The Phileo Podcast

Late Nights at Blockbuster

Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster is a time capsule of our high school days. This year marks the 25th anniversary of Can’t Hardly Wait. We tried our best to not recite the whole movie for our Drax award and Troy can’t stop saying people’s names like they do in the movie. Byers continues his assault on things that Troy likes, but once again he has very reasoned arguments. After we recorded this we saw that Charlie Korsmo graduated from MIT and went to Yale for law school and is now an attorney and law school professor at Case Western Reserve University.

Goofs: Troy completely flubbed the Job line from Arrested Development. It should have been, “I’ve made a huge mistake.”

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 most recent podcast is our 100th Episode! It is fitting that we have a Corner Booth at Rex’s for Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania. We’ll discuss our usual categories, movie score, and placement in our infinity stone tiers. Spoilers start around the 23 minute mark. We get into who Kang is in the comics and how this movie portrayed him. We were in agreement as far as our two biggest misses for the movie as well.

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)

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects

Top 5 Guilty Pleasure Movies

We all have them, some movie that the rational side of you has to admit, probably isn’t very good. Most of your friends say so. The internet probably says so. Your spouse definitely says so. But you just can’t help it – you love this movie. Those are the movies we’re talking about this week…well at least the ones we love, you probably don’t love these movies, in fact, we didn’t even love each other’s movies, but we don’t mind, these are our top 5 guilty pleasure movies.

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

Do you like montages? Then do we have a movie for you! Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster is focused on the 35th anniversary of Bloodsport. The JCVD vehicle that started a string of movies that have essentially the same plot. Troy really stretches the phrase, “It’s like a Nolan movie.” For those of you that do not like our Drax award, you are rewarded with our quickest round ever in that category.

Goofs: Troy continuously refers to Frank as Jean Claude Van Damme throughout. Kowloon Walled City had a population density of approximately 1,255,000 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,250,000/sq mi) in 1987, making it the most densely populated spot in the world.

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 Late Nights at Blockbuster celebrates the 25th anniversary of The Wedding Singer. This was high on both of our Top 5 Sandler movies that we went through last year. There is plenty of discussion on music, Sandler and Barrymore trying to rekindle the magic displayed here, and Rosie almost stealing the movie despite being in three scenes. 

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 Late Nights at Blockbuster celebrates the 15th anniversary of Wall∙E. This is our first in-depth discussion of animated movie so we take a few detours on animated movies, especially Pixar, as a whole. Byers lays out an incredible case as to why he had this on his overrated list in our recent pod and why it might actually be the worst Pixar movie of the decade. 

The new intro song is "Movie" by Seth Gilbertson. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UxZa_lJJqM)

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)

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects

Our newest episode is on our Top 5 overrated movies. Byers' picks eventually start to feel like a personal attack on Troy until he gets to his number 1 slot. Troy took aim at Oscar winners and film nerds as a whole. We close out with our honorable mentions and hope that Byers hasn't set off a firestorm from which he can never recover. 

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

Calvin returns to the show to discuss Andor. We’ve been looking forward to this one for a while as all of us enjoyed the show and the new experience that it brought to Star Wars television. We talk at length how it felt like an Expanded Universe (EU) novel alongside the different ways that people can and did watch the show and their reactions to it. We definitely geek out about the proper Star Wars language that should have been used in different places. We also spend the last little bit discussing what plot threads were left hanging that might be addressed in Season 2.

Spoilers start at the 34 minute mark.

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

Tales of the Jedi

Our buddy Calvin is back with us again, and you know what that means – we’re talking Star Wars.

This time we are diving deep into The Tales of the Jedi, a series of shorts focused on the characters Ahsoka Tano and Count Dooku. They released in October of 2022 and we spend almost as much time talking about them as it takes to watch them.

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

“Once you are a parent, you are a ghost of your children’s future.” Our newest Late Nights at Blockbuster is the 2014 Christopher Nolan movie, Interstellar. This was high on both of our Christopher Nolan movie rankings that we did last summer. The movie is described by Byers as, “The first time watching it is 98% emotional gut punch while the other 2% is trying to figure out what is going on.” We discuss the Nolan effect and our experiences watching it for the first time. Our discourse always wound up returning to Coop watching the messages from his kids scene, with good reason. If you loved TARS, there is plenty here for you to enjoy.

The new intro song is "Movie" by Seth Gilbertson. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UxZa_lJJqM)

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)