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Fun Size Episode 84 – WWE Ballet with Trucks [CLIP]

Feb 18, 2024 | player.fm | Mike Gillis |Casey Doran

We return yet again for another Fun Size episode, exclusive for our Patreon supporters!We’re in the studio with Carol and Dave Brouillette, who have returned with us with good tidings from Monster Jam! Yes, Monster Jam, the (surprisingly wholesome) spectacle of giant tires, animal shaped vehicles, big jumps, and plenty of dirt tracks and screaming fans. It’s one-part P.T. Barnum, one-part NASCAR, one-part Vince McMahon, and one-part Hanna Barbera Wacky Races. The good parts, mind you.
Podcasta la Vista, Baby! Episode 31 – FUBAR

Jan 26, 2024 | player.fm | Mike Gillis |Casey Doran

Heroes Don’t Retire. They Reload. This month, we’re joined in the studio by not one, but two guests, Carol and Dave Brouillette of the late Hands Free Football soccer podcast, and suffering through all eight episodes of the Arnold-helmed Netflix series, FUBAR!For decades, CIA operative Luke Brunner has been living a double life. To his suburban family, he’s been a traveling salesman of exercise equipment. But this work cost him his marriage and strained his relationships with his adult children.
Radio vs. the Martians! Commentary Track – Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace [CLIP]

Dec 24, 2023 | player.fm | Mike Gillis |Casey Doran

Every generation has a legend. Every journey has a first step. Every saga has a beginning. Now this is podcasting! This Christmas Eve, we’re back with a gift, exclusive for our Patreon supporters!In our first Retcon vs.
Episode 60 - Zardoz

Nov 29, 2023 | player.fm | Mike Gillis |Casey Doran

Into a world of eternal life, he brought the gift of deathThis month, we’re eating green bread and refusing to go to Second Level meditation with Joe Preti of the late comic book podcast to dive into the weird and psychedelic science fiction cult film, 1974’s Zardoz!In the year 2293, Zed is a murderer disciple of Zardoz, a floating stone god who arms and commands him and other “exterminators” to roam the post-apocalyptic wasteland and kill human survivors.
Fun Size Episode 83 - The Best Chris [CLIP]

Nov 20, 2023 | player.fm | Mike Gillis |Casey Doran

We return yet again for another Fun Size episode, exclusive for our Patreon supporters!We’re back in the studio with Joe Preti, and talking about Martin Scorsese’s three hour crime epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, and Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City. Plus, a conversation about the death of the movie star as the driver of cinema. Are there any modern stars who can transcend their signature characters or franchises and elevate any movie they star in?
Fun Size Episode 82 - X-Pac Heat [CLIP]

Oct 28, 2023 | player.fm | Mike Gillis |Casey Doran

We return yet again for another Fun Size episode, exclusive for our Patreon supporters!We’re back with Kirby Green to talk about her favorite trash TV obsession: 90 Day Fiancé! We look at the show that throws the best and worst elements of romance, desperation, immigration law, and repulsive people, into a television blender and we look at the horrifying and endlessly addictive slurry that pours out of it.
Fun Size Episode 80 – Dangerous Banned Secrets of the Hidden Masters [CLIP]

Aug 28, 2023 | player.fm | Mike Gillis |Casey Doran

We return yet again for another Fun Size episode, exclusive for our Patreon supporters!We continue our chat with Sam Mulvey, and tear the still-beating heart out of the world of martial arts frauds and scam artists. From manufactured biographies involving hidden temples and battles to the death, to selling mail order pamphlets through comic book ads promising access to forbidden techniques, we look at the grey area between the real and the phony.
Podcasta la Vista, Baby! Episode 30 – Twins

Aug 20, 2023 | player.fm | Mike Gillis |Casey Doran

Only their mother can tell them apart.
Fun Size Episode 79 – The Assassination of Willow by the Coward Disney+ [CLIP]

Jul 30, 2023 | player.fm | Mike Gillis |Casey Doran

We return yet again for another Fun Size episode, exclusive for our Patreon supporters!We’re back again with Joe Preti, and chatting about the emerging streaming epoch and its tremendous downsides as corporate studio overlords start making things you love disappear, making it impossible for these shows and movies to find new fans — and for their creators to get paid for their work.
Episode 58 - Hudson Hawk

Jul 23, 2023 | player.fm | Mike Gillis |Casey Doran

Catch the Excitement. Catch the Adventure. Catch the Hawk. We’re breaking into the Vatican and trying to get a good cappuccino with Joe Preti as we reappraise the much maligned — and genuinely underrated — 1991 Bruce Willis box office bomb about daring heists and alchemical miracle machines: Hudson Hawk!Eddie “Hudson Hawk” Hawkins is the world’s most famous cat burglar. He’s just gotten out of prison, he’s trying to go straight, and he just wants a good cappuccino.