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Life isn’t all candy and caves for three young Skrimbles (a totally rad race of colorful cartoon bat creatures that live in and around Atlanta, GA) who are finding out adulthood is a little more complicated than their cartoon-adventure-filled youth. The Skrimbledance, a semi-annual event where young Skrimbles find out if they’re ready to fly or still haven’t learned their Skrimble truth, is approa...

Join PMT Host Laura as she sits down to do a table read for a short she and a team have been working on for a few months: Do Not Sign Anything, about a writer's room fast descent into hyper-awareness and outdoing one another. Written by Austin Crowley, Nolan Scates, David Stobbe, and Laura Petro, this foursome sat down to do a final readthrough before shooting began. Filled with dumb bits, go...

On the erotically-charged Star Princess “Night in Paradise” cruise ship, singles, bachelorettes and divorcees enjoy fun in the sun and some hot nights featuring the Chippendale Dancers on a week-long voyage around the Caribbean. One night, while taking in the latest show by the famous hard-bodies, the ship is sunk in a terrible accident. Finding themselves on a tiny, remote island, the survivors b...

In this new PMT Miniseries, Hobert and Mike sit down to tear apart a movie they didn’t like so they can put it back together. They’re not script doctors, they’re script butchers. In this episode they discuss the Ryan Reynolds sci-fi hug-fest The Adam Project. For a movie about a time traveling fighter pilot who steals an experimental plane, it sure does spend a lot of time watching a kid do an imp...

Brett Marshall is an easy-going guy. He works at a Verizon store slinging cell phones, watches sports, and generally has a positive attitude about everything. When Brett is abducted by a secret NASA research group hoping to learn how an average American might react to being taken into space by an alien ship, Brett has to adjust to living in space amongst the “AlphaZetans.” But the crew of this cos...

Hello from the PMT hosts, Laura and Hobert! We have some exciting news to share with you, so listen to this brief announcement, won’t ya? 

Hark! Greetings, traveller! Come and sit by my fire so I might tell you a tale of adventuring heroes brave, bold, and, well...kind of stupid. In this PMT / Ya We Read It / NPC Incorporated triple crossover, DM Hobert leads his PMT Co-Host Laura through an introductory D&D adventure with the help of YA We Read It’s Meggie Gates and real-life bard Nick Olson. After coming up with their character...

Do your eyes deceive you? Another YA, We Watched It out in the world for your listening pleasure? You better believe it! PMT host Laura is once again joined by her YA We Read It co-host and best friend Meggie to watch the second Hunger Games movie. Tune in as they talk all the things they loved and hated in this adaptation as they are the self-appointed authority on young adult book to screen adap...

Skipper Daniels, famed explorer and treasure hunter, has seen better days. Once a vibrant world traveler, the aging adventurer has reached the end of his career and barely has the energy for one last trip. With the help of a new assistant, the kind, ocean-loving Seth, the pair head to the Great Barrier Reef to dive deep into a lost temple from a forgotten age. What they discover within its walls i...

When Carol - a healthy lifestyle guru on the verge of finishing her latest self-help book - has a near death experience on the way to a yoga retreat, something snaps. The health-obsessed woman decides to try doing the opposite of everything she’d ever preached and runs away from the life she’d painstakingly curated. Embarking on a journey of self destructive discovery, Carol sets out for an evenin...

In this new PMT Miniseries, Hobert and Mike sit down to tear apart a movie they didn’t like so they can put it back together. They’re not script doctors, they’re script butchers. In this episode, Mike and Hobert wade into the sloggy mythology of Marvel’s Eternals to see if they can pull anything fun out of the mire of the plodding big budget beam-fest. Get ready to ditch the Marvel trappings and c...

The Elliot family has never gotten along on the holidays. A tradition of being together at their family’s coastal homestead was always marred by fighting, bad gifts, and mysterious malfunctions they always joked were due to the ghost of a long dead relative. But what if the curse on the Elliots is real? What if an angry spirit dwells in the house, and this Christmas it wants them to leave it alone...

Once again (in association with Laura's other podcast YA, We Read It!) Laura and her co-host Meggie sit down to celebrate the end of their third season by watching the web-series adaption of the Private Series by Kate Brian. You may be wondering how well a 1.5 hour web-series from the late aughts can capture the first four books of the fourteen book series, and as you may guess: not very well...

Laura and Hobert sit down with their draft of “Woman Pranks Boyfriend With Pregnancy Test, You Won’t Believe What Happens Next” for a read-through and discussion of the next steps in their short film experiment/experience. Tune in to hear how the story has changed in the writing room, some ideas for casting and producing with a budget in the high 10s, and Hobert continuously pitching that one of t...

In this new PMT Miniseries, Hobert and Mike sit down to tear apart a movie they didn’t like so they can put it back together. They’re not script doctors, they’re script butchers. In this episode, the Rowdy Rip Boys(tm) take a look at Space Jam: A New Legacy, a movie seemingly written by ad execs who didn’t really like the Looney Tunes for the accounting firm that manages Warner Bros.’s catalog. Ge...

On the day of his hundredth birthday, business magnate Jerry Simon looks back at a lifetime spent pursuing his singular obsession: having one birthday as good as his twenty-first. On that magical evening, Jerry was forever changed by a night in Las Vegas and the performance of a dashing magician called Maurice the Magnificent. As Jerry reflects back on his relationship with the man behind the cape...

Back by popular demand! Laura is back with an all new fan-fiction to celebrate the third season of her other podcast "YA, We Read It!" winding down. In a world of wealth and mystery at a private academy, Laura decides to shift focus from our protagonist Reed onto side character Taylor Bell. We never really hear from Taylor once she leaves the school, so Laura explores a direction for the...

For five wealthy passengers the mega-yacht S.S. Figaro was a dream vacation. Equipped with a state of the art AI, the ship was meant to take them on a once in a lifetime luxury cruise across the Atlantic Ocean. But on the last day of their voyage, they awake to find they’re far off course and the AI has revealed its true purpose: revenge. Stranded on a roving desert island that keeps them alive an...

Scryptkeeper Hobert sits down with his friend Will Stagg to talk about Tru Detective, Season 3, a series they conceived to be a third season of the HBO prestige drama True Detective, but not about cops. Hobert and Will review the old notes of their doomed series and talk about the seven episode season and read a part of the pilot. Get ready for pretentious episode titles, an episode that based on...

Laura and Hobert sit down to try something they’ve never tried before: coming up with a short film idea with the intention to actually make it! Pulling together their collective DIY film experience, they come up with “Prank Video,” a short subject film about a couple making a fake prank video and the underlying tension behind their online facade. Stay tuned for updates and join us in asking...“wil...

Sitting down to watch a beloved classic, Laura and her best friend Meggie, embark on the ultimate journey in rewatching The Matrix (1999). A movie which neither of them have seen in a very long time in preparation for the coming continuation of the franchise in 2022. This time capsule of a movie somehow captures sci-fi in the 90s in a way they never could have imagined, and just like the Matrix, y...

After falling down an elevator shaft on what was supposed to be his last day, office drone Greg awakes to find he is now a ghost, seemingly doomed to forever haunt the halls of his lackluster desk job. Greg passes his time creating minor inconveniences for his former co-workers until Whitney, a new employee with occult aspirations, half-seriously performs a cleanse to rid the office’s notorious ba...

In this Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response Movie Review, Hobert takes an auditory look at the Sword and Sorcery classic, Conan the Barbarian. Rewatching the film through the lens of a bored guy who’s been playing way too much D&D, Hobert breaks down the tingly pleasure of the dialogue light, grunting-and-sword-clanging heavy fantasy masterpiece. TO HELL WITH YOU!

Joining Laura for another romantic minisode is her boyfriend Nick. The two are ready to sit down to watch and discuss their next date night movie: Escape Room: Tournament of Champions—a sequel to Escape Room, a movie they watched a few months ago. Can the sequel match the intensity and cleverness of the first? More importantly, is this a good date movie?! And MOST importantly, was it worth the $4....