Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis help us ring in the day after Christmas with Looper (2012), and we tell what seems to be the conclusion of Transpektor Bower's Christmas Ghost Psychosis.

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Download Episode 56: A Little Short-Sighted

00:34 - Intro01:20 - A Christmas Miracle with Transpektor Bowers06:18 - A Billy Squire Christmas08:48 - Intro to Looper (2012)12:15 - Closing the Loop13:53 - The Rainmaker from The Future16:04 - Young Joe vs. Old Joe19:48 - Who You are Meant to Root For21:11 - Memories of Youth23:40 - Thoughtful Film, not Meant for Scrutiny25:37 - Looping Concepts - Two Paths27:50 - Bruce Willis, What would 50 Year Old me think of 20 Year Old me?28:48 - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Selfless Actor29:03 - Outro

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In our last episode before Christmas, we talk about Brian Posehn, Gerry Duggan, and Rick Remender's The Last Christmas from Image Comics along with Holiday Wars by Scott King and Michael Odom.  We also discuss a bizarre Christmas party, Santa stories, and Welcome to the Jungle.

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00:35 - Intro01:08 - Christmas Partying / Party Crasher03:37 - Playing Similes06:17 - Welcome to the Jungle06:57 - Letters: Favorite Christmas Comics - Uncanny X-Men #230 and #14310:47 - When Shows/Comics Embrace Christmas11:52 - The Story of Tom18:08 - The Last Christmas (Brian Posehn, Gerry Duggan, Rick Remender - Image Comics)19:11 - The Last Christmas is an R Rated Punk Rock Christmas Story22:59 - Holiday Wars by Scott King and Michael Odom (Buy it on Amazon)24:07 - Holiday Wars and the Holiday's Personified25:48 - Everybody has a Santa Story to Tell27:20 - Twas the Night Before Christmas has never been topped28:23 - Rick Remender's Art29:10 - Outro Merry Christmas and thanks for all the support!

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It's Christmas and we have a new Tolkien Movie! The Hobbit: The Unexpected Journey is ON!  That, and we talk about Transpektor Bowers continued descent into madness.

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00:40 - Intro01:30 - No More Transpektor Bowers in the Waiting Room06:10 - A Tolkien Film for Christmas!06:31 - Memories of The Lord of the Rings, 9/11/2001, etc.11:06 - Intro to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey12:37 - Warning: We're not Lord of the Rings Guys16:53 - The Dwarves19:04 - Bilbo and Martin Freeman21:27 - Liked seeing Sylvester McCoy/Doctor Who22:03 - What is with Gross Movies?24:44 - The Length of the Movie26:49 - Putting Characters in Danger28:33 - We're in for a Great Ride with these Movies28:54 - Outro, We forgot to talk about Tom!

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Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely bring us Earth 2 from DC Comics and Don and Mike discuss the graphic novel on their ride home from Christmas shopping at the mall. Lots of fast food talk and a few callers, too!

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Radio Free Echo Rift is your the twice weekly Pirate Pop Culture Podcast brought to you from Deep Beneath the City of Philadelphia! We have thirty minutes to record each episode here in the confines of the Waiting Room - the only place our evil overlords, the Researchers, can’t monitor our activities. If we were ever caught, we’d be atomized for sure!  from Don's 1997 Chrysler Sebring Convertible.

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Download Episode 53: The Other Earth 2

00:40 - Brought to you from Don's 1997 Chrysler Sebring Convertible01:50 - McRib is Back, Heading Home03:30 - Caller Repairman05:00 - Give Radio Free Echo Rift a Christmas Present06:03 - Titus from @ComicBookShopDE must be in on the Echo Rift07:58 - Intro to DC Comics Earth 2 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely12:23 - The Crime Syndicate of Amerikkka15:40 - On Frank Quitely and Graphic Storytelling17:13 - Time Tavel vs. Alternate Reality Stories20:00 - A World where Evil Always Prevails21:52 - Owlman23:32 - Earth 2 is a Graphic Novel24:31 - Did Earth 2 need more or less Science Fiction?25:52 - Quitely draws asses with a lot of passion26:29 - Kid Mudfoot Interrupts28:47 - Put a Little Love in your Heart

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We're Christmas shopping and recording from a 1997 Chrysler Sebring Convertible and taking an in depth look into two classic Christmas Movies: Die Hard and Lethal Weapon. Join us!

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Radio Free Echo Rift is your the twice weekly Pirate Pop Culture Podcast brought to you from Deep Beneath the City of Philadelphia! We have thirty minutes to record each episode here in the confines of the Waiting Room - the only place our evil overlords, the Researchers, can’t monitor our activities. If we were ever caught, we’d be atomized for sure!  from Don's 1997 Chrysler Sebring Convertible.

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00:34 - From Don's 1997 Chrysler Sebring Convertible01:11 - Invading the King of Prussia Mall01:42 - Transpector Bowers has become a Problem03:29 - Why is Mike in the Backseat?04:57 - Defining Two Awesome Holiday Films06:00 - Lethal Weapon and Die Hard are Seminal Character Films06:36 - Jeb Stuart wrote Die Hard07:38 - Shane Black wrote Lethal Weapon09:14 - Introduction John McClane11:14 - Introduction to Holly Generro McClane12:20 - Introduction to Martin Riggs (He's CRAZY!)12:46 - Introduction to Roger Murtaugh15:00 - John McClane is a Professional17:21 - One of the reasons Die Hard 2 Fails18:48 - Die Hard is about Sane People20:20 - Michael Kaman Scores both Films23:30 - Christmas Motifs in Die Hard and Lethal Weapon24:38 - Richard Donner, John McTiernan, Jan DuBont (and Michael Bay)26:23 - Lethal Weapon is THE Buddy Movie28:49 - Die Hard is a Perfect Film29:08 - Review Us on iTunes!

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Digging in to Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Fatale Vol 1: Death Chases Us from Image Comics! A mysterious package, corrupt cops, adultry and murder meet bloody sacrifice, magic, cultists, and Nazi Lovecraftian Horrors! That and we take calls and talk about our graphic novel giveaways in December!

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00:34: Intro01:12: Caroling02:16: We're Giving Away Graphic Novels!03:30: Caller: We should do more indie books (What?)06:55: Email: Noir Movies10:11: Caller: Dragnet Connections to Fatale?11:12: Image Comics: Ed Brubaker / Sean Philips Fatal Vol. 1 Death Chases Me13:31: Nicolas and Josephine in the Present15:30: Hank, Walt, Jo and the Bishop in the 195621:18: HP Lovecraft, Cthulu, and Fatale23:47: Turning the Femme Fatale into Mythology25:02: Fatale: Reading Experience, Demanding your Attention28:23: Excited about future volumes, 1970's etc29:05: Outro - this podcast will force people to do things against their will

Paperkeg is Back - Go listen!

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Arrow (on The CW) tells the story rich kid Oliver Queen's return to civilization after being stranded on a tropical island for five years. Oliver puts on a hood and uses his archery skills to go on a murderous rampage across Starling City, crossing off the names on his father's enemies list in the name of social justice.

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Download Episode 50: Five Years A Go-Go

00:34 - It's Cold Beneath Philadelphia02:15 - Graphic Novel Giveaway in December02:56 - Caller - Doctor Who Dramatic Episode06:48 - Letter - Creative Non-Fiction?08:59 - The CW's Arrow: Birth of a Serial Killer10:48 - List of Characters who have Murdered Fewer People than Oliver Queen11:51 - Origin of a Serial Killer15:16 - The Heroes of Arrow: Moira Queen and Captain Jack Harkness17:10 - Plaintiff's Attorneys: always the hero20:06 - Oliver Queen's Excuses for Murdering People22:28 - If you have a suit or own a business, you're dead meat23:52 - Thea and the Two Story Bibles25:30 - Arrow is kind of like Dexter27:00 - Where can Arrow go from here?28:15 - How is this madman on the Justice League?29:29 - Outro

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After reading Swamp Thing for Episode 33 we felt compelled to delve into DC Comics Animal Man, and boy were we shocked.  Join us as we dig into the Red, the Green, and the Rot. Plus, a listener letter gets us talking about double-ship comics, and a mini-rant on the cost of comics and comic piracy!

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Download Episode Episode 49: Call It Animal Man

00:34 - Intro (Return to Manhood!)01:18 - Mike's Thanksgiving and his Egg Nog contest02:10 - Don confuses audiences with talk of Gobblers, Wawa, and Shorti's03:19 - Letters: Double Shipping Comics06:43 - Comics cost what they cost08:57 - Comic Piracy10:47 - Introduction to DC Comics Animal Man: The Hunt (Jeff Lemire / Travel Foreman)13:30 - And when you're reading Animal Man you're going....14:30 - Buddy Baker is called to the Red15:54 - The Mythology - The Red, The Green, and The Rot17:44 - Jeff Lemire (Essex County / Underwater Welder / Sweet Tooth)18:40 - Swamp Thing and Animal Man mirroring each other21:29 - A Conversation between Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire21:47 - Animal Man is a Monster Comic23:26 - Don Rants about DC's AWFUL Trade Publication Schedule24:25 - Relating to the Red, The Green, and the Rot27:28 - Girls in Refrigerators / Gail Simone28:37 - Quick Detour: Walking Dead and Bear McCreary's music29:21 - Outro!

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Many people claim that Suzanne Collins stole the idea for The Hunger Games from a Japanese Book/Movie titled Battle Royale by author Toushun Takami. In this third installment of Girl Talk the girls get together and and compare the two stories. Plus, we answer reader mail about Doctor Who and Regenerations. Past Hunger Games episodes include Episode 08: Girl Talk and Episode 26: Girl Talk Rises

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00:34 - Intro01:14 - Listener mail: Doctor Who Regenerations?05:34 - Girl Talk Returns!06:30 - Battle Royale Overview (Film Adaptation by Kinji Fukasaku)07:47 - Similarities between Battle Royale and The Hunger Games as we see them09:14 - Differences, noting we haven't read the Battle Royale novel11:47 - Comparing the Situations13:24 - Brutality and Violence in Battle Royale - Melodrama in Japanese Drama15:27 - Battle Royale is some kind of commentary on Teenagers18:52 - Battle Royale's Japanese Johnny Rotten and Victors21:03 - There is NO Katniss Everdeen in Battle Royale22:05 - So is Hunger Games a Rip Off?24:56 - One of these movies is clearly Superior to the other27:24 - We agree that Girls can have machine gun fights27:40 - Suzanne Collins on Battle Royale28:27 - Hasn't EVERYONE seen The Running Man?!?29:16 - Girl Talk OUT

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We finally get to one of our favorite things: Doctor Who! Discussing Series 7.1, being a Doctor Who fan, the coming and going of Doctors and Companions, and provide the Radio Free Echo Rift guide to giving Doctor Who a try. All that, plus we talk about Bentley Little's novel, The Haunted.

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00:34 - Intro01:24 - Novel: Bentley Little's The Haunted06:51 - Introduction to Doctor Who - Classic Series vs. New Series08:26 - Explaining the different Doctors09:55 - Being the Doctor has become an Enormous Problem11:02 - Doctor Who Series 7.1 Overview13:27 - Episode 1 Asylum of the Daleks16:09 - Episode 2 Dinosaurs on a Spaceship17:04 - Episode 3 A Town Called Mercy18:40 - Episode 4 The Slow Invasion20:44 - Episode 5 The Angels Take Manhattan23:37 - The Coming and Going of Companions and Doctors25:49 - Radio Free Echo Rift Guide to Trying Out Doctor Who:26:05 - First watch "Blink" - Season 3, Episode 10 (David Tennant) [Amazon] [NetFlix]27:35 - Then watch "Midnight"  - Season 4, Episode 8 (David Tennant) [Amazon] [NetFlix]28:32 - Then start watching Doctor Who at Series 5 (Matt Smith) [Amazon] [NetFlix]29:18 - Watch one Classic Episode: Robots of Death (Tom Baker) [Amazon]29:40 - Outro!

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