Back Porch Podcast

This week we’re back with another installment in the “Wait, you haven’t seen…” series where Beam and Corey watch and discuss a “classic” film that they never got around to. 

We decided (okay fine, Corey decided) to finally tackle Oliver Stone’s 3 hour epic about the John F. Kennedy assassination, JFK. 

Grab yourself some popcorn, queue up the film, and then join us on the back porch for some discussion about the movie, Oliver Stone and conspiracy theories.

A couple weeks back, we experienced one of the most heartbreaking weeks. Not in real-life, but in our entertainment lives. 

The Buffalo Bills lost in heartbreaking fashion to the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo’s own Every Time I Die, one of our favorite bands, called it quits after 23 years.

We decided to get together with our good friend Joe Donlon to process our feelings on the breakup of Every Time I Die and to remember all the good times they gave us.

NOTE: We recorded this in the immediate aftermath of the breakup but held the episode for release to see if anything might change. It did not. So here it is.

We’re back this week to finish out our conversation about the year 1993 in hip-hop music.

We’re joined, once again, by Steve Tyson, aka Ellect, to finish out this gargantuan year. 

Last week, Steve and Corey discussed some big picture thoughts about the year before revealing 4 of the songs populating their list, which included some monster hits like ‘93 Til Infinity by Souls of Mischief. This week, they picked up where they left off and analyze the songs that make up the tops of their lists (3:30). After finishing out the lists, they take some time to shout out some honorable mentions and discuss who came out on top in 1993 (54:00).

We’ll be back again in the near future with Steve to discuss the year of 1998. Until then, stay tuned with some other musical explorations and a big time movie discussion coming up.

We’re back this week with our fifth installment in our ongoing exploration of the history of hip-hop music. After rooting around in the current century, we’re kicking it back to the nineties to discuss 1993.

As is the case with all these episodes, we’re joined by Steve Tyson, aka Ellect, to explore a year that is often considered the third greatest in history (behind only 1994 and 1988). 

With Beam as their guide, Steve and Corey discuss some big picture thoughts on this year in music and how it marked an evolution in the genre towards more experimentation (3:00). Then, they share some special acknowledgements, including a discussion on where all the rap groups have gone and why it’s a shame they’re not as common anymore (18:00). Finally, Steve and Corey share four songs from their top fives (there was some overlap) and what made these songs so special (30:35). 

As has been the case with all these episodes, this one is going to be a two-parter, so make sure to check back next week to hear Steve and Corey finish out their top fives.

On this week’s episode, Corey is joined by capital region filmmaker Kyle Kleege to discuss the genre of body horror. Kyle has a new feature film entitled Earworm that has just entered production so they decided to break down their top five body horror moments ever put to film. 

Corey and Kyle start out by trying to really define what body horror is and what separates it from the horror genre at large (2:23). They then dig into the work of David Cronenberg, a master of the genre and one of their favorite filmmakers (10:45). 

In making their top five lists, Kyle and Corey decided that it would be far too easy to populate their list with the filmography of the elder Cronenberg (although they did allow themselves one), so discussing the master at the top gave them the opportunity to give some shine to some other body horror classics.

This list and these movies are not for the faint of heart so if you’re into the visceral and upsetting world of body horror, listen in to hear which movies they included in their top five (18:00)!

The newest installment of The Matrix, Resurrections was released on HBO Max and in theaters a couple weeks back. So, of course we had to take some time to appreciate a man that we have great love and affection for on The Back Porch: Keanu Reeves. 

Our main man, Beam, absolutely had to make his triumphant return for this episode and Corey is so happy to have his co-host back on the microphone with him. To have this discussion we had to invite our good friend Dr. Gena Gerstner, one of your day one homies and the biggest Keanu/Matrix stan that we know. 

Beam, Corey, and Gena start out by discussing the newest Matrix film and their reactions to the new movie (03:18) and do their absolute darndest to avoid spoilers. From there, they transition to talk about the real reason that they’re all here, and that is Keanu Reeves (18:45).

Keanu is an actor that we’ve all loved for a VERY long time. Some might say it’s part of what connected us as friends. Throughout this discussion, we talk about Keanu the man and Keanu the actor and acknowledge our favorite movies that he has appeared in. The goal here is simple: get 100% of the population to give Keanu his god damned flowers.

New year, same podcast.

After taking a much needed break over the holiday season, we’re back in 2022 with a bunch of new episodes for y’all.

First up, Corey is being joined by local capital region filmmaker Spencer Sherry, who is going to be developing Stephen King’s story, The Monkey, into a short film. Spencer shares how he was able to acquire the rights to the film and some his plans for bringing this story to the screen. 

Corey and Spencer then share their top five Stephen King Adaptations of all time. Will 2017s smash hit It make the cut? Listen up to the episode to find out.

In honor of the release of Dune, Corey is joined by his friend and filmmaker John Yost to discuss the films of Denis Villeneuve.

The episode begins with a brief discussion about their reactions to Villeneuve's newest film (3:30). This discussion does include spoilers, so if you are yet to see Dune, skip ahead to (26:35) where Corey and Yost breakdown and rank Villeneuve's six English language films, Prisoners, Enemy, Sicario, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, and Dune.

It's the week of Halloween or Samhain for all y'all witches out there. It only seems appropriate to discuss horror movies.

Corey is joined by actor and filmmaker Kristin Noriega to discuss their favorite films that utilize a single location to tell their story.

Grab some candy corn or whatever your favorite Halloween candy is and join us on the back porch to talk some horror movies. Not so hot take, candy corn is actually trash!

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILER!

It's the end of an era for the James Bond franchise. Daniel Craig has played 007 for the last time in the new film, No Time To Die. Zac and Corey had the chance to go see it this past week and wanted to hop on with their man Stegs to discuss their thoughts on the film as well as where the franchise goes from here.

Spoilers aplenty in this episode so if you haven't had a chance to see the movie, proceed with caution.