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My Summer Lair with affable host Sammy Younan: interviews & impressions on Pop Culture.

Think NPR’s Fresh Air meets Kevin Smith.
“I'm your No 1 fan. There's nothing to worry about. You're going to be just fine. I will take good care of you. I'm your No 1 fan.”
~ Annie Wilkes

Ain't pulling your leg; it’s Misery’s 35th anniversary this week. Thank you #StephenKing, #KathyBates, #RobReiner & #JamesCaan

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MISERY (1990) | Official Trailer | MGM Studios
After a serious car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), who claims to be his biggest fan. Annie brings him to her remote cabin to recover,…
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December 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Your Mission Impossible is to enjoy this week's TV Recommendations which range from Paul Anka to Jeff Buckley. Clearly with music that good it's time to #SetTheVCR. Check out this week's #couchworthy finds ⬇️
#SetTheVCR: December 01-07, 2025
Your Mission Impossible is to enjoy this week's TV Recommendations which range from Paul Anka to Jeff Buckley. Clearly with music that good it's time to #SetTheVCR.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Thanksgiving plans:
✔️ Elastic-waist pants
✔️ Snacks
✔️ A 3-peat of Planes, Trains & Automobiles on @plutotv.

Because nothing pairs with gratitude & gravy like travel disasters, rental car rage and #JohnCandy giving you the warm fuzzies. #SetTheVCR
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Did you watch #StrangerThings5? Holly Wheeler is played by Nell Fisher. IMDb says she was born on Nov 2, 2011 in London. Wee Lass; Big Talent.

See her in Bookworm and you’ll see. Based on her freshtastic Bookworm performance Demogorgons should be nervous.

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A Bookworm Reveals The Secret to Endless Wonder
Listen now | How '80s movies staring kids taught us to dream bigger, stay curious & embrace magic.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
From SCTV to Planes, Trains and Automobiles — which’ll be on TV all this #Thanksgiving: #JohnCandy defined kindness in comedy.

@pulmyears visits #MSL to reveal what made Candy not just funny...but so human.

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November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“I need you to fight one last time...”

It doesn’t matter what I write.

This is the final #StrangerThings season...the Hawkins Losers are gonna take on their Pennywise.

Volume 1 is today.
Volume 2: December 25, 2025 @ 5pm PT
The Finale: December 31, 2025 @ 5pm PT.

#SetTheVCR
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This TG what are you watching? Planes, Trains, and Automobiles or Uncle Buck?

@pulmyears’ fantastic book, #JohnCandy: A Life In Comedy covers them both and so much more. An excellent #BlackFriday gift...for yourself.

Enjoy this #MSL conversation with Paul. #EarJoy

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My Summer Lair featuring Paul Myers (John Candy A Life in Comedy)
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks to author Paul Myers for his biography John Candy: A Life in Comedy.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Tonight! @hertzbarry.bsky.social y.social & @elamin.bsky.social live life a quarter mile at a time.

You'll wanna Tokyo Drift to the @hotdocs.bsky.social cinema. #NewBookSmell #PantsWorthy
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Family Time!

@HertzBarry launches Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious via @grandcentralpub.

A wild, behind-the-scenes ride through the Fast & Furious franchise’s chaotic rise. Strap in. This #PantsWorthy evening at @HotDocsCinema will be Ludacris.
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“I devoured @pulmyears’ fantastic book, #JohnCandy: A Life In Comedy. I’ve spent years pondering the greatness & essential humanity of John Candy.

Paul truly captured the essence of the John Candy we all know and we all love,” says @vancityreynolds.

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My Summer Lair featuring Paul Myers (John Candy A Life in Comedy)
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks to author Paul Myers for his biography John Candy: A Life in Comedy.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In Toronto visit the #DistilleryWinterVillage to see @strangerthingstv!

This is way cooler than Will Byers' Season 1 Flowbee haircut. This holiday season @distilleryto is #PantsWorthy.
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This week's TV Recommendation is all about Conjuring Stranger Things. Which is fun because if I start Acting My Age #SetTheVCRisn't as cool.Check out this week's #couchworthy finds ⬇️

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#SetTheVCR: November 24-30, 2025
This week's TV Recommendation is all about Conjuring Stranger Things. Which is fun because if I start Acting My Age #SetTheVCR isn't as cool.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
An Unearthly Child (sometimes referred to as 100,000 BC) is the first serial of UK's science fiction TV series #DoctorWho.

It was first broadcast on BBC TV in four weekly parts from 23 November to 14 December 1963. Happy Anniversary Doctor Who!

I'm Team Doctor 4, 10 & 11.
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
One of the more fascinating #JFK aspects comes from #StephenKing.

Following the dense research he did for 11.22.63 (including reviewing conspiracy theories) Uncle Steve concluded Oswald acted alone today in 1963.

Is King is correct? I’ve read 11.22.63 twice. It’s a fantastic.
November 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
📰 We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling to bring you...The End Times.

Published by @BadHandBooks and written by @benjamin.percy (& Stephen King!) this is a entertaining post-apocalyptic newspaper.

🎧 to the #MSL conversation is today!
My Summer Lair featuring Benjamin Percy (The End Times)
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks writer Benjamin Percy about The End Times a serialized, post-apocalyptic storytelling experience.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A #BITS2025 #PantsWorthy Recommendation:
Canada’s weirdest, wildest kids’ show finally gets the love letter it deserves.

Behind the Castle Doors unearths the local DIY magic, madness & monster mania that made The Hilarious House of Frightenstein a cult classic.

cc: @bitsfilmfest
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
📰 Sammy chats w writer @benjamin.percy about crafting a fictional newspaper at the edge of civilization.

Kinda like The Derry Herald only adults vanish as well.

The End Times published by @badhandbooks is like a flamethrower: hot horror & #StephenKing!

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My Summer Lair featuring Benjamin Percy (The End Times)
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks writer Benjamin Percy about The End Times a serialized, post-apocalyptic storytelling experience.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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THIS IS FANTASTIC!

Reading this is like picking up a copy of the Newman Grove Reporter, or some other small town paper. It’s personal, it’s about our community, and it’s reporting on how we survive the end of the world. I LOVE IT.

By: @benjaminpercy.bsky.social
Cc: @stephenking.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Zodiac Killer Project is playing at #HotDocsCinema and other showtimes via @filmswelike.bsky.social.

Also follow @musicboxfilms.com for more #PantsWorthy details.
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“A film about a film that was never made, this boldly original essay begins as an exploration of one man's obsession with catching the Zodiac Killer but quickly unfolds into an anti-true crime investigation into our cultural obsession with the genre.”

New Day, New Zodiac doc.
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A #BITS2025 #PantsWorthy Recommendation:

“I am the first punk independent rocker ever in Canada. Bar fucking none.”
~ Nash The Slash

Who was that masked man? @bitsfilmfest reveals all with a @nashtheslashdoc screening tonight.

All children of the night are welcome...
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
📰When @benjamin.percy isn't scrapbooking the end of civilization via The End Times published by @badhandbooks, he is slowly moving into horror movies.

In this #MSL conversation I asked him about his North Star as he takes this unique and creative risk. #EarJoy 🎧⬇️

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November 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A #BITS2025 #PantsWorthy Recommendation:

When it comes to Influencers watching and seeing are not the same thing. The @shudder movie closes out @bitsfilmfest.

It's a razor-sharp thriller about clout, consequences and control.

Who influences the Influencers?
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
📰 Extra! Extra!

What do you get when you mix journalism, horror, a pandemics and #StephenKing?

The End Times published by @badhandbooks.

In this pre-apocalypse #MSL conversation Sammy digs deep with writer @benjamin.percy to uncover...The Truth.

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My Summer Lair featuring Benjamin Percy (The End Times)
My Summer Lair host Sammy Younan talks writer Benjamin Percy about The End Times a serialized, post-apocalyptic storytelling experience.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A #BITS2025 #PantsWorthy Recommendation:

“Violence is an operatic punk rock thriller set in an alternate 1980s.” What? Yo.

A quiet dread builds as ordinary lives crack open, revealing the rot underneath. No ghosts, no ghoul...just Violence.

Playing at @bitsfilmfest on November 21.
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM