We are both sitcom junkies and have been since we were kids. Unfortunately the golden era of the sitcom is probably in the past. Hopefully someday they will make a return to the nightly primetime TV schedule.
There are many different types of sitcoms. Some involve families, some involve couples, some involve single people. But we are pushing those aside this week and focusing on series that take place around a workplace. Where the majority of the time the characters are at work. Or pretending to work anyway.
This doesn't narrow it down as much as you may think. There are still dozens of great options. We chose shows from TV networks, from premium cable channels and representing every decade from the 1980s to today.
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?
Follow us on social media:
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
In many ways the 1990s were the golden era of rap and hip hop. The songs and artists dominated the Billboard charts and MTV. Mark is a big fan of this style and era of music. While Jon can appreciate it, but it's not his go-to by any means.
Because of this we thought it would be good to bring in a guest. Someone who could educate us! And we got the PERFECT guest in Paco Cerda. As we find out in the episode he is a walking encyclopedia for rap and hip hop music. Being a music producer himself, he brings an extra layer of expertise that we definitely needed for this topic.
Mark and Jon stay closer to the mainstream with their picks, but Paco takes us on a deeper dive, sharing some real gems. This is a fun listen!
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore
Follow us on social media: Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
As movie buffs we are always quoting lines from our favorite films. Sometimes they come from action movies, sometimes comedy movies. But they are always memorable.
So what exactly makes a "catchphrase" versus just a great line from a movie? We looked for lines that stand out from the movie itself. Lines that became part of pop culture, and people could know the line and even recite it without ever having seen the movie. As we mention in the episode, these catchphrases rise above the movies they came from.
This was a fun one and we may revisit this topic down the road with a Mount Rushmore of TV catchphrases. Grab some popcorn and enjoy this week's episode!
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?Follow us on social media:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Happy Halloween! It's that spooky time of year and to celebrate we're exploring our Mount Rushmore of Disturbing Movies. To do this the right way, we had to bring back a former guest host, Susan Hanson. She's a horror aficionado who joined us last Halloween for our episode about Slasher Movies. She also happens to be Jon's wife!
We each approached this list a little differently. Some of our picks are great movies that we enjoy watching over and over. Other movies are so disturbing, seeing them just one time was more than enough!
These movies can be scary, psychological, or just plain weird. So as you think about your list and share it in the comments remember there is no wrong answer... if you were disturbed by a movie, let us know!
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?
Follow us on social media:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Cover Songs or song remakes exist in every genre of music. Sometimes you like the original better, other times the cover version is a big improvement. This left a lot of options on the table as we chose our absolute favorite cover songs of all time.
To do this we brought in some help in the form of a big music fan, Travis Perkins. Travis has appeared on our podcast before, as part of our massive "Party Songs" episode in which we had a whole house full of people picking their favorite songs to kickstart a party.
Our picks lean towards rock across the board, which is probably an indicator of the type of music we all like. One of our picks is a cover of a song that was originally recorded more than 85 years ago. Needless to say when that song was mentioned, the other two guys were shocked!
What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions.
We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?
Follow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmoreFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Americans love their Reality TV and we are no different. If you Google Reality TV shows you will literally find hundreds of shows that air on major networks, cable networks, or exclusively on a streaming service. The shows we chose range from competitions to mysteries to sports and even one that takes place on the water. We chose our lists based on shows we watch now, shows we watched in recent years and for one of us I show he watched 30 years ago. That particular show can probably be credited with creating an entire genre of TV that still exists today. Can you guess? Listen to find out!What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?Follow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmoreFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Mount Rushmore of Black & White Films 🎬Being we are both Gen Xers, the old days of black and white films were well before our time, but all the same we can appreciate a good movie, regardless of when it was made. Black and white films are a thing of the past, but occasionally one will still get made in modern day Hollywood.In part because of that, most of the movies we chose were made in our lifetimes. So the director made a conscious decision to shoot the movie in black and white when most movies were being filmed in color. Sometimes it was a statement, sometimes it was an issue of budget. But for all the movies we chose it didn't matter - the movies are great just as they are. Hope you agree with us!What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?Follow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmoreFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Mount Rushmore of Sports Teams That No Longer ExistSo many sports teams have come and gone, moved to another city or in some cases went out of business and just disappeared altogether. Nearly every sports market in the country has been the victim of a team leaving them for one reason or another.With all these old teams to choose from, we brought in a true expert for this episode. A local Twin Cities radio fixture, Meatsauce is one of the hosts of the Power Trip Morning Show on KFAN and he knows his sports teams. Those who have seen him, or even just photos of him can probably guess one of his picks. Between the three of us we covered the NBA, NHL, MLB and the NFL with teams that once played in every corner of North America. What sports teams that no longer exist would make YOUR Mount Rushmore?What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?Follow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmoreFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Whether you are watching a TV show, movie or a sporting event in the evening, you ultimately find yourself craving a snack. Maybe something salty, maybe something sweet. But you don't want a meal... just a little something to nibble on.We all know snacking late at night is not the heathiest thing to do... but we do it anyway. So instead of allowing ourselves to feel guilty about this indulgence, we are facing it head on and bringing these binges into the spotlight!One of us leans towards the sweet side and the other towards the salty side, and between our two lists there are some pretty popular snack foods making the Mount Rushmore. Don't fight the craving, dive right into this fun episode! Just remember to grab your favorite munchie first. What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?Follow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmoreFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Ozzy Osbourne... the Prince of Darkness, the Godfather of Heavy Metal. His music shaped our appreciation for hard rock and metal music at a young age. And his family helped to kick off the whole reality show craze with their MTV series. He was an innovator in so many ways and we wanted to honor him and his legacy.But if you need to list the top 4 songs from his massive catalog, where do you start? Between his solo career and his time as the front man for Black Sabbath he sold more than 100 million albums worldwide. His songs have been featured in countless TV shows and movies. He has influenced just about every hard rock and metal musician of the last 50 years.It was not easy, but we each narrowed our lists down to our top four choices and we're happy with the results. You'll hear songs from his whole career, representing six different albums. And you'll learn some fun facts along the way. RIP Ozzy! 🤘What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?Follow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmoreFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
The NFL season is underway! Awhile back we did an episode listing our Mount Rushmore of NFL Quarterbacks, and with football back we decided to visit the gridiron once again.We didn't think too much about positions when putting together our Mount Rushmore of NFL Hall of Famers, and by coincidence we both chose different positions for each of our four players. We only match on one guy and if you're a Minnesota sports fan you can probably guess who that was.These lists represent the best of the best on the field, and some very interesting characters off the field. Some of the guys on our lists have made an even bigger name for themselves since they hung up their cleats.What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?Follow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmoreFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Over the years we have always noticed how many songs have a color in their title. And just about every color of the rainbow is represented in some song title somewhere. To make this episode a little more interesting and a little more colorful, we decided to push all songs with the color "black" to the side. Because there are SOOO many of those songs, we'll do a separate episode some time down the road just highlight those songs.In total we have seven different colors listed in our songs, including two gold and one song each in the colors white, blue, red, pink, yellow and even an orange. No need to guess what they were, just listen to find out!What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?Follow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmoreFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Mount Rushmore of Movie Slobs
Slobs are everywhere. Movies, TV and certainly in our day to day lives. So we decided to celebrate them in this week's episode! We focused on slobs from the movie world, but may someday tackle our favorite slobs from TV.What makes a good slob? It could be their look, their clothes, their behavior or just their overall attitude. We choose slobs that each check some of those boxes. Some of them check ALL those boxes! We only matched on one slob and it was a pretty obvious one from one of our all time favorite movies.What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?Follow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmoreFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Mount Rushmore of 1980s Action / Drama TV Series 📺
We both grew up in the '80s and watched a ton of TV. You probably could have guessed that based on some of our past episodes like our Mount Rushmore of 1980s Sitcoms episode we did awhile back.This week we're heading back to that decade of big hair, bright colors and cool cars... all things that were featured in many action & drama TV series throughout the 1980s. With so many shows to choose from, how did we narrow down to just four picks each to put on the mountain? Listen along and find out! Surprisingly, despite us both liking a lot of the same shows, we did not match on any of our picks.What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?Follow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmoreFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Mount Rushmore of Phobias
This week's episode was uncomfortable to think about, uncomfortable to record and it's even uncomfortable for us to listen to it! That's because we got personal and are both listing our Mount Rushmore of Phobias.These lists are personal to us, but we're pretty sure a few of our phobias are shared by a lot of our listeners too. You'll take a deep dive into our subconscious minds in this episode, along with the typical funny nonsense you get from every one of our episodes! What did we miss? Did we list any of your phobias? Do you think any of our phobias are ridiculous? Please leave a comment with your thoughts!
We always want to know... What's YOUR Rushmore?Follow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmoreFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Awhile back we did an episode listing our Mount Rushmore of Movie Sequels. While we were putting together lists of our favorite sequels, it became clear to us that there are far more BAD sequels than there are good ones. So we decided to revisit the topic, but with a negative spin! This week we're listing our Mount Rushmore of Worst Movie Sequels and man, there are a lot of stinkers to choose from! When they announce an upcoming sequel to one of your favorite movies it can bring mixed emotions. On one hand, you're excited to revisit some of those characters in a new story line. But you also worry they will take something great and ruin it. And that is exactly what happened with these movies.We both approached this list in a similar way. We chose sequels that followed movies we actually liked. To call it one of the worst sequels ever made, you need to have an appreciation for the movie (or movies) that came before it. So if you're playing along while listening, keep that in mind and try to choose sequels that followed a movie you really enjoyed.What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?Follow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmoreFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Mount Rushmore of Overplayed SongsFor this week's episode we each chose songs we feel are overplayed. As you can imagine the list includes some of the more popular songs of all time, and cover a range of 40 years. With some of the songs we picked, we actually liked them when they first came out, but over time we just heard them way to much and are now sick of them. But other songs we never liked at all and unfortunately have had to hear them over and over and over again.Just by coincidence we both chose at least one song from bands we actually like a lot, but they just have that one song that we don't need to hear today, tomorrow... or ever again.What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?Follow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmoreFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
We were fortunate enough to work in radio for many years and that put us in the position to meet a lot of famous people. Actors, musicians, athletes, you name it.For this episode we wanted to bring an actual celebrity in to help us, so we reached out to our old friend Angi Taylor, who Minnesotans will remember from her time with the Dave Ryan in the Morning Show on 101.3 KDWB. Since leaving the Twin Cities she has hosted radio shows in Philadelphia and Chicago, where she currently lives. Angi's unique perspective on this subject made her the perfect guest and she shares some hilarious celebrity encounters as part of her Mount Rushmore list! What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?Follow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmoreFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore
Mount Rushmore of 1990s Sitcoms 📺We have admitted in the past to being TV junkies and we are both big fans of the long lost artform known as the sitcom. We did an episode earlier this year listing our favorite sitcoms from the 1980s with special guest Terry Daniel.When we decided to revisit this topic for sitcoms of the 1990s we wanted to bring in another special guest. And we just happen to know someone who herself appeared on a very popular 1990s sitcom! We have known Jennifer Lundquist since the late '90s when she worked for us as an intern at the radio station KDWB. A few years after that she was lucky enough to be an extra on the biggest TV show of that era! She shares the story of how that came to be, what it was like being on set, and getting to meet one of the stars. Enjoy this one!What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?Follow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmoreFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore#whatsyourmountrushmore #podcast #sitcoms #1990s #friends #seinfeld #frasier #fullhouse
Mount Rushmore of Tom Cruise Movies 🎬Tom Cruise made his big screen debut in 1981 and in the 4 1/2 decades since has been involved in some of the biggest blockbusters of all time. He is a true American movie icon.He has done it all in his long career! And he shows no signs of stopping, including this summer's latest movie in the Mission: Impossible franchise and rumors of another movie in the Top Gun franchise coming in 2026. We only matched on one our picks and you can probably guess what movie that was. Enjoy this episode!What did we miss? Did we list some of your favorites? Hate our choices? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. We always want to know... What's Your Mount Rushmore?We have done these types of episodes before, covering our favorite movies from Will Ferrell and Tom Hanks, so if you enjoy this one go back and check out those episodes:Mount Rushmore of Will Ferrell Movies: https://youtu.be/i4pr_6UqJxoMount Rushmore of Tom Hanks Movies: https://youtu.be/XV4FPcFJc4AFollow us on social media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatsyourmountrushmoreFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsyourmountrushmore