Superego Sampler: Smithsonian Audio Tours
DIAGNOSIS: Histrionic Personality Disorder
CASE HISTORY: Why not take an educational guided-tour through the hallowed halls of America’s greatest cultural institution? Experience the wit and wisdom of Mark Twain, the picturesque reflections of Ansel Adams, and the plaintive mating whispers of Danielle Steel.
The annals of the Smithsonian run deep and run wide. This continuing series of audio tours will guide visitors through a variety of rarely seen archives and exhibits. Visitors will leave educated, informed, and confused. You’ll come back time and time again for the Smithsonian Audio Tours celebrated exhibits on history, pop culture, and other American bullshit.
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Superego Sampler: The Ticketmasters
DIAGNOSIS: Douchebag Personality Disorder
CASE HISTORY: Fuck you.
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Superego Sampler: Irvin Kershner
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DIAGNOSIS: Anecdotal Personality Disorder
CASE HISTORY: A graduate of the University of Southern California film school, Irvin Kershner began his career in 1950, producing documentaries for the U.S. Information Service in the Middle East. He turned to television in the 1950s, directing and photographing a series of documentaries called Confidential File. Kershner was one of the directors given his first break by producer Roger Corman, for whom he shot Stakeout on Dope Street. The main theme that runs through many of Kershner’s films is social alienation and human weaknesses – although his biggest commercial success was the sci-fi blockbuster Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back. And also, man that guy will tell a story.
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Superego Sampler: NASA Mission Control
DIAGNOSIS: Paranoid Personality Disorder
CASE HISTORY: Through the latter half of the 20th century the NASA Mission Control Specialists have perfected the art of talking to each other over cheap headsets.
SPECIAL GUESTS: Jeff Davis
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Superego Sampler: Maggie The GPS
DIAGNOSIS: Schizotypal Personality Disorder
CASE HISTORY: Maggie the GPS has been helping men through traffic since 2004. She’s also been helping other women to the curb since 2004.
SPECIAL GUEST: Mike Rock
EPISODE: 2:2
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Superego Sampler: Shunt McGuppin
DIAGNOSIS: Antisocial Personality Disorder
CASE HISTORY: Shunt McGuppin is a dyed-in-the-wool American legend. Country music hasn’t been the same since this surly, uneducated prodigy burst onto the Nashville scene in 1966 and proceeded to piss away his musical genius on bad booze, bad drugs and bad women…that were fat. Shunt has toured with Willie Nelson, Mutt Taylor, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash. He began his career with Timmy Tomlin and the Fuckhead Band. McGuppin produced Starship’s last two albums. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
SPECIAL GUEST: Katie Nuñez
EPISODE: 1:6
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Superego Sampler: Bruce and Ed
DIAGNOSIS: Dependant Personality Disorder
CASE HISTORY: Bruce “The Throat” Hume & Ed “The Inflection” Olivas have been the collective voice of movie trailers for a combined total of 60 years. Pictured above in 1983, Hume and Olivas first broke on to the scene as announcers for The Boothroyd Bourbon Mystery Hour. Since then, their alluring baritones have become synonymous with American movie trailer classics. Just a few of their film trailers include: Swollen Justice, Radical Jack and Put Down Your Guns H.M.S. Me Love You Long Time. Both Hume & Olivas have entertained unsuccessful solo careers only to return to the celebrated partnership. They currently reside somewhere along the California coast.
EPISODE: 1:3
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Superego Sampler: Trevor Lundercharger
DIAGNOSIS: Obsessive Personality Disorder
CASE HISTORY: Trevor likes Spiderman 2. He likes Spiderman, but he really likes Spiderman 2. He’s looking forward to Spiderman 4, but again, he just really likes Spiderman 2. Trevor reviews films for the Jefferson High Spartan.
EPISODE: 1:15
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Superego Sampler: St. Paul’s The Apostle Evangelical Medical Society
DIAGNOSIS: Narcissistic Personality Disorder
CASE HISTORY: St. Paul’s The Apostle Evangelical Medical Society will diagnose, treat and judge the ever-livin’ shit out of you.
EPISODE: 2:1
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Superego Sampler: Imogene Kanouse
DIAGNOSIS: Delusional Personality Disorder
CASE HISTORY: Imogene Kanouse is title holder to both the 2004 Ms. Wheelchair Contest and the 1986 Virginia Slim Smoke-Off. She maintains an active social life and enjoys dining out. Ms. Kanouse teaches a popular “Wheelercize” class at the Canoga Park YWCA and loves to play chess.
EPISODE: 1:2
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Superego Sampler: Lars Cliegg
DIAGNOSIS: Schizoid Personality Disorder
CASE HISTORY: Lars Cliegg is a warehouse supervisor for the world’s second largest manufacturer of cabinet hinges. He loves getting his freak on with his ‘generous’ wife Beverly. ‘Generous’.
EPISODE: 1:10
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Superego Sampler: Erin Michelle Belger
DIAGNOSIS: Narcissistic Personality Disorder
CASE HISTORY: Ms. Belger enjoys a leisurely lifestyle in the west room of a beautiful Victorian townhouse in San Francisco, California. Other than that, she is a Russian double-agent, and a promiscuous lover. She is constantly exasperated by the incessant grumblings of her boyfriend, Max. She also used to have a kitten. She loves kittens. She really loves kittens.
EPISODE: 1:8
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Superego Sampler: Milton and Dupree
DIAGNOSIS: Dependent Personality Disorder
CASE HISTORY: Cousins Vance Milton & Abelarde Dupree began performing the vaudeville circuit at the tender age of three months. Raised in a show business family, Milton & Dupree utilized their keen talents and canny showmanship to win over audiences all throughout the country. After selling out shows on the popular Orpheum Circuit, Milton & Dupree took time out to record the first ever comedy album, and their masterpiece: Milton, Dupree & Baby Makes Three. Their career ended tragically when Milton, intoxicated on Jamaican root extract burned Dupree to death with an iron. It was Dupree’s demise and Milton’s subsequent incarceration that signaled the fall of the golden age of vaudeville.
EPISODE: 1:13
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Superego Sampler: Nils Handggren
DIAGNOSIS: C.I.F. Personality Disorder
CASE HISTORY: Handggren suffers from the incredibly rare Chronic Involuntary Functionitis disorder. He is also a world civilization professor at Tufts University, but not a whole lot of that gets done.
EPISODE: 1:15
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Superego Sampler: Nick Nolte
DIAGNOSIS: Borderline Personality Disorder
CASE HISTORY: Rugged, blond, raspy-voiced leading man Nick Nolte has lived a life a good deal more interesting than most of his roles—as to exactly what that life has been, don’t expect any biography to be accurate. This tough guy with soul has openly admitted to lying to the press from the beginning, creating a persona in which even he has trouble separating the fact from fiction. Nolte recently became a grandfather and now spends most of his time trying to mend fences with his estranged daughter and her family.
EPISODE: 1:5
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Superego Sampler: Bruce and Ed
DIAGNOSIS: Dependant Personality Disorder
CASE HISTORY: Bruce “The Throat” Hume & Ed “The Inflection” Olivas have been the collective voice of movie trailers for a combined total of 60 years. Pictured above in 1983, Hume and Olivas first broke on to the scene as announcers for The Boothroyd Bourbon Mystery Hour. Since then, their alluring baritones have become synonymous with American movie trailer classics. Just a few of their film trailers include: Swollen Justice, Radical Jack and Put Down Your Guns H.M.S. Me Love You Long Time. Both Hume & Olivas have entertained unsuccessful solo careers only to return to the celebrated partnership. They currently reside somewhere along the California coast.
EPISODE: 1:6
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Superego Sampler: Praydayder
CASE STUDIES: Praydayder
EPISODES: 2:2
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