The Phileo Podcast

Late Nights at Blockbuster 

Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace 

Every generation has a legend.

Every journey has a first step.

Every saga has a beginning.

And every time we talk about a Star Wars movie we add Calvin to the mix.

So build your own Pod and race on over, or stay in that cockpit and fly your Naboo star fighter to join us as we travel through the planet core and back into a galaxy far, far away to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first Star Wars prequel.

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Ghostbusters : Frozen Empire

Well strap on your proton pack and get ready to hop back into the Ectomobile as we discuss the newest installment

Spoiler free until the 14:37 mark

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Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects

Our newest Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects is a draft of Old Time Baseball Nicknames. This is a topic that may seem superfluous but it is very near and dear to our hearts. Way too much research was done in the name of making each other laugh while also having something interesting to say about the player and how they got their nickname. Since we went far back in time for some of these we derail a lot on our favorite random team names that we never knew existed. Some of the players that we mentioned are pioneers of the sport and not just there for funny names.

Goofs: Troy was wrong on the date of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It was published in 1897, a good 20 years after Count Sensenderfer played. According to Wikipedia, he got the nickname Count from his moustache and aristocratic air.

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Late Nights at Blockbuster

Field of Dreams

If you record it…they will listen….or do we have to be in a cornfield? This week we’re digging into an absolute classic of a sports movie – although as we discuss – it’s the least sporty sports movie ever. But we’re talking about Field of Dreams starring Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones and Ray Liotta. So Go the Distance and Ease our Pain by

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Late Nights at Blockbuster

Opening day for MLB was a few weeks ago, but that won’t stop us from celebrating the beginning of baseball season by discussing Major League. This was a cable classic for both of us growing up and we discuss how that impacts us especially forgetting how much language is in the version that wasn’t aired on cable. If you loved Bob Eucker in this movie, then you are not alone! Troy peer pressures Byers into doing his best Lou Brown. Troy completely whiffs on the easiest “Before They Were Stars” that we have had in some time.

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Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects

Our newest episode is a Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects drafting our favorite MCU Villains. This was an easy transition after discussing Captain America: The Winter Soldier last week. In retrospect, we probably should have cut this at ten a piece but we can’t turn down an opportunity to add more people/movies to a draft. Byers pulls out his great Obadiah Stane impression and Troy tries to confuse the proceedings by explaining his picks out of order.

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Byers

1. Killmonger

2. Baron Zemo

3. Doc Ock

4. Green Goblin

5. Iron Monger

6. Red Skull

7. Darren Cross (Yellowjacket/M.O.D.O.K.)

8. Wanda Maximoff

9. Kingpin

10. Ultron

11. Agatha Harkness

12. Crossbones

13. Alexander Pierce

14. Aldrich Killian

15. Abomination

Troy

1. Loki

2. Winter Soldier

3. Xu Wenwu (Madarin)

4. Vulture

5. Thanos

6. Hela

7. Venom

8. Namor

9. Kang The Conqueror

10. Gorr the God Butcher

11. Mysterio

12. Justin Hammer

13. High Evolutionary

14. He Who Remains

15. Kaecilius

Late Nights at Blockbuster

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

 We are diving back into the MCU this week, for the 10 year anniversary of one of our favorite Marvel movies. You'll notice our love for this movie quickly, because this episode has possibly the longest opening we've ever done for a Late Nights at Blockbuster. We still have quibbles even with one of our favorites - although we bring up almost as many quibbles from other movies during this one as we do about the movie we're actually supposed to be talking about. This one was also the gift that kept on giving, as we set a new record for most entries into our "Great Names in Casting" category.

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Dune part 2

It’s finally here – after being on our most anticipated movies for 2 years in a row – Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel has arrived and we’re here to give you our take on the good, the bad and the ugly (literally) of the new film. No official math exists on this, but this is quite possibly the largest gap in our Phileo Podcast scores for a movie that we were actually willing to do an episode about.

Spoiler free up to the 27:00 mark.

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Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects

Our latest Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects explores our disappointing sequels. We decided not to do another draft as we didn’t think it was that deep of a subject. We figured that we would share a few and that would be fine. There are the usual suspects in her but we managed to surprise each other with a few of our picks. We talked about The Last Jedi again. We’re sorry we keep bringing it up but we couldn’t help ourselves.

***We followed through on our promise to research in this episode. Spider-men and their leading ladies are a dating 3 for 3. Kirsten Dunst and Tobey Maguire dated for a little over a year in 2002. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone dated for four years from 2011 to 2015. Tom Holland and Zendaya have been together since 2021.

Goofs: Troy mentioned a Triumph the Insult Comic Dog going to the Phantom Menace premiere but it was actually Attack of the Clones.

Late Nights at Blockbuster

The Matrix

Are you going to take the red pill or the blue pill?

Take the blue pill and you wake up none the wiser of all of our favorite scenes and quotes. Take the red pill and you go down

So which will it be….red or blue? 

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