The Phileo Podcast

Late Nights at Blockbuster Join us as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Mighty Ducks. We talk briefly about our roller hockey days and Troy tells a story in honor of the purse scene. Byers did the hypothetical math that you all wondered about regarding Gordon’s 198 goal season. We almost devolved into an impromptu D2 podcast but recognized what was happening and stopped before we got too fa...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Morgan Freeman Top 5 After spending so much time with him in Shawshank, we just wanted more. So we dive into our favorite movies from the illustrious career of the one, the only Morgan Freeman. Goofs:  We mentioned his catalogue was quite extensive, but we failed to mention just how extensive – since the two of us were born – 1981, there have only been 3 year...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster is a favorite of Troy’s and a first time watch for Byers. We go through our regular awards and dive a little deeper into Frank Darabont, Roger Deakins, and Stephen King. Spiritual metaphors/illustrations is mined pretty well but we could have gone a little while longer. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find...

Check out our updated rankings for week 4 of the NFL Season. Plenty of changes already, let us know what you think. Who are we too high on? Who are we too hard on? Will the Texans ever get out of Pooptown? Do they even want to? Check out our Facebook or Instagram to see our rankings side by side. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://music....

Corner Booth at Rex’s Ms Marvel Join us as we break down all of our favorite, and least favorite parts of the newest Disney+ addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Spoiler-free minute mark – 21:53 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/sethg...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects In honor of last week's episode featuring E.T., we dive into our favorite alien movies. Byers gives us an introduction to “Voss Vibes” with one of his Top 5 movies. We do a mini-dive on M. Night Shyamalan (again?). Byers changed the rules, again, to make a longer honorable mentions list and it leads us down a rabbit hole of basically sharing all of our favorite al...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster sees us go into confession about how E.T. and other movies freaked us out as kids. Our attack on road blocks continues and we bring up the biggest plot hole that would make E.T. a 3-minute movie.  Troy tries to make the case that this is a breakout performance from Drew Barrymore and then Byers talks some sense into him after co...

NFL Season Preview We’re here with thoughts on all the teams – division winners, Super Bowl picks, as well as picks for all the awards like MVP, OPOY, DPOY, etc. And we reveal our first tier rankings. Those will get updated every 4 weeks during the season. So please feel free to let us know who we think too much of, who we think too little of, and why we are completely wrong about your favorite te...

Corner Booth at Rex's Calvin returns to the podcast to talk with Byers and Troy about the recent Disney + Star Wars series, Obi- Wan Kenobi. We get really deep into what we didn’t care for but still manage to talk about the many positives of the series.  Spoiler Free thoughts until the 34:34 mark. If you feel that we linger a little too long on the negative, we start discussing positives abou...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban Climb aboard the Hogwarts Express and return once again to the wizarding world with us as we discuss the third movie in the series – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. 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...

Corner Booth at Rex’s Join us as we discuss the newest MCU theatrical release, Thor: Love and Thunder. Get ready for us to say “Fun idea, lacking in the execution” a lot. Is there such a thing as too much Guns and Roses? If you visit the Facebook page we’ll share some of our favorite goat yelling content on Youtube in honor of Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder. Spoilers starting at 17:20. Especially a...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects We thought about doing a Top 5 on Christopher Nolan movies, but seeing as how he has 10 major releases we figured it would be more worthwhile to rank them. It goes without saying that SPOILERS abound in this episode. If you haven’t watched all of these films, we would recommend you do so before listening. Except for Insomnia, we don’t spoil anything in that movie....

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Concluding our run on Batman topics, we rank all of the theatrical release Batman movies one through 10, one of which may be lost to time for some. Since we went through deep dives on The Dark Knight trilogy in the last few episodes we tried not to repeat ourselves and quickly moved on to those that had not already been discussed. There are few agreements on the b...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects  We couldn't pass up the opportunity to discuss our favorite villains from Batman's rogues gallery. We opened up the choices to all their versions in movies, TV, comics, and video games. While most of these are characters from the movies, Troy leaned a little more towards video games and Batman: The Animated Series while Byers drew from the Gotham television...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Dark Knight Rises Our month (or more) of Batman continues as we wrap up Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy and discuss the good, the bad and the confusing of this last chapter for Christian Bale as the Dark Knight. Goofs: Stay tuned to future episodes where we discuss Christopher Nolan’s other films, most notably Interstellar. We recorded in a different order than we are...

Late Nights at Blockbuster We continue our Late Nights at Blockbuster treatment of The Dark Knight Trilogy. This week focuses on the second movie, The Dark Knight, which is among our favorite movies. Because we love it so much, we went on a little too long with favorite scenes and favorite quotes. There is discussion about how Nolan approaches violence in this movie and seemingly all his movies th...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Batman Begins We are kicking off an entire month of Batman discussions with Batman Begins, the first part of the Christopher Nolan trilogy. So make sure you’ve been inoculated against any weaponized hallucinogens, and join us as we talk about Batman voice, witty banter with your butler, and the birth of the new age of comic book movies. Goofs: The character of Rachel Daw...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Adam Sandler Top 5 Get your lunch packed up, get your boots tied tight, and hope that Troy and Byers don't get in a fight, because we are finally throwing down the top 5 list this podcast was made to do -Adam Sandler movies, and since he has so many movies, we’re also going to give you some of our least favorites just for fun. Intro/Outro music by friend of the po...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Mr. Deeds It’s hard to breathe, it feels like we’re floating. We’re so full of love that our heart is exploding.  We’re acting weird, not ourself, dancing around like the Keebler elf, because we are talking about Mr. Deeds starring Adam Sandler this week. So call up a guy named Greg, get some Hawaiian Punch, and let Emilio change your socks as we celebrate the 20tha...

Corner Booth at Rex's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has been pretty divisive amongst fans and critics and we were no exception. We were pretty agreeable on the rating and our experience with this movie. Despite saying it every time, we actually went through our non-spoiler thoughts in record time! Spoiler Free until the 15:12 mark. Goofs: Haley Atwell is listed as Captain Carter rath...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Friend of the podcast Calvin Baird joins us to discuss the 20th Anniversary of Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Clones. Calvin is a big Star Wars fan and grew up in the prequel generation. Since Byers and Troy fall in between the two generations, they thought it would be a great perspective to have represented in the discussion. We briefly discuss the dating scene on...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Top 5 Spy Movies No top secret missions here, we lay out our favorite spy movies. Goofs: Jason Clarke is the actor in Zero Dark Thirty. 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 Welcome to our new series titled Better Than Perfect where we watch a series that the other person hasn't seen and the other person absolutely loves. We say early on in the episode that we thought it would be 90 minutes and it clocks in at 2 hours and 13 minutes. Are Ricky Bobby and Sarah Walker multiverse brother and sister? We took some time to discuss the elephant in the roo...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Avengers Suit up and join us for the original superhero team-up. We’re celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Avengers, with all of it’s witty remarks, epic fight scenes and of course plenty of smashing. So grab some shawarma and join us as we dive into the conclusion of Phase 1 of the MCU. Goofs:  The VLA stands for Very Large Array for all you non-New Mexicans. Th...

Late Nights at Blockbuster It's the 20th anniversary of The Bourne Identity and we have determined that nothing good happens in Zurich! We chase our first squirrel in record speed in the middle of the intro. Byers also comes up with a new award in honor of Julia Stiles. We go off on a little Lost tangent for a second since we now know that we won’t ever do a Lost rewatch. Byers makes the case that...