BIRD PROTOCOL

Your favourite Bird Boys are back from a brief hiatus while our lives kinda fell apart (much like the human society in the wake of the Simian Flu) and we’re ready to rock! We’re FINALLY kicking off our “Apes Month” and easing into the world of Planet Of The Apes with our review of the recently released “Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes”. We’re taking it slow before we dive into the reboot trilogy...

What’s good, homies? This week we’re joined by comedian and podcaster Alex Dewitt to talk about a movie we all love, 2007’s “Superbad”! This seminal piece of millennial coming-of-age comedy and one of the last great examples of a bygone R-rated sense of humour was written by Canadian filmmakers/actors Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg (who started writing it as teenagers), produced by Judd Apatow, and...

What’s good, homies?! We’re here with another BIRD PROTOCOL watch-along! This week, we revisited a great (albeit insanely dark) crime film from one of Canada’s best. Join us as we watch David Cronenberg’s 2007 Russian mob flick “Eastern Promises” starring Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, and Armin Mueller-Stahl. Just a heads up, this movie is rated R and covers a variety of heavy them...

Reporting live, it’s the Bird Boys with another international Lazy Bird for your headtops! PALMREADER is in Pennsylvania and Otis is back home but we got together to talk about what’s been going on in our lives and the bubbling war between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. There has been lots of rapping and the escalation has been awesome. We start with Otis sharing that he has been watching some weird mo...

We’re back after two weeks off to bring you a fresh review of Alex Garland’s recently released dystopian military thriller “Civil War” and share our Alex Garland power rankings. First, though, we explain our absence and recount the technical difficulties that led us to this point. Then, we discuss the string of bad luck that has recently plagued PALMREADER leading to his recent tangle with some bi...

To celebrate another successful trip around the sun for Otis, we’re talking about an all-around BANGER of a movie from writer and director Quentin Tarantino and his birthday pick, “Inglourious Basterds”! It is Tarantino's 6th film and was a passion project of his that started way back in the 90s. After nearly a decade of writing, "Inglourious Basterds" was finally released in 2009 an...

What’s good, homies! Happy Easter to those who celebrate! This week, we’re doing something new on BIRD PROTOCOL and we’re stoked about it. Every few months, we’ll be releasing a themed playlist filled with topical bangers for everyone to enjoy. For the inaugural playlist, we thought we’d curate a collection of excellent pop-punk tracks for you to enjoy as the weather gets warmer and life gets a li...

We’re back from a little break to talk about one of our favourite rappers currently working and someone who is a cornerstone of our friendship… Vince Staples! We’re taking it back and starting from his reluctant beginnings with his early mixtapes to his collaborations and rise to his consistently incredible albums to the present day with “The Vince Staples Show” recently released on Netflix. He’s...

It’s time to get lazy with your favourite Bird Boys! This week, we keep it low-key and update everyone on what we’ve been watching, playing, and listening to. Firstly, though, we send out a message of respect for the late, great Akira Toriyama, mangaka and creator of “Dragon Ball”. A man who influenced a huge portion of millennials and helped popularize anime in North America. Pour one out for a r...

Alright, friends, we’ve finally reached the end of our four-part series on the John Wick franchise. It’s time to climb those steps and prepare for our duel at sunrise. This week, we’re talking about the final and longest film in the franchise (for now), “John Wick: Chapter 4”. When we kicked this series off, there was some hesitation about taking four whole episodes to talk about Mr. Wick. Was the...

We’re thinking we’re back… for another round of “Wick Month” and the third film in the John Wick series! But, before we get into that, the boys have a few bones to pick about "True Detective: Night Country" and the discourse around it (seriously, everybody, put down your phones and stop tweeting… including the people involved in the show). There were things that we liked about "Nigh...

Welcome to another episode of BIRD PROTOCOL, a podcast where we just keep leveling up, expanding our lore, and toppling untouchable crime syndicates on a quest for revenge much like the titular character of the movies we’ve been watching. This week, we look back on an excellent sequel and the second film in the “John Wick” series directed by Chad Stahelski, “John Wick: Chapter 2”. Make no mistake,...

We’re back with a special episode of BIRD PROTOCOL to kick off our four-part series on the John Wick franchise... or as we like to call it, “Wick Month”! Since we’ve already spoken about the inaugural John Wick film (which was also our first episode ever), we wanted to do something special to revisit it. So, welcome to the first ever “watch-along” episode! That's right, we sat down together an...

It’s time for the final part of our year-end roundup and for us to look back on 2023 with some openness, vulnerability, and honesty. Yeah… this one was a bit of therapy for us. In this episode, we talk candidly about how we’ve grown as a podcast and as people over the last three years but acknowledge that this past year was filled with some major changes and challenges. With the pandemic in the re...

What’s good, homies? As promised, we’re back for round two of The 2023 Bird Report and this week we’re talking movies and TV. Last year was the first year that the movies felt back in a big way and there was a wide variety of good stuff to watch. As previously stated, these are not our definitive best-of lists… although Otis did use his Letterboxd list… instead, they are a collection of the movies...

Ayo! Welcome to 2024 and Happy New Year from your favourite Bird Boys! We’re kicking off the new year with part one of our 2023 Bird Report and sharing some of our favourite releases from the past twelve months. This is by no means a definitive or objective “best of” list. Instead, we curated a selection of music releases and video games that we thought were dope and are giving you the goods! So,...

Hello, friends! It’s Christmas Eve… can you believe it? This year has just flown by. Merry Christmas! Why not curl up after a few spiked eggnogs with a nice, low-key episode of BIRD PROTOCOL to end the day? Sounds like a good pan. We were supposed to do an episode on a holiday-themed movie but, in planning it, we realized that we don’t really like most Christmas movies. We also didn’t want to chea...

What’s good, homies? Welcome to another loosely-themed episode of BIRD PROTOCOL! This week, we rant and rave about our favourite giant scaly thermonuclear lizard and discuss his 37-movie franchise (soon to be 38). It’s time to talk about the one, the only - Godzilla. Why? Well, we love the big guy… Do we really need another reason? Sheesh. But, in reality, we just saw the fantastic new Godzilla mo...

Ayo! This week, we’re talking about one of our favourite darkly comedic crime films and one of the best directors/screenwriters working today… Martin McDonagh’s debut feature film “In Bruges”! Join us as we explore the picturesque backdrop of Bruges, Belgium, serving as the setting for this critically acclaimed movie and as we unpack the intriguing and hilarious storyline of two hitmen, Ray (Colin...

What’s good, homies? We’re back after a brief time away from podding with another journey into our thoughts and semi-interesting personal lives. That’s right, baby! It’s time for another Lazy Bird episode! We wanted to take it easy this week before the Holiday Season kicks off and our upcoming 2023 Bird Report. So, join us as we discuss a variety of things we’ve been watching, playing, and listeni...

What’s good, my fellow birds? This week, we decided to talk about another new film that we both thoroughly enjoyed and do our second power ranking session for a director and filmmaker that we consider to be one of the best working today, David Fincher. Calling all Finch-heads! We both got a chance to see his new film, “The Killer” starring Michael Fassbender and wanted to talk about it. So, hop on...

Ayo! Happy belated Halloween, everyone! We’re back with one more spooky season offering and, this time around, we’re hitting one of the all-time CLASSICS of the genre… John Carpenter’s legendary 1978 slasher flick “Halloween”! Before we get into the movie, we recap our Halloween weekend shenanigans including a night uptown with friends and our time at some cool parties. We also discuss Otis’ very...

It’s the weekend before Halloween and the Bird Boys are getting together to have a seasonal Lazy Bird (now dubbed the Spooky Bird) episode to catch you up on all the stuff they’ve been doing this Halloween season along with what they’ve been listening to, watching, and enjoying. So, what horror movies have the boys been watching? They talk about terminally wild “Incantation” on Netflix, Otis recap...

Halloween is getting closer and closer which calls for some more spooky season content from your favourite Bird Boys. This week, we wanted to share some seasonal suggestions for all the gamers out there. From cerebral thrillers to isometric zombie survival to horrifying first-person shooters to survival horror classics… there are some really fun and freaky games out there just itching to be played...

What’s good homies?! We’re here for round two of our Spooky Season series. This week, we’re talking about two claustrophobic creature features from across the pond… it’s the “REC” and “The Descent” double feature pod! Since this is a double feature episode, we will NOT be going deep into the plot and story beats of each movie. Instead, we share what we love (and our nitpicks), discuss the shared t...