Garbage Fire Podcast

Wherein your hosts return from a 14-month hiatus to talk (mostly about) The Woman in Cabin 10 (Netflix version), competitive reading and BookTok, as well as Kelsey's interest in the upcoming series called Heated Rivalry. We back, baby!

Wherein your hosts (and special guest Larissa) talk at length about S3 of Bridgerton AND about Twisters. Spoilers abound, and it's a bit of a wild ride. Kind of like wrangling a tornado.

Wherein your hosts talk at length about All Of Us Strangers, cry about a couple particular scenes, laugh at their own crying, blame the crying on being in the same space, talk for another long while about Kate Middleton and whether or not she's dead (probably not, allegedly), whether or not Prince Philip was dead in that photo in the car (probably, allegedly) and then talk about what benign superp...

Wherein your hosts talk Reacher, and then try to figure out how Reacher would fit in with Uhtred and his band of merry men, and then there's an absolutely unhinged FMK at the end. (This summary is being written 2 weeks after the episode was recorded. Things have happened. Lives have been lived.)

Wherein your hosts gather (IN PERSON!!!!!!) on maybe the coldest night of the year to talk about Saltburn (which they both loved but did not know what to expect before seeing it) and Reacher (which they also love, because duh).

Wherein your hosts talk about Season 6 of The Crown, as well as the first three episodes of Reacher. Guess which part is longer?

Wherein your hosts talk AT LENGTH about the Netflix adaptation of "All The Light We Cannot See", why Mark Ruffalo was miscast, who the German George MacKay is, what worked, what didn't, and what they'd hide in secret rooms in their houses.

Wherein your hosts talk about Icebreaker, a fabulous hockey romance that hits all the right notes. (If you were expecting a better summary, you've come to the wrong place. We're rusty.)

Wherein your hosts talk at length about the two biggest movies of 2023. Unfortunately, they did not use the lines "I am become death, destroyer of worlds" OR "Come on Barbie, let's go party" in any context.

Wherein your hosts talk about the Dungeons and Dragons movie, the Netflix series BEEF (and why it's not just television, but a work of art) and spend an hour crying about Uhtred and Finan and Sihtric. Spoilers the entire time, for absolutely everything.

Wherein your hosts talk about the recent Teachers Convention that M attended and how she spent her time (spoiler: exactly how you think she did), why the most recent season of Outlander is a solid stinker (Spoilers, I guess), and which iteration of Queen Elizabeth they'd most like to have dinner with.

Wherein your hosts talk about Peter Kavinsky and The Recruit, Vincent Lecavalier's SI shoot, and Sidney Crosby's dump truck ass.

Wherein your hosts talk about the reading list of all reading lists and why it's bad, what books they'd put on their own "must-read" list, why the end of Season 5 of The Crown leaves very little hope, which casting decisions were spot-on and which needed some retooling, why Glass Onion was a good companion to Knives Out and why Paul Rudd should star as the murderer in the next insalment.

Wherein your hosts talk about why the twist at the end of Don't Worry Darling doesn't make a ton of sense, how Florence Pugh is incredible always, why Chris Pine was perfect in DWD, how much they enjoyed Lindsay Lohan's new Netflix movie, how it's possible to have too many tropes at once, how Christmas movies can be split into 4 tiers, how the new season of The Crown is very grim, why it's hard to...

Wherein your hosts talk about their most recent reunion to see John Mulaney, why a no-phones show is both good and bad, answer all the weird woul you rathers that K could find, discuss the influx of 'ADHD influencers" and some terrifically bad labelling, and how the beginning of the school year has gone.

Wherein your hosts talk about the things they've read and watched in their unintended 2 month hiatus, decide which 99 is the best of all time, whether Pawnee or Eagleton are better comparisons for Edmonton and Calgary (though Red Deer is DEFINITELY Shelbyville), and decided that they are most like Benvolio.

Wherein your hosts talk about Season 4 of Stranger Things for 1 hour and 45 minutes. Spoilers, obviously.

Wherein your hosts talk for 1 hour and 40 minutes about season 5 of The Last Kingdom (spoilers, I guess).

Wherein your hosts spend about 30 minutes talking about The Batman, and pondering the purpose of dim hospital lights in the DCU, and another 45 minutes talking about all the longing in this season of Bridgerton. That's it. That's the episode. Come back next time if you want to hear 2+ hours about Uhtred's bad luck in season 5 of The Last Kingdom.

Wherein your hosts talk about the campy entertainment that is keeping them sane, why The Last Duel was a better movie than House of Gucci, why we are now living in precedented times, what real world experience is the closest to magic, what jobs they could do with no education or training in that industry, which animal would be the rudest if it could speak, and whether or not it's possible to have...

Wherein your hosts talk (yet again) about the never-ending pandemic, why it's sometimes difficult to understand what's going on in an athlete's life, why you should never have heroes if you don't like being disappointed, why the end of Ted Lasso was pretty perfect, some devastating FMKs (somehow all involving Roy Kent), how Uhtred and Jamie are always wearing bad idea jeans, memorable childhood re...

Wherein your hosts talk about Alberta's Worst! Fall! Ever!, why Tilda Swinton is the best part of The Dead Don't Die, why Megan watches F1 (you'll never guess), why you should all watch Ted Lasso, and which po-tay-to chip flavour is the best.

Wherein your hosts talk about what makes a good quality crime procedural, why Welsh is a ridiculous language with too many or not enough letters (sometimes simultaneously), why baby stuff is soOOooOo prohibitively expensive, why Instagram motherhood is not always an accurate reflection of reality, why criticizing an NHL team requires more expertise than criticizing doctors and nurses, and where ex...

Wherein your hosts talk about lazy catfishing attempts, the incomprehensible timeline of Fast 9, being obsessed with British crime drama onscreen and on the page, getting called out for being book snobs, which cartoon strongman they'd marry, which animal would be the rudest if it could talk, and why it doesn't matter how much Duncan Keith gets paid.

Wherein your hosts talk about 5G and superpowers, being beholden to society's expectations for new mothers and double standards for parenthood, books about existential crises, a heartwarming story to finish off the school year, which athlete should be tasked with killing George Washington, which actress from the Crown is too intense to marry, which conspiracy theories would be most fun if they wer...