We've reached the end of history! Er, the end of ICP—and of season 2 of Think Outside the Box Set. Praise the Dark Carnival, we're done!

The Marvelous Missing Link: Found from 2015 is the latest disappointment from ICP. It leans hard in the direction of Contemporary Christian Music, and it's worse than its companion Lost (at least, Nathan thinks so). But then again, Nathan's been getting pretty grumpy at ICP, even before he got into that grumpy weed. 

Up next is Alanis Morrissette! Until then, remember to live the #fifelife. 

Listen along to The Marvelous Missing Link: Found here. 

Learnin' Links

• #fifelife
• "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you." —an unsourced quote from Sartre
• Twelve steps success rate: "Peer reviewed studies peg the success rate of AA somewhere between five and 10 percent"
• A Salon article about celebrity pseudoscience
• The Peter Principle: people who "rise to the level of their incompetence"
• My Neighbor Toblerone
• Future Corpses of America
• Orientalism
• Flight of the Conchords: "We're Both In Love With A Sexy Lady"

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ICP’s The Marvelous Missing Link: Lost has Nathan raving: “it’s aggressively on the negative end of mediocre”! It’s not super bad, per se, but it’s just so boring… in fact, it’d be better if it were bad. Then there’d be anything to talk about. 

Listen along to The Marvelous Missing Link: Lost here. 

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In 2012, ICP released their album The Mighty Death Poop, the second card in the second hand of Jokers Cards. It's not bad. There are a few good songs on The Mighty Beth Pop, but lots of them are kinda mediocre, and a couple are just straight up bad. Like that one that reminds us of the shitty movie Taken. 

The best song by far is the titular "The Mighty Death Plops," which you can listen to here. "Juggalo Juice" is pretty good, too. But the rest of The Mighty Red Pop is not super compelling, and has us looking forward to the day when we're done with ICP…

Listen along to The Mighty Death Pope here. 

Learnin' Links

• Chris Benoit
• Rihanna forgives Chris Brown 
• Sprechgesang, the German word for talk-singing that Nathan couldn't remember
• Altered Carbon
• MD 20/20
• Rising intonation: "The high rising terminal (HRT), also known as upspeak, uptalk, rising inflection, moronic interrogative, or high rising intonation (HRI), is a feature of some variants of English where declarative sentence clauses end with a rising-pitch intonation, until the end of the sentence where a falling-pitch is applied."
• Acronym vs. initialism: "The distinction is not well-maintained."
• The Monty Hall problem
• Non-ICP songs referenced (Spotify links):
• "I'm Shipping up to Boston"
• "Rock Lobster"
• The Lonely Island's "YOLO"
• "The Safety Dance"
• Die Antwoord's "Enter the Ninja" & "Evil Boy"
• "If I Had a Rocket Launcher"
• "Young Folks"

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Nathan's getting punchy this week, because he didn't really enjoy ICP's many versions of their 2009 album Bang! Pow! Boom!. It's not that it's bad, it's just… the shine is wearing off a little bit. ICP's been releasing these albums over almost 20 years, but we've been mainlining them for three months. Is Nathan finally starting to crack?

Cameron didn't mind Bang! Pow! Boom! so much, though. Maybe it's better than Nathan gives it credit for, and there's at least one really good song. Plus, it inspired a brilliant SNL parody video, so we can credit it with that. 

Listen along to Bang! Pow! Boom! here—or here—or… here. Depending on which Pokéman you prefer, that is. 

Learnin' Links

• The music for "In Yo Face"
• Beyond the Box Set's episode about Amelie, which Nathan guested on
• Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego 
• The friggin' mode
• The different names for people who are called "gypsies," who may be better referred to as "Romani"
• "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe
• The Philly accent
• An illicit link to the SNL parody for the song "Miracles"
• DickDale.com, which Nathan didn't mention still looks like it did in 2004 (and presumably 1994 too)
• The Central Park Five, who Donald Trump decided should be executed, despite their innocence

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