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What Happened to Kansas City's Rock-afire Explosion?
🕑 Added 2021-07-23 04:17:06 +0000 UTCJohn tries to track down one of the last copies of a famous animatronic pizza band.
Show notes:
- The Rock-afire Explosion performs a Beatles medley (YouTube)
- "The Rock-afire Explosion" documentary has been posted to YouTube
- Reddit thread about the KC Rock-afire bar closing
- The band being loaded into a truck (Instagram)
- A tweet inquiring about the KC Rock-afire's move to Branson
- The Rock-afire Explosion at Billybob's Wonderland (YouTube)
Comments
Sheena Ross
Thank you so much for clearing this up! I could have sworn I had heard this before but it was just some weird Decoder Ring/robot vegetable band mashup déjà vu situation!
Caren Helms
Definitely it was the robot vegetable band! I'm shocked there was another story in those...but not really. :)
Underunderstood
Not this one specifically! But you might be thinking about the Underunderstood about the robot vegetable band in grocery stores, or maybe this episode of Decoder Ring: https://slate.com/culture/2019/06/decoder-ring-explores-the-war-between-chuck-e-cheeses-and-showbiz-pizza-place-and-the-fate-of-their-animatronic-characters-including-the-king.html
Caren Helms
Haven't we heard this episode before? I tried to look back for it, but the posts only go back to Oct 2020, so I couldn't find it. But I know I've heard this before!
