Podside Picnic

We get together to shoot the breeze and you get to listen in

We continue our journey into metal with Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) and make sure we take our daily iron shots.

This time around, we discuss the most normal film about a normal man we've ever discussed

This time, we sword-fight like Buddy Holly, in the 1998 post-apocalyptic action comedy, Six-String Samurai. Join us on the journey to Lost Vegas!

Ghost In the Pastel Preview by Pete and Connor

For this Sunday School edition of our Fall of Humanity series, returning champ and Worker's Lit host Jacob Dallas walks us through this whole thing called The Rapture

We return to Frank Miller, this time teaming up with David Mazzucchelli to deconstruct what it means to be Matt Murdock being Daredevil. Give us a red and tune in!

Baby Don Johnson and his goodest boy, Blood are in this wildly influential story and adaptation into film

Welcome to the next installment in the Fall of Humanity! This time, we hope you can at least dogpaddle in this Water. . . world

This time around, we talk about a grimy little number that combines prison exploitation films, The Most Dangerous Game, and a smidgen of carnival sideshow

We get back together to catch up. We vaguely (and not so vaguely) recommend some stuff, too!

We talk about the sci-fi musical Toomorrow (1970) in this Oddside Radio entry

Jacob and Aysha from Workers' Lit swing by to talk all things Sekiro - both the game, the upcoming anime.

The end of the road! We talk about the last three collections of Bone (Ghost Circles, Treasure Hunters, and Crown of Horns), collected into Book 3, titled Harvest, or Friends & Enemies. Hopefully, the Bone cousins will make it back to Boneville this time!

It's the future, and LAPD needs mega-serial killer Sid 6.7 for training purposes - at least until he slips containment and ends up thrill-killing irl :(

The Bone journey continues! We cover next three collections (The Dragonslayer, Rock Jaw: Master of the Eastern Border, and Old Man's Cave), now combined into "Book 2" (also named, Solstice, or Phoney Strikes Back)

This time we talk about Brian Trenchard-Smith's 1986 post-apocalypse nightmare, Dead End Drive-In.

We get together to talk about the history of Jeff Smith's process in publishing Bone as well as the first three collections (Out from Boneville, The Great Cow Race, Old Man's Cave), now combined into "Book 1"

Guests Sam Reader and Eden Kupermintz join us to talk about the operatic fever-dream that is Hiron Ennes's The Works of Vermin.

We get back together to . . . well, you know

We're joined by Este, of the Altmania podcast, to talk about Holmes & Yoyo. Ever hear about good cop, bad cop? How about not-so-great cop and awkward robot cop?

This time we discuss the Gothic-to-Cosmic Horror pipeline that is FromSoftware's Bloodborne. Writer and editor, John WM Thompson, as well as Worker's Lit podcast comrades, Lenore Olson and Aysha U. Farah join us in fearing the old blood.

This time, we talk about another example of Twohy excellence, The Arrival (1996). Charlie Sheen, our hero, uncovers a nefarious alien conspiracy to change Earth's climate

Twin Cities-area writers Naomi Kritzer, Lydah Morehouse, Marissa Lingen, and J.R. Dawson join us to talk about how the presence of ICE during Operation Metro Surge and beyond has affected them, and how their activism has informed their writing. Preorder Naomi Kritzer's novella, Obstetrix Check out J.R.'s book, The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World Marissa Lingen's novella, A Dubious Clamor is fo...

This time around, we discuss some genre bits and bobs from around the internet. First up, we talk about Mike Jittlov's The Wizard of Speed and Time, a stop-motion extravaganza. Then, we discuss Juliana Maité's horror short, Agon. From there, we also cover Antediluvian (Mario Lanzas), Mallet! (Aidan Hughes a.k.a. BRUTE!), and R'ha (Kaleb Lechowski) Enjoy!