Archie McPhee News Blog of Fun

• Mark Pahlow on Jabba Jam, Ant Watches and Deliver Your Own Baby Kits

  December 05, 2018

   In this episode of our Podcast, Mark Pahlow, creator and owner of Archie McPhee, joins us to discuss putting together the first Archie McPhee catalog. How did he get this...

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• Christmas and Archie McPhee: It's Santa wearing a Pigeon Mask

  November 13, 2018

  It's a winter wonderland! Shana, David, and Heff talk about what goes into making an Archie McPhee Christmas product and why the Santa Pigeon Tree Topper transcends commerce and enters...

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• Podcast ep 27: Halloween 2018 recap

  November 06, 2018

  David and Shana recap the Halloween season. What were the costumes? What made Shana misty? Why did the New York Times use a Bibo/Lucky Boy hybrid to illustrate an article on...

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• Podcast ep 26: Bibo!

  October 30, 2018

    If Archie McPhee has a muse, it's Bibo. This strange character from a kid's show became one of the iconic Archie McPhee products and inspired a whole army of...

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• Podcast ep 25: Mark Pahlow and the Cloak of Absurdity

  October 23, 2018

  Mark Pahlow is here! The founder of Archie McPhee shares how it came to be, what you should eat while watching monster movies, what it feels like to be fired...

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• Podcast ep 24: Less Talk, More Monsters!

  October 16, 2018

  Guest Steve Q joins us to talk about horror movies. We take a break from talking about our usual goofy topics to mention some of our favorite flicks. Each person brought...

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• Podcast ep 23: Our creative process!

  October 11, 2018

  How do we come up with our products? This podcast describes the mix of practicality, impracticality, and dreams that mix together to make our weird. Shana, David, and Heff follow...

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• Podcast ep 22: Mac and Cheese Candy Canes Go Viral! (and Heff buys canned clams!)

  October 02, 2018

    We're slammed! In this episode, we talk about how the Mac and Cheese Candy Canes went viral, how the media covers Archie McPhee and what Heff thinks of canned...

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• Podcast ep 21: Treasure Box!

  September 18, 2018

    About 20 years ago (give or take), David accidentally left a Medium Treasure Box in his trunk. It survived a leaky seal with Seattle rain, tremendous neglect, and multiple...

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• Podcast ep 20: The Wallingford Beast and Clamdy Canes

  September 11, 2018

  This episode of Less Talk, More Monkey starts with a discussion of our own cryptozoological marvel, The Wallingford Beast! Where did it come from? What did children chant about it?...

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• Podcast ep 19: The Post Office and Einstein's Theory of Relativity

  September 04, 2018

  Customer letters! Remember when people would write things down on pieces of paper and send them through the mail? We do! We even saved some of those letters to share...

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• Podcast ep 18: Horse Head Squirrel Feeder

  August 27, 2018

  As long as they get fed, squirrels don't care about the humiliation of looking like a horse. David, Shana, and Scott Heff discuss the complexities of creating Archie McPhee's squirrel...

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