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We’re in the studio with Carol and Dave Brouillette, who have returned with us with good tidings from Monster Jam! Yes, Monster Jam, the (surprisingly wholesome) spectacle of giant tires, animal shape...

Heroes Don’t Retire. They Reload. This month, we’re joined in the studio by not one, but two guests, Carol and Dave Brouillette of the late Hands Free Football soccer podcast, and suffering through al...

Every generation has a legend. Every journey has a first step. Every saga has a beginning. Now this is podcasting! This Christmas Eve, we’re back with a gift! In our first Retcon vs. the Martians!, Ca...

Into a world of eternal life, he brought the gift of death This month, we’re eating green bread and refusing to go to Second Level meditation with Joe Preti of the late View from the Gutters comic boo...

We’re back in the studio with Joe Preti, and talking about Martin Scorsese’s three hour crime epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City. Plus, a conversation about the death o...

We’re back with Kirby Green to talk about her favorite trash TV obsession: 90 Day Fiancé! We look at the show that throws the best and worst elements of romance, desperation, immigration law, and repu...

…and now the earth will run with blood again! We’re getting into the spirit of the spooky season with returning guest Kirby Green, and unmasking the underrated black sheep of the Halloween horror fran...

Though conflicting schedules this month have made a regular episode impossible, we’re back in the studio to chat about the stuff we’ve been reading and watching, and of course… we’re talking about Sta...

We continue our chat with Sam Mulvey, and tear the still-beating heart out of the world of martial arts frauds and scam artists. From manufactured biographies involving hidden temples and battles to t...

Only their mother can tell them apart. This month, we’re learning the first rules of a crisis situation with returning guest Sam Mulvey of KTQA 95.3 FM radio, and exploring the first installment of th...

We’re back again with Joe Preti, and chatting about the emerging streaming epoch and its tremendous downsides as corporate studio overlords start making things you love disappear, making it impossible...

Catch the Excitement. Catch the Adventure. Catch the Hawk. We’re breaking into the Vatican and trying to get a good cappuccino with Joe Preti as we reappraise the much maligned — and genuinely underra...

This month, we’re joined again by Dave Brouillette, and talking about the pixelized Stanford Prison Experiment that was The Sims, and how eventual boredom can turn a gamer into a cruel capricious god ...

Vile, virile, vivacious, venomous, varied, voluptuous, versatile, venturesome, vibrant, vulgar, vast, vunniest vilm of 1979! We’re strapping on our seven shot six-shooters and stocking up on barrels o...

This month, we’re upturning the rocks of our childhoods and looking at all the bugs and worms, like the uncomfortable fact that serial bully and sexist Rick Berman still has any relationship to Star T...

This month, we’re going boldly with Michael Warbington into the deep, inconsistent, and often-confusing world of Star Trek uniform design! Why did Starfleet have the exact same red naval uniform for n...

WANTED. Four men willing to drive a cargo of death to escape a life in hell. This month, we’re going on a jungle suicide mission with Camp Director and President of Camp Quest NorthWest, Michael Warbi...

This month, we’re continuing our talk with Carol Brouillette, and it may be time to crown Dave Bautista as the greatest professional-wrestler-turned-actor of all time. We look at his choices, roles an...

Choose Your Fate. This month, we’re joined by Carol Brouillette of the Hands Free Football podcast, and returning (one last time?) to the franchise that made Arnold Schwarzenegger the king of Hollywoo...

This month, we’re continuing our chat with Chelsea Rustad, and we’re looking at billionaire narcissists getting booed, and the ethics of hidden camera comedy shows. Where is the line when it comes to ...

Find the story before it finds you. This month, we’re joined by Chelsea Rustad chair of the Puget Sound Socialist Party and the author of Inherited Secrets: Memoir of America’s Groundbreaking Genetic ...

This month, we’re continuing our chat with Kayleigh Casterline, and digging into the intersection of sports, video games and capitalist rent-seeking. The new wrestling game, AEW: Fight Forever, is cla...

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” This month, we’re riddling in the dark and escaping the goblin caves with Kayleigh Casterline and revisiting J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic 1937 fantasy book ...

This time, we’re talking about our undying love for the Denzel Washington Equalizer movies, and how they can be a strangely bloody salve for our woes in these trying times. We dive into the often-mora...

This month, we’re chatting about the wonder of the public domain and open source software, and how it helps make our show possible and helps create community — and how capitalism puts up walls and exp...

This month, we’re continuing our talk with Kirby Green, for a chat about reality television and the “Am I the Asshole?” sub-reddit. So, reality television isn’t real. I mean, duh. Or is it sometimes? ...

“I am a horror maniac who prefers to stay at home.” This Halloween, we’re chugging down salad oil and hiding from our balloon dopplegangers with returning friend of the show, Kirby Green, and see if o...

This month, we’re back with Sam Mulvey to get nerdier than we have for a while. Mike takes the rough draft of his new “Bechdel Test”-esque thought experiment about media worldbuilding for a spin and t...

“It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.” This month, we’re getting the band back together with the Station Manager...

We’re continuing our chat with Joe Preti, for a deep dive into the topics that really matter. We perhaps spend too much time, dissecting the many pathological lies and shitty behavior of 90s action st...

The system gave him a raw deal. Nobody gives him a raw deal. We’re back! This month, we’re slicking back our hair and dodging cakes with Joe Preti, and infiltrating the inner circle of the mostly-forg...

We’re back with Dave Brouillette to speak in defense of cinema’s great unsung wet blankets. The long-suffering adults left to pick up the pieces when the reckless hot shot protagonist with a disregard...

“Blood is rushing into your muscles and that’s what we call The Pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling, like your skin is going to explode any minute, and it’s really tight – it’s like somebody...

We continue our chat with Michael Warbington and dig into a rich vein we usually leave unmined: video games. With different levels of skill, engagement and knowledge, we look at the experience of gami...

He killed for gold… He killed for his woman… He killed for himself! After a month off, we’re back! And this time, we’re dragging a coffin through the desert with the Camp Director and President of Cam...

We’re back with Kirby Green and talking about the strange and surprising wholesomeness of Jackass Forever, the history of “caught-on-video” media, and the opportunistic moral panics they often inspire...

Nothing is inconceivable. This month, we’re enjoying some franks in a blanket with longtime friend of the show, Kirby Green, and re-examining the much-maligned and universally-panned Arnold Schwarzene...

We’re back in the studio with Patrick Johnson for one of our weirdest conversations yet. First, what are the consequences of having a perfect memory? On our emotions, our morality, or our sanity? What...

Beware the ball, beware the tall man, beware the never dead. We return this month to break into Morningside Mortuary and get some fuckin’ answers with returning guest Todd Maxfield-Matsumoto, because ...

Has the world gone mad? Well, yes. But we’re also looking back on 2021 as a remarkably great year at the movies! We’re still talking to Tobiah Panshin for an uncharacteristically positive and optimist...

“Honor. That is why a knight does what he does.” With the New Year, we’re on a knightly quest to the Green Chapel to trade blows with returning guest Tobiah Panshin of the View from the Gutters podcas...

The legend comes to life. This Christmas Eve, we’re back in the studio to celebrate the season with Rebecca Friedman of KTQA-LP 95.3 FM, and dive into the 1985 holiday movie where Alexander and Ilya S...

In the first of two episodes this month, we’re talking with Rebecca Friedman about the low-stakes things that give us the warm fuzzies. We chat about the phenomenon of ASMR and the YouTube videos that...

We’re back with a quick bite of conversation from last month with Chelsea Rustad. We’re talking about the profound disappointment that was Halloween Kills, particularly in how it was a direct sequel t...

“I grab myself one last lungful of night air. Then I trade it in for a smoky soup spiced with sweat and vomit and booze and blood. I know the flavor well.” After more than two years, we’re back with …...

We’re back with Chelsea Rustad to dig into the big questions. Have we hit the barrier when technological advances on video quality, frame rate and sound are butting up against the point where human se...

A father’s duty is to protect his daughter. This month, we’re joined by author and chair of the Puget Sound Socialist Party, Chelsea Rustad to explore perhaps the most unexpected and interesting depar...

This month, we’re back with Kit Laika to continue the conversation into the cinematic! Movie theaters are back! And in a dystopian world ravaged by doomsday viruses, we have been inside of them! For t...

In the soft glow of our most recent discussion, we continue our conversation with Kit Laika, and explore the imperfections of language as a communication tool, and the linguistic similarities between ...

“Do you think I should confess? To what? Committing masterpieces?” In our latest Single Serving Selection, we’re joining librarian and artist, Kit Laika to turn our critical eyes to the final film dir...