Waxing the Porpoise

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve welcome special guest, friend of the show and Zaxby's enthusiast the Natening aka Thon from the Ghoulish University podcast to discuss the verdict and aftermath of the Alex Murdaugh murder trial. Join us as we attempt to separate belief from certainty as guided by the evidence, unlike the jury, take a look at the evidence that was (and wasn't) presented...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve welcome a very special guest, the astutely articulate and affable arbiter of authenticity, Ran-Diesel from the Straight Chilling podcast to discuss a midnight fever dream Psycho meets LSD tableau, Santa Sangre from 1989. Join us as we ask the question is it a good idea to give the residents of an asylum cocaine and prostitutes? Or is it a GREAT idea? Fr...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve welcome back Dick Dawg to complete the Coors Light Quadrilogy this time with the help of resident Dick whisperer and acting Richard spirit guide, Jimmy. Join us as we discuss Dick's stints at pint cup college and fast times at Round Table Pizza, throwing your back out while brushing your teeth, can I touch you and much, much more on this heartwarming re...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve welcome back special guest Staring Jon to kick off our Daniel Craig-era Bond film retrospective starting with the first entry and franchise evolving Casino Royale from 2006. Join us as we discuss an alternate dimension Tarantino version of the film, how our villain Le Chiffre drew inspiration from Aleister Crowley, and how this Bond's distinct tone esta...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve once again welcome back returning champion Channel 83 "I live my life a quarter-mile at a time" Chris to dust off our spurs and break down Clint Eastwood's highly acclaimed modern western, Unforgiven from 1992. Join us as bust out the good tarp and hear slander cast down on Remember the Titans, how stories can be mythologized over time, and regale you w...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve welcome back special guest and friend of the show, the Spearmint Rhino himself, Hydraberg from A Cut Above: Horror Review to discuss the strangely sincere and subdued Nic Cage/Ridley Scott smacker from 2003, Matchstick Men. Join us as we discuss Ridley Scott's most decidedly un-Ridley Scott film he's ever made, treat ourselves to a devotional from the C...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve convene to talk about the active double murder trial of southern solicitor Alex Murdaugh. Did Alex Murdaugh murder his wife and son in cold blood? Can the state prove that beyond a reasonable doubt? Those are very different questions that we'll explore in the midst of rumor, speculation, and conjecture - all things which do not equal hard evidence. Whet...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve flashback to Jennifer 8 from 1992, a slow burning crime-thriller starring Andy Garcia, Uma Thurman and a surprise John Malkovich appearance. Join us as we trigger Steve's paranoia about an old Carpenter's song that we're destined to get to the bottom of, hear arguments for Uma Thurman's character faking her blindness in the film, and of course get derai...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve once again call upon fellow purveyor of the obscure and linguistic birtuoso Chris from Channel 83 as we stumble our way through the most recent updates to the Zodiac Killer case. Join us as we very quickly blow past any real substantive information on the recent Zodiac case updates in favor of obscure Twister quotes and the enduring charisma of Bill Pax...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve are joined by special guest Justin aka Soju from the Straight Chilling podcast to enter the dance of the mind and breakdown 2013's Prisoners directed by Denis Villeneuve. Join us as we get the keys to the yard and discuss just how far people are willing to go to uncover the truth, examine some of the philosophies presented in the film from an American p...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve once again call upon cinematic salamangkero and liguistic maven Chris from Channel 83 to cross-examine the 2001 documentary, Murder on a Sunday Morning. Join us as we discuss our shared echolalia affliction, try and parse out tickling and balloonery, reminisce about Napalm Death and Huell Howser, and review one of the best courtroom documentaries ever k...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve have the distinct pleasure to welcome Bob from the Straight Chilling podcast acting as our compass rose to help navigate our way through John Carpenter's spooky seafaring banger from 1980, The Fog. Join us as we batten down the hatches and get scurvy on some Jeppson's Malort, flashback fondly to a little Electric Light Orchestra and pull the hook for a...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve welcome back special guest and friend, Richard aka Dick Dawg, for a third time to discuss the sentencing of his mother's killer, the loss of his beloved sister Melissa, and how through all that he's been able to remain the uniquely resilient and charismatic friend we wish we all had. Palate cleansers include Richard getting a shot at Valid-Victorian red...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve once again call upon special guest and cinematic shaman Chris from Channel 83 to help decode the french action horror cult banger, Brotherhood of the Wolf from 2002. Side quests include Monica Bellucci's dumper, defamatory remarks hurled at The Frighteners, and a fun new segment involving really disgusting people and their negative IMDB reviews. Tonight...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve welcome once again special guest, Staring Jon to discuss the lesser known Altman classic and so-called "anti-western", McCabe & Mrs. Miller from 1971. Join us as we talk about some of the late stage "old west" themes at play, argue about whether or not this is a "message" movie, briefly mention 80's living room stalwart Alf for good measure, and finally...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve welcome again special guest and friend, Richard aka Dick Dawg, picking up right where we left off from last week's episode. While it might be impossible for us not to find the humor in even the darkest of situations, the tone of this episode is much more severe to be sure. Join us as Richard discusses the events leading up to the murder of his mother Do...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve once again alter the format, this time to embark on what is sure to be a multivolume series as we welcome special guest and friend, Richard aka Dick Dawg, discussing his journey through life which one could describe as Joe Dirt meets Don Quixote. Cut from a type of cloth not found anywhere in nature, Richard takes us from his inception, recounting event...

This week time is on our side as G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve welcome special guest Hydraberg from A Cut Above: Horror Review to discuss the decisively demonic yet surreptitiously spiritual Denzel vehicle from 1998, Fallen. Join us as we discuss a poor man's slow mo predator vision, wax nostalgic over Outback Steakhouse and their elusive bloomin onion' sauce, and treat ourselves to a Denzel...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve take a casino floor detour and play with house money while reviewing the 1998 deep cut, Croupier. Join us as we pick apart the film to see if it passes Steve's authenticity check, endure G-Baby lusting after a certain South African babe, and speculate as to whether Clive Owen is in fact playing an Amish man. Pay him, pay that man his money. Let's wax th...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve get "lost" under western eyes to discuss 2015's brutal yet refined horror-western, Bone Tomahawk. Side quests include Steve popping his jury duty cherry and the horrors of the US legal system, G-Baby's newest culinary creation, "The Alfredo-rrito", and that feeling you get when you're 8 High Life's deep and Drops of Jupiter comes on. Go ahead, skin it....

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve call upon special guest and acting spirit guide Miles to help us navigate 1981's psychically chaotic and curiously cryptic mind bender, Possession. Join us as we were treated to count em' 2 tour de force performances from Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani and bore witness to an international alien love quadrangle including a man-squid perhaps microdosing th...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve dive back into the deep waters of the unexplained, unsolved and unknown with the unresolved 2004 murder of Oakey "Al" Kite. Join us as we learn more about the case and the assailant only known by the alias "Robert Cooper", speculate if it's only a matter of time before he's caught via ever advancing DNA and ancestry tracing techniques, and we'll also ad...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve peek behind the curtain of the afterlife to call on Tim Burton's rapaciously ribald reprobate and bio-exorcist extraordinaire, Beetlejuice from 1988. Join our count down to Halloween where we'll hear from our lord and savior Denzel, wax nostalgic about films from 1997, and learn about Steve's dad going full goblin and eating pumpkin guts to get him to m...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve once again call upon special guest Chris from Channel 83 - this time to steel themselves against flying mortuary death spheres and a 7 foot tall psychopath in 1988's bang ball, Phantasm II. Join us as we meet the charismatic Tall Man, go on another make-your-own weapon montage at the hardware store and go looking for love and revenge in all the wrong pl...

This week G-Baby and the Usual Suspect Steve engage in spiritual battle to discuss the much maligned Exorcist III from 1990, written and directed by William Peter Blatty. Join us as we take the 12:18 to Elsewhere and quite literally go on demon time to wax philosophic about bathtub carp, Brad Dourif putting on an acting clinic and stop to wonder - do all roads indeed lead back to Bill Paxton? Lord...