Salt Circle Podcast

Avengers: Endgame is the biggest movie in the world. Hank has seen it, Ben hasn’t. They talk it out.   If you want to listen to Hank talk about this movie with someone who has seen it: https://soundcloud.com/exfauxsure/spoiled-avengers-endgame Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels Ben's Twitter: @Bean_LP Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

This week Ben and Hank are talking Magic the Gathering. Mostly it's about the latest set, War of the Spark, and their experiences with it so far on Arena.  Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels Ben's Twitter: @Bean_LP Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

This month’s installment of the Salt Circle Book Club is the 1967 novel The Fox and the Hound , which is pretty profoundly different from its Disney adaption. Ben and Hank talk about how the book could have been darker, old man bullshit, and the morality of hunting.   Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels Ben's Twitter: @Bean_LP Logo Artist: b...

Ben and Hank embark on a new movie bracket and this time it’s the films of Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. Like the Godzilla bracket we’re doing 4 movies at a time and we’re going through them in chronological order. So we’re talking The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Castle in the Sky (1986), and My Neighbor Totoro (1988).   Which one will they like best?...

This week Ben and Hank are talking about Pokémon, in both a general way and specifically a bit about the last release which they both recently put some time into.   Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels Ben's Twitter: @Bean_LP Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

WARNING THIS IS NOT A NORMAL EPISODE.   This week Ben and Hank are talking over a Youtube playlist of various Godzilla and Godzilla-related material. Yes really. If you want to follow along the link is below. Because this is a commentary track for copyrighted material on Youtube there is a chance the playlist is no longer available in the future so there is an ephemeral nature to this podcast...

This week it’s the Salt Circle Book Club and so Ben and Hank are talking about the first book of The Bible: Genesis. Just a casual chat about the The Bible approached as a book. And let me tell you, it’s a wild book. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels Ben's Twitter: @Bean_LP Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Continuing in watching movies from 2018 that Hank missed this week’s episode is a build up to Mamoru Hosoda’s Mirai . To really talk about that movie though Hank wanted to talk about it within the context of his entire career, so Ben obliged and burned through all his major films, starting with The Girl Who Leapt Through Time .   Also we talk a bit about Animorphs .   Email: SaltCirclePo...

This week Ben and Hank talk about 2018's Destination Wedding , starring Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder, for about 20 min (They both really liked it) and ramble on about a bunch of other stuff for the rest of this episode.  Also enjoy our longest post credit ramble yet.  Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels Ben's Twitter: @Bean_LP Logo Art...

This week Ben and Hank are chatting about Season 2 of The Wire. We go through the characters, and their various plot lines, chat about what the show is doing and what we like about it. It’s a casual fun time with some tangents. Also we announce our next Book Club episode which will be on the first book of the Bible: Genesis. Yes, we are going from a James Patterson kids book to The Bible. We got r...

It's the inaugural episode of The Salt Circle Book Club and this week the fates have decreed that we read and talk about The Dangerous Days of Daniel X. If you, like Ben, are wondering why, don't worry Hank opens the episode with an explanation. This is a remarkably bad book, and a series that is much darker than it seems to realize.  Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod...

Ben and Hank are talking about the hotest game on the market in 2019: Titanfall 2. With the release of Apex Legends and the announcement of no Titanfall 3 happening, fond memories of Titanfall 2 are in the air again which resulted in Ben finally playing it. It was Hank’s game of the year back in 2016 so an episode of the podcast about it seemed appropriate. Also the two of them played the multipla...

This week Ben and Hank are talking about Hank’s favorite movie from 2018: Boots Riley’s Sorry To Bother You . They start by talking a bit of spoiler-free thoughts and the basic set-up before diving into spoilers and getting to the truly nuts stuff that really makes the movie great. This movie has so much going on but its best stuff is not something we want to spoiler so just be aware.   Email...

Hank prepared a list of first issues of comic books for Ben to read and he went through all of them. It’s a diverse spread, a little heavy on Marvel stuff, of comics that came out from 2007 to 2016. This is an episode where we’re both diving fully in and not actually going that deep on any particular thing as we blow through 16 different single issues. They’re all accessible jumping on points so e...

It’s finally here! The grand finale to our Godzilla Championship Bracket is finally upon us. First Ben and Hank talk through our final 5 films: Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002), Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003), Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), Godzilla (2014), and Shin Godzilla (2016); then they run down the Top Eight of the bracket and work their way to their personal champs.   Who will be th...

Ben’s back from Russia so to ease themselves back in he and Hank decided to just chat about Magic the Gathering once again. Honestly they just can’t stop themselves.   Also there was a new set released or whatever. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels Ben's Twitter: @Bean_LP Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

Look, I'm gonna be real with you, we recorded this awhile ago and I don't really remember what we talked about. It certainly wasn't the topic (Shakespeare's Othello) the whole time. So yea. I got nothing.  Have a nice day.  Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels Ben's Twitter: @Bean_LP Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

This week we’re talking about 3 movies that are all some variation of an attack on a building. We already did our christmas discussion of Die Hard , so the 3 movies we’ve watched for this episode are The Raid: Redemption , Dredd , and Attack the Block .   Also as a fun game, guess which one Ben didn’t like!   Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @Com...

After talking about doing it for a long time, Ben and Hank finally record a podcast on Homer’s The Iliad. The Iliad is a huge work and there’s a lot there so this episode really only scratches the surface.   Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels Ben's Twitter: @Bean_LP Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

WARNING THIS IS NOT A NORMAL EPISODE.   It’s Christmas time once again so Ben and Hank are sitting down to do a running commentary over a Christmas movie once again. This also serves as a bit on an intro to an upcoming episode on movies about attacks on buildings.  Die Hard is one of the absolute best action movies and a highly influential one, so it's always worth rewatching.  Emai...

It's part 6 of our ongoing Godzilla Championship Tournament bracket and we're closing in on the end. This week we're talking about Godzilla (1998), Godzilla 2000: Millennium , Godzilla vs Megaguirus , and Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack . So we’ve got our first taste of an American adaptation of Godzilla and the Godzilla movie where he’s the reincarnation of every...

This week Ben and Hank are discussing Mary Shelly’s novel Frankenstein. We go into details on the book, things it influenced, how most adaptations have little to do with the original book and a bunch of other stuff. Also we start out by talking about Pizza. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels Ben's Twitter: @Bean_LP Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

After our TV that influenced us episode Ben decided to watch more of The Wire and he got completely hooked. So we’re going to run down the whole series eventually, but there’s so much to talk about that we’re breaking it up be season. This week we talk about the first season: what makes this show so immediately appealing, run down the great cast of characters as well as the major plot details of t...

It’s part 5 of our ongoing Godzilla Championship Bracket. This week  we wrap up the Heisei era of films. We’re talking Godzilla vs King Ghidorah, Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II, Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla and Godzilla vs Destoroyah. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com  Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @ComicPanels Ben's Twitter: @Bean_LP Logo Artist: bellamy.world/

This week we’re chatting about Magic: The Gathering once again. Ben’s been getting really into Arena so that’s our main focus here. Hank also talks about some of the tournament MTG he’s been watching, including the Player of the Year finals, the Pro Tour and Eternal Weekend. They also briefly touch on Ultimate Masters. Email: SaltCirclePodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @SaltCirclePod Hank's Twitter: @Com...