The Phileo Podcast

Late Nights at Blockbuster

This week’s episode is a Late Nights at Blockbuster celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Dazed and Confused. This movie was the springboard for a few mega stars of the 90s and early 2000s. We have some disclaimers about the movie before we go on to talk about it for more than 90 minutes. Byers does actual research on the drinking age in Texas during this time and we dive into how our generation was the last to feel like this movie still feels like a high school movie that takes place during their timeframe despite it being 20 years later. We added a new category and Byers reminded Troy of an old category that was perfect for this movie.

Goofs: Troy went 0 for 2 on his guesses for Julia Stiles and Natalie Portman’s college choices. Stiles attended Columbia and Portman attended Harvard.

Late Nights at Blockbuster

Jurassic Park

Hold on to your butts as we take

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Late Nights at Blockbuster

Join us as we celebrate the 25th Anniversary of The Truman Show on our most recent Late Nights at Blockbuster. The discussion ventures off into reality TV, social media, free will, and as Byers is wont to do Chozen from The Karate Kid 2. Meryl is already a bummer in this movie but Byers takes issue with one of her annoying habits. We also dive into a Jim Carrey career trope before we wrap up.

Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes (https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-gilbertson/1155231950) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/sethgilbertson/videos)

Our latest Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects borrows a theme from our most recent The Italian Job podcast as we are drafting our favorite heist movies. We figured our lists would probably be too similar for a Top 5 so we needed to go the draft route. We spend a little more time on our respective movies than we did in the villain draft and Troy chases plenty of squirrels, as usual.

Goofs: The name of the book that Troy references is The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan by Tom Shone. Troy also couldn’t remember Nicolas Winding Refn was the director of Drive.

Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes (https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-gilbertson/1155231950) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/sethgilbertson/videos)

Late Nights at Blockbuster

The Italian Job

What do sumo wrestling, lack of

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Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects

Our newest Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects is a draft of our favorite movie villains! We didn’t do a good job of laying down the ground rules with each other so we workshop it to start the draft and decided to leave it in there to remove any doubt that we are nerds. We also didn’t feel the need to explain a lot of our first few picks as they are quintessential villains.

Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes (https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-gilbertson/1155231950) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/sethgilbertson/videos)

Late Nights at Blockbuster

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of

Make sure you notice that colon and enjoy our one and only installment

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The Flash

 You want to get nuts – let’s get nuts – and talk about the new Flash movie.

We’re doing our usual non-spoiler breakdown before we jump into what we liked and disliked about the newest

Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson.

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Our newest Corner Booth at Rex’s is on Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. We stay spoiler-free until the 19-minute mark. There was obviously going to be a lot of comparison to the first movie and to a lot of what is going on currently in the MCU.

Our latest Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects is a draft of our favorite movie sequels. We couldn’t help ourselves and instead of going Top 5 we decided to go Top 10 and then in the middle of recording we recognized that we needed to go Top 15. Comic book movies are obviously ripe for this type of discussion and we didn’t disappoint.

Goofs: Troy forgot that Ant-Man and Wasp was also in between Infinity War and Endgame. The director of Mad Max: Fury Road is George Miller, not George Romero.

Intro/Outro music by friend of the podcast Seth Gilbertson. Find more music at iTunes (https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seth-gilbertson/1155231950) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/user/sethgilbertson/videos)