Podside Picnic

Karlo, Kurt and Connor discuss their re-read of The Fellowship of the Ring. They concentrate on many of the characters and parts of the story that weren't adapted into the films (hint: it's Bombadillo time!)

Pete and Karlo are joined by Aaron and Carlee of The Hit Factory Podcast to talk about Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring. We discuss the staying power of the film, but stay tuned for which other directors would be the best (or worst) for these films!

Podside interrupts our previously programmed Lord of the Rings Month to wrap up Seth Dickinson's decidedly NOT Tolkienesque, The Traitor Baru Cormorant.

Kurt and Chris from Parents Just Don't Understand Podcast return to talk about the parts of The Hobbit that didn't make it into the Rankin Bass animated film. Enjoy going there and back again with us!

What's it gots in its pocketses? Pete and Karlo are joined by Kurt and Chris of Parents Just Don't Understand Podcast to try to answer this very question. We risk it all and go down, down, to Goblin Town to get to the bottom of this mystery!

Karlo's joined by M.K. Anderson to talk about the 2014 film Ex Machina. We discuss Turing Tests, the ethics of creating possibly sentient robots, and why casting charismatic and sexy Oscar Isaac as the Bad Guy almost doesn't work.

Podside's first book club! Listen in to our Discord community's discussions of Seth Dickinson's 2015 novel, The Traitor Baru Cormorant (Chapters 21 - 25).

Pete and Karlo are joined by none other than Connor to chat about season 2 of Netflix's anthology show, Love Death + Robots. Go watch it -- it's pretty good!

Pete and Karlo are joined by Trev and Ted from We Need to Talk About Kevin Podcast for John Carpenter's Christine (1983). If you ever fall into unrequited love with a car that was made evil, we have all sorts of advice for you.

It's time for a little anti-Italian discrimination as Rite Gud's own Sid Oozeley and I answer the age-old question: can a sad antifa pig-man fly? Check out Rite Gud: Patreon.com/RiteGud

Podside's first book club! Listen in to our Discord community's discussions of Seth Dickinson's 2015 novel, The Traitor Baru Cormorant. Podside Book Club will take a brief hiatus and return in September to discuss Walter John Williams' Metropolitan. Join us then!

Pete and Karlo are joined by Emma Berquist to talk about the 2020 horror film, The Empty Man. Listen as we talk about tulpas, the self-help tips of the Pontifex Institute and Emma's dog offers her own (grumbling and adorable) opinions.

Pete and Karlo are joined by Kurt Schiller and Chris Woodward of Parents Just Don't Understand Podcast to talk about Excalibur (1981). We discuss how this film feels like a new adaptation of the source material, which may be a dream to some. . . a nightmare to others!

A new month, a brand new beer run where Pete and Karlo talk about Brood X as a potential buffet for dogs of all sizes, the merits of small beer in the medieval ages and how we'll be covering The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in July, nbd

Pete and Karlo are joined by the most dangerous woman in speculative fiction, Raquel S. Benedict to talk about RoboCop. Spoiler alert: we all love this movie, so it's with a heavy heart we must say ACAB includes RoboCop.

Pete, Karlo and Rite Gud's own Sid Oozeley (@MagusDeluxe) talk Castle in the Sky. Listen in to find out why Miyazaki loves flying in his films, and at least one other less-than-pleasant insight.

Sad Puppies! Rabid Puppies! Join Pete and Karlo for the recent history of the Hugo Awards, and what's going on today.

Did you know Pete has a Doctorate in Barbara Hambly Studies? Well, he does, and he brings all his knowledge to bear in this discussion of the author's 1985 novel, Dragonsbane. Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/Dragonsbane-Winterlands-Book-Barbara-Hambly-ebook/dp/B004TC149G/ref=sr_1_1?

Podside's first book club! Listen in to our Discord community's discussions of Seth Dickinson's 2015 novel, The Traitor Baru Cormorant. Join us for our next discussions: Chapters 21-25 for discussion/recording 5/22/21 Chapters 26-30 (+ epilogues) for discussion/recording 6/8/21 We'll be starting discussions on the listed dates at 9 PM EST so read along and join us next time! Get the book: https://...

Pete and Karlo are joined by Paul Walker-Emig of Utopian Horizons podcast to talk about 1987's The Running Man. Learn the differences between the book (one of the Bachman Books). Welcome to the 80s, baby and most important -- get ready to run! Back Paul's new book, Object Oriented: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/objectoriented/object-oriented Check out Utopian Horizons: https://www.patreon.c...

Pete and Karlo are joined by Tiffany Meuret (@TMeuretBooks) to discuss the 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko. Is Donnie a superhero? Why doesn't he fire his therapist? Listen in and find out!

Pete and Karlo are joined by Kurt Schiller and Chris Woodward of Parents Just Don't Understand podcast to talk about the Hugo Award-winning novella, The Little Goddess by Ian McDonald. Spoiler alert: we all loved it despite some of its flaws and had a fruitful discussion about some of its themes, its prose and of course how best to cancel poor Ian today (not really).

We sat down with Michael Lichand of @fmanalists and @that2ep fame to discuss a Sci-Fi classic by Montiero Lobato, a celebrated children's author in Brazil. It's....its safe to say that it did NOT go as expected, but it was a lively and interesting discussion.

Pete and Karlo are joined by Kurt Schiller and Chris Woodward of Parents Just Don't Understand podcast to make the techno noises for the Paul W. S. Anderson's 1995 crapterpiece, Mortal Kombat. Find out who the secret characters are, how this movie is both good and bad, and why Kano's special attack is chewing scenery with his mouth open.

In this preview Struggle Session's anime correspondents, Emma Bowers and Abby Denton return to talk about Satoshi Kon's show, Paranoia Agent. Watch out -- Lil Slugger might get you, too . . .