There Will Be Duds

Odds and Ends: This week’s episode of There Won’t Be Nick is brought to you by There Will Be Duds! Enjoy a special sneak peek of the new episode of TWBD in between our regular discussion of all things Nick, and what it’s like to be with his absence. We also talk about our newest festival-screening short, Wendies. Feature film: This week, T.J. plays Cage’s quarterback as he defends the merits of Gh...

Odds and Ends:  James Corden is leaving TV, and the world rejoices, but we need to get the heat off ourselves after triggering his fans… get it, T.J.? Heat? Do you get it? Travis watched a couple shows, including Old Enough, which he says is the (second) best Netflix show ever, and the title isn’t weird, you’re just nasty. Nick talks about the new Alan Resnick short film, and T.J. saw the new...

Odds and Ends: Andrew Garfield is taking a break from acting, which spurs on an all over the place cold open; we all were able to watch something that wasn’t our discussion movie this week! Nick started Succession, T.J. saw The Northman, and Travis watched The Alpinist, and we all say: good! We talk a little about method acting, which means of course we talk about Jared Leto. Feature Film: Takashi...

Odds and Ends: We’re sitting in our cars and eating bars and eating stars… and also making fun of bad old rap, but who are we to judge? Have you heard T.J.’s freestyles? Nope, because he can’t, so tell him to shut up. T.J. reviews Our Flag Means Death, and Travis covers The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, and only one of those is a Netflix show. Good for us. We al...

Odds and Ends: Getting a bit loopy with our two guests Isaiah and Connor, we post hard and start a Pornhub channel for the show; Nick finished the Sopranos, which stars Spongebob’s best friend, James Gandolfini; Isaiah’s watching something that just makes him want the next season of Barry to come out; HBO Max is pretty great even though we usually shill for Netflix  Feature Film: Discussing t...

Odds and Ends: We’re joined by guests James and Charli, who have been watching a lot of TV lately, and recommend all of it, including show favorite I Think You Should Leave; James has also been playing Elden Ring, and we talk about where the Soulsborne and Zelda games can go after their capstone open world games; Davids Lynch and Cronenberg have new movies coming out, maybe; Nick saw Everything Ev...

Odds and Ends: Trying to catch up with Better Call Saul before it ends; all gangster movie actors are in The Sopranos, and they are all the Mega Italian; we unintentionally dive into another director’s (this time, Martin Scorsese) filmography as we tend to do during our post-chats; we’re anxiously anticipating Men, not men, but Men… we’re men who want to see Men; we also talk about the Oscars, but...

Odds and Ends: Another throwback episode, featuring T.J.’s dogs, Nick filtered through T.J.’s stream-sniping, air traffic controller Travis, and a much more awkward, stilted but not structured show! In the pre (not post!) chat, we cover some of last year’s Oscar nominees, like Judas and the Black Messiah and Sound of Metal. Discussing the ethics of pirating movies made by shitty douchebags. Featur...

Odds and Ends: We once again return to the vast well of shit talking streaming services while simultaneously expressing how convenient they make watching things. It's cool that 5 companies own everything as long as I don't have to fuckin rent it on Amazon or YouTube Again. We also discuss the season 3 trailer of The Boys and wax philosophical about the show versus the edgy comic series.  Feat...

Odds and Ends: It's (technically) our one-year anniversary! But this isn't our anniversary episode. It's complicated. Nick revisits a Coen Brothers classic, and we talk about our other favorites of theirs, as well as the mysticism of Nicolas Cage. We talk about Wordle, because we're your middle aged mom.    Feature Film: A Prophet is a movie. It follows a guy. Who is in prison. He's thre...

Odds and Ends: A particular blackbelt isn't achieving world peace through ending violence; Nick doesn't Mind Goblin, I mean Nick watched Mind Goblin; Travis talks Fresh, and the art of very late title sequences; T.J. saw a new movie in a theater! It's Robert Battinson's new movie, "The Patman"   Feature Film: Joey Fatone of N*SYNC recommended the classic "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...

Odds and Ends: We're gunning for that Ultimate Death, and we're taking the Queen with us; Nick watched the French Dispatch, and we go on a Wes Anderson trip through (pretty much) his entire filmography; we're back in Netflix's pocket as T.J. talks their new sort of improv sitcom "Murderville"   Feature Film: Diving in to the world of German experimentalism with the 90s cult classic "Run Lola...

Odds and Ends: We love the royal family and hope they are all doing well; Moose saw a musical, T.J. saw a play, both of which also have movie versions, but don't you dare compare the two because art be different sometimes   Feature Film: In the first of our celebrity recommendations list (this one courtesy Elijah Wood), we're getting back with the king Jimmy in the 50s classic, "Harvey," abou...

Odds and Ends: Diving into the weird world of Derek Savage and Cool Cat; discussing the wonderful Paper Mario series, which only lasted two games and that's it, what a shame they never made more than just the two Paper Mario games; other older RPGs get some love, like Earthbound and Final Fantasy Tactics; our pal Elijah Wood recommends next episode's movie! Feature Film: Only the strongest (dumbes...

Odds and Ends: Masked Singer controversy naturally leads us into another 9/11 discussion, this time with 100% more Jeb!; E.T. is hotter than Penelope Cruz; we all saw Jackass Forever together, so this is almost a double movie ep because we do a fairly lengthy discussion on it. Feature Film: Talking the Cronenberg cult classic "The Brood," which T.J. thinks was his big breakout movie, but could be...

Odds and Ends: Travis brainstorms some alternate podcast ideas, which are pretty much the exact same as this one; the unending gold of repetitive song lyrics; T.J. talks Lucky, a Harry Dean Stanton vehicle that's not the other Harry Dean Stanton vehicle we talked about this week Feature Film: We're settling in to the painted skies and (very long) shots of Paris, Texas, the 1984 road movie directed...

Odds and Ends: Rango Unchained; Cynthia Nixon gets nasty; call us Francois Bourgeois, cuz we're riding all the trains, from Anal to Zoophilia; Last Claus Standing; we really struggled to come up with an opening this week... and a closing... and a... show   Feature Film: Talking the Gore Verbinski movie starring Johnny Depp that's NOT Pirates of the Caribbean (or The Lone Ranger), 2011's Rango...

Odds and Ends: Dance interpretation of the late Brockhampton's music; Nuclear Disaster Person; Encanto is a movie that you can watch if you want, or not; X-Files/Sopranos/Peacemaker star Doggett; T.J. beats Travis to the It's Always Sunny reference, but where?   Feature Film: We're talking friendship, loyalty, and honesty this week, which can only mean Y.K. Kim's magnum opus, Miami Connection...

Odds and Ends: Due to some technical difficulties, we're bringing an older episode back to life! We cover a lot of ground in our early days, as we ping pong around from the upcoming (and now released) Spider-Man film, Godzilla, and we finally get the introduction to Nick's love of the X-Files. Also we talk about our own short films (what a surprise) and write a few early aughts parody films along...

Odds and Ends: What makes a cold open? Is it getting clapped by the Matrix for learning the function keys? Recycling your Crown Royal broth bags? How about both?   Feature Film(s): Our follow-up to the Matrix trilogy is here! We're capping our coverage of the saga (so far) with a double feature on The Animatrix and The Matrix Resurrections. One, in one humble co-host's opinion, is essential M...

Odds and Ends: You hear that? Is that the sound of... a classic episode? Oh, wait, it's just T.J.'s dogs? This week, we're pulling one from the Duds vault, before we were a podcast, merely a lowly Twitch stream. But now it IS a podcast, in all it's awkward, early Duds days glory. Cheer at the story of T.J. talking about the Eric Andre vehicle "Bad Trip"! Gasp at the origins of Nick's X-Files obses...

Odds and Ends: Congratulations are in order for another great season of the Masked singer; NFTs are making their way into the movie biz and they're still as dumb as always; there's a Queen's Gambit board game that's... not... chess?   Feature Film: We talk the other Jack Frost movie that shares quite a few more similarities with the Michael Keaton version than you'd expect. A guy turns into a...

Odds and Ends: We're feeling the holiday spirit this week, because T.J. forced everyone to do a secret Santa gift exchange, and an item is added to the display; Daegan rewatched a childhood favorite and didn't like the experience; we dive in to the lost art of tv to tape recording, and various other VHS tales from our youths Feature Film: We talk the very logical Jack Frost from 1998, NOT the equa...

Odds and Ends: the Home Alone house is on Airbnb and is killing people; Will Smith has a show, just like every celebrity nowadays who has their own podcast, like losers; The 13th Warrior shares some similarities with our feature film; T.J. loves Arcane, but wants to make it clear he thinks League of Legends is just okay; in the break, we talk about our coincidental connection to special guest Jake...

Odds and Ends: Nick's first-time dive into The Sopranos outs T.J.'s anti-Italian racism; Moose went to a thing but all I can remember is that it was at a place called Todd Mission; Kodamas got cake Feature Film: We talk our first animated feature with the much beloved "Princess Mononoke," from director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. A historic fantasy epic of man vs. nature with the valiant Ash...