BIRD PROTOCOL

Welcome to another episode of BIRD PROTOCOL and the start of this year’s Spooky Season series! Join us as we embark on a journey into all things grim and terrifying over the next few weeks and celebrate the Halloween season with your favourite Bird Boys! We’re kicking the season off with a banger of a band that is, at times, actually scary. Maybe not in the stereotypical and seasonal sense of the...

Mi Familia, welcome to another episode of BIRD PROTOCOL! Today, we're shifting into high gear as we dive into the turbocharged world of "Fast Five” for PALMREADER’s birthday pick and the end of our unofficial summer blockbuster series. Released in 2011 and directed by Justin Lin, “Fast Five” stars a revved-up ensemble cast including Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne "The Rock" Joh...

Ayo! Welcome to another episode of BIRD PROTOCOL! We're diving deep into the underground world of vampirism to explore one of the most iconic superhero franchises that quite frankly doesn’t get the love it deserves. Not only did this franchise save Marvel movies and pave the way for the MCU, but it also helped one of our favourite filmmakers break into the mainstream AND it has Wesley Snipes,...

Hello, friends, and welcome to another episode of BIRD PROTOCOL! This week, we attempted to have a regular ol’ Lazy Bird episode but society and the strangeness of the wider world forced our hands. Instead, since we were feeling a little spicy… we somehow revisit a few of our regular rantings and ravings about a variety of topics in this Bizarro Bird world. To start things off, Otis has a problem...

What’s good homies?! It’s your favourite bird boys and we’re back to embark on an exhilarating journey through time, dreams, wormholes, memories, war, magic, and the INVENTION OF THE GODDAMN ATOMIC BOMB. That’s right! It’s time for us to dissect and rank the illustrious filmography of visionary director Christopher Nolan and talk about his latest scientific thriller and biopic, “Oppenheimer”! From...

This week, we’re joined by our pal Jason (@thatdjentguy) to share some recommendations and suggestions in the world of heavy music! Last week, each of us created a list of five heavy albums that you should check out. In this episode, we share our lists and engage in some spirited discussion on the albums we chose and various sub-genres of heavy music. These aren’t our top five albums, though, that...

What's shakin', homies? We’re back with another swashbuckling episode of BIRD PROTOCOL and this week we’re joined by actor and pirate lover Michael Masurkevitch to talk about Gore Verbinski’s 2003 supernatural pirate adventure flick, “Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl”. This movie is… underrated? Under-appreciated maybe? Either way, this movie rules, It is so much fun...

Aye! It’s another Lazy Bird episode with your favourite bird boys! Today, we’re sharing some of our recent plays, listens, and the stuff we’ve been watching. First and foremost, PALMREADER explains why we’ve continued to be MIA… he had to go to the hospital! It sucked but things are much better now. He talks about his diagnosis and shares some updates on his health. Then, Otis complains about the...

What’s good, homies?! We’re back with a regular ol’ episode to talk about a band that absolutely RIPS! This week, we're stage-diving headfirst into the sonic mayhem of the Kentucky-based metalcore powerhouse known as Knocked Loose. Formed in the small town of Oldham County, Kentucky, Knocked Loose exploded onto the scene in 2013 with their relentless energy and uncompromising aggression. Drawi...

Ayo! Welcome to another exciting episode of BIRD PROTOCOL and today we’re introducing another brand new segment that we like to call "Wingin' It With The Bird Boys"! In this episode, we will be answering a set of three random questions each on the topic of film, TV, music, and video games. We’ll be sharing our thoughts, our opinions, and maybe even experience some surprises along the...

What’s good homies!? We’re back! This is the first of our new topical episodes and we’re kicking it off with a bang! Today, we’re going to be talking about sequels, prequels, and reboots in film. The conversation also dips into the pool of video games, television adaptations of movies, and more. We also have a proper intro this time… and this is part of it: From the groundbreaking franchises that...

Holy heck! We’ve made it to ONE HUNDRED episodes! Can you believe it!? To celebrate, we’re talking about one of our favourite action thrillers of the past 10 years with a cast that is crazy stacked, a crew that goes nuts, a writer that has become one of the most sought-after in the business, and a director who sneakily might be in the running for most consistent filmography of all time. That’s rig...

For our 99th episode, we decided to kick it lazy bird style and look back on our time making BIRD PROTOCOL and share some reviews and recommendations of what we’ve been watching lately. We kick things off by sharing our plans for the future as we close out the metaphoric second season of BIRD PROTOCOL with our upcoming 100th episode and talk about the various new things that we’d like to introduce...

This week, we’re taking on one of the most iconic anime films of all time (with one of the hardest posters of all time) and heading to the streets Neo-Tokyo to face off with an inter-dimensional child and a crazy flesh blob made of pure psychic power. “Akira”, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo and based on his manga of the same name, was released in 1988 in Japan and 1989 in North America to critical ac...

After taking a weekend to recover from the hangovers we got celebrating Otis’ most recent trip around the sun, we’re back and this week we’ve got a BANGER film on deck. It’s Otis’ birthday pick and we’re super stoked to be talking about one of our favourite films of the last twenty years, The Coen Brothers’ neo-noir western crime thriller “No Country For Old Men”. This movie is excellent in so man...

This week we’re talking about “the prince of the underground”, a rapper who surprises, subverts expectations, and has a lot of fun while doing it - Danny Brown. From his ability to experiment with his voice and delivery to his production choices to his thematic content, he is hard to compare and in a lane of his own. On top of all that, he’s really funny, self-aware, and comes heavy with the bars...

We decided to take it easy this week with a Lazy Bird episode before we start down the path to our ONE-HUNDREDTH episode. Can you believe it? One hundred episodes! We can’t either. In this episode, we chat about everything that we’re listening to, playing, watching, and thinking about lately. Tap in for a chilled-out conversation about a variety of topics, some laughs, some podcast updates, and lo...

We’re heading to the lost city of Hamunaptra in search of adventure, romance, and an undead priest named Imhotep who just wants to bring his ride or die back from the dead and destroy the world. Thankfully, we have OSCAR WINNING (!!!!) actor Brendan Fraser as Rick O’Connell to charm his way to the salvation of the human race in a movie that is magically more than the sum of its parts… Stephen Somm...

We need a doctor to bring us back to life… so it’s time to take it to the West Coast and tackle a TITAN of hip-hop. A producer, rapper, businessman, innovator, mentor, and so much more… It’s the Dr. Dre episode! We’re taking a different route this time around because Dr. Dre has been part of so many albums that absolutely smack and each of them is so complex that we could really do a whole episode...

WAZZUP! It's ya boiiii Otis. Here's an old school, recently uncovered gem from the vault. This was an episode of my old podcast from April 2019. It's actually the first time PALMREADER and I ever recorded a podcast together. This could possibly be the genesis of Bird Protocol. Anyway, what you're about to hear is absolutely ridiculous. It's a comedy podcast, not a podcast about movies, music, TV,...

We’re back and going full undercover martial beatdown of the Jakarta underworld this week on BIRD PROTOCOL with Gareth Evans’ sequel to “The Raid”, “The Raid 2” (AKA “The Raid: Retaliation”). This one is bigger, badder, and more insane than the first with crazier fight choreography, more violence, wild cinematography, lots of close-range headshots, and… an actually cinematic storyline? Not to say...

What’s good, homies?! This week we’re starting our two-part series on Indonesian beatdowns by revisiting one of the best action films of the 2010s and a sleeper classic that will have you on the edge of your seat shouting “Oh my god! Did you see that?!”. It’s time to go on a clandestine mission into an apartment full of machete-wielding psychopaths and take down an evil crime lord and his Mad Dog…...

Ayo! We decided to give ourselves a little more time to properly dive into our upcoming episodes on “The Raid” and “The Raid 2” so we’re back with our first Lazy Bird episode of 2023. Join us as we ramble on about various topics and chat about what we’ve been playing, watching, and listening to lately. We kick things off with a conversation on just how dang cold it has been here in our hometown an...

We’re back this week with the first proper episode of 2023 and this week’s topic is an absolute HEATER of a TV series released in 2022. We’re talking about the excellent first season of the comedy/drama show “The Bear”. Created by showrunner Christopher Storer, this character-driven show set in a Chicago restaurant on the brink of collapse boasts an excellent cast including Jeremy Allen White (who...

Ayo! We’re back with part two of the 2022 Bird Report! Get ready to hear us ramble on about some of our favourite music and video game releases from the past year. This was a crazy year for music and so much to talk about. Truthfully, more time is spent focused on music in this episode but we do our best to touch on what we’ve been playing, both old and new. Get your notes app ready because we cov...