Radio vs. the Martians!

In our latest bonus episode, Mike and Casey get ready to record our most recent episode and chat a bit about Orson Welles, great actors starring in shitty movies, and some of their favorite fictional cliches. Later, we’re joined after recording the Spielberg episode with panelists Todd Maxfield-Matsumoto and Scott Kramer to talk about the upcoming Star Wars sequel, more of Steven Spielberg,...

Hold on to your butts! Mike and Casey are stocking up on Reese’s Pieces and heading to Devil’s Tower to compare scars with sound engineer Scott Kramer ( the Expendables , Transparent ) and the composer of our show’s theme song, Todd Maxfield-Matsumoto! We’re talking about the filmmaker whose influence defined big budget cinema for an entire generation, Steven Spielberg! Fro...

A member of the Radio vs. the Martians! family needs your help! Greg and Julie Hatcher are two of our favorite people. They don’t have a lot of money, but are heroically generous with their time and work. Greg has been an invaluable panelist and a wonderful columnist for Comic Book Resources . And his wife Julie is truly one of the nicest people we’ve ever met. For a long time now, Gre...

When we took a short break during our recording of this month’s episode on Expanded Universes, we ended up taking a long break. And much of it was really good material that was too good for the cutting room floor, but we couldn’t find a reasonable way to edit it into the main episode without killing the flow of it, or cutting out a lot of fun — but off-topic — discussion. H...

Read the Bantam Book! This month, Mike and Casey look at the inevitable result of truly popular culture: that it can and will not be contained by it’s original medium. Star Wars , the Planet of the Apes , and even Murder She Wrote have escaped the confines of film and television to reward their fans with series of books, comics and video games that feed our appetites for more stories in the...

HA-DOOOU-KEN! Mike and Casey hit the arcade and stack their quarters, because this month we’re in head-to-head combat with Ask an Atheist ‘s Sam Mulvey and Nathan Martin of the Seattle Retro Gaming Expo . This month we’re talking about the gaming equivalent of the O.K. Corral: Fighting Games! We look at the genre’s roots with classics like Karate Champ, and the genre’...

As Holiday scheduling conflicts made a full panel episode of the show impossible this month, Mike and Casey are back with what they’re calling a “Fun Size” episode. It’s an unstructured, free form discussion of stuff in pop culture not quite big enough for a full panel episode! Join us as we dig into the new under-the-radar Keanu Reeves revenge film, John Wick . We explore...

What if there are no coincidences? Mike and Casey count their sick days, stock up on hotdogs, and run from gently swaying trees with returning panelist and artist, Roslyn Townsend and Ask an Atheist ‘s Rebecca Friedman ! This month, we’re diving into the meteoric rise, and precipitious fall of a promising filmmaker whose career trajectory still confuses us, M. Night Shyamalan. We discu...

We’ve….seen things you people wouldn’t believe! Mike and Casey fire up our Spinners, and blast off to great new lives in the Off World Colonies with Sci-Fest L.A. ‘s Matt Goodman , and writer Micah Krabill ! This month we’re talking about 1982’s Ridley Scott sci-fi classic: Blade Runner ! Join us as we discuss how a financially disastrous art film about a future...

Travel back, O Listener, to an age undreamed of! Hither came Mike and Casey, swords in hand, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under sandaled feet with Greg Hatcher of Comics Should Be Good! and our friend Pól Rua of Mike and Pól Save the Universe! That’s right. This month, the panel is talking about Robert E. Howard’s legendary fantasy anti-hero, Conan the Barbarian! From his...

Because we don’t want to leave you with nothing this month, we’re going to share our new advertisement with you! Our friends over at Ask an Atheist have already been playing it on the radio, but if you’d like to share it on your radio show or podcast, we’d greatly appreciate it!

Mike and Casey hitch a ride on the Catbus with our friend Roslyn Townsend and animator and storyboard artist Lauren Montgomery ( Justice League: Doom , Wonder Woman ) to talk about the legendary animator who is often referred to as “Japan’s Walt Disney,” Hayao Miyazaki. They discuss Miyazaki’s decades-long filmography from Princess Mononoke to My Neighbor Totoro. They dive...

It’s a madhouse! A MADHOUSE! Mike and Casey invade the Forbidden Zone with our theme song’s composer Todd Maxfield-Matsumoto and Comics Should Be Good! ‘s Greg Hatcher . This month we’re talking about the classic film franchise: the Planet of the Apes! We talk about the film’s long-lived popularity, its relevance as socially-aware science fiction, its totally insane c...

Sorry, Mario! Your podcast is in another castle! Mike and Casey pull on their Power Gloves and strap on their Virtual Boys because, it’s time to save the Mushroom Kingdom with Ask an Atheist ‘s Sam Mulvey and Bob Mackey of the Retronauts podcast! This month, we’re talking about the video game company that practically served as a fifth food group for an entire generation: Nintendo...

 In an age where jocks wear T-shirts with Iron Man on them, and mainstream audiences pack theaters to watch three-hour adaptations of the Hobbit , the world has become a very different place for geeks over the last few years. Somehow, geekdom has become as mainstream as American football. So Mike and Casey have posed the question to our listeners on the latest installment of Radio vs. the Mailbag...

Wooden dialogue, cardboard sets, visible boom mics and terrible acting! Mike and Casey dive into the best examples of the worst popular culture with Ask an Atheist ‘s Sam Mulvey and first-time panelist Roslyn Townsend ! Join us as we wrack our brains to answer the question: Why are some things so bad, they’re good? What makes some poorly made entertainment unintentionally hilarious, an...

In the latest mini-episode, Mike and Casey aim for the flat top as we puzzle over our last big question: Are drivers legally obligated to pull to the shoulder of the road for the Ghostbusters’ Ecto-1? We read your responses, and ask panelists Ryan Chaddock and Chris Walker their thoughts on the matter. Is the Ecto-1 a licensed emergency vehicle? Are they breaking the law when they flash blue...

Roll for initiative and save vs. poison, because this month, Mike and Casey enter the Dread Lich’s tomb with game designer Ryan Chaddock , and Chris Walker of BJ Shea’s Geek Nation to unearth that oldest of fantasy role-playing games, Dungeons & Dragons! We look into the game’s nearly forty year history, its current relevance, its many attempts to branch out in other media, a...

In our latest mini-episode, Mike and Casey unveil our brand new segment, Radio vs. the Mailbag!   We’re tossing open questions to our listeners, and we want to hear from you! This month: “Are drivers legally obligated to pull their cars over to the shoulder of the road for the Ghostbusters’ Ecto-1?” Also, we answer some listener feedback, look at the legacy of Arnold’...

It’s not a tumor! Mike and Casey get their asses to Mars with our theme song’s composer , Todd Maxfield-Matsumoto , and Ask an Atheist ‘s Rebecca Friedman to talk about America’s favorite Austrian import, Arnold Schwarzenegger! From cinematic machismo to the governor’s office of California, Schwarzenegger dominated the box office and ballot box for two decades. From T...

Get ready to Hulk out with the latest nerd rage-filled mini episode! Mike and Casey discuss the nuclear fallout of the announcement that Ben Affleck will be wearing the cowl of Batman in the upcoming Man of Steel sequel. We give a spoiler-free look at the ending of Breaking Bad, and marvel at the hordes of the show’s fans trolling Lost ‘s Damon Lindelof on Twitter. We anticipate Valve&...

Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! In this super-sized episode, Mike and Casey take to the skies of Metropolis with returning panelists Pól Rua of Mike and Pól Save the Universe! fame, and Sam Mulvey of the Ask an Atheist radio show! Our topic? The Man of Steel, Superman! We explore the character’s origins, his cultural relevance, his symbolism, from the glorious...

In the aftermath of our George Lucas panel, Mike and Casey discover that a certain oatmeal pitch man did star in an Ewoks television movie! We also look at the total reversal by Microsoft after the backlash the XBOX One received, we discuss the announcement of a new lead for Doctor Who ,  we debate whether Orson Scott Card’s anti-gay activism should prompt us to boycott the Ender’s Gam...

A podcast six months in the making! Mike and Casey reserve a booth in the Mos Eisley cantina with the composer of our show’s theme song , Todd Maxfield-Matsumoto , and Ryan Chaddock , creator of the Pantheon live action role-playing game , to talk about the filmmaker who has both attained geek sainthood, and reviled as one of its most controversial villains. We’re talking about George...

In our third mini-episode, Mike and Casey break open a cask of the latest geek news and drink deeply. We commiserate about the public relations disaster that is the new XBOX One. We experience schadenfreude at the recent fan meltdown over Game of Thrones. We lament the growing wave of post-apocalyptic paranoid fetishism. And, we look at your feedback on the topic of spoiler warnings, the spoiled,...