You'll Only Listen Twice

Welcome to the final episode of “Joker’s Trick,” fellow listeners. On this very special season finale: Jake realizes he can teach his students the importance of music through the power of funk. Troy continues his backpacking journey around Europe not only to find his long lost son, but to find himself. Jan discovers the cure for cancer in the Amazon, only to forget it. Finally, good-ol Producer Pa...

We’re in the endgame, fellow listeners. Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ Producer Paul are diving headfirst into the newest Joker flick, Joker: Folie à Deux.  Unlike the first one, Todd Phillips’ latest cinematic prank is a critical and commercial bomb! 33% on Rotten Tomatoes! Ticket sales freefalling! And worst of all, an abject rejection from Joker fans everywhere. Nobody came here to see more Arth...

This week is a little different, fellow listeners. Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ Producer Paul are taking a look at the first unofficial Joker movie. A film so outrageous that a certain movie studio tried to have it erased from existence. A film that dares to redefine that Batman mythos as an absurdist queer coming-of-age film where Batman and Lorne Michaels are the most evil people on the planet....

Riddle me this, fellow listeners: why are Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ Producer Paul talking about 2022’s The Batman , even though it’s a Riddler movie? Well, I guess the “Saltburn” guy shows up as a herpes-afflicted Joker at the end, so this technically counts. And boy, do our heroes have a lot to say about this modern classic (according to zoomers). Unlike Christopher Nolan, who set The Dark Kn...

What do you get when you cross four mentally ill podcasters with a society that abandons them and treats them like trash? I’ll tell you what you get. You get a f-ing 2 hour episode about Todd Phillips' 2019 film, Joker . That’s right, fellow listeners. Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ Producer Paul are talking about the cinematic con job - I mean, the masterpiece - that won the hearts and minds of th...

Oh thank god, a good movie… but it’s for babies and man-children. NOT AGAIN! This week, fellow listeners, Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ Producer Paul are taking a look at the critically acclaimed follow-up/spin off of The Lego Movie , The Lego Batman Movie . The film deconstructs the Batman mythos brick by brick (kill me), re-introduces the Bat-Family, and, most-importantly, recontextualizes the r...

May the lord have mercy on our souls. Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ Producer Paul are entering the ninth circle of Joker movie hell to talk about some kind of Suicide Squad . That’s right, we’re taking about a certain damaged idea man Jonkler, played by that Academy Award winning menace, Jared Leto. Just how bad is Leto’s performance? It’s at least as bad as this movie. How bad is this movie? Well...

We’re about to have one bad day, fellow listeners. Seriously. This isn’t just a witty reference, this week’s movie is that bad.  Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ Producer Paul’ are taking a look at the (technically) theatrically released animated adaptation of Batman: The Killing Joke . You might ask: “How is it that bad?” It is based on one of the greatest graphic novels of all time. It features the...

Why so serious, fellow listeners? This week, Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ Producer Paul are discussing the greatest Joker in cinematic history. Cesar Romero had his mustache, Jack Nicholson danced to Prince, Mark Hamill became a kaiju, but Heath Ledger was the first one to hold up a mirror to the world and show us that we live… in a society. That’s right, we’re talking about, The Dark Knight . th...

Apathy. Greed. Corruption. Power. Hope. Joker? This week, fellow listeners, Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ Producer Paul are joined by special guest star, Landon McDonald, on a wild, twisted trip into the future, or rather beyond. That’s right, we’re breaking our one rule and looking the non-theatrical, direct-to-video Joker film, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker . Mark Hamill is back as everyone...

Your angel of death awaits, fellow listeners. This week Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ Producer Paul are talking about the spawn of “Batman The Animated Series” loins, “Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.” This animated film for babies might be one of the greatest character studies of the titular hero, but we’re not here for that. We’re here for the big Jonkster, played by Luke Skywalker himself, who’s t...

You ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? That’s right fellow listeners, Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ Producer Paul are talking about  Jack Nicholson’s iconic performance as our favorite A-1 nut boy, the Joker in the highly influential Batman (1989). Ah the 80s, the days when a young comics nerd named Michael E. Uslan could gain the film rights to Batman. When Tim Burton was still a v...

The boys are back in town, my fellow listeners. This time, Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ Producer Paul  are taking a look at everyone’s favorite film series, Joker! Move over Batman, Mr. J is the true star of the show. This is a society, after all. In this first episode, our heroes take a look at the origins of the Clown Prince of Crime as well as his cinematic debut, 1966’s Batman: The Movie , wh...

We’ve reached the end of the line, fellow listeners. On this special season finale of You’ll Only Listen Twice, ”Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ producer Paul say goodbye to the James Bond series by speculating on the franchise’s future. Will the next movie be serious or stupid? Who will be the next Bond actor? Aaron Taylor-Johnson? Danny DeVito? Who will direct it? Danny DeVito? Should the series c...

Here it is fellow listeners, Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ producer Paul reveal their top 10 favorite James Bond films. This list is objective. Anything different is wrong. Sorry snowflakes! But wait, there’s more! Our heroes also list their favorite Bond gadgets, theme songs, and last, but not least, their favorite Bond actors! I think it will thrill you. It may shock you. It might even horrify y...

This week, fellow listeners, we’re doing something a little different. We know Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ producer Paul should have moved on from James Bond by now, but they aren’t done yet. Get ready to rage in the comment section as the boys reveal their rankings of every 007 film. But it cant’t be that easy, can it? They also have their thoughts on the Best Bond Villains and the Best Bond Wo...

Let me tell you a story about a podcast called Twice, You’ll Only Listen Twice. Finally, after 28 episodes, numerous delays, a trip to the psych ward, and thousands of dollars in therapy bills, Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ producer Paul are here to talk about Daniel Craig’s final James Bond movie, and possibly the last Bond movie that will ever be made, No Time To Die . A film plagued with numero...

The dead are alive (whatever the f*** that means). This week, Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ producer Paul are taking a look at Sam Mendes’ follow up to the widely successful Skyfall , 2015’s less successful Spectre . Is it the best James Bond film, or the worst? You are kites dancing in a hurricane, fellow listeners because there is some disagreement amongst our hosts over the quality of the film,...

This is it, fellow listeners. The big one. Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ producer Paul are talking about the critically acclaimed and most financially successful Bond film, Skyfall . Daniel Craig returns in yet his third consecutive Bond origin film, but this time he’s… old? Grab yourself a Heineken and listen to our heroes decipher what exactly made this movie so successful. Was it Sam Mendes’ di...

A door left open? A woman walking by? A drop in the water? A look in the eye? A phone on the table? A man on your side? Someone that you think that you can trust is just another… meh Bond movie. That’s right fellow listeners, Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ producer Paul are joined again by Doggify to talk about Darko Belgrade- I mean Daniel Craig’s underwhelming follow up to Casino Royale, Quantum...

Fellow listeners, the timeline has been reset to 0, and our hosts Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ producer Paul are taking a look at the first proper reboot of the official James Bond series, Casino Royale .  Pierce Brosnan is out, and some blonde guy named Daniel Craig is in yet another adaption of Ian Fleming’s first novel. However, after two embarrassing strikes, they’ve finally cracked the code...

Jake, Troy, Jan, and good ol’ producer Paul, along with Jake’s CGI brother, Andrew, are gonna break the cycle. They’re gonna shake up the system. They’re gonna destroy their ego. They’re gonna close their bodies now. Uh! Uh! That’s right, fellow listeners, this week’s review is Pierce Brosnan’s final and most divisive Bond film, Die Another Day ! Is this movie really the worst Bond film ever made?...

Just when you thought Christmas only comes once a year, Jake, Troy, Jan, and  good ol’ producer Paul are joined by Jan’s dead wife, Melissa, to talk about Pierce Brosnan’s third Bond outing, The World is Not Enough . Is it foolish sentiment? A family motto? Or just an alright movie from the director of The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader ? Strap into your comfy jacket cocoon, fell...

Yesterday is a memory. Today is history. Tomorrow belongs to one man. BUT, riddle me this fellow listeners, what is today but yesterday’s tomorrow?  Well today, Jake, Troy, Jan, and  good ol’ producer Paul are talking about tomorrow, Tomorrow Never Dies that is…TODAY! That’s right, Pierce Brosnan’s criminally underrated (also prophetic) sophomore 007 film featuring Jonathan Pryce as one of the ser...

It’s a new world, with new enemies and new threats, but you can still depend on one… PODCAST . Were you expecting something else? That’s right, fellow listeners, Jake, Troy, Jan and good ol’ producer Paul are talking about Pierce Brosnan’s triumphant debut as James Bond in 1995’s GoldenEye.   Is the film more than just the inspiration for that Nintendo game where you can shoot your friend in the d...