Hey Fam..! with Andrew Levins and Angus Truskett
446 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 103 ratingsThe only podcast in the universe featuring two white guys talking about movies, tv and video games.
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Episodes
Episode 42: Adios Amigos
June 07, 2016 14:21 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBThe Hey Fam baby bros are back after a week off in which Levins finally caught up with the second season of Daredevil, Angus played 15 hours of Overwatch and The Avalanches released a new single! We discuss all of that plus make a few terrible predictions about E3 this weekend. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 41: The Prince's Bride
May 24, 2016 13:25 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBThe Hey Fam boys are back to talk TV, movies, video games and comics once again, sharing their thoughts on X-Men Apocalypse, the pilot episode of Preacher on AMC and Lady Dynamite on Netflix, plus they finally give the final verdict on Uncharted 4! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 40: The Resurrection
May 18, 2016 23:06 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBWe finally checked our email address ([email protected]) and found a tonne of questions from listeners so we decided to answer them! Plus we learnt about Nintendo's plan to make movies from their many franchises, so we try to work out which of their games would make a great movie. Also, a three word review of Uncharted 4. Great stuff. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 39: Return of the King
May 11, 2016 12:27 - 1 hour - 64.3 MBWe hear you fam - enough with the comic book movie talk already! We take a break from superhero vs superhero to discuss all things video games, from our troubling relationship with Nintendo as they kill the Wii U and look toward whatever the NX is gonna be, to how fun the PS4 has been lately with recent hits Ratchet & Clank and Uncharted 4. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 38: Gotcha (with Steele Saunders)
May 03, 2016 23:59 - 1 hour - 82.4 MBIt's the return of Steele 'Crybaby' Saunders (Steele Wars, ILove Green Guide Letters) to the Hey Fam couch! We tried to givehim an opportunity to talk about something other than Star Wars butafter an hour of us praising Captain America: Civil War (again),the conversation morphs into the most glorious hour of Star Warsgeekery, when we discuss our problems with the Star Wars comics,the latest young adult novels and Steele's new Star Wars parodynews website. May the 4th be with you fam. Hoste...
Spoiler Episode! Captain America: Civil War
April 28, 2016 05:43 - 1 hour - 55 MBWe saw the latest Marvel movie last night and stayed up latereviewing it! Did we love Captain America: Civil War or are we nowon suicide watch after having our hopes and dreams crushed byanother superhero movie? Find out if you need to keep#prayingforangus by listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 37: Manic Monday (with Cameron James)
April 20, 2016 12:38 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBHey Cam! Our 'no guests streak' has been broken! We finally invited the last member of our once-rival podcast The Blank Slate Movie Podcast to come do an episode with us - comedian and film therapist Cameron James. Under the professional guidance of Angus's family doctor, Dr Chow, Levins and Cam join forces to help manage Angus's expectations for upcoming movie blockbusters. Is it OK for us to get excited about superhero movies? What about children's literature adaptations like The BFG? Is Le...
Episode 36: Dog Day Afternoon
April 12, 2016 14:32 - 1 hour - 45 MBWe're back for another therapy session for Angus after he was traumatised by BVS. Doctor's orders? An hour's worth of discussion about Nintendo's new Miitomo app, the latest trailers for Star Wars: Rogue One and Suicide Squad and try not to mention the words 'Zack' or 'Snyder' for at least one whole episode. #prayforangus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Spoiler Episode! Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
March 25, 2016 10:04 - 2 hours - 83.3 MBWe saw Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice last night and we had a few hundred things to get off our chest about it today. Two grown men complain about a superhero movie for two straight hours. This is what podcasts were invented for! If you need counselling after seeing BVS: DAJ, fire this episode up and let your hate flow along with ours. We're gonna be ok. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 35: Less Than 30
March 17, 2016 06:29 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBAnother week where we don't plan much and end up rambling for 100 hot minutes about the most important issues facing our planet right now, for example: 10 Cloverfield Lane, is it a real sequel to Cloverfield? Does that even matter? How did it suddenly get to be one week before Batman Vs Superman comes out? How are we going to manage to watch the second season of Daredevil this weekend? Can we afford a PS VR? Some huge answers to some huge questions on the hugest podcast in the country. Hos...
Episode 34: Sorry, Ari
March 11, 2016 01:33 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBThis week: we react to others reacting to the Ghostbusters trailer, rant even more about Captain America: Civil War and unload our thoughts about the most recent Nintendo Direct and the future of Nintendo, including our thoughts on the Zelda: Twilight Princess HD remake. Plus! Some hot goss about our recent foray into the world of television! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 33: What About Bob?
March 02, 2016 09:31 - 1 hour - 49.9 MBThe boys are back in town and down 2 clown about everything from the perils of trying to watch too many TV shows to Kanye's love of Will Ferrell. Plus some recent updates from Star Wars - the movies, the games and the comics, and we enter the world of remastered video games. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 32: I Wanna Be Sedated
February 17, 2016 13:59 - 1 hour - 54.3 MBOur guest-free February continues with a BABY BROS ONLY episode of Hey Fam! Featuring hot takes on 11 22 63, the new James Franco mini-series executive produced by J.J. Abrams, our thoughts on the end of Firewatch, Angus's exclusive screening of the Kanye album and what the success of Deadpool means for the future of superhero movies. Plus: Shane Warne updates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 31: Vegas Baby, Vegas!
February 10, 2016 14:14 - 1 hour - 46.3 MBWe saw the Deadpool movie and it was actually pretty good! So we spend the first half of the episode eating our hats before moving on to a discussion of some fantastic indie games that have recently come out on PS4, including The Witness and Firewatch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 30: The Release
February 02, 2016 21:50 - 1 hour - 51.7 MBTwo boys on a couch discussing Louis CK's brand new super depressing episode of Cheers, the return of The Venture Bros, Shane Warne back on TV, our concerns about the Deadpool movie and our inability to describe the new PS4 game The Witness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 29: Strange Days (with Alexei Toliopoulos)
January 27, 2016 14:16 - 1 hour - 75 MBThis week's guest is Australia's own bad boy of movie and film criticism: writer and comedian Alexei Toliopoulos of The Blank Slate Movie Podcast. Fresh off multiple screenings of The Hateful Eight, the three of us review Quentin Tarantini's new movie and then attempt the impossible: ranking every one of QT's movies from bottom to top. Alexei and Angus also share the beginnings of a Star Wars script they're working on together and Levins reviews the awful trailers screened before The Hateful...
Episode 28: Three's Company
January 21, 2016 01:20 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBHey Fam is back for the new year with a big episode of hot predictions for 2016 TV, movies, video games and comic books! PLUS we talk about Making A Murderer, Mr Robot, Jessica Jones, Splatoon and some more of 2015's TV and games that we caught up with over Christmas, and Angus shares his experiences watching The Force Awakens for the fifth time at a 4D Cinema in Osaka! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 27: Crash and Burn (The Best Comics of 2015)
January 07, 2016 02:41 - 1 hour - 64 MBOur last best 0f 2015 episode is all about COMIC BOOKS! Featuring a seven person panel including Levins, Siobhan Coombs, Alexei Toliopoulos, Caitlin Welsh, Nachopop, Vern Reyes and Scott Sheens, we all sat down and decided our favourite DC comics, Marvel Comics, Image Comics, our favourite authors and artists of the year and our most disappointing comics of the year! If you've been reading comics all year or have been thinking about getting into comic books - this is the episode for you! F...
Episode 26: Guys and Doll (with The Meeting Tree)
January 01, 2016 04:57 - 47 minutes - 32.3 MBWe've been wrapping up all the best art we consumed this year - so far we've done incredible, informative episodes dedicated to the best movies, TV and games of 2015. But at the dawn of a new year, it's time to take an even more incredible and even more informative look back at the most powerful art form of the last 12 months: memes. Who better to help us dig deep into the archives than Sydney's godfathers of EDM, The Meeting Tree, aka Joyride and Raph Lauren. Creators of music, culture and...
Episode 25: Dominated (with Thomas "Shag" McMullan)
December 23, 2015 13:12 - 2 hours - 84.8 MBWe continue our exploration of 2015's best things with an episode dedicated to our favourite video games of the year! Joining us for this massive two hour discussion is Thomas McMullan - better known as Shag - who has hosted Arvos on FBi Radio for the last decade and helped put together a 2015 games survey in which 65 different people (ourselves included!) were asked to vote for their favourite games of the year. We reveal the top 10 and discuss our personal faves, plus we got some cameo reco...
Spoiler Episode! Star Wars The Force Awakens!
December 16, 2015 17:26 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBWe just saw The Force Awakens at midnight! We haven't slept! So what better to do than just hit that mf record button and let ALL of our thoughts fly about this year's/decade's/century's most anticipated cinematic event? NOTHING! This episode is FULL of spoilers and while they're not co-herent, SAVE THIS EPISODE FOR UNTIL YOU SEE THE MOVIE! You've been warned! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 24: One Day in the Valley (with Eb Yusuf and The Blank Slate Movie Podcast)
December 10, 2015 00:34 - 1 hour - 72.1 MBWe continue our look back at the best of 2015 by doing an episode all about movies with our good friend and previous guest, film marketer Eb Yusuf. Plus OH NO OUR SCUMBAG RIVALS THE BLANK SLATE MOVIE PODCAST SNUCK INTO THIS EPISODE SOMEHOW AND TURN OUR EDUCATED CRITIQUE INTO JUVENILE FILTH! HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 23: Aquamom (with Lee Tran Lam, Jon Valenzuela, Matt Roden and Sophie Braham)
December 02, 2015 15:15 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBEvery episode of Hey Fam this month is a BEST OF 2015 episode and this week we kick it off with a huge BEST OF TV IN 2015 special featuring a panel of experts including Gruen's Sophie Braham, Sydney Story Factory's Matt Roden, Jon Valenzuela from Soap Creative and Lee Tran Lam from The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry - plus your baby bros Angus and Levins. What TV did we love in 2015? More importantly, what did we hate? Tune in to some of the hottest arguments of the year about one of ...
Live Episode: Hey Fam It's Saturday!
November 26, 2015 00:19 - 2 hours - 86.2 MBThe episode you've been waiting for! We invited a long list of amazing guests to join us at Giant Dwarf for our very every live episode! You'll hear live music, jags, trolls, parlour games, poorly drawn commissioned art and a whole lot more visual gags that won't make sense! In addition, you'll finally hear the debut live performance of the very thing we've been threatening you with since our early days - the 'long lost' Entourage script written by us and starring some of Sydney's funniest! ...
Episode 22: The Abyss
November 19, 2015 13:49 - 1 hour - 46.9 MBThe bad news is that this episode is late. The good news is that IT FRIDAY BABY and Levins and Angus are finally back at Hey Fam HQ for a good old fashioned Fam out. We discuss Aziz Ansari's new show Master of None and the insane amount of cool new shows up on Netflix this month, Angus explains how he's been trying to divide his time between Fallout 4, Star Wars Battlefront and playing every Metal Gear game ever made and Levins recounts his recent trip to Tokyo and what it was like taking a...
Episode 21: Exodus (with Arne Meyer)
November 09, 2015 07:30 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBLevins and Angus leave the comfort of Angus's living room and head back to the Playstation office to sit down with Arne Meyer from Naughty Dog, the game company behind Uncharted, The Last of Us, Crash Bandicoot and more. Arne has been working at Naughty Dog since Uncharted 2 came out and gave us some hot insider info about Uncharted 4. We also pitched him a few games starring our favourite Uncharted character, Victor 'Sully' Sullivan, and asked him to put forward his ideal cast for a potentia...
Episode 19: Blue Balls Lagoon
October 28, 2015 12:05 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBHalf live from Paris! Levins has been making videos from Paris Games Week and fought off his treacherous jetlag for an hour to speak with Angus about the massive Playstation conference and a stack of big game announcements, including Star Wars Battlefront, Uncharted 4 and Streetfighter V. Angus has finished Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which has inspired him to do something CRAZY that’ll take at least 6 more months. Meanwhile, Levins has played about 10 minutes of that new Zelda gam...
Episode 18: The Bat Mitzvah (with The Blank Slate Movie Podcast)
October 21, 2015 14:13 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBIt finally happened! After years venomous trash talk between podcasts, Hey Fam is invaded by those scum at The Blank Slate Movie Podcast. That's right, Henry Stone, Cameron James and Alexei Touliopoulos in the Hey Fam studio, stinking up the joint! How do they get in? Do they ever get out? Which Hey Fam members survive? Amidst the chaos we reflect on that new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer, suggest a few comics for a non comic reader, remember that 3D episode of The Simpsons, reveal t...
Episode 17: I Love You Too
October 14, 2015 21:18 - 1 hour - 54.4 MBIt's an hour long geek out with the Hey Fam family. Levins and Angus have been playing that Star Wars Battlefront beta and they've got plenty of battle stories to share - it's even been keeping Angus away from Metal Gear Solid V (almost). In between battles we report some of the cooler announcements from New York Comic-Con, including new news about Marvel's Daredevil TV series and the latest additions to their cinematic universe. Levins gives an update on how much money he's spent on Lego Dim...
Episode 16: Oh, Mandy (with Aaron Gocs)
October 07, 2015 12:35 - 1 hour - 51.1 MBSome of us are obsessed with video games, comic books, bad TV. Our guest today is obsessed with Red Rooster. Maybe you saw him recently reviewing the Jimmy Barnes ice creams, or more likely wearing cornrows and eating corn while he listened to Korn. He's the hottest thing out of Queensland since Bindi Irwin. He is comedian Aaron Gocs and he's got a lot to say about dated 90s comedies and old Simpsons episodes. Plus Levins and Angus recount their night at the EB Games Expo, in which they got...
Episode 15: The Sundance Kids
October 01, 2015 01:57 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBWho's up? Angus and Levins, that's who! No guests just pure content as they go back to the roots of Hey Fam and rant about video games, movies and... memes? Find out why Angus is addicted to Metal Gear Solid V, if Levins cried while watching Tomorrowland on a plane and whether Kevin Smith's live show at the Opera House was as good as our interview with him last week! PLUS - it's a world exclusive - we celebrate the life and death of That's Amore memes. Where else can you find hot content like...
Bonus Episode! Interview with Kevin Smith
September 24, 2015 13:35 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBSurprise fam! We got a special bonus episode for you with an Interview that Levins did with Kevin Smith this week! Over a crackly phone connection Kevin Smith tells Levins about the comic books that he'd like to see adapted into movies, what he loves most about podcasting and some crazy info about Mallrats 2! It's a fun and candid in-depth interview with a dude who pretty much inspired us to start making Hey Fam! Before the Kevin interview we talk for a lil' bit about Super Mario Maker, Angus...
Episode 14: Chinatown (with Siobhan Reddy)
September 23, 2015 13:35 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBWe leave the Hey Familia studios for the first time and head to the PlayStation office to speak with Siobhan Reddy, studio director of Media Molecule, who've produced games like Little Big Planet, Tearaway and the upcoming Dreams. If Playstation had a Nintendo wing, it would be Media Molecule, and Siobhan tells us about her creative process, about the games that influence her and her team, how her games have lead to her hiring new staff and what games she's been playing lately. Plus we make h...
Episode 13: Neighbors (with Steele Saunders)
September 16, 2015 13:35 - 2 hours - 84.1 MBWe invited Steele Saunders, comedian and host of the hit podcasts Steele Wars and I Love Green Guide Letters, into the Hey Fam studios and we made him cry! Actually, he made himself cry as he recounted his emotional journey through Hall H for this year's Star Wars panel at ComicCon. It's an all Star Wars episode this week, while Steele isn't crying we get amped about The Force Awakens, go over the revisions made to the first trilogy and recount our Force Friday experiences. We actually inter...
Episode 12: An Offer Refused (with The Meeting Tree)
September 09, 2015 13:35 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBIt's our first all musical episode with our special guests, the Godfathers of Australian Dance Music: The Meeting Tree! We invited Joyride and Raph to talk about movies, TV, video games and comic books - but end up talking about the ARIA awards, memes and the fact that Raph hasn't seen a movie since Avatar. Plus Joyride books flights to Brisbane during this episode and it's an absolute thrill to listen to. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 11: Aquamansion (with Lewi McKirdy)
September 02, 2015 13:35 - 1 hour - 64.7 MBThis week we stole Lewi McKirdy, the voice of Australia's youth, from the triple j studios and forced him to reveal unbelievable facts about himself to us over the course of 90 minutes. Did you know he's an obsessive iPhone gamer who has at one point held the highest scores in the world for some apps? Or that he recently entered himself into a Mario Kart 64 tournament and has a man crush on a particularly beautiful Nintendo rep? Or that he was on an MTV reality show that saw him swap lives wi...
Episode 10: My Maserati Does 185 (with Becky Lucas)
August 26, 2015 22:29 - 1 hour - 52 MBBecky Lucas is a comedian and also the woman responsible for our LEWDEST EPISODE YET! Get ready for thrills, Wils and grills when we ask our first guest who doesn't watch TV, see movies, play games or read comics to talk to us about TV, movies, games and comics! Marvel as we compare Disneyland to Banksy's new art stinker 'Dismal-land', justify our embarrassing tattoos and serve up another hot slab of beef to our sworn enemies at The Blank Slate Movie Podcast! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...
Episode 9: The Boys Are Back in Town (with Radge and Eb Yusuf)
August 19, 2015 22:45 - 1 hour - 55.9 MBRadge and Eb Yusuf spend half their time and all their money watching movies in Gold Class. They are the 1%, and the only people on the planet that liked the Fantastic Four movie, so we got them both on to discuss the best and worst of superhero movies, from the depths of Daredevil and Elektra to the soaring heights of The Winter Soldier. We also ask them to recommend TV shows to fill the True Detective sized hole in our hearts AND we respond to the biggest beef in podcast history - the hero...
Episode 8: New York (with Stuart Daulman)
August 12, 2015 14:22 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBHey Fam is eight episodes old! We celebrate by cutting us a birthday slice of Melbourne comedian (ugh we know, another one) Stuart Daulman. Together we dissect that final episode of True Detective season two and take a look at the season overall. Did we love it? Who do we want for season three? Is there any other podcast in the game that will spend a solid 20 minutes recasting The Sandlot Kids for a new generation? We answer all these questions PLUS give you some tight chats about Star Wars,...
Episode 7: The Scene (with Tommy Dassalo)
August 05, 2015 22:43 - 1 hour - 68.4 MBLevins and (sober) Angus are joined by Melbourne mate Tommy Dassalo, host of The Little Dum Dum Club Podcast. We think about the things that make YOU think, including that second last eppy of True Detective, the abomination that is Pixels vs. the Adam Sandler movies we grew up with, Nintendo in Japan and how hard it is keeping up with Ballers every week. Plus we introduce multiple new segments, like the enthralling DREAMCAST and the extremely next level MAKES U THINK. Hosted on Acast. See ...
Episode 6: Busey and the Beach (with Henry Stone)
July 30, 2015 04:31 - 1 hour - 51.5 MBOur first drunk episode! The fam is joined by Henry Stone, former YouTube star and host of our rival podcast The Blank Slate Movie Podcast. Angus plays a drinking game where he drinks whenever Levins says something. We discuss the latest episode of True Detective, Henry's habit of finishing the Arkham games a day after they're released, the dark side of the extended Star Wars universe and work out what the funniest part of the male anatomy is. Oh yeeeeah! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...
Episode 5: The Script and the Sherpa (with Siobhan Coombs)
July 22, 2015 13:30 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBThis week the babybros are joined by comics guru Siobhan Coombs for A long look back at the work of Geoff Johns after it was announced he was co-writing the new Batman movie! We also review Marvel's latest flick Ant-Man, dissect another episode of True Detective and make some bold predictions for the future of Ballers! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 4: Date Night (with Gen Fricker)
July 15, 2015 13:34 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBAngus and Levins welcome the first ever guest to Hey Fam HQ: comedian Gen Fricker! She brings with her some hot takes on Magic Mike XXL, we reflect on the new DC previews from Comic-Con, read the new Archie comic, catch up on True Detective and pay homage to gaming legend Satoru Iwata. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 3: Talk Show
July 08, 2015 13:34 - 1 hour - 54.8 MBWe're back! Angus and Levins check in on Vinnie and the boys before going through the highlights of the latest episodes of Ballers and True Dickies. Angus tries to convince Levins to buy a PS4, we go through the latest Star Wars news (and comics!) and try to work out what those darn Minions are all about! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 2: The Review
July 01, 2015 13:38 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBEpisode 2! Levins and Angus get deeeeep into Pixar's new movie Inside Out, catch up on the latest True Detective (and Ballers obviously), discuss the recent Spider-Man and Marvel comics news and compare Arkham Knight to Yoshi's Wooly World. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episode 1: Entourage
June 25, 2015 03:57 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBFor our very first episode we slap on a few classic Entourage eps and talk about the new season of True Detective, our reservations regarding the upcoming Suicide Squad movie, the emotional rollercoaster that is being a Nintendo fan and our favourite lines (AKA every single line) in The Rock's new HBO sitcom Ballers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.