BIRD PROTOCOL

Ayo! We’re back to FINALLY close out our year-in-review series after a brief battle with a stomach flu, some horrible weather, and food court Chinese food! This is the 2025 Lazy Bird Report! So kick back, crack a cold one, and join your favourite Bird Boys as we take a lazy look back on our personal experiences in 2025. From our wings (wins) to our cages (losses) to our eggs (hopes) for this comin...

What’s good, homies! It’s time for one last (official) look back on 2025 with the final instalment of the Bird Report! In this episode, we look back on some of the TV shows released in 2025 and share our favourites and honourable mentions. Much like with movies and music, it was a damn good year for television. Although we missed some shows due to living life and not having enough time, we have a...

Ayo! We’re back and continuing our quest to discuss our favourite releases of 2025! This week, we’re talking film… and what a BANGER year it was for movies! Join Otis and PALMREADER as they share their ten favourite movies from the past year (plus a whole bunch of honourable mentions). In this episode, we discuss some really great movies from 2025 including “No Other Choice”, “One Battle After Ano...

What's good, homies?! Another year has come and gone... and what a year it was for music, movies, video games, and TV! We're back with another year-end summary of all of our personal favourites from 2025. This week, we're covering music and video games (kind of)! So, kick back, relax, and enjoy the first installment of our yearly review. In this episode, we discuss some of our favourit...

What’s shakin’, homies?! It’s time for another episode of BIRD PROTOCOL. This week, we’re talking about the forefathers of modern pop-punk, Blink-182. You didn’t think we’d miss a chance at talking about one of the most seminal and important bands in our lives AND make a visual joke using the episode title, did you? Absolutely not. Are you crazy? Don’t you know us by now? Anyway, this episode is p...

What’s good, homies? It’s time for another episode of BIRD PROTOCOL, and this week, we’re taking you to go like hell at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. We’re hitting that sweet spot, 7,000 RPMS, where everything vanishes, and all that's left is a body moving through space and time. That’s right, we’re talking James Mangold’s 2019 biographical sports drama “Ford v Ferrari”, which tells the true story...

A nuclear ICBM is headed toward Chicago. Nobody can figure out who fired it. Nuclear war is on our doorstep. Is this insanity? No, sir. This is BIRD PROTOCOL. This week, we’re chatting about the recently released (and fantastic) apocalyptic political thriller film from none other than the talented and military-obsessed Kathryn Bigelow, “A House Of Dynamite”. This movie rips and is possibly the sca...

This week, we’re gonna need a young priest and an old priest as we delve into a Spooky Season certified classic, one of the most infamous and influential horror films of all time, and maybe the most culturally important possession movie… “The Exorcist”. This is one of our favourite movies from one of our favourite guys that is filled with technical skill, pure cinema, and stories of a cursed produ...

Ayo! It’s time for another Spooky Season offering from your favourite Bird Boys, and this week, well… we went to a haunted farm and got scared in real life! So, instead of talking about a specific movie, we decided to do another Spooky Bird episode on a variety of horror and horror-adjacent topics. First things first, though. We start this episode with a recap of our night of frights and friendshi...

What is good, homies! Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! We’re kicking off our annual Spooky Season selections with PALMREADER’s belated birthday pick from a very hit-or-miss filmmaker that, whether you like it or not, has been hugely influential to modern cinema. Plus, it’s one of the best alien invasion movies ever, still holds up with moments of pure terror, and somehow still lands the...

What's good, homies! We're back with another Lazy Bird to share some updates on our lives and thoughts on what we've been listening to, playing, and watching. It's been a busy end to our summer as PALMREADER celebrated his birthday and Otis went to work at Comic Con again. We discuss his time at the convention, the fallout of continental breakfasts, the recent flood of AI-generated...

What's good, homies! We're back with another fresh review episode on one of the best movies of the year, Zach Cregger's genre-bending masterwork of a horror film, "Weapons". This movie rules. If you haven't seen it yet, we highly recommend you do before listening to this episode. Although we try not to spoil too much, it is inevitable, and there is a lot to talk about and...

The world was a strange place five years ago. It still is, but that’s beside the point. Some say it might be too soon to immortalize the insanity that was living through the pandemic and all the wild stuff we, as a society, were doing and dealing with. Not Ari Aster, though. He said, watch me straight up show you absolutely batshit everything and everyone was by creating a satirical dark comedy Ne...

Yo! It’s time for another Lazy Bird episode, which means you’re in for some raw, unfiltered thoughts from your favourite Bird Boys. So, strap in because we’ve got some praises to sing and some nits to pick as we cover some of the things we’ve seen, listened to, and done together over the last couple of weeks.  To start things off, we recap a day of mini-golf with the homies and the pros and cons o...

What’s good, homies?! We’re back with an episode about one of the most influential and important independent films of all time, which also features a man dancing while torturing a cop. That’s right, it’s time to revisit the genius of Quentin Tarantino and discuss his first film, “Reservoir Dogs”. This movie kicked down the door for Tarantino’s cinematic vision and language to enter the cultural an...

Ayo! It’s time to go on a post-apocalyptic coming-of-age journey through a fever dream fairytale land filled with giant muscled freaks that love to hang dong, a traumatized bald orange man, a temple of bones, brain cancer, crazy cinematography, the mighty morphin’ power violence street team, artisan DIY spinal cord removals, and weird fat baby zombies… yeah, this movie was a trip! It’s the “28 Yea...

Ayo! We’re back with another episode of BIRD PROTOCOL and, this time, we get to talk about some things we love… grenade fights, flamethrowers, John Wick, and Ana de Armas beating ass. That’s right, we’re here to discuss the recently released John Wick spinoff "From the World of John Wick: Ballerina" (or just “Ballerina”) in all its explosive glory. We recently went and caught it in theat...

What’s good, homies? Fresh off a recent move and a short break, the boys are back to ruminate on things. The world is scary and stupid, which means it’s time for another gripe fest with a half-Bizarro Bird, half-Lazy Bird, all DOOM-lovin’ episode. Join us as we discuss all the insanity going on in the world, what we’re listening to and watching, and how much we love the DOOM franchise. In this epi...

We’re back with another semi-casual themed episode for y’all to enjoy while PALMREADER wades through the waters of an exciting move and Otis plays “DOOM: The Dark Ages”! This is the first of our ongoing series on some of our favourite auteur filmmakers and auteur theory in cinema. From big names to arthouse mainstays to lesser-known gems to a new class making their way in the world of cinema, we h...

What’s good, homies?! This week, we’re talking about a recent release and a filmmaker who hasn’t missed yet. It’s our review of Ryan Coogler’s recent genre-bending vampire flick “Sinners” starring Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, and Delroy Lindo! Plus, a conversation about Coogler’s career, filmography, and skills as a...

This week, we’re talking one of the absolute best films of the last twenty years and Otis’ birthday pick, Paul Thomas Anderson’s exploration of greed, family, religion, madness, and the rot at the soul of America, “There Will Be Blood”! Yes, it is time for the Bird Boys to repeatedly shout “I ABANDONED MY BOY! I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE! DRAINAGE! DRAINAAAGE!” while we talk earnestly about this near-p...

After a two week break, the Bird Boys are back on Easter to share some of our thoughts, opinions, and reviews with another Lazy Bird episode! Also, Happy 4/20 to all the big time stoners out there! As usual, we kick it for a chat about what’s been going on in our lives, what we’ve been watching/listening to, and whatever thoughts are rattling around in our heads. Tap in and enjoy the ride. We kick...

Ayo! It’s time for us to unveil another BIRD PROTOCOL playlist! This time, we took a trip down memory lane and curated a collection of indie rock rippers that range from the aughts to the present day. Indie rock is somewhat of an umbrella term and this playlist could have probably been double or triple in size but we narrowed it down to eighteen songs (many of which are from Canadian indie artists...

We’re back with part two of our Gene Hackman double feature with a movie that goes super hard and basically laid a new foundation for modern cinema… William Friedkin’s 1971 neo-noir action thriller “The French Connection” starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, and Fernando Rey! This critically acclaimed crime movie won a bunch of awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor (for Hack...

What’s good, homies? Welcome to another pod! This week, we’re kicking off a two-part series to honour the late Gene Hackman with a revisionist Western masterpiece and an honest-to-goodness ripper of a film, Clint Eastwood’s 1992 Best Picture winner “Unforgiven”! “Unforgiven” is a critically beloved and perfectly executed movie that delivers genuine characters, beautiful cinematography and iconic s...