A podcast hosted by two guys who grew up as geeks in the 1990s. Each week, we reminisce about our geeky childhoods over a couple of beers.
Latest episodes
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1 h 01
577: Punched A Dinosaur In The Face
Frank and Tim review Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season four. The bangers, the filler, the dropped arcs and the puppets. Cheers! Beers of the Week Yogi Peppermint Tea Casa di Mal…
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42 min
576: Provasic's Son
Frank and Tim's Superhero Slapback lands on Dolph Lundgren's The Punisher (1989), a movie too embarrassed to put a skull on Frank Castle's chest but happy to carve one into his thr…
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1 h 10
575: Dangly Bits
Tim’s back! Frank and Tim welcome back Vactor of This Comic COOKS! to break down the season finale of HBO's Lanterns, and everybody shows up dressed for it. Cheers! Beers of the We…
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33 min
146: Quarter-Hearted (Rebroadcast)
This episode was originally published February 17th, 2017. Frank regales Tim with the tale of seeing George Takei at a live Q&A and screening of that most legendary of Star Trek fi…
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44 min
574: A Thin Layer of Cigarette Smoke
Frank and Tim crack open a couple of beers and head back to 1989, where Tim Burton built an entire Gotham City from scratch on a soundstage and Jack Nicholson had his name above th…
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38 min
573: His Name Was Literally Gun
Right before Tim's parental leave, he and Frank finally did the thing they swore they'd never do: they watched The Return of Swamp Thing. Cheers! Beers of the Week Sam Adams Bluebe…
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42 min
572: I Like the Pictures
Frank and Vactor from This Comic Cooks on YouTube and TikTok dig into My Adventures with Superman Season 3: the season that took an already-great show and somehow made it ten times…
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1 h 13
571: A More Handsome De Niro
Tim and Frank finally sit down for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, the one Tim waited weeks to catch in 70mm IMAX. Cheers! ⚠️ Full spoilers throughout. It's a three-thousand-year-…
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1 h 42
570: What's Up 7-Eleven?!
Frank, Tim, and Vactor from This Comic Cooks have seen Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and they’re bringing you their full review. ⚠️ Full spoilers start around 25:00. We get into where…
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37 min
569: I Want My Piggyback
Tim and Frank just got back from definitely actually going to San Diego Comic-Con for real life and not pretend. Cheers! Beers of the Week: Sam Adams Old Fezziwig spiced ale Whistl…
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49 min
568: I'm Cyclopped
Frank and Tim pour a drink and break down every reveal, theory, and Easter egg buried in the trailer for Avengers: Doomsday. Cheers! We get into: The incursion, and why this is bas…
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35 min
567: Magic Jungle Potion
Tim and Frank take on a deceptively simple question: is Spider-Man actually a street-level superhero? What starts as a debate about subgenres turns into a much bigger conversation…
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36 min
566: Nobody Wants to See That on Camera
Frank and Tim both showed up in green. Neither planned it. They discuss the trailer for the upcoming Green Lantern TV series Lanterns (2026). Cheers! Beers of the Week Sam Adams Wi…
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49 min
565: Hop On the Magic Space Bus
Frank and Tim grab a couple of citrus wheat ales and head to the theater for Supergirl, the DCU's next step after Superman. The verdict: liked it, didn't love it — an earnest, surp…
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56 min
563: A Roided Hutt
Frank and Tim return to the galaxy far, far away to talk through The Mandalorian and Grogu, a Star Wars movie that knows exactly what it is: a fun, self-contained, Saturday-morning…
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52 min
564: A Caring Mouth
Frank and Tim crack open some drinks and attempt the noble, impossible task of ranking sci-fi franchises without accidentally starting six different side conversations. Star Wars a…
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34 min
562: Enjoy Your Little Juice
Tim and Frank saddle up for a long-overdue trip into the world of Firefly, sparked by the news that an animated continuation may be on the way with Nathan Fillion and the original…
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50 min
561: Coruscant But Make It Blade Runner
Frank and Tim are gushing about Maul: Shadow Lord — and somehow neither of them used to even like Maul. They get into why this one is really about "bad guys and worse guys". Cheers…
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35 min
560: Galactic Performance Review
Tim and Frank conduct a very serious, very scientific galactic performance review. They grade the Kennedy era across franchise stewardship, film strategy, Disney+ execution, creati…
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42 min
559: Unnecessarily Steamy Cover
Tim and Frank react to the latest superhero trailers, including Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Lanterns, and Supergirl. Cheers! Beers of the Week Sam Adams Breakaway Blonde Olipop Cher…