Waxing the Porpoise

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve once again welcome Miles to the show, a man whose insights cut sharper than a surgeon's scalpel to help us pass the blood test and review the once reviled and now widely celebrated, John Carpenter's The Thing from 1982. Join us as we learn what four and a baby means by way of one of the many porpoise patron saints Young Jeezy, stand in awe of Rob Bottin...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve flashback to a mid-80's horror/sci-fi flick about the end of the world, where a handful of survivors must come to grips with LA becoming a ghost town/zombie wasteland overnight by way of a sinister meteor in Night of the Comet from 1984. Join us as we continue our bootackular part deux to discuss pumpkin variants, getting goofed in the corn maze, play a...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve return to horror in order to properly herald the coming of the Halloween season as we give a butcher's to the little known found footage delight called The Borderlands (aka Final Prayer in the US and Canada) from 2013 which has been called the UK's most disturbing found footage film ever, okurrr. Join us as we journey across the pond to brush up on foun...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve take on a brand new flick neither have seen before - a cinematic cocktail that pays homage to the neon-lit streets  of the 70s blaxploitation era to great effect, folded in with equal parts mystery, comedy, sci-fi and maybe a touch of horror in Juel Taylor's directorial debut, They Cloned Tyrone from 2023. Join us across 110th street as we discuss beige...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve welcome back special guest, Rob Zombie enthusiast and friend of the show, the Wintergreen Zebra himself, Hydraberg from A Cut Above: Horror Review to examine Ben Wheatley's hauntingly violent UK crime/thriller melange from 2011, Kill List. Join us as we discuss Trailer Swift, Hydra's deep lust for exposition - no kink shaming here, director Ben Wheatley...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve become ensnared in a tale within a tale as we examine the 2016 film Nocturnal Animals, a depressingly dark and haunting tapestry woven in fear, vengeance, and guilt by famed fashion designer masquerading as top notch filmmaker, Tom Ford. Join us as we kneel at the altar of Michael Shannon and Jake G's now routine s-tier performances, ask ourselves what...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve in commemoration of our historical episode number 69 - nice - welcome back 2 special guests and friends of the show:  Staring Jon, whose gaze could cut diamonds and Chris, whose flag raising and internet crawling voodoo knows no bounds - to settle the score and see where 1977's tale of vengeful oceanic fury Orca sits on the aquatic creature horror food...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve examine all manner of high elevation strangeness involving a murderers' row of different phenomena and paranormal happenings that have been said to be associated with and/or have occurred at Northern California's Mount Shasta. Join us as we wax mountainside on speculation station about some of the lore associated with Mount Shasta including but not limi...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve once again call upon the auspiciously enigmatic and cinematic maven Miles to help us parse through 1999's intriguingly abstruse techno-mystical game within a game within a reality within a matrix, David Cronenberg's eXistenZ. Grab your VR headsets and get ready for a direct upload of existential dilemmas, hog expansion and warped perceptions in what som...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve once again get nautical as we examine the wreckage of two ill-fated marine excursions - the recent OceanGate Titan submersible implosion and it's wildly speculative and conspiratorial connections to the RMS Titanic left in it's wake. Join us as we wax on water about some of the dubious distinctions and red flags held by OceanGate Expeditions and then br...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve go full Bananrama as we ride along the moonlit avenues of an 8-bit 80's synth nostalgia, diet horror mystery trip where curiosity dances with danger to break down RKSS' 2018 jug, Summer of 84. Join us as we got to install microwave ovens, chastise our lead Davey on his uninspired PB&J game, and take the Nestea Plunge into a time when walkie-talkies...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve drop anchor to review the classic film The Last Detail from 1973 about a couple of Navy chasers on a prisoner escort featuring a very young Randy Quaid and pre-Chinatown era Jack Nicholson.  Acting as our compass rose we welcome special guest Matt from the Swords in Stereo podcast - space vampire evangelist, modern day renaissance man and a former sailo...

Welcome back to Waxing the Porpoise - a place where secrets lie like forgotten whispers and porpoises bear witness to the most perplexing of tales. This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve turn their gaze back to the unsolved as we breakdown an ongoing story that has sent shockwaves through the heart of Boston, The Curious Case of Karen Read. This episode will focus on the untimely death of Jo...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve welcome back a man whose gaze could pierce through the thickest fog - Staring Jon, the enigmatic oracle of intrigue - to wrap up our Daniel Craig Bond era retrospective with the fifth and final entry in the series, a dark symphony of espionage and treachery, where secrets are currency and the twin dragons of love and loyalty clash with ruthless cunning,...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve once again welcome Bob from the Straight Chilling podcast this time to embark upon a twisted journey where death dances hand in hand with dark humor and porpoises dare not swim to breakdown the comedic desert noir banger from 1998, Clay Pigeons.  Join us as we draw a line in the sand to champion late 90's gems such as The Cable Guy and Romy & Michele's...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve welcome back returning champion and fellow "Martini Rancher" Chris from Channel 83 to hopefully break out of his slump with our review of Navy SEALs from 1990 starring Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, Joanne Whalley, Dennis Haysbert and last but not least, our man Bill "Hips" Paxton is on the menu.  Welcome to America where our main export in this geopolit...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve answer Cher's timeless question if I could turn back time and head to 1950's Los Angeles to rap about the star studded 1997 neo-noir banger, L.A. Confidential. Join us as we interrogate IMDb and their proprietary "without mercy" rating system, endure quite possibly the best bad review of all time, and ask the question have ye a valediction boyo?  Kevin...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve welcome back special guest Staring Jon, a man whose gaze could freeze an inferno and is rivaled only by The Penance Stare.  Together we'll unravel the web that is Spectre, the penultimate entry of Daniel Craig's Bond from 2015. Join us as we examine the convoluted plot that will leave you more than a little "banjaxed", christen the return of Monica Bell...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve are pleased to welcome Logan, Naterade and Thon from the Ghoulish University podcast to discuss what some believe to be one of the best action films of all time, Gareth Evans' The Raid 2 from 2014. Join us as we discuss this surprisingly layered film that is no doubt punctuated by some intensely choreographed action set pieces, add to Logan's well of ga...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve once again welcome back returning champion and fellow "unctuous philistine" Chris from Channel 83.  This time we find ourselves in Gotham to discuss Abel Ferrara's seminal vesicle, King of New York from 1990 starring Chris Walken, a scene-stealing performance by Laurence "Don't Call Me Larry" Fishburne, David Caruso and minor roles for Wesley Snipes, Gi...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve are pleased to welcome back once again very special guest and friend of the show, dad of the show, Steve's dad The Tomfather. Join us as we discuss the Tomfather's time as a secret service agent throughout the 1980's where he was tasked with the protection of Jesse Jackson during his one of his two presidential campaigns, the commander-in-chief himself...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve welcome back special guest Staring Jon, whose piercing gaze has been known to make grown men weep and porpoises wax themselves in fear. This unholy trifecta has united once again for our continuation of the Daniel Craig era Bond retrospective, this time examining the third entry Skyfall from 2012, a film that's akin to a finely crafted martini: it's sle...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve welcome a very special guest and friend of the show, dad of the show, AKA the Usual Suspect senior Steve's Dad, or simply Tom, for what is sure to be a two-parter. Join us as we discuss the Tomfather's time as a medic and firefighter before ultimately joining the police academy and then hitting the streets.  Along the way he'll share some fun and insane...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve take on the leg crossing, ice pick gouging, pre-baked alibi making, Single White Female having, Michael Douglas crime thriller vehicle and infamous Sharon Stone smacker, Basic Instinct from 1992. Join us as we take a dive almost as deep as Michael Douglas' V-neck, make a hail mary connection to Lethal Weapon 2, and meditate on the puritanical panic espo...

This week on a very special episode of Waxing the Porpoise: G-Baby, the Usual Suspect Steve and honorary 3rd host Chris from Channel 83 gather to look back at our first year in podcasting - 52 weeks up, 52 episodes down. Join us as we once again bust out the good tarp and shout out our listeners, friends of the show and other podcasts that have supported us, unanimously agree stuffed crust pizza i...