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Konnichiwa, Listener! ¿Cómo estás? Well, we are doing très bien because we’re going to show our chilling cultured side on this episode of Baconsale. Joel and Kent have each brought 10 foreign horror (forror) films they’re ready to share with you. Five of them we’ll recommend, and five of them we’ll tell you to avoid. Although the reasons why we don’t recommend certain movies varies. WARNING: Kent...

October has arrived, so Baconsale is kicking things off with a macabre game of M.A.S.H. Joel, Kent, and Zack are each going to be building an epic spook alley. The haunting hand of fate will decide what each of our rooms will look like, which creatures or characters will inhabit those spaces, and what music will be playing. We’ll also finish things off with a frightening grand finale from heck! It...

Imagine this: you’re sitting comfortably on your couch, snug as a bug in a rug, when you start to feel a slight tickle on your arm. You lift the blanket to find a creepy-crawly pest resting on you. How would you react? That’s the question we’re asking on this episode of Baconsale. Joel, Kent, and Zack have created a list of 24 bugs (including ants, spiders, moths, flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, g...

We’re back (A Dinosaur's Story) to finish what we started and finally determine… who some of these animated characters are. After all, these should now be the better-known villains of the non-Disney bunch, right? And then, after we can clearly picture these individual antagonists, we’ll do our best to argue who would win in a fight to the death. This will, of course, lead to a number of random sid...

Why should Disney villains have all the fun? On this episode of Baconsale, we’re turning the spotlight on evil, animated antagonists from other film studios such as DreamWorks (Lord Farquaad, Tai Lung), Illumination (Vector, Bowser), Fox (Soto, Hexxus), and even some Don Bluth productions (Rasputin, Sharptooth). You may not remember some of these characters, but that’s okay because we didn’t eithe...

On this episode of Baconsale, we are the danger, because we’re entering the Gilliverse (Vince Gilligan’s Island?) and discussing Breaking Bad, El Camino, and Better Call Saul. We’ll begin by Gliding Over All with a spoiler-free history of each show. We’ll then use our Gray Matter to analyze characters such as Saul Goodman, Jesse Pinkman, Kim Wexler, Mike Ehrmantraut, Gus Fring, and the Cancer Man...

It’s Sunrise on the Reaping of fall movies for Baconsale. Joel, Kent, and Zack have searched the Wildwood of the web and Hope to help you know which films are going Open World before the end of the year. We’ve used some Practical Magic 2 choose five films we want to avoid, and five (Minus Zero) that belong in Primetime. We’ll do our best to not act like an Ebenezer or make it sound like Doomsday i...

Listener, when you are a man, sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room and talk about movies that are 20 years old. It's for fun. And on this episode of Baconsale, we’ve got a jar of dirt! Wait, no, we’re showcasing the 2006 films that left us shaken and stirred in a series of cinematic categories. We’ll be discussing the films that were a great success, as well as those that were nothing mo...

Somehow Joel, Kent & Zack were hired as temps at a parole board hearing. However, this is a symbolic cinematic prison for filmmakers who have been put in director’s jail for one reason or another. Therefore, on this episode of Baconsale, we’ll be examining the filmography of once-popular directors like Tom Hooper, Cameron Crowe, Patty Jenkins, Joss Whedon, J.J. Abrams, Nancy Meyers, and Terry...

Baconsale has already ranked popular pizza chains and frozen pizzas on previous episodes and now we’re topping it all off with, well, pizza toppings. We’ve compiled a list of 24 popular meats and veggies and, after quickly picking our preferred crust type and sauce, Joel, Kent, and Zack will rank everything from anchovies to tomatoes. Along the way, there may be some Little Sleazer's slander and m...

Believe it or not, it’s been three years since the last time Baconsale played Concert, iPod, Erase. So, we decided to dedicate another episode to contemplating which artists we’d like to see in concert, which songs we’d want to hear on repeat, and which albums we would erase from existence. Zack is having fun with themes, Kent is doing his best impression of Cher, and Joel is still paying for his...

Your friendly neighborhood Wall-Crawler is swinging back into theaters again with Spider-Man: Brand New Day. But will Tom Holland’s fourth Spidey flick be a leap forward in the evolution of his story, or is Peter Parker’s plot too caught up in the tangled web of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? That’s what we’re going to talk about on this BaconBit. Joel and Kent have seen the movie and are ready to...

I'll tell you what we want, what we really, really want. We really want to talk about songs that are, No Diggity, turning 30 years old this year. And so, on this episode of Baconsale, we’re looking back to a time when Joel and Kent were merely Freshmen, and Zack was still dependent on his Mother Mother. We’ll be bringing up music that made us think we could Change the World and tunes that made us...

Get ready for an extreme, action-packed episode of Baconsale! The country of Baconsalia has decided to host the X Games this summer and we’re using all the exclamation points!!!!! Get ready for high-flying, heart-pounding adventure as we give each event a gold, silver, or bronze medal depending on how exciting it is to watch! Then we’ll aggressively put our heads together to choose our champions f...

After years of war, no one could stand between Kent and Sir Christopher Nolan’s new epic, The Odyssey. And since fortune favors the brave, Kent and Zack have seen this fantasy action film and are ready to share the tale of their cinematic adventure into sanitized mythology. We won’t spoil anything at the beginning of this BaconBit, but if you’ve taken a high school English class, you probably alre...

In brightest day, in blackest night, no bad superhero movie shall escape our sight. Because we asked you, the listener, to research spiders in the Amazon and give us your worst offerings from Marvel, DC, and every other corner of comic book adaptations. Now, dig on this: Joel and Kent are going to build a movie marathon watchlist using the poorly made films you gave us. Zack will then have to deci...

We've been staring at all these Disney live-action remakes ‘long as we can remember, never really knowing why they keep making them. But they do, and Joel and Kent are now ready to review the flesh & blood adaptation of Moana. Yes, we’re going to spoil it because it’s the story you already know from the 2016 animated movie. Zack is even going to stick around for spoilers. And while we’re going...

On this episode of Baconsale, a throwaway joke from our fruit tiering episode has now become a reality. Joel, Kent, Zack, and our friend Babs have created a list of 18 varieties of nuts & seeds (THAT’S A LOT OF NUTS!) and are going to be ranking them based on taste, texture, and the ability to kill. We’ll be discussing the almond, cashew, chestnut, hazelnut, macadamia nut, peanut, pine nut, pi...

On Baconsale Episode 503, Joel, Kent, and Zack shared some of the best and worst debut albums of popular bands. Now, we’re following up that conversation with a direct sequel. It’s going to be more personal, a little darker, and somewhat edgier. First of all, we’re going to discuss the second albums of the artists previously discussed. Following that, we’ll share our picks for the best sophomore a...

The Toy Story franchise has been so successful that it’s time for a reboot/spin-off! On this episode of Baconsale, Joel, Kent, and Zack will be playing the classic game of M.A.S.H. to create another cash-grab, er, sequel for this animated film series. A random number generator will determine who is directing our movies, what toys from our childhood will be included, and who will be giving those ch...

Welcome to Earth in 1996, listener! On this episode of Baconsale, we’ve got cows because we’re talking about movies that were released 30 years ago. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to listen to Joel, Kent, and Zack, choose their personal Mt. Rushmore of ’96 films. Following that, things will get topsy turvy as we choose life and pick comedies, action flicks, and dramas that we hav...

If you found out we weren't alone, if Baconsale showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? Well, the day is finally here. On this BaconBit, we’re ready to review Steven Spielberg’s latest film, Disclosure Day. We will begin this review in a spoiler-free manner, offering our thoughts and emotions about this science fiction movie while Kent interprets for Zack and Joel. Then, after Zack...

Since we did our man crush episode last year, it’s time to balance the scales once again and discuss beautiful female celebrities. Our friend Babs is joining us to share her collaborated answers and to keep Kent in line (spritz-spritz!). We’ll be sharing our picks for such categories as Best Eyes, Superest Supermodel, Getting By on Her Looks (Only), Triple Threat, and Marriage Material. And along...

This year, Joel, Kent, and Zack decided to Eat Mor Chikin. However, what we thought was going to be a quick & simple menu quest ended up grilling us pretty hard. Nevertheless, we expertly managed the drive-thru, mobile-thru, take-out, and dine-in experiences and ate everything on the menu at Chick-fil-A. It’s our pleasure to kick off this episode of Baconsale with the history of this chicken-c...

Get over here! The Baconsale temps have been taken to the prison realm, where they will be in charge of sorting 18 characters from the Mortal Kombat video game franchise into minimum-, medium-, and maximum-security jail cells. Excellent! Where Joel, Kent, and Zack will put these champions will depend on their fighting abilities, how scary they seem, and sometimes how attractive they are. And while...