The Phileo Podcast

Late Nights At Blockbuster This week’s episode is a Late Nights at Blockbuster celebrating the 25th anniversary of She’s All That. Every random HS movie from the 90s needs a pop star in their first acting role (Usher and Lil Kim!), an oddly jammed in song to sell the soundtrack (Rockafeller Skank by Fatboy Slim), and slang that no one actually used at the time (major wiggage). We also fawn over an...

Corner Booth at Rex’s Ahsoka We know – it sure took us long enough – but hopefully you knew you could count on us to bring you an episode about the newest addition to the Star Wars universe – the first season of Ahsoka. Since it’s a show about a galaxy far, far away, we have Calvin joining us as usual. So, grab a gigantic hyperspace ring, or jump in the mouth of a purrgil, and come along for the r...

If I gave you a dollar you could keep most of the change because all I really want is a…Quarterback. We are celebrating the Super Bowl with a deep dive on the best QB for all 32 NFL teams. We set up some specific ground rules for our exercise so it’s important to keep that in context. We had a lot of discussion regarding where to put the current generation of QBs whose careers are either just star...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Chef Make sure the kitchen is well stocked for this one. You’re going to want a grilled cheese or a Cubano by the time this one is over. We’re celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Chef – which is written and directed by the star of the movie the one and only Jon Favreau. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://mus...

It’s finally time for a Late Nights at Blockbuster episode celebrating the 25th anniversary of Varsity Blues! If you would have told us when we first started this podcast that it would take three years to do this movie, we would have called you crazy. This is probably the movie that we quote the most to each other, the appropriate quotes that is. Speaking of, there is definitely a lot to discuss i...

Corner Booth at Rex’s Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes We’re headed back to Panem and back in time for this prequel to the Hunger Games series. We talk about the ceiling for this movie, the blend of old and new in the cast and how much Byers is terrified by snakes.   As always the first part of the episode is spoiler free.  Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson....

NFL Tiers – Season Recap  The regular season has come to an end so we recap how it all played out – how right we were about some teams, how very wrong we were about some teams. We give our playoff redictions and Byers takes every possible opportunity to dump on the Jets. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-g...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects We kick off 2024 with a movie draft and it felt too easy to go with the 25th Anniversary celebration of movies that came out in 1999. We were originally going to draft 10 movies each but we decided to embrace the weird movies that we wanted to talk about and went to 15. We got derailed several times, especially Troy when he decided to hang around too long on Blast...

Our Top 5 lists of 2023 are here! We discuss our favorite sports moments, movies, and TV shows that came out this year. The audio is different than normal as Byers and I got to record together in person and forgot to mention that at the top. There is plenty of NFL, Star Wars, and MCU discussion especially in light of the likely reset with Jonathan Majors conviction news. We end with the movies and...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects  100 Top Disney Songs  This week I’ve Got a Dream to Go the Distance, to Dig a Little Deeper, and to Be Prepared. Because For the First Time in Forever I’m One Jump Ahead and I See the Light Into the Unknown. So Be Our Guest as we Let it Go and see How Far I’ll Go as we celebrate 100 years of Disney by drafting our top 100 Disney Songs. We promise you’ll be glad t...

Corner Booth at Rex's This week’s Corner Booth at Rex’s episode is on The Marvels. While we were both positive about the movie, Byers was more positive than Troy. We had plenty to quibble about once we got into spoiler territory as a lot of the mechanics of the story didn’t make sense. We also discussed how this movie had the most crossovers of the Marvel TV shows than any other movie that’s b...

Corner Booth at Rex’s Loki Season 2 This week our glorious purpose is to break down all the things we liked and didn’t like about season 2 of Loki – the Disney+ MCU series. We’re traveling through time, or maybe space, or maybe both, but we’re back in the TVA, trying to sort through the mess that Season 1 left us in, and sadly this time there is no alligator Loki to help us out along the way, but...

We're back with the 3/4 season update. We discuss the wide open AFC, our biggest surprises across the league, both pleasant and disappointing, not to mention down right confusing.

Late Nights at Blockbuster Die Hard It’s finally here – the greatest argument in the history of the Phileo Podcast – Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?   We do all our usual breakdowns of this 80s classic – and then give our concluding arguments for whether or not it should also be considered a holiday classic. Please be sure to vote in our first ever poll and let us know what you think. Intro/Outro m...

Late Nights at Blockbuster About Time In case you’re like Byers and have never seen this movie before, we’re not telling you much about this week’s episode. It’s called About Time – it’s a romantic comedy starring Rachel McAdams and Domhnall Gleeson, and if you haven’t seen it – check it out, then come join us as we go through all of our normal laughs, tears and quibbles. Intro/Outro music by frie...

Corner Booth at Rex's This week’s Corner Booth at Rex’s episode is on The Creator. This was a movie that took us by surprise in the middle of the year and it became one of the movies we slotted for this discussion once we saw the trailer. Gareth Edwards describes this movie as, “A mix of Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now.” Troy takes us on an unexpected detour into a discussion of Jai Courtney’s...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects This week’s episode is a Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects where we draft our top 10 Western movies. This comes on the heels (spurs?) of our Late Nights at Blockbuster treatment for Tombstone. Our introduction gives away that we are more new school vs. old school when it comes to Westerns. In the immortal words of Rick Pitino, “John Wayne isn’t walking through tha...

We're back with a roughly midseason update to our tier rankings. Byers is here to hate on the Chiefs and has the audacity to move them all the way down to contenders instead of elite. We also throw in some brief World Series talk and somehow finish up with international travel tips.

Late Nights at Blockbuster Tombstone We’ll be your huckleberry, or your daisy, just don’t call us lungers, because apparently that’s an insult. Because in this episode we head west for 1993’s Tombstone. This one fills up the Drax award and has plenty of candidates for all of our actor categories.  So join us for the full breakdown of this modern western.  Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast...

We return to Middle-Earth for a Late Nights at Blockbuster on the second entry in the The Hobbit Trilogy, The Desolation o Smaug. Troy brings up a well-known name in Great Names in Casting because it’s just too good to ignore. He was also incredibly disappointed in the internet. We said we weren’t going to be too negative and then fell into a long list of plot holes and quibbles. #sorrynotsorry In...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Saving Private Ryan This week we are heading back to 1998 and one of the greatest rip-off in the history of the Oscars. We’re talking about Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan starring Tom Hanks and way more people than you remember being in this movie that you actually know. We enjoy placing all the members of that great cast into their proper places amongst our cate...

Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster is celebrating the 10th anniversary of THE Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Xavier joins us for the whole episode this time to get the teen audience perspective. Troy quickly forgets the move title in the intro but we were able to get things back on track. We left the best for last with an interesting discussion during, "Whose movie is it?" Intro/Outro m...

Our newest episode is a Late Nights at Blockbuster on Enemy of the State. While this was a very successful movie as far as box office, it didn’t really stay in the public conscious. TMNT III and 2001: A Space Odyssey catch some strays in the middle of this pod. As he always does, Byers brings a Friends guest star into Recognize My Face. We also discuss how Anna Gunn can’t escape being cast in unli...

We've hit the quarter mark of the season (sort of) and so we are updating our tiers, giving you all the changes to our rankings and talking about a few surprises from the season so far, some good....some not so good.

Late Nights at Blockbuster Rudy Start with a slow clap, let it build, then start chanting quietly….Rudy….Rudy….now louder, let it build, and once you’re screaming at the top of your lungs like a mad man – now you’re ready to listen to this week’s episode. That’s right, we are deep diving into the sports movie classic from 1993 – Rudy.  Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Fi...