BURGERS and MONSTERS

These woods are still ours!  Mike and Andrew continue their journey through the Jason Voorhees origin series Crystal Lake!  Can the third installment right the shaky canoe left behind from the previous lackluster episode?  Well this episode has bear hunting gone awry and a mom vs. mom showdown in the kitchen at the one roadside diner that nobody should ever eat at.  If that’s not enough there’s al...

T he discussion never ends…it just carries on.  Mike watches 31 horror movies every October.  He’s revealing this year’s 31 flicks and Andrew is providing the commentary.  Which movies were good?  Which movies were terrible?  Which movies were classics?  Enjoy a scary good Halloween conversation with the BAM makers! Check out Mike’s full list over on Letterboxd! www.burgersandmonsters.com

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!  Andrew celebrates this year’s spooky season with John Carpenter’s seminal ghost story - The Fog!  The BAM makers discuss their childhood encounters with this horror classic and its lasting impact.  Andrew brings his signature nit-picking to the review (for a movie that he picked mind you) and then tells his own lighthouse ghostly experience before revealing a more frightening exp...

Who’s ready to go to The Experience at the Packanack Lodge?  Not Andrew and Mike who are frustrated and annoyed by the lack of direction and muddied waters in only the second episode of The Peacock streaming show Crystal Lake!  A show that started with unlimited potential has been struck by a machete and brought to a screeching halt.  Mike gets confused and thinks he’s watching Bates’ Motel…or is...

BAM CRYSTAL LAKE – S1E1 – CAMP CRYSTAL Who’s ready to go to camp?  The Peacock streaming series Crystal Lake is here and Mike and Andrew are ready to dive into these gloriously clear cool waters and see who’s down there.  Long time Friday the 13th fan, Mike, and rookie watcher, Andrew, discuss some of the history of the franchise and the new series as they get into spoiler territory for all the ha...

The Peacock streaming show CRYSTAL LAKE is almost ready to drop!  Mike and Andrew prepare by visiting the movie that started it all 1980’s – FRIDAY THE 13TH!  The guys discuss camp hijinks, pantry stalking, and the physics behind lopping someone’s head off with a cheap camp machete. It’s time for Crazy Ralph, disgruntled Kevin Bacon, the great score by Harry Manfredini, Betsy “I Only Hit Homeruns”...

It’s an important point in Andrew and Mike’s friendship as they celebrate actually finishing a project!  Mike talks about the importance of filling your pants with as much salt as possible before going out to hunt demons.  Fears of shared toothbrushes and backwash side track the guys even more before they return to that age old question – Who was that girl in the bath tub in Dead in the Water?  Wa...

A massive storm hits while Mike and Andrew record.  Trust us, this was a real storm and not one of those fake podcasting storms people talk about.  As things get dark and windy Mike shares with Andrew the Top 5 things that scare him more than tornadoes.  Then Andrew treats himself to a good laugh and has too much fun with CSG 8R3.  Then both BAM makers fumble through a recording made with endless...

Andrew and Mike discuss long walk, The Long Walk, marriage certificates in foreign languages, and the surprise offer of a threesome from a waitress – on your birthday!  Then Mike gets confused when he thinks this week’s episode is titled Dead Man’s Hand as he was expecting some form of Western theme with ghosts and poker games…but he is instead served up an episode about vampires…sexy vampires…doi...

It’s an unexpected verbal Clash of the Titans as Mike and Andrew spend most of the hour debating the importance of this episode’s female lead character art house auction owner – Sarah Cole.  Mike wants to take her out for a beer and then do some ghost hunting with the beauty while Andrew doesn’t buy the episode’s romantic angle at all.  Spoiler alert – Andrew is wrong. Sam and Dean are investigati...

Andrew and Mike open the episode with all the exciting podcast topics: old shirts, t-shirt quilts, thermostat settings, fans, air conditioning…and skunks and dogs and all the fun of a good odorous spraying.  Mike eats a burger and Andrew learns about the newest updates to the podcasting software.  Trust us, it’s 17 minutes of “super fresh” material before the Supernatural discussion begins. Sam an...

The discussion never ends…it just carries on.  Mike and Andrew spend twenty minutes before recording their newest episode discussing nostalgia and movies.  The conversation covers: James Bond, Speed Racer, Christopher Nolan’s movies, Caroline Monroe, Teen Wolf, The Car (1977), The Exorcist, The Exorcist III, and so much more.   No bells and whistles…only two guys and a bunch of nostalgia.

It’s not just pranks that sideline this week’s episode as Mike and Andrew discuss their childhood Hijinx while Mike’s computer decides it time to play a prank of its own.  There’s exploding cigarettes, disappearing ink, spin the bottle, faulty video clips, lost minutes of recording, two musical themes for THE LIBRARY, and even Blue Oyster Cult, and a Dollar Tree version of the Ghostbusters! Sam an...

Andrew, Mike, Mitch Cumstein, and Milwaukee Slim are delivering another FRESH episode of Burgers and Monsters!  The guys discuss elevator parkour climbing methods…and how they will spectacularly fail at every attempt to reach the top.  They’re also called perverts for window watching the local demon troublemaker as she takes a sultry late night walk in front of her window. While investigating a se...

Another finger lickin’ good episode of BAM Supernatural coming at you!  This week, Mike spends the first six minutes eating a donut while Andrew laments his jogging routine and why he never "shakes on it" during any deal.  The fellas cover all sorts of topics from Texas Chainsaw Massacre to running for your life while not peeing your pants and why you’re always better off leaving those bottles of...

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale about Odysseus and his crew...and how the discussions never end around the BAM recording studios.  This week Mike and Andrew decide to read Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey…but then they find out there’s a new movie of it instead.  Who votes for the movie version?  These guys, that’s who!  So enjoy an hour plus of mostly spoiler-free discussion and review ab...

Andrew and Mike have a real nightmare of a time putting together a competent episode.  Too many microphone and headphone problems occurred (none survived the final edit), there’s missing audio files, lost media files, and then there’s strange segues toward Casey Kasem and Gordon Street.  It’s quite a recording mess…and the furthest thing from Pure Michigan that you would expect. Hey, speaking of P...

Two of the most incredible mouths in modern podcasting are back to discuss a twenty year old episode of Supernatural!  Mike and Andrew deep dive all types of phantom vehicles ranging from cult classic "monster car" movies like Duel and The Car to Marvel Comic’s Ghost Rider!  All the side discussions end up being more fun than this week’s adventure with the Winchesters. Sam and Dean are in Missouri...

Andrew and Mike’s biggest problem with Supernatural?  Not enough rawheads!  Well, thankfully, that problem is addressed in this episode.  And even with a monster battle in the cold open and an episode focusing on the grim reaper, Andrew and Mike still manage to be plenty terrified of the wife of a backroads faith healer.  Yep, we’re looking at you – Sue Ann Le Grange! Turns out Dean took some seri...

Who wants to go apple picking?  NOT Mike and Andrew that’s for damn sure, because we’re smart enough to know that your apple pie is the first way to fatten us up to appease the old gods of the hearth and harvest…and don’t even get us started on that sinister scarecrow just hanging around with his scythe in hand. Turns out, Sam and Dean need a break from each other.  Sam starts hitch hiking toward...

3-2-1…Andrew and Mike stumble through recording this week’s episode like two amateur ghost hunters lost in the local haunted asylum.  Mike talks about this episode’s connection to one of his holy grail Guilty Pleasure Movies while Andrew struggles with spellcheck, following the rules, and all the responsibilities of being this week’s host. Sam and Dean are investigating the haunts at Roosevelt Asy...

Show us the way to go home.  Mike and Andrew take turns reminiscing about their childhood homes.  Andrew talks about the importance of equity and the dangers of ancient refrigerators and sinister cymbal-banging monkeys (nobody has ever requested one of these as a gift).  Then Mike shares his own ghost story of the night he saw “The Shadow Man”. Sam and Dean are back at their childhood home in Kans...

The discussion never ends…it just carries on.  Mike and Andrew spend thirty minutes before recording their newest episode discussing their thoughts and scores for two summer movies: The Mandalorian and Grogu and the Netflix shark “movie” Thrash.   No bells and whistles…only two guys and their opinions.

A Supernatural fan’s question for the ages - I.T.E.B.T.B. (Is This Episode Better Than Bugs?)  Bad news for Andrew & Mike because THIS EPISODE IS BUGS!  Our hosts won’t let random infestation, storms, or Internet outages prevent them from deep diving into Bugs to determine if the juice is truly worth the squeeze? Dean & Sam visit a housing development in Nebraska where workers are experien...

Mike and Andrew show their age when they start reminiscing about such timely topics as Damnation Alley, TJ Hooker, and renting movies from the video store.  Are these topics enough to hook our listeners?  There’s also plenty of discussion on the power of urban legends to kill a good boner and Mike mentions a real-life cursed object he once owned…which has since vanished. Sam and Dean are also off...