The Normals Show

(6/7/22) In this episode, we hear about Jeremiah and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad few weeks he's had recently, we talk about the finale of Stranger Things season 4 part 1, Barry, Obi Wan, Love Death & Robots, and we mourn the deaths of character actor Jack Kehler (Big Trouble, The Big Lebowski), Andy Fletcher (keyboardist and founding member of Depeche Mode), Ronnie Hawkins (influential musician), John Aylward (ER, The Crazies), Bo Hopkins (Midnight Express, American Graffiti, The Wild Bunch), George Shapiro (Seinfeld producer, manager of Andy Kaufman), and Ray Liotta (Goodfellas, Field of Dreams). We also talk about Joe Quesada's career at Marvel coming to an end after he chose to retire and focus on other projects. He rose from freelance artist and writer to Executive Vice-President and Chief Creative Officer for Marvel during a 30 year career in comics and is one of the main people responsible for saving Marvel from bankruptcy and putting them in their currently thriving position.

(5/31/22) In this episode Jeremiah has been having a series of unfortunate events (minus Jim Carrey or Neil Patrick Harris) so he couldn't make it. Fortunately, our returning guest, Patrick Dearman, was already scheduled to join us and filled in quite nicely. We discuss a little of what he's been up to since the last time he joined us, we talk a bit about the new season of Stranger Things, the new Willow tv show, the Val Kilmer documentary on Amazon Prime called Val; Love, Death & Robots on Netflix, Picard, Doctor Strange 2 (which Patrick still hasn't seen), and the newest Thor: Love & Thunder trailer.

(5/10/22) In this episode we talk about the season finale of Moon Knight, the newest trailer and confirmed release date for She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, you need to watch Orphan Black if you haven't already, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, and we mourn the deaths of well-known character actor Mike Hagerty (Overboard, Martin, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Wayne's World), Fred Ward (Tremors, Joe Dirt, Henry & June, Remo Williams) and George Perez (comic book artist known for Crisis on Infinite Earths, The Infinity Gauntlet, JLA/Avengers, etc.)

(5/3/22) In this episode we briefly talk about the very dubious SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, we talk about Moon Knight episode 5, we talk about Batman Forever regarding another podcast that Jeremiah does called Shh, The Movie Is Starting, we briefly talk about the Weird Al movie trailer that just came out as well as the final Doctor Strange 2 trailer, we mourn the deaths of David Birney (St. Elsewhere, Murder She Wrote, Love Boat, Sliders, etc.), Robert Morse (Broadway actor from several musicals such as How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, voiceover actor, and most well known recently from Mad Men), Naomi Watts (musical group The Judds, mother to Wynonna and Ashley Judd), and Neal Adams (comic book artist).

(4/26/22) In this episode we talk about the first episode of the 3rd season of Barry on HBO Max, Elon Musk is buying Twitter, Netflix is digging their own grave, we talk about Moon Knight episode 4, we mourn the loss of Andrew Woolfolk (saxophonist for Earth, Wind & FIre), we talk about Better Call Saul, Buick sucks, and we talk about the weather.

(4/19/22) In this episode we talk about The Bubble on Netflix, the current (and final) season of Better Call Saul, Moon Knight episode 3, the latest Thor: Love and Thunder trailer and we mourn the death of Liz Sheridan (Jerry's Mom on Seinfeld, the nosy neighbor on Alf).

(4/12/22) In this episode we mourn the death of a comedy legend, Gilbert Gottfried, also comedian and magician John Szeles, better known as The Amazing Johnathan. We also talk about episode 2 of Moon Knight and Jeremiah receiving "professional" status at this year's C2E2.

(4/5/22) In this episode (after a month of not recording), we discuss The Adam Project on Netflix and briefly Free Guy which leads us to the question, is Free Guy basically The Lego Movie? We also talk about episode 2 of Moon Knight, the controversy(?) surrounding the Ms. Marvel tv show about why they changed her powers, The Batman. Later, we mourn the deaths of Lawrence Dane (Scanners, Bride of Chucky), Estelle Harris (George's mom on Seinfeld, Mrs. Potato Head in Toy Story), William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Michael, Body Heat, Broadcast News, Gen. Ross in the MCU), Emilio Delgado (Luis on Sesame Street), Scott Hall (WWE/WCW wrestler), and Taylor Hawkins (drummer for Foo Fighters).

(2/22/22) In this episode we mourn the deaths of Douglas Trumbull (special effects master/2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Brainstorm, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Silent Running) and Ivan Reitman (director/producer, Ghostbusters I&II, Stripes, Kindergarten Cop, Twins, Junior, Meatballs, Heavy Metal, etc), we talk about the first episode of Peacemaker on HBO Max now that Caleb has finally had time to watch it, Murderville on Netflix, Futurama getting revived (once again) on Hulu this time, the new Doctor Strange trailer during the Super Bowl, Stranger Things season four premiere date, and briefly Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.

(1/30/22) In this episode: Jeremiah has covid, we talk about the second season premiere of Resident Alien on SYFY, we mourn the deaths of Meat Loaf (Marvin Lee Aday, musician/actor), Louie Anderson (comedian, Coming to America/Life With Louie/Baskets), Gaspard Ulliel (French actor, Hannibal Rising/Moon Knight), Howard Hesseman (WKRP, Clue, Head of the Class), and we finish up by talking about Blade Runner: Black Lotus now that Jeremiah finally watched it.