The Godfather Part II has arrived.

Francis Ford Coppola's sequel has been called the greatest movie of all time and the greatest sequel of all time. John and Tristan grew up with it but Darren had never seen it. Listen to hear us talk about old and new perspectives.

Phil Alden Robinson’s Field of Dreams is a love letter to Baseball. Now, Baseball has returned the favor with a love letter to the movie in the form of the Field of Dreams Game. This week, The Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees will play the first Major League Baseball game in the state of Iowa, on the site where the movie was filmed 33 years ago. Mike and Lance prepare for that game with a look at the original movie. They discuss their relationship to the film growing up, and what it means to them now. They also look at how the upcoming game will pay tribute to the movie.

Welcome to Training Montage, the new show about sports movies on the Nerd Party Network. In each episode, co-hosts Lance and Mike will look at a different sports movie, as well as the sport it portrays. In the premiere episode, they look at the Citizen Kane of sports movies, Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull. Lance and Mike discuss their personal relationship with boxing, how it is portrayed in the movie. They also break down what makes Raging Bull one of the best movies ever made.

Derek "Research" Young and Darren "Development" Moser talk about creative ways to solve their making problems. From the R&D phase, to the build phase to the storage phase how you solve the 101 problems during a project is always an interesting discussion.

Dallas and Lee review a triple bill of The Suicide Squad, Old & The Last Letter from Your Lover. We also have an interview with Augustine Frizzell the director of The Last Letter from Your Lover.

This episode wraps up Catching Fire, so we follow the plot from the prep time in the Capitol, through the arena, and into the final explosion. Charles and Asia dive into Katniss’ new strategy in the games of saving Peeta rather than herself, and the strange alliance that never made any sense. We get to meet some of the other victors as Katniss meets them, and like her, we generally like them. Asia thinks we could have figured out the clock sooner, but we do concede the horror of some of the more evil segments. As we’ve mentioned this podcast is officially Pro-Peeta, and we really enjoy getting to see Peeta and Katniss together in this section, both trying to die to protect the other.

Next week we will be reading chapters 1-14 of book 3 in the series, Mockingjay.

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New Trek Animation. It’s time for season two of “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” and the trio couldn’t be more excited. And waiting in the wings is one the newest editions to the franchise - “Star Trek: Prodigy.” The trio look over the latest news concerning these two animated series. What new characters and stories will we see? How does animation add to the possibilities? Let us know what you’re excited about!

We review 'Zola' based on the infamous twitter thread about a waitress who agrees to accompany an exotic dancer, her put-upon boyfriend, and her mysterious and domineering roommate on a road trip to Florida to seek their fortune at a high-end strip club.

Dallas and Lee also are joined by Janicza Bravo the co-writer and director of 'Zola' to discuss the making of the movie.

This week, Houselights tackles the often forgotten but critics darling, "The Conversation." Francis Ford Coppola once said this was his favorite film that he made. Two of our hosts had never seen it so listen to hear if this 70s enigma holds up against the 2021 surveillance state.

​Derek "20 Project" Young and Darren "30 Project" Moser talk about when a new project comes along and shelves the current task you were working on. How do we avoid this, should we avoid it? Is it ok as long as we write our old project down?