With 9 movies on the books, the Fast & the Furious Franchise, fun to say five times fast, seemed like the perfect spot for us to flex our Year 9 Anniversary muscles and go back behind the wheel to breakdown all of the hard turns the series have made. How much is a drag? How much does the series drift off course? These are car puns. Have you tire’d of these yet? Fine. I get it. So – join the Somethings as they take nine movies and put them into a ranking… what sits atop the mountain? Only one...
Jul 12, 2022
First off – it is Year 9. Every year, the Somethings celebrate another year closer to the heat death of the universe with a celebration of all things Something. To start us off on our anniversary (which, if you look up is the pod -ery anniversary….. get it?) we have joined forces with a friend of the show of years upon years – Cthulu’s Prodigy ( @cthulhusprodigy ) from Blacker than Black Times Infinity ( @bthanbti ) What are we going to talk about – video games! What games though? What about gam...
Jul 05, 2022
Boss! The Pod, The Pod! If you think we are travelling to a beautiful holiday paradise, hanging with Tattoo, and making someone’s dreams come true… guess what, that ship sailed like three seasons ago, apparently. You see, walking into Fantasy Island, knowing very little about it – the Somethings learn quite a bit about what it means to have your dreams come true. Also what its like to build a woman out of a dress mannequin. Also, a lesson about surrogacy from Charo. What the hell is this show?! ...
Jun 28, 2022
Have you ever watched a cartoon or a show, heard a jingle, remembered a piece of trivia that you could swear up and down was exactly how you remembered it, only to find out that not only are you wrong, but you are wrong with a whole slew of other people who think they remember it your way too? Yeah, welcome to the Shadow Realm… aka, the Mandela Effect. So grab a book about a family of bears, get your clearing house check, and find out if we.. or just you… are going to need a bigger boat. Ok, her...
Jun 21, 2022
What happens when you give Michael Bay a ton of money, a Dutch movie about a hostage situation, and tell him to go to town? You get this hodgepodge of big action, big explosions, big cameras, and a plot that drives by at the speed of a man who just robbed a bank. Does it work? Is Michael Bay finding his footings as an artist? There’s only one way to know on Something In Review: Ambulance! Ok, here we vroom! Full Episode...
Jun 14, 2022
The first moments of a movie or TV show sets the stage for what’s to come… is it a tense moment to moment thriller? Is it confusing, where the plot reveals itself slowly? Is it a podcast that introduces itself the same way to you each week for the last 9 years? Whatever the case may be – the first few moments of a show or movie may be the thing that keeps you glued to your seat… so join the Somethings as we discuss our favorites. Did yours make the cut? Only one way to find out. Okay, here we st...
Jun 07, 2022
What would you do when an alien crash lands into your garage, what do you do? Call the FBI? Scream and run? Invite it into your home to eat your food and your pets? Well, if you are the Tanner family in the 80’s, it’s obviously the latter. That’s when Gordon Shumway found his into their home and lasted 4 years on NBC Monday nights. Hatton remembered this show fondly, Rob remembers it as a moment in television. Does it hold up? How does it end? Honestly, it’s finale is pretty infamous, so you may...
May 31, 2022
On May 19that 9am, Livestream For The Cure kicked off with a goal to raise $20,000 for The Cancer Research Institute. On May 20th, two behemoths met in the ring and duked out for supremacy. Who won? Who’s next? You decide. That’s right – with Rob as Quizmaster, Somethingcast’s Hatton took on the Maestro of Livestream for the Cure , Nicholas Haskins in movie quote trivia. If you missed the stream, we thought you would enjoy hearing what happens as these two people play a brutal game of cinema che...
May 24, 2022
We are the terror that flaps in the night… we are the podcast you listen to when you already caught up with RadioLab – we’re… the SOMETHINGSOMETHING DUC—CAST! This week, we are going to Gotham with the newest installment in the neverending saga of one man’s fight against eye make-up. How did Pattinson do as the man known as the Bat? How did he do as the Wayne? Did he sparkle in either role? What about the Riddler? The Catwoman? Egghead? Xyzzaz? The Condiment King? Find out on this week’s Somethi...
May 17, 2022
Time again to bring the circle of fun back to the Somethings – it’s time for The Wheel! This week, hate to spoil it, but we land on Creator Spotlight and the wheel has brought along the creative entrepreneur, writer, creator, roleplayer, fanfictioning, and all around fantastic human on the Prime Material and any other plane as well – Crystal Storm! So maybe, before you dive in, go take a look at the place for all things Crystal: Crystal’s Imagination! and be certain to sign-up with her Twitch to...
May 10, 2022
Imagine this – Johnny Law is on your tail, in the trunk you have a kilo of those really delicious strange flavored gummy bears from Japan that you didn’t pay the import tax on. You, in a suped up Kia Supreme, your partner in crime is in a Nitro-Boosted Toyota Corolla. Will you get across the county line before the Po takes your sweet sweet candies? YOU might be in one of cinema’s greatest chase sequences. Find out what high-octane, cat and mouse adventures the Somethings picked as their favorite...
May 03, 2022
Some shows come and go with a ton of fanfare, and yet somehow, for some reason, we don’t get a Season 2. Think of some of the shows that you loved that never saw a second year? I know of at least one western sci-fi that hits the mark, along with Wonderfalls, and Cop Rock. Anyway, in this instance, the show could most certainly have had a second season if the people behind the curtain pushed a little harder, but with no story arc to tell, and a large budget to account for… it went away after givi...
Apr 26, 2022
Gather round kids, because we are warming our hands on amazing Swedish Furniture in, THE WHEEL! What topic will appear today? Well, the Somethings have been saddled with the idea of creating an all new DBD Killer and Powers… if you are unfamiliar, Dead By Daylight is a 4v1 game where one player is a crazy killer and the other 4 are trying to escape. If you ask the survivors, they’ll tell you that it’s about trying to annoy one person the best way possible. If you ask a killer player, they’ll tel...
Apr 19, 2022
Imagine you wake up, have your coffee, go to work, go home, and the cycle repeats. Every day. No variation. Nothing other than the same drudgery you’ve come to know for as long as you can remember. And now that you are crying, why not listen to the Somethings talk about the new Ryan Reynolds tale, Free Guy (not, as Hatton may have you believe, Fall Guy). Is the movie funny? Too nerdy and inside baseball? Too simplistic and generalized for a broad audience? And what about Michael Myers? Find out ...
Apr 12, 2022
Nick Haskins is a good dude. Do you know why? Maybe it’s because you were a fan of his podcasting work… (Like, Epic Film Guys , perhaps…) or maybe it’s because you enjoy cooking with him on Twitch (At Nikoli’s Kitchen ) If you listen to us enough, you have most definitely heard his name as the Grandmaster and creator of Livestream for the Cure – where podcasters gather around the ol’ internet fire and fight to help fund a world without cancer. With that said, we got him on the line with us and w...
Apr 05, 2022
There’s a reason we promote the Livestream for the Cure so heavily – and that is because it is an amazing cause, done by an amazing person, featuring tons of talented podcasters (and us!) — we will continue to tell you to go to the link, share the link, and be a part of the weekend in any way you can. That said, it is the extra Tuesday of the month, so instead of doing a Free-For-All, we are going to replay last year’s Somethingcast episode during the event, where Rob and I concocted our own the...
Mar 29, 2022
Tick.. tock… tick… tock… The Doomsday Clock clicks towards the inevitable, and we stand here at the precipice of… The End! This week, we’re talking about the last moments of the world, potentially, as the former vigilantes turn heroes of the Watchmen have left a generation pass and the world has moved on and evolved based on the giant squid of New York. What has happened to Ozymandius, Doctor Manhattan, the Silk Spectre and the rest? Well, the HBO Series told us… but was it good? So settle in as...
Mar 22, 2022
It’s time again for the finest in Swedish Podcasting Technology THE WHEEL! But first – it’s that time of year again. We are gearing up for Livestream For The Cure , so please save the date, May 19th – 21st. On the show this week, we spin the wheel, we connect at 2400 bps, and we get a brand new topic where we just talk about some of the stuff we’ve seen. It’s a new take on an old classic. Hatton’s watched a bunch of horror movies, Rob’s watched a bunch of television, and both have hunted buffalo...
Mar 15, 2022
There is a movement in horror to bring back the classics. We went through the remake era with the 2000’s versions of Friday and Nightmare , but Saw and, most popularly, Halloween , has show us that there are stories to tell a few decades later in the same universe. Now Netflix is getting in on the action with a late-quel? (is that a word?) of the horror classic, Texas Chainsaw Massacre . Does it have the same legs that Laurie Strode and Michael Myers had? I ask, because that’s clearly what they ...
Mar 08, 2022
Right now – if, all of a sudden, this opening introduction was interrupted by — hey! Look! It’s THE SMOKE MONSTER! Ok, he’s gone, but wasn’t that crazy and sort of ironic given we have a previous relationship with him so it makes sense, but ultimately is more of a meta commentary than an actual one about the contents of the show and the surprise of a guest who didn’t even get a word in.. or, in that instance, a chain rattling? So, since that happened – why don’t you settle in with Hatton and Rob...
Mar 01, 2022
♫ Three two one.. let’s jam.. Do those few words blow your mind out with a brass section? Do you immediately start thinking about bloodshot eyes, gunplay, and corgis? Well, if not, then you are probably going to be very confused about this episode, as we are talking about the end of the Netflix live-action of Cowboy Bebop. Bounty Hunters against the world – and we are only watching the last episode… does it hold up? Was the show worth another season? Is anime even possible to do right on the big...
Feb 22, 2022
The Wheel has returned… and the narrative of the Wheel takes a new turn! Get it? Nevermind… Anyway, there are some new topics on the Wheel, and we have been hit with one of them. You know how Rob and Hatton are always talking about their favorite things? Well, this week they are talking about the Bottom 5, the worst, the shameful, the hysterically bad, and the ‘wait what?’ in the realm of computer generated graphics and green screen in film. So gather round and think back to all of those horribl...
Feb 15, 2022
It has been a long time since we have tackled the world of comic book swashbuckling, so we’re doing it with style by inviting one of our ol’ friends to talk funny books and martial arts – the maestro of Kung-Fu Drive-in Podcast , Geoff Vita! We’re heading off to Ta Lo to discuss some of the bigger pictures of the new Marvel Phase, discussing representation in the new run of Marvel movies, and of course how much kickass is the new MCU butt-kicker kickin So join us as we head to a mystical land, a...
Feb 08, 2022
It’s February, and you know what that means… it’s time for another episode. I actually am not entirely sure what else it could mean. To start off this month of love, we are bringing one of America’s sweethearts to the front of the line. He has been an action star, a romance star, a heist star, a car star, and a truffle farmer st– wait what? Anyway.. it’s Momma Coppola’s Baby Boy – Nicolas Cage. From a meme legacy to being a lot of people’s favorite dirty secret… Cage has been in a LOT of movies,...
Feb 01, 2022
Podcasts… The Final Frontier.. It’s time for the first End of 2021, so we are going to the future to talk about one of the godfathers of modern sci-fi – Star Trek – and discussing its final episode. Will Kirk and the boys hold up the banner of Starfleet high and make us all feel comfortable with the future Roddenberry envisioned… or will they try and tell us women are amazing and gentle creatures prone to psychotic mood swings? Find out on THE END: Star Trek ..but you probably already have it fi...
Jan 25, 2022
We’re back with The Wheel – and where it stops, nobody knows… well, I mean.. we do, because we recorded it.. and you do because you can see the episode title. Look, work with me, ok? Anyway, what do you think about artificial intelligence? What do you think about the idea that computers out there will one day take us over completely and we will be slaves to their machinations? Did Asimov have it right about making sure they can’t hurt us? Or is it all just a bunch of claptrap hooey for sci-fi wr...
Jan 18, 2022
…we have to go back…. No, not that island, you masochists – we have to go back to a land where computers fill the air, because computers invented the air.. and your desk.. and your headphones.. and possibly those hundreds of guys in nice suits running at you. That’s right, we’re going back into the series that asked us ‘are we really here or are we actually in robot goo pods’ – THE MATRIX Wire-fu, Bullet time, hot people in trenchcoats – The Matrix changed action movies forever, and made your fr...
Jan 11, 2022
DIDJA MISS US? We missed you – but most of all, we realized in our Retrocast journey how much we missed looking at some of the silliness that has gone out on the internet waves over the last year and wanted to talk about them. Did you know if you click through these 45 pages, you can find the mysterious answer to a question after a thousand short and unnecessary sentences that don’t actually add to the whole of the story at all and are just a giant run on to get you to click to the end of the st...
Jan 04, 2022
We did it! We got through December, and even as you read this, Rob and I are getting ready for 2022 episodes… so as we say good-bye to this year that was, overall, a year that occurred – let me just throw a couple of things out there. 1 – Thank you to each and every one of you that have joined us on our podcasting journey 2 – Thank you Rob for keeping me on track in all things Something. Now, let’s get to my last retroepisode, which isn’t too Retro, but I couldn’t do a list of my favorite episod...
Dec 31, 2021
We are winding down our Retrocast Party, but we have this one and one more… and they are some doozies! First off, Rob has chosen an episode where we tried something a little different, stick around though, the second half of the episode reveals all. It is a favorite for everyone except for those that have never seen the curvature of the globe… it’s Flat Earth, from April 30th 2019. Our original post: In the last month or two a documentary came out talking about one of the strangest theories of t...
Dec 28, 2021
