The Normals Show

(1/30/21) In this episode we mourn the deaths of Hank Aaron, Cloris Leachman, and Cicily Tyson. We talk about some of the shows we've been watching lately (Derry Girls, Titans, Doom Patrol), then we discuss the latest episode of Wandavision, the new show Resident Alien, the Netflix documentary Nightstalker, and Clarice on CBS which is about the events in Agent Starling's life after Silence of the Lambs.

(1/23/21) The Inauguration happened! It actually happened!! In this episode we mourn the deaths of Larry King and character actor Gregory Sierra, the possibility of HBO Max reviving Batman: The Animated Series, MeTv trying to bring back the tradition of Saturday morning cartoons, we go on a slight Tom & Jerry and Scooby-Doo tangent, Caleb brings up his fascination with the Black Dahlia murder, the Root of Evil podcast and the show I Am the Night, Jeremiah talks about the Chicago Torso murders, we talk about the latest episode of Wandavision and Caleb continues to catch up on Titans.

(1/18/2021) Let's get this out of the way up front: If you have made your political career by disenfranchising Black voters, don't expect anyone to take you seriously when you invoke Martin Luther King, Jr. on one day out of the year. We admittedly don't honor King enough in this episode other than to state that simple fact. In this episode we give our way too late review of JoJo Rabbit, we discuss the first two episodes of Wandavision on Disney+, we discuss the news that Deadpool and Blade are officially going to be rated-R movies and how Disney will decide to distribute them.

(1/10/2021) In this episode we start out discussing the insurrection/coup attempt that happened this week, we talk about the Netflix documentary The History of Swear Words, Jeremiah seemingly gets Thanos-snapped out of existence for a minute, and when he gets back he cracks himself up a little too much trying to decide which Muppets characters should replace different actors in Die Hard.

(1/3/2021) Happy New Year! We start off by talking about our "exciting" stay-at-home New Years events. We talk about how the Twilight Zone was a pretty progressive show for its time and dealt with a lot of issues like race and xenophobia, but looking back that progressivism was problematic because of how Hollywood chose to cast movies and tv shows at the time. We talk about the Wonder Woman sequel, Wonder Woman 1984. We continue our game from last episode called "Actors Whose Names Sound Like Star Wars Characters." And we memorialize those celebrities who have recently died, Tommy "Tiny" 'Zeus' Lister, Jr. (Friday), Tanya Roberts (A View to a Kill), Charlie Pride (country music star), and Floyd Little (Denver Broncos star).

(12/20/2020) We're stuck at home for Christmas and the Holidays just like everyone else this year. We talk about The Mandalorian and the Boba Fett spin-off show. We come up with a new game called "Celebrities Whose Names Sound Like Star Wars Characters." We talk about the tv shows or movies that we have to watch every Christmas for tradition. We dip our toes briefly into the "Is Die Hard a Christmas movie debate." Finally, we talk about some of our favorite toys growing up that we got for Christmas.

(12/13/2020) In this episode it's been awhile since we last recorded an episode, about a month. We talk about how we had to revise our Thanksgiving plans due to Covid-19 and we discuss our upcoming revised Christmas plans. Jeremiah shares with us where the word eggnog comes from. After that we talk about some news coming from AT&T/Time Warner that angered some directors, actors, and other Hollywood entertainment types. We then go over all the new, exciting announcements coming from the Star Wars and Marvel side of the street. We finish off with a short story about how we screwed over some drunk Bostonians in Chicago one time.

(11/15/2020) Please listen to this entire episode in the form of a question. In this episode of The Normals Show: Caleb is jazzed, Jeremiah is logy and neither of them are going anywhere for Thanksgiving. Jeremiah and Caleb recall a "Mission: Impossible" style caper from their days in the OSU theatre department, after trying to get their old brains to remember things they discuss the death of Ken Spears (creator of Scooby Doo) and the extremely sad passing of Alex Trebek (Jeopardy!), they discuss who they think will replace Alex Trebek on Jeopardy! and Caleb accidentally comes up with the best title for a biographical novel about Trebek's life. Also, Jeremiah watched a couple of good comic book documentaries recently.

(11/07/2020) In this episode we talk a little bit about the results of election night and we mourn the passing of one of the greatest film icons of all time, Sean Connery. 

(10/18/2020) In this episode we talk about more Marvel MCU rescheduling, Halloween costumes we wore as kids and as adults, Jeremiah talks about Lovecraft Country...again, and the new Marvel show on Hulu, Hellstrom.