The Countdown

By Paul & Wayne

A weekly comedic podcast in which two friends aim to countdown every popular topic EVER from 10-1 while throwing shade at the other‘s list.... more

4.8

160160 ratings

Download on the App Store

Download on the App Store

Get it on Google Play

FAQs about The Countdown:

How many episodes does The Countdown have?

The podcast currently has 811 episodes available.

The Countdown episodes:

July 07, 2023 What We’ve Been Watching - 2023 Television So Far
Countdown #431

This week, Wayne and Paul are wrapping up all the television shows they've been watching through the first half of 2023 that they've not formally reviewed on the show.

Of course it's a Countdown, so the boys rank what they've watched from worst to best, as they continue their quest to save YOU time by recommending which shows to seek out, and which to steer well clear of.

Find out what is what as The Countdown continues ...

Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown.

But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site.

Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list!

Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.
...more
1h 3min
July 04, 2023 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny review
The fifth and final Indiana Jones film is here with Harrison Ford recently decreeing: "When I go, so does Indy."

Of course Paul and Wayne were beyond keen to see Harrison don the Fedora and crack the bull whip while growling at everyone who should care that 'It belongs in a museum!", but does that mean the film is any good?

The early reviews were not kind, but will the lads find more to enjoy in this Indiana Jones adventure? There's only one way to find out, and that's to dial in your destiny with the latest episode of The Countdown podcast!

Time Stamps:
Dial of Destiny NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 18:13
Dial of Destiny SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 18:13 - 31:45
Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 31:45 - 32:55

Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown.

But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site.

Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list!

Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.
...more
35min
June 30, 2023 Top 10 Last 10: Summer Blockbuster Edition
Countdown #430

This week the boys are counting down ten of the most recent films they've seen, from worst to best, as their latest Top 10 Last 10.

For once, Paul has made some poor decisions regarding what to press play on, while Wayne talks up having made similar bad calls, but it is soon revealed he is telling a porky pie as he seems to enjoy almost all of his films - which, at least in the case of Ghosted, is a HECK of a call.

Will every film on Wayne's list generate two to three laughs? Can Paul not have a horror film in his top five? The answers may shock you!

Tune in to find out if they do, as The Countdown continues ...

Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown.

But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site.

Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list!

Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.
...more
1h 17min
June 27, 2023 Extraction 2 review
Who would have thought that the sequel to a surprise Netflic hit starring Aussie Chris Hemsworth would be the film to break the podcast?!

But here we are as Wayne and Paul go to war over the merits (or lack thereof) of Extraction 2, with Wayne boldly making the claim it is a better action film than John Wick 4. Paul, of course, does not take this lying down, and mayhem ensues ...

Find out which side of the divide you stand on, as The Countdown falters, but ultimately continues ...

Time Stamps:
Extraction 2 NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 11:26
Extraction 2 SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 11:26 - 25:12
Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 25:12 - 26:32

Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown.

But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site.

Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list!

Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.
...more
28min
June 23, 2023 Top 10 Asian Films
Countdown #429

Why break down the best ten films from individual countries on a whole continent when you can group them all together and kill many birds with one stone?

That may be Wayne's thinking when it comes to talking the Top 10 Asian Films, or it could be he just hasn't seen enough films from this region of the world. Either way, Paul is frustrated by the number of fantastic films he's had to edit off this list.

But fear not, all is forgiven when International Action Star - or is that Hero? - Chow Yun Fat enters the fray and the boys can geek out over some of the incredible action films the continent (lol) of Asia has gifted us.

Find out which film tops them all, as The Countdown continues ...

Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown.

But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site.

Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list!

Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.
...more
1h 9min
June 20, 2023 The Flash review
Wayne loves Batman. Especially the Michael Keaton Batman. So The Flash was on his most anticipated films of the year list.

Paul had middling to no expectations whatsoever for the beginning of the end of the DCEU as we know it.

Who will be disappointed and who will be impressed? Can Any Muscietti and co deliver a great film that will have the fans baying for more of the current Snyderverse? Or is this the final nail in what is turning out to be a very, very long coffin for the DECU?

Learn the answers to all these questions and more, as The Countdown continues ...

Time Stamps:
The Flash NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 17:27
The Flash SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 17:27 - 30:15
Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 30:15 - 32:18

Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown.

But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site.

Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list!

Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.
...more
34min
June 16, 2023 Our Top 5 Most Embarrassing Moments
Countdown #428

Paul and Wayne expose their deepest and most shamefully embarrassing stories for the whole world to hear, figuring no-one will listen to this episode. Because who would want to listen to two grown men completely humiliate themselves on a podcast when there are approximately one million other choices out there to listen to ...

No-one, right?

RIGHT?

Please don't feel the need to prove the boys wrong, as The Countdown continues ...

Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown.

But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site.

Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list!

Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.
...more
1h 2min
June 13, 2023 Ted Lasso Season 3 review
Ted Lasso comes to a close after its planned three seasons, and Paul and Wayne are your roving pitch-side reporters, ready to give you the scoop from the latest press conference determining whether this season has been a success ... or a let-down after the heady-heights of Seasons 1 and 2.

Should Keely have been relegated to a side plot involving her PR firm? Was Nate done dirty from a story-telling perspective? Were the episodes too padded with side character plot lines? And have Bill Lawrence and co, overall, kicked the winning, extra time goal with this final season?

Learn the answers to all these questions and more, as The Countdown continues ...

Time Stamps:
Ted Lasso S3 NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 6:48
Ted Lasso S3 SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 6:48 - 31:30
Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 31:30 - 32:01

Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown.

But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site.

Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list!

Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.
...more
34min
June 09, 2023 Top 10 Rock Songs of the 90s
Countdown #427

Paul and Wayne are getting up there in years on this earth, so they don't mind admitting that the '90s was their heyday for most things - including, in Wayne's case, his hair.

So it is that there's a special kind of excitement that comes along with a 90s themed countdown, as the boys get to relive aspects of their youth and take the p1ss out of each other in the ways they did some thirty years previously.

This week's topic, then, is one which is a little close to Paul's heart, as the boys list their Top 10 Rock Songs of the 90s. Not surprisingly, two completely different lists are produced, but there's a special link between the two number ones which no-one could have ever seen coming :D

Find out just what that is as The Countdown continues ...

Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown.

But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site.

Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list!

Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.
...more
1h 1min
June 06, 2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse review
Four and a half years on from the original, Miles Morales swings back into theatres with one of the most anticipated films of the year (at least as far as The Countdown is concerned), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Can this one possibly re-capture the magic of Into the Spider-Verse and even be half as good? Will Wayne's inner artist be gorged on all that is on display here? And can Paul possibly be satisfied by his most anticipated film of the year?

Could this be one of the greatest sequels of all time?

Learn the answers to all these questions and more, as The Countdown continues ...

Time Stamps:
Across the Spider-Verse NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 14:50
Across the Spider-Verse SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 14:50 - 33:05
Final Thoughts Including Potential FAMILY Spoilers: 33:05 - 35:25

Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown.

But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site.

Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list!

Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.
...more
37min

FAQs about The Countdown:

How many episodes does The Countdown have?

The podcast currently has 811 episodes available.

More shows like The Countdown

Triple M Rocks Footy AFL by Triple M

Triple M Rocks Footy AFL

90 Listeners

Monday Morning Podcast by All Things Comedy

Monday Morning Podcast

31,991 Listeners

The Weekly Planet by Planet Broadcasting

The Weekly Planet

8,630 Listeners

So Wizard Podcast by So Wizard Podcast

So Wizard Podcast

230 Listeners

Everyone Relax by LiSTNR

Everyone Relax

132 Listeners

The Contrarians by Alex Mattis & Julio Olivera

The Contrarians

58 Listeners

The Sounding Board by SEN

The Sounding Board

61 Listeners

The Ringer NBA Show by The Ringer

The Ringer NBA Show

9,282 Listeners

Movie Reviews in 20 Q’s by MRITQ’s

Movie Reviews in 20 Q’s

83 Listeners

The Pint: A Pop Culture Podcast by John Amenta & Lloyd Green/The Pint Insiders

The Pint: A Pop Culture Podcast

65 Listeners

The Evolution of Horror by Mike Muncer

The Evolution of Horror

820 Listeners

We Watched A Thing by Poddy Mouth Radio

We Watched A Thing

94 Listeners

The Mismatch by The Ringer

The Mismatch

5,452 Listeners

Binge Movies: Rankings and Reviews by Binge Movies

Binge Movies: Rankings and Reviews

49 Listeners

Pablo Torre Finds Out by Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Pablo Torre Finds Out

1,888 Listeners