FED Talks

We're reaching the end of the Jason Statham Film Festival, so we're closing it out with our friend, and huge Statham fan, Gen to talk about The Beekeeper. Statham's biggest solo hit and an absolutely bonkers movie, we're geeking out over the movie and the man in general.  We also try to fit the Beekeeper into the Mission: Impossible universe and you know how awesome that would be. 

This week, we're catching up on movies and TV. Daffy Duck! Daisy Ridley! Daredevil! The Severance season finale! Deli Boys! Also, EJ's doing a Mission: Impossible rewatch and the Jason Statham Film Festival nears its end with Expend4bles, a movie that does not live up to its tagline.  But that tagline is "They'll Die When They're Dead", and no movie lives up to that.

EJ's back from vacation, so that means it's time for a trip report! Family and friends! Ant-Man! Acrobats! Pinball! An unlicensed Simpsons-themed bar! He had a great time and he's bursting to talk about it!   We'll talk about TV and movies next week, we promise!

This week we talk about a couple of celebrity deaths and EJ commits to trying to watch Twin Peaks. He talks about seeing a TIm Heidecker show for free and the absolutely wild new origin for animated Spider-Man. The Jason Statham Film Festival speeds toward its conclusion with Meg 2: The Trench, a movie covered on this show in its initial release. That's right, we've talked about Meg 2 twice. We'll...

This week, EJ is excited about Severance and appalled by Saturday Night Live. He's also pretty darn pleased with Captain America: Brave New World and hates that so many nerds are right-wing. In the Franchise Report, John Wick 4 might be the best movie, and over at the Jason Statham Film Festival, find out where Fast X ranks in the overall Statham filmography. (Hint: Low. Think In the Name of the K...

Zach Dirksen (Fool's Gold Variety Hour) joins us to talk about 2023's overlooked Jason Statham movie Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre.  It's a weird movie that nobody noticed, but it's super fun, even if you want it to just generally be better. We also talk about Daredevil and Blank Check more than you might expect. Or exactly as much as you'd expect, given how things usually go around here.

This week, we're dealing with Vin Diesel's absolutely bonkers social media post about how Fast X Part 2 will heal Los Angeles, and then the Jason Statham Film Festival takes a look at F9: The Fast Saga. This episode is largely about being disappointed in Vin Diesel.

This week, despite crippling anxiety in re: the state of the world, EJ wants to talk about a fun cozy video game. And then, live commentary on the trailers for Superman, A Working Man, and Daredevil: Born Again. (Spoiler: They all rock.) Finally, the Franchise Report gets to the underappreciated The Marvels and the Jason Statham Film Festival looks at Wrath of Man, a surprise favorite reteaming St...

In the first episode of 2025, we rank the 25 best TV shows of 2024 and the 25 things we're looking foward to in 2025. That's a total of 50 items which, honestly, seems excessive.

Happy Holidays! In keeping with tradition, we have an original Christmas story that EJ sent to his friends a couple of years ago and hasn't looked at since. Will he enjoy jokes he made in the past? Will he be disappointed in the ending? And most important, can anybody solve The Murder at Christmas Manor?

It's our favorite annual tradition, as ADHD-DVD's Hayley Leier stops by to talk about the best TV of the year. And since TV spent most of the year getting back on track after last year's strikes, it was kind of a weird year without a clear consensus favorite. But we still had plenty of winners to talk about as we dig into Fargo, The Bear, Girls5Eva, Somebody Somewhere, Interior Chinatown, and so m...

Tom Oord (Fool's Gold Variety Hour, my actual cousin) joins the Jason Statham Film Festival to discuss Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. It's a blast, both the movie and the conversation. We try to work out how we feel about the Rock these days, revel in some big stupid stunts, try to figure out if Eiza Gonzalez was already famous when she appeared in this movie, and also we talk abou...

NOTE: Due to technical issues (read: the producer not recording the microphone that we were talking into), the sound quality is a little shaky this episode. But Sam Kenny cleaned it up as much as he could and we still think you'll enjoy it.   For Tom Waits' 75th Birthday, EJ is joined by friends and Tom Fans Becky, Becke, and Brad to draft their favorite Tom Waits songs. It is a very fun discussio...

It's Cranksgiving! You know, the holiday when people watch both Crank movies. For our fourth annual Cranksgiving episode, it's the Cranksgiving Drinking Game. We'll talk about the rules in the episode, but EJ gets very drunk and more personal than you might expect. Also, Crank rules. Honestly, this is a messy episode. Maybe it's funny, but at the very least we take the stance that all other movies...

EJ is dealing with a lot of stuff after the election. He's maybe not smart or informed enough to just talk politics at length, but he needs this. But after a lot of rambling, he has a couple of delightful movies to discuss.  We're all doing our best over here.

EJ has news of an important lifestyle change and then talks a lot about a TV show and a video game, both from 2019. Perpetual Grace, Ltd and Baba Is You are both great but only one of them has Ben Kingsley singing "When Doves Cry".  And in the Jason Statham Film Festival, we finally meet The Meg.

Yes, there is some saucy talk but nothing that will require you to picture EJ doing anything disreputable or even fun. We've got thoughts on The Wild Robot, Agatha All Along, and Penguin. Plus Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is a tearjerker and the Jason Statham Film Festival looks at Fate of the Furious for some great action scenes and also some complete nonsense.

We're celebrating the 20th Anniversary of LOST with fan-favorite Hayley Leier (ADHD-DVD). Just having a great time talking about our favorite show: The episodes we keep rewatching, our theories that didn't pan out, our favorite characters and the love we still have for all those Lostaways. It was an absolute joy to record and I hope you'll enjoy it as much as we did!

After weeks of technical issues, EJ is back to talk about watching the last Jason Statham movie he hadn't seen with the deeply average Mechanic: Resurrection. Also, a favorite show comes to streaming and EJ talks about when he met James Earl Jones.

We're rewinding the Film Festival to take another look at Parker with special guest Justin Morissette (ADHD-DVD)! We talk about Taylor Hackford, Jennifer Lopez, Big Brother, post-pandemic movies, when an adaptation is maybe too faithful to the book, why that one scene is so much better than the rest of the movie, and much more! Check it out! We had so much fun that EJ's computer overheated and shu...

After a hectic few weeks, EJ checks in with the movies and TV he's been watching. Twisters, Deadpool/Wolverine, Caped Crusader, Sunny, Time Bandits, and more! He has a sore throat, but he's doing his best.

Back from vacation, EJ's got all the details on his Chicago trip, especially the James Bond exhibit at the museum and especially especially the Comedy Bang! Bang! show and meet-and-greet. Find out who's super nice (all of them it, it turns out) and enjoy EJ's version of a perfect day.

It's Statham's birthday on Friday and after thirty-some episodes of talking about his movies, we're talking some more about his movies! This year, EJ makes a list of the pleasant surprises - the movies that were better than he was expecting or that nobody ever talks about but are actually really fun. It's just a little appreciation of our favorite guy in a podcast that is already largely about sho...

Lenny Burnham (House of House, Chapter Surfing) returns to talk about Statham's first full movie in the Fast and Furious franchise. We talk about Deckard Shaw, the sometimes moving and sometimes bizarre ways they handled Paul Walker's death during filming, the franchise as a whole, the absolute shocking presence of Djimon Hounsou, and whether or not the streets do, in fact, always win. Plus all th...

Returning Champion Hayley Leier (ADHD-DVD) is back to talk about 2015's Spy, an out-and-out comedy where our guy gets to be really funny. We discuss Melissa McCarthy's career, how much Wonder Woman 1984 does not exist, Walton Goggins (who is not in the movie), and we spend a lot of time talking about comedy podcasts. This was so much fun to record and you will enjoy it unless you're an absolute pi...