The Phileo Podcast

Late Nights at Blockbuster Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster is a time capsule of our high school days. This year marks the 25th anniversary of Can’t Hardly Wait. We tried our best to not recite the whole movie for our Drax award and Troy can’t stop saying people’s names like they do in the movie. Byers continues his assault on things that Troy likes, but once again he has very reasoned argume...

Corner Booth at Rex's Our most recent podcast is our 100th Episode! It is fitting that we have a Corner Booth at Rex’s for Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania. We’ll discuss our usual categories, movie score, and placement in our infinity stone tiers. Spoilers start around the 23 minute mark. We get into who Kang is in the comics and how this movie portrayed him. We were in agreement as far as o...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Top 5 Guilty Pleasure Movies We all have them, some movie that the rational side of you has to admit, probably isn’t very good. Most of your friends say so. The internet probably says so. Your spouse definitely says so. But you just can’t help it – you love this movie. Those are the movies we’re talking about this week…well at least the ones we love, you probably...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Do you like montages? Then do we have a movie for you! Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster is focused on the 35th anniversary of Bloodsport. The JCVD vehicle that started a string of movies that have essentially the same plot. Troy really stretches the phrase, “It’s like a Nolan movie.” For those of you that do not like our Drax award, you are rewarded with our quickes...

Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster celebrates the 25th anniversary of The Wedding Singer. This was high on both of our Top 5 Sandler movies that we went through last year. There is plenty of discussion on music, Sandler and Barrymore trying to rekindle the magic displayed here, and Rosie almost stealing the movie despite being in three scenes.  Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Se...

Our latest Late Nights at Blockbuster celebrates the 15th anniversary of Wall∙E. This is our first in-depth discussion of animated movie so we take a few detours on animated movies, especially Pixar, as a whole. Byers lays out an incredible case as to why he had this on his overrated list in our recent pod and why it might actually be the worst Pixar movie of the decade.  The new intro song i...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Our newest episode is on our Top 5 overrated movies. Byers' picks eventually start to feel like a personal attack on Troy until he gets to his number 1 slot. Troy took aim at Oscar winners and film nerds as a whole. We close out with our honorable mentions and hope that Byers hasn't set off a firestorm from which he can never recover.  Intro/Outro music by fr...

Corner Booth at Rex's Calvin returns to the show to discuss Andor. We’ve been looking forward to this one for a while as all of us enjoyed the show and the new experience that it brought to Star Wars television. We talk at length how it felt like an Expanded Universe (EU) novel alongside the different ways that people can and did watch the show and their reactions to it. We definitely geek out abo...

Corner Booth at Rex’s Tales of the Jedi Our buddy Calvin is back with us again, and you know what that means – we’re talking Star Wars. This time we are diving deep into The Tales of the Jedi, a series of shorts focused on the characters Ahsoka Tano and Count Dooku. They released in October of 2022 and we spend almost as much time talking about them as it takes to watch them. Intro/Outro music by...

Late Nights at Blockbuster “Once you are a parent, you are a ghost of your children’s future.” Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster is the 2014 Christopher Nolan movie, Interstellar. This was high on both of our Christopher Nolan movie rankings that we did last summer. The movie is described by Byers as, “The first time watching it is 98% emotional gut punch while the other 2% is trying to figure...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects 1998 Movie Draft We’re taking our love of movies and our love for drafting and putting our hands together on this one. We go back and forth picking our favorite movies that came out in 1998, a year full of some great movies, some guilty pleasures, and several movies that we will be diving deeper into later this year. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth...

Week 18 NFL Tiers Update We recap the regular season and see how we did with our preseason picks. Plus we jump into some playoff predictions. 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 )

Late Nights at Blockbuster Inception We are starting the year off with one of our favorites, it is Christopher Nolan showing off all of his skills and taking us into a dream, within a dream, within a dream…..or is it all in a dream? Does the top keep spinning? We offer up our thoughts and questions about 2010’s Inception. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects The last podcast of the year is dedicated to our Top 5 lists of 2022. We discuss our favorite movies, TV, and sports moments that happened this year and mention those that we are looking forward to next year. Byers loses his faith in humanity as we discuss Banshees of Inisherin (spoilers abound). Goofs: After further review, Troy cheated and his number 1 pick for...

Corner Booth at Rex's We discuss the new Lord of the Rings show on Amazon Prime. We remain spoiler free until the 26 minute mark. We talk the highs, the lows, and what we are looking forward to in the next season. Do dwarven really have beards or not? There are so many people involved in this show we couldn't even acknowledge all of the regulars. We were a little punchy so there might be a little...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Home Alone 2 We did it again! We’re headed to Florida for Christmas…oops we’re in New York. Oh well, let’s order lots of room service, eat pizza in a limo and befriend a pigeon lady. We even discuss just how many times over Marv and Harry should be dead. So come along as we discuss this Christmas sequel classic – you can trust us, we only hire the finest idiots in New Yo...

Late Nights at Blockbuster We are celebrating the 10th Anniversary of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Hoot twice like a barn owl if you get into trouble!  We discuss the extended edition of the movie similar to our Lord of the Rings discussion. However, Byers asks if we can get a better edit of the movie rather than extended editions. We might be the only podcast to compare this movie to t...

Another "quarter" of the season is in the books, so we update our rankings. Which mostly means we shuffle more teams into neutral as the herd begins to thin out. 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 )

Better Than Perfect – Friday Night Lights We go long – like really long – like Santiago going deep – as we talk about the TV series “Friday Night Lights” So make sure your eyes are clear, your hearts are full, and then you can’t lose as you join us for an in-depth discussion of all the twists, turns, bad decisions, and overblown drama that is one of Byers favorite shows. Intro/Outro music by frien...

Corner Booth at Rex's Our newest Corner Booth at Rex’s is on Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever. We keep it spoiler-free up until the 21 minute mark. We run through our likes and dislikes along with the state of MCU phase 4.   Goofs: It had been so long that we had a 8.5 that we forgot that 8.5 is Byers goes to Tucanos not 8 for the score. Byers is correct that we gave Spider-Man: No Way Home a...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects  Our newest Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects is a Top 5 Ben Affleck roles. We also decided to throw in some discussion of Damon and Affleck’s career arcs and did a quick draft of their movies to determine who really has the deepest filmography. Be prepared to realize that The Phileo Podcast is the leading Daredevil apologist podcast.  Goofs: The Jars of...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Matt Damon Top 5 After going to see about a girl last week with Will Hunting, we dive into Matt Damon’s full catalog of movies, discussing our favorites, the hits, the misses, and plenty of fun little cameos. 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 Yo...

Late Nights at Blockbuster We celebrate the 25th anniversary of Good Will Hunting, a movie that is on both of our Top 5 all-time movies.  Naturally, we started quoting the movie to each other too early in favorite scenes instead of waiting for the Drax award. We go Kevin Costner in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves where the Boston accent goes in and out. Troy tries to hang on a little longer than...

Another 4 weeks are in the books so it's time to update our rankings. One of us would like to apologize to the Bengals fans for the huge jinx we put on you by recording a night early and assuming the outcome of MNF. One of us fully acknowledges the jinx and enjoyed every second of it. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://music.apple.com/us...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Top 10 Sports Movies It’s finally time to do the list we have been talking about since the beginning – it’s our top Sports Movies. And it is such a great list that we had to expand it to a Top 10, instead of the usual 5. So join us as we talk about what truly are some of our absolute favorites. Goofs: We can’t count. We had 4 movies in common in our top 10 – Remem...