BIRD PROTOCOL

We’re are back with part two of BIRD PROTOCOL’s celebration of Japanese cinema with a really wholesome and thoroughly enjoyable film about a witch, growing up, and the gig economy. So, grab your broom, give the cat some pancakes, and let’s fly off on another delivery with “Kiki’s Delivery Service”! “Kiki’s Delivery Service” tells a sweet coming of age tale about a young witch striking out on her o...

Ayo! We’re kicking off our month-long celebration of Japanese cinema with Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 stellar jidaigeki film, “Throne Of Blood”. That’s right, this week we’re taking it all the way back to feudal Japan and the age of the samurai. It was really great to revisit this adaptation of a Shakespearean classic as seen through the eyes of a talented, important, and influential filmmaker and a top...

What’s good, homies?! We’re taking a break this week before we jump into our “Japanese Cinema Month” and kicking it lazy bird style. Join us as we ramble and rant about a myriad of topics and let you into our world. We start things off this week by announcing our triumphant return to heavy music! We’re making an EP of old songs we wrote as Seance Choir all those years ago. Why? Because they rip, o...

Hey, chooms! Load up your quickhacks, call one of the fixers, and hit the streets of Night City! That’s right, we’re diving into the rise and fall and rise and fall and rise again of an RPG game that is actually pretty good now almost two years after its release. We didn’t get the refund when it was offered back in 2020 and now, after the game’s botched release and various subsequent patches, we’r...

What’s good, homies? This week we’re jumping back into the musical realm and talking about a stellar punk band from Toronto that we both really love. This episode is all about the “jazz nerds that made a punk band” known as PUP. PUP has been putting out album after album of bangers and has had a meteoric (and well deserved) rise over the past few years. To be honest, we spend most of this pod gush...

We’re back for the second film in our sexy artificial intelligence double feature and this week’s episode is hornier than the last while also being a lot more wholesome? Huh? Now, you might be asking us, “Boys, how is that even possible?!” Well, it’s thanks to the twisted and unique mind of filmmaker Spike Jonze. This week we're talking about his 2013 science-fiction romantic comedy-drama film “He...

It’s time to approach the singularity while getting wild horny at the same time… This is the first episode of the sexy A.I. double feature with your favourite bird boys! This week, we’re diving into one of the best science fiction films of the last decade, Alex Garland’s Oscar-winning directorial debut “Ex Machina”. This movie is smart, well-made, expertly written, and thoroughly thought-provoking...

What’s good, homies?! It’s about that time for us to bless you with another Lazy Bird episode! This week, we round up all the things that we’ve been watching and playing, gripe about some stuff that’s been bothering us, and chat about some upcoming games that we’re really looking forward to playing. But wait, there’s more! Stick around to hear the first-ever BIRD PROTOCOL interview with our homie...

Ayo! This week we’re letting our pop-punk flag fly so throw on your favourite cut-offs, turn your snapback backward, and get ready to watch the sunrise over Mt. Diablo. It’s all about The Story So Far today on BIRD PROTOCOL. Formed in 2007 and hailing from Walnut Creek, California, The Story So Far has consistently put out quality music and was very important to the pop-punk revival of the 2010s....

What is good, homies?! This week we’re closing out our series on the Jason Bourne trilogy and talking about the final film in what we consider a near-perfect trilogy. Directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Matt Damon as the penultimate rogue CIA asset, “The Bourne Ultimatum” is a great movie that ties all the themes, motifs, and storylines of the previous films together. It rules. It probably sh...

This week the bird boys are diving straight into the second film of the Bourne Trilogy and continuing our discussion on everyone’s favourite amnesiac CIA operative, Jason Bourne. This week’s movie is the first sequel in the trilogy, “The Bourne Supremacy”, which was released to critical and commercial acclaim in 2004. This time around, Paul Greengrass is in the director's chair and he expertly tak...

The bird boys are back with the first of a three-part series about a trilogy of movies beloved by dads, grandfathers, and uncles alike. Get ready to wake up, beat up some cops, wreak havoc at the US Embassy, recklessly drive through the streets of Paris, have a shoot-out with a psychopathic librarian looking Clive Owen, and fall in love with some random woman you paid to drive you around! Also, yo...

What happens when you wake up in a strange land with a hangover, absolutely no memory and you have to solve a murder? Disco, baby! This week we’re talking about a stellar RPG game that we absolutely love and so do all the critics (not that it matters). Solve the case, figure out your identity, do some drugs, read some books, argue with your inner monologue, tackle a whole new world of politics, hi...

Yo! This week we are talking about an important and influential hardcore/metalcore band that absolutely rips and has been a major part of both of our lives... the incredible Every Time I Die!  ETID has also touched the lives of so many others, be they fans or fellow musicians or the city of Buffalo itself, and has continued to be innovative and impressive over a storied 23-year career. Before...

The bird boys are back with a very casual episode to kick off the new year! In this episode, we chat about a bunch of random nonsense including what we did over the holidays, Omicron, our friends and family catching the virus, being trapped inside but doing pretty well creatively, Otis talks about working on and scoring his first film, the horrible job the Ontario provincial government is doing la...

What is good, homies?! Welcome to 2022! It’s the first episode of BIRD PROTOCOL of the year! Obviously, because both of us are film scholars, we decided to talk about a movie with substance… just kidding, we’re talking about the one where giant robots and inter-dimensional aliens beat the absolute snot out of each other. This week we’re tackling Guillermo Del Toro’s 2013 sci-fi action Kaiju film “...

Ayo! We’ve arrived at the last episode of BIRD PROTOCOL for 2021! Can you believe it?! Thank you all so much for rocking with us this year. We’ve been growing, slowly and steadily, since we returned to the show in April and we are both so grateful to everyone who has tuned in. We have so much fun doing this every week and it’s become such a huge part of our lives... so thank you for taking the tim...

We’re back with a controversial pick this holiday season and the last film of 2021. Some people love it, some people hate it… some people REALLY hate it… but who cares! This week we’re diving into Adam Sandler’s 2002 animated film “Eight Crazy Nights.” What? You thought we were gonna talk about “Die Hard”? Get outta here. This movie is by no means a masterpiece and we will be the first to admit th...

What’s good!? Welcome to another episode of BIRD PROTOCOL! This week the bird boys are talking about an amazing band from the UK known as IDLES. IDLES has quickly become one of our favourite new bands for so many reasons, most of which are explained in this pod, and we’re stoked to talk about them and share them with you. A mixture of guitar-driven post-punk, danceable grooves, incredible lyricism...

This week the bird boys link up across the border and chop it up about a flawed classic and what some call the “last of the great American epics”, Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs Of New York”. This movie took over 30 years to get made and, although flawed, features some really amazing work from Scorsese and his talented cast and crew. “Gangs Of New York” is a story of many things... revenge, democracy, r...

The bird boys are back for another Lazy Bird episode after a refreshing week off! We invite you to join us once again for an evening of stimulating conversion along with a healthy dose of ranting and raving. As usual, we touch on what’s been going on in our lives, what we are watching/playing, and ramble about whatever else is on our minds. This week, Otis’ talks about his strange experience at a...

This week, the bird boys are closing out the Halloween season with an absolute banger of a movie and a stellar third bird (that’s what we call our guest co-hosts now, get with it). This is probably the longest episode of BP but it is 1000% worth the listen. In this episode, we are joined by rapper/producer/all-around dope human being STEVEDAVE to talk about Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 masterpiece “The...

The bird boys are locked, loaded, and ready to face a horde of the undead. This week, we’re talking about Turtle Rock Studios’ stellar “Left 4 Dead” video game series and the rebirth of zombie slaying madness in their most recent release, “Back 4 Blood” on next-gen consoles. This series has been hugely present in both of our lives so you can be sure we’re going extra hard this week. Stock up on am...

The bird boys are back for round two of our Halloween spooktacular! This week the boys decided to take on one of PALMREADER’s favourite horror-adjacent comedy films, Mel Brooks' “Dracula: Dead And Loving It”. This film… is… well, let’s be real here, the critics didn’t like it much but WE CERTAINLY DO. Can you believe Rotten Tomatoes gave it an 11%?! Unreal. Criminal. Uncalled for. Illegal, almost....

This week the bird boys kick off their selection of spooky flicks for the Halloween season by revisiting an influential cult classic that was hated when it dropped but has quietly become one of the most important and best sci-fi horror films. Get your flamethrowers ready and step out into the cold… it’s John Carpenter’s “The Thing”. Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella “Wh...