The Calcopia Podcast

It’s Calcopia’s Movie Time! Podcast! Listen as movie nerds Ethan Brehm and Nate Evans deep dive into their favorite films and cinematic scenes for your listening delight. Timed to celebrate 40 years of Super Mario Bros, we’re booting up Illumination and Nintendo’s  The Super Mario Galaxy Movie , the sequel to 2023’s blockbuster that signaled there was a new animation champion in Hollywood. For a c...

Joining our own Nate Evans on this picturesque episode is legendary cartoonist and illustrator Steve Lafler to talk about his latest book,  Crazy For You , where he adapts and illustrates two short stories by acclaimed travel, novelist, and fellow storyteller Paul Theroux (The Old Patagonian Express, The Mosquito Coast) into one highly buyable volume from Fantagraphics. The two chat how how his co...

Joining our cinematic latchkey kids Nate Evans and Ethan Brehm on this totally tubular episode is author and film historian  John Malahy  to talk about his new book, Rewinding The ’80s: Cinema Under the Influence of Music Videos, Action Stars, and a Cold War, a look at not just some of the most popular and influential films from the “decade of excess”, but also makes a strong argument why the deca...

It’s Calcopia’s Movie Time! Podcast…for 2025! Regular hosts Ethan Brehm and Nate Evans are joined by fellow cinephiles Susana Bojorquez and Brian Kwayi in a spectacular, outrageously long episode overstuffed and ready to explode with everything about the movies they loved, liked, and loathed in a year filled with movie magic. Did your favorites (or stinkers) make the list? Ours include:  Freaky Ta...

Joining our resident cinephiles Nate Evans and Ethan Brehm on this cinematic episode is author Stephen Rebello, whose 1990 ‘Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho’ is widely considered the definitive journal of one of the most beloved films of all-time. After 35 years he returns to The Master of Suspense with the meticulously researched Criss-Cross – The Making of Hitchcock’s Dazzling, Subversi...

Joining our own book nerd Nate Evans on this literary episode is the esteemed Dr. Bernard Schweizer, writer, editor, and Professor Emeritus of English at Long Island University, as well as founder of  Heresy Press , an imprint dedicated to “enduring quality standards, i.e. literary merit, originality, style, relevance, courage, humor, and intellectual rigor”, celebrating its third anniversary and...

Joining hosts Nate Evans and Cory Galliher on this episode is photographer Christian Wenk to talk about his new book, Trigger Happy: A Visual Celebration of Video Game Controllers, a dazzling visual encyclopedia that chronicles not just the evolution of popular and obscure game controllers, but it’s a testimonial to why we love these peripherals told through Christian’s stunning photography and me...

It’s the Consumer Electronics Show for 2026! The world’s biggest technology showcase has come and gone once again, but there’s still plenty of amazing (and some less so) innovations in the world of tech and gadgetry to fill up an entire episode, and that’s exactly what you’ll get in this extra-large (and extra-stacked) recap of tomorrow's technology...today! Calcopia's Senior Tech editor Herman Ex...

Joining our resident science nerd Nate Evans on this episode is best-selling author and science popularizer Mary Roach, whose books have explored human cadavers, the afterlife, scientific sex, bringing readers from the edges of space to the deepest regions of the human colon. She’s here to talk about her latest, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy, an exploration of human augmentation and...

Joining Nate Evans and our own resident editor-slash-musician Besu Tadesse is the multi hyphenated composer, arranger, and ultimate game fan Daniel Jimenez-Wall, aka Rozen, to talk about his new album Ballads of Hyrule III, the third entry in his collection of reimagined themes and familiar melodies from Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda franchise, available now on digital and physical media from Mecha D...

It’s Calcopia’s Movie Time! Podcast! Listen as movie nerds Ethan Brehm and Nate Evans deep dive into their favorite films and cinematic scenes for your listening delight. On deck in 1987’s Spaceballs, comedy icon Mel Brooks’ loving homage to Star Wars, Star Trek, The Wizard of Oz, but mostly Star Wars. With an unforgettable cast of beloved comedy legends like Rick Moranis, John Candy, Dom DeLuise,...

It’s Calcopia's Movie Time! Podcast, new and improved! Movie nerds Ethan Brehm and Nate Evans deep dive into their favorite films and cinematic scenes. On today's episode they having a howling good time with two hairy and scary werewolf classics: The Wolf Man (1941) and American Werewolf in London (1981).