Sinopsis
We're like 'the McLaughlin Group' for Nerds!
Episodios
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Podcasta la Vista, Baby! Episode 9 – Escape Plan
15/10/2017 Duración: 01h04minBreaking out is an inside job. After nearly forty years of waiting, it’s finally happened. It’s time to inject ourselves with tracking devices and ready our homemade sextants. This month, we sit down with our good friend Todd Maxfield-Matsumoto to … Continue reading →
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Hex & Violence Episode 3 – Shades of Gray
01/10/2017 Duración: 51min“Ah can’t do it anymore, Jeb! Ah can’t go on killin’ yankees when they’s fightin’ tuh give th’ black folks their freedom, an’ we’s fightin’ to preserve a world whut’s prob’ly better off dead an’ done with!” In our third … Continue reading →
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Fun Size Episode 21 – The Nadir of Peak TV
22/09/2017 Duración: 41minWherein Mike and Casey discuss the weird evolution of HBO’s Game of Thrones from an almost obsessively grounded fantasy show to a fist-pumping, crowd-pleasing action fantasy. We react to what we’ve seen, read and heard of the upcoming Star Trek … Continue reading →
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Fun Size Episode 20 – You Don’t Deserve My Hat, Shia LaBeouf!
30/08/2017 Duración: 01h15minWe sit down to continue our chat with Joe Preti and Bryon DiGianfilippo, and are joined by View from the Gutters‘ Tobiah Panshin to talk about Keanu Reeves’ Constantine movie and debate what makes a good adaptation. We also dig … Continue reading →
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Episode 30 – Keanu Reeves
23/08/2017 Duración: 01h37min“Whoa.” Pop quiz, hot shot! Mike and Casey pile into the time-traveling phone booth for a chat about one of Hollywood’s biggest stars with Bryon DiGianfilippo and Joe Preti from the View from the Gutters podcast, and if we go … Continue reading →
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Black Ops Episode 5 – What is the Zombie Version of Deep Space Nine?
08/07/2017 Duración: 59minIn an episode, we continue to shake our canes at Hollywood blockbusters, spin offs, crossovers and shared universes, as Mike explains his rocky relationship with Fear the Walking Dead. What motivates the creation of a spin-off? Are they doomed to … Continue reading →
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Fun Size Episode 19 – This Human Centipede of Cinematic Nonsense
25/06/2017 Duración: 01h07minWe’re back in the studio for a continued conversations with our friend Kit DeForge, to dig into why Dwayne Johnson may be the most likeable human being in the world. And then we tempt fate by taking a critical look … Continue reading →
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Podcasta la Vista, Baby! Episode 8 – End of Days
20/06/2017 Duración: 56minWhen the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison. Stock up on holy water and grow out your sadness beards, because this month we’re joining Kit DeForge to dissect Arnold’s turn-of-the-millennium supernatural thriller, End of … Continue reading →
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Fun Size Episode 18 – A Nesting Doll of Weird
28/05/2017 Duración: 01h16minWe continue our talk with Greg Hatcher and dive into the world of comic books and beyond! We reminisce about Marvel’s 1970s misfit superhero team, the Defenders, and an absolutely batshit tale from writer Steve Gerber that includes stolen brains, … Continue reading →
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Podcasta la Vista, Baby! Episode 7 – Conan the Barbarian
21/05/2017 Duración: 01h10min“Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.” Crom, we have never prayed to you before. We have no tongue for it. Podcasts please you, Crom…so grant us one request: grant us a discussion … Continue reading →
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Fun Size Episode 17 – Unforgiven Meets Little Miss Sunshine
26/03/2017 Duración: 52minWe continue our chat with Joe Preti, and give our spoiler-iffic review of Hugh Jackman’s final turn as the mutant superhero Wolverine in Logan. Have we hit peak superhero at the box office? Can a comic book adaptation transcend being … Continue reading →
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Podcasta la Vista, Baby! Episode 6 – Batman & Robin
20/03/2017 Duración: 53minAllow me to break the ice. My name is Freeze. Learn it well, for it is the chilling sound of your doom! We slide into our sculpted rubber bat-suits with Joe Preti of the View from the Gutters comic book … Continue reading →
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Fun Size Episode 16 – The Billy Martin Experience
27/02/2017 Duración: 45minWe continue our chat with Kit DeForge and Joe Preti, and veer into stories about strange liberties taken during menial high school jobs — and the potential spy thriller plots that can result from them. We talk about the comics … Continue reading →
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Episode 29 – Vertigo Comics
22/02/2017 Duración: 01h50min“Magic’s just when you trick the universe into believing some incredibly outrageous lie.” Mike and Casey hop into Chas’ cab for a journey to the realm of Dreams, because it’s time to go on a road trip across America. Our … Continue reading →
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Black Ops Episode 4 – Death is Kinda Stupid
02/02/2017 Duración: 48minIn a bonus “Black Ops” episode, we sit down with Sean Duncan and Sam Mulvey to dig into the concept of immortality. From Doctor Who to Highlander, we look at the trope of the ageless person who mourns their own … Continue reading →
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Fun Size Episode 15 – The Internet Needs to Have Its Mind Blown a Little Less Easily
27/01/2017 Duración: 53minMike and Casey continue their conversation with our friend Sean Duncan, and dig into the weird worlds of author pseudonyms and young adult fiction — and the frenzied moralistic panics the latter can provoke. And in the process, we unpack … Continue reading →
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Podcasta la Vista, Baby! Episode 5 – The Last Stand
19/01/2017“Not in his town. Not on his watch.” We’re back, folks. And so is our favorite Austrian ass-kicker. We join our young friend Sean Duncan to dig into Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first starring role in ten years, 2013’s The Last Stand. … Continue reading →
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Fun Size Episode 14 – Who Doesn’t Want to See Dwayne Johnson Punch a Hippo?
22/11/2016 Duración: 34minIn a wide-ranging conversation, Mike and Casey talk about whether Jabba the Hutt’s little monkey-rat creature, Salacious Crumb, is a person or a pet, and dig into the sort of bullshit rumors and urban legends that we both fell for … Continue reading →
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Hex & Violence Episode 2 – Swamp Folk
16/11/2016 Duración: 51min“I’m gonna show ya one last trick I picked up offa Cheyenne ‘afore I let you die in the kind of pain no white man has ever known.” In our second episode, Mike and Casey follow professional badass Jonah Hex … Continue reading →
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Fun Size Episode 13 – A Digital Effects Orgasma-Ganza
22/10/2016 Duración: 43minThe bad news is that due to a technical snafu, we won’t be able to share a new full episode with you this month. The good news is that we were joined in the studio by Sam Mulvey for a … Continue reading →