"Girl toys" just don't get enough celebration in the Geek-O-Sphere and we're aiming to change that!
For this episode, we get in touch with our softer sides...
Get ready to hear a handful of super rad GIRL TOYS that go way beyond playing with dolls. Properties like the Care Bears, My Little Pony and Rainbow Brite have been slapped on as many things as He-Man or the Transformers over the years, and have had just as many
Pew! Pew! We're fully locked and loaded for a discussion on arcade style video shooting games!
RELOAD!! RELOAD!! PER-KANNG!!
Whether you're aiming your NES Zapper at some 8-bit ducks or feeding quarters into an arcade to head-shot some video zombies, you're experiencing the white-knuckled action of a niche sub-genre of video games known as a LIGHT GUN GAMES or ON RAILS SHOOTERS!!
We discuss the films and pulpy origins of Dick Tracy, The Rocketeer, The Shadow and The Phantom!
With the help of our pal Scott Clevenger (from The Slumgullion podcast) we dish all about four stylish 90's action/adventure films that were looking to the pulps of the 30s for inspiration! These movies featured heroic characters from a bygone era of pulp magazines, comic strips and serials!
Legendary best selling author Christopher Golden joins us to squawk about "The Night Birds" and his incredible 30+ year career!
This week, down in that rusted out hull we call the BRIG… we are honored to have New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author, Christopher Golden! Chris is the author of such novels as Snowblind, Road of Bones, Ararat, The House of Last Resort, 13 Buffy The Vampire Slayer novels and more comics than you can shake a RIGHT HAND OF DOOM at!
We pay tribute to some seriously amazing animals who have all gone the way of the dodo.
Coopster Gold takes us back to our Amazing Animal Facts theme from last season, but with a twist! This time we only picked those creatures who have sadly joined the ranks of the EXTINCT.
We decided to leave the dinosaurs out of it, focusing on such fantastic beasts as Mighty
Errick discusses a lifelong love of comics and his fantastic coming of age novel "The Queen of Saturn and The Prince in Exile"!
This time in the BRIG, we have an enormously talented artist, graphic designer and author of the novels Blood For The Sun, All The Dead Men, Lightning Wears a Red Cape and his brand new one: The Queen of Saturn and the Prince in Exile! All that and he’s a former Marine, a black belt in Krav Maga..
Our old pal Synopsis Grim (AKA Boss Rush Mode) stops by to chat about our favorite racing and driving video games!
Retroids, start your engines! This episode is all about driving and racing games! We're talking arcades, Atari, Super Nintendo, the N64, and into the era of Playstation and X-Box! As long as the game puts you behind the wheel, it counts!
Along for the ride is our old pal and former host of the Retro Ridoctopus cephalopodcast
Some actors are lucky enough to have a once in a lifetime, history-making performance. In the case of Val Kilmer, there were numerous.
Val Kilmer was an actor's actor. The rare sort of movie star whose focus was always on creating the best performance possible. Even when not the leading man, he through himself into every role, always elevating what had been written on the page into something special.
Over the course of an impressive 30 year career, Val was shaped by the Hollywood machine
We welcome back the delightful Cat Scully to chat about her hotly anticipated 1920s horror book Below The Grand Hotel!
This week, down in the eldritch unknown of the BRIG… we have returning guest, Cat Scully!
A talented artist, video game developer, writer and novelist … Cat is the author of Jennifer Strange and comes back to chat all about her hotly anticipated novel BELOW THE GRAND HOTEL! We’ve got the roaring 20s, flapper dresses, Ziegfeld Girls...
Continuing the Saturday Night Live celebration, we spotlight 4 of our favorite SNL movies! SHWING!!
Between 1980 and 2010, a total of eleven SNL movies were produced. Some are great, others are far from it and there are plenty in between. But love em or pan em, these comedies were foundational viewing for many of us who grew up in the 90s and beyond!
In this episode, Coop continues his Saturday Night Live theme and we spotlight a total