The Simpatico Podcast

Babylon 5: It's the Star Trek of our generation! For this episode your co-hosts DAVID TAVOLIER and JOSHUA WITSAMAN are joined by returning guest and TRIO SIMPATICO legal counsel BRIAN ASHTON! As promised, the topic of BABYLON 5 is finally being explored in greater detail.  Initially this episode was only going to be a part of our discussion regarding season one of BABYLON 5.  However as we often d...

TRIO SIMPATICO is celebrating it's three year anniversary! Co-hosts DAVID TAVOLIER and JOSHUA WITSAMAN have been putting out these half-assed episodes for THREE YEARS now, continually working their way up to whole-assed episodes! As the show progresses Josh and Dave thought it might be a good idea to reintroduce themselves AND reintroduce the main premise of the podcast, so any new listeners might...

This is quite possibly the most ambitious installment of TRIO SIMPATICO to date! On this episode, co-hosts DAVID TAVOLIER and JOSHUA WITSAMAN head out on the highway for their first TRAVEL SIMPATICO! To celebrate Free Comic Book Day AND Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you!) Josh and Dave travel between four local toy shops in their region to partake in the festivities and the deals: The Toys Ti...

Reporting from STAR WARS CELEBRATION once again, DAVID TAVOLIER combines this month's theme of Toys and Collectibles with the weekend event he and his companions have just celebrated. With STAR WARS CELEBRATION comes plenty of merchandise and memorabilia available for purchase, and who better to give his thoughts on the matter than known Star Wars collector ALEX ZAK?! And returning to the podcast...

We now interrupt our currently scheduled monthly podcast theme to bring you the following BONUS EPISODE! STAR WARS CELEBRATION CHICAGO has come and gone, and co-host Joshua Witsaman has missed out once again. Thankfully our other co-host, David Tavolier, was there in the Windy City doing a damn fine job of representing TRIO SIMPATICO among the STAR WARS fandom. For this episode David is joined by...

Greetings true collectors!  Who's ready for another exciting episode of TRIO SIMPATICO, your friendly neighborhood podcast? That's right we are back with another installment of our month-long theme of TOYS & COLLECTIBLES!  Co-hosts DAVID and JOSHUA are joined by very special guest MARVIN HOOVER to discuss his extensive and impressive collection of SPIDER-MAN memorabilia! Focusing mainly on vintage...

We have officially begun our month-long theme of TOYS & COLLECTIBLES and returning junior guest LUCY WITSAMAN is here to usher it in with an episode teased during her last appearance! Throughout this month's string of episodes we will undoubtedly be discussing quite a few older, more vintage, lines of toys and collectibles but we'll be kicking things off here with something that's hot with the kid...

Well here it is, the final installment of our MISSED MOVIES theme! David and Joshua are back with returning guest LAUREN WITSAMAN and this time it is our very own co-host Joshua Witsaman discussing a popular film he's never seen!  That's right Josh has finally sat down to watch the James Cameron smash hit (intentional wording) TITANIC! As you'll quickly discover listening to this episode there is...

On this episode of TRIO SIMPATICO co-hosts David and Joshua welcome back returning guest LAUREN WITSAMAN to discuss THE SOUND OF MUSIC, a film Lauren had never seen until we forced her to! Listen as we delve into the mythos of this classic musical film adaptation and ask the hard hitting questions: What's your favorite song?  Which is your favorite von Trapp kid?  And what exactly is Maria's origi...

A WILD BONUS EPISODE APPEARED!! What a week to be a Pokemon fan. As a quick interlude to our Missed Movies themed month, co-host David Tavolier sits down with long-time friend of the show, David Wester, to discuss some recent news regarding the beloved Pokemon franchise.  Not only were we blessed with a new trailer for the upcoming Pokemon Detective Pikachu, but we also received the long-awaited a...

We are back with another episode about MISSED MOVIES: POPULAR FILMS WE'VE NEVER SEEN!  This time our very own co-host David Tavolier discusses his first viewing of the David Lean film THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI while Joshua and returning guest CARL RANDLES listen intently! During this episode we really go on a fair amount of tangents, in true TRIO SIMPATICO style.  Listen in as Joshua and David...

TRIO SIMPATICO returns with our latest theme-of-the-month! This month is MISSED MOVIES: POPULAR FILMS WE'VE NEVER SEEN!  For this episode David and Joshua are joined by returning guest CARL RANDLES to discuss Terry Gilliam's BRAZIL! Two of the Trio had never seen this dystopian cult masterpiece previously so we take some time to not only talk about this movie but several other Terry Gilliam works...

On this episode of TRIO SIMPATICO the trio is filled out by a contingent of returning reviewers of international film and television DANA GALBRAITH, RYAN RIMMELE, AND ROSEY TUMPAK. This panel of global media devotees will be extolling upon the virtues of Japan and Netflix's joint reality television venture TERRACE HOUSE!  Co-hosts DAVID TAVOLIER and JOSHUA WITSAMAN sit down individually with these...

2019 has arrived and TRIO SIMPATICO is back! This year the podcast will be instituting monthly themes to help focus our content!  Your co-hosts DAVID TAVOLIER and JOSHUA WITSAMAN are at last reunited to continue this month's theme: OBSCURE TELEVISION! For this episode both of the co-hosts will present an obscure television series to share with the listening audience!  But which shows could they be...

TRIO SIMPATICO is back! (Sort of!) On this bonus episode we are without co-host David Tavolier but we do have returning guest, television and movie reviewer, LUCY WITSAMAN!  This time Lucy is dissecting SHE-RA AND THE PRINCESSES OF POWER the newest incarnation of the Masters of the Universe Etherian heroin from Dreamworks and Netflix! As always co-host JOSHUA WITSAMAN holds our guests to the stric...