please enjoy this clip from 3 THINGS MUST DIE! S01E014 "My Public Apology? Skyline Chili? E! and Cardi B?"

3 Things Must Die! S01014

Stephen enjoys the sensual pleasures of the two-holed second letter of the alphabet, while Ken Hurley bemoans the closing of his local Skyline Chili.

3 Things Must Die! S01E013

Old guest Billy Bennett and new guest Matthew Bennett discuss the wonderful world of Oz and the equally (some say NOT equally) wonderful world of Disney. Plus: Queen Elizabeth II and Woody Allen.

This Movie Must Die! S01E008

It's a western! It's a musical! Josh and Erin hate both, and the novel twist helps nothing, as we learn when they review the 1938 anti-classic with an unusual cast.

3 Things Must Die! S01E012

Stephen talks to Ken Hurley and the fabulous Marlee Rebecca (aka Marlee Hepburn) about holographic audiences, the on-set improvisations of Robin Williams, and the new age restriction for bars in Florida.

This Movie Must Die! S01E007

Ian Graham from the CULT CONNECTIONS podcast joins Stephen to discuss MINNIE THE MOOCHER (1932), the strange and fascinating Betty Boop cartoon that is sure to bring nightmares to children everywhere. Will Ian kill off the movie Stephen and his guests have already saved in an earlier podcast? Find out!

3 Things Must Die! S01E011

June from the MURDERS, MYSTERIES AND MEOWS podcast joins Stephen to speculate on the motivations of a cat stuck in a Boeing 737. Later, Jaron (aka Mr. Dabbler) talks health care in a way even Stephen can understand. ("Even Stephen." Haha!)

3 Things Must Die! S01E010

Stephen confuses the bigotry against babies with the bigotry of babies and decries that scientists have not reversed aging in time to save the inventor of cassette tapes and CDs.

3 Things Must Die! S01E009

Ken Hurley, who may or may not be a jazz opera singer, talks with Stephen about whether it was an evil conspiracy or gross incompetence killed off Jeffrey Epstein.

3 Things Must Die! S01E008

Billy Bennett and Ken Hurley join Stephen to talk about the cancerous cancel culture, that superhero TV series about old sitcoms, the vegetarian diet of that Viking horns guy at the Capitol, and more.

3 Things Must Die! S01E007

Stephen distracts himself from his microphone-related woes by talking to Ken Hurley about two longtime friends who discover they are sisters, an exorcist who wants to cancel horror movies, and more.

This Movie Must Die! S01E006

In this special shorts edition, Stephen and his three guests - Melissa Bee, Marlee Rebecca and Emily Spurling - review the surreal Betty Boop short, MINNIE THE MOOCHER (1932), featuring a German father whose head becomes a phonograph, a boyfriend named Bimbo, and a ghost walrus with the voice and moves of Cab Calloway.