Late Nights at Blockbuster

Obsession is the main theme of Christopher Nolan's 2006 film The Prestige. We talk at length about the obsession of two rival magicians and how it is portrayed in such an interesting manner by the Time Lord himself. No we aren't talking about Celtics center Robert Williams...

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

We discuss the new Star Wars TV series The Book of Boba Fett on our newest Corner Booth at Rex's. We get into how this series impacts Star Wars past, present, and future along with what we enjoyed and what left us a little puzzled. At one point Byers compares Chuck Wendig's Star Wars: Aftermath to John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. 

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 Young Adult Novel Movie Adaptations

After our discussion of Hunger Games last week, we dive into the rest of the Young Adult Novel genre of movies. We talk about our favorites, some of our least favorites, and a few that just missed our top 5.

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 Hunger Games

We discuss The Hunger Games as it celebrates it's 10th Anniversary. We hand out our usual awards, but we brought in a guest for "The Book is Always Better." We go a little long at the end about potential recasting for the two male leads but it was a worthwhile endeavor. 

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 Chamber of Secrets

We’re back with another movie from the Wizarding World. This time we are diving deep into the second installment – Chamber of Secrets. So hop in the flying car and take another trip with us to Hogwarts, we promise not to let Dobby try and kill you, I mean protect you.

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

Deep Thoughts on Shallow Subjects

We discuss our top 5 Jim Carrey roles and finally disagree...a lot! Carrey's career can be a little divisive and it was interesting to see that play out in our rankings. One thing we could agree on was that any of his recent stuff didn't come close to making the cut.  

Goofs: The Truman Show was released in 1998 and The Real World premiered in 1992 so it was very much commenting on that series at the time. Big Brother and Survivor premiered later though and the reality TV boom happened post Truman Show.

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

Join us as we celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Liar Liar. We discuss whether we need to rename our overacting award and Byers even sings a few bars of Jars of Clay. 

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

We watched the Eternals and we have one word for you…Gnosticism! It’s morphin’ time! Need sleep? COVID insomnia? Watch Eternals! We go through some of the worst movies that we’ve ever seen for a little too long. Sorry for the rambling and sometimes incoherent thoughts, it was because of the movie being the same. We promise. You can almost pinpoint the spot where Byers has lost unwavering faith in the MCU.

0:55 – Spoiler free until the 37:00 mark.

Goofs: Breckin Meyer is the actor from Franklin and Bash that he couldn’t remember. Troy continues to bring up Dune unnecessarily. Troy thinks it will be the shortest MCU podcast that we do. It was not…

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 10 Athletes Without a Championship

With the Super Bowl this weekend we wanted to spend a little time with those who never one the big game, so we are counting down the top 10 athletes who never won a title.

Goofs: We ended up using some different methodology to compile our lists, but it makes for some very different lists, especially for us, so it turned out great in the end, and gave Troy an opportunity to make fun of Byers being a history nerd.

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 Jeremy Renner

After last week’s discussion of Hawkeye, it seemed only fitting to dig into the top roles of Jeremy Renner’s career thus far.

Goofs: We have already been corrected on the difference between burning a CD and ripping a CD, but honestly – it’s 2022 who does that anyway…I mean besides Troy apparently.

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)