Digitiser, the teletext video game magazine recently celebrated its 30th anniversary in Lonodn and Jason & Rich were there to join in with all the shenanigans that were happening. Here we look back at the event and the two live shows plus our appearance on stage at the Chunky Fringe event which was being run alongside Digitiser Live. During the weekend we managed to round up some interviews including Cliff Foster from N64life , we met the legend that is Carl from the Byte High No Limit podca...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 49 min
We go back to the '80s and visit a John Hughes film with some significance, even in the modern age with Weird Science. A film that three quarters of us were not familiar with until now and one in which we will not forget about for a number of reasons. On this episode we cover our general thoughts on the movie, the cast, our favourite scene and we find out where this lands on our board from above. You will also find a small section at the end where we show our support for the current writers and ...
Aug 02, 2023•1 hr 21 min
With Jurassic Park incredibly reaching 30, we wanted to revisit this monumental piece of film making to celebrate the anniversary of its UK release on the 16th July 1993. We discuss why this film is so special to us, how the film adaption from the book was handled, our favourite scenes and we give our verdict and score before we try to discuss where we want the franchise to go in the inevitable future films or even TV shows. This just turns into us getting a few things of our chest about the Wor...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 39 min
To celebrate today's release of Indiana Jones: Dial of Destiny, we thought it would be a good excuse to revist the previous Indiana Jones films (yes, even Kingdom of the Crystal Skull). We share what Indiana Jones means to us and why its so special to us and others, we reveal our favourite Indiana Jones film, spend some time discussing Jon Williams amazing score and then share our hopes and fears for Dial of Destiny. ♪ Music Clips ♫ Ark of the Covenant - From the Raiders of the Lost Ark OST Fast...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 42 min
We jump back to present day and Steve hosts a discussion on some of the media we have been consuming recently. We managed to pack a ton into this one including Ted Lasso, Yellowjackets, Good Omens and Tears of the Kingdom, plus a bonus rant on the state of streaming services in 2023 and we find out what our personal scariest moments have been! Music Clips Wind Temple - Boss from Tears of the Kingdom Silent Scream From OTXO Podcast Links Please check out our WEBSITE filled with articles, game...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 18 min
City Hunter was an unknown to all of us and it was down to Jason that we covered this film based on the strength of its Street Fighter 2 section and um yeah, it was not the success he hoped it would be. City Hunter is a mixed bag with us which we go into in more detail, what we didn't like and what we did like, but this film will go down as the only film so far that broke Chris to the point that he could not form a cohesive sentence! Let us know your thoughts on City Hunter and whether you agree...
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 11 min
We were delighted to welcome to The Wolfie Pod, Mr Scott Martin Brooks who is well known for playing Dookie in the wassup Budweiser commercials. We find out about his days as an owner of a video rental store in Philadelphia, how he became involved in the Budweiser commercials and what it was like living through the aftermath of the commercials airing. We also found time to chat about some of Scott's favourite film and tv shows including the 1978 Superman film. AUDIO WARNING: Although Scott's aud...
May 24, 2023•1 hr 19 min
On this bonus episode we welcome on James and Alex, the organisers of the upcoming Nottingham Video Game Expo which is being held in central Nottingham on the 22nd July 2023. We run through their gaming history, with plenty of Dreamcast chat, find out what they learned from their last event back in December and then we move on and discuss this years event and some of the films and tv shows James and Alex hold dear to their hearts. Music Clips Sonic Mayhem 01 from Quake III Arena Theme Tune from ...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Al Horner is a journalist for many publications but you will find his work mostly in Empire magazine, GQ & The Guardian. What Al is most known for in our circles is for his podcast he hosts called Scripts Apart. Each episode he sits down with a screen writer and discusses their first draft of a film and they end up always being fascinating discussions. Our conversation with Al covered his writing and where it stemmed from through to some of his highlights recording his podcast. We also cover...
May 10, 2023•58 min
This time we visit one of the biggest '80s science fiction movies ever made. One with an important message mixed in with stunning visuals and violence. Paul Verhoevan's RoboCop can be classed as an all time classic and we delve into this stunning movie through our usual spoilery format. Will this top Top Secret on our board from above? Maybeee or maybe not, better listen in to find out! MUSIC CLIPS (Taken from the RoboCop soundtrack by Basil Poledouris) Force Shoots Robo Robo Lives Looking for M...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Jason & Rich took off to OLL '23 games convention which happened over the weekend of the 15th-16th April 2023 at the Norfolk Showground in East Anglia and this is our celebration of what has become one of our favourite shows of the year. Not only do we discuss our experiences at the show, not only did we take eight interviews from some of the guests at the show BUT we were also joined by the fabulous Rowan Fox-Noble who runs his business MPBUK who specallises in creating instruction manuals ...
Apr 20, 2023•1 hr 46 min
Breaking Bad can only be described as one of the most important TV shows ever. But what made it so special and what does this show mean to us? We cover this plus an extenstive chat on the spectacular cast and our favourite episodes, will this be a perfect 10 all round? Will Chris give his third 10 in a row? Get listening to find out!! Music Clips (All taken from the Breaking Bad OST) Breaking Bad Intro (Extended) Banderilla Searching for Jesse Cleaning House Podcast Links Please check out our WE...
Apr 12, 2023•1 hr 39 min
What a treat we have for you this time!! We were very lucky to be joined by the ever gracious, GamesMaster & Games World legend Mr Rik Henderson! We find out about some of his favourite GamesMaster guests, the review process and whether he found out anything new from reading the oral history book, before we discuss Rik's picks for his film, TV show and video game. Rik Henderson Links Follow Rik on TWITTER Find Rik's podcast Games Life HERE (Spotify Link) FInd Rik's Pocket Lint Podcast HERE (...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 26 min
Welcome back to What's Wrong with Wolfie? This time we revisit the 1994 Keanu Reeves action film Speed! This quintessential '90s film holds a special place in all our hearts and we had a blast revisiting it for this episode. so strap yourself in with your favourite beverage as thankfully we wont be going 50 mph while we discuss this classic film. Music Clips (All taken from the OST by Mark Mancina) Rush Hour The Dolly The Rescue Podcast Links Please check out our WEBSITE filled with articles, ga...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Welcome to the all new What's Wrong with Wolfie? podcast! We kick off with a spoiler filled discussion on the Zucker brothers spoof film Top Secret! We go a tad off rails at times as we reveal our feelings on the film, its gags, cast and most importantly where it lands on our board from above! Music Clips (All taken from the Top Secret OST and sung by Val Kilmer) Spend This Night with Me Skeet Surfing How Silly Can You Get Straighten the Rug Podcast Links Please check out our WEBSITE filled with...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Welcome to Prepare to Fast Forward - our chance to discuss modern day pop culture! Steve demotes Jason to co host this time and takes the reigns as we reveal what films, TV shows and video games we are all looking forward to in 2023, before we get into a quick round of our predictions for the year ahead. MUSIC CLIPS Start Up - From Super Mario World 3D Jurassic Park Techno Remix - DJ Ralmark on YouTube Intro/Outro by Jerden Cooke Thank you so much for listening, If you enjoyed this episode then ...
Feb 02, 2023•1 hr 32 min
For this discusses we discussed...ourselves! How did we learn from starting the podcast and what it has meant to us personally, what we rediscovered on our journey through the nineties and all the amazing guests that have been kind enough to share some of their time with us are on the agenda, before switching it over and letting you all know whats to come from us going forward. We reveal details on the new format, logo and music, plus other parts of the plan before we finally have closure on an ...
Jan 26, 2023•1 hr 18 min
What a way to end our run through the 90s by dedicating the last episode to one of the best consoles of all time.....the Sega Dreamcast. We delve into our Dreamcast histories by reliving our origin stories, discussing the ahead of it time features of the console, the controller and VMU with our top three games to end off this Dreamcast extravaganza!! MUSIC CLIPS It Doesn't Really Matter | Metropolis Street Racer Unblessed Soul (Ivy Theme) | Soul Caliber Bugging Running Beeps | Rez Shenhua - Sedg...
Jan 12, 2023•1 hr 44 min
Welcome to The Wolfie Christmas Special 2022!!! This year we decided to tackle one of the '90s more decisive Christmas movies - Jingle all the Way! Was this a turkey of a film or does it actually contain some humour, Arnie's acting and that kid who played Anakin who actually does alright are just some of the topics we cover plus we bring back a festive what's in your glass. From all of us here at What's Wrong with Wolfie? We hope you have a great holiday season and a happy new year!!! We will se...
Dec 22, 2022•1 hr 16 min
On our last TV episode of the 90s, we cover three quintessential British TV shows. All show us what delights the TV world had for us at this time. Spaced was the kick starter that eventually brought us the Cornetto trilogy, Red Dwarf (which ended its original run this year) showed it was possible to mash up sci-fi and comedy successfully and Bits gave us hope after the end of GamesMaster. Fingers Crossed our audio issues are finally resolved as Chris got the chance to christen his new microphone...
Dec 08, 2022•1 hr 24 min
Welcome to episode three of Prepare to Fast Forward! Our chance to leave the past behind us and chat modern day pop culture. We welcome back to the pod, Jason & Rich's former Dreamcast Years co host Steve! And not only is he here for this episode, but he will be joining the Wolfie crew permanently from the start of season two!!! This time around we discuss Sonic Frontiers, Andor, all the weird but exciting news that has recently fallen from the world of Dr Who and Jason reviews Nostalgia Ner...
Dec 01, 2022•1 hr 27 min
CONTENT WARNING : This show contains a ton of swearing, because South Park. We are finally here, on the last year of our journey through the 90s and this year was another corker for films, so it was a tough choice for the lads but they came up trumps with their final picks. With the South Park film, The Sixth Sense and The World is not Enough (wonder who picked that one 🤔) we set our last movie podcast on a succulent journey filled with laughs, terrible South Park impressions, Jason making a fo...
Nov 24, 2022•1 hr 32 min
Welcome to our 50th episode of What's Wrong with Wolfie?!!!!! We celebrated in style by welcoming two legends to The Wolfie Pod, from the YouTube channel Digitiser Mr Biffo and Sanja Rose. They brought with them a film, TV show and video game pick each, which we were more than happy to discuss with them. Also discussed was Andor (with maybe slight spoilers?!?) and The Last of Us. As always Chris managed to squeeze in some Star Trek and we learned all about why Beanus brought a REAL knife to the ...
Nov 10, 2022•1 hr 20 min
Welcome to our second of two episodes based on the amazing drama that is Ghostwatch and if you haven't listened to our first episode yet then please do as it was a great conversation with the director of the Ghostwatch documentary Behind the Curtains. His documentary is now available through the BFi player. But, for this episode video games journalist Chris Scullion returns to the show and we discuss our Ghostwatch journey, when we first saw Ghostwatch and the effects it had on us, plus we run t...
Oct 28, 2022•2 hr 23 min
Ghostwatch is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and to celebrate we have two episodes lined up for you. In this first episode, we were delighted to be joined by Rich Lawden, the director and producer of the Ghostwatch documentary Behind The Curtains. Rich told us about his experiences with Ghostwatch and the effect it had on him and others, and he also discussed how he came to create the documentary, how the show has lived on for so many years, meeting Craig Charles dressed as Lister an...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr 18 min
We say goodbye to 1998 by celebrating this pioneering year in games by discussing three wonderful games that were released this year. From zombie bashing to hitting the slopes we had some happy memories of these games which we shared on the podcast. Rich was still suffering from his cold a tad, and we tried to cut all we could of the signs of this but a few still got through so apologies for that, Chris was still hungover from his James Bond 60th celebrations and Jason was shaken to learn about ...
Oct 13, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Jason Maddison, designer of the upcoming PS3 book from 2 old 4 gaming joins us this time as Rich couldn't make it. Jason also designed our new logo which will be unveiled closer to when season two begins. As you know, our picks include some amazing TV from 1998, but were these shows that you enjoyed at the time? let us know on our socials or email us at thewolfiepod@gmail.com Next time on What's Wrong with Wolfie? is the Video Games of 1998, look out for that in a couple of weeks! Thank you so m...
Sep 29, 2022•1 hr 24 min
Welcome to our second episode of Prepare to Fast Forward, the podcast where we fast forward from the past to the present and chat modern-day pop culture! Star Trek: Lower Decks, Everything, Everywhere All at Once and Cobra Kai are all included in what we have been watching and for our main topic we discuss the recent D23 event and what our highlight of the announcements was, plus we also bring up the re-release of GoldenEye on the Switch and Xbox. Thank you for listening, If you enjoyed this epi...
Sep 22, 2022•1 hr 28 min
We wave goodbye to 1997 and jump into the movies of 1998. With only two years left on our journey through the 90s is nearly over, we still have a few great episodes to come, including our 50th at the beginning of November! Look out for info on how we plan to celebrate that soon! Back to this episode and we think we picked some absolute bangers for this year including Godzilla, The Truman Show and The X-Files movie! We give our usual thoughts and memories of these great films and we also briefly ...
Sep 15, 2022•1 hr 26 min
This week Jason had the opportunity to sit down and have a chat with the wonderful Faith Johnson. Faith is a staple in the retro gaming community and she runs her own website with retro and modern day game reviews. She also writes for external publications including Retro Gamer and NintyFresh magazines. Jason and Faith discussed many things including Faith's extensive video game collection, her love for Knuckles and the Sonic franchise, her experiences with speedrunning and plenty more! Next tim...
Sep 01, 2022•1 hr
