Join Eric, Kayla, Tomas, and Mike as we wish the instant classic Bridesmaids a happy 10th birthday! Bridesmaids remains the highest grossing female-lead comedy of all time We discuss how this movie ushered in a gender-swap revolution (for better and for worse) Melissa McCarthy as Guy Fieri Everyone's pregnant Rose Byrne's comedic coming out party Jon Hamm and Ellie Kemper's ironic past And our memories of seeing it for the first time PLUS The cast counts down our top 5 comedies of all time! Ask ...
May 14, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 28
Join Eric, Kayla, Tomas, Josh, and BIRTHDAY BOI Mike as we celebrate 1,000 downloads! That's right, The Machine of Nonsense has been listened to 1,000 times! We don't believe it either Let's celebrate Mike's birthday and all of our wonderful MoNstars out there PLUS We play Tagline Turmoil a trivia game of Video Game, Movie, and TV taglines Let us know what you'd like to see on future episodes on our Facebook fan group "MoNstars" Leave us a voice message @ anchor.fm/machineofnonsense and you can ...
May 10, 2021•38 min•Ep. 27
Join Eric, Kayla, and Mike as we take a look at all the great stuff coming in May! Marvel's Movie Release Schedule We got official names and release dates for Captain Marvel 2, Ant-Man 3, Guardians 3, and Black Panther 2! What are we most excited for? Which of these could we do without? Where do Fantastic Four and X-Men fall into all of this? PLUS The month of May is filled with Games, Movies, and TV that we are really excited for More Star Wars Clone Wars Castlevania's final season Thrillers st...
May 07, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 26
Join Eric, Kayla, Mike, Ryan, Tomas, and Josh as they do a full spoilercast on season 1 of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier We got a new Captain America...or maybe 2! Zemo gonna Zemo Don't get Mike started on the Power Broker The MCU goes to therapy The Falcon has a fishing boat Elaine from Seinfeld makes a cameo And Sharon Carter is an alien...probably Leave us a voice message @ anchor.fm/machineofnonsense to be featured on a future episode RIP BattleStar...
May 03, 2021•2 hr 17 min•Ep. 25
GET OVER HERE and join Eric, Kayla, Josh, and Tomas as The Machine of Nonsense reviews Mortal Kombat (2021) Scorpion's got special blood Sub-Zero's got Oscar eyes Shang Tsung's got that soul suck Sonya's got a Gary, Indiana address We break down all the interesting decisions: New main character? No Tournament? 4 sequels? PLUS Where does Mortal Kombat (2021) rank all-time in the pantheon of video game movies? Does it surpass the 1995 version? Leave us a voice message @ anchor.fm/machineofnonsense...
Apr 30, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 24
Join Eric and Kayla as they welcome Filmmaker Patrick Peña to The Machine of Nonsense Patrick gives us his top 5 Movies, Video Games, and TV Shows In this interview: Patrick's influences and DIY approach to the creative process Turning abandoned projects into something new The value of surrounding yourself with creative people His feature debut The Vixen of Vengeance https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5460554/ His upcoming FMV video game collaboration with Good Cat Games (Pepperoni Nightmares) https:/...
Apr 26, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 23
Join Eric, Kayla, Mike and Special Guest Katie as they take a trip to the 93rd Academy Awards The ultimate MoNstar Katie Berry joins The Machine of Nonsense as our first ever guest! We break down a weird year in movies Each of the cast ranks the 8 movies nominated for Best Picture And then we come up with a Machine of Nonsense top 5! A Nomad, A Revolutionary, A Femme Fatale, A Comedy in the Courtroom, A Writer, A Sound, and A Family Only one of these will be crowned The Machine of Nonsense Best ...
Apr 23, 2021•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 22
Join Eric, Kayla, Josh, Aaron, and Tomas as we play some Nonsensigories! It's basically Scattergories but with a lot more Kit Fisto Play along at home with these words: Harry Potter Skywalker Batman Nintendo Bioshock Simpsons Leave us a voice message @ anchor.fm/machineofnonsense to be featured on a future episode!
Apr 19, 2021•59 min•Ep. 21
Join Eric, Kayla, Tomas, Mike, and Ryan as they celebrate episode 20! Netflix is making a Gundam show Bioshock is going Open-World Sony is dropping the ball The cast reminisces on all the games, movies, and shows turning 20 this year What holds up? What goes in our time capsule for 2041? PLUS We play 20 Questions! Be like super-fan D and leave us a voice message @ anchor.fm/machineofnonsense to be featured on an upcoming episode!
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 20
Join Eric, Kayla, Tomas, and Mike as they play the Nonsense Titles Game (we'll workshop it) Did someone name a Video Game "White Van Driver"? How about a movie called "Santa with a 6-pack"? Surely no TV executive green-lit "Alexis Texas" on the Disney Channel....right? You'll have to listen and play along with the game to find out! Leave us a voice message @ anchor.fm/machineofnonsense to be featured on a future episode!
Apr 12, 2021•54 min•Ep. 19
Join Eric, Kayla, and Ryan as we travel from Skull Island to Hong Kong with a stop off at Hollow Earth E3 is going virtual Gamestop is getting financial And Godzilla's box office is substantial We Talk Trailers! Black Widow Loki Space Jam Suicide Squad Resident Evil Village Plus Our review of Godzilla VS Kong Leave us a message @ anchor.fm/machineofnonsense to be featured on an upcoming episode!
Apr 09, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 18
Join Eric, Kayla, Josh, Tomas, and Mike as they play Pod-Mind! or was it "The Newly-Cast Game" ? I know it wasn't "How Well Do You Know Your Cast Members..." Leave us a voice message @ anchor.fm/machineofnonsense and let us know what the game should be called! Which Jeff Goldblum character is your Foxhound codename?
Apr 05, 2021•33 min•Ep. 17
Join the Tantalus Media Corporation (Eric, Mike, Ryan, Tomas, and Aaron of The Machine of Nonsense) as they dive into Disc 3 of Final Fantasy 9 This episode covers all events of Disc 3 of Final Fantasy 9 The #cancelsinfulcinna campaign hits a big ole brick wall Leave us a voice message @ anchor.fm/machineofnonsense to be featured on a future episode! (PLEASE EXCUSE THE ISSUES IN AUDIO QUALITY ON THIS EPISODE) (WE AREN'T SURE WHAT HAPPENED) (PROBABLY CINNA)...
Apr 04, 2021•1 hr 22 min
Join Eric, Kayla, Mike, and Ryan as they jump back in after a week off in the Suez Canal Microsoft is probably buying Discord Hayden Christianson is back baybee! People keep giving George R.R. Martin money Rick and Morty Season 5 gets a trailer and release date Plus We break down everything coming up in the month of April! Be like Jim and leave us a voice message @ anchor.fm/machineofnonsense and you can be featured on a future episode!
Apr 02, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 16
Join The Tantalus Media Corporation (Eric, Mike, Tomas, Ryan of The Machine of Nonsense) as they dive into Disc 2 of Final Fantasy 9 This episode covers all events of Disc 2 of Final Fantasy 9 The #cancelsinfulcinna campaign marches onto the very steps of Pandemonium Leave us a voice message @ anchor.fm/machineofnonsense to be featured on a future episode!
Mar 27, 2021•2 hr 28 min
Join the Tantalus Media Corporation (Eric, Ryan, Aaron, Mike from The Machine of Nonsense) as they do a Disc Dive into Final Fantasy 9 This episode covers all events of Disc 1 of Final Fantasy 9 #cancelsinfulcinna Leave us a voice message @ anchor.fm/machineofnonsense to be featured on a future episode of the show
Mar 25, 2021•1 hr 56 min
Join Eric and Josh (The Non-Lethal Enforcers) Tomas and Aaron (Crash and the Boiz) Mike and Kayla (The Sisters Mario Brothers) As they draft the best games of 2013 and Let's Fish: Hooked On 6 Rounds 6 categories to fill 6 cast members enter 6 cast members leave, but forever changed Leave us a voice message @ anchor.fm/machineofnonsense to be featured on a future episode
Mar 22, 2021•33 min•Ep. 15
Eric and Kayla give the rest of the cast the night off Famous musician Taika Waititi wins a Grammy TMNT Shredders Revenge Nic Cage plays Nic Cage Snyder Cut...Good? Someone put Tenet on a Game Boy Oscar Nominations for Best Picture 25 minutes of Aliens: Fireteam Plus Our spoiler-filled review of Promising Young Woman Leave us a voice message @ anchor.fm/machineofnonsense
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 14
Join Eric, Kayla, Josh, and Tomas as we play a game of "Describe it Poorly"! It's kinda like Taboo except James Cameron and Step Brothers don't get confused in Taboo If you liked our B.O.M.B. episode, you'll want to check this one out! Leave us a voice message at anchor.fm/machineofnonsense to be featured on a future episode!
Mar 15, 2021•38 min•Ep. 13
Join Eric, Kayla, and Mike on a trip to sunny Vista Del Mar! We discuss the rumored Nintendo Switch upgrade Space Jam 2 (The Great Bunny Boobie Blunder) Elden Ring shaky-cam footage Plus Our reviews of: Coming 2 America Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar Us Again Raya and the Last Dragon Leave us a voice message at anchor.fm/machineofnonsense to be featured on a future episode!
Mar 12, 2021•48 min•Ep. 12
Join the IL-Woo-minati (Eric, Kayla, Mike, Tomas, Josh, and Aaron) as we go deep into WandaVision Season 1 Why the I Love Woo-cy episode had us hooked from the opening credits Vision's Essence Dong Where this series leaves the MC-Woo And several other Jimmy Woo puns Just remember, MC-Woo ain't nothin' to F*** wit Leave us a voice message on anchor.fm/machineofnonsense to be featured on a future episode
Mar 08, 2021•2 hr 9 min•Ep. 11
Join Eric, Kayla, Mike, Tomas, and Josh as they celebrate 25 years of Pokémon! We SURF through the recent Pokémon Presents! event New Pokémon Snap Diamond and Pearl Remakes Pokémon Legends: Arceus (pronounced Arceus) Plus: What Pokémon means to us Is Pokémon just for kids, and is that ok? Our earliest Pokémon MEWmories And Ho-Ohpes for the future of Pokémon Leave us a message at anchor.fm/machineofnonsense to be featured on a future episode!...
Mar 05, 2021•57 min•Ep. 10
Join Eric, Kayla, Mike, Josh, Tomas, and Ryan as we play The Crossover Game! First we pitch our versions of some "iconic" film and TV video game adaptations: Doom, Alone in the Dark, Double Dragon, Silent Hill, Captain N: The Game Master, and Hitman Then we pitch a crossover that is sure to be an instant classic Hitman meets Captain N and Dwayne The Rock Johnson goes for some therapy in Silent Hill These and many more await you! We also discuss PlayStation's recent State of Play event and how it...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 9
Join Eric, Kayla, Mike, and Ryan as we MARCH into the future BlizzCon Coverage Napster finally gets revenge on Metallica Sony announces new VR and Twisted Metal TV show Pieces of a Woman and Promising Young Woman are not the same movie We care a little about I Care a Lot We also take a trip through the March release calendar Leave us a voice message at Anchor.fm/machineofnonsense to be featured on an upcoming episode!
Feb 26, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 8
Join Eric, Kayla, Tomas, Josh, and Aaron as we play a game of B.O.M.B. It's kinda like H.O.R.S.E. except with a lot more Jack Black If you don't know what B.O.M.B. is, give us a listen and find out We also break down the new trailers for Cruella and Mortal Kombat (Those are 2 different movies)
Feb 22, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 7
Eric, Kayla, Mike, and Tomas take a DIRECT trip to Nintendo Land Please give us hour-long Wandavision Snyder Cut Trailer SXSW GOTY FYI Valheim breaks records Rian Johnson breaks hearts And a spoiler-filled review of Judas and the Black Messiah
Feb 19, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 6
Eric, Kayla, Tomas, Josh, and Ryan pitch our ideas on how to make some upcoming Video Game adaptations not suck A Gallagher (ninja) origin story Breakin 3: Lady Gaga's Just Dance Tom Hardy vs Jeff Hardy in Fallout: Tables, Ladders, & Chairs And so much more We also discuss the recent casting of The Last of Us and Borderlands Episode 1's champion is also crowned
Feb 15, 2021•54 min•Ep. 5
Eric, Kayla, and Mike take a trip to THE BIG GAME PS5 and XBOX Series sales figures Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk source code stolen (here we go again) Tom Holland says "I'm the Spider-man now" Superb Owl Trailers: Falcon and the Winter Soldier Old Nobody and more The Medium wrap-up with Kayla and Eric and a review of The Little Things with Mike, Kayla, and Eric And a special shout out to our biggest fan
Feb 12, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 4
Join Eric, Kayla, Mike, Ryan, Tomas, and Josh as we formulate a draft of all the Video Games that are being turned into Movies and TV series Will any of them be successful? (history isn't on their side) Which will be the biggest train wrecks? We also go cover the history of Video Game movies along with some eye-catching numbers and give our predictions for the future of Video Games being turned into TV Series and Movies
Feb 08, 2021•49 min•Ep. 3
Join Eric, Kayla, Aaron, and Tomas as they break down some new releases: WandaVision (Disney+) The Medium (Xbox) The Little Things (HBOMax) GameStonks (The Internet) We also touch on the rumored new TV series adaptations of Harry Potter and Tomb Raider
Feb 05, 2021•51 min•Ep. 2