Daniel O'Brien
I used to work here. I don't anywhere.
Twitter: @DOB_INC
Dark Secrets from the Teacher's Lounge
Did you ever have the sneaking suspicion that when your history teacher rolled out the old A/V cart for movie time that he was completely hungover?
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- By Jack O'Brien, Daniel O'Brien, Soren Bowie
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Why You Don't Want To Go To School At Hogwarts
So after seven books, eight movies and a trip to Universal Studios, you think you would prefer to go to Hogwarts than live in real life.
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- By Daniel O'Brien, Alex Schmidt, Jack O'Brien, J.F. Sargent
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4 Lessons We Really Wanted To Be Taught In School
I'm thankful for my education and everything that happened to get me where I am today, but there still some things I wished I had learned.
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- By Daniel O'Brien
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10 Fictional Universes Where You Don't Want To Be A Ghost
Congratulations! You've died in a fictional universe where the afterlife exists!
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- By Jack O'Brien, Michael Swaim, Daniel O'Brien
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Insane Simpsons Fan Theories That Are Totally Wrong
Fan theories are kind of our thing.
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- By Daniel O'Brien, Michael Swaim, Jack O'Brien
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Children's TV Shows With Horrifying Implications
Last week on the site, Daniel O'Brien told us why Pinocchio was a secretly terrifying tale about a monster-boy thrust into existence by a bumbling old man who probably shouldn't be anyone's legal guardian.
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- By Jack O'Brien, Daniel O'Brien, Soren Bowie
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Why Cats And Dogs Are Way More Interesting Than You Think
Ever since we started letting friendly wolves and tiny tigers into our homes a few thousand years ago, society has been split into two camps: dog people and cat people.
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- By Carmen Angelica, Alex Schmidt, Daniel O'Brien, Cody Johnston, Jack O'Brien
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My Brief Time As Donald Trump's Campaign Manager
To do over again, sure, I probably wouldn't have helped Donald Trump run for president.
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- By Daniel O'Brien
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Breathing New Life Into The Cold, Dead Oscars
Sorry, the Oscars, but you're old, out of touch and boring.
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- By Daniel O'Brien, Jack O'Brien, Alex Schmidt, Liana Maeby
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Why The English Siri Had It 4 Times Worse Than The Others
A short list of completely ridiculous things we put up with as English speakers:
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- By Jack O'Brien, Carmen Angelica, Daniel O'Brien, Alex Schmidt
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15 Movies Completely Changed From An Alternate Perspective
Most disaster movies make cannon fodder out of almost every single living person on the planet who isn't a president, a fighter pilot, or the one scientist who has the key to solving the alien/meteor/whatever problem.
What We Learned About What We Learned In 2015
As everything in the world becomes more interconnected and as the cost of recording and storing data sharply decreases, we've seen a steep rise in the importance of statistics.
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- By Jack O'Brien, Daniel O'Brien
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How Many Martys Had to Die In Back To The Future?
Going back all the way to our very first episode, one of the topics that we've discussed most on this podcast is the Flynn Effect: the inevitability that each generation will be smarter than the last.
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- By Soren Bowie, Jack O'Brien, Daniel O'Brien
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20 Movies That Would Be Better With One Simple Change
Search through the DVD extras of 'Back To The Future' and you'll come across one of the greatest what-ifs of movie history.
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- By Soren Bowie, Jack O'Brien, Daniel O'Brien
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Why Nothing About The Presidential Election Matters
Newsflash: You only have 407 days until the 2016 presidential election.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Daniel O'Brien, Kristi Harrison
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6 Movies Based On B.S. True Stories
As we've pointed out many times before, just because a movie advertises itself as true, doesn't make it so.
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- By Daniel O'Brien, Liana Maeby, J.F. Sargent
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What I Learned Spamming A Suggestion Box With Cat Pictures
I think I can go ahead and call this another entry in the 'Long Cons That Didn't Pay Off' file.
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- By Daniel O'Brien
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Inexplicable Movie Tropes That Make No Sense
Our main bread and butter at Cracked is pointing out the little things in movies that either brainwash our society as a whole or are just simply so overused that they annoy the bloody hell out of us.
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- By Soren Bowie, Jack O'Brien, Cody Johnston, Michael Swaim, Daniel O'Brien
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F#@% Blake Griffin: How Nike Just Ruined Space Jam
As Cracked's foremost 'Space Jam' Authority and Occasional Wearer Of Shoes, I obviously have a lot of issues here.
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- By Daniel O'Brien
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Hidden Rules Behind Famous TV Shows
A frequent topic on this podcast is the way all movies follow the same structure and how our brains are trained to look for these common rules.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Daniel O'Brien, Soren Bowie
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