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Pulling Back the Curtain
What happens when the monsters we fear most turn out to be the ones staring back at us in the mirror? In Four O'Clock, a fanatical man consumed by self-righteous rage believes he alone has the power...
691- Monday Mailbag
Welcome to Stuff I Learned Yesterday. My name is Darrell Darnell, I am looking forward to covering the Stranger Things spinoff, "Tales from '85" next month with my daughter, and I believe that if...
SILY 690- Message in a Bottle
Some evenings you take a walk and wonder if the tides are listening. In today’s story, the shore holds more than shells and driftwood. A mysterious traveler drifts ashore in a tale older than sand,...
S5E2 Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11
We are now, technically speaking, OFFICIALLY into season 5, cortexifans, and we are so excited! We are joined by Geoff (xforce11), a familiar voice to the podcast as he has not only co-hosted before...
SILY 689- Does College Matter
For generations, the path to success seemed clear: graduate high school, go to college, get a degree, land a good job, climb the corporate ladder. But what happens when that formula stops working?...
SILY 688- Two Roads
I recently finished watching the final season of Stranger Things. Without spoiling anything for those of you who haven't seen it yet, there's a profound conversation near the end of the season. One...
S5E1 Letters of Transit
Welcome back, cortexifans, to our fifth and final season! We are kicking things off a tad unconventionally by starting off season 5… with a season 4 episode! “Letters of Transit” was Fringe’s...
SILY 687- I’ve Got This
In The Office Season 4's "Dunder Mifflin Infinity,” Michael Scott grabs a rental car to deliver client gift baskets. As he drives, he blindly and stubbornly obeys his GPS's command for a right...
Face the Truth
Can the truth be both our salvation and our damnation, depending on how desperately we need to escape ourselves? "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" follows small-time hood Jackie Rhoades as he...
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S5E5 The Bullet That Saved the World
This is such a pivotal episode of the season that pretty much sets the tone and the direction of the rest of the season, and we are so excited to be joined by frequent feedbacker Erin this week to...
Haunted and Hunted
Guilt has a way of finding you, no matter how far you run or how loudly you laugh it off. That is the dark thread binding our two episodes together this month, as we dig into a pair of Twilight Zone...
SILY 695- Sweetness is Coming
When he was only 16 years old, C.S. Lewis had his first vision of what would become the land of Narnia. Just a mental image. A faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. That's it....
TSTP 86- Welcome to Hawkins, New Kid
Hawkins, Indiana never stays quiet for long, and in the dead of winter 1985, it's already getting weird again. Darrell and Addi are diving headfirst into Stranger Things: Tales From '85, the...
SILY 694- The Third Mind
In October of 1883, a boy was born in a one-room cabin in southwest Virginia. His mother died when he was just nine years old. By thirteen, he was writing for his father's newspaper. At twenty-five,...
S5E4 The Recordist
Although Chris didn’t join us this week (he had some behind-the-scenes undercover work to do with Anil), Darrell and repeat guest and frequent feedbacker ShelkyBean are here to share their thoughts...
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TSTP 88- Evolution
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Something is changing in Hawkins, and the gang is starting to realize the threat they are facing is bigger than anything they have dealt with before. Chapter Three of Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, “Evolution,” picks up the pace in a big way, as Nikki’s mysterious past begins to come into focus and the dangers lurking around Hawkins start to evolve into something far more unsettling.

SILY 696- Is the Bible Reliable
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September 11th was an impact event. Kennedy’s assassination was an impact event. We trust the accounts of those events from people who were there, even decades later, because impact events don’t fade. If Jesus rose from the dead, that was the most profound impact event in human history. And the people who wrote about it did so at personal cost while eyewitnesses to the event were still alive to verify those accounts. Not for fame, not for money, not for power. Most of them died for it. People don’t typically die for something they KNOW is a lie.

TSTP 87- Bad Harvest
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Hawkins, Indiana has a way of turning even the most ordinary things sinister, and this time, the darkness is taking root at a farm. Picking up right where the premiere left off, Chapter Two of Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 wastes no time pulling the gang back into trouble.

S5E5 The Bullet That Saved the World
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This is such a pivotal episode of the season that pretty much sets the tone and the direction of the rest of the season, and we are so excited to be joined by frequent feedbacker Erin this week to take it on! We talk about how much we love this episode and touch upon scenes such as the reunion with Broyles and the beautiful, heartfelt conversation between Etta and Olivia.

Haunted and Hunted
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Guilt has a way of finding you, no matter how far you run or how loudly you laugh it off. That is the dark thread binding our two episodes together this month, as we dig into a pair of Twilight Zone classics that each ask what really happens when a man refuses to answer for his actions.






















