Dive into how and why we ended up with the MPA rating system, how it shaped generations of content, and how markets, culture, and foreign films forced Hollywood to adapt, all resulting in a brief golden age of child-centric adventure films in the first half of the 1`980s.

Since we used our usual year-end Star Wars holiday special time slots for Stranger Things last year, we're doing it now! Check out our thoughts on Andor season 2, Mando season 3, and the Tales of Jedi/Empire/Underworld anthologies. SPOILER ALERT.

Note: We had some microphone quality issues, you might get some overload here. We're trying to clean it up.

S08E01 - Public Domain Day 2026 by A Lawyer's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast

Ben and Kirk spend an hour complaining about the hour long epilogue to the series finale of Stranger Things. But it's not all bad! Find out what we liked, and what we didn't.

On the eve of the series finale of Stranger Things, Ben and Kirk talk about what made this series work, what's still working in season 5, and what isn't.

The Director of the USPTO has instituted a re-examination of the Nintendo Pokemon patents. But what does that mean?

Ben and Kirk dig into what made Stranger Things a cultural phenomenon and consider whether the 1980s might be the perfect decade for this kind of storytelling.

By popular demand, Kirk and Ben revisit the "Pokemon Patent" and talk about the challenges in finding relevant prior art.

Ben and Kirk tackle the new Nintendo patent on summoning in Pokemon.

Ben and Kirk talk about how spoof movies have changed over the years, and how the IP issues have changed with it.