Are they excellent scifi comedies, disposable popcorn flicks, or a threat to all life on this planet? Annaliese Trammel, Chris Bailey (aka Charlton Hero), and Michael May drill deep into the first three Men in Black movies as well as the comics (thanks to Chris!). They talk about what works, what doesn't, and what it all could mean for Men in Black: International .
Join Jeeg, CT, Pax, and Michael May for some predictions about everyone's favorite Cajun superhero, Gambit, and his standalone movie that will never be made.
The nerds reminisce about their experiences with the Internet in the 90s. Dial-up, AOL discs, USENET groups, MUDs, and crappy search engines made for a special time indeed. WARNING: Do not take a drink every time Netscape is mentioned in this episode.
IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN ENDGAME OR WATCH GAME OF THRONES, do not listen to this episode! This month, Corey welcomes long time friend and professor (!) Matt Dunn to the show to discuss the final chapter of the Avengers saga, Endgame. They then take a deep dive into Season 8 of Game of Thrones. They discuss plot twists, character arcs, and the shows legacy. Their discussion is spoiler filled, so be warned!
It's the 20th anniversary of Star Wars Episode I, so Pax talks to several members of the Fourth Chair Army to get their own remembrances of experiencing Episode I back when it was released in 1999.
It's the final time the Nerd Lunch crew visits the 50 Cent Bin! We thought last time would be it, but Adam from SequelQuest Pod pitched a new ideas so it's ONE MORE TIME for the bin. This time, the podcasters (including additional guest William Bruce West) have to take two 50 Cent Bin comic book characters and combine them into one. Creativity abounds in this 50 Cent Bin finale!
For this episode we are joined by first time Fourth Chair Retromash as well as Fourth Chair vets Christian Nielsen and Shawn Robare to draft ourselves a heist team. We are each given 9 positions to fill and we pop culture fantasy draft ourselves a team to steal the Classic Film Jerks Golden Microphone.
Inspired by the upcoming Godzilla movie, Michael May invites Chad Young, Jeff Somogyi, and Evan Hanson to recast giant monsters and giant robots in other genres. The conversation occasionally runs off-topic like a giant lizard in downtown Tokyo, rampaging through eBay, stadium seating, summer camp counseling, and Blue Apron chase variants, but ultimately our fearless team is able to create a kaiju musical, film noir, roller coaster, and a season of Real Housewives: Terror Tooth.
CT, Jeeg and Pax talk about Avengers Endgame.
The original Star Wars Celebration in Denver, CO turned 20 years old on April 30, 2019. Pax is joined by his friend Jason Collier to talk about their trip out to Denver back in 1999 and their memories of the historic event.
It's tournament time on this fifth Tuesday as Jeeg convenes a panel to crown the best Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Joining the crew for a fun stroll down IMDB lane are Shawn Robare, Peter Kuebeck, and the Awesome Grace Jones.
Tank returns for a 2019 Summer Movie Preview!
CT, Pax, and Mike Westfall play America's favorite game show, "Name That Fourth Chair Army Member", with host Jeeg McJeegerson. How good are they are identifying Fourth Chair guests from their first tweets or Instagram photos? You might be surprised, unless you've listened to one of our Nerdstradamus episodes.
With the new Shazam! movie fresh in theaters, Michael May, Evan Hanson, and Paxton Holley go back to 1941 to talk about the Big Red Cheese's first movie appearance. It's a deep dive into the classic movie serial as well as discussions of comics, the '70s TV show, and expectations for the new film.
It's a postscript to March as The Chap Report's March episode finds itself in the beginning of April. Corey welcomes back Carlin Trammel of "Nerd Lunch Prime." The two talk A LOT about planes which includes a metaphor for Carlin's post-Nerd Lunch Podcast career, LOST and what it's like to fly on planes. Also, Carlin makes an impassioned plea to not quickly move on to the next national story. Remember the massive amount of devastation that has hit our country over the past couple years. Lots of p...
As an addendum to our Star Trek VI drilldown in episode 327, Pax does a special episode of I Read Movies where he discusses the Star Trek VI novelization by JM Dillard.
Evan Hanson joins us to finally complete our series of Star Trek movie drill downs. We dive into The Undiscovered Country by quoting lots of Shakespeare and uncovering a Shakespeare conspiracy theory. What did the Nerd Lunchers like, what did they not like and are they glad this is the last film with the full original cast.
In the newest episode of Nerd Lunch Prime we are joined by Kay to create brand new toylines for movies.
Disney loves making live-action versions of its cartoon library, but how many of them are actually good? Geek Kay and Christian Nielsen join Michael May to talk about the phenomenon and also figure out how they'd approach remaking Atlantis: The Lost Empire , Hercules , The Three Caballeros , and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs .
Robert Zerbe joins us once again in the Fourth Chair. After catching up with Robert about his podcast, And Movies For All , we take the Pop Culture Eraser out for a spin. Unfortunately the years and the mileage have taken a toll on the Eraser and we can only delete items associated with certain colors and letters. If you have a vendetta against the color brown, this is the episode for you.
This month, instead of asking guests questions, he has to answer listener questions! No question is off limits! From favorite Halloween costume to biggest life decision you didn't make, make sure you check out this episode. Who would be the ultimate celebrity guest? Who would play Chaps in the movie about his life? Listen and learn....
Way back in episode 228, we did Nerd Lunch Civil War. Now, eclectik comes back on the show to host a sequel. The Nerds are presented with popular divisive topics and must pick a side and argue why they pick it. Monopoly or Scrabble? Brosnan or Moore? Michael Jackson or Prince? And so much more.
Shawn Robare, Evan Hanson, and Michael May unpack Unbreakable , sift through Split , and get into Glass . They also converse on the career of M Night Shyamalan, wondering if one of us has made a gross error and wasted the other person's valuable time.
The Star Wars panel is back to discuss the Solo movie that they didn't talk about in May 2018.
Andrew Bloom of Classic Film Jerks returns to the podcast pitching a topic of his own. In this episode we swap the casts from the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Extended Universe films. How many times will we cast Jeremy Irons? Only one way to find out---listen now!
Evan Hanson, Jay Ryan, Paxton Holley, and Michael May hang out in the sinister Bats Cave, talking about the first screen appearance of the Dark Knight in the 1943 serial, Batman . There are thrills and there are shudders, but mostly there’s a lot of laughter as the panel spelunks deep into the Caped Crusader’s history.
Our annual festival of prognostication returns to start off 2019 with Rondal Scott as our Fourth Chair guest soothsayer. After crowning the 2018 Nerdstradamus champion, we make predictions for the coming year in TV, fast food/junk food, a wildcard category, and play Avengers Endgame Overs and Unders. Also listen for a trio of big Nerd Lunch announcements in this episode.
On this December/January episode of The Chap Report, Corey is joined by Chris "Tank" Tanski as they take a look back at the movies of 2018. They reveal their Top 10 films of the year, discuss the ones that just missed the cut, and geek out about what movies they are excited for in 2019.
The holiday tradition continues as Michael DiGiovanni returns to the Fourth Chair for the 2018 Nerd Lunch Christmas spectacular. This year we're giving the holiday treatment to our Movie Menus franchise topic and creating Christmas movie tie-in menus for some popular restaurants. Where will reindeer pastries be on the breakfast menu? Which burger chain will be the place to go for this year's hottest toy? Why do restaurant executives get nervous when we do this topic? Get answers to all of these ...
It's the final episode of Nerd Lunch presents Down the Rabbit Hole. We visit the Lord of the Rings wiki and welcome CT's daughter Annaliese from Dragonfly Ripple to join Jeff, Pax and CT. Savor this episode like lembas bread, because once it's over...it's over!
