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Brian VanHooker

Brian VanHooker is a staff writer at MEL specializing in pop culture, food (especially pizza) and long form oral histories. He is the co-creator of the comic book "Barnum & Elwood" and "The Tramp," a comedy pilot starring John O'Hurley. He also hosts a TMNT interview podcast called "Turtle Tracks" and was once called a "Good Guy" by Mr. T.

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Three Bus Drivers on ‘Speed’ (the Movie, Not the Drug)

‘If that jump was five feet, you’d have trouble, but 50 feet? Forget it.’

How Many ‘Chuggas’ Are There Really Before a Choo Choo?

Let these locomotive experts end this very important debate once and for all (kinda)

Three Optimism Experts Analyze ‘Mr. Brightside’ by the Killers

‘I don’t think it can teach you about being optimistic. He’s definitely had a threesome, though.’

The Beer Bong Has Been Around Way Longer Than You Think

The Guys With Backyard Roller Coasters Are Having a Better Quarantine Than You

The Grownups Who Never Saw ‘E.T.’ Because E.T. Freaked Them Out

I Spent a Week Using an 85-Year-Old Sears Catalog as Toilet Paper

I Drove Two Hours to See if ‘Pasqually’s Pizza’ Is Really Any Different From Chuck E. Cheese’s

These Five Geniuses Turned Their Backyards Into Putt-Putt Golf Courses

Three Vegetarian Chefs Tell Us How They’d Eat Groot

Getting to the (Literal) Bottom of Every Myth and Controversy Around Pantless Cartoon Characters

Why Were We So Obsessed With Big-Screen TVs in the 1990s?