BIRD PROTOCOL

What’s good, homies?! It’s 2023! Happy New Year! We are back and ready to rock! We’re starting this year off with part one of our 2022 Bird Report. That’s our yearly round-up of all our favourite movies, music, games, and television from the past year. We kick things off with some thoughts on 2022 in general and the slow crawl back to normalcy (or at least to the “new normal”), then we look back a...

Nothing says Christmas quite like bioluminescent flora and fauna… What? Don’t believe me? Well, what do you call Rudolph? And what abomination are you trying to create by throwing those multicoloured lights on that pine tree?! This week, we’re revisiting another colourful planet (from the mind of Big Jim, no less) that’s filled with ten foot tall blue-skinned cat people called the Na’vi, huge flyi...

We’re back for part two of our two-part series on the “Grand Theft Auto” franchise and this week we’re tackling the “HD Era” of the wildly popular Rockstar Games series. This week we’re visiting the streets of Liberty City in GTA IV and the beaches of Los Santos in GTA V to talk about two of the best GTA installments and probably some of the best video games of all time. We also spend some time di...

What’s good, homies? We’re back with another episode of BIRD PROTOCOL and this week we’re finally tackling one of the best-selling and most acclaimed video game series of all time. You’ve probably played at least one of these games, if not more, and you definitely heard of them before. There is so much to talk about that we’re breaking the series down over two episodes. So, get ready to head to Sa...

It’s time to enter the colosseum and for us to seek our revenge in this life or the next! This week, we’re talking about an absolute banger of a film and one of the best of the aughts… Ridley Scott’s epic sword and sandal action film “Gladiator” starring Russel Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Richard Harris, Oliver Reed, Connie Nielsen, Dijon Honshu, and more. We’ve gotta keep it real here. This movie has...

This week we’re joined by our homie Sideshow Trice to talk about one of the most consistent and personally influential rappers to come out of Canada and someone who definitely deserves all the flowers that we give them all throughout this episode… Nova Scotian rapper and producer “Classified”! If you’re not from Canada, you may not have heard of him but he’s been putting out music since 1995, cons...

What’s good, homies? This week we’re diving into Wes Anderson’s fun, visually striking, and wholesome animated comedy film “Fantastic Mr. Fox” starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, and more. Written by Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach, this stop-motion adaptation of a story by Roald Dahl goes incredibly hard, looks amazing, and is so much fun to watch....

We’re back this week with another Lazy Bird episode to catch you up on all the things that we’ve been watching, playing, and listening to! Please forgive our recent absence and PALMREADER’s rough-sounding voice… the sickness (not COVID) has him in his grasp. Sigh. So, after our usual introduction, we explain the lack of our final SPOOKY SZN offering, lament PALMREADER’s recent illness, and then di...

Ayo! This week we’re diving into the world of Supermassive Games and their unique brand of “interactive drama horror” video games! More specifically, we’re talking about the critically acclaimed “Until Dawn” for PS4 and, to a lesser extent, the recently released spiritual sequel “The Quarry” for the PS5 along with “The Dark Pictures Anthology” games. These games blend mystery, horror, and the supe...

We’re back with round two of our SPOOKY SZN selections and this week we’re talking about a bonafide freak of a film, 1999’s “The Blair Witch Project”. This one is an all-timer that has become a major part of horror culture. For good reason, too. It is the movie that reinvigorated the “found footage” craze in American horror and is quite possibly the best example of that genre of film. It is also o...

We’re back with the first offering of this year’s SPOOKY SZN series! This week, we’re talking about Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s 2004 horror comedy “Shaun Of The Dead”! The first film of the “Three Flavours Cornetto” trilogy, “Shaun Of The Dead” is a prime example of transnational comedy, great satire, incredible writing and direction, outstanding visual comedy and editing, and was not only criti...

Welcome to another episode of BIRD PROTOCOL! Today is the release of the long-awaited album “$oul $old $eparately” from Gary, Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs. So, naturally, we felt that today is the perfect time to sit down and talk about one of our favourite artists and one of the most talented and consistent rappers working today. With an incredible career that spans from 2006 to his breathtaking...

As promised, we’re back with a Lazy Bird episode to catch you up on everything that’s been going on with us and why we’ve been so MIA for the last month or so. Join us as we share some positive energy, some gripes, and some of the stuff that we’ve been enjoying lately. This week, we’ve got all sorts of stories from all across the globe! PALMREADER talks about his adventures in Portugal and his exp...

All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in podcasting! A day in podcasting is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck is a fortune! Every formation is a parade! I love to pod! Especially about movies like this one! That’s right, we’re back with a brand new episode of BIRD PROTOCOL and much like all of our other “returning-afte...

Hey friends, it's Otis Morris here. This week is a little different. Instead of the typical movie, musician, television show, or video game I'm bringing you my two-part series on Lou Pearlman that I previously released as part of my podcast Otis Morris Hates Himself. That podcast doesn't exist anymore, but it got 1000 plays and that's the most amount of people that ever listened to anything I've d...

We’re heading to the plains to do battle with an intergalactic hunter in BIRD PROTOCOL’s first official sequel episode on Dan Trachtenberg’s new sci-fi action movie “Prey”! This movie is, as one critic put it, “simple but not simplistic” and we couldn’t agree more. It friggin’ rules. Trachtenberg breathes new life into what was becoming a stale franchise by taking the Predator story back to its ro...

This week, we’re joined by returning guest Emerson Corleone to talk about a cult classic from Tony Scott (RIP) and Quentin Tarantino, 1993’s “True Romance”. This tone-bending and quick-witted film is soaked in that early 90’s vibe and attitude and boasts a stacked cast and some of the best writing ever. The characters are wild, the action is brutal, and one critic described it as “the cinematic eq...

This week we’re talking about the biggest Canadian rap and pop artists of all time! He’s a man who broke through the ceiling of Canadian hip-hop and made it to mainstream success across the globe. For many outside of our country, he put the 6 on the map. This week is all about Drake. Yeah, I know. I never thought we’d talk about him either… but here we are! And for good reason, too. Drake has been...

What’s good. homies? This week we’re kicking it and finally chatting about one of the biggest and probably the most “Canadian” of Canadian bands, The Tragically Hip. Haven’t heard of them? Well, you’re probably not from here. Almost every Canadian has heard of them if they haven’t heard their music. Have no fear, though! The Bird Boys are here to give you the 411 about one of the best bands our gr...

Ayo! We went to the cottage last week and had a blast. The unfortunate thing about the cottage though is that it made us so maximum chilled that we couldn’t bring ourselves to record our scheduled episode on “The Hip”. Plus, Otis’ brain was discombobulated from our return to society so… we decided to do another lazy bird episode! Kick off your shoes and take a trip into our lake-water-soaked minds...

We’re shipping up to Boston and diving deep into what is possibly our favourite Martin Scorsese film! Leo, Mark, Matt, Jack, Alec, Martin… the gang is all here and they’re going super dumb hard in Scorsese’s adaptation of “Infernal Affairs” that finally won him a Best Director Oscar, Best Picture, and features probably the greatest needle drop in all of his films. And it’s from “The Dropkick Murph...

What’s good, homies?! We’re joined this week by special guest Dan McLeod, writer and director of “Regicide”, to talk about indie filmmaking and his upcoming film. As with our conversation with Brian on “Snow Blinded”, we discuss lots of behind-the-scenes and production stuff (Otis worked on set as a script supervisor), but this week’s conversation is much different. We chat about Dan’s influences,...

We’re closing out our series on Japanese cinema by talking about a film we never thought we’d talk about on this podcast because of our differing opinions on it - the Wachowskis’ 1999 sci-fi action flick “The Matrix”! Now, you might be wondering why we would talk about a movie that we don’t really agree on and one that has already been talked about to death? Well, it's because of the influence of...

This week we’re deviating from the norm and chatting with Brian Lockyer! He’s the director and writer of the upcoming cerebral body horror/thriller film “Snow Blinded” ahead of the film’s premiere next Thursday at the Apollo Cinema. Both Brian and Otis have been working on this batshit crazy film for three years and it is finally going to be shown on the big screen! If you are new to the podcast o...

We’re back with part three of our Japanese Cinema series and this week we’re talking about a film that is the antithesis of everything we covered last week when we got into Studio Ghibli and “Kiki’s Delivery Service”. We’re going freak mode with the totally bonkers, perverted, and hyper-violent yakuza action film “Ichi The Killer” from acclaimed director Takashi Miike. This movie is NOT for everyo...