Our next minisode is live as we take on the HBO Max show Peacemaker. 

We breakdown a critical scene in the series and discuss how it was shot, how it impacts the series, the best lines and so much more.

Did I mention there's a riveting acting performance? Because there is!

Check it out now!

Our first minisode of March has arrived and with it, a few complaints.

We air out our problems with young people, the gym and the internet because we're grumpy elder millennials.

Up next, feats of strength! 

We are back to complete The Last Faction Heroes trilogy for Factual February.

This time, we're doing battle with The Misinformation Machine.

We try to pinpoint who is responsible for the vast amount of misinformation readily available through all sorts of media outlets. We profile those most likely to share false info (spoiler alert: it's you!) and even give some examples of some egregiously bad information that gets digested by both mainstream and fringe audiences alike.

Is this the magic bullet for misinformation? Of course not, but it's a start. 

Part two of our action movie falsehoods is live!

We take aim at some classic action movie scenes (explosions, car chases, etc.) and break them down to determine where the truth was stretched for the sake of movie magic.

We also discuss the most egregiously inaccurate action movie of all time: Armageddon.

Factual February is here!

The Occasionalists take on and examine movie realism, specifically, how real are action movies?

Do certain movies suffer because of their lack of verisimilitude? Or is a must to suspend disbelief for all movies where a hero is an unstoppable human weapon?

We dig into all that and much more in the first part of The Last Faction Heroes!

We are back with one last episode for the January Unknown Challenge. We tie up some loose ends from the previous episode and give a preview into what is coming in February.

Part two of our January Unknown Challenge is now live!

We take up some challenges based upon The Occasionalists 5 Ancestral Tenets: Mind, Body, Spirit, Community and of course Consumerism. 

We push ourselves to live up the ideals of our ancient, podcasting predecessors, but did we succeed?

Spoiler Alert: Kind of!

We are back with our first episode of 2022, the first installment of the January Unknown Challenge.

We try out some newish things and tell you all about it! Pretty simple, so let's get to it.

It's that time of year where Chemma and I wrap up the year with a little (extremely long) look back at all of the things we've covered and some things we didn't get to cover throughout the course of the year.

We highlight some favorites of ours from across the pop culture spectrum both from this year and things we only discovered this year. 

There's even some trivia for you! 

See you in 2022!

Normally here at The Occasionalists, we try to cram in an extra episode about some piece of pop culture in the past year before tackling our annual Year In Review episode. THAT ENDS TODAY.

Instead, we are coming in hot with our first episode to set up the new year, A Look Ahead.

We go through month by month with hand selected themes and possibilities for what each month might be like for us and the listeners. We also do some prognostication on what some of the big stories of next year might be and what we hope to talk about throughout the year.

Mark your calendars!