Radio vs. the Martians!
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Radio vs. the Martians!
Mike Gillis and Casey Doran are joined by a rotating panel of their friends for a warts-and-all look at popular culture. We look at the highs and lows of movies, science fiction, video games, horror, comic books, and everything in between. Think of us as “the McLaughlin Group” for nerds!
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Fun Size Episode 84 – WWE Ballet with Trucks
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...
Podcasta la Vista, Baby! Episode 31 – FUBAR
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...
Radio vs. the Martians! Commentary Track – Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
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...
Episode 60 – Zardoz
Into a world of eternal life, he brought the gift of death This month, we’re eating green bread and refusing to go to Second Level meditation with Joe...
Fun Size Episode 83 – The Best Chris
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 Ast...
Fun Size Episode 82 – X-Pac Heat
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...
Episode 59 – Halloween III: Season of the Witch
…and now the earth will run with blood again! We’re getting into the spirit of the spooky season with returning guest Kirby Green, and unmasking the u...
Fun Size Episode 81 – Sadness and Anxiety Being Poured on Your Naked Brain
Though conflicting schedules this month have made a regular episode impossible, we’re back in the studio to chat about the stuff we’ve been reading an...
Fun Size Episode 80 – Dangerous Banned Secrets of the Hidden Masters
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 bio...
Podcasta la Vista, Baby! Episode 30 – Twins
Only their mother can tell them apart. This month, we’re learning the first rules of a crisis situation with returning guest Sam Mulvey of KTQA 95.3 F...
Fun Size Episode 79 – The Assassination of Willow by the Coward Disney+
We’re back again with Joe Preti, and chatting about the emerging streaming epoch and its tremendous downsides as corporate studio overlords start maki...
Episode 58 – Hudson Hawk
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 re...
Fun Size Episode 78 – Video Game Dr. Mengele
This month, we’re joined again by Dave Brouillette, and talking about the pixelized Stanford Prison Experiment that was The Sims, and how eventual bor...
Podcasta la Vista, Baby! Episode 29 – The Villain
Vile, virile, vivacious, venomous, varied, voluptuous, versatile, venturesome, vibrant, vulgar, vast, vunniest vilm of 1979! We’re strapping on our se...
Fun Size Episode 77 – A Plague of Ricks
This month, we’re upturning the rocks of our childhoods and looking at all the bugs and worms, like the uncomfortable fact that serial bully and sexis...
Fun Size Episode 76 – Make It Work.
This month, we’re going boldly with Michael Warbington into the deep, inconsistent, and often-confusing world of Star Trek uniform design! Why did Sta...
Episode 57 – Sorcerer (1977)
WANTED. Four men willing to drive a cargo of death to escape a life in hell. This month, we’re going on a jungle suicide mission with Camp Director an...
Fun Size Episode 75 – Literal Toilet Money
This month, we’re continuing our talk with Carol Brouillette, and it may be time to crown Dave Bautista as the greatest professional-wrestler-turned-a...
Podcasta la Vista, Baby! Episode 28 – Terminator: Dark Fate
Choose Your Fate. This month, we’re joined by Carol Brouillette of the Hands Free Football podcast, and returning (one last time?) to the franchise th...
Fun Size Episode 74 – That’s How You Get an Independence Day!
This month, we’re continuing our chat with Chelsea Rustad, and we’re looking at billionaire narcissists getting booed, and the ethics of hidden camera...
Episode 56 – Vengeance (2022)
Find the story before it finds you. This month, we’re joined by Chelsea Rustad chair of the Puget Sound Socialist Party and the author of Inherited Se...
Fun Size Episode 73 – But, She Has a New Hat!
This month, we’re continuing our chat with Kayleigh Casterline, and digging into the intersection of sports, video games and capitalist rent-seeking....
Episode 55 – The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” This month, we’re riddling in the dark and escaping the goblin caves with Kayleigh Casterline and revi...
Fun Size Episode 72 – Highway to Heaven, Except He Breaks Peoples’ Fingers
This time, we’re talking about our undying love for the Denzel Washington Equalizer movies, and how they can be a strangely bloody salve for our woes...
Fun Size Episode 71 – That’s Capitalism, Baby!
This month, we’re chatting about the wonder of the public domain and open source software, and how it helps make our show possible and helps create co...
Fun Size Episode 70 – Selling Diet Pills on Instagram
This month, we’re continuing our talk with Kirby Green, for a chat about reality television and the “Am I the Asshole?” sub-reddit. So, reality televi...
Episode 54 – Shiver: Selected Stories by Junji Ito
“I am a horror maniac who prefers to stay at home.” This Halloween, we’re chugging down salad oil and hiding from our balloon dopplegangers with retur...
Fun Size Episode 69 – Two Degrees From Luke Skywalker
This month, we’re back with Sam Mulvey to get nerdier than we have for a while. Mike takes the rough draft of his new “Bechdel Test”-esque thought exp...
Episode 53 – The Blues Brothers
“It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark, and we’re wearing sunglasses.” This month, we’re getti...
Fun Size Episode 68 – Nobody Gives a Fuck About Rutherford B. Hayes
We’re continuing our chat with Joe Preti, for a deep dive into the topics that really matter. We perhaps spend too much time, dissecting the many path...
Podcasta la Vista, Baby! Episode 27 – Raw Deal
The system gave him a raw deal. Nobody gives him a raw deal. We’re back! This month, we’re slicking back our hair and dodging cakes with Joe Preti, an...
Fun Size Episode 67 – When Did I Become an Old Man?
We’re back with Dave Brouillette to speak in defense of cinema’s great unsung wet blankets. The long-suffering adults left to pick up the pieces when...
Podcasta la Vista, Baby! Episode 26 – Pumping Iron
“Blood is rushing into your muscles and that’s what we call The Pump. Your muscles get a really tight feeling, like your skin is going to explode any...
Fun Size Episode 66 – The Word for That Is “Extortion”
We continue our chat with Michael Warbington and dig into a rich vein we usually leave unmined: video games. With different levels of skill, engagemen...
Episode 52 – Django (1966)
He killed for gold… He killed for his woman… He killed for himself! After a month off, we’re back! And this time, we’re dragging a coffin through the...
Fun Size Episode 65 – From Sublime to Disgusting (And Everything in Between)
We’re back with Kirby Green and talking about the strange and surprising wholesomeness of Jackass Forever, the history of “caught-on-video” media, and...
Podcasta la Vista, Baby! Episode 25 – Junior
Nothing is inconceivable. This month, we’re enjoying some franks in a blanket with longtime friend of the show, Kirby Green, and re-examining the much...
Fun Size Episode 64 – A Real Lesson in Imagined Power
We’re back in the studio with Patrick Johnson for one of our weirdest conversations yet. First, what are the consequences of having a perfect memory?...
Episode 51 – Phantasm
Beware the ball, beware the tall man, beware the never dead. We return this month to break into Morningside Mortuary and get some fuckin’ answers with...
Fun Size Episode 63 – I Want Willem Dafoe in Every Movie
Has the world gone mad? Well, yes. But we’re also looking back on 2021 as a remarkably great year at the movies! We’re still talking to Tobiah Panshin...