The Phileo Podcast

Our newest episode is another entry into our series called Better than Perfect on the TV sitcom Scrubs. Byers and Troy have their first ever duet on a classic early 2000s radio staple. We have plenty of Rowdy the stuffed dog, Troy gets to mention the show Love Monkey again, and Byers leads off a quote with “I don’t even know what this is in reference to” and that is the theme for all great Scrubs...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Armageddon Who doesn’t love a story about oil drillers becoming astronauts? So come suspend some reality and enjoy the ride with us as we talk through this late 90s classic. We have plenty of favorite quotes, lots of quibbles and even somehow managed to out Michael Bay as a possible flat- earther.   Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more mu...

It’s time for our annual NFL preview. We provide our records for each team, place them in our tiers that we’ll be using for the rest of the year, and predict award and Super Bowl winners. We agreed on a lot of teams and their records but disagreed the most on the Rams. Troy promised that he wouldn’t go in depth on the Texans and then couldn’t help himself and did it anyway. We end with some Jonath...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix We’re back in the wizarding world for the 5th installment in the series. Surprisingly we both feel very differently about this movie – for one it's their favorite, and the other one its their least favorite, but we still find plenty of common ground because who doesn’t enjoy Luna Lovegood? I mean we’re all just as perfectly...

Corner Booth at Rex’s   Oppenheimer   Is there really any surprise that we’re doing the newest Christopher Nolan movie? Not to mention it has some of our favorites – Murphy, Downey, Damon. Add in some great New Mexico scenery and the fact that Byers is a history dork, and we’re all in for this one.   Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://mu...

Late Nights at Blockbuster This week’s episode is a Late Nights at Blockbuster celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Dazed and Confused. This movie was the springboard for a few mega stars of the 90s and early 2000s. We have some disclaimers about the movie before we go on to talk about it for more than 90 minutes. Byers does actual research on the drinking age in Texas during this time and we dive...

Late Nights at Blockbuster   Jurassic Park   Hold on to your butts as we take the gas powered jeep out into the jungle and get chased by amusement park attractions. We’re diving elbow deep into piles of poop, we’re climbing down trees and fences as slowly as possible, we’re exploring the depths of Jeff Goldblum’s stardom.  So welcome my dear friends, to Jurassic Park.   Intro/Outro music by friend...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Join us as we celebrate the 25th Anniversary of The Truman Show on our most recent Late Nights at Blockbuster. The discussion ventures off into reality TV, social media, free will, and as Byers is wont to do Chozen from The Karate Kid 2. Meryl is already a bummer in this movie but Byers takes issue with one of her annoying habits. We also dive into a Jim Carrey career tr...

Our latest Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects borrows a theme from our most recent The Italian Job podcast as we are drafting our favorite heist movies. We figured our lists would probably be too similar for a Top 5 so we needed to go the draft route. We spend a little more time on our respective movies than we did in the villain draft and Troy chases plenty of squirrels, as usual. Goofs: The name...

Late Nights at Blockbuster   The Italian Job   What do sumo wrestling, lack of romantic chemistry, disinterested actors, bad experiences, and bad guy mustaches all have in common? They all come up on this episode, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg as we go through all the twists, turns and tangents of discussing 2003’s The Italian Job.   Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbert...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Our newest Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects is a draft of our favorite movie villains! We didn’t do a good job of laying down the ground rules with each other so we workshop it to start the draft and decided to leave it in there to remove any doubt that we are nerds. We also didn’t feel the need to explain a lot of our first few picks as they are quintessential v...

Late Nights at Blockbuster   Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl   Make sure you notice that colon and enjoy our one and only installment from the Pirates franchise, because as we talk about several times, it will be the only one. As always, Byers is a sucker for a good sword fight, so you can tell which one of us likes this movie more than the other.   Intro/Outro music by friend o...

Corner Booth at Rex’s  The Flash  You want to get nuts – let’s get nuts – and talk about the new Flash movie. We’re doing our usual non-spoiler breakdown before we jump into what we liked and disliked about the newest addition to the DC Universe.   Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-gilbertson/1155231950 )...

Our newest Corner Booth at Rex’s is on Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. We stay spoiler-free until the 19-minute mark. There was obviously going to be a lot of comparison to the first movie and to a lot of what is going on currently in the MCU. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-gilbertson/1155231950 )...

Our latest Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects is a draft of our favorite movie sequels. We couldn’t help ourselves and instead of going Top 5 we decided to go Top 10 and then in the middle of recording we recognized that we needed to go Top 15. Comic book movies are obviously ripe for this type of discussion and we didn’t disappoint. Goofs: Troy forgot that Ant-Man and Wasp was also in between Infi...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Our newest Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects is on our Top 5 Non-MCU movies. In addition to our Top 5 we wanted to do a bottom 5 since there are some big stinkers in this category. We end the conversation by talking about our biggest disappointments. We keep the Spider-Man 3 bashing to a minimum, and yes we were very pleased with ourselves for doing so.  Goof...

Corner Booth at Rex's Our newest Corner Booth at Rex’s is on The Mandalorian Season 3. We go through our normal categories and stay spoiler free for the first 15 minutes. After that we discuss some of our likes and dislikes of the season as this was one that many people were down on. Byers never tells Troy that he ran out of negative things to stay and just starts talking about the positives m...

Our newest Corner Booth at Rex's is on the Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. This one was on both of our most anticipated of 2023 lists back when we closed out 2022. There is plenty of discussion about newcomer Adam Warlock, the always awesome soundtrack, Buff Groot, and our thoughts on the end of the trilogy. Spoilers begin at the 17 minute mark. Goofs: Troy couldn’t remember that the ship wa...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Our latest Late Nights at Blockbuster celebrates 40 years of Return of the Jedi. We get into George Lucas’ union busting ways, lots of toy and lego talk, and we’re pretty sure that this is the most you’ll ever hear someone talk about Moff Jerjerrod. Calvin accurately describes this as a feel-good movie as it is the most positive of any of the Star Wars movies. Troy also...

Late Nights at Blockbuster   Willow   We’re celebrating the 35th anniversary of Willow this week, or if said properly (like a goat) Wiillllooowww. So join us as we talk about Mad Martigan’s amazing influence on our childhood, as well as the comedic skills of Brownies and some sadly, very outdated looking special effects.   Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Our latest edition of Late Nights at Blockbuster has us discussing the 15th Anniversary of Iron Man. If this movie wasn’t a success the terminology Marvel Cinematic Universe wouldn’t exist. We don’t have much negative to say about least favorite scene or editing but we have plenty of fun with plot holes and quibbles. Troy meanders a bit and somehow brings Mozart into the...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster celebrates the 20th anniversary of X2: X-men United. This will be our easiest favorite scene ever, but we needed to go through those that were going to be relegated to second place. We were pretty chalk on most of the categories but still had some differences in the things that bug us about this movie. Byers dives into his bag of tri...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire We are headed back to the wizarding world for the 4th movie in the Harry Potter Series – Goblet of Fire. So join us for the Quidditch World Cup, the Triwizard Tournament, some dance lessons with McGonagall, and of course the most awkward bath ever – just watch out for that Chinese Fireball – ooohhh.   Intro/Outro music by friend of t...

Late Nights at Blockbuster   42   We’re continuing our baseball theme, as we look at the 2013 sports bio-pic 42 about Jackie Robinson breaking into the majors with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Some great performances, and a good retelling of an important time in American sports history, and just in time for Jackie Robinson Day on April 15.   Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Fin...

Late Nights at Blockbuster In honor of the baseball season starting, we are giving the Late Nights at Blockbuster treatment for the 30th Anniversary of The Sandlot. Byers doesn’t like Smalls’ Mom nerd shaming him. We spend more time examining Marley Shelton’s career than we intended. Byers snuck in a quick discussion of who has the better baseball movie resume, James Earl Jones or Kevin Costner. I...