Why So Sidious? A Nerd Podcast

Join hosts Caleb and David as we cover one of the best episodes to come out of the Game of Thrones universe, Episode 4: "The Red Dragon and the Gold" of House of the Dragon's second season! After realizing technical difficulties ruined our coverage of last week's episode, we open up with a quick discussion about the key topics of Episode 3...Daenerys Targaryen's dragon egg...

Here's some background and history on Professor X's twin sister. Her origin, motivations, and a couple massive feats as a villain. Mostly from Grant Morrison's New X Men comic book run. Her introduction is her most character defining story, in issues 114-116 titled E is for Extinction. Btw she's directly responsible for the massacre of Genosha, ending the lives of over 16 milli...

Tune into to the discussion on the polarizing Star Wars series: The Acolyte. In this episode we cover episodes 4 & 5 and lets just be thankful at the very least for some of the best Star Wars action we've had in a long time. But it's not all seen through rose colored glasses, join the conversation, lets break down all aspects of this new series.  Starting with Episode 4   17:25 Episo...

Join the guys as we cover the second episode of the second season of The House of the Dragon! We open up with a video game corner cold open! Assassins Creed Shadows, Star Wars Outlaws and Dune: Awakening! Then, we get into the the long and powerful episode of House of the Dragon, as we see our characters responding to the gruesome death that ended episode 1. Aegon's rage, Otto's scheming...

Welcome in to a very special miniature episode! Hosts Caleb and David give their thoughts on the Tales of the Empire mini series that released onto Disney+ this year. We give our thoughts about these new Star Wars animated stories that we got, featuring Barriss Offee and Morgan Elsbeth. Was the series as good as the previous Tales of the Jedi? Should these have been the characters they focused on,...

Join the guys as we return to the land of Westeros to cover the second season premiere of The House of the Dragon! We open up with a quick discussion about the newly confirmed Game of Thrones spin-off series, 10,000 Ships, and also share what we've been watching and reading this week. We recap the premiere before basking in the quality that this series provides, through its acting, set pieces...

Join the crew and returning guest Cody as we dive back into a galaxy far, far away to continue to cover the new Star Wars series on Disney+, The Acolyte! We open up with a little round of Nerd Octagon, theorizing matchups such as Saruman v Magneto and many more...before we jump into the third episode of The Acolyte. We touch on this new coven of witches and what role they play in the larger galaxy...

Welcome in to another edition of Week In Geek, where the crew catches you up on all of the news and rumors of the week! *This was supposed to be the start of our much shorter Week In Geek episodes as we go into a summer packed with content, but it ended up going the full length...maybe next time! We discuss a ton of rumors floating around out there involving Avengers 5 and Kang variants, Spider-Ma...

Join the crew as we dive back into a galaxy far, far away to cover the brand new Star Wars series on Disney+, The Acolyte! As expected, this show has had some insanely polarizing receptions from both sides of the aisle, and no take is safe! You'll either be a Star Wars hater wishing for its failure, or a shill paid by Disney! But we here at Why So Sidious just want some good new Star Wars con...

With special guest Mark! Here's our discussion of the instant-classic Wolverine comic book written by Mark Millar and art by Steve McNiven.  Introduction  3:00 Comic Review  20:40 Brian Michael Bendis brings Wolverine into the 616  29:00 MCU & Deadpool & Wolverine  36:00 MCU Talk Avengers 5/Kang, Fantastic 4, Captain America 4 Brave New World/Red Hulk, Deadpool & Wolverine, Thunde...

Looking to the past decade and a half, what were some of the best MCU movies? We're approaching top 10 in our Marvel MCU movie rankings with #17-11.   Cold Open: Desert Island pick an actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Smith, Brad Pitt  5:40 Intro  7:40 The Marvels was released after we started these ranking episodes. Where would it fall on the list?  10:00 Avengers Age of Ultron, Eternals  14:20...

Welcome in to another edition of Week In Geek with hosts Caleb and David, where we catch you up on all the latest news of the week in the world of nerd! A NEW Lord of the Rings movie is being made...And its about GOLLUM?! We discuss this big news as well as other projects being continued such as Shogun and 28 Years Later. We also discuss a whole lot of casting. Giancarlo Esposito in the MCU and Ma...

Welcome in to another edition of Week In Geek with the whole gang, where we catch you up on all the latest news of the week in the world of nerd! We saw the theatrical rerelease of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and the movie did NOT hold up for some of us in our cold open... After that we touch on some rumors spilling out across social media including Ms. Marvel leading the Marvel Zombies project...

Open conversation. All nerd DC Marvel Star Wars etc. Theory-heavy. Enjoy!  Intro  Which characters will we see on the big screen first (DC or Marvel)...  DCU Joker, MCU Apocalypse  The Maker, Batman Who Laughs  Sinestro, Bane  Nightwing, Red Hood  & More!  12:12 Top 5 seasons of TV series  24:10 Desert Island Pick an Actress' movies  27:00 Christian Bale as the Batman Who Laughs  30:20 Pi...

Welcome in to another edition of Week In Geek with hosts David and Caleb, where we catch you up on all the latest news of the week in the world of nerd! After we discuss the Amazon Prime series, Fallout, and what we thought about the first season, we went through some news and rumors floating around regarding a modern day Blade script, Lord of the Rings return to theatres, and is Kraven going to b...

David, JD, and Lub discuss nerd movie news! CinemaCon brings loads on information on upcoming projects, like a GI Joe crossover with Transformers and a rated R Ninja Turtle movie!?  Intro  Surprising Upcoming Movies  6:05 Captain America Brave New World. Harrison Ford as Thunderbolt Ross aka Red Hulk  12:50 Deadpool & Wolverine  15:30 Nerd films filming soon: Marvel and DC  19:40 Game of Thron...

Join hosts Jeremy and David as we cover the three Darth Bane novels, written by Drew Karpyshyn. With special guest, loyal listener and good friend, Cody! We open up the show introducing our guest and finding out: what are his favorite and least favorite Star Wars characters, movies and novels? After that, we rank the books in the trilogy and discuss the joy of reading a Drew Karpyshyn description....

Welcome in to another edition of Week In Geek, where we catch you up on all the latest news of the week in the world of nerd! We open up the episode discussing the new Supergirl director, and get into all the DCU news that has been coming out, including James Gunn debunking rumors and actors throwing their hats into the ring for the role of Batman. Then we get into the MCU arena, where we have an...

 *X Men 97 Spoilers *We recorded this before episode 5 of X Men '97 which directly correlated with this comic, and definitely would have influenced the conversation. Stay tuned for our coverage on the events of episode 5. New X Men issues 114 - 116 written by Grant Morrison, art by Frank Quietly. This comic was a modern reboot for the X Men, a great jumping on point for new readers, Morrison...

Quick episode drop! Its been a while since our last one so heres a review of some trailers on some very exciting projects coming out later this year - while we edit our review of X Men comic book E for Extinction (if you're farmiliar with Deadpool & Wolverine villain Cassandra Nova, the massacre on Genosha, or what happened in Episode 5 of X Men 97!) which will be dropped within the next...

Explore the origins and history of popular marvel comics hero the Silver Surfer. Herald of Galactus. He's fought Thanos, Dr Doom, even Knull, and here's an introduction to the character. He's also expected to make his way into the MCU soon (Fantastic 4?)!  Follow us on social media:  X/Instagram/TikTok: @whysosidiouspod  YouTube: www.youtube.com/@whysosidiouspod  Email us questions/...

Cold Open questions: Shang Chi/Eternal sequel ideas, desert island pick a director (Nolan, Villeneuve, Tarantino), predict an unannounced DC movie, and pick a marvel character power for your everyday life  12:50 Intro & upcoming movie release date changes  16:30 Deadpool 3 cameos  22:30 Henry Cavill wolverine?  24:15 Shang Chi multiversal? Ant Man, Captain Marvel, and possibly Eternals will no...

Join hosts Caleb and David as they take on a special episode with guest Jim Smith of "Disney Facts and Figment"! He even makes an appearance in our cold open to enlighten us about his favorite and least favorite Star Wars movie... Then, Jim joins us to discuss the very best of quotes through Star Wars, Episodes 1-9 more specifically! Everyone knows that Star Wars has some famously horren...

Hosts JD & David cover the DC comics event from Geoff Johns’ Green Lantern series. Cold Open - Listener Questions: Scarlett Witch & Batman 8:00 - Intro 11:00 Background to Superboy Prime, Cyborg Superman, and Hal Jordan 20:00 Main discussion The war with Sinestro was a climactic crossover event coming out of Infinite Crisis and leading to Blackest Night. We cover Green Lanterns #21-25 Geof...

Join the crew as we prepare for our 2nd Annual 2024 Box Office Draft! Where we draft rosters full of the year most anticipated theatrical releases, and see which team can field the highest total box office earnings at the end of the year! We open up catching you up on the 2023 Box Office Draft results, which due to a certain pandemic, had been delayed with the pushed back release date of Dune: Par...