Sometimes, the world gives us truths. Things that you can hang your hat on and believe them. Sometimes, because of the internet, you learn that those things that you felt so secure in were invented by a kid with Photoshop in 2014 and have been debunked a thousand times and now you look foolish. Don’t worry – we’ve all been there, so to start off the year we are looking at the last year of Snopes and talking about our favorite stories. What were you people sharing and/or stopping your great aunt ...
Jan 03, 2023
This is it – the end of the Retrocasts. Thank you all for letting us sleep, and we will be back in 2023 with a bunch’a great stuff… Here’s what we wrote then: 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 t...
Dec 30, 2022
We’re rounding near the end of our Best of 2022 , with Rob’s Pick, End: Carnivale Here’s what we said then: Time to hitch the wagons, hit the dusty trail for the next town, the next ballyhoo, the next mark on the route. That’s right, it’s time to lay on hands with the rest of the geeks as we settle down to discuss Carnivale . The HBO darling that ended too soon, but why? Was it rolling downhill towards a depression or was it a show that was just too far ahead of its time for people to be able to...
Dec 27, 2022
It’s a yearly tradition – the Somethings gather some of our friends and we have ourselves a big ol’ hangout. No lists. No reviews. Just talking holidays, nostalgia, and the subtle descension of our minds into an internet-addicted dystopia. The best of the holidays, am I right? So please, settle in as Rob & Hatton, Awesome Talk’s Rick & Sarah, and Matt & Becky of PreRecLive all make with the merry .. oh, and there may be a special guest who was unable to join us, but still found a way...
Dec 23, 2022
December is flying by, we’re already up to our favorite episode of The Wheel – and since Hatton can’t stop loving things that are subjectively wonderfully delightfully bad… he picked Bottom 5: CGI, enjoy! What we said then: 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 ...
Dec 20, 2022
It’s time to go to the Best of the Wheel – and Rob’s pick: Disaster Movie Here’s what we said then: The Wheel is a neverending mistress, always spinning, always providing. It is the alpha, the omega, and what decides our fate. We are but pawns in its sometimes brilliant, sometimes cruel decisions. Today, the Wheel spins yet again, and the Somethings are confronted with their biggest disaster yet – plotting their own elevator pitch for a Disaster Film! To join them on this harrowing adventure, th...
Dec 16, 2022
Oh, some movies are just like the Jelly of the Month Club, Clark… gifts that keep on giving. This review was for a movie that had an amazing trailer and we hoped it would be what the first new Halloween was like… and well… … … enjoy. Here’s what we said then: 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 late...
Dec 13, 2022
Best of 2022 continues with Rob’s Review pick – Black Phone. Here’s what we said then: We’re nearing SomethingSpookums season, so wasn’t Hatton surprised when Rob suggested one of the Summer’s sleeper horror hits Black Phone . A young man is kidnapped by the local kidnapper, natch, and through a series of mysterious moments… maybe he finds his way home? Was it good? Was it great? Was it overhyped or just right? It’s time for Something in Review: Black Phone Who ya gonna call! …wrong movie, sorry...
Dec 09, 2022
Welcome to our next Best of 2022 – this week, Hatton has picked one of his favorites… Favorite Opening Scenes. Here’s the original post: 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 g...
Dec 06, 2022
It’s that time of year again – when the Somethings take some time off to recharge their poddery batteries, and this year, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite episodes we’ve done over the last year, so every Friday and Tuesday in December, join us as we take a look back before we kiss this year g’bye. Enjoy ‘ Franchises That Should Have Stopped At 1 ‘ From the original post: Some movies need to make rent so they sell themselves to whatever bidder happens to have a coupon for a McRib ...
Dec 02, 2022
Sometimes there are 5 Tuesdays in a month, so on those glorious days, you get an extra Somethingcast! Now, the boys don’t really plan for this to happen. They don’t write the calendar, blame the Gregorians, so who the heck is going to expect them to plan something? Thus, the Free For All episode was born. This time, however, there is one particular piece of entertainment that slipped passed the Something’s security, and they want to talk about it before everyone has forgotten about it. So settle...
Nov 29, 2022
What started as a single season of television that people will probably rank as ‘one of the best’ for a long time. Twists. Brilliant acting choices. One of the coolest scores in tv. Robots. Cowboys. Robot Cowboys…. ends where? Does it end in a satisfying place where the tethers that have been left from the first episodes are tied together in a bow and bring the whole of the arc to a satisfying conclusion? Does HBO give up on the show because the ratings have tanked? Does any of it make any sense...
Nov 22, 2022
When you were a kid, did you imagine that there was buried treasure out there, and with a shovel and a dream, you would dig on the beaches and one day find it? Well, two multi-millionaires are doing just that, and apparently they’ve turned it into a multi-season reality show that Hatton’s only just hearing about. The Wheel though, the Wheel knows, and it brings the mysterious Oak Island to the forefront of the Somethings as they delve into the Mysteries of the Somethingverse yet again, with The ...
Nov 15, 2022
I’d like to think if you know the Somethings, you knew this was coming eventually. We mentioned it a month or two ago, because the minute Hatton saw this movie.. he knew one thing.. he needed to make Rob see it. Why? Well, have you seen it? If you haven’t – stop reading – go watch it – then come back. Now you know why, and I’m sorry I made you do that. M. Night returns to the world of film with a movie that is less twist and more twit. So hop on in our mid-size-sedan and find out what happens on...
Nov 08, 2022
Are you a Keaton fan? What about a Clooney fan? Do you like your Gotham neon and campy or dark and totally not Chicago? Well, the Somethings know a bit about Martha’s Baby Boy and they are going to settle in and discuss who the best Bat that ever donned the cowl. Let’s be clear, some of their decisions may surprise you… and each other. So, Mr. Wayne, sit near the fire and enjoy the warmth as the Somethings watch the world burn. Ok, BIFF here we KA-POW! go! Full Episode...
Nov 01, 2022
First, they were nostalgia. Then, they were growing up. After that, they were figuring things out. Now… well, now it’s really just gone all to hell, hasn’t it?! The kids of Hawkins have gone on another of their wacky adventures this past year and the Somethings weren’t going to miss out on a chance to get to talk about Vecna, the Hellfire Club, and whether or not this season’s finale did anything to motivate us towards seeing the end. So, buckle in, we’re turning this one up to Eleven…. which is...
Oct 25, 2022
Three people went off into the Burkettsville woods, and weren’t heard from again… this isn’t their story. A bunch of other people went off into the woods to take a tour about the people that were never heard from again, which does kind of infer they were heard from again, albeit unintentionally, and now there are tour groups for them and they are apparently cult icons to weiros and documentarians…. this is sort of their story…. Two podcasters decided to sit down and watch Blair Witch 2: Book of ...
Oct 18, 2022
The again for The Wheel, the machine that tells us what we’re doing and how – and boy howdy does it hit us with the big’uns tonight. In this corner – hailing from deepest darkest Ohio… In this corner – the European with the meanest bite… In this corner – a milkdud from the internet… In this corner – from the wetlands of Scotland… In this corner – from the mountains of America… In this corner – from my former field of goats… In this corner – from that one street nobody drove down… In this corner ...
Oct 11, 2022
Not all horror movies are created equal… you see, some movies are amazing because they are frigging amazing. Some are amazing because they are bad. Some are just……. bad. We’re talking about all of them, because none of those headers quite describes ‘lame’. What is a lame movie? Is it stupid? Does it have a single factor that makes it worse than another? Is it just boring? Hatton and PCR get into it about what precisely makes a piece of entertainment lame and then tell you their choices. Join us ...
Oct 04, 2022
Yeah, so Marvel has had hit after hit. The Avengers, Daredevil, Mandolorian, Sandman, Teen Titans… all of the big hitters! Well, there was once a time where Marvel wanted to throw up the middle finger to some mutants and turn to the Moon for inspiration. If this means absolutely nothing to you, then you clearly missed The Inhumans , a one season attempt to make an obscure part of the Marvel Universe more important. Did it work? Was it the next Agents of Shield or was it an Iron Fist to the gut? ...
Sep 27, 2022
Not every decision is a good one… just think of any strange flavor, because Japan has probably turned it into a Kit-Kat. Well, the same goes for movies. Sometimes there is a choice in a film that just brings down the whole affair. The wrong actor at the wrong time or the right actor in the wrong film – sometimes you just don’t want Wasabi in your Chocolate Wafers. So join the Somethings as they spin The Wheel and discuss their choices for the Bottom 5: Casting Decisions ! Ok, here they .. oh, on...
Sep 20, 2022
We’re nearing SomethingSpookums season, so wasn’t Hatton surprised when Rob suggested one of the Summer’s sleeper horror hits Black Phone . A young man is kidnapped by the local kidnapper, natch, and through a series of mysterious moments… maybe he finds his way home? Was it good? Was it great? Was it overhyped or just right? It’s time for Something in Review: Black Phone Who ya gonna call! …wrong movie, sorry… Full Episode...
Sep 13, 2022
♫ We’re goin back…. back… back to schooOol ♫ Now, we’re aware tha tmost of the people that listen to his show have had no more pencils, no more books, no more of those dirty looks for at least a decade… but that does not mean that there isn’t a whole series of films that take place int he hallowed halls of alma maters across this great land of ours. So which ones are the Somethings favorites? Which ones go straight to detention? How many can do the triple lindy? Find out if you agree, or rather ...
Sep 06, 2022
On the first week of the month we do a themed episode. The second and third are Something in Review and The Wheel. The 4th week is The End — but what happens when there is a fifth week tot he month? What are the Somethings supposed to do? Well, if you have been listening to our show for any length of time, you should know it is time for a Something Free-For-All which is where we take a week off from planning something and just hang-out for a little while. What are we watching? What are we playin...
Aug 30, 2022
Time to hitch the wagons, hit the dusty trail for the next town, the next ballyhoo, the next mark on the route. That’s right, it’s time to lay on hands with the rest of the geeks as we settle down to discuss Carnivale . The HBO darling that ended too soon, but why? Was it rolling downhill towards a depression or was it a show that was just too far ahead of its time for people to be able to dig their teeth in… well, there is only one way to find out, and that is to keep your hands outta our poke,...
Aug 23, 2022
The Wheel is a neverending mistress, always spinning, always providing. It is the alpha, the omega, and what decides our fate. We are but pawns in its sometimes brilliant, sometimes cruel decisions. Today, the Wheel spins yet again, and the Somethings are confronted with their biggest disaster yet – plotting their own elevator pitch for a Disaster Film! To join them on this harrowing adventure, they have called in the source of Crystal’s Imagination , Crystal Storm! So settle in, hold your loved...
Aug 16, 2022
Since the world is currently learning what artsy nerds have known for 20 years, that The Sandman is amazing, the Somethings had the brilliant (and coincidental) idea to do a movie that ties in ever so slightly to the Sandman mythos… the story of a man who can see the evil forces that move between worlds and fight them for the benefit of his own soul. He also knows kung-fu… whoa… This month, we are looking at the Keanu version of Hellblazer in – Constantine. Does it hold up? Did it ever? Did you ...
Aug 09, 2022
Some movies build a universe that expands the lore and mythos, that delves deep into other characters and builds new ways to love what you already loved. They are treasures that feel like each moment is a part of a greater whole. Some movies need to make rent so they sell themselves to whatever bidder happens to have a coupon for a McRib Value Meal. Today, the Somethings are talking about the latter of those two – movies that went one strong, maybe two strong, but somewhere down the line you can...
Aug 02, 2022
ALL RISE! The honorable Somethings are now back in session for their final episode of the Year 9 Podiganza! To keep with the theme of ‘things that relate to 9’ we went with a classic comedy that went 9 seasons and.. possibly? is getting a comeback. More on that later, first, why don’t you settle in to the misdemeanor charges for arguing with your neighbor on alternate side of the street nights, because the only way to get that ticket handled is to go to The End: Night Court! Ok, hear ye hear ye ...
Jul 26, 2022
The Anniversary Strikes… THE WHEEL with a list of 9 oriented topics, we spin the wheel, make the deal… annnnnnnd – BAD MOVIE DRAFT! That’s right – Hatton and Podcast Rob are picking the best of the worst and letting you decide precisely who wins. What was the worst? What was the best? Does one being better make it the loser? Did you like any of this dreck? How do you decide? Head over to our TWITTER page and vote in the pinned poll! Well, you’ll find out the rules, how to play, and the obvious w...
Jul 19, 2022
