The Phileo Podcast

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects

Our newest Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects is on our Top 5 Non-MCU movies. In addition to our Top 5 we wanted to do a bottom 5 since there are some big stinkers in this category. We end the conversation by talking about our biggest disappointments. We keep the Spider-Man 3 bashing to a minimum, and yes we were very pleased with ourselves for doing so. 

Goofs: Troy couldn’t remember the names Darwin and Tempest from X-Men: First Class. Troy confused Blade 2 and Blade 3. Blade 3 is the one with Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel.

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)

Corner Booth at Rex's

Our newest Corner Booth at Rex’s is on The Mandalorian Season 3. We go through our normal categories and stay spoiler free for the first 15 minutes. After that we discuss some of our likes and dislikes of the season as this was one that many people were down on. Byers never tells Troy that he ran out of negative things to stay and just starts talking about the positives making Troy look like he was more down on the season than he really was.

Goofs: When we talk about Rise of the Guardians you can forgive Byers remembering it as the owl movie because that one was named Legend of the Guardians. Troy said Wizard Wand but he meant the Elder Wand from Harry Potter.

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 newest Corner Booth at Rex's is on the Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. This one was on both of our most anticipated of 2023 lists back when we closed out 2022. There is plenty of discussion about newcomer Adam Warlock, the always awesome soundtrack, Buff Groot, and our thoughts on the end of the trilogy.

Spoilers begin at the 17 minute mark.

Goofs: Troy couldn’t remember that the ship was named The Bowie and that Nathan Fillion’s name in Firefly was Mal.

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

Our latest Late Nights at Blockbuster celebrates 40 years of Return of the Jedi. We get into George Lucas’ union busting ways, lots of toy and lego talk, and we’re pretty sure that this is the most you’ll ever hear someone talk about Moff Jerjerrod. Calvin accurately describes this as a feel-good movie as it is the most positive of any of the Star Wars movies. Troy also decided to give a pop quiz to Byers and Calvin on their knowledge of Star Wars names.

Late Nights at Blockbuster

Willow

We’re celebrating the 35th

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Late Nights at Blockbuster

Our latest edition of Late Nights at Blockbuster has us discussing the 15th Anniversary of Iron Man. If this movie wasn’t a success the terminology Marvel Cinematic Universe wouldn’t exist. We don’t have much negative to say about least favorite scene or editing but we have plenty of fun with plot holes and quibbles. Troy meanders a bit and somehow brings Mozart into the conversation.

Late Nights at Blockbuster

Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster celebrates the 20th anniversary of X2: X-men United. This will be our easiest favorite scene ever, but we needed to go through those that were going to be relegated to second place. We were pretty chalk on most of the categories but still had some differences in the things that bug us about this movie. Byers dives into his bag of tricks to extract a Star Trek reference that isn’t the very obvious one you are thinking of.

Goofs: Troy couldn’t think of Angel Reese from LSU. Troy fact checked that the assassinated president pictures were prominently featured in the beginning of the Nightcrawler scene.

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

Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire

We are headed back to the wizarding

So join us for the Quidditch World Cup, the Triwizard Tournament, some dance lessons with McGonagall, and of course the most awkward bath ever – just watch out for that Chinese Fireball – ooohhh.

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Late Nights at Blockbuster

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We’re continuing our baseball

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Late Nights at Blockbuster

In honor of the baseball season starting, we are giving the Late Nights at Blockbuster treatment for the 30th Anniversary of The Sandlot. Byers doesn’t like Smalls’ Mom nerd shaming him. We spend more time examining Marley Shelton’s career than we intended. Byers snuck in a quick discussion of who has the better baseball movie resume, James Earl Jones or Kevin Costner.