Judgment Day is inevitable. In Week Three of Terminator Month, we arrive in the post-James Cameron era of the franchise to rob a veterinary clinic and destroy downtown Los Angeles with Dave Brouillette of the Hands Free Football podcast. Our … Continue reading →

Same Make. Same Model. New Mission. We’re back! In Week Two of Terminator Month, we kidnap Joe Preti of the View from the Gutters podcast, and force him to help us break into Cyberdyne Systems headquarters. Our mission this time, … Continue reading →

That Terminator is out there! It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop… ever, until you are dead! Welcome to Terminator Month, where every … Continue reading →

In which, we join Matthew Amster-Burton to circle the dead horses of popular culture with clubs and go to town. We sift through the dirt shoveled over the recently aborted attempt at a Universal monsters cinematic universe. Did it have … Continue reading →

We’re Ready To Believe You. It’s the premiere episode of our Single Serving Selection series where we dissect a smaller helping of popular culture for you. In our first selection, we get kicked out of university, and break out the … Continue reading →

We sit down with our friend Todd Maxfield-Matsumoto to drill into pop culture ephemera and random nonsense. Mike revels in the schadenfreude of having a movie theater rewards card and we all wonder when Johnny Depp became box office poison for … Continue reading →

In an episode, we look at the perhaps-necessary anachronism of period stories where the protagonist has strangely modern social attitudes. Does anyone really want the cowboy you play in a video game to be casually racist for the sake of … Continue reading →

Breaking out is an inside job. After nearly forty years of waiting, it’s finally happened. It’s time to inject ourselves with tracking devices and ready our homemade sextants.  This month, we sit down with our good friend Todd Maxfield-Matsumoto to … Continue reading →

“Ah can’t do it anymore, Jeb! Ah can’t go on killin’ yankees when they’s fightin’ tuh give th’ black folks their freedom, an’ we’s fightin’ to preserve a world whut’s prob’ly better off dead an’ done with!” In our third … Continue reading →

Wherein Mike and Casey discuss the weird evolution of HBO’s Game of Thrones from an almost obsessively grounded fantasy show to a fist-pumping, crowd-pleasing action fantasy. We react to what we’ve seen, read and heard of the upcoming Star Trek … Continue reading →