Baconsale

October has arrived, so Baconsale is kicking things off with a macabre game of M.A.S.H. Joel, Kent, and Zack are each going to be building an epic spook alley. The haunting hand of fate will decide what each of our rooms will look like, which creatures or characters will inhabit those spaces, and what music will be playing. We’ll also finish things off with a frightening grand finale from heck! It’s then up to you to decide which haunted house you’d dare to enter. Listen as contact levels are decided, so many lemons are picked, and OSHA regulations are completely ignored.

 

Press play and then let us know if you’d rather visit Joel-o-ween, Fright Club, or The Mall.

Imagine this: you’re sitting comfortably on your couch, snug as a bug in a rug, when you start to feel a slight tickle on your arm. You lift the blanket to find a creepy-crawly pest resting on you. How would you react? That’s the question we’re asking on this episode of Baconsale. Joel, Kent, and Zack have created a list of 24 bugs (including ants, spiders, moths, flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, grasshoppers, bees, and ladybugs) and we’re going to tier them according to how much they would cause us to freak out. We’ll also share some fun facts about each insect, arachnid, crustacean, and myriapod as we do our best to pronounce their scientific names correctly and not enforce certain gender stereotypes.

 

Did you just get an itchy feeling on your scalp? Instead of going for your blowtorch, you’d better just press play, beetle buddy.

We’re back (A Dinosaur's Story) to finish what we started and finally determine… who some of these animated characters are. After all, these should now be the better-known villains of the non-Disney bunch, right? And then, after we can clearly picture these individual antagonists, we’ll do our best to argue who would win in a fight to the death. This will, of course, lead to a number of random side conversations, including a whole discussion about healthcare plans and a couple conspiracy theories. We may agree a lot at the beginning, but then we become sentient and corporeal, and the dark magic starts to take over and as we enter the sinister sixteen, evil eight, fearsome four, and final match-up.

 

Which non-Disney villain will come out victorious? Press play to find out.

 

Visit Baconsale.com to download the advanced version of this bracket.

Why should Disney villains have all the fun? On this episode of Baconsale, we’re turning the spotlight on evil, animated antagonists from other film studios such as DreamWorks (Lord Farquaad, Tai Lung), Illumination (Vector, Bowser), Fox (Soto, Hexxus), and even some Don Bluth productions (Rasputin, Sharptooth). You may not remember some of these characters, but that’s okay because we didn’t either. However, we’ll remind you of which movie they’re from, what they look like, and what their crimes are. We’ve also randomized the match-ups so there are a lot of wild card battles in this first round of the tournament. And watch out for decades-old spoilers as we don’t pull any punches.

 

Press play to find out why Plankton is Batman.

 

And visit Baconsale.com to download our official non-Disney villain bracket.

On this episode of Baconsale, we are the danger, because we’re entering the Gilliverse (Vince Gilligan’s Island?) and discussing Breaking Bad, El Camino, and Better Call Saul. We’ll begin by Gliding Over All with a spoiler-free history of each show. We’ll then use our Gray Matter to analyze characters such as Saul Goodman, Jesse Pinkman, Kim Wexler, Mike Ehrmantraut, Gus Fring, and the Cancer Man himself: Walter White/Heisenberg. Once we’re given the Green Light, we’ll take the Gloves Off and go Full Measure into spoiler territory and all the Chicanery that happens in these shows. We’ll talk about the Plan and Execution of a few specific episodes, chat about the jaw-dropping moments when certain characters Face Off, and debate if the End Times of each story was Something Beautiful or just Dead Freight.

 

It was Quite a Ride to watch these all again. Press play to enter the Crawl Space and be the one who knocks.

It’s Sunrise on the Reaping of fall movies for Baconsale. Joel, Kent, and Zack have searched the Wildwood of the web and Hope to help you know which films are going Open World before the end of the year. We’ve used some Practical Magic 2 choose five films we want to avoid, and five (Minus Zero) that belong in Primetime. We’ll do our best to not act like an Ebenezer or make it sound like Doomsday in the theaters, but The Social Reckoning may happen and we may be taken over by some sort of Resident Evil at times.

 

Don’t Look Back in Anger at your Other Mommy. Be a Digger and press play.

Listener, when you are a man, sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room and talk about movies that are 20 years old. It's for fun. And on this episode of Baconsale, we’ve got a jar of dirt! Wait, no, we’re showcasing the 2006 films that left us shaken and stirred in a series of cinematic categories. We’ll be discussing the films that were a great success, as well as those that were nothing more than an inconvenient truth. We’re all in this together, but Kent is a bit of a downer and he fights our pursuit of happyness, Joel has declared open season on animated films and his feet aren’t happy, and Zack is ready to shake and bake and he gets a little hostel with some our choices.

 

Ka-chow! Press play to hear the last stand in our film lookback this season.

Somehow Joel, Kent & Zack were hired as temps at a parole board hearing. However, this is a symbolic cinematic prison for filmmakers who have been put in director’s jail for one reason or another. Therefore, on this episode of Baconsale, we’ll be examining the filmography of once-popular directors like Tom Hooper, Cameron Crowe, Patty Jenkins, Joss Whedon, J.J. Abrams, Nancy Meyers, and Terry Gilliam. After reviewing their cases, we’ll decide if they deserve to stay in director’s jail, should be allowed out on probation, or should be released to make movies freely again. Should someone’s reputation be ruined because of one garbage (grabage?) movie? Can a movie be iconic but not good? Does the age of a director matter? Listen to find out.

 

Press play to get stamp happy!

Baconsale has already ranked popular pizza chains and frozen pizzas on previous episodes and now we’re topping it all off with, well, pizza toppings. We’ve compiled a list of 24 popular meats and veggies and, after quickly picking our preferred crust type and sauce, Joel, Kent, and Zack will rank everything from anchovies to tomatoes. Along the way, there may be some Little Sleazer's slander and multiple comparisons to the taste of dirt, but we hope you enjoy as we pile on the praise for the toppings we love and present the official pizza of our podcast.

 

Don’t be a jerk to bread, BOOK IT to that play button!

Believe it or not, it’s been three years since the last time Baconsale played Concert, iPod, Erase. So, we decided to dedicate another episode to contemplating which artists we’d like to see in concert, which songs we’d want to hear on repeat, and which albums we would erase from existence. Zack is having fun with themes, Kent is doing his best impression of Cher, and Joel is still paying for his past actions with this game. We invite you to play along with us as we stress about scenarios that will never happen.

 

Press play to learn why The Beagles would be such a good idea.