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Madeline Brumby and Shane Morton join Jim for a special episode celebrating the 20th Anniversary fo The Silver Scream Spook Show with a discussion of the 1957 Cult Classic “Plan 9 From Outer Space,” Directed by Edward d. Wood Jr and starring Bela Lugosi, Gregory Walcott, Mona McKinnon, Duke Moore, Tom Keene, Carl Anthony, Tor Johnson, Dudley Manlove, Joanna Lee, John Breckinridge, Norm...

Cigar Nerds Podcast: Always Keep Reaching. This week we are taking a look at Reacher season 4. Also we wrap up the last of our Dragon Con interviews. This week we talk to game designer and spaceman Richard “Lord British” Garriott, Philosopher and scientist Massimo Pigliucci, and Folklorist Benjamin Radford. This week I’m smoking the 2012 Barber Pole by Oscar Valladares. 2012 Reac...

This week on The Legends of the DCU Podcast! Drew Leiter and Cletus Jacobs review the first episode of Lanterns. As John Jones struggles to reclaim his fractured life and reunite with the Green Martian, he and Bridget confront the sinister Agency, the Anti-Life Spiral, and the dark forces consuming Middleton in Absolute Martian Manhunter #7 thru 12. The Gilded Age heroes of Earth-19 unite as the L...

Flopcast episode 751! Saturday was our longest, busiest, silliest day at Dragon Con, the massive convention of pop culture nerdiness that takes over Atlanta every Labor Day weekend. Including: Saturday morning cartoons! Our Krofft Supershow 50th Anniversary celebration! Our Pee Wee’s Playhouse 40th Anniversary celebration! An actual Bugaloo! Electra Woman and Dyna Girl versus the Empress of...

We’ve reached the end for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4! We review the season finale, “Tomorrow’s Enterprise” and talk about where the show might be going next year. Did this episode leave us any clues? Find out! Have a question, comment, or observation you’d like us to respond to on the show? You can now dial 307-387-1701 to be connected to the EARTH STATION...

This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting Star Trek: Enterprise Season 3, Episode 9 “North Star,” now that Maria and Jamie have watched it. Also, we’re joined by Ryan Consell, author of the Stealing from Wizards series!  We all agreed that this episode was trying to say… something, but what it was trying to say was weird! We also do a deep dive into the episode name “North Star...

This week we’re MONKEEING AROUND with Chris McGovern (The Gen-X Muse) to chat about The Monkees Saturday Morning Reruns! Monkeeing Around is a part of the ESO Podcast Network, Executive Producer Mike Faber. #monkees #saturdaymorningreruns #chrismcgovern #genxmuse The post Saturday Morning Reruns with Chris McGovern – Monkeeing Around – Episode 107 appeared first on The ESO Networ...

About 5 years ago I got to know the incredibly talented artist Juana Sawyer, a.k.a. “Call Me Moose Almighty” after finding her hilarious pencil-drawn animatic-style videos on TikTok. Since then I have commissioned a few pieces from her, mainly of her interpretations of my OCs “Dienne & Darius” who she has become a big fan of. She kindly accepted my invitation to be a gu...

Batman ’66 S3 Ep19 – Nora Clavicle and the Ladies’ Crime Club Commissioner Gordon is swept from office and replaced with Nora (Barbara Rush), the mayor’s wife. Soon she deploys a women-only force and unleashes a myriad of explosive mechanical mice in an insurance scam. Holy pied piper! Who’ll save Gotham? Episode aired Thursday, January 18, 1968 Director : Oscar Rudolph Wri...

He gave us the most iconic villain in midnight movie history. He gave us the clown that scared a generation. He gave us the butler who did it, the lord of darkness, and a voice that could make you feel every emotion simultaneously. On August 25, 2026, the world lost Timothy James Curry at the age of 80 – and horror, theatre, animation, and pop culture lost one of their greatest treasures. Te...

Spooky season has officially arrived, and we’re kicking it off with a classic. Shawn introduces Leah to They Live , the 1988 sci-fi cult classic starring Roddy Piper. Shawn recently picked up two NECA alien action figures from the movie, so naturally, that meant Leah had to watch it. Did she love it? Let’s just say her review wasn’t exactly glowing. We also headed out to a local...

One Album Wonders There are some really obvious examples of bands or artists that only made one studio album —  The Sex Pistols, Jeff Buckley,  and  Lauryn Hill  immediately come to mind. But how many others are there? Surprisingly, quite a few! We talk about those as well as other single-album artists like  The La’s, The New Radicals, The New Rising Sons, GTR,...

Jim revisits a favorite thriller from his childhood – 1954’s “The Mad Magician,” directed by John Brahm and starring Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor, John Emery, Donald Randolph, Lenita Lane, Patrick O’Neal, and Jay Novello. Hoping to cash in on Price’s success the year before with “House Of Wax,” Columbia Pictures scripted this tale of a turn-...

This time we’re MONKEEING AROUND once again with Glenn Gretlund to chat about the new 7a Records release, Davy Jones – Let Me Entertain You – On The Road With Davy, an album celebrating the remarkable career of one of popular music’s most charismatic entertainers! Monkeeing Around is a part of the ESO Podcast Network, Executive Producer Mike Faber. #monkees #davyjones #letmeentertainyou #ont...

Flopcast episode 750! Our Dragon Con 2026 coverage continues, as we cover every goofy thing we did on Friday at our favorite annual gathering of weirdos. Including: The Geek Girls Run! An American Sci-Fi Classics Track Tournament of Villains! American Sci-Fi/Fantasy Media Track panels on Pluribus, Lanterns, and Supergirl! The cast of Land of the Lost! A meeting with Tron! The Dragon Con Hustle! An...

The Sixth Doctor jumps from the television screen to the comic-book page as the Earth Station Who crew takes a trip back to the 1990s to review Doctor Who: Age of Chaos , the special graphic novel written by Sixth Doctor actor Colin Baker ! Published by Marvel UK , Age of Chaos sends the Sixth Doctor on a colorful and chaotic adventure that expands the world of Classic Doctor Who beyond the televi...

This week the crew of the Enterprise visit a castle in a fantasy kingdom in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season episode 9, “Once La’An a Time”. Earth Station Trek is a part of the ESO Podcast Network, Executive Producer Mike Faber. #startrek #strangenewworlds #oncelaanatime The post Once La’An a Time – Earth Station Trek – Episode 280 appeared first on The ESO...

Maria and Jamie just got back from Dragon Con and have a ton of stories to share with Bill and all of you about the reaction from other fans to our decontamination cosplay, taking silly photos with Enterprise cast members, singing Faith of the Heart at karaoke, and meeting and talking to so many Enterprise fans and even some of the fans of EnterpriseSplaining!  Joining us to talk about our ti...

Valentine’s Day. Easter. Mother’s Day. Father’s Day. Halloween. Christmas. New Year’s Eve. St Patrick’s Day. Eight holidays. Eight horror directors. Eight reasons to never look at the calendar the same way again. Karen and Spilled Tea are coming home for the… Holidays.  This 2016 anthology horror film that assembled some of the sharpest voices in contemporary gen...

The Monkees’ television series debuted on television 60 years ago. This week we will be MONKEEING AROUND with R. Alan Siler (Modern Musicology podcast) to revisit the first season of that classic series in the streaming era. Alan has recently rewatched the entire first season for the first time in 40 years. Does the show hold up to modern viewing? Has it translated successfully into the stre...

This week on Tales From Hollywoodland , the crew welcomes Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Linda Burstyn for a fascinating conversation about her life and career in the entertainment industry. Linda takes us behind the scenes of television writing and producing , sharing stories from her career, the creative process behind bringing stories to the screen, and her experiences working in an eve...

This week we slay the Dragon and recap our experiences at Dragon Con 2026. In Blowing smoke we have interviews with some amazing guests. We talked to Bruce Boxleitner from Tron and Babylon 5 and a lot more, We talked with Claudia Black from SG1 and Farscape promoting her new pod cast Airstreaming with Claudia, and we discuss filmmaking with Matt Green . This week I’m smoking the 2012 Maduro...

Jim revisits a classic Jack Arnold Monster Movie that not only taught him about an extinct fish, but also provided him with inspiration for a Halloween costume. It’s 1958’s “Monster On The Campus,” starring Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters, Troy Donahue, Phil Harvey, Helen Westcott, Alexander Lockwood, Ross Elliot, and Whit Bissell. A college professo...

This week on The Legends of the DCU Podcast! Drew Leiter and Cletus Jacobs welcome the return of Batman. Pamela Isley transforms into a monstrous plant-human hybrid, while Martha Wayne reveals a connection to the Court of Owls as Bruce abandons his compassion and embraces a darker path in Absolute Batman #17 & 18. Batman faces a growing crisis in Gotham as Killer Croc regresses, Dr. Annika Zel...

Flopcast episode 749! After another long weekend among 75,000 other nerds in miserably hot and humid Atlanta, our Dragon Con 2026 review begins now! (Warning: This might be a four-parter. There’s a lot of ridiculousness to cover.) Including: A weird new way to get to the airport! The nightmarish badge pickup line! The Skeptics Guide to the Universe crew! A surprise reality TV star! The Tim C...