The Phileo Podcast

Corner Booth at Rex’s The Batman (2022) Get down in the muck and filth of Gotham with us as we discuss the newest iteration of the caped crusader starring Robert Pattinson. Spoiler-free minute mark – 27:21 Goofs: Paul Dano’s character is named Edward Nashton, according to the comics this was his birth name, which he later changed to Edward Nigma (E. Nigma as in enigma, get it). The Nirvana song is...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects If you aren't sick of us talking about Spider-Man this month, do we have a treat for you! If you are sick of us talking about Spider-Man, well this is the last episode that we'll be discussing it for a while. We discuss our rankings of all nine theatrical release Spider-Man movies.  Goofs: Troy refers to Dane DeHaan as Dane Dunning who, as he mentioned, is a...

Late Nights at Blockbuster We are back with more Spider-Man discussion, this time it is the 10th anniversary of The Amazing Spider-Man starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. We might mention how there is a villain problem and how much we love Gwen and Peter’s chemistry probably five times too many. We also end up chasing a squirrel on the C. Thomas Howell movie Side Out. Goofs: Troy was wrong th...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Spiderman (2002) We are celebrating the 20th anniversary of Spiderman starring Tobey Maguire. Join as we swing into the good, the bad, and the downright dorky of the first chapter of the original Spiderman trilogy. Extra Nerd Notes: Kirsten Dunst was actually 11 when she was in Interview with a Vampire. Tobey Maguire has never been nominated for an Oscar, but Andrew Garf...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Obsession is the main theme of Christopher Nolan's 2006 film The Prestige. We talk at length about the obsession of two rival magicians and how it is portrayed in such an interesting manner by the Time Lord himself. No we aren't talking about Celtics center Robert Williams... Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://...

Corner Booth at Rex's We discuss the new Star Wars TV series The Book of Boba Fett on our newest Corner Booth at Rex's. We get into how this series impacts Star Wars past, present, and future along with what we enjoyed and what left us a little puzzled. At one point Byers compares Chuck Wendig's Star Wars: Aftermath to John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath .  Intro/Outro music by friend o...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Top 5 Young Adult Novel Movie Adaptations After our discussion of Hunger Games last week, we dive into the rest of the Young Adult Novel genre of movies. We talk about our favorites, some of our least favorites, and a few that just missed our top 5. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://music.apple.com/us/a...

Late Nights at Blockbuster The Hunger Games We discuss The Hunger Games as it celebrates it's 10th Anniversary. We hand out our usual awards, but we brought in a guest for "The Book is Always Better." We go a little long at the end about potential recasting for the two male leads but it was a worthwhile endeavor.  Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets We’re back with another movie from the Wizarding World. This time we are diving deep into the second installment – Chamber of Secrets. So hop in the flying car and take another trip with us to Hogwarts, we promise not to let Dobby try and kill you, I mean protect you. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Fi...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects We discuss our top 5 Jim Carrey roles and finally disagree...a lot! Carrey's career can be a little divisive and it was interesting to see that play out in our rankings. One thing we could agree on was that any of his recent stuff didn't come close to making the cut.   Goofs: The Truman Show was released in 1998 and The Real World premiered in 1992 so it was...

Late Nights at Blockbuster Join us as we celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Liar Liar. We discuss whether we need to rename our overacting award and Byers even sings a few bars of Jars of Clay.  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/sethgil...

Corner Booth at Rex's We watched the Eternals and we have one word for you…Gnosticism! It’s morphin’ time! Need sleep? COVID insomnia? Watch Eternals! We go through some of the worst movies that we’ve ever seen for a little too long. Sorry for the rambling and sometimes incoherent thoughts, it was because of the movie being the same. We promise. You can almost pinpoint the spot where Byers has los...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Top 10 Athletes Without a Championship With the Super Bowl this weekend we wanted to spend a little time with those who never one the big game, so we are counting down the top 10 athletes who never won a title. Goofs: We ended up using some different methodology to compile our lists, but it makes for some very different lists, especially for us, so it turned out g...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects Top 5 Jeremy Renner After last week’s discussion of Hawkeye, it seemed only fitting to dig into the top roles of Jeremy Renner’s career thus far. Goofs: We have already been corrected on the difference between burning a CD and ripping a CD, but honestly – it’s 2022 who does that anyway…I mean besides Troy apparently. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth...

Join as we dive into the newest addition to the MCU, the Disney+ series Hawkeye, starring Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld.

We had an impromptu Corner Booth at Rex's immediately after watching Spider-Man: No Way Home. Byers watched the movie opening day early afternoon and Troy watched that night and decided to record right away without any notes. Forgive some of the meandering thoughts that went out of order. Spoiler free thoughts until minute 24.  Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find...

We went through our pre-season predictions to see how we fared against the final standings. We talk about our biggest hits and biggest misses. We then run through our predictions for the playoffs. Hopefully it goes a little better than our MLB predictions. Note: Joe Judge was fired the day after we recorded.  Pre-season Predictions (0:00-33:25) Awards Predictions (33:26-40:34) Playoff Predict...

Our newest Corner Booth at Rex's to start the year is the sci-fi epic Dune. Because Byers didn't refer to anyone by the character name, Troy decided that they should quiz each other about the names on the spot. Spoiler free talk until the 41 minute mark. Goofs:  Troy forgot that in the Shang-Chi podcast that the score of 8.5 is "Byers goes to Tucanos" because of the story that Byers re-told h...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects We end the year with several top 5 lists (sports moments, movies, and TV shows) for what happened or came out in 2021 and what we are looking forward to in the coming year. Byers teases Troy about his love for soccer, we disagree about where Marvel TV shows belong in the rankings, and talk about the movies and tv shows that we enjoyed but didn't quite make the cut...

Our last tiers update before the season ends. Plenty of movement amongst the top part of the tiers but less so at the bottom.  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 Christmas Edition Elf Come along as pass through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, through the sea of swirly twirly gum drops, and then walk through the Lincoln Tunnel into one of our favorite Christmas movies. Goofs: We were laughing so much I’m sure there are plenty. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https:...

Late Nights at Blockbuster The second of three Christmas movies that we’ll be discussing during the month of December. We have some good random thoughts, recognize my face, and discuss that you should be wary of showing this to your kids when they are old enough to potentially pull these pranks on you.  Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( ht...

We are here to help you celebrate the Christmas season by discussing three of our favorite Christmas movies for Late Nights at Blockbuster. Up first is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. We dedicate this podcast to the Griswold family Christmas!  Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-gilbertson/115523...

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects  In order to get you in the holiday spirit, we decided to run down our list of Top 5 Christmas Movies. In order to be a Grinch, we decided to do a Top 5 overrated Christmas movies list as well. There were some heads being shaken and incredulous looks being cast, but we made it out with our friendship still intact. We hope you enjoy as you set out on your Chri...

Corner Booth at Rex’s NFL Tiers Week 12 Update We give updated rankings at the week 2/3 mark of the season. Let us know if you agree with who we think is Elite (slim pickings), and who belongs in Pooptown. Goofs: We'll try not to watch a football game in the middle of talking about football next time. Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes ( https://m...