This Is Rad!

This week Kyle and Matthew are joined by longtime friend of the show Adam Crosse. Adam has been a radster since the early days and we're very excited to finally have him on the show and as a bonus we get to talk about rad manga and anime! Adam runs us through what the hell Jojo is and we explore in detail the first few stories so if you're somebody who worries about spoilers maybe hold out until y...

Kyle and Matt return to round out the listener questions for June 2020.   We started a patreon. Check it out:  www.patreon.com/thisisrad   check out Laura's new designs on TeePublic!!!   Guys, Kyle's new album Absolute Terror is offfically out!!! Get it wherever you stream music... no for real... do it now... please... This episode is sponsored by  www.mackweldon.com  use the promo code RAD and ge...

Kyle and Matthew settle in to answer the first half of our monthly listener questions and boy howdy to they get some great questions. Plus, enjoy hearing how man tangents they can get distracted by when they are trying to finish the episode. We had a lot of fun recording this one and we look forward to part two later this week!   We started a patreon. Check it out:  www.patreon.com/thisisrad   che...

This week Kyle and Matthew welcome back Tess Llanos from the Ongong Comicbook Discussion for a chat about women in the business of comic books. They highlight a few mainstream authors who have been able to break through in a big bad way and Kyle gives a nice list of amazing works from indie creators. Lot of titles get tossed around, if you're looking for something different to read, there is a pre...

Ladies and gentlemen please strap in because on this episode we are going on a journey that spans the entire universe and more than 40,000 years! This week Kyle and Matthew are joined by comedian Dave Apkarian for a chat about the lore behind the popular tabletop game Warhammer 40k. Dave has gotten into miniature painting and Kyle has been fascinated by David's new hobby. After a few off mic discu...

This week Kyle and Matthew are joined by J Gonzo for a chat about the wild world of 60's Garage rock. We explore what Garage rock is, why and how it has spread around the world, and what makes it the patient zero for so many subsequent genres of music. Becasue J Gonzo is on the show, you can also expect a pretty hefty amount of comic book talk. A super fun episode.   Weekly Rads: Kyle – Corridor C...

Kyle and Matthew sit down to answer YOUR listener questions for May 2020! What do they talk about for nearly four and a half hours? You'll have to listen to find out!   Tech Note: There are some moments where audio dips in and out, Discord was being kinda wacky but you don't miss anything crucial, usually just the end of a word or something...)   Weekly Rads:   Kyle – Good Boys (movie)   Matthew –...

This week Kyle and Matt welcome back musician Eric Bryan for a chat about one of horrors most underrated directors Stuart Gordon. Sure, we all love Reanimator, and with good reason, it's awesome. But Gordon has an impressively consistent back catalogue. They explore how his years working in theater impacted his work in film. From the actors he worked with to the ways he pushed his budgets so his f...

This week Kyle and Matthew welcome comedian Emily Walsh to chat about her recent dabblings in lego stop motion. During the big Q Emily has taken some old legos she and her boyfriend had in their apartment and began experimenting with stop motion animation. Her skills as a set designer helped her create some great sets and a book gave her all the start out info she needed to get started. This is a...

This week Kyle and Matthew are joined by comedian and musician Mike Valdes for a chat about ABC's Friday night programing block from the 90's, TGIF. This is a spiritual sequel to our Family Matters episode from years ago. We still find time to riff on Family Matters but we also explore the rest of TGIF's classics. Did Hanging with Mr. Cooper have one of the most underrated theme songs of all time?...

Kyle and Matthew finish up the Listener Questions for April 2020.   We started a patreon. Check it out:  www.patreon.com/thisisrad   check out Laura's new designs on TeePublic!!!   Guys, Kyle's new album Absolute Terror is offfically out!!! Get it wherever you stream music... no for real... do it now... please... This episode is sponsored by  www.mackweldon.com  use the promo code RAD and get 20%...

Kyle and Matthew sit down and answer the first 30-ish questions from the mailbag. The next 30-ish questions shall be answered in part 2 sometime next week!     Weekly Rads: Kyle – Scalped by Jason Aaron (comic)   Burnside – Usage of memory and code base in NextGen games (tech)   We started a patreon. Check it out:  www.patreon.com/thisisrad   check out Laura's new designs on TeePublic!!!   Guys, K...

This week Kyle and Matthew are joined by the one and only Lisa Curry. Lisa hasn't been on since our last boats episode because she spent most of last year traveling the world and doing stand up. But now she's back in LA and since we're all stuck inside we asked her to come on and catch up. Turns out before comedy Lisa dabble in home remodeling and since being quarantined, she been turning those sk...

This week Kyle and Matthew are joined by podcast rival Adam Murray, only this time he isn't the game master, he's playing the game with us! That's because This is Rad has gotten itself an official Game Master: Game Master Ryan. Ryan got in contact with us and inquired about writing tabletop campaigns for the show, we jumped at the chance and he put together the weird and wonderful adventure you're...

This week we have a crossover with our dear friends at The Goods from the Woods and What Did You Learn? for a roundtable discussion about everybody's favorite documentary about murder and exotic animal ownership Tiger King on Netflix. Are you ready for seven different hot takes? Are you ready for 7 different impressions of Joe Exotic? This episode was highly requested and we were very happy to obl...

Kyle and Matthew are joined by Keith Carey (and a some bonus Tom Goss) for a little friendly hangout. Keith and Tom have a $1 daily Patreon that helps support Tom during quarantine. If you've got a spare dollar, support a starving artist. We chat about living in quarantine tips, bad movies to watch right now, and is the Sega Genesis mini worth buying?   Weekly Rads: … This was recorded in the midd...

Kyle and Matt sit down (after some sleep...) and get back to answering your listener questions. They had such a good time they decided they should do it again next month!   We started a patreon. Check it out:  www.patreon.com/thisisrad   check out Laura's new designs on TeePublic!!!   Guys, Kyle's new album Absolute Terror is offfically out!!! Get it wherever you stream music... no for real... do...

Our second listener questions episode was so big we had to split it into two parts! On this first episode we answer about 30 of our 60ish questions for the month. We at Rad know you are cooped up and decided we'd make it rain podcasts this week. To paraphrase the Cha-Cha Slide, look out for part 2 coming soon!   We started a patreon. Check it out:  www.patreon.com/thisisrad   check out Laura's new...

Kyle and Matthew are joined by their podcast friends from the great white north Richard Eden and Reid Vanier of the Doctor DC podcast. Together they celebrate the great perennial number two of the comic book industry, DC Comics. Now, we know what you're thinking "make mine Marvel or GTFO" but hear us out... What if DC was secretly the coolest comic book company and we all just never noticed? Turns...

This week Kyle and Matthew welcome Tara McKinney to the show. Kyle met Tara years ago when she started working as a camera operator on Talking Dead. Over the years they've become friends and it turns out Tara is a hell of a writer. This is her first podcast and while we never quite nailed down a topic we ended up on a pretty solid groove for a conversation. The title comes from the fact that if Ky...

This week Kyle and Matthew welcome Khalid Salaam for a chat about the living dead and their place in pop culture. Khalid explains his parents unorthodox use of horror movies as a tool for punishing him as a child. But that which scares you as a kid often draws you in with fascination as you get older. Kyle and Khalid have worked together in various capacities over the years and despite the fact th...

This week, Kyle and Matthew try something a little different. They welcome Anna Jean to the studio, a comedian whom neither Kyle or Matt had met before. She'd contacted Kyle about doing the show after a previous guest said doing This Is Rad is a fun time. A couple of FB messages later and here we are. After about five minutes you'd have no idea that we'd never met Anna before because everybody bec...

This week on the show Kyle and Matthew sit down for a KING SIZED inaugural episode of our Listener Questions series. Last ep of the month we will answer questions that you paid us a dollar (or five dollars) to ask. And we answer a whole heck of a lot of them (something like over fifty but less than sixy). This was super fun!!! You guys are great and we thank you for your questions and we thank the...

This week Kyle and Matthew welcome their dear old friend, photographer Billy Small. Billy has worked with Kyle and Matt many times in the past and ALWAYS makes them laugh. After years of doing the podcast they were both very excited to have him on. What follows is some podcast silliness. The topic is Fly Fishing but you're probably not going to learn a lot about fly fishing, but if you enjoy liste...

This week on the show Kyle is solo as he chat with his friend comedian Amanda Cohen about going under the sea with a self contained underwater breathing apparatus. She recounts her globe trotting adventures, resorts designed entirely around SCUBA diving, and the terrors too much nitrogen can do to your body. Plus, Amanda ran a Weird Al convention in Chicago and we talk about it. Fun and education...