Pop Culture Explorers Club

In honor of giant monsters everywhere, we spoke this week with Nick Tierce.

Mike and I have had the pleasure of chatting with Nick on our other podcasts.  Nick is a noted expert in immersive entertainment, Star Wars lore and knowledge, and to our surprise, about also the world of titans and monsters. He shared his knowledge about both Godzilla and Kong this week in honor of the release this week of Godzilla x Kong : The New Empire.

Nick Tierce on X
Nick Tierce on Instagram

This week marks the return of everyone's favorite professors-turned-working class paranormal spookterminators - the Ghostbusters!

In honor of the opening of "Ghostbusters:Frozen Empire", we were joined by entertainment journalist Brad Oman. Brad writes as Ethan Anderton and is a senior editor at Slashfilm.com as well as the co-host of two podcasts - "Go Flix Yourself" & "The Ten to One Podcast." He is a big Ghostbusters fan and it was pleasure to chat with him because what can we say - bustin' makes us feel good!

Ethan Anderton at Slashfilm
Go Flix Yourself
The Ten to One Podcast

In honor of the upcoming release of the "X-Men '97" cartoon on Disney+, the founding explorers sit down with Mike Mack, one of the co-hosts of the Marvel-centric 'The Zzaxx of Life' podcast on Laughingplace.com, to chat about those wacky children of the atom from the comics . . . the X-Men!

We chat about the comic, the cartoon, the movies, and everything we're looking forward to in the near future.

That magical time of the year is upon us once again. Dreams will come true, actresses and actors will be dressed spectacularly, and the little happy golden boy will soon grace mantles across Hollywood.

We were joined this episode by film buff and all-around nice guy David Murto. David is an avid film buff who has a regular segment on Mike's other podcast where they discuss movies. He had some fun insights into this year's nominees and we had a great conversation!

Fear is indeed the mind killer but not in this episode! We sat down with filmmaker John William Ross, a long-time fan of the Dune franchise, to chat about the happy-go-lucky adventures of the Atreides family and those pesky sandworms.

We covered not only the recent 2021 version of 'Dune' directed by Denis Villeneuve but also the  now-infamous 1984 version directed by David Lynch. We also discuss what we're looking forward to in Villeneuve's 'Dune: Part Two'.

Grimcutty - a film streaming on Hulu written and directed by John William Ross

Mike and Drew welcome Martin Smith, one of the co-hosts of the "Heroes of the Halcyon" podcast, to chat about the world of action figures from Star Wars to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to . . . Cthulu??

Both Mike and Martin are action figure aficionados and we had a blast chatting about their love of the hobby of collecting and admiring these toys.

Mike and Drew explored some notable movies and TV shows . . . and even some music! . . . from 2023. It was a fun year and even though Drew did not watch a bunch a new stuff (slacker!), Mike made up for it and has a host of suggestions.

We chat about everything from Skinamarink to Righteous Gemstones to Fall of the House of Usher  to Ben Folds to . . . .well, you'll want to listen to find out!

We've created chapter markers so if you're curious about our thoughts about something specific, you should be able to jump right to our comments.

So Mike and I are darn tooting excited to talk about the glory that is Fargo - - both the excellent 1996 film expertly written and directed by Joel & Ethan Coen and the equally excellent anthology series on FX.

We sat down with Liz Shannon Miller, senior entertainment editor at Consequence.net. Liz was a wealth of knowledge about both the film and the series and dontcha know, we had a heck of a lot of fun talking with her about both.

Liz's Streaming Recommendations at Consequence.net

There are few things that stir a man's soul more than a good shark flick . . . and as luck would have it, one particular shark flick- 'Jaws' from 1975, of course! -  is both Mike & Drew's favorite movie.

In this episode, we're joined by guest lecturer Professor Joe Fortunato from The Sidney Poitier New American Film School at Arizona State University. Professor Fortunato's favorite film also happens to be 'Jaws' and when we were considering this episode, we knew he would be an excellent guest to share his knowledge and love for the film.

Fortunato Film School On Facebook
Fortunato Film School On YouTube