Odds and Ends: We’re joined by guests James and Charli, who have been watching a lot of TV lately, and recommend all of it, including show favorite I Think You Should Leave; James has also been playing Elden Ring, and we talk about where the Soulsborne and Zelda games can go after their capstone open world games; Davids Lynch and Cronenberg have new movies coming out, maybe; Nick saw Everything Everywhere All at Once, but only once and only at one place, at least I think; Charli has questions ab...
Apr 21, 2022•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 42
Odds and Ends: Trying to catch up with Better Call Saul before it ends; all gangster movie actors are in The Sopranos, and they are all the Mega Italian; we unintentionally dive into another director’s (this time, Martin Scorsese) filmography as we tend to do during our post-chats; we’re anxiously anticipating Men, not men, but Men… we’re men who want to see Men; we also talk about the Oscars, but somehow manage to avoid talking about THAT. Feature Film: We’re talking David Fincher’s “Zodiac,” w...
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 41
Odds and Ends: Another throwback episode, featuring T.J.’s dogs, Nick filtered through T.J.’s stream-sniping, air traffic controller Travis, and a much more awkward, stilted but not structured show! In the pre (not post!) chat, we cover some of last year’s Oscar nominees, like Judas and the Black Messiah and Sound of Metal. Discussing the ethics of pirating movies made by shitty douchebags. Feature Film: We’re talking the ultra low-budget low-key sci-fi talky movie “The Man from Earth,” written ...
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 40
Odds and Ends: We once again return to the vast well of shit talking streaming services while simultaneously expressing how convenient they make watching things. It's cool that 5 companies own everything as long as I don't have to fuckin rent it on Amazon or YouTube Again. We also discuss the season 3 trailer of The Boys and wax philosophical about the show versus the edgy comic series. Feature Film: A true auteur's auteur, we're discussing the inevitable, inimitable, un-imitatable Neil Breen. W...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 39
Odds and Ends: It's (technically) our one-year anniversary! But this isn't our anniversary episode. It's complicated. Nick revisits a Coen Brothers classic, and we talk about our other favorites of theirs, as well as the mysticism of Nicolas Cage. We talk about Wordle, because we're your middle aged mom. Feature Film: A Prophet is a movie. It follows a guy. Who is in prison. He's threatened. And has to do some things he doesn't want to do. And maybe does some drugs or something. Neat. This thing...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 38
Odds and Ends: A particular blackbelt isn't achieving world peace through ending violence; Nick doesn't Mind Goblin, I mean Nick watched Mind Goblin; Travis talks Fresh, and the art of very late title sequences; T.J. saw a new movie in a theater! It's Robert Battinson's new movie, "The Patman" Feature Film: Joey Fatone of N*SYNC recommended the classic "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," one of Travis' top 10 (or at least top 15) movies of all time. Travis writes a theoretical documentary f...
Mar 16, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 37
Odds and Ends: We're gunning for that Ultimate Death, and we're taking the Queen with us; Nick watched the French Dispatch, and we go on a Wes Anderson trip through (pretty much) his entire filmography; we're back in Netflix's pocket as T.J. talks their new sort of improv sitcom "Murderville" Feature Film: Diving in to the world of German experimentalism with the 90s cult classic "Run Lola Run," a movie about Lola, who runs. Multiple timelines, chaos theory, butterfly effect, whatsits and howifs...
Mar 13, 2022•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 36
Odds and Ends: We love the royal family and hope they are all doing well; Moose saw a musical, T.J. saw a play, both of which also have movie versions, but don't you dare compare the two because art be different sometimes Feature Film: In the first of our celebrity recommendations list (this one courtesy Elijah Wood), we're getting back with the king Jimmy in the 50s classic, "Harvey," about a lovable weirdo with an invisible rabbit best friend. This is one of those where we have a hard time sta...
Mar 03, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 35
Odds and Ends: Diving into the weird world of Derek Savage and Cool Cat; discussing the wonderful Paper Mario series, which only lasted two games and that's it, what a shame they never made more than just the two Paper Mario games; other older RPGs get some love, like Earthbound and Final Fantasy Tactics; our pal Elijah Wood recommends next episode's movie! Feature Film: Only the strongest (dumbest) survived the movie for this week's episode, and neither of us are that happy about it. We're tack...
Feb 24, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 34
Odds and Ends: Masked Singer controversy naturally leads us into another 9/11 discussion, this time with 100% more Jeb!; E.T. is hotter than Penelope Cruz; we all saw Jackass Forever together, so this is almost a double movie ep because we do a fairly lengthy discussion on it. Feature Film: Talking the Cronenberg cult classic "The Brood," which T.J. thinks was his big breakout movie, but could be wrong. Don't ask us, none of us saw a movie before Cats. That said, this one is definitely a movie, ...
Feb 17, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 33
Odds and Ends: Travis brainstorms some alternate podcast ideas, which are pretty much the exact same as this one; the unending gold of repetitive song lyrics; T.J. talks Lucky, a Harry Dean Stanton vehicle that's not the other Harry Dean Stanton vehicle we talked about this week Feature Film: We're settling in to the painted skies and (very long) shots of Paris, Texas, the 1984 road movie directed by Wim Wenders. It follows Travis/T.J. and his brother, played by Harry Dean Stockwell. Well, until...
Feb 10, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 32
Odds and Ends: Rango Unchained; Cynthia Nixon gets nasty; call us Francois Bourgeois, cuz we're riding all the trains, from Anal to Zoophilia; Last Claus Standing; we really struggled to come up with an opening this week... and a closing... and a... show Feature Film: Talking the Gore Verbinski movie starring Johnny Depp that's NOT Pirates of the Caribbean (or The Lone Ranger), 2011's Rango (...Rangooooooo). It follows the titular Rango, a lizard out of water (literally) caught up in a conspirac...
Feb 03, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 31
Odds and Ends: Dance interpretation of the late Brockhampton's music; Nuclear Disaster Person; Encanto is a movie that you can watch if you want, or not; X-Files/Sopranos/Peacemaker star Doggett; T.J. beats Travis to the It's Always Sunny reference, but where? Feature Film: We're talking friendship, loyalty, and honesty this week, which can only mean Y.K. Kim's magnum opus, Miami Connection. It tells the story of taekwondo (NOT kung fu) rock band Dragon Sound as they face off against multiple di...
Jan 27, 2022•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 30
Odds and Ends: Due to some technical difficulties, we're bringing an older episode back to life! We cover a lot of ground in our early days, as we ping pong around from the upcoming (and now released) Spider-Man film, Godzilla, and we finally get the introduction to Nick's love of the X-Files. Also we talk about our own short films (what a surprise) and write a few early aughts parody films along the way. Feature Film: Finally released from the vault, this week we discuss House of Flying Daggers...
Jan 20, 2022•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 29
Odds and Ends: What makes a cold open? Is it getting clapped by the Matrix for learning the function keys? Recycling your Crown Royal broth bags? How about both? Feature Film(s): Our follow-up to the Matrix trilogy is here! We're capping our coverage of the saga (so far) with a double feature on The Animatrix and The Matrix Resurrections. One, in one humble co-host's opinion, is essential Matrix viewing, while the other, not so much. Both movies continue and expand on the Matrix universe and lor...
Jan 13, 2022•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 28
Odds and Ends: You hear that? Is that the sound of... a classic episode? Oh, wait, it's just T.J.'s dogs? This week, we're pulling one from the Duds vault, before we were a podcast, merely a lowly Twitch stream. But now it IS a podcast, in all it's awkward, early Duds days glory. Cheer at the story of T.J. talking about the Eric Andre vehicle "Bad Trip"! Gasp at the origins of Nick's X-Files obsession! Thrill in the sheer annoyance of T.J.'s dogs never shutting the fuck up! Feature Film: Dipping...
Jan 06, 2022•2 hr 14 min•Ep. 27
Odds and Ends: Congratulations are in order for another great season of the Masked singer; NFTs are making their way into the movie biz and they're still as dumb as always; there's a Queen's Gambit board game that's... not... chess? Feature Film: We talk the other Jack Frost movie that shares quite a few more similarities with the Michael Keaton version than you'd expect. A guy turns into a snowman again, but this time, he's got angry eyebrows. Swap Charlie Boy for Honey Boy and a Cool Dad for a...
Dec 30, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 26
Odds and Ends: We're feeling the holiday spirit this week, because T.J. forced everyone to do a secret Santa gift exchange, and an item is added to the display; Daegan rewatched a childhood favorite and didn't like the experience; we dive in to the lost art of tv to tape recording, and various other VHS tales from our youths Feature Film: We talk the very logical Jack Frost from 1998, NOT the equally logical Jack Frost from 1997. In it, Robert Baratheon basically kills Michael Keaton so he can s...
Dec 23, 2021•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 25
Odds and Ends: the Home Alone house is on Airbnb and is killing people; Will Smith has a show, just like every celebrity nowadays who has their own podcast, like losers; The 13th Warrior shares some similarities with our feature film; T.J. loves Arcane, but wants to make it clear he thinks League of Legends is just okay; in the break, we talk about our coincidental connection to special guest Jake, and watch a few of his short films, including Uncle Samsonite Feature Film: Special guest Jake Bow...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 24
Odds and Ends: Nick's first-time dive into The Sopranos outs T.J.'s anti-Italian racism; Moose went to a thing but all I can remember is that it was at a place called Todd Mission; Kodamas got cake Feature Film: We talk our first animated feature with the much beloved "Princess Mononoke," from director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. A historic fantasy epic of man vs. nature with the valiant Ashitaka (or Ashitaco or whatever) caught in the middle. Spirits and gods battle, love is founded, and ...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 23
Odds and Ends: We were on break, but now, we're thinking we're back! Feature Film(s): In our time off, we watched the original Matrix trilogy (before it becomes more of a "saga" with the release of Resurrections shortly), which is quite the mixed bag as far as movie trilogies goes. Lots of love, lots of hate, lots of quoting going on in this one. It's a beefy one with a lot of ground to cover, so without any further ado, start the show! Next week's movie: Princess Mononoke You can join the conve...
Dec 02, 2021•2 hr 42 min•Ep. 22
Odds and Ends: T.J. continues his horror homework and just finished the rest of the Nightmare on Elm Street series (as well as the documentaries "Never Sleep Again" and "Scream, Queen!"), then runs down some bullet points on the movies and just what makes them so special Feature Film: To cap off our month of terror, we talk the most horrific movie we've covered so far - "Bedeviled," a not-played out story of kids and their cell phones and how that's bad, definitely not written by people too old ...
Nov 29, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 21
Odds and Ends: A serious topic as we discuss the recent tragedy on the set of "Rust;" I'm glad that's our only intro topic on this one, because I feel weird trying to add in jokes here in the description next to that story Feature Film: "Dream Warriors" writer/director team Chuck Russell and Frank Darabont return with their remake of "The Blob," the 80's creature feature remake that's NOT "The Thing" or "The Fly," but definitely follows a similar naming and remaking convention. Listen as we gush...
Nov 26, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 20
Odds and Ends: Short a person or two, but not short of intro topics, we cover a lot of ground this week, including creating a Twitter account for Minecraft vs. John Mayer; finally delving into the Great British Bake Off and the Mighty Boosh; more Wes Craven talk via the Scream series; T.J. finishes up Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass; Moose is watching You, not you, but You. Feature Film: This week, three white guys solve racism by talking about Jordan Peele's directorial debut, Get Out. We cover a...
Nov 23, 2021•2 hr•Ep. 19
Odds and Ends: More Netflix shilling as we talk about another Netflix original, Maid; Moose talks about Jovy Hanson (or Joel Haver, whatever), an animator/Youtuber who reminds him of the Grandpa Crane videos; T.J. did his homework this week and talks about other Mike Falananagan projects, Midnight Mass and Oculus Chapter 3, the short film that inspired the feature. Feature Film: We talk about Oculus, the first major studio production directed by Mike Flanagan. It covers the story of a brother an...
Nov 13, 2021•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 18
Odds and Ends: Covering something actually topical and relevant to the present time, we talk about the new Netflix hit, Squid Game; Brendan Dassey v. Tiger King; I guess we're sponsored by Netflix this episode, because we also cover another Netflix title, Sex Education, which naturally devolves into a topic I don't feel comfortable typing out here. Feature Film: In the first of our horror-athon for the month of October (oops, November), we cover the third movie in the Freddy Krueger saga, Dream ...
Nov 09, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 17
Odds and Ends: Back in movie news mode, the gang talks about the casting for the new Super Mario movie, and if there's ever been any good video game movie adaptations; also, a lot of old shows and movies seem to be coming back in some shape or form, huh? Feature Film: Special guest Keley brought in Catwoman, a movie based on the DC comics character of the same name, if you can even call that "based on." I already forgot what we talked about for this movie because it sucks so much. There was a ba...
Oct 30, 2021•2 hr 21 min•Ep. 16
Odds and Ends: Nick's X-Files journey has taken him to the first film based on the series, so, naturally, we end up talking about the Pokemon movies instead; Daegan talks about a show called StartUp, which I guess exists and isn't the Korean Netflix show that comes up whenever I try Googling it; he also watched Birds of Prey even though T.J. told him not to, but we like talking about Ewan McGregor, so it worked out. Feature film: The gang talks David Lynch's seminal (see what I did there) first ...
Oct 25, 2021•2 hr 24 min•Ep. 15
Odds and Ends: Nick continues his tour through turn-of-the-century cinema with Legally Blonde, T.J. thinks maybe not all of American Horror Story is terrible, Tommy loves Rick and Morty enough to actually do the show for once. Feature film: We take a look at the quasi-documentary "Close-Up" by Abbas Kiarostami, a super-meta look at a case where a man conned a family into thinking he was a famous filmmaker and that they would be in his next movie, only to then all play themselves in this retellin...
Oct 14, 2021•2 hr 37 min•Ep. 14
Odds and Ends: Paramount pushes back a lot of movies and gives all their money to the South Park guys, more studios are pulling out of same day releasing on streaming platforms, what are we, some kind of movie news squad? Feature Film: As a sort-of part 2 to last week's episode, we cover the sort-of part 2 to last week's movie, The Suicide Squad, directed by James Gunn, which is totally different and not a sequel to that other one everyone hates, but also maybe it is a sequel, maybe, if you want...
Oct 04, 2021•2 hr 15 min•Ep. 13
