The Phileo Podcast

Corner Booth at Rex’s Twisters We feel it and so we’re going to chase it. We’re hopping in the truck and driving straight into the storm this week. We’re talking about the new movie Twisters starring Glenn Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones. As per usual we stay spoiler free for the first part – spoilers kick in right about the 20 minute mark. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson....

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Steven Spielberg Draft This episode was always going to happen – life finds a way. We just needed a bigger boat first. But now we’re ready to phone home and draft our favorite Spielberg movies. Byers confesses his love for a musical and Troy reveals gaps in his movie viewing experience as we tackle the full catalog of one of the greatest movie makers of all time....

Late Nights at Blockbuster We are celebrating the 35th anniversary of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade! We talk about our experiences with the series and how Byers shares Indy’s fear of snakes. Troy shows how immature he is with his choice for Great Name in Casting. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( ⁠https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-gil...

Corner Booth at Rex’s The Acolyte This week we are talking about the latest Disney addition to a galaxy far, far away. We talk about the good, the bad, and plenty of ugly. Then we wrap it all up with a brief commentary on the overall Disney Star Wars slate of movies and TV shows. Spoiler free until just after the 29 minute mark. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Get ready to do a bunch of house chores in the name of karate! It's the Late Nights at Blockbuster that Byers has been waiting for since the beginning, The Karate Kid! He shares the story of how Daniel LaRusso taught him his first curse word and we explore the "is Daniel the real villain" at several points of the conversation. Byers got to reference Cobra K...

Corner Booth at Rex's Buckle up for a ride down our stream of conscious on Inside Out 2. There are plenty of new characters to talk about and whether or not they pulled off a worthy successor to the much beloved original. Troy teases Byers a lot about using identity as a theme when we do new movies, but this one was too difficult to avoid using it as a theme. Troy couldn’t help himself and goe...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Batman Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight? We ask that of all our listeners, we just like the sound of it. We also love the sound of Danny Elfman’s score in this iconic movie from our childhood. We talk nostalgia for the best batmobile ever, but also admit that several things in this movie have not aged too well, and although we tried not too, we m...

Late Nights at Blockbuster 50 First Dates We’re back with more Sandler this week, and this time we’ve got Drew Barrymore as well. We discuss their great chemistry along with quite the cast of characters to support them. So grab yourself some Spam and Reese’s or make a house out of waffles and come to the islands with us as we discuss 50 First Dates. Just watch out for the sharks, they bite when yo...

Late Nights at Blockbuster We're celebrating the 25th anniversary of Big Daddy this week also known as, The One where Byers tells Troy that his wife was acting real "Hooterific." We'll talk plenty of Jon Stewart, Nazo the Delivery guy, Scuba Steve, and Rumpelstiltskin. Since this is one of our favorites we do talk about our favorite version of Sandler's man-children for a lit...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Get in loser, we’re doing a podcast! It's the 20th anniversary of Mean Girls. Unapologetically, the Drax award nominees get a little out of control but it’s to be expected with this movie. We chase a weird squirrel on the worst female names from the Bible. We also spend a little bit of time on how different this movie would have been with social media. Intro/Outro mu...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Drafting Brad Pitt Roles On the heels of last week's show we talk through the highs, a few of the lows, and even some of the weird that has been the career of Brad Pitt. And just like most of the fantasy sports drafts that we do, there were some reaches, at least one fall, and some instant buyer's remorse (at least for Byers) at how high a role was taken....

Late Nights at Blockbuster Our latest Late Nights at Blockbuster is on the 20th anniversary of Troy. Brad Pitt doesn't say great things about this movie and sometimes we don't either. We talk plenty about the nonsense that Priam participated in to further the plot of this movie. Sorry if you are an Eric Bana apologist, we don't go in on him but we gift him one of our awards that you do...

Corner Booth at Rex’s The Fall Guy Well Troy has finally done it….he got Byers to watch a Ryan Gosling movie, as this week we are discussing The Fall Guy, also starring Emily Blunt. So engage your core, buckle your seat belt and hold on tight as we jump into the new movie from director David Leitch.  Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://mu...

Corner Booth at Rex's Byers and Troy together strong. Come join us as we climb to the high nest and get our eagle egg. We were both positive on the movie by Troy more than Byers. Spoiler warning, we talk a lot about the Caesar Planet of the Apes trilogy in both our non-spoiler and spoiler filled thoughts. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( ⁠...

Our newest Corner Booth at Rex’s is on Civil War. Alex Garland’s movie about a dystopian America at war with itself is a very pretty movie but one that deals with very ugly realities. We talk a lot about the ambiguity of the film and Garland’s career while Byers convinces Troy to increase his score for once. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( ⁠h...

Late Nights at Blockbuster  Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace  Every generation has a legend. Every journey has a first step. Every saga has a beginning. And every time we talk about a Star Wars movie we add Calvin to the mix. So build your own Pod and race on over, or stay in that cockpit and fly your Naboo star fighter to join us as we travel through the planet core and back into a galax...

Corner Booth at Rex’s Ghostbusters : Frozen Empire Well strap on your proton pack and get ready to hop back into the Ectomobile as we discuss the newest installment in the Ghostbusters franchise. We talk about the good – especially some new additions to the cast – but we also talk about the bad – like where did some of our existing cast go – and ultimately we walk away kind of asking ourselves if...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Our newest Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects is a draft of Old Time Baseball Nicknames. This is a topic that may seem superfluous but it is very near and dear to our hearts. Way too much research was done in the name of making each other laugh while also having something interesting to say about the player and how they got their nickname. Since we went far back in...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Field of Dreams If you record it…they will listen….or do we have to be in a cornfield? This week we’re digging into an absolute classic of a sports movie – although as we discuss – it’s the least sporty sports movie ever. But we’re talking about Field of Dreams starring Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones and Ray Liotta. So Go the Distance and Ease our Pain by listening to o...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Opening day for MLB was a few weeks ago, but that won’t stop us from celebrating the beginning of baseball season by discussing Major League. This was a cable classic for both of us growing up and we discuss how that impacts us especially forgetting how much language is in the version that wasn’t aired on cable. If you loved Bob Eucker in this movie, then you are not alo...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Our newest episode is a Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects drafting our favorite MCU Villains. This was an easy transition after discussing Captain America: The Winter Soldier last week. In retrospect, we probably should have cut this at ten a piece but we can’t turn down an opportunity to add more people/movies to a draft. Byers pulls out his great Obadiah Stane i...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Captain America: The Winter Soldier  We are diving back into the MCU this week, for the 10 year anniversary of one of our favorite Marvel movies. You'll notice our love for this movie quickly, because this episode has possibly the longest opening we've ever done for a Late Nights at Blockbuster. We still have quibbles even with one of our favorites - although we...

Corner Booth at Rex’s Dune part 2 It’s finally here – after being on our most anticipated movies for 2 years in a row – Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel has arrived and we’re here to give you our take on the good, the bad and the ugly (literally) of the new film. No official math exists on this, but this is quite possibly the largest gap in our Phileo Podcast scores for a movie that we were actual...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Our latest Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects explores our disappointing sequels. We decided not to do another draft as we didn’t think it was that deep of a subject. We figured that we would share a few and that would be fine. There are the usual suspects in her but we managed to surprise each other with a few of our picks. We talked about The Last Jedi again. We’...

Late Nights at Blockbuster The Matrix Are you going to take the red pill or the blue pill? Take the blue pill and you wake up none the wiser of all of our favorite scenes and quotes. Take the red pill and you go down the rabbit hole with us as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of this iconic film. Byers shares one of his favorite spiritual metaphors ever in a movie and Troy reveals a very personal...