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It's our 2 year anniversary show featuring: updated standings for the Summer 2023 Movie Draft, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One (12:28) and where it ranks among the rest of the impossible missions, a debut feel good segment that has 4 or 5 potential names we never settled on (24:01) and finally; we rifle through the last month's worth of TV including The Idol (35:20), The Bear (...

Grey Gordon returns to the show to discuss with us how thoroughly the The Flash has broken him. And don’t worry, if you haven’t seen The Flash yet (and judging by it’s horrendous box office, you likely have not) there are plenty of fun sidebars along the way on topics like the state of the DC Universe, James Gunn’s planned relaunch (which may or may not start with Blue Beetle?!), the Best and Wors...

Sifting through the aftermath of this spring's TV finales; the boys tackle Season 3 of I Think You Should Leave (check out our rankings of every sketch from the entire series), Why Max is avoiding Barry (17:47), The Succession Finale (21:50), Yellowjackets Season 2 (26:30) and circle back to the ending of Mrs. Davis (32:48). You can skip all the spoilers for a nicely condensed 10 minute versio...

This week Ben, Max and Ryan try to deconstruct Mrs. Davis - skip past (9:31) if you're trying to avoid any potential spoilers - then we dive into road rage story time, the anticipation swirling around Oppenheimer, the ego of Kevin Costner, and an update on our 2023 Summer Movie Draft (35:04) AJJ bassist Ben Gallaty joins the show to talk about the burden of transporting an upright bass, his to...

Not gonna lie, even for us, this one's all over the place. I'll just list the things I can remember: Ben paid $40 for Prilosec, Turnstile is the P.O.D. of the nu-metal revival (and MSPAINT is the System of a Down), prepping for a deep state deep fake 2024 electoral race, the dumbest thing you got in trouble for at school and then FINALLY (19:24) we hold our 2023 Summer Movie Draft where Be...

This week we spend a weirdly large amount of time talking about stuff we haven't actually seen followed by discussions on the best and worst video game adaptations, series finales and supergroups.

Ben, Max and Ryan sift through the chaos in both the DC and Marvel Cinematic Universes then recap our Best Albums of the 90's March Madness Tournament Bracket (9:00) and make their own cases for who should have won while dissecting the messy legacies of Eminem and Blink-182. (40:00) Author Abraham Josephine Riesman joins the show to discuss her new book about the life and legacy of Vince McMah...

After a brief recap of this year's Oscars ceremony as well as Season 1 of The Last of Us, the boys have a roundtable discussion (11:58) around who should be included (or excluded) from our annual March Madness Tournament Bracket to determine the Best Albums of the 90's. You can vote on this year's tournament here or here . Then, Jordan Hudkins of Rozwell Kid joins the show (24:13) to t...

Ben and Ryan discuss Cocaine Bear and it's place in the Homicidal Animal Cinematic Universe, then transition seamlessly into how kids these days will never understand what it was like being catfished on MySpace by unverified celebrity imposters. We also preview our March Madness Tournament (which will be officially unveiled on our NEXT episode) and whether we should focus on the 64 Best Sports Mov...

For our Season 3 Premiere (!?) we're talking CGI kisses, White Lotus, Andor and special guest Kory Gregory of Prince Daddy and the Hyena joins the show (15:18)! Kory tackles a bevy of topics including spending his high school years hosting house shows, the insecurities inherent to writing and sharing your own material, who he'd recruit for his own boygenius style supergroup, using gravity bongs an...

The 2nd audio installment of our tiered annual recap of the Best and Worst Movies of the year covering roughly 105 movies released in 2022, in just 107 minutes - This is The Year in Tiers. We also digress into discussions concerning Brad Pitt's need for a friend, rage quitting Pinocchio, Babe: Pig in the City, prototypical awards contenders dying a slow death, Marvel heroes pivoting to roles as cu...

Part 2 of our Holiday Extravaganza features our listener submitted Airing of Grievances, a debate on the best TV theme songs of all time, who the better wrestler turned actor is: The Rock, John Cena or Dave Bautista? and the gift that killed Ryan's family white elephant tradition. Then Eric Pennycoff returns to the show (23:30) to talk about his new holiday themed horror film The Leech, now stream...

In the first episode of our two part Holiday Extravaganza; Mason Hunter joins the show to take a James Cameron level deep dive into the creative process behind his new album " Rat King " (11:22), his TikTok followers demanding impressions from him like he's a piano bar, which Beatle wrote the better Christmas song, and Avatar (which Ryan just watched for the first time EVER after avoiding it for o...

Our tiered annual recap is back and bigger than ever with 126 albums ranging anywhere from Rage Against the Machine Kidz Bop to Gold Jacket levels of quality. Click HERE to view the entire Year in Tiers breakdown. Which is highly recommended because it's a long trip from #126 - #1 and there are some unexpected detours into genre cosplay, Elon Musk implanting microchips into our brains, how to fair...

We interview the man behind Art the Clown - David Howard Thornton - on how he went from a self-described skinny nerd with glasses from Huntsville, Alabama to the most terrifying new horror villain since Freddy Krueger. We also dive into how the Terrifier series found success on a micro-budget, what makes Art squeamish, address the “misogynist” claims thrown at Terrifier’s director Damien Leone and...

For this year's Halloween Episode Max and Ryan dive into their first experiences with horror, review A24's Bodies Bodies Bodies (9:43), share their favorite Halloween episodes of television (12:58) and discuss the exploitative nature of Netflix's Dahmer and Blonde. They also tackle the Blink-182 Reunion (20:32) new albums from Freddie Gibbs, Field Medic, Meat Wave, and Billy Woods. Oh, and the num...

We’ve got the audio equivalent to the happy meal with separate boys and girls toys this week as Ryan and Max spend the first half of the show talking about the 2022 Fantasy Season kick off (12:19) and Thor: Love and Thunder (29:11); followed by Ryan’s sister Tori joining the show (34:28) to talk about Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal (36:23) and Don’t Worry Darling (45:30)

We've got another month full of topics to burn through including our thoughts on Nope : where it ranks among Jordan Peele's filmography, whether or not he's already in the conversation for best horror directors of all time, and if social commentary ever results in any real change. To skip the Nope spoilers jump to (13:47). We also take a look forward to MCU's Phase 4-6 plans announced at Comic Con...

On today's episode Max, Ben and Ryan question the sincerity of Minion fandom, where are this year's summer anthems? who's the artist you'd pay the most to see in concert? and whether you'd rather see your favorite movie get the legacy sequel, derivative homage, or remake treatment? We also circle back to the season finale of The Boys and Stranger Things, where they rank among the best shows of the...

After an unexpected month long hiatus (whoops), the boys are back to cover everything from THE Boys to Stranger Things to Top Gun to Buzz Lightyear to Star Wars to Joyce Manor and the obligatory stage dive debate that often follows. Also, the show celebrates it's one year anniversary (already?!), Ben reveals his worst fear, Max shares his most severe pit injury and Ryan interviews A Nightmare on E...

We're back, asking all of the hard hitting questions the OTHER podcasts are too SCARED to tackle, like: What are the top 10 most financially successful movies that never received a follow up (sequel, remake, spinoff, etc.)? Is television hitting it's saturation point? Can you like a movie without understanding it? Has Kendrick Lamar outgrown hip hop? And, most importantly, who is the Applebees of...

Ben, Max and Ryan tackle a myriad of topics this week from Netflix losing ground in the content streaming wars, Margot Robbie's Barbie movie, Johnny Depp's guitar playing abilities, festival lineup announcements and which artists will most be remembered as representing the 2000's? We also dive into the latest albums from Prince Daddy and the Hyena , Pusha T , and A Wilhelm Scream . Keep up with al...

Max and Ryan shuffle through an assortment of new releases including the latest from Deathspell Omega, Pup, Billy Woods, Oso Oso, Vince Staples Father John Misty and Drug Church. Also we cover Michael Bay as the underdog, Kevin Smith's foray into NFTs, the meme-fication of Nicolas Cage, and a season 1 deep dive into Severance. There's a whole mess of spoilers so go ahead and eject at (28:56) if yo...

This week we dive into the Will Smith slap, the relevance of award shows (and awards), Charli XCX and the future of the Foo Fighters. (29:35) Maxwell Stern of Signals Midwest joins the show for a candid talk about about the band's new record Dent (out Friday April 8th), the uncertainty of touring abroad during a pandemic and some either/or 's including Seinfeld, The Blue Album and waffles.

Because 80 minutes wasn't enough on the last episode, The Batmen Return to discuss how quickly Chris Nolan has fallen out of favor as well as The Caped Crusader's place among the vast pantheon of comic book characters like Shiny Face Guy, Lube Man, Josh Groblin and Doctor Eggman. We also discuss our March Madness Bracket Tournament to decide the Best Comic Book Movie of All Time, Beach House and t...