Saturday Morning Cereal

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, we punch our tickets to the gun show with a big time hunky guest, Joel McHale. Beginning with his breakout role as the host of Talk Soup and his fan favorite role as “Jeff Winger” in the on again/off again hit series Community, Joel McHale was molded of pop-culture, nostalgia, comedy chops, a wicked awesome bod, thick hairline, a sardonic wit, impeccable timing and pecs. That’s right, where mere mortals may play hard to get, Joel McHale plays hard to want, but want him we do. In a virtual sit down to spotlight the Warner Bros release of Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms, our co-host, Jimmy The Gent (Bleed Cool, Retro Cool Nerd) talks to Joel McHale (Community, Talk Soup, Star Girl) about voicing the Hollywood star-turned-fighter Johnny Cage, the guy with the “Finish Him” move so spectacular, he’s gotta wear shades. Join Grim Shea, Marke, Jimmy The Gent and Johnny Heck as they celebrate the exhilarating career of Joel McHale, the talk show host with with most! Based on one of the most popular videogame franchises in history, Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms finds our team of heroes besieged by the enemy forces of Shao Kahn – forcing Raiden and his group of warriors into a deal to compete in a final Mortal Kombat that will determine the fate of the realms.  Listen to win a copy!

🥣Saturday Morning Cereal — the show that celebrates the themes of Saturday Morning TV that we not only grew up with, but that grew up with us.

We talk with the talent and creatives who continue to shape the pop culture we love.

🎙️ Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and visit mattypradio.com for more episodes, interviews, and Comic-Con and pop-culture coverage.

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, we devote the whole show to a little old theme we call That One Guy!, which honors those actors from your favorite movies & TV shows growing up, whose name you can’t quite think of but you know who we mean… you know…THAT ONE GUY!  Our guest interview is the talented, charming, and very fit Chris Diamantopoulos! Chris is active in live action, animation films and television including a starring role in the upcoming Netflix film Red Notice as well as notable turns in Silicon Valley, Episodes, Sopranos and 24. Chris is also a regular on American Dad!, Invincible and as the voice of Mickey Mouse for various Walt Disney Studios productions and is no stranger to DC animated productions with past roles in Harley Quinn, Justice League Action and the Batman Unlimited franchise. Join Grim Shea, Marke, Jimmy “The Gent” and Johnny Heck as we celebrate and place a name to the talented face of Chris Diamantopoulos to promote Justice Society: World War II and he chats about voicing the resolute, passionate, archetypal hero; Steve Trevor’s devotion to and love for Wonder Woman; and the unique joy of playing the only protagonist in the film without super powers.  Justice Society: World War II finds modern-day Barry Allen discovering he can run even faster than he imagined, and is promptly launched back in time in midst of a raging battle – primarily between Nazis and a team of Golden Age DC Super Heroes known as The Justice Society of America.

🥣Saturday Morning Cereal — the show that celebrates the themes of Saturday Morning TV that we not only grew up with, but that grew up with us.

We talk with the talent and creatives who continue to shape the pop culture we love.

🎙️ Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and visit mattypradio.com for more episodes, interviews, and Comic-Con and pop-culture coverage.

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week we kick off our 9th Season with a special “That One Guy” episode with a huge voice in pop-culture, the man of a million voices, Billy West (Futurama, Space Jam, The Ren & Stimpy Show). From The Howard Stern Show to Ren & Stimpy to Futurama to Looney Tunes to pretty much every other English language cartoon ever made, you KNOW Billy West. We might not be able to help you pick him out of a crowd, but after listening to this you'll at least know what his real voice sounds like! Well, we assume. That’s right, our season 9 premier episode is also a “That One Guy” special edition which honors those actors from your favorite movies & TV shows growing up, whose name you can’t quite think of but you know who we mean… you know…THAT ONE GUY!  Join hosts Grim Shea, Marke., Jimmy The Gent and Johnny Heck as they dig into a few of the 260+ voice and acting credits of Billy West including Phillip J. Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Farnsworth, Ren AND Stimpy, that Bugs Bunny guy and even a very famous and sweet Saturday morning cereal mascot!

🥣Saturday Morning Cereal — the show that celebrates the themes of Saturday Morning TV that we not only grew up with, but that grew up with us.

We talk with the talent and creatives who continue to shape the pop culture we love.

🎙️ Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and visit mattypradio.com for more episodes, interviews, and Comic-Con and pop-culture coverage.

The POWcast! is back again and aims to bring you a nostalgic look back at the movies, shows, and people from your childhood that made you who you are today. In Jimmy’s case that was the Batman 66 TV show that inspired a never ending celebration of all things Retro, Cool, and maybe a little Nerdy. This episode features another in depth conversation with TV’s Robin, Burt Ward (Batman, Back to the Batcave). Burt shares stories and memories from his harrowing days on the set of Batman, running into pilot director Robert Butler many over fifty years later, Adam using a teleprompter, his idea to continue the ‘66 universe, and whether or not he would play Robin again without Adam- and so much more. Fans of the Boy Wonder may have heard some of these stories before, but not like this. There's at least one new story you haven’t heard in this chin wag. Jimmy gives Alfred the night off and uses the Bat Time Dilation Device himself and sets it back one2 week to his conversation with DC screenwriter Tim Sheridan (Batman: The Long Halloween, Masters of the Universe: Revelations) who shares how the show influenced his work. Plug in your favorite set of air pods and enjoy this dive deep into Batman theory with one of the most knowledgeable Bat- experts in the game in the latest exciting episode of the Retro Cool Nerd POWcast! The Music samples from “The Flying Horse Big Band, and the Batman Soundtrack by Nelson Riddle and Neil Hefti. Episode #6 of the POWcast has been written, recorded, & produced by Jimmy The Gent in Wayne Study Studios for Saturday Morning Cereal productions. GENTLEGIANTSDOGFOOD.COM

🥣Saturday Morning Cereal — the show that celebrates the themes of Saturday Morning TV that we not only grew up with, but that grew up with us.

We talk with the talent and creatives who continue to shape the pop culture we love.

🎙️ Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and visit mattypradio.com for more episodes, interviews, and Comic-Con and pop-culture coverage.

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week join Dan "Grim" Shea, Marke, and Jimmy the Gent for a little retrospective on our memories regarding Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, released 40 years ago this month. 40. Years. Ago. George Lucas. Steven Spielberg. John Williams. Harrison Ford. Good lord. We wax nostalagic for one of the best properties from the 80's that was based on serials from the 40's which is planning a new release in the '20s. If that makes sense. We ask the heavy questions, such as: what's our favorite parts? Where did we first see this masterpeice? Was this really the inspiration for 2006's Snakes on a Plane? Is it okay to keep making more movies, or does this property belong in a museum? Plus we finally confirm that Indy's presence actually does matter in the movie, so now that issue is finally settled once and for goddamned all, ya heard nerd?! So why don't you crack a whip, pillage an ancient tomb, name yourself after a dog along with Grim, Mark, and Jimmy and relive the unforgettable exploits of world-renowned, globetrotting hero Indiana Jones in spectacular 4K Ultra HD when the INDIANA JONES 4-MOVIE COLLECTION arrives in a new 4K Ultra HD set from Lucasfilm Ltd. and courtesy of our friends at Paramount Home Entertainment, stick around for a chance to win the 4K UltraHD box set of all four Indiana Jones movies! Why? Fortune and glory, kid, fortune and glory.

🥣Saturday Morning Cereal — the show that celebrates the themes of Saturday Morning TV that we not only grew up with, but that grew up with us.

We talk with the talent and creatives who continue to shape the pop culture we love.

🎙️ Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and visit mattypradio.com for more episodes, interviews, and Comic-Con and pop-culture coverage.

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, we have Halon Entertainment in the house! In celebration of movie houses openning up just in time for the summer blockbuster and the WonderCon at Home 2021 panel “The Virtual Backlot: Filmmaking Evolved, your favorite Saturday morning radio show podcast is back, in studio, in person, all vaxed up and ready to turn the dial up to 11 with two blockbuster creator guests: Brad Alexander, co-founder, Sr. visualization supervisor (Star Wars Episodes II and III, Avatar,Pacific Rim: Uprising) & Kristin Turnipseed, real-time stage supervisor (Ford v Ferrari, The Batman) with Halon Entertainment, the SFX studio responsible for pretty much all your favorite summer movies. If aliens, monsters, explosions are your thing, these are the real unsung heroes of cinema!  An early adopter of Unreal Engine in 2015, Halon Entertainment (Avatar, The Suicide Squad) is an industry leader in the fields of Virtual Production, Visualization, and Game Cinematics, leading to the studio’s virtual art department helping to define the cutting-edge of the real-time workflow on The Mandalorian and so much more! Join Grim Shea, Marke., Jimmy the Gent and Johnny Heck as they get back to the 3Palms Studio to celebrate the movies we love and entertain your ear holes with their pants on! Sponsored by Paramount Home Entertainment & the home release of Mission Impossible and Super 8. Listen to win!

🥣Saturday Morning Cereal — the show that celebrates the themes of Saturday Morning TV that we not only grew up with, but that grew up with us.

We talk with the talent and creatives who continue to shape the pop culture we love.

🎙️ Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and visit mattypradio.com for more episodes, interviews, and Comic-Con and pop-culture coverage.

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, we celebrate Star Wars May The 5th with a pillar of Star Wars composers, Kevin Kiner, of Star Wars The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels and the NEW series, Star Wars The Bad Batch (now on Disney+).  For this latest score on Star Wars The Bad Batch, Kevin is once again expanding what we consider “Star Wars music” by continuing to employ electronic music and synthesizers in his composing – a process he had used in his other scores for DC shows like 1988’s Superboy, Doom Patrol, Titans, and further experimented with in his now Annie Award-winning score for one of Star Wars greatest moments, The Clone Wars final season and episode, “Victory and Death”!  But if his Star Wars and DC cred isn’t enough for you geeks and gamers, Kevin Kiner’s work plays like a pop-culture “Jock Jams” with such work on Stargate SG-1, Star Trek: Enterprise, Hell on Wheels, Transformers Robots in Disguise,NOS4A2, Making a Murderer, Jane the Virgin, Narcos: Mexico and a Saturday Morning TV connection going all the way back to Sid and Marty Kroft’s Land of the Lost reboot and DC Follies.   Join Grim Shea, Marke, and Jimmy the Gent as they sing a merry tune and celebrate a living legend all while Kevin Kiner dances around The Bad Batch spoilers.

🥣Saturday Morning Cereal — the show that celebrates the themes of Saturday Morning TV that we not only grew up with, but that grew up with us.

We talk with the talent and creatives who continue to shape the pop culture we love.

🎙️ Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and visit mattypradio.com for more episodes, interviews, and Comic-Con and pop-culture coverage.

The POWcast! is back and aims to bring you a nostalgic look back at the movies, shows, and people from your childhood that made you who you are today. In Jimmy’s case that was the Batman 66 TV show that inspired a never ending celebration of all things Retro, Cool, and maybe a little Nerdy.  This episode is an in depth chat with one of ‘66 Batman fandom’s biggest names. Ben Bentley is not only Co- moderator of the Batman 66 Message Board he is, as we say, an expert’s expert. Ben shares tales of travel to LA and how his hobby grew into a passion. Not only logging but identifying all the shooting locations for each of the 120 episodes of the ‘66 Batman show. Quite a feat, but Ben is close to completion. Why does this show speak to so many generations of fans? Listen to Ben’s thoughts here.  Once again the “Bat-Time Contrivance” is utilized and set for summer of 2017. The Summer of 2017 and the Comic Con Palm Springs. Not only was it hot enough to melt our Batarangs we talked with voice actor extraordinaire John DiMaggio (Futurama, Adventure Time). John talks about Under the Red Hood and remembers Adam West.   Plug in your favorite set of air pods and enjoy this dive deep into Batman theory with one of the most knowledgeable Bat- experts in the game in the latest exciting episode of the Retro Cool Nerd POWcast!   The Music samples from “The Flying Horse Big Band, and the Batman Soundtrack by Nelson Riddle and Neil Hefti. Episode #5 of the POWcast has been written, recorded, & produced by Jimmy The Gent in Wayne Study Studios for Saturday Morning Cereal productions. Check out Ben on twitter @BenBentleyPhoto and on the 66 Message board.66BATMAN.COM   

🥣Saturday Morning Cereal — the show that celebrates the themes of Saturday Morning TV that we not only grew up with, but that grew up with us.

We talk with the talent and creatives who continue to shape the pop culture we love.

🎙️ Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and visit mattypradio.com for more episodes, interviews, and Comic-Con and pop-culture coverage.

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, we take a sweet bite of horror comedy hijinks and movies so scary funny you might just pee a little. Since Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein, horror comedies have walked the fine line between scary and funny. Fast forward 70 years and this sub genre is still riding strong all while achieving pop-culture cult status and success for their talent and creatives. Army of Darkness, Shawn of the Dead, and Zombieland are but a few relatively recent examples of the literally thousands of horror comedies to mention so to help us along this long, dark, winding and wacky road are guests Carlos Alazraqui (Reno 911!) and co-writer Jill-Michele Melean (MadTV) to announce, discuss and celebrate the release of their new movie Witness Infection (Avail VOD 3/30/2021).      WitnessInfection tells the story of two rival mob families who are transferred from the Witness Protection Program to the same city by mistake. But the past is about to come back and bite them when a serious infection brought on by tainted Italian sausage turns casual diners into zombies and the small inland SoCal city of Temecula, into a hell scape of vomiting, farting, pus faced, brain eating monsters. Join hosts, Grim Shea, Marke and Jimmy The Gent as they try to crack that code and find the funny in very strange places. You’ll laugh, you’ll scare, you’ll pee your pants a little.

🥣Saturday Morning Cereal — the show that celebrates the themes of Saturday Morning TV that we not only grew up with, but that grew up with us.

We talk with the talent and creatives who continue to shape the pop culture we love.

🎙️ Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and visit mattypradio.com for more episodes, interviews, and Comic-Con and pop-culture coverage.

Take some time this week to remember your original happy hour: Saturday mornings as a kid, waking up at dawn, jumping on the couch with a bowl of chocolate cereal, turning on the ‘toons, tuning out the outside world and working your way into a sugar hangover before noon. This week, we take a musical journey with a discussion on the music movie biopics that have shaped the pop-culture. Joining us are Greg Naughton, Rich Price and Brian Chartrand of the real life band “The Sweet Remains” and of their fictional band and movie music bio-pic, The Independents, a musical comedy/drama about three solo-artists who collide at the same crossroads and discover harmony and their roller-coaster-ride journey across America for a one last shot at musical glory. In 1987 you saw a Tejano band Los Lobos with a toe tapping Lou Diamond Phillips in a music video for their #1 hit single, “La Bamba”, the biopic title track that was a cover of Ritchie Valens 1958 song that was really an old Mexican folk song. All this to say that music biopics leave a mark on pop-culture that music alone can’t reach and yet, it’s the music that makes those movies so memorable! Music biopics have been around since the invention of movie sound with the problematic The Jazz Singer and have been darlings of Academy Awards night ever since. Join Grim Shea, Marke and Jimmy The Gent as they get to heart of it all… Music biopics are the link between pop-charts and pop-culture. This episode is sponsored by Paramount Home Entertainment and Lady Sings the Blues. Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Actress for Diana Ross, Lady Sings the Blues captures the essence of Billie Holiday, one of Americas most loved blues singers and introduced the world to the amazing acting capability of Richard Pryor as “Piano Man”.

🥣Saturday Morning Cereal — the show that celebrates the themes of Saturday Morning TV that we not only grew up with, but that grew up with us.

We talk with the talent and creatives who continue to shape the pop culture we love.

🎙️ Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and visit mattypradio.com for more episodes, interviews, and Comic-Con and pop-culture coverage.