After Lunch

Michael, Rob, and Delaney skip ahead to the 32nd Century in their chronological Star Trek trek with Season 3 of Discovery. As the crew tries to locate the remnants of the Federation and acclimate to life in the future, our panel talks about favorite characters, plot threads, and themes of the season.

Michael, Rob, Pax, and David May reboot TV shows based only on brief descriptions of their premises.

Carlin and Robert Try to Put Right What's Going Wrong with the new Quantum Leap!

Michael continues his solo exploration of Fleming's Bond novels with the next-to-last in the series, You Only Live Twice. Following the tragic events of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, M sends Bond to Japan on an impossible diplomatic mission that becomes something much more bizarre and personal.

Michael and Rob and Karen Flieger board the Orient Express to speed up the frequency of their Bond movie discussions this year, starting with Sean Connery's second appearance as Bond in From Russia with Love. The trio talks about the characters, music, quips, clothing, gadgets, and everything else that makes this one of their favorites.

Michael, Rob, and Pax talk about what they've been watching: TV series like Midnight Club, Andor, Stargirl, Wednesday, Mythic Quest, Willow, Perry Mason, Mare of Easttown, and A-Team "Christmas" episodes. Then there are movies like A Christmas Story Christmas, the Cannonball Run sequel Speed Zone, the Underworld series, The Shop Around the Corner, Ernest Saves Christmas, and a White Christmas live production.

Michael, Rob, and Pax talk about annoying Christmas Songs, Christmas mysteries and ghost stories, Lindsey Stirling music, book forewords and introductions, Mount Westmore, X-Men: Inferno, Batman: Three Jokers, and other things they've been listening to and reading.

Michael and Rob welcome Mike Westfall from the Advent Calendar House podcast to discuss a pair of the oldest adaptations of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. From 1910, it's the silent version from Thomas Edison's production company. And then we talk about the 1935 film starring Seymour Hicks.

In a completely original idea - Nerd Lunch definitely did not do this exact same topic on Episode 320 of their show - Michael and Rob welcome Evan Hanson, Paxton Holley, and Michael DiGiovanni to help a few restaurants create special menus inspired by Christmas movies.

This is the final rerun of Tangential Christmas Movie discussions from the old Sleigh Bell Cinema podcast and it seems appropriate to close with the poster child for these kind of movies. People love to argue about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie, so we wouldn't dream of spoiling where Jeeg and Michael fall on that topic.