They’re always after his Lucky Charms! Higgins’s Northern Irish half-brother arrives in Oahu and it’s all light comedy despite what’s going on back home. Meanwhile, Magnum investigates an unfaithful wife and, wow, does the tone of this episode shift dramatically from moment to moment.

Jason Snell, Philip Michaels and David J. Loehr

Our heroes delve deep underground, commit numerous HR violations, and make questionable hiring decisions as they interrogate quietly quitting cultists and more, in the grand finale of this Shocktober (lost soul moaning) adventure!

Shocktober 2024, Nest of the Eldritch Eye Part 4

Dan Moren and Tony Sindelar with Aleen Simms, Brian Hamilton, Lincoln Hayes, Monty Ashley and Tiff Arment

Edited by Warren Frey.

Grab your brooms and come fly with us across the the blood red moon as we discuss Episode 5 of Agatha All Along. At the midpoint of the season we pivot abruptly as Agatha is haunted by her childhood after playing a little Ouija.

Dan Moren, John Moltz and Guy English

It was the late ’80s and comic writer Grant Morrison was fast becoming Grant Morrison. Come back with us to look at his run on Animal Man, issues 1-26, in which a has-been/never-was superhero becomes an outspoken animal rights activist, witnesses the near-undoing of the Crisis on Infinite Earths, and meets his own maker—who looks strangely like Grant Morrison. Before Deadpool and She-Hulk broke the fourth wall, this was Peak Meta.

Grant Morrison's "Animal Man"

Chip Sudderth with Lisa Schmeiser and Tony Sindelar

It’s season one, episode one. We’re watching Sports Night for this season of Sorkin’ In It. We meet a slew of characters. We deal with that grating laugh track. And we wonder if Casey’s gonna quit the show halfway into the Sports Night pilot. (Spoiler alert: He doesn’t.) Will Brian or Lex quit the podcast in this first episode of our new season? Only one way to find out.

Lex Friedman and Brian Warren

Friendly Competition is back! Will this be the episode where Silent Carl finally finds the winners podium? Or will Silent Carl fail to find favor with the host (who is also Silent Carl)?

Friendly Competition 11

Lex Friedman and Dan Moren with Glenn Fleishman, Jean MacDonald, Shelly Brisbin and Tony Sindelar

Having escaped the sewers, our quasi-deputized heroes take on cultists with eyes in their hands and hate in their hearts, as we continue Shocktober’s (piercing screams) descent into subterranean madness!

Shocktober 2024, Nest of the Eldritch Eye Part 3

Dan Moren and Tony Sindelar with Aleen Simms, Brian Hamilton, Lincoln Hayes, Monty Ashley and Tiff Arment

Edited by Warren Frey.

Put on your deepst v-neck shirt and prepare to rock’n’roll because this week our witches are in the studio laying down one firey track. We discuss the visual style adopted by the show and how well it fits the narrative. Then we dip into some dark Conspiracy Corner as we try to devine some true identities.

Dan Moren, John Moltz and Guy English

As so often happens with us, discussions of evil henchman end up becoming discussions of legal employment status.

John Siracusa and Jason Snell

Dan Moren’s “The Armageddon Protocol” is now on sale. He joins Jason to discuss how to wrap up a long-running series (while leaving doors open for future adventures), juggling an increasingly complex home life with a two-book contract, the broader publishing options available to fiction writers, and (of course) sandwiches.

Dan Moren's "The Armageddon Protocol"

Jason Snell with Dan Moren