Hark Listener! Paul Gonzalez is here to talk about his hobby of writing independent movie reviews. You can read them by friending him on Facebook and you can follow him on Instagram. Topics this week include: Paul convinces me to try a new intro and it's so much better. What Ya Playing? (a recurring theme of the show). Movies aren't the first thing that Paul reviewed and the lead singer from Otep will probably send us an angry email. Irresponsible fathers allowing kids to watch R rated movies way to young (another recurring theme of the show). Everyone should see Battle Royale and Oldboy. What got you to do the first movie review? Dear Hollywood, use practical effects. The rules of writing reviews. Oscar Talk and what a Best Picture should be. Dear America, quit paying to see the same stupid stuff over and over again. Marisa Tomei is forever hot. Paul reveals his favorite horror franchise. Stop watching bad syndicated TV shows. MOR-TAL KOM-BAT!!! The worst thing that Paul has reviewed. If you haven't seen Sleepaway Camp, go watch it so we don't ruin it for you. Balling out and renting movie theaters. The future of Paul's reviews.  Beers for this episode include "Until There is No Longer" IPA by Burial Beer Co, "#blessed" NEIPA by Streetside Brewery, "Shady When I Strut" DIPA by Short Throw Brewing Co, and "Head Hunter" IPA by Fat Head's Brewery. 

Hey Listener, this week's episode is an interesting one as James Ellison aka @da_grizzly_artist aka Grizz is in the basement to talk about his hobby/life skill of woodworking. Topics this week include: Check out Grizz's podcast "Box Office Invaders" where he and his friend Jeremy Jackson talk about their favorite movies which tend to be sci fi and horror. Robocop learned to walk from a mime. Old timey CGI. Is Skank the final girl in the Crow? Working comic book conventions in 2021. Don't be the weird, clingy fan. Navigating the rocky shores of hangovers. Deathly afraid of power tools. Respecting the rules. Brendan O'Connor, please build me an Iron Man suit. Do you have brand loyalty? Is it a desk or a bar? A return to the barter system. Natural ability vs. work. Shipping container talk (a first for the show.). Future builds. 

Hey listener, Steve Haldeman aka Quad Almighty is back and immediately tries to get your host's blood pressure to go through the roof. This time we're talking about our favorite movie franchises. Topics this week include: I can't even get to the plugs before Quad is already nitpicking about what a franchise is. I take the bait and we argue about the BCS ranking system in college football and agree on a few things too. What franchises were on your list that didn't make the cut? I'm so bored with Marvel. Aliens and I really need a Young Jamie. Loving Star Wars and loathing the prequels. Hollywood's lack of originality and struggling movie theaters. Slipping in some Boogie Nights talk. Going Beyond Thunderdome. Steve goes on a long rant about his love for LOTR. Your host Stans out for Danny Glover. Let's have a nonsensical argument about if Predator and Aliens is the same franchise. Predator vs. The World. Movies to watch in theaters. Quad thinks that all zombie movies exist in the same universe. Rocky talk (a potential future deep dive episode). What movies could become franchises? 

Hey listener, today's show is a special one, for the first time ever I'm interviewing someone that has turned their hobby into a business. Nathan Hanks of Hot Sauce for Mortals is here to talk about this experience and how it has changed things for him. Topics this week include: Your host is still bad at intros. Which sense would you be willing to lose? Social media sucks (a recurring theme of the show). Do you have a Night Knife? Running your own business means you have to wear a lot of hats that don't fit. Eating whole pod Habaneros to solve hang overs. Converting your yard into a garden. Murder the squirrels. Sometimes social media is used for good and your host becomes a champion for free speech. When did you start handing out product to people? Going to Iceland and making hot sauce friends. This show almost didn't happen. Trying to find balance in life and not trying to do everything. 6 AM Farmer Markets and 5Ks. Ohio is a good place to be when the world implodes. Landing a plane with one wing and a busted engine. 

Hey Listener, for the first time in the history of the podcast, I don't have a guest. My wife caught a breakthrough case of Covid and I did to, I just didn't know it at the time of this recording. We are both fully recovered at this time. Because of this I didn't want to bring a guest into the basement this week. Instead I did my first ever solo episode where I recount my 35 year history of playing video games. Topics this week include: My retirement plan is to party hard. The Atari 2600, my new babysitter. Super Mario Bros turns a casual fan into a life long gamer. Metroid wasn't made for 6 year olds. I love games where you get to head kick punk rockers to save the President. Making friends with people that have the consoles you don't have. The Playstation 1 was my system for high school. Picking the wrong skateboarding game. Trying to say SSX is tricky. The PS2 and my love of NCAA Football, the only good thing in my life at that time. Madden is trash. Burnout is my favorite racing franchise of all time. Everyone needs to play Katamari Damacy at least once in their life. Drinking and Karting. Making the jump to the X-Box 360. Getting Red Ringed. The Arkham series. Fallout 3 is in the conversation for my favorite game of all time. Big Daddy subwoofer. Rock Band is my favorite multiplayer game of all time. Shout out Ryan Halter for the PS 3 (and 4) so that I got to play the Last of Us. You should play Cuphead and Sunset Overdrive on the Xbox One. I wish more games had progression systems like Far Cry 3. 40 years old, playing a PS4, and really getting into audio equipment. Doing moonsaults off of towers in Spiderman. Titanfall 2 really makes me want to play Titanfall 3. I'm finally playing The Witcher III. 

*"I'll Sleep When I'm Dead III" has been postponed to 2022 due to a scheduling conflict. 

Hey Listener, this week's episode is a special one as we focus on how being a parent impacts your hobbies and collections. BJ and Lauren Dennison join your host to talk about being parents, how that changes your life, and dealing with the world of children's hobbies and collections. Topics this week include: Podcast virgins. Country: the new punk rock retirement home. Looking at linear notes to find new bands and mail order catalogs. The joy of the hunt (a recurring theme of the show). Blending and bickering. Collecting experiences. Swiping right into a relationship. Viewing the world from behind handlebars. Move over White Boy Summer, its now Fat Man Fall. Married with Children. Bonding over boards. Fueling your mind, body, and spirit. Showing 6 year olds the Blues Brothers (a recurring theme of the show). Mother, why are we watching the show with the commons? What do you want to do once your kids are grown up? 

Hey listener, it's the final episode in our trilogy of terror as "What Ya Into?" returns to Fretboard Brewing Company for another live podcast. Amanda "Mama Crass" Frietsch is back to talk about paranormal investigations. Topics this week include: Sometimes the show has technical difficulties. People getting mad when you use the wrong terms for their hobbies (a recurring theme of the show). Underwear check. When did you meet the supernatural? Attachments. Oh great, it turns out your host is living in a house that is haunted. Why do ghosts exist? Tools of the spooky trade. Let's go say hi to the shadow people. There are dumb ghosts. Sedamsville Rectory. Can a vehicle be haunted? What creepy thing do you want to do next? 

Hey listener, we are continuing our 3 part series of spooky episodes for October. This week Jaimie Filer (illustrator/tattoo artist/comic book artist/co-host of the CREAM podcast) and  Couple of Creeps aka Zach and Ahlissa join me for the first ever 4 mic episode of "What Ya Into?". This week is about "Halloween" movies. Topics include: I'm still bad at intros. October is a busy month when you love horror. Gator talk and what's the biggest animal you could kill with your bare hands? (a recurring theme of the show). Talking with other humans at Six Bomb Boards Live Art. The Religion of Halloween. Halloween comedy movies. Zach hates Halloween. Jaimie talks about Grindhouse and running into Edward Furlong. Donnie Darko emo talk. The rules of being a Halloween horror film by Couple of Creeps. Rob Zombie talk, YEAH! (read that in a Rob Zombie voice). Trick or Treat or Trick 'r Treat? Batman Forever has a Halloween scene. Bands we hate. The Other section of Halloween movies. A generational gap emerges between people who watched Saved by the Bell and who didn't. The Crow might have the greatest movie soundtrack of all time. 

Hey Listener, this episode kicks off the first of 3 shows with a spooky theme. Justin Phoenixx of Complx Creative is in the basement this week to talk the time he spent as an actor/make up artist at the USS Nightmare, a haunted attraction in Cincinnati, Ohio. Topics this week include: Dogs are happy when you watch them poop. Fantasy Football talk. The PaulyShoreaverse. Were you a Zach Morris dude or an AC Slater dude? A half hour in and we talk about being young boys that were scared of Haunted Houses. How do you become a haunted attraction actor? The big rulebook of haunting. Becoming Michael Myers. Who are the people that work there? Dealing with the public by trying to scare them senseless. Don't break character unless someone gets a concussion. Don't show up hammered to the Haunted House. McKemey Manor: pay to be tortured. Working with animatronics. City talk. Was that a real ghost? 

Hey Listener, grab your helmet and your curb wax because we're talking skateboarding this week. Chris Rice and Ryan Malott aka Ryan 500 of 500 Miles to Memphis (go pick up their new album "Hard to Love"), join me in the basement for a very interesting episode as Chris has been skating since the mid 80s and Ryan recently started during the pandemic. There are multiple times during the episode when they start to interview each other about their skateboarding experiences. Topics this week include: Your host drops in to introduce the show and immediately eats shit. Big head hat collection. Trying to figure out how to tour in 2021 and beyond. Getting choked out is just like turning off a TV and everything gets warm. Learning to skate as a grown ass man. Building your own skatepark beside another skatepark in the same building. You can skate ANYTHING. Trading baseball cards for a skateboard. Collecting: the subculture of the thing you collect dictates the prices; a reoccurring theme of the show. The show's first collector that collects professionally used items. Skateboarding with kids. Playing through the pain of injuries. Literally teaching a child how to ride a bicycle. Dear Nintendo, please send me a free Switch. Skateboarding: a sport or an art form? Where do you want to skate before you hang up your board?