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It's the IKVS Halloween Special! featuring spoiler free Joker 2, Terrifier 3, and Daredevil talk (yeah, the tv show that came out 10 years ago) Also: the boys get into their favorite spooky season music, a tortured football analogy, the worst movie of 2024 (which surprisingly isn't Joker 2), who will be the next generation's festival headliners, the inherent shame of anime and the glorious resurre...

Ben and Max are back in this week as the boys catch up on how they spent their summer vacations with talks on the erosion of album sales, the irrelevance of music videos and of course - seeing Green Day play through BOTH Dookie AND American Idiot in their entireties on the Saviors Tour. Also, Linkin Park has a new singer (15:02) - but should they? Who won the SUMBO24 (24:07) and what are they goin...

Ryan and his guest co-host Joel tackle all things Alien - including Prometheus, Covenant, Romulus and where each film in this confusing timeline falls in the franchise power rankings. Skip to (18:01) to avoid any Romulus spoilers Then Ryan & Joel get into the colossal failure of Borderlands and the age old question of whether or not there are ANY good video game adaptations, Ryan recaps his re...

Straight outta Churubusco, Ryan's longtime friend Alex joins the show as they each share their Top 5 Concerts of All Time (04:48), Comic Book Movies Mount Rushmore (23:04), reviews for Deadpool & Wolverine (26:32), Ranking the entire X-Men Cinematic Universe (35:03) and offer up thoughts on Robert Downey Jr. as Dr. Doom in the new Fantastic Four (39:41)

I'm really disappointed in myself for not coming up with a clever "The Boys are Back in Town!" or "bearvsboysvsshark" episode title but whatever - this week we dive into The Boys Season 4 finale, The Bear Season 3 (14:14); and new music from Action Bronson, Zach Bryan (29:53), and Eminem (32:59). We conclude our service by visiting the Content Confessional Booth (34:46) whe...

Max and Ryan read some listener poll results and give mini reviews for the new Black Keys and Young Jesus albums while waiting on Ben to finish being harassed with work calls in his off-hours. Then in a seemingly begrudging attempt to lighten the mood, it’s time for our 2nd Annual installment of The Posi Purge (09:28) - centered almost exclusively around discussions on food. Then it's JEFF FRE...

Ryan finally started watching The Boys (but bailed on The Americans), Eminem is killing off his Slim Shady alter ego after dropping the most streamed single of the year (05:53), Max names his Top 5 Pixar Movies (09:58) and a video game discussion breaks out (24:48) around the highly anticipated Elden Ring DLC, the largely mocked MultiVersus game from Warner Brothers, and the game that (allegedly)...

We're celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Detroit Rock City with James DeBello (11:45) as he shares with us some behind the scenes stories about the making of the film like being horrified of Gene Simmons, ghosted by Shaq and star stuck by meeting (and eventually befriending) John Connor. Also playing Zelda with Natasha Lyonne, blowing through your per diem on antiquated home furnishings and q...

We cycle through a vast array of questions this week like who is the Batman of dogs? Which is the best Planet of the Apes? Who are your dream buddy cops? Who's got Big Tim Duncan Energy? And what's the 2004 Album of the Year? All of this PLUS reviews for Furiosa and The Fall Guy followed by 2 new games we'll likely never play again: Sortin Out the Gilroys and Ticket Dungeon Master.

Ryan kicks off the show in hyperbolic fashion by declaring who the last movie star is and who made the last great, classic rock album. Then Max drops in from finals week to bring us back to more tempered conversations around safe topics like the Drake and Kendrick beef, Seinfeld claiming that we're too woke for sitcoms, the roast of Tom Brady, Taylor Swift, Lebron James, our favorite long albu...

Is Amazon's Fallout series more Twisted Metal or The Last Of Us? (1:08) Does anyone care about the J Cole, Drake and Kendrick beef? (05:54) Was Civil War any good? (07:05) We answer all of your burning questions followed by the 2024 Summer Movie Box Office Draft (08:05) where the boys try to decide who's most likely to rake in the most cash this summer between Minions, Deadpool, Kevin Cost...

Ben & Ryan break down whether or not we're allowed to enjoy Kanye West or Wrestlemania, how excited we should be for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice given Tim Burton's track record, the results of our Best HBO Shows of All Time March Madness Bracket (09:03), and of course more Green Day talk with a side of Polka Dot Man and Fyre Fest II. Then, multi instrumentalist and composer Richard Reed Pa...

Ryan and Machine Ben Kelly debut a Road House inspired edition of AI Tonight and (05:17) Michael Tedder, author of Top Eight: How Myspace Changed Music , joins the show to discuss the cultural impact and rapid demise of what was the early internet's largest social media platform.

It's a jam packed show this week as Max and Ryan preview this year's March Madness Tournament of the Best HBO Shows of All Time (07:55), recap True Detective: Night Country (19:17) and discuss Dune: Part Two (30:34). Then Kory Gregory of Prince Daddy and the Hyena returns to the show (50:00) to talk about his upcoming solo debut LP " True Crime " as well as his aspirations for hi...

We're kicking off Season 4 by diving into the drama around Elmo vs Larry David, Taylor Swift vs Beyonce, and an AI animated Mannequin Pussy music video vs emo art school Twitter. Plus there's True Detective: Night Country (03:15) , The Curse (07:11), the most streamed shows of 2023 (12:00), our most highly anticipated releases of 2024 (16:08) and discussions on the new albums from Green Da...

The final entry in our 2023 Year in Tiers recap series has us shuffling through 90 some odd movies including (but not limited to): Barbie, Beau is Afraid, Five Nights at Freddy's, Indiana Jones, John Wick, M3GAN, Napoleon, Oppenheimer, Rebel Moon, Saltburn, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Super Mario Bros) as we decide which movies should be labeled as Gas Station Toilets, Sega Dreamca...

Max has finally persuaded Ryan to embrace our current golden age of television by diving into The Best & Worst TV Shows of 2023 as part of our tiered annual recap series - The Year in Tiers. Follow along as the boys parse through 35 seasons of television (!?) as well as a handful of shows we didn't bother finishing, the importance of reruns, manic pixie dream boys, the impact Jay-Z has had...

Come all ye cart narcs, digital hoarders, and grandmothers of America. Feast upon our bountiful harvest of holiday content as we parse through our choices for the best and worst in Christmas songs, Christmas gifts, and Grand Theft Auto games in our 3rd Annual HondaDay Extravaganza. It’s all capped off with this year’s particularly (though, maybe not surprisingly) contentious (28:11) Airing of Grie...

It's time for our annual tiered recap of the best and worst albums of the year. The gang also takes time to dive into white trash Lil Nas X, the longest songs you'll allow yourself to like, Chris Stapleton's Rotten Tomatoes score, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, and whether or not you can hear any song a million times and not grow to hate it (which naturally turns into a discussion on...

We've got 2 of our favorite artists of the year in for an interview double header - first up is Giuliana Mormile of Kicksie to talk about her new record Slouch , the trauma of playing your first show, the supply and demand issues that accompany finding a drummer, and the culture shock of a native Canadian visiting their first American gas station. Then Kevin Patrick Sullivan (aka Field Medic)...

Our 3rd annual Halloween special finds the boys summarily dismissing the entire year's worth of horror movies to focus on the Blink-182 reunion (03:15) and which dormant acts we would bring back from the dead to make new music, re-animate for the sole purpose of reunion/anniversary shows, or leave rotting in indefinite hiatus (11:53). They also cover the new Mike Flanagan Netflix series The Fa...

Max went to Riot Fest, NSYNC reunited for a Trolls sequel, the writer's strike has come to an end, LiveNation has eliminated merch cuts in their venues, and most importantly - Tom DeLonge made an alien invasion movie. The boys also dive into new music from Baroness, Code Orange, and Oneohtrix Point Never (20:00) as well as that other new exorcist movie with Russell Crowe (30:13) Then, author N...

After 2 years of sitting in the queue, we finally watched Patriot. The first season anyways. If you haven't, skip to (18:06) for the rest of the show covering everything from our picks for the Best Show of 2023 to venues taking merch cuts to Oliver Anthony to the #ExorSwift. We also dive into the new Ninja Turtles movie and whether or not Horse the Band may have been a secret influence (22:16)...

The results of our Summer Movie Box Office Draft (or SUMBO23) are in. We break down who the biggest winners and losers of the summer were, the current Hollywood labor crisis fueled by the lack of transparency in streaming performance numbers and $5 DVD dumpsters. We also review new music from Fiddlehead (24:11) , Genesis Owusu (28:08) , Spanish Love Songs (32:09) and Chris Farren (36:05) followed...

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