My big podcast/internet shows list.

As I said here....

I just don't watch much TV period anymore.
I've got my handful of appointment shows, then everything else is YouTube and podcasts.
Hmm, I ought to do a list of my favorite podcasts sometime.
It keeps changing.
I had to slaughter a bunch of 'em over Ghostbusters, and then Trump.


So, here it is....

Youtube.


Saturday Night Live.

For the Trump skits.
They've been doing special Youtube-only cold openings and Weekend Updates to fill the void while they're on break, and crazy Trump shit keeps happening.


Last Week Tonight.

John Oliver does good rant.


Collider Videos.

I've got my text movie news sites, but I always wanted a panel show I could watch like the old "Entertainment Tonight", days.
I mean, ET is still around, but they're full of depressing Hollywood gossip shit.
I wanted the movie chat without the crap.
I finally found it in my travels, and it's Collider.

So, here's the evolution, John Campea started with a blog, expanded into web video before even Youtube was a thing, got hired by AMC (theater chain, not network) to do AMC Movie Talk, and that's when I found it.
Campea wanted to leave AMC to do other things, and went over to Collider, but if he was gonna leave, AMC was just gonna fold Movie Talk, and he didn't want all his friends to lose their jobs, so to keep the team together, he worked out a deal that let him bring everyone with him to Collider, but use the old AMC sets repainted, and just switch channels, and turn AMC Movie Talk into Collider Movie Talk.
Then, he stayed on to host and produce for awhile to get everything situated, and merge Movie Talk with Shmoes Know, then left again to do some other project that didn't last.
So, then he came back again, and then his best friend died, and he re-evaluated his life, and decided he didn't want to have corporate bosses anymore, and left a third and final time to do his own Youtube channel.

The show is still okay, they've expanded into TV Talk, and Heroes, which is all comic book movies, and Thursdays, they do an all Star Wars one called Jedi Council.
They used to have Nightmares, which was all horror, but it wasn't getting enough views, so now it's monthly.
That bums me out, that was my favorite one.
Anyway, its lost the Campea magic, but I stick with it.
I've usually read all the news before they react to it, but sometimes they scoop.


John Campea.

John Campea isn't the same without Collider, Collider isn't the same without John Campea, but if I watch both shows, it kinda almost mixes back together.
It's like how your homemade Big Mac is never the same as McDonald's.
But dammit, you try.

Anyway, it's really awkward and weird how no one mentions him at Collider, the terms of his resignation must include that he's erased from history there.
They were allowed to mention in one episode that he left, no ceremony, no goodbye party, no nothing. He explained why he left on his channel, and then after that, it's like they're in separate dimensions like a comic book rebooting.
Very eerie.
I don't think he'll ever come back there.
He said they didn't part on bad terms, and they were great bosses, but it seems pretty ugly on their side.


SchmoesKnow.

The Shmoes do Collider, then run over to their set in the same building, and do their own show.

When a huge movie like a Captain America Civil War, or an Avengers, or a Star Wars, etc, comes out, I go down through all my movies sites, use a Youtube downloader to put their reviews together in a folder for later, put them into a flash drive, plug it to my Blu-ray player, and marathon them all after I've seen the movie, and done my own blog review.
Kinda feels like I get to spend a little more time with the flick.
Also, a lot of times, someone spots an Easter egg or two I missed.
It's a ritual I've developed.

So, anyway, yeah, Collider has split into three factions.


Screen Junkies.

They've got a bunch of shows, but I keep them around for "Honest Trailers".

Collider people pop up over there, and vice versa.

They've added "Millennial Falcon", with Jenny Nicholson, but I'll talk about her later.


Screen Junkies News.

They've got a panel show much like Collider, but they react to every news item as it comes out, instead of waiting for it to lump together into a whole show at a fixed hour of the day.

So, they're like a video version of your text news sites.
I subscribed, because they had Sasha Perl-Raver, who I find funny, but she up and disappeared, and left me with second stringers.
Dammit.

But, both Screen Junkies channels give me fodder for my Event Movie Review Binge.


Popcorn Talk.

They've got separate panel shows on Marvel movies, DC movies, and Star Wars.
So, if I'm really bored, and starved for entertainment, I'll supplement my Collider fix with their stuff.

Also, again, they're fodder for my Event Movie Review Binge.

Collider and Screen Junkies people have been known to pop up here, and vice versa.
There's this rotating cast of critics and comedians who go around all these channels.


Ghostbusters News.

About the only channel devoted to Ghostbusters stuff that isn't some off-putting sour-puss bitching about the new movie.
The host is humble and lovable, and he manages to dig up obscure little tidbits.
Fun little channel.


How It Should Have Ended.

Funny alternate endings to movies in cartoon form.
You know a movie has made it when they've had their Honest Trailer and HISHE.
They usually land at roughly the same time for the same movie.


Cinefix.

They've got a bunch of shit on here, but I keep them around for "What's The Difference?", where they compare a movie to the book/comic it's adapted from.
You get all the twisted violent and perverted shit you missed without having to read!


Jawiin.

A married couple of comic geeks, they review the big comic movies, Game Of Thrones episodes, and the new episodes of all the CW DC shows.

They also do a podcast called "Geek History Lesson", that catches you up on every molecular detail of a character you don't know, but need to know before a new movie comes out.

I'm a geek, so I know most of it, but I'm glad it exists for the young kids coming up.
And sometimes, there's a character I'm clueless on.
Like, I needed to know who Jessica Jones was, cuz she came around in the 00's.

They're also one of my stop-offs for my Event Movie Review Binge.


Comic Book Girl 19.

She's a cutie, and she's a crazy broad who's into hippie-dippie spirituality, so I should hate her, but for comic book and movie stuff, I'm really glad she exists for the new kids coming up.

For a spiritualist kook, she's still a genuinely nice person who means well for the world.
I'll let it slide in her case.

Right now, she's doing a weekly dissection of the first Dune novel that I find interesting.
She also did a three part documentary on the Dark Phoenix saga that's pretty epic, and will prepare you for the upcoming flick.
Prepare you for saying "the books were better! Ptooey!!".

Every once in awhile, she pops up on Collider Heroes.


Jenny Nicholson.

She's this tiny chick with a quiet voice but with a giant brain who tears movies to shreds in a funny and observant way.
She is incapable of lowering her snark force-field.

Her main sources of expertise are Disney, and Star Wars.
She loved Force Awakens, despised Rogue One.

She hosts the aforementioned  "Millennial Falcon", about Star Wars on Screen Junkies.


Kevin Smith.

Yeah, I know, he's not everyone's cup of tea as a filmmaker, and a person.
Whatever.
He never scoops, he's always late to the party, but I still like having his perspective in my Event Movie Review Binge.


Andre "Black Nerd".

He's yet another stop-off for my shopping spree for my Event Movie Review Binge.

He's funny, and he did a really good meltdown for the internet assholery surrounding "Ghostbusters: Answer The Call".

His main obsessions are Ninja Turtles, Smurfs, and classic Nintendo/Sega games.

He's guest starred on Nostalgia Critic a couple times.


Channel Awesome.

The main thing they host is Nostalgia Critic, but they've got a couple other things.

Nostalgia Critic, Black Nerd, Cinema Snob, and Angry Video Game Nerd all pop up in each other's shows.

I unsubscribed AVGN for being a dick about Ghostbusters, and I thought I'd re-subscribe after the bullshit blew over, but Trump got elected, and I stopped being in the mood to forgive anybody.

Whatever, doesn't mean you have to hate him.
He's just not on my list anymore.

NC's Ghostbusters review was even-handed, conciliatory, and well done though.

NC is usually part of my Event Movie Review Binge.
If he can crank the content out fast enough.
Usually if he can't do an NC fast enough, him and his brother do a sit-down review called "Sibling Rivalry". Or, if his brother isn't handy, then just himself as "Rob Reviews".
So, I get something from him either way.


Tamara Lynn Chambers.

She's an actress in Nostalgia Critic's skits, and her bubbly-ness cheers me up after a long day of Trump shit on Facebook. Sue me.
Some of it's dumb, some of it's genuinely funny.
Whatever. I like her.


Stone Gremlin Productions.

Hosts Cinema Snob, but he (Brad) reviews just about everything.
Movies, foods, beverages, weird recipes, old commercials, you name it.
Add together AVGN, NC, and CS, you've got pretty much everything covered.

As Cinema Snob, he mostly covers old gross cult movies, the occasional porn parody, and creepy Christian films (is there any other kind?).

As mentioned, he pops up on NC a lot.

His "Midnight Screenings", is another essential part of my Event Movie Review Binge.


Mr. Sunday Movies.

A snarky Australian guy who never shows his face, but narrates over graphics.
He does Easter egg videos on the latest big movies, so he's another essential stop for my Event Movie Review Binge.

He also does reviews on crappy old video games, weird lost TV specials, fucked up arcs in comic books, and any other weird side stuff he can find that relates to a new flick.


Katie O'Shaughnessy.

A cute gothy Irish chick that does funny reactions to Walking Dead episodes.

Whatever. I like her.
Shut up.


ItsJustSomeRandomGuy.

Used to make "Robot Chicken", style action figure cartoons of Marvel and DC characters razzing each other over each other's movies.

His channel's been dead for a whole year.
I dunno what's going on.


Batinthesun.

Started out in the pre-Youtube days doing really well done fan movies of Batman and Joker, now they do live-action fan match-ups of heroes and villains from all franchises fighting each other.
Their Batman vs Darth Vader is epic.

Now they've got a series going of Deadpool and Spider-Man reacting to stuff.


Dorkly.

Has a bunch of stuff, but I subscribed for the funny skits of 8-bit and 16-bit classic game characters meeting each other across franchises, and doing crazy things in "what if?", scenarios.


Facts.

When it's the bottom of the barrel time, I've seen all my movie shows, or I skipped them because it was a lame news day, and TV sucks, and there's just nothing, I'll watch Irish people eat and drink things and react with joy or horror.

They make one of these every single day.
If nothing else, I've always got one of these.


The Bible Reloaded.

Yep, you had to know the atheist content was coming.

These guys aren't angry atheists like me, they're actually really chill.
If you're dipping your toes into atheism, they might be your guys.

They make fun of the Bible passage by passage, read and give the MST3K treatment to  Chick Tracts, review bad Christian movies, and answer viewer mail.

The Bible is just horrifying, it really is.
Both their Bible lessons, and the read through Scathing Atheist (more on them later) gave it, man, it's worse than the fucking Necronomicon.
Religious fundies need to be way more loathed in our culture.


The Quran Reloaded.

Same exact guys as The Bible Reloaded, but doing Quran/Islam stuff.

As bad as the Bible is, Quran is way worse.

Scathing Atheist did a read through of Quran too, and ho-ly shit it's awful.
It's everything you've heard.
Misogynist, homophobic, violent, trains people to be angry-bees to any criticism or examination, all the bad shit happening in the Middle East right now isn't some sad accident from a radioactive space-insect bite, the blueprint for it is all right there in Muhammed's awful book.

But again, the guys are chill about it all.
They just show what it is, and snark at it.


DarkMatter2525.

Turns excellent atheist and counter-apologetic arguments into easy to digest and funny cartoons.

Has a lot of guest stars from the larger atheist Youtube community.

Currently he's doing a continuing science fiction series called "Power Corrupts", that posits "what if the Bible God was a guy from the future in The Matrix, and we were his helpless playthings?".

It's really fucking good.
Recommended.


Noah Lugeons.

Video version of the "Puzzle In A Thunderstorm", shows (more on them later).
I've usually listened to the MP3 versions by the time this thing updates, but every once in a blue moon, they have something on here that you can't see in their audio feed.


Cognitive Dissonance.

Ditto Noah Lugeons.


Audio podcasts.


The Projection Booth.

Plugged this before here, and here.

The best and most thorough movie podcast out there.
It has no rival.
They take a deep dive into the sub-atomic realm on every movie they cover.
If you've got an obscure movie with crappy to no bonus features, look for and download its Projection Booth episode, that's your bonus features.


Faculty Of Horror.

Two female college professors cover horror movies from an academic feminist perspective.
Good stuff, but updates are few and far apart.
Discovered them through Projection Booth.


The Ghostbusters Interdimensional Crossrip.

When "Ghostbusters: Answer The Call", was coming out, the mainstream movie news outlets just weren't covering it hardly at all.

I was starving and parched for tidbits and content, and got searching desperately.
I went Googling for Ghostbusters specific shows, and this and Ghostbusters News were about it.

I came for Answer The Call, I stayed for the guys.
And plus, there are new movies and comics coming, so there's always something now.


Yes Have Some.

Based on the obscure line from "Ghostbusters".

Janine- Do you want some coffee, Mister Tully?

Egon- Yes, have some.

Lewis- Yes, have some!

The joke being, all the better Ghostbusters lines to make into titles were taken.

So, the backstory is, in "Ghostbusters 2", the chick on Peter Venkman's talk show predicts the world will end on Valentine's Day of 2016.

So, this couple who are Ghostbusters fans and cosplayers had their marriage proposal on that date with video help from Ivan Reitman, and it became a Youtube sensation for a couple weeks.

So, they decided to parlay their Youtube fame into a podcast, and they kind of became an accidental spinoff to Interdimensional Crossrip.

I listened to them for the buildup to Answer The Call, they even had an exclusive interview with Paul Feig that no one else got.
Like Crossrip, I came for the Ghostbusters news, and stayed for the people.


The Dollup.

Two comedians read and react to crazy stories from history.
A million times better than it sounds.

What you learn, is America is fucking evil and horrible.

Once in a blue moon, they'll have someone famous, like Patton Oswalt on.


Dumb People Town.

Hosted by the Sklar brothers, similar to The Dollup, but they react to stupid shit happening right now.

Found out about it on The Dollup.


Cognitive Dissonance.

See the Youtube version above.
They cover politics and current events from an atheistic/skeptic perspective, but are also filthy and funny.

And they cross over with the Puzzle In a Thunderstorm guys a lot.
So much so, they may as well be merged in like Collider and Shmoes.


Puzzle In A Thunderstorm.

See Noah Lugeons in Youtube above.

So the joke here, is one time on "God Awful Movies", one of the movies had a little girl building a puzzle during a thunderstorm.
One of the guys joked that "Puzzle In A Thunderstorm", sounded like a sex thing on Urban Dictionary, then Twitter fans tried to invent what it would be, and it became a running gag for awhile, and when they expanded to four shows, they needed a larger title to cover who they were, so they called themselves "Puzzle In A Thunderstorm LLC".

So, here are the PIAT shows....

The Scathing Atheist.

Similar to Cognitive Dissonance, but filthier, and wackier, and angrier.
The opposite in tone of Bible Reloaded.
More to my style.

As mentioned in Bible Reloaded, and Quran Reloaded, they've done read-throughs of the Bible and Quran, and they're both just awful.

Now they're on the Book Of Mormon, and that's so stupid and obviously fake, it's pathetic.
It's written by a con-man who was just a teensy molecule smarter than the morons he was tricking.
So it's kind of a giant Dollup episode on how stupid early Americans were to buy this crap.

The 1800's were the worst for dumbass racist quackery.
Whenever you hear a story start with "(insert southern state), 18____",  you know something absolutely vile is about to happen.

Fuuuuck Mormonism.

God Awful Movies.

Where the aforementioned Puzzle In A Thundrstorm comes from.

They started out doing Christian movie reviews as a segment on Scathing Atheist, but they thought their new guy, Eli, was so funny, they needed to do a spinoff.

Eli was just supposed to be the God Awful Movies guy, but they ended up making him the third guy for all the shows.

I thought it was obvious, I dunno what took them so long to figure it out.

The Skepticrat.

Like Scathing Atheist, but all politics.

Their third show, and it started with just Noah and Heath, but as stated above, they added Eli.

This one comes out least often.
But Cognitive Dissonance comes out the same day (Monday) so if they miss one, you still get Cog-Dis.

Citation Needed.

The fourth PIAT show, this time, teamed up with the Cog-Dis guys.

Like I said up top, they should just go ahead, and merge both casts for all 5 shows at this point.

This one, they read an entry from Wikipedia, and goof on it, and do skits based on it.

It's kind of their version of The Dollup.
If you wanted more Dollup, here's Citation Needed.


Angry Black Rant.

Kind of like Cog-Dis/Scathing, but from a black atheist perspective.

Ishmael who hosts this has been a repeated guest on Cog-Dis and Scathing, so he's kind of a spinoff of their universe.

Heard him on there, and liked him, so added him to the list.
His show got a lot angrier, so a lot better, once Trump took office.
Episodes have been infrequent though.

So, that's those.

Hope it gives you, the reader, some ideas of stuff to try out.
Or, at least a starting point before branching out.

Enjoy the journey.

I'll retro-link this back into 90's 4.