Disenfranchised

“Hey, this is getting complicated!”

It’s our third consecutive theme month and this one is (in so many ways) even bigger! That’s right, it’s Big in Japan 2: Even Bigger! And as we discuss this early genre mismatch from Midnight Meat Train director Ryuhei Kitamura, we find the time to discuss the importance of film editing as an art form, They Cloned Tyrone, Tucker’s thoughts on Kyle Mooney’s latest directorial offering, and who should direct the American remake of this film. Tune in - but stay out of Forest of Resurrection!

There are 666 portals that connect our world to the other side. Most of them are buried somewhere on social media. Here are ours:

• @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!

Oh, that’s a twist! That is VERY twisty…”

We wanna be the very best like no one ever was… but in the meantime, we’ll settle for being ourselves! Tucker’s off solving a mystery, so it’s the OG Disenfranchised boys back in the saddle to discuss one of the best cinematic video game adaptations yet*! And, along the way, we discuss Marvel’s current and upcoming slate (NOTE: This episode was recorded BEFORE the Doomsday cast announcement), the sweet, sweet addiction of opening packs for trading card games, and what it takes to successfully adapt a video game to film! Don’t miss out

We’re actually pretty good at being alone at night. Don’t believe us? We’ve got the social media presence to prove it! Check us out on the following 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

“Leon S. Kennedy. What’s the ‘S’ stand for? Stupid?”

Life got in the way this week, so we're rebroadcasting one of our favorite video game themed episodes!

We discuss what happens when fan service goes too far, our collective love for Donal Logue, and Brett’s absolute obsessive adoration for all things Resident Evil.

It’s up to us to take down Umbrella. Here’s where to help:

• @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!

“Daddy loves you”

Hey, Tucker here. Stephen is busy this week which means he isn’t part of this episode and could not write the show notes, so I’ll be taking a crack at it!

Brett and I talk about video games in this episode. A lot of them. Sometimes we talk about Tomb Raider, but mostly Resident Evil. Enjoy!

Social media is a thing that exists, and if it were a tomb, we would raid the shit out of it:

• @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!

“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