{"podcast":{"title":"Gank That Drank: A Supernatural Drinking Game Podcast","slug":"gank-that-drank-a-supernatural-drinking-game-podcast-810303","podcast_index_feed_id":810303,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6702421/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gank-that-drank-a-supernatural-drinking-game-podcast--6702421","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/6bc26a1985a12eeb72c558c4f88c3d24.jpg","author":"TruStory FM","episode_count":79,"summary":"The mission of Gank that Drank: A Supernatural Drinking Game Podcast is to curate the perfect drinking game rules, season by season, for the long-lived and much-loved television show Supernatural. Your hosts will bravely test all manner of drinking game rules, laugh, chat about the show we love and curate the perfect Supernatural drinking game!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gank-that-drank-a-supernatural-drinking-game-podcast-810303"},"episode":{"title":"Hollywood Babylon","slug":"hollywood-babylon","published_at":"2025-11-26T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gank-that-drank-a-supernatural-drinking-game-podcast-810303/hollywood-babylon","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gank-that-drank-a-supernatural-drinking-game-podcast-810303","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/hollywood-babylon--68753790","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/op3.dev/e/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/68753790/eb82dda0.mp3","summary":"Hollywood Babylon: Ghosts, Meta Jokes, and Die Hard ReferencesWelcome to this episode of Gank That Drank: A Supernatural Drinking Game Podcast! Join hosts Krissy Lenz and Nate McWhortor as they dive into Supernatural Season 2, Episode 18, \"Hollywood Babylon\"—a meta-filled romp through a haunted movie set where Dean Winchester discovers his natural calling as a production assistant. This episode originally aired April 19, 2007, and remains one of Nate's most-watched favorites for good reason.When a horror film production on Stage 9 becomes plagued by actual supernatural deaths, Sam and Dean go undercover to investigate. What follows is a love letter to bad horror movies, industry in-jokes, and the show's willingness to poke fun at itself. From Gilmore Girls references (complete with a close-up of Jared Padalecki) to jokes about filming in Vancouver, this episode established Supernatural's self-aware tone early in its 15-year run. Dean flirts with scream queen Tara Benchley, discovers a disgruntled screenwriter is using real summoning rituals, and delivers an iconic Die Hard reference—\"Come out to the coast, we'll have a few laughs\"—that earns a drink multiplier in the game.The drinking game rules included taking a drink for screams, \"son of a bitch\" utterances, ghost appearances, Dean eating or flirting, and death scenes. The real challenge? Keeping track of all those screams. Krissy counted four; Nate estimated ten. Both hosts agreed the ghost appearances and screams carried the game, though some rules only triggered once or twice. The episode's highlight remains its commentary on Hollywood's creative process—a bitter writer uses occult knowledge to make ghosts murder for him after executives ruin his script. As Sam points out, \"You find out there's an afterlife and th…","meta_description":"Hollywood Babylon: Ghosts, Meta Jokes, and Die Hard ReferencesWelcome to this episode of Gank That Drank: A Supernatural Drinking Game Podcast! Join hosts…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2005,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/gank-that-drank-a-supernatural-drinking-game-podcast-810303/episodes/hollywood-babylon/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gank-that-drank-a-supernatural-drinking-game-podcast-810303/hollywood-babylon.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}