Holiday 2025!

It’s our final episode of 2025! It’s also our Holiday episode, AND it’s our 3rd Anniversary!

This week we celebrate the musical traditions of the season! What makes a great Christmas song? What are some of our favorites? What are some of the best music-related Christmas gifts we’ve received in the past? We also impart some advice on gift-giving for the music lovers in our lives!

And finally, we take a look back at our past year and talk about some of our favorite shows we did in 2025.

First, though, we check the mailbag for some listener messages from our last two episodes!

We’ll see you in January 2026!

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Screen Reads is back to discuss another film and compare it to the comics that form its roots. In this installment we delve into the 2003 movie Daredevil and compare it to issues 173-184 of the Daredevil comic as well as the director’s cut of the film. We talk about the differences between the director’s cut and theatrical editions and what we thought worked better in each. We debate what elements we think could have been changed and what worked better. We get into the Daredevil issues and talk about the quality of the story as well as how it was used to inform the choices of the movie. We also give our opinions of the cast performances and various elements of the film.

This week’s five-minute controversy asks if we think that it’s good idea to parse out the Middle Earth IP between Amazon Prime and Warner Bros.

This week Anji, Eric, and Nate join the cast.

Show Notes:
Screen Reads 1 (Green Lantern)

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Jim reflects back on his first viewing of the 1966 Cult Classic Horror Film “Chamber Of Horrors,” starring Patrick O’Neal, Caesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Laura Devon, Patrice Wymore, Suzy Parker, Jose Rene Ruiz Martinez, Jeanette Nolan, Marie Windsor, Wayne Rogers and Richard O’Brien. Two amateur sleuths, who also own a wax museum, help Baltimore police capture a serial killer in the late 19th century. Find out more on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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This Week on Earth Station DCU! Drew Leiter and Cletus Jacobs dive into a six-part event where the sinister psychic powers of Gorilla Grodd put both Superman and Batman in peril, but with a mysterious twist that hints at knowledge of the future. The Justice League Unlimited come face-to-face with their most infamous foes—including Gorilla Grodd, the Cheetah, Lex Luthor, and the Joker in Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #38–39, Justice League Unlimited #6–8, and Batman/Superman: World’s Finest 2025 Annual #1. Also, we have another Rick up our sleeves as we review the third episode of Peacemaker Season 2. All this plus, DC News, Shout Outs, and much, much more!

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Table of Contents

0:00:00 Show Open

0:01:10 DC News

0:08:20 We Are Yesterday Crossover

0:08:25 Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #38 – Part 1

0:10:53 Justice League Unlimited #6 – Part 2

0:14:10 Batman/Superman: World’s Finest 2025 Annual #1 – Part 3

0:21:02 Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #39 – Part 4

0:25:30 Justice League Unlimited #7 – Part 5

0:30:04 Justice League Unlimited #8 – Part 6

0:34:12 Justice League Unlimited #9 – Epilogue

0:38:46 Peacemaker S2 Episode 3 – Another Rick Up My Sleeve

0:49:44 Show Close

Links

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #38

Justice League Unlimited #6

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest 2025 Annual #1

Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #39

Justice League Unlimited #7

Justice League Unlimited #8

Justice League Unlimited #9

Flash #115 (Cletus’s Read More Comics Pick)

Earth Station DCU Website

The ESO Network

Earth Station DCU/BatChums Patreon

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Last week, a teaser scene from the first episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy was released! This week on Earth Station Trek we’re going to be analyzing that clip to see what we can find in it. What looks good? What surprised us? Does this scene make us more excited for the series or did it leave us cold? What? You don’t think we can spend a whole hour on ONE SCENE? Hold our Romulan Ale!!

Earth Station Trek is a part of the ESO Podcast Network, Executive Producer Mike Faber.

#startrek #starfleetacademy #helenhunter #robertpicardo

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This week, we’re on a second contact mission, revisiting the Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 18 episode “The Crossing, ” which Scott Sigler explained to us last week in one of the funniest and strangest explainers we have ever had. He is back with us this week to hear how we thought his explainer lived up to the actual episode now that we’ve all seen it. Also, in our Mammary Alpha segment we determine once and for all whether “loyalty” is really an emotion.

A word of warning: If you haven’t listened to the episode before this one, “When You Wisp Upon a Starship!,” go listen to that first because this is a follow up to last week. 

Also, check out Scott Sigler’s website to learn more about him and his podcasts and many novels (which we highly rikermend!)

Sound assistance by K.O. Myers at Particulate Media If you enjoy the show, follow us on Facebook or on BlueSky or send us an email to [email protected]. We cannot tell you how much we would love to hear from you!

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Batman ’66 S2 Ep48 – The Joker’s Epitaph

The Joker is now Vice Chairman of the Gotham National Bank, due to an unsuccessful plan of Batman’s. He installs his robots as tellers, and despite his criminal past, seems to be running things in perfect order. The Dynamic Duo realize they will have to trick him into making a mistake in order to remove him. They go to work on a plan to gain control of his robots. But that plan is jeopardized when, due to an odd turn of events, Batman’s true identity Bruce Wayne is declared mentally ill and hauled off in a straight-jacket.

Episode aired Thursday, Feb 16, 1967

Director: Oscar Rudolph

Teleplay: Lorenzo Semple Jr.

Story: Peter Rabe

Cast:

Adam West – Batman

Burt Ward – Robin

Alan Napier – Alfred

Neil Hamilton – Commissioner Gordon

Stafford Repp – Chief O’Hara

Madge Blake – Mrs. Cooper (credit only)

Cesar Romero – The Joker

Oscar Beregi Jr. – Dr. Floyd

Phyllis Douglas – Josie Miller

Clint Ritchie – Boff

Ed Deemer – Yock

Lawrence Montaigne – Mr. Glee

J. Edward McKinley – Mr. F. Flamm

Mike’s Shout Out:

Batman Jada Nano Hollywood Rides Toy Micro Cars Batmobile Batcycle Joker Mobile

Drew’s Shout Out:

DC Collectors Glasses 4 Glass Set: Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Batman

BatChums logo by Peter Cutler.
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Theme music by Ricky Zero.
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Flopcast episode 709! Every year, dozens of ridiculous identical holiday movies are unleashed by Hallmark, Lifetime, Netflix, and the like. (They’re so cookie-cutter that many of them literally involve cutting cookies.) And every year, we try to fix them by making them weirder. So we’ve selected a few new Christmas movies, and we’re discussing their plots (featuring time travel, glassblowing, and pickleball) and casts (featuring, as always, Lacey Chabert). Then we’re randomly inserting some strange new element (a camel with wings, perhaps) into each movie so it meets our strict weirdness standards. There, we just saved Christmas. Pass the figgy pudding. #christmasmovies #holidaymovies #hallmark #lifetime #netflix #nikiluparelli #davidbowie #letterstocleo #kayhanley #pennandteller #eso #esonetwork #geektalk #geekpodcast #geek #nerdtalk #nerd #nerdpodcast #podcast #flopcast

Episode 709 complete show notes and links at www.flopcast.net!

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This week on Earth Station Boo, we’re diving into the emotional impact and monstrous scale of Godzilla Minus One .

More than just a kaiju film, this powerful entry explores postwar trauma, survivor’s guilt, and grief—all wrapped in a terrifying return of Godzilla. We discuss the film’s unforgettable characters, its deeper meaning, and whether it sets a new standard for horror and genre storytelling.

Is it one of the best Godzilla films ever made? What could its success mean for the future of kaiju and horror cinema? Tune in as we unpack the fear, heartbreak, and destruction in one of the most unforgettable Godzilla stories yet.

Subscribe now to Earth Station Boo where we talk all things horror. Let’s Get Spooky!

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Gargoyles debuted in 1994 as part of the Disney Afternoon – a programming block of Disney Animation aimed at children just getting out of school. The series provided complex multi-episode stories with complex characters that was rare for children’s animation. In this episode we take a look back at Gargoyles from a female perspective. We discuss the complexities of the stories and the most impactful moments. We talk about our favorite characters and the phenomenal vocal work that went into them. We also delve into the mythologies and stories that were used as the basis for so much of the series. We end with discussions of Gargoyles in other media and if we’d ever like to see a live-action film version of the series.

In lieu of a five-minute controversy this week we ask what everyone’s favorite Sean Connery appearance is.

This week Rachele, Juliette, Miranda, and Kori join the cast.

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