This month for the mini we go back to 1983, when Joe was 12 and Mitch 10, for a movie that was right in our wheelhouse, the sci-fi fantasy "Krull". We have fond memories of this from when we were younger, especially for Joe, but does it hold up in 2018? Probably not. It still has some pretty cool concepts though, plus an awesome signature weapon.
We start off the show this month re-capping our big weekend at Continuum Con 14, including DJ’ing the costume ball and hosting the movie trailer panel, then we jump into TV with Joe getting his Netflix True Crime fix with “Evil Genius” and “Making A Murderer” and Mitch binging the new season of “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” as well as a dose of trash TV for the both of us with “100% Hotter”. After that we jump into the two biggest nerdy movies showing at the moment, with a spoiler free “Deadpo...
35 years ago a little known actor, Nicolas Cage, had his first starring role in the teen comedy-romance, “Valley Girl” so to celebrate this milestone we went back and watched it for this month’s mini ep. Joe had fond memories of this from back in the day, especially the soundtrack, but turns out Mitch remembered it more for the trailer than the film itself. Does it still hold up after all this time? Did it ever? And what the hell is going on with Cage’s chest hair?...
This month Joe has started a new mobile game called “The Muscle Hustle” and binge watched the street racing reality series “Fastest Car” and the coming-of-age cartoon “Big Mouth” on Netflix, as well as starting the Karate Kid spin-off “Cobra Kai” and the classic sit-com “The Golden Girls”. We even managed to start season 2 of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Westworld” too. For movies Mitch goes in-depth, but spoiler free for “Avengers: Infinity War” and Joe raves about “The Greatest Showman” and “Pet...
This month, inspired by the new graphic novel "Is This Guy For Real? The Incredible Andy Kaufman" by cartoonist Box Brown, for our not-so-mini mini episode we go down a crazy rabbit hole. We discuss the life of Andy, as depicted in the book, including his early years, Elvis impersonations, Foreign Man, his role on the sitcom "Taxi", his alter-ego Tony Clifton, and, more close to our wheel houses, his foray into the world of professional wrestling for his feud with Jerry "The King" Lawler. We als...
We start off this episode with a little bit of co-op gaming chat, then Mitch talks about his new release purchase, "Far Cry 5" before moving on to reality TV at it's worst in "Age Gap Love" and it's best with "Nailed It". Then Mitch was disappointed with the new series "Rise" and the re-boot of "Reboot", but we both dig the new animated "Corner Gas". In movies, Mitch goes to the cinema to see "Pacific Rim: Uprising", is impressed with "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri" and Joe and his wi...
Inspired by our chat about bands and gigs on our last episode, for the mini this month we decided to look at our favourite made-up band movies. Mitch goes with the classic mockumentory metal band Spinal Tap, from "This Is Spinal Tap" and Joe goes with the Oneders from the 1996 Tom Hanks written and directed "That Thing You Do!"
On the show this month Joe plays some "Viva Piñata: Party Animals" with his kids, and finishes off the some more "Borderlands 2" DLC before making the most of his new Netflix subscription and mainlining all of the new season of "Black Mirror" and the 90's themed "Everything Sucks". We also look at Joel McHale's new show "The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale" and Mitch finally uses his Amazon Prime to watch "The Tick". In movies we briefly talk Marvel's "Black Panther" and Oscar winner "The Shap...
For this month’s mini we get passionate, maybe a little bit too passionate in some cases, about the new Netflix series, "Queer Eye". It's an in-depth chat about the contestants, the make-overs, the new Fab 5, a breakdown of who we love and who we don't, and how they compare to the original hosts of the 2003 version. It is pretty spoiler heavy, so if you may want to watch the show before listening to this episode.
It's back to our old format this episode, so we start off by having a bit of a chat about gaming with more "Tekken 7" and "Oddworld: New & Tasty" for Joe, and the Hot Wheels expansion pack for "Forza Horizon 3" for Mitch before moving on TV where Joe has become a streaming service machine, signing up of both New Japan Pro Wrestling World and the WWE Network. On top of that he has also started Netflix and has gone head first into the trashy "Deep Fried Masters" and the slightly more highbrow ...
We're back for another season of our mini-episodes, and just in time for Valentine's Day! So, as a tribute to the romance genre, we've put our own spin on it and look at our favourite romances, the David Lynch film "Wild At Heart" starring Nicholas Cage and Laura Dern for Mitch, and the Oliver Stone directed "Natural Born Killers" with Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis and a cast of thousands for Joe.
In a January tradition that we started six years ago with our very second podcast, this episode we look forward with our Great Expectations for 2018. That's right, all the stuff we're excited about in the coming year for television and movies, plus a little bit of gaming thrown in too.
Seeing as we had so much to say we broke the end of year all media round up into two parts, so here is the second part with the boys covering live events including some musicals and wrestling shows, books, comics and movies. We do go pretty spoiler heavy with the new Star Wars film, "The Last Jedi", so if you haven't seen it yet, you might want to turn off around the 1 hour 10 minute mark.
We're back for another year, so after a bit of a chat about our Christmas and New Year breaks, we jump right in to our review of 2017 and all the things we watched, did and played. Seeing as we hadn't really had a chance to talk much about the year as we were doing the A to Z eps, we've had to break it into two parts, so for part one we look at gaming and TV. We do go a little spoilery on Game Of Thrones and Stranger Things 2, so be warned if you haven't watched them yet....
For the last day of our 12 Days of Christmas Comedies we go with another modern favourite, with "White Lie Christmas", episode 10 of season 1 of the cleverly funny "My Name Is Earl" from 2005. We also look back on this year's list and work out which were our picks of the bunch.
For our second last episode of the 12 Days of Christmas Comedies we go back to the heady days of the 80's for another one of our most loved sit-coms from when we were younger. That's right, "Perfect Strangers", and episode 11, season 2 "A Christmas Story", where we see Balki and his cousin Larry overcoming adversity and celebrating Christmas in their own special way.
Day 10 is here, so today we go back to the 70's for one of our favourite British sit-coms with "Are You Being Served?". There are lots of laughs, a liberal sprinkling of Christmas cheer, and a big helping of innuendo too, and not just Mrs. Slocombe's pussy.
We go back to the world of animation for Day 9 as we look at the Xmas, not Christmas, themed episode of "Futurama" called "A Tale Of Two Santas" from 2001. In this episode, Santa is actually a robot, but instead of being loved by all, he's feared due to a clitch in his programing where he thinks everyone has been naughty, so it's up to Bender, Fry and the crew to try and save the day.
It'd Day 8, and today we go all international with a visit to Dog River, Saskatchewen, and the off-beat Canadian humour that it "Corner Gas". Mitch is a big fan of the series, however Joe has never seen it before, but both got a lot of laughs out of this epsiode, Season 3 Episode 13 "Merry Gasmas".
As we head into the second half of the 12 days of Christmas we go back to the 80's for another of our favourites growing up, with episode 9 of "Night Court" season 6 "The Night Court Before Christmas". What happens when court ballif, Bull, accidently gives away the evidence for a case, and just exactly what is guest star John Astin's relationship with Santa?
Day 6 sees us with one of Mitch's picks, as Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence star as "Melissa and Joey" in this epsiode called "A New Kind Of Christmas" from Season 3. What happens when Mel's sister comes home from prison on day release to spend Christmas with the family? And why do two grown men in their 40's have such a soft spot for Melissa Joan Hart?
Every year we have done the 12 Days of Christmas we have managed to slot in an episode of "The Simpsons". This year we look at season 11 episode 9 "The Grift of The Magi", which for a Christmas epsiode, really isn't that Christmasy. Sure, it still has all the absurd humour we'd expect, plus the added bonus of Gary Coleman as guest star, however the biggest laughs come from the non-Christmas set up.
Have we got a treat for today! For Day 4 we go back, way back, all the way to the year 1970 before our hosts, and most of our fans, were even born. This show was so long ago it's even in black and white! Starring Reg Varney as bus driver, Stan and Stephen Lewis as Inspector Blake, it's the "Christmas Duty" episode of "On The Buses". However, don't let the age fool you, so far this has been our pick of the bunch.
Slightly burned by yesterday's effort, today we go back to the classic days of the sitcom with this episode from 1982, as we look at Season 5 Episode 12 of "Diff'rent Strokes" called "Santa's Helper". There is a slight callback to "2 Broke Girls" though, as Garrett Morris guest stars as a street Santa who befriends Arnold, but things aren't exactly as they seem.
For the second of our 12 days of Christmas comedies, today we looked at the Season 4 2 Broke Girls episode titled "And A Loan For Christmas". Both of us were fans of the series but kinda dropped off somewhere along the way before getting to season four. Watching this ep made us realise the codemy writers for the show probably did too. Somewhere between the racial stereotypes, not-at-all subtle innuendo and forced punchlines there is a Christmas story hiding somewhere here, but hey, they can't al...
It's that time of year again, when the decorations are up, the shops are starting to get crazy and the boys embark on their annual 12 Days of Christmas mini episodes. This year we have pick twelve Christmas episodes of sit-coms, and seeing as we mentioned it recently when talking about "The Young Ones", we're starting with the "Bottom" episode from Season 2, "Holy". We also start a Christmas tropes tick sheet to work out exactly how Christmasy each epsiode will be....
We've made it to the end of the alphabet, so what better way to celebrate Z than with an ex-James Bond getting about in a zapata moustache, wearing thigh-high boots and a red leather nappy. That's right, this epsiode we look at John Boorman's 1974 cult classic, "Zardoz" starring Sean Connery as Zed, and wizard with a drawn-on beard, and featuring some of the strangest scenes to ever hit the silver screen. We also look back at the past 26 epsiodes and our favourite topics we covered along the way...
With the end of the alphabet drawing nearer, this episode we look at the letter Y, and the British comedy series, “The Young Ones”, which coincidently originally aired 35 years ago this month. We look at the a few of our favourite episodes, discuss who are favourite characters were, the famous faces that turned up, what the actors did after the series finished, and even touch on the mysterious fifth housemate. And, based on the fact that they were voted in as the 31st best British Sit-Com in a 2...
Seeing as we have both had our Xbox One's for twelve months now, we thought that the X for the A to Z would be a good change for us to talk about them. We cover what games we've played, the apps we use, what we like and what we don't like about the system.
For anyone that knows us, they know we both really love wrestling, however if we were to try and cover it in an episode it would end up being a very long one, so we narrowed it down a little by combining it with our other great love. So, with that being said, this episode we bring you the letter W and Wrestling video games! We give bit of a run down of our history playing wrestling games, briefly talk about some of the vast array of games out there, and then Joe goes indepth with three of his fa...
