The Goatcheese Podcast

After 3 seasons and 34 episodes, my best friends Chanel and Eden join me on the final episode of The Goatcheese Podcast to talk all about us getting older. We talk about where we currently are in life, ideal jobs we’d love to have, the current state of affairs in the U.S., goals we now have as 40 year olds, and gripe about our bodies no longer being as spry as they used to be. We also get real abo...

One of my best friends, Steven, joins me this week to talk about why we love movies. We talk about our early movie watching experiences at both the movie theater and at home and how different those experiences were in the early ‘90s, Disney’s insistence of scarring children with the death of parental figures in their movies, and movies so bad that they’re good. We also delve into remakes and seque...

On this week's episode, my friend William and I talk all about action movies. We discuss the rules of action films, delve into specific sub genres such as action comedies and action horror, and compare the movies of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. We also talk about the intricacies of movies like The Raid, John Wick and The Terminator franchise, dig into action movies and action star...

On this week's episode, my really good friend and producing partner, Relisa, joins me to talk all about filmmaking. We discuss our beginnings and how we met, when we first decided we wanted to make movies, and things we like and dislike about the filmmaking process. We also talk about our individual creative processes including where we draw our inspiration and ideas from, and we share some on-set...

This week, my cousin-in-law Chris joins me to talk all about Batman. We discuss the different iterations of Batman media including the animated TV series, the Gotham TV show, and the Burton, Schumacher, and Nolan movies. We also rank our favorite Batman movies, list off our favorite villains from the Rogue’s Gallery (not surprisingly, the Joker makes both of our lists), and we talk about our favor...

On this week's episode, I discuss urban legends with my cousin-in-law, Eddie. We talk about how we both got introduced to urban legends at an early age and share a few stories told to us by family, friends, and classmates. We delve into the importance of storytelling and how certain stories get passed down from generation to generation, especially as cautionary tales. We also dig deep into som...

On this week's episode, my cousin Marco and I talk in depth about music in movies. We delve into the importance of how music (composed and/or licensed) plays an essential role during a movie as well as HOW it’s used using Halloween, Interstellar and Dune as specific examples, we compare the use of music in Sinners and Elvis in terms of period piece movies, we share our favorite movie composers (an...

On this week's episode, my friend Anastasia and I talk all about comfort movies and TV shows. We define what comfort movies/shows mean to us specifically and talk about the shift where the kid movies we grew up watching as entertainment turned into something much more. We also discuss how the familiarity of certain media helps provide the much needed “escape” that we all need, we offer examples of...

This week, my cousin Tati and I decide to “poke the bear” and share some of our unpopular opinions. We offer our viewpoints on cancel culture, social media and influencers, and reality TV. We also discuss celebrities that we DO NOT find attractive (sorry Bad Bunny and Sydney Sweeney, you both made the list), the last best decade for music, our society’s over reliance on phones, whether alcohol con...

This week, my fiancée Jen and I talk all about the movies of 1994. We discuss how different the movie theater experience was back then compared to now, as well as our reliance of using Moviefone and newspaper listings for movie times. We delve into some great movies, some not so good movies and those “so bad they’re good” movies (as well as some that just didn’t hold up well) - among the movies we...

This week, my best friend Joseph and I talk all about our favorite zombie movies. We go into our introductions to the zombie genre, define what specifically makes a movie a ZOMBIE movie, highlight examples of zombie media outside the movie spectrum, we compare fast moving zombies to slow ones, discuss what it is about zombie movies that we like so much, and we end things by listing off our top ten...

On this week's jam-packed super sized episode, my godson Isaiah and I talk all about the Scream film series. As we go through all six films, one by one, we reminisce about our first time watching the original, as well as discuss each film’s opening sequence and how effect they are. We also how relatable certain characters are and which ones are our favorites, which character deaths hit us the hard...

This week, I talk with a really good friend of mine, musician Johnny Ono, about why we love music. We reminisce about the start of our friendship back in middle school and how we reconnected last year, our individual introduction to music as little kids, and then how we both got into listening to and appreciating music as preteens. We also discuss my music playlist making routine, our first concer...

This week, my sister Elbi-Lorena and I talk about female representation in entertainment. We discuss The Substance and its take on how women in Hollywood are perceived, as well as society’s expectations for women and how social media plays a (negative) role. We also talk about the double standard that exists between male and female celebrities, current beauty trends compared to those from the ‘90s...

On the Season 3 premiere, my cousin Amy and I talk about growing up in the '90s. We reminisce about growing up in our respective neighborhoods (and its correlation to our musical tastes), the lost art of recording on a VCR, the death of Selena, how I self censored music to play in the car with my mom, watching Dumb and Dumber together, the “goofy/goffy” spelling debate we once had, the time Amy go...

Spoilers abound on this bonus episode where I discuss the movies of 2024 with my girlfriend, Jen, along with one of my best friends, Eden. We rank our top ten favorite movies of the year along with our bottom five worst movies, and we also delve into a bunch of others that didn’t make either list; included in our discussion: A Complete Unknown, Joker 2, The Substance, Love Lies Bleeding, Sing Sing...

This week, on the season two finale, I've got two guests who I'm super excited about having on here - my mom and my stepdad, and they're here to share some real life scary stories. We first discuss some of the creepy folklore stories they used to hear in El Salvador, specifically about La Siguanaba and El Cipitio, before my mom recounts a spooky story of when she was younger over there. They both...

This week, we're taking a trip down memory lane as two of my best friends, Chanel and Eden, return to talk with me all about the year 1999. We go into some of the TV shows we were watching back then including Family Guy, The West Wing and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We reminisce about the albums and songs we were listening to that year as well as delve into the topics of pop music, our guilty pleasu...

On this week's episode, I've got one of my best friends, Steven, and my cousin-in-law, Chris here to talk with me all about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We recall some of our childhood memories and reminisce about all the toys we had as well as some other Ninja Turtle memorabilia. We also look back at the movies from the 90’s, detailing our collective love over the original and why it...

This week, I’ve got my good friend William joining me to talk all about comedy movies. We reminisce about some of our earliest memories of watching comedy movies and talk about the kind of comedy we both enjoy and what exactly makes us laugh. We define and discuss different sub genres while name dropping a whole list of notable films (including well known classics like Dumb and Dumber, Airplane!,...

This week, in anticipation for the new Ghostbusters movie, Frozen Empire, coming out - my girlfriend Jen and I talk all things Ghostbusters. We go through and recap the original 1984 movie, the 1989 sequel, and 2021's Afterlife and talk about some of our favorite moments from each film, we explore the animated series, The Real Ghostbusters for a bit where I reminisce about my favorite episodes...

My brother from another mother, Jon, is back this week to talk with me about all things horror. We delve into our individual introductions into the genre, we talk about our favorite scary stories (some stemming from those creepy Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories books), we talk about our favorite moments from our favorite horror films, we briefly discuss some horror television series as well as t...

This week, I have my two younger sisters, Elbi and Natalie, back to talk about the TV shows we grew up watching. Theme songs are sung, we discuss why TV watching was much better in the pre-streaming age, we name check a whole bunch of shows from the 90's and early 2000's with some I've never even heard of, I learn about my sisters auditioning to be on the Disney Channel and how it turned out to be...

On this week's episode, my godson Isaiah joins me to talk about our two favorite horror icons: Jason Voorhees (mine) and Michael Myers (his). We talk about our introductions to both characters and their respective film series, delve into their back stories a bit (including unraveling the multiple Michael Myers time lines), what makes them both so intriguing, and discuss some of our favorite moment...

We kick off the second season of The Goatcheese Podcast with a SUPERSIZED episode where I, along with my cousins Candice and Amy, discuss and rate all nine movies in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. We recall our first time watching the original and how much the film series reminds us of our childhood, I surprise my cousins with my take on Part 2 now that I’m older, we point out how much C...