“We've won. People no longer care about their civil liberties. They care about their standard of life. The modern world has outfitted notions like freedom. They're content to follow.”

The gang's all here this week to kick off our second theme month of 2025 - Oops! All Video Games! - and as we do, we're talking the frustrating contradictions of the Assassin’s Creed fanbase, the equally-frustrating nature of modern music, the deep, often confusing lore of the Assassin’s Creed video game series, and we try our hands at fancasting Ezio.

Social media is the Animus and we're all of us plugged in to one platform or another. Come check us out:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Letterboxd.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!

“They say your whole life flashes before your eyes when you die. And it's true, even for a blind man.”

We’re closing out our first of three consecutive theme months this year by covering a long-promised movie! With “Daredevil: Born Again” dropping on Disney+ this weekend, we invited our buddy DeVaughn Taylor back to talk about this all-but-forgotten Ben Affleck vehicle from the early aughts. We’re chatting about our histories with the film, why we prefer the Director’s Cut to the theatrical version, and how this movie’s soundtrack cements it squarely in 2003!

We’re good, sure. You can give us that. But DeVaughn Taylor? He’s magic! Check him out in the following corners of the Internet:

• @_daddydisco on Instagram and @daddydisco on Bluesky
• Find DeVaughn on Spectre Cinema Club and the Tainted Love podcasts as well as The Pod & the Pendulum podcast.
  • @spectrecinema on Bluesky, Instagram and TikTok.
  • @taintedlovepod on Bluesky and Instagram.

Justice isn't a sin, but being on social media sure feels like it these days. Observe our attempts at penance on the following platforms:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Instagram and Letterboxd, and @suswarlock on Blusky.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram, and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.

“What happened to your face?”

For Week 3 of our American Superhero theme month, we’re headed back to the wild, wild West for an unlikely comics hero! While we work on talking around the movie, Brett and Tucker geek out about “Supernatural,” Brett breaks down the deep lore of Jonah Hex, the boys gush about the SNL 50 weekend presentations, and Tucker and Brett try to make sense of the Silent Hill video game and film franchises. Join us, won’t you?

We’re all out of wiseass answers, so just follow us on these social media platforms:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Letterboxd (if he remembers to update it).
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!

“It's bad medicine... and nobody said the medicine was going to taste any good. But can we afford not to take it? I don't think so. If we don't take this medicine now, we'll all die. Slowly... but we'll die.”

Another year, another Valentine’s Day and longtime listeners know that means some quality time with our eternal Valentine’s date, the great Mike Snoonian! And this year, to celebrate the release of Captain America: Brave New World, we’re talking about the first attempt to bring the star spangled super-soldier to the big screen! Along the way, we also discuss Tucker’s vitriol for the artwork of Mark Bagley, Jack’s one bad day (hour, really), a relitigation of our stances on the MCU and Halloween franchises, the current state of media consumption and the death of the mid-budget movie, and Jackie Brown and its place in Quentin Tarantino’s oeuvre! Don’t miss it!

Gee whiz, do we ever love Mike Snoonian! Make sure you check out him and his work at the following places:

• @mikechumpchange on Letterboxd.
• @mikesnoonian on Bluesky.
• Catch Mike on The Pod and the Pendulum and follow them on Bluesky, Instagram, and Patreon.

Don’t call us your brothers! (That’s our sisters’ job!) You can, however, follow us at these social media platforms:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Letterboxd.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod

“My city screams.She is my lover. She is my mother. And I… am her Spirit.”

This week, we’re kicking off a month of films based on American comic book superheroes with the movie that brought Stephen closer to leaving a movie theater before the end of the film than any movie he’s seen before or since! In an effort to avoid discussing the movie any more than we have to, we discuss the comic book work of Spirit creator Will Eisner and this film’s director Frank Miller, the acting career of star Gabriel Macht, and why Tucker got tired of Looper and Johnny Cash.

Like all the women in this hellhole, we’re not out of our minds, we’re just equipped. Check us out on social media for the proof:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Join our Patreon at either the free or paid level!
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Letterboxd.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod
• Check out Tucker and his awesome roommate in last year’s Endless Elsewhere Halloween Special from our buddy J.P. Leck wherever you get your podcasts!

“That audience reaction. It’s like heroin.”

It’s a fifth Thursday, so we’re Straight Up going off format to cover the third Joseph Kahn film we’ve ever covered! And who better to join us than Grand Voodoo Band’s own Evan Wilson (or ‘Jimmy’ as Tucker is inclined to call him)? Along the way, we talk about the dichotomy between progressive ideals and transgressive art, our rankings of Joseph Kahn films, and what makes Kahn Tucker’s “next Ti West”!

Evan Wilson might not be a battle rapper (yet!), but we’d never hold that against him! Check out all his endeavors at the following social platforms:

• @grandvoodooband on Apple Music, Bandcamp, Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, TikTok, and YouTube
• Make sure to check out Evan’s latest single “Ghost in the Feel” on Apple Music, Bandcamp, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever else you get your music!
• Be the coolest kid in your friend group by being the first of your friends to own this sweet, sweet Grand Voodoo Band merch: https://grandvoodooband.bandcamp.com/merch

We’re spittin’ bars at the following social media platforms! Check us out:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Letterboxd.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including occasional episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod

“Sho’nuff!”

It’s the last Thursday of the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, so what better time to cover 1985’s The Last Dragon?? While we talk about this formative film for Tucker, we stop along the way to discuss the small-but-stacked filmography of Leo O’Brien, the saving grace of El DeBarge, the legendary Ernie Reyes Jr. (in his first EVER film role), and the ABC sitcom “Dinosaurs.”

Are we the meanest, prettiest, baddest low-down mofos around this town? Maybe not, but you can still follow us on the following social platforms:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Letterboxd.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!

“Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright.”

With Leigh Whannell’s update of the classic Universal Monster movie set to drop this weekend, we’re chatting about the last time Universal tried to reboot the classic monster! And we’re joined by returning guest Jim Rohner, formerly of the Cast of Cthulhu, who joins us to chat about Joe Johnston’s late arrival on this film and subsequent difficulties, favorite music video directors, the Dark Universe, and finding the heart of the Universal Monsters franchise.

“A man who’s pure of heart”? Sounds like our buddy Jim Rohner! Check him out at the following locations:

• @nolanfixesteeth on Bluesky
• Dig into the Cast of Cthulhu back catalog wherever you get podcasts
• Make sure to listen to the Cast of Cthulhu At the Mountains of Madness Virtual Table Read from 2021 featuring performances from both Stephen and Brett!

Where does the man begin and the beast end? Follow us on these social media platforms to find out:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Instagram and Letterboxd, and @suswarlock on Blusky.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod

“We almost finished what Ma started.”

We’re back from our bye week, rested and ready to start a whole new year of podcasting! We’re kicking off 2025 with a gritty horror remake and who better to join us for the discussion than the author of Millennial Nasties and contributor to The Pod & the Pendulum, Ariel Powers-Schaub! Together, we discuss our histories with motor vehicles, our mutual dislike of Nick, and reckon with Paris Hilton and the “See Paris Die” campaign for this movie!

If you truly can get used to anything if you’re around it long enough, it might explain why Ariel Powers-Schaub keeps coming back to join us! She’s rad and you should check her out on the following platforms:

• Buy Ari’s book, Millennial Nasties wherever books are sold! Amazon! Barnes & Noble! Vinegar Syndrome?? WAL-MART?!?
• @ari_hellraiser on Instagram, Letterboxd, and Xitter and @arihellraiser on Bluesky
• Check out Ari’s coverage of the I Spit on Your Grave franchise on the Patreon for The Pod & the Pendulum!

Basically, we’re all just trying to keep from dropping our stupid lip balm. See how successful we are at the following social media platforms:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Instagram and Letterboxd, and @suswarlock on Blusky.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on Instagram and YouTube, and @Tuck_Mugs 

“You're there because of my stress and my anxiety triggering a visual coping mechanism or something.”

We’re closing out 2024 with a bang AND a whimper because we’re covering one of this year’s first major failed franchise starters! Along the way, we take detours to discuss John Travolta’s Santa Claus Capital One commercial, why Hamilton hasn’t been adapted for the big screen yet, the post-Oscar career arc of Ariana DeBose, and the value of going into a movie blind! It’s our last big foray of the year so join us, won’t you?

That’s the thing about social media, it’s persistent. Here’s where to find ours:

• @Disenfranchpod on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Letterboxd, and YouTube.
• Email us your thoughts or requests to [email protected]
• Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
• Find Stephen at @ChewyWalrus on Bluesky, Instagram, and Letterboxd.
• Check out Stephen’s first novel - Check In, Check Out - on Amazon, now available in paperback or ebook: https://amzn.to/44idk8y
• Find Brett at @sus_warlock on Instagram and Letterboxd, and @suswarlock on Blusky.
• Find Tucker at @icenine09 on YouTube and Instagram and @tuck_mugs on Instagram.
• Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content, including bi-weekly episodes of What Are We Watching? at https://patreon.com/Disenfranchpod
• Watch our big screen debut in Circle City Supernatural from our buddy J.P. Leck! You can either buy it on BluRay through his website, buy/rent it through Amazon Prime, or watch it free with ads on Tubi!