Episode 21: Rick and Morty

Episode 21: Rick and Morty
Hosts: Frank Shaw and John Belliston
Guests: Richard Sanders
Produced by Hobos in the Back Row
Scripting by Frank Shaw and John R. Belliston
Edited by: Frank Shaw
Graphic Design by: Nathan Newell
Sounds from freesound.org Hiphop Beat, 110 Loop, Spring 1, Spring Drip Hit
Intro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 1 by F.G. Shaw
Outro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 3 by F.G. Shaw

John and I are joined by a summoned Richard Sanders to discuss Rick and Morty. We talk about the absurdism, the nihlism and the over arching ethics of the series. We also talk about a few interesting things in our 'What's Interesting' segment.

 Dr. Strange trailer on Youtube.

Faraday Future's new electric car plant.

Samsung's new contact patent.

Short article on Rick and Morty

 Philosophy of Rick and Morty by Wisecrack

Is Rick and Morty the ideal scientists? PBS Idea Channel.

The Original Morty Cartoon Conspiracy

The Secret of the Ticket The Save Point Guild

Rick's True Crime Exposed Film Theory

Rick isn't a super genius kitkatpaddywak

107 Rick and Morty Facts Toonedup@Cartoon Hangover

Episode 20: Daredevil Season 2

Episode 20: Daredevil Season Two
Hosts: Frank Shaw and John Belliston
Produced by Hobos in the Back Row
Scripting by Frank Shaw and John R. Belliston
Edited by: Frank Shaw
Graphic Design by: Nathan Newell
Intro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 1 by F.G. Shaw
Outro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 3 by F.G. Shaw


John and I got together and discussed Daredevil Season 2. We talk about the Punisher, Elektra, and what we loved and disliked about the season. We also talk a bit more about Kaiju films, Final Fantasy 15, Planet X and throw out some actual, real crazy fan theories.

 Here are the links to IFLS arcticles on Planet X/Planet 9. There are further links to more in depth articles and papers in each of the articles.

There may or may not be a Punisher spin off. There are a ton of speculative articles on this. I think it's likely, given the popularity of this instance of the character, but as of right now, there's nothing confirmed.

As for Crazy Fan Theories: The Hand the Blacksky are vampires!
Madam Gao is a Skrull!
Daredevil is the actual Devil!!!



 

Episode 19: Kaiju Films

Episode 19: Kaiju Films
Hosts: Frank Shaw and John Belliston
Produced by Hobos in the Back Row
Scripting by John Belliston and Frank Shaw
Edited by: Frank Shaw
Graphic Design by: Nathan Newell
Intro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 1 by F.G. Shaw
Outro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 3 by F.G. Shaw


John and I discuss Kaiju movies. John goes into detail about the history and craft of film making the movies. We talk about the major franchises that have become popular over the years. We also discuss a couple of things that we found interesting.

Show notes are coming. John has a list of films that will be posted soon. The post will be updated!

UPDATE:

Here are a few notes that John has provided:

First up here is, what I would think, is a very complete film list of giant monsters. All the way from 1920's to present day. It's the Giant Monster Movie List! It lists the year, and the giant monster that features in the film.

Here is the wiki page that lists all the Kaiju monsters that have appeared in cinema (at least as far as we know). There's a lot.

John mentions this a few times during the episode, it's Kaijucast and while I have had the opportunity to sit down and listen to an episode or two yet.

And finally here is the documentary that Kaijucast produced, there's a lot of great interviews with the original cast and crew of the original Godzilla movie. It's pretty cool.

Episode 18: Deadpool

Episode 18: Deadpool
Hosts: Frank Shaw and John Belliston
Produced by Hobos in the Back Row
Scripting by Frank Shaw
Edited by: Frank Shaw
Graphic Design by: Nathan Newell
Intro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 1 by F.G. Shaw
Outro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 3 by F.G. Shaw

John and I discuss Deadpool. We  give our thoughts on the film and what it's success means. We also talk a bit about the new Ghostbuster's trailer, Red Button ice cream and Vin Diesel.

There aren't any other notes on this episode, though over the next week we'll be sharing some videos from NerdSync's youtube channel in which they discuss several aspects of the character of Deadpool. It's a fun channel (with a great podcast) so stay tuned and check it out.

Next episode: Dead Pool on the 7th!

Due to the difficulties we had with the David Bowie podcast, and the long delay in releasing it, we won't be releasing a second podcast this month as we had planned. Also, our next episode will be on Dead Pool, and likely there will some more discussion on absurd-ism a bit as well. That will release the 7th of March and the Kaiju episode will be coming later in March. So stay tuned!

Episode 17: David Bowie

Episode 17: David Bowie
Hosts: Frank Shaw and John Belliston
Special guest: Tom Sherlock
Produced by Hobos in the Back Row
Scripting by Frank Shaw
Edited by: Frank Shaw
Intro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 1 by F.G. Shaw
Outro Music: Piano Sonata mvnt 3 by F.G. Shaw

Here it is folks! Episode 17: David Bowie. We had a lot of grief recording this episode. Our first attempt proved fruitless when the new program I was using to record our Skype conversation was inadvertently closed about an hour in to the discussion. Our second attempt, about a week later went off without a hitch... except of course for all the hitches we ran into. We had several moments of connectivity issues through out the recording and due to the length it took to record we lost John about halfway through due to how late it had become. Regardless of all these problems we managed to put together a pretty good episode. We're joined by our good friend Tom Sherlock, who is also a podcaster on the Apart of Him Podcasting Network. He's featured on A Pod of Us Podcast and Internet Radio Wrestling. Two shows that are really fun listens (and at time over the top hilarious). Sadly we were going to have Aubrey Spivey on with us for this episode, but she was unable to join us for our second attempt. Give the episode, which is essentially a love letter to the works of David Bowie, a listen. It's truly enjoyable.

There maybe a bonus episode with John and I discussing Black Star and Labyrinth in the very near future, so stay tuned for that as well!

Most of the links are to Youtube videos:

This first link is to BBC: Sound and Vision David Bowie. It's an older documentary, but a fascinating look at his life and career up to the early 2000's.

Here's the first part of the documentary that John mentions in the podcast called Duffy: The Man Who Shot the Sixties. It's an interesting take on another aspect and side of the pop music, and art, scene of this time period.

Here's another Sound and Vision documentary released just a few weeks after Bowie's death. It's a more of a tribute video than anything, but still fun to watch.

Here's the Wikipedia page of David Bowie's discography, for those that want to see what albums and tunes are out there.

Here's David Bowies 100 Favorite Books from Mental Floss.

And here, lastly are some thoughts of various artists that were influenced by David Bowie. First is Beck. Trent Reznor discussing how Bowie helped him overcome addiction. And finally Ozzie Ousborne and Geezer Butler discussing Lemmy of Motorhead and David Bowie.

Hey folks! Just a little update. Due to some amazing technical issues (Frank screwed up), our next episode won't hit on Monday as our normal schedule would dictate. (We actually have a semi-normal schedule!) Instead it will be postponed until later in the week. We're still discussing David Bowie of course and we have our regular contributor Aubrey Spivey and our good friend (and a bit of a Bowie expert) Tom Sherlock with us well. So stay tuned!