Beste Whatnauts podcasts (2024)

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Zatanna 1:36:00

3d ago1:36:00

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Episode 303. We kick off October with a look into DC Comics' dark magic side, reading Paul Dini's run on Zatanna. Our heroine is both a working stage magician and one of the most powerful magical beings in the universe, as she juggles solving supernatural crimes with maintaining her performance schedule. We discuss how Zatanna is more iconic than a…

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Mockingbird Lane 26:05

8d ago26:05

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This month on the Pilot’s Club we discuss Mockingbird Lane, a modern take on The Munsters that never made it to a full show but instead was aired as a holiday special on October 26, 2012. Bryan Fuller wrote the episode, and the show starred Jerry O'Connell, Portia de Rossi, and Eddie Izzard as Herman Munster, Lily Munster, and Grandpa respectively.…

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Hitting Brach Bottom 1:26:02

10d ago1:26:02

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Episode 282. Get out your T-squares, we're talking Megalopolis! Melissa tries to sell us on The Substance, and Kyle shares the cartoon joy of Transformers One, Avatar: The Last Airbender live in concert, and being the first and maybe only person in his city to buy a ticket to see a Gundam movie in theaters. Melissa recaps her trip to Disney World, …

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Zodiac 1:50:06

17d ago1:50:06

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Episode 302. How has Kyle never seen Zodiac? That's the real mystery. Shametember corrects this error as we discuss David Fincher's 2007 true crime thriller. This movie follows the investigation into the Zodiac killer across decades through the perspective of detectives, journalists, and the few survivors of his attacks, all based on real accounts.…

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A Big Year for Sandworms! 1:14:20

24d ago1:14:20

1:14:20

Episode 281. With the success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and Dune: Part Two at the box office, is a sequel to Tremors far behind? What if it's already secretly on the calendar, masquerading as a normal film, but surprise, a big worm pops out at the end? Kyle gives us advice on surviving a plane trip. Melissa shares the mystery of Celebrity Number 6…

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Looney Tunes: Back in Action 1:40:37

1M ago1:40:37

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Episode 301. Shametember kicks off this year with a movie that Melissa has somehow never seen -- 2003's Looney Tunes: Back in Action, from Joe Dante, the director of the Gremlins films. In this live-action and animation hybrid, Bugs and Daffy join a globe-trotting adventure with an aspiring stuntman who needs to save his action star father from the…

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Wet Detectives 1:21:16

1M ago1:21:16

1:21:16

Episode 280. Kyle goes kayaking in Tampa and sees dolphins and maybe the world's largest sand dollar. Melissa goes to a metal concert less for the music, more for live snakes and big demon puppets. She also deals with her office moving to a new building full of liminal white hallways, heat traps, and incessant beeping. We talk about the prolific cr…

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The Shield 25:55

1M ago25:55

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The pilot episode of The Shield tends to top a number of people's best pilot episodes lists and the crime drama as a whole is often talked about in the same sentence as HBO's The Wire as one of the best crime shows period. So we definitely had to check out the first episode of this show from 2002. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Review Show: The Theme Park 1:41:23

1M ago1:41:23

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Episode 300! To celebrate our 300th episode, we're breaking our usual episode format to imagine a theme park based on the movies, shows, comics, and audio fiction we've covered in the past 299 episodes. Ideas include: High School Land, a Speed Racer roller coaster, a Mission:Impossible stunt spectacular, a carnival booth that will tell you if you'r…

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Blue Guy & Green Guy Meet Blue Guy & Green Guy 1:17:25

2M ago1:17:25

1:17:25

Episode 279. Now that the Olympics are over, it's time for fall to begin, with random sightings of kids out in public already wearing their Halloween costumes. We get nostalgic with Didi and confounded with Borderlands, and discuss two new movies based on true events starring the actual people from those events, Kneecap and Sing Sing. We recap movi…

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The Prisoner 2:01:25

2M ago2:01:25

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Episode 299. We are not numbers! We are free podcasters!! Our topic this episode is the 1967 British sci-fi mystery show The Prisoner. After suddenly resigning from his intelligence bureau, a spy known only as Number 6 is kidnapped and imprisoned in the eerily idyllic Village, where he's challenged with bizarre mind games until he gives up whatever…

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The Doom We Made Along the Way 1:14:29

2M ago1:14:29

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Episode 278. Kyle almost witnesses a road war. Melissa is blindsided by a new holiday and eats the best brownie that she may never encounter again. We discuss the wild rides of Longlegs and Trap, and recap the news out of Comic-Con! RDJ is our new Dr. Doom, but what if Marvel kept going and just announced more Dooms every couple weeks until we had …

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Deadpool & Wolverine Spoilercast 41:59

2M ago41:59

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Episode 138. Kyle and Melissa are here to talk about the Marvel smash hit Deadpool & Wolverine! We discuss the surprisingly emotional farewell to the 20th Century Fox era of superhero movies, the difference between anchor beings and nexus beings, going full Boomhauer, and a possible allusion to M&Ms lore. (00:00) - - Intro (00:02) - Welcome and ban…

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Small Wonder 29:35

2M ago29:35

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Episode 7. Often considered one of the worst sitcoms of all time, Small Wonder managed to last for four seasons. The sci-fi sitcom follows a robotics engineer and his family as they adopt one of the robots modeled after a young girl. The robot is so life-like that they often try to pass her off as real, but their nosey neighbors get suspicious. ★ S…

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1:33:18

2M ago1:33:18

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Episode 298. French cinema month concludes with the 1964 musical The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. It's the 1950s in a quaint French town, and young Genvieve is despondent over her boyfriend being sent off to war, and coming to terms with marrying a more sensible man whom she should love but doesn't. We talk about how the movie is sung through in its ent…

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McQueen of the Backrooms 1:23:25

3M ago1:23:25

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Episode 277. If our slogan is that we "thirst for the taste of legend," and Oklahoma City is building the world's tallest building and calling it Legends Tower, we understand the bargain we've unknowingly struck to lick that building. Kyle tries a new gin and this leads him to the world of evil video game mods on YouTube. Melissa reads us a list of…

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Titane 1:26:08

3M ago1:26:08

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Episode 297. In honor of the Paris Olympics, we're covering French cinema this July, starting with Titane. This is a 2021 horror movie about a woman who has sex with a car and becomes pregnant with a car baby. We discuss how strange the movie is beyond just this initial premise, the murder spree, the dance sequences, and a firefighting brigade made…

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The Bear S3 Spoilercast 1:02:53

3M ago1:02:53

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Episode 137. We're back in the podcast kitchen to discuss the new season of The Bear! We talk about "contemplation" being this season's watchword, the fork on the floor, the foolish wisdom of the Facs, and what it could mean if the restaurant gets two stars when it was only aiming for one. (00:00) - Intro (00:02) - Welcome and banter (01:57) - Our …

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Trivia Night 2024: Back in Action 1:04:23

3M ago1:04:23

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Episode 276. Ignacio, Kyle, and Melissa gather once more for our annual trivia night! We trade custom questions about pop culture, science, soda, and shockingly, sports. What is the longest-running anime series? What year did the first Funko Pop debut? What type of food was the defunct Taco Bell item known as the "Bell Beefer?" Join us for the thri…

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Wonder Woman (2011) 38:27

3M ago38:27

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Episode 6. If we are talking about pilot episodes, the unaired Wonder Woman pilot from 2011 is guaranteed to come up. The effects aren't finished, the music is from Lost, the vibes are just... off. But hey, we get to see a young Pedro Pascal who would eventually be the villain in the Wonder Woman sequel from 2020 entitled Wonder Woman 1984. This is…

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The Family Man 1:00:46

3M ago1:00:46

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Episode 296. We continue our tradition of watching a Nic Cage movie every 4th of July weekend, and it's Christmas in July with the 2000 magic realism holiday rom-com The Family Man. Jack Campbell is a successful businessman living a solo jetsetter lifestyle when he's transported to an alternate world where he stayed with his college sweetheart and …

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In My Bunsen Burner Era 1:19:52

4M ago1:19:52

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Episode 275. We identify a rival beverage enthusiast podcast, and ask how we can experiment more with our taste-tests, by wearing lab coats and drinking Mtn Dew out of beakers. Melissa advocates for the geriatric crime thriller Thelma, and goes to comedy podcast shows to see pizzas delivered live on stage. Kyle visits a wet n' wild paint room and c…

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The Bear s1-2 2:12:46

4M ago2:12:46

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Episode 295. We donned our aprons to talk about the first two seasons of the culinary dark comedy The Bear, in preparation for season three later this month. When a world class chef has to return home to Chicago and take over his late brother's failing sandwich shop, the whole staff struggles to adapt to their personal loss and new professional goa…

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Two Megatrons 1:25:55

4M ago1:25:55

1:25:55

Episode 274. How many movies does a person need to go see in a year to maintain a prosperous box office? How many Kyles need to gather in one place to get a world record? How do we continue to find new qualms and gripes about the one M&Ms commercial with the mime? We answer these questions, and discuss recent horror movies I Saw The TV Glow and In …

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The West Wing 24:19

4M ago24:19

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This month we tackle The West Wing, a show often praised for it's writing and quickly paced dialogue. Many pilot episodes lack the confidence or vision of what they will eventually develop into, but The West Wing seems to dodge that entirely. This pilot is a great example of one that truly gives you a glimpse at what the show will be down the road.…

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Chew vol. 1-2 1:17:14

4M ago1:17:14

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Episode 294. We chow down on the first two volumes of Chew, the 2009 comic from John Layman and Rob Guillory. Whenever Tony Chu eats something, he gets a psychic impression of its history. He can see where produce was grown or how meat was slaughtered, or if he bites a dead body, he can see that person's last moments. He uses this power as an agent…

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An Inspirational Story About Goku 1:06:16

5M ago1:06:16

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Episode 273. It's the return of our annual tradition: Kyle and Ignacio force an oblivious Melissa to predict what video game news will be released at Summer Games Fest, and she has to compete against a Magic 8 Ball to see who can get the most correct guesses. Will we see a new Grand Theft Auto trailer this year? How about a new Metroid game? How ma…

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North by Northwest 1:32:17

5M ago1:32:17

1:32:17

Episode 293. We run from a bi-plane right into a discussion on Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 thriller North by Northwest! Roger Thornhill is caught up in a web of espionage and danger after he's mistaken for a secret agent, and this humdrum advertising exec has to play the action hero to get out of this conspiracy alive. We share our experiences going to…

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The Reverse Godfather 1:13:19

5M ago1:13:19

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Episode 272. Kyle asks if modern screen acting performances have more spit and snot than ever before. Melissa ponders a reverse Godfather where the mob puts a bed inside your horse. We praise the new Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, including a break for spoilers and a debate on low box office vs. a theater full of people on their phones. We also…

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The Planet of the Apes Trilogy 1:30:01

5M ago1:30:01

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Episode 292. In preparation for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, we caught up on the trilogy of Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), and War for the Planet of the Apes (2017). These films act as a prequel to the original 1968 movie, showing how apes gained human intelligence and eventually drove humans out…

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Yasuke 22:23

5M ago22:23

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This month we take a look at the pilot episode of an anime called Yasuke. Loosely based on a real person of the same name, Yasuke follows an African warrior who served under the Japanese Daimyo in the Sengoku period. Now, 20 years later, the retired swordsman finds himself helping a woman and her sick child, who has magical powers, to go see a spec…

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Roboburger 1:14:40

5M ago1:14:40

1:14:40

Episode 271. Kyle spots the menacing figure from the Neighborhood Watch sign in real life. Melissa asks when in your TV and movie watching you're supposed to fit in time to stare at a keepsake digital photo frame. We discuss robot restaurants, how good a person's clapping skills can be, recent TV hits Shogun and Under the Bridge, cinema oddities Sa…

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Slow Horses s1 1:21:02

6M ago1:21:02

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Episode 291. We conclude Apple April by watching season one of the Apple TV+ espionage drama, Slow Horses. MI5 agents who have notorious failures but who aren't incompetent enough to be fired are demoted to Slough House, an outpost where they do menial tasks under the command of the misanthropic Jackson Lamb. This team of misfits has a chance to pr…

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Drawing Pokemon From Memory 1:31:43

6M ago1:31:43

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Episode 270. You think you know what Bulbasaur looks like, but how accurately can you draw him in three minutes with no visual reference? We challenge ourselves to draw Pokemon from memory, and proceed to screw up some arms and legs, forget most things that go on a head, ask if there are any Magmar stans out there, and interrogate the uncanny valle…

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Hello Tomorrow! 1:43:30

6M ago1:43:30

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Episode 290. It's Apple April, where we're exploring content from Apple TV+. This week is the first season of Hello Tomorrow!, a 2023 workplace dramedy set in a retro-futuristic world. Jack Billings left his family behind to become a traveling salesman for Brightside, a timeshare development on the moon. When his son unknowingly attends one of his …

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The Endgame 29:07

6M ago29:07

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Kyle and Melissa return to discuss the pilot for The Endgame, a crime show that premiered on February 21, 2022 on NBC. The show focused on Elena Federova, a criminal genius who faces off against FBI agent Val Turner amidst a heist. At the time of recording the episode, there were only a couple episodes out and has since gone on to a 10 episode seas…

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