Socially Distanced

Socially Distanced delivers the second part of its "Impossible Podcasting Force" mini-series with a deep into Mission: Impossible III and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol . Host Bill Bodkin is joined by "The Human Star Wars Encyclopedia" Amanda Rivas, Pop Break's Managing Editor Al Mannarino, Podcast Director Alex Marcus and special guest Melanie Romero of TCBTX Photogr...

The mission, if you choose to accept it, is to listen to The Socially Distanced Podcast's latest mini-series "The Impossible Podcasting Force." This three-week series will see our intrepid team of podcasters rewatching and reviewing the films of the Mission: Impossible franchise. In the first episode, dubbed "Tom Cruise, '90s Action Star" Bill Bodkin, Amanda Rivas and A...

The Socially Distanced Podcast goes in-depth and off the rails for one of its thirstiest and funniest episodes of all-time. Host Bill Bodkin is joined by "The Human Star Wars Encyclopedia" Amanda Rivas, Alex Marcus (The Pop Break's Podcast Director) and Tyler McCarthy and Allie Nelson of The Not Couple Goals Podcast to discuss Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade and Indiana Jones and...

Pop Break throws it back for their rewatch of the Indiana Jones film franchise as the final installment of the series just premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Host BIll Bodkin is joined by "The Human Star Wars Encyclopedia" Amanda Rivas and "The Commander of our Hearts" Ben Murchison to discuss Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom. They talk about...

Your favorite band of space oddities is back to talk about Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 Pop Break's editor-in-chief Bill Bodkin hosts an all-star episode featuring his co-hosts Al Mannarino (who had the worst experience watching this film), "The Human Star Wars Encyclopedia" Amanda Rivas, Pop Break's youngest writer Nynoshka Vazquez Suazo and Matt Kelly of Nando v Movies. In the...

The NFC East Group Therapy Session is back discussing all things off-season football! Bill Bodkin (Pop Break's Editor-in-Chief) hosts with special guests Al Mannarino, Ben Murchison, Lucas P. Jones and Marshall Stevenson of Blerd Watchers to discuss all things related to their beloved NFC East. First, it's the big off-season moves. Does Aaron Rogers make the Jets a contender? Can Russell W...

The Socially Distanced crew pre-games Star Wars Day aka May the 4th with a special Star Wars-centric episode. "The Human Star Wars Encyclopedia" Amanda Rivas & Bill Bodkin share hosting duties and are joined by Pop Break Podcast Director Alex Marcus and "The Commander of Our Hearts" Ben Murchison to discuss all things from a galaxy far, far away. They kick things off with a...

It's the final episode of The Mandalorian for 2023 and there is a lot to talk about. Host Amanda Rivas is joined by Pop Break Editor-in-Chief Bill Bodkin, Pop Break Managing Editor Al Mannarino (returned from the Quantum Realm) and "The Commander of our Hearts" Ben Murchison to discuss The Mandalorian Chapter 24, 'The Return.' In this episode they discuss the destruction of t...

It's the penultimate episode of The Mandalorian and that means "The Prince of Penultimate" Alex Marcus (The Director of Pop Break's Podcast Network) joins "The Human Star Wars Encyclopedia" Amanda Rivas and Bill Bodkin (soon to be rebranded as Bill in May). This week The Mandalorian Chapter 23, "The Spies" is on tap. The discussion on who the "spies"...

The Socially Distanced podcast returns with a deep dive into The Mandalorian Chapter 22, 'Guns for Hire.'  "The Human Star Wars Encyclopedia" Amanda Rivas lead a rogue's gallery of guests including Pop Break's editor-in-chief Bill Bodkin, Al Mannarino freshly returned from the quantum realm and special guest writer and producer Melanie Romero. The quartet discuss the flaw...

ARRRRRRRRR!!!!! We're talking space pirates and X-Files this week on Socially Distanced. "The Human Star Wars Encyclopedia" Amanda Rivas is joined by Pop Break editor-in-chief Bill Bodkin and Waldo from Face4Wrestling to talk about all things Mando. They deep dive into "The Pirate" to discuss how this episode felt more like a classic Mando episode, the motives of Armorer, t...

Who is The Foundling? Why are so many space creatures attacking the Mandalores? Is Grogu going to wear armor? And just who is Kelleran Beq? Host Amanda Riva s answers all those questions and more on this week's Socially Distanced Podcast. This week she's joined by a very tired Bill Bodkin (Editor-in-Chief) of ThePopBreak.com , a returning Al Mannarino who is back from the Quantum Realm, an...

We've hit our 150th episode with a giant-sized annual edition of Socially Distanced! This week we're discussing the controversial and emotional finale of The Last of Us, the negativity surrounding the new season of The Mandalorian, and the show's third episode, the highly divisive installment dubbed 'The Convert.' Host Amanda Rivas (The Human Star Wars Encyclopedia) is joined by resident guest Ali...

It's the penultimate episode of our Papa Pedro mini-series! Amanda Rivas hosts the episode as we dive deep into the penultimate episode of The Last of Us and the second entry of The Mandalorian's third season. Alisha Weinberger and Bill Bodkin join Amanda in the empty Clare's mind palace to discuss the absolutely brutal, emotional and controversial next-to-last episode of TLOU entitled, 'When We A...

Welcome to the "Papa Pedro" Mini-Series of The Socially Distanced Podcast as we're talking all things Pedro Pascal this week. So, in this "giant-sized annual episode" we split the episode in two-parts! The first part finds Bill Bodkin as host along Amanda Rivas and resident guest Alisha Weinberger discussing The Last of Us Episode 7, 'Left Behind.' Everything from Claire's to mind palaces to the s...

While there may be no mushroom daddies this week, we've still got plenty to talk about when it comes to The Last of Us Episode 6 entitled, 'Kin.' Host Bill Bodkin is rejoined by Amanda Rivas (fresh off a weekend of cosplay and wrestling in Las Vegas) and the #1 commander of our hearts Ben Murchison to discuss this snow-covered episode of HBO's smash hit series. As a programming note, next week beg...

The moral gray and "thicc mushroom daddies" are on tap today for Socially Distanced. Host Bill Bodkin is joined by resident guest Alisha Weinberger and special guest Kelly McGovern to discuss The Last of Us Episode 5, 'Endure and Survive.'  The episode pre-game has the trio discuss their favorite movie trailers from last Sunday's big game -- Scream VI, Fast X, Indiana Jones and the Dial of De...

The Last of Us Episode 4 brought Joel and Ellie into a new world of danger, and the Socially Distanced team is here to talk about it all. Al Mannarino, Amanda Rivas and Bill Bodkin are joined by Pop Break staff writer Sam Niles (who writes The Last of Us reviews for the site, and hosted the Marshall's Movies Podcast ) to discuss everything that went down in "Please Hold to My Hand." They discuss t...

The Last of Us Episode 3, 'Long, Long Time' may just be one of the best episodes of television ever, and Socially Distanced is talking about. Amanda Rivas, Al Mannarino and Bill Bodkin are joined by Alisha Weinberger to discuss this landmark episode of the fledgling series. In the episode they discuss the performances of Nick Offerman as Bill (shockingly no the original actor cast in the role) and...

It's time to talk about the first undeniable runaway hit TV series of 2023 -- HBO's The Last of Us. Al Mannarino, Amanda Rivas and Bill Bodkin are joined by their favorite "geriatric millennial daddy" Alisha Weinberger to discuss the small screen adaptation of Naughty Dog's classic video game series. They discuss video game adaptations, Pedro Pascal's performance as Joel and how it differs from Ma...

Join us on The Golden Mile as we discuss the final film in the Cornetto Trilogy -- The World's End! Released in 2013, the film was the final time Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have worked as trio and the film remains one of their most underrated to date. Pop Break senior writer Ryan DeMarco and his cadre of cats joins Al Mannarino, Amanda Rivas and Bill Bodkin to discuss the ultimate bar...

Here comes the fuzz!  The Cornetto Trilogy (aka The Three Flavours Cornetto) rewatch continues with Hot Fuzz the 2007 action comedy starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (and directed by Edgar Wright).  Al Mannarino, Amanda Rivas and Bill Bodkin are joined by comedian Melissa Jouben who helped inspire the rewatch series during our Spaced episode from last year. On the episode they discuss t...

Yeaaaa boooiiiii ... welcome to the Season 4 premiere of The Socially Distanced Podcast! The podcast kicks off 2023 with its first-ever rewatch series as for the next three weeks we're watching the films of The Cornetto Trilogy. This episode kicks things off with the greatest rom-zom-com of all-time, Shaun of the Dead . Bill Bodkin, Al Mannarino and Amanda Rivas are joined by Tyler McCarthy and Al...

It's the final episode of 2022 aka Season 3 of the podcast. Bill Bodkin, Al Mannarino, Amanda Rivas, Kat Manos, Cole Rothacker and Ben Murchison get together for the final part of the Socially Distanced Holiday Spectacular to present the first ever Socially Distanced Awards! The Main Event: The First Annual Socially Distanced Awards Category #1: The Bluey Award for The Best Television Series of 20...

Yipee Kay Yay! The second part of the Socially Distanced Podcast's Holiday Spectacular continues with a deep dive into the ultimate Christmas movie -- Die Hard ! The inspiration for this show came from Pop Break's podcast editor Alex Marcus, who despite seeing almost every movie known to man, has never seen Die Hard ... so what better time of year to do it than the Christmas season! Alex joins Bil...