The Phileo Podcast

Late Nights at Blockbuster Our newest episode is a twofer! Late Nights at Blockbuster for Tangled and a Disney Princess Draft. If you listened to our Disney song draft you'll know that we hold Tangled in very high regard. We discuss how this pulled Disney out of their musical slump and the lengthy development process it survived. After Tangled, we jump into our Disney Princess draft with no ru...

Corner Booth at Rex’s Happy Gilmore 2 Grab yourself a Subway footlong, your hockey stick and let’shit the course for another round of golf with the one and only Happy Gilmore. Don’t think about it – if you think too much, you miss out on all the fun, so just sit back, enjoy and tap it in, just tap it in, give it a little tappy, tap-tap-tap-a-roo. Spoiler free to the 20:45 mark. Intro/Outro music b...

The NFL season gets underway next Thursday and we've got our Season Preview as our newest episode. We've got record predictions, playoff and Super Bowl picks, season award picks, and as always we put all of the teams into our tiers. Troy was super boring and played it safe with his season awards, while Byers made things a little more interesting. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast...

Corner Booth at Rex’s Fantastic Four: First Steps Finally – it’s here. And we mean that in multiple ways. Finally we have the Fantastic Four as full fledged members of the MCU. And also finally, we had a chance to sit down and talk about it and share our thoughts on the newest addition to the MCU. We keep things spoiler free until about the 24:45 mark. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Se...

Corner Booth at Rex's Our newest Corner Booth at Rex's is on James Gunn reboot of Superman. The movie is packed to the gills with characters, creatures, and crazy concepts. Come alongside us as we discuss all the good, the bad, and the very weird of the movie that will reboot the entire DCU. Byers makes Troy a little sad with one of his criticisms of the film as it was one of his favorite...

Corner Booth at Rex’s Andor season 2 Calibrate your enthusiasm – but we finally made it through the newest Star Wars series and we’re here this week to talk about season 2 of Andor. Sorry for the delay, but we have friends everywhere and we’ve been busy. So we hope you enjoy the good, the bad, and the awkward of Andor with us –spoiler free until the 26:35 mark. Intro/Outro music by friend of the p...

Corner Booth at Rex's Get ready for The Final Reckoning as we discuss the latest installment of the Mission Impossible franchise. Were you confused that they changed the title away from Dead Reckoning Part 2? We were too! As with every Mission Impossible movie, there are plenty of quibbles about the validity of the plot and major steps to resolve it. We talk about the history of the MI franchise t...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Inside Out This week we are going to one of the scariest places imaginable…the brain of a preteen girl. That’s right, we’re talking about Inside Out this week. We are literally here for all the emotions – Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, Fear, we’re hitting all of them – especially when we start doing quotes. So grab some Tripledent Gum (it will make you smile), call up you...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Toy Story We’re making ourselves feel old this episode as we discuss the 30th anniversary of the Pixar film that started it all – Toy Story. That’s right we’re falling with style, we’ve got a snake in our boot, and we’re going to infinity and beyond this week. So find yourself a moving buddy, pack extra batteries and try to avoid that kid who lives next door, because we...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Star Wars – Episode III – Revenge of the Sith This week we are celebrating the 20th Anniversaryof Revenge of the Sith. As usual that means Calvin is joining us as we talk through the conclusion of the prequel trilogy. We know it’s not a perfect movie, and that love has blinded us, but we don’t care who knows anymore, we’re tiredof hiding it. So come along as we watch Ana...

Corner Booth at Rex's Our newest Corner Booth at Rex’s is on the newest MCU entry, Thunderbolts! Get ready for a ton of comparisons to Guardians of the Galaxy because they are warranted. Troy meanders his way through a painful example of how the Thunderbolts are like the Celtics as if he were Bill Simmons. We also spend some time on the incredible score by Son Lux, even though we forgot to men...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Despicable Me Here’s the plan. We watch the movie. We take notes on themovie. We talk about the movie. We sit on the toilet…wait what? Who did this – excuse us for just one second….ok, we’re back and we’ve got all the fart guns, the fluffy unicorns, and plenty of boogie robots for our trip to super silly fun land. We might set a new record for longest tangent within the...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster celebrates the 10th anniversary of Avengers: Age of Ultron. We discuss why this is seen as the least of all the Avengers movies but still good in its own way. There are plenty of Stark quips to run through due to the continued presence of Joss Whedon as writer/director. We also discuss how well the it has held up by all of the movies...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Gladiator Our names are Troy and Byers, creators of the Phileo Podcast,teammates on a 2007 rec basketball team, attempting to be loyal followers of the true King, Jesus Christ, each of us father to a teen and a preteen, husband to an embarrassed wife (if they read this), and we will talk about Gladiator, in this life and possibly the next – because it’s a really great mo...

Late Nights at Blockbuster What will you do with a new Late Nights at Blockbuster? Will you fight? We are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the movie that all pastors love to quote, Braveheart! Much likeMel Gibson our Scottish accents will be going in and out when you least expect it. We also can’t stop giggling at the ridiculous names in this move so be prepared for a lot of that. We spent a li...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Fletch What do a doctor, a patient, a pilot, an airplane mechanic, aprivate investigator, a roller skater, a rancher, an insurance agent, the mattress police, a reporter, and the power forward for the Lakers have in common? They’re all played by Chevy Chase in the movie Fletch – and this week we’re here to talk about all the aliases and all the jokes we didn’t get as kid...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Similar to the golden snitch opening at the close, we've made it to the end of our time with the Harry Potter series. Our latest Late Nights at Blockbuster combines The Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2 but we managed to keep ourselves in check with a normal runtime (for us). We explain why we combined them and go through a pretty lengthy discussion on what these movies...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Memento We have this condition you see. It’s where we watch moviesover and over again. And then we talk about them all the time. And especially if it’s one of our absolute favorites we might talk to you about it again – you see we can’t remember if we’ve told you about it, and how great it is, and how much we like it. So we need to be sure. Because we’re sure about some...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Our newest podcast is about a selfish emperor who learns a lesson in humility when he is turned into a llama. That description can only be one movie, The Emperor's New Groove! We'll be talking David Spade, Patrick Warburton, and of course Tom Jones. Grab yourself some spinach puffs and a steak cut in the shape of a trout to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this...

Corner Booth at Rex’s Captain America: Brave New World This week we are finally back in our favorite booth(figuratively, but I could really go for a burger) to talk about the latest piece of the MCU puzzle – Captain America: Brave New World. Surprisingly that colon you just read was not mentioned once during the entire episode – we mustbe losing a step, we should have taken the super soldier serum...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Back to school, back to school, to prove to everyone that we aren't fools! It's time for a Late Nights at Blockbuster on Billy Madison. We're going to ask people if they want some milk, tell people that peeing their pants is the coolest, and letting everyone we come into contact know that O'Doyle Rules. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilb...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Tommy Boy This week on the Phileo Podcast we want to remind you that brothers don’t shake hands….brothers hug. And we’re here for all the hugs, all the shots to the face, all the fat guys wearing little coats – it’s all great – we guarantee it – and you don’t need to stick your head up the bull’s butt, you can take our word for it….hey a prehistoric forest! Intro/Outro m...

Late Nights at Blockbuster You don't have to bring any pizza to this week's podcast, they've already got food there! Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hitch. Lots of Kevin James talk in this one and rightfully so. This is his breakout role and we explore what he did with it after 20 years. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Will Smith Draft This week we’re floating like butterflies and stinging like bees. We’re fighting aliens and robots and more aliens. We’re setting up dates and being the ultimate wingman.  We’re chasing down bad guys and getting chased by corrupt government agents. We might even pop out of a magic lamp or push our kids to be tennis superstars. We’re drafting and d...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Bad Boys. We discuss how different the movie could have been with the original actors that were attached in the early stages and how Michael Bay had to do a decent amount of personal investment to make sure he finished the movie the way he wanted. We tried to do a better job of being selective w...