Today I am joined by my other Shooting the poo podcast show host from days gone by Ian Mond and we head to Colorado to to celebrate a non-denominational character who visits everyone each Christmas whose maintained a balanced high fibre diet throughout the year, and the 1995 AFL Grand Final.
Today I am joined by 3 very special guests, my 2 children, Jax, & Gee and our cat Maxwell Paws and they share their opinions on Christmas...well the kids do, Max became tight lipped as soon as we pushed record.
I am excited to be joined by Julia Svaganovic today as we chat about Christmas and the Christmas toy from the brilliant mind of Jim Henson with a little extra Muppet talk thrown in for good measure,
Today I am joined by Brett from the Thoughtless Casual Gaming podcast and he's here to talk about the night and the vengeance of the first Christmas episode of Batman the Animated series.
Today I am honored to have Wrestlerock Commentator and friend of the show Big Daddy Julian James come to the Krytpton Lounge, Driven by the power of Zyrtec and Natter on about Christmas, A couple of Henry's and the New Disney+/Marvel treat, The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.
Today I step into a big blue box and travel back in time to Podcast with my original Podcast co-host and we bang on about A Christmas Carol, Doctor Who Style.
Today Rachel Holkner joins the Podcast and we talk love, Death Robots and questionable acquisition of Christmas tress.
Today I am joined by the Dave of Daves Video graveyard podcast to chat about iconic wrestler Bill Goldberg as he dons the robes of Father Christmas and murders his way through Christmas eve in the criminally unheralded classic film Santa's Slay...
Something feels strangely familiar as Joe makes a welcome return to the Massive Attack podcast to talk Christmas and cartoons
Today, Nick Evans Joins me to talk Christmas, Knives, Gift vouchers, Smugglers and we have a good look at the Ronnie Barker Classic TV Series Porridge
Massive Attack returns for its annual Christmas tradition of annoying you with daily podcasts about Christmas. Mitch couldn't do it alone so put the call out for help And Mitch's co-host from Hey Hey it's the podcast and WrestleRock Commentator Christmas tragic Criss Fresh stepped up to the plate to talk about one of his favorite childhood films, Santa Claus: the movie....
Massive attack is back! Well, sort of. Mitch is back and he's flying solo and by the seats of his pants. the first episode back is a short one. It's all about He-Man and a couple of other cartoons that may sound a little familiar. thanks for sticking by and checking it out and welcome to any new listeners. Hope you like it. Please send any feedback to the Facebook page or to themapodcast@gmail.com and don't forget to review and rate us wherever you can....
As we kick off 2022 we look back to the dumpster fire of a year that was 2021. There were some shining lights though, so in this first part of our double header we look at our favourite gaming and television moments. Be warned, as there may be a couple of spoilers in there as we discuss Tiger King 2, Clickbait, Squid Game and Ted Lasso. Plus Mitch tackles the plethora of Marvel related shows on Disney+.
We'd like to think we've saved the best for last with this offering for Day 12 from the cartoon series "The Real Ghostbusters" from 1986. What happens with a team famous for catching ghosts meet up with Jacob Marley and his spirit friends? Christmas chaos obviously.
In one of the very first syndicated television specials, Vincent Price narrates today's version of the classic tale, dubbed "The Christmas Carol" from way back in1949.
Just to be confusing we have another movie just titled "A Christmas Carol" again today, however unlike the traditional style we saw yesterday, this is anything but. Starring UK soap star Ross Kemp as Eddie Scrooge, an unscrupulous loan shark, who meets three ghosts who show him the meaning of Christmas in this contemporary telling of the classic tale.
We've seen cartoon mice and excessive backstory, super heroes and tenuous links and super quick silent versions, but for toady for Day 9 we find a very traditional telling of the Christmas Carol story. Made by an Australian production company back in 1982, there's not much we could find wrong with this one featuring the voice talents of Rod Haddrick in the Scrooge role.
A Christmas Carol is usually a story of a not-so-nice man's redemption. In our episode today, "Blackadder's Christmas Carol" from 1988, we turn that on it's head in a way only Rowan Atkinson can.
We continue with our 80s bracket today as we take a look back at one of the most popular sitcoms of that decade, "Family Ties" where they do their take on A Christmas Carol in this episode from December 1983. Everyone's favourite yuppie republican, Alex P. Keaton, played by Michael J. Fox learns the meaning of Christmas thanks to some ghostly persuasion and early 80s special effects.
80's cartoon/toy tie-ins are probably our favourite genre after Christmas Carol variations, so when Mitch found this episode from 1987 of "Bravestarr" that puts a Filmation spin on the Dickens classic, it got added to our short list very quickly. Was it worth it, or did it disappoint?
Quantum Leap was one of those shows where, in concept, sounded like something we both would have been into back when it originally aired, yet for some reason neither of us really watched. Today for Day 5 we rectify that with this episode, "A Little Miracle" from 1990.
Today we go a little more recent and lot more traditional than yesterday with this animated version of A Christmas Carol from 2001. Having Nicholas Cage as Marley seemed like a good choice, but is that overshadowed by too much backstory and the addition of cartoon mice?
On paper, the idea of wrestling legend "Rowdy" Roddy Piper taking on the role of Scrooge in a WWF produced version of "A Christmas Carol" sounds great. Unfortunately this segment from the short lived wrestling talk show "Tuesday Night Titans" from December 1985 really didn't deliver.
We jump forward just over 100 years from yesterday to bring you Day 2, and this time we look an an episode of Ultimate Spider-Man from 2014 called "Nightmare on Christmas" that took inspiration from A Christmas Carol, rather than being a direct re-telling.
It's December 13th, so that can only mean one thing... it's time to start dropping our 12 Days of Christmas mini episodes. This year we go back to that old (roasting) Chestnut that is the Charles Dickens classic tale, A Christmas Carol. Why not, it's been 5 years since we last did it, so for the next week and half each day we'll give you a different take on the story. Today we start off old school, with the 1911 silent film version, aptly titled "A Christmas Carol".
As we get closer and closer to the end of our second round of A to Z's, this episode we look at another music related movies, the 1982 film "The Wall" based on Pink Floyd's iconic 1979 album of the same name. We dive into our histories listening to the band, and first seeing this film, as well as the production behind it, and our feelings nearly 40 years after it's first release. We even lament the passing of the whole concept album idea too.
Back in the late 80s and early 90s he was one of the action/martial arts genre's biggest names, so for our V episode we couldn't go passed the Muscles from Brussels himself, Jean-Claude Van Damme! We go over some of his more memorable roles, some run-ins he had with other celebrities, and Mitch goes on a tangent about how he hates Steven Seagal.
Back in the 1930's Universal Studios pioneered the idea of a shared cinematic universe after creating a series on now iconic horror films including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Wolf-Man and The Mummy. These became known as the Universal Monsters, and over the years ended up being some of the most well-known depictions of the characters that are still recognized today. So, seeing as it's October and almost Halloween, this episode we delve into the Universal Monster world, looking at some of the mor...
Back in the early 80's, just a few years before He-Man hit our TV screens, there was another blonde muscleman with a sword gracing our Saturday mornings. That man was "Thundarr the Barbarian", and is the topic of our T episode of the A to Z. We discuss our memories of the show, discuss the plot and characters, as well as a bit of history of the creators and the Ruby-Spears Productions story.
Ska is one of those musical genres that you either love or hate, and thankfully both Mitch and Joe love it! This episode we go on a deep dive and trace the roots of ska through it's three waves - the origins in Jamaica in the 60's, the 2-Tone era of England in the 80's, and third wave of ska punk from the US in the 90's - including some clips of Joe's favourites, as well as a few of our usual tangents too. Joe has even put together a companion playlist on Spotify of a lot of the songs we discuss...
