The Phileo Podcast

Late Nights at Blockbuster Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster is a celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. We talk at length about Dumbledore, McGonagall, the rules of Quidditch, and…Thunderpants. Goofs: Troy couldn’t remember Delores Umbridge’s name for some reason and called her pink cat lady. Rik Mayall is the actor that was cast as Peeves. Intro/Outro m...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects We were so inspired by our Lord of the Rings score talk that we decided it would be fun to discuss our Top 10 movie scores.  Goofs: When discussing The Mission, it's Gabriel's Oboe not Daniel's Oboe. Lisa Gerrard is the female voice on the Gladiator score not Enya.   Troy - Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Godfather, Indiana Jones, The Man...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Join us as we close out The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by discussing The Return of the King. We’re still arguing over Orlando vs Vigo, and we find plenty more to disagree about, but also lots of things we love, and we toned down the quotes in this installment compared to The Two Towers. Laurie tries to go Karl Malone over MJ in the 1999 MVP race when we hand out our award...

Late Nights at Blockbuster We’re back for round two in Middle Earth as we move on to the second installment in the trilogy. We’re still arguing over Orlando vs Vigo, and we find plenty more to disagree about, but also lots of things we love, and more quotes than you could ever imagine. So get some taters and boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew and join us as we breakdown The Two Towers. Goo...

Corner Booth at Rex’s NFL Tiers Week 8 Update We give updated rankings at (almost) the halfway mark of the season. Let us know if you agree with who we think is Elite, and who belongs in Pooptown. Goofs: Someday we won't have to remind each other of people's names....actually we'll probably just get worse the older we get, but we'll try. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson....

Late Nights at Blockbuster "It's dangerous thing, going out your door." We celebrate 20 years of The Lord of the Rings with a trilogy breakdown for the next three weeks. Forgive us for going long on this one, but it's The Lord of the Rings! We tidy it up in the next one and the one after that, we promise. Laurie and I really enjoyed Byers consistently quoting or making reference to the extended ed...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Happy Gilmore We discuss the 90's classic Happy Gilmore as it celebrates it's 25 year anniversary. We pay our quarter, get on the horse, and go up and down and around.  Goofs: Byers was trying to come up with Vince Papale when discussing the movie Invincible with Marky Mark.  Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes...

Corner Booth at Rex’s Shang-Chi We’re here to talk about the Master of Kung-Fu and his new Marvel movie. So order some food and join us in the corner booth as we nerd out over the latest addition to the MCU. Spoiler-free until the 31 minute mark. Goofs: The movie Hero is set in Feudal China not Feudal Japan.  Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTune...

Corner Booth at Rex’s NFL Tiers Week 4 Update We give up updated rankings after the first 4 weeks. Let us know if you agree with who we think is Elite, and who belongs in Pooptown. Goofs: By the end of the year we will get the math right on having 17 games. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-gilbertson/1155...

2021 MLB Playoff Preview Corner Booth at Rex's We hand out some awards for the season from 1:50-22:30 (Don't pay attention to the fact that we said that we wouldn't talk about these much.) We get into the playoff talk after that minute mark.  Goofs: Troy definitely overlooked Walker Buehler in the Cy Young race. Zack Greinke didn't have a losing record in 2009 when he won the Cy, but the team...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects We both went to Disney World and Universal this summer so we rank our Top 5 rides. We also discussed our favorite queues and food.  Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-gilbertson/1155231950 ) and YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/user/sethgilbertson/videos )

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Top 5 Childhood Adventure Movies Since we went through Goonies last week, we decided to list our Top 5 Childhood Adventure Movies. The ground rules were pretty loose as to what constituted an adventure movie but we held the childhood qualifier to about middle school age.  Goofs: Troy butchered the first name of the writer-director for My Neighbor Totoro. It i...

The Goonies Late Nights at Blockbuster We discuss the 80's classic The Goonies as it celebrates it's 35 year anniversary. We spend a lot of time on whether Sean Astin has a breakout performance or not and Troy brings up Memphis Belle yet again. You can find the referenced deleted scene with the octopus and the music video on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/The-Phileo-Podcast-1045481583...

Corner Booth at Rex’s Loki We’re here to talk about the god of mischief and all his glorious purpose from season 1 of the newest Marvel show on Disney+. So order some food and join us in the corner booth as we nerd out over the latest addition to the MCU. Spoiler-free until the 24 minute mark. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://music.app...

We talk through all the teams and divisions and give our predictions about records, as well our Super Bowl picks. We also throw out some picks for MVP, DPOY and several other awards, and we present our first tier rankings, which we plan to update about every 4 weeks throughout the season. So please feel free to take notes and remind us how wrong we were at the end of the season. Intro/Outro music...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Top 5 High School Shows We're going to back to homeroom, detention and Friday night football games, and talking about our Top 5 High School TV shows. Goofs: The official count of same rankings to start the MCU was only 4 – we were not the same on the first Captain America, but we were the same on 12 out of the 23. Byers says “captain of the football team” on One T...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects The OC – we’re diving into all four seasons of the early 2000s teenage soap drama. So put some Seth-Ryan time on the books and come hang out in the pool house with us as we talk about the good and plenty of bad that was the OC. Goofs: We get a few things mixed up on the timeline, especially with the last two seasons, but have you watched those? It’s hard to blame...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Top 5 "Big 3" of sports. A little football, we dabble in baseball, and we talk a whole lot of basketball as we discuss the best trios in sports. Apologies in advance to all the Lebron fans out there - #sorrynotsorry Goofs: Troy flipped the Larry Bird and James Worthy situations. The Lakers benefited from Cleveland trading way all of their picks. The Celtics select...

Corner Booth at Rex’s Black Widow We discuss the COVID delayed MCU movie, Black Widow. This is the first MCU movie that we get to discuss as it is released. These are our thoughts after watching the movie one time and where we would place it on our MCU Tiers.    Full Spoilers begin at the 30:00 mark Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( h...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Top 5 Chevy Chase Roles It’s tough talking about movies that are as old as you are, but there’s plenty of enjoyable tangents. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-gilbertson/1155231950 ) and YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/user/sethgilbertson/videos )

Special Edition of The Phileo Podcast We are sharing some thoughts on the NBA Playoffs. Talking about surprises, the state of the game, what we think the future may hold, and plenty of Byers talking about how he doesn't like Lebron. Goofs: Troy forgot that Kurt Warner and the Rams won the Super Bowl in the 1999 season but he will maintain that they had not become a full on villain yet since they l...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Three Amigos (1986) Look up here! There are gringos falling from the sky. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-gilbertson/1155231950 ) and YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/user/sethgilbertson/videos )

Corner Booth at Rex’s Wandavision Wallow with us as we enjoy the process of grief with Wanda Maximoff in the new Disney+ series. Half Spoiler at the 21:21 mark Full Spoilers begins at the 22:04 mark Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-gilbertson/1155231950 ) and YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/user/sethgil...

Corner Booth at Rex's Marvel Cinematic Universe Rankings We break down all 23 movies from the MCU into 6 tiers – which are named for the 6 Infinity Stones. Power Stone – The power to destroy entire planets, the best of the best. Time Stone – The ones we could watch over and over again. Space Stone – Good movies, but have some giant “wormholes” in them. Mind Stone – Tricks you into believing they a...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Top 5 High School Movies Goofs: Troy says the dollar theater on San Mateo and Osuna and it should be San Mateo near McLeod. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-gilbertson/1155231950 ) and YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/user/sethgilbertson/videos )