After Lunch
768 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 52 ratingsMichael May, Rob Graham, and Friends discuss TV, movies, comics, games, and anything else they happen to think of.
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175 | Evan's Marvel Comics Reboot
April 24, 2023 05:00 - 48 minutes - 22.2 MBEvan wasn't able to join us last episode when Michael, Rob, and Jody Collins rebooted Marvel Comics, so in this episode, he shares his ideas for all-new versions of Thor, Iron Man, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, Hulk, Daredevil, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men.
174 | Marvel Comics Reboot
April 17, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBBack in Episode 165, we speculated what Marvel Comics might be like if they took a year off from publishing superhero comics and focused on other genres instead. In this sequel episode, Michael, Rob, and Jody Collins return to imagine how Marvel might reboot their most classic superhero series with brand new, completely different concepts and characters. Evan wasn't able to join us for this one, but stay tuned for an upcoming episode in which he reveals his own ideas for reboots of all eight...
173 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
April 10, 2023 06:23 - 1 hour - 44.6 MBMichael and Rob continue their journey through the Mission: Impossible films with the fourth in the series, Brad Bird's Ghost Protocol.
172 | OK Connery (1967)
April 03, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 34 MBMichael, Rob, and Karen Flieger take a detour from the main James Bond series to watch Italy's OK Connery (aka Operation: Kid Brother) starring Sean Connery's younger brother as a famous secret agent's younger brother who's pulled into a spy caper. Thanks to the super popularity of Goldfinger and Thunderball, lots of Bond spoofs and rip-offs came out around this time, but OK Connery is unique for including iconic actors from the actual Bond movies, including Lois Maxwell, Bernard Lee, Daniel...
171 | After Dinner Lounge – The Elgin Marbles
March 31, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 70.7 MBMichael, Rob, Evan, and Pax talk about what they've been watching and thinking about. Topics include The Last of Us, Quantumania, Marlowe, Adam Driver vs dinosaurs, Bono and the Edge talking to Dave Letterman, Pumping Iron, Party Down, Creed 3, behind the scenes making a major Disney animated movie, villains as main characters, buying cars, engaging with ridiculous ideas, and the difference between openness and vulnerability.
170 | Lost (with Annaliese and Carlin Trammel)
March 29, 2023 05:00 - 11 minutes - 5.09 MBA couple of episodes ago, Michael and Rob talked about JJ Abrams' Mission Impossible III and the TV show Lost came up. Michael mentioned an episode of the old Dragonfly Ripple podcast where Annaliese Trammel shared her thoughts on the first two seasons with her dad, Carlin. It was a wonderful bit of podcast history, but it's not easily available anymore, so we're rerunning it. Please enjoy.
169 | After Dinner Lounge – Do My Doodie
March 28, 2023 03:24 - 2 hours - 64.5 MBMichael, Rob, Evan, and Pax talk about what they've been listening to and reading. Topics include teenage stupidity, pocket symphonies, which Enterprise we'd want to serve on, De La Soul and music licensing, annotated books, Barry Allen goes to Marvel, Batman: White Knight, The Big Sleep, and Nothing.
168 | Mission: Impossible III (2006)
March 24, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 59.1 MBMichael and Rob talk about JJ Abrams' contribution to the Mission: Impossible series, starring Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Michelle Monaghan, Billy Crudup, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maggie Q, Simon Pegg, Laurence Fishburne, and Keri Russell.
167 | Thunderball (1965)
March 20, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 71.6 MBMichael, Rob, and Karen Flieger talk about Sean Connery's fourth adventure as James Bond in Thunderball. Lots of music discussion in this one, praise for Paula Caplan and Fiona Volpe, and awe at Largo's impressive sense of fashion.
166 | Top 10 Years Later (2013)
March 13, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours - 66.8 MBMichael, Pax, and guest Noel Thingvall (with input from Evan as well) recall their favorite films of 2013 and how they feel about them now. And they might get into some of the big stinkers of 2013 as well.
165 | Marvel's Year Without Superheroes
March 06, 2023 07:30 - 1 hour - 51.4 MBMichael, Rob, Evan, and guest Jody Collins imagine a reality in which Marvel Comics takes a year off from publishing superhero comics to focus on other genres. What genres should they pick? What stories should they tell? And what creators should write and draw them?
164 | Bond Novels: The Man with the Golden Gun
February 27, 2023 06:00 - 5 minutes - 2.52 MBMichael wraps up his series of solo episodes about Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels with his last book: The Man With the Golden Gun. Heavily influenced by the three films that had come out by then, it's a hint at the direction the series might have taken had Fleming lived long enough to write more. Whether that's a good thing or not is up for discussion.
163 | After Dinner Lounge – Parrot with Fat Man
February 24, 2023 06:00 - 2 hours - 64.5 MBMichael, Rob, Evan, and Pax talk about what they've been watching and thinking about, including Willow, Velma, The Last of Us, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Ford v Ferrari, Black Adam, Gotham Knights, The Banshees of Inisherin, Pluto TV, Shrinking, how faithful adaptations should be, sleep, where we live, and planning a Sleepy Hollow trip.
162 | After Dinner Lounge – A New Thing On the Old Thing
February 20, 2023 06:00 - 2 hours - 62.9 MBMichael, Rob, Evan, and Pax talk about Marvel's Old Man characters, Martin Short's I Must Say, how to listen to movie review podcasts, malls, live action kids TV shows, John Carter of Mars, why our playlists are so awesome, the Fantastic Four, the UK’s rudest walk, epistolary books, Greek mythology, redcaps, mystery novels vs short stories, Star Trek comics, and other things they've been listening to and reading.
161 | Mission: Impossible II (2000)
February 17, 2023 06:54 - 1 hour - 41.1 MBMichael and Rob get through John Woo's stylistic sequel, but is it really as bad as they remembered? There's guitars, slow motion, sunglasses, and doves, but also Anthony Hopkins, Thandiwe Newton, and Ving Rhames.
Nerd Lunch Podcast 881 | Nerdstradamus 2013 Redux
February 15, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBCT, Jeeg, and Pax reunite to look back at their very first Nerdstradamus episode and the predictions they made 10 years ago in Jan 2013.
160 | Goldfinger (1964)
February 13, 2023 06:00 - 2 hours - 62.9 MBMichael, Rob, and Karen don their golf togs and hit the green to talk about the film that changed the James Bond series forever. But are those changes all for the better? That's just one of the many topics under discussion, so pour yourself a glass of indifferently blended brandy and settle in.
159 | Nerdstradamus 2023
February 10, 2023 06:00 - 2 hours - 78.1 MBAt last! Michael, Rob, Evan, Robert Zerbe, and Kay look back at their favorite pop culture, predictions, and resolutions for 2022 and make a few predictions and resolutions for 2023 as well.
158 | Mission: Impossible (1996)
February 06, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 41.1 MBMichael and Rob get ready for this summer's Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One with the first in a series of episodes covering the Mission: Impossible movies so far. In this one, they talk about Baby Tom Cruise, the fate of Jim Phelps, the charming Max, and whether any of this makes sense.
157 | After Dinner Lounge – What's In the Box?
February 03, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 44.6 MBMichael, Rob, Evan, and Pax reminisce about their favorite things they watched this year, do some thinking about the past and the future, and open some presents.
156 | After Dinner Lounge – Not a Pho-natic
January 30, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 52 MBMichael, Rob, Evan, and Pax talk about their favorite things that they listened to and read from 2022. And whether they'd be willing to pay the horrible price of teleportation.
155 | Star Trek: Discovery, Season 3
January 23, 2023 06:00 - 2 hours - 77.4 MBMichael, Rob, and Delaney skip ahead to the 32nd Century in their chronological Star Trek trek with Season 3 of Discovery. As the crew tries to locate the remnants of the Federation and acclimate to life in the future, our panel talks about favorite characters, plot threads, and themes of the season.
154 | Blind Reboots
January 17, 2023 01:40 - 1 hour - 34.6 MBMichael, Rob, Pax, and David May reboot TV shows based only on brief descriptions of their premises.
153 | Quantum Leap (2022) wth Carlin Trammel and Robert Zerbe
January 11, 2023 06:00 - 40 minutes - 18.4 MBCarlin and Robert Try to Put Right What's Going Wrong with the new Quantum Leap! Theorizing one can get a few things off his chest, Carlin Trammel leaps into the podcast time stream. His only guide on this journey is Robert Zerbe, a fellow observer of the new Quantum Leap TV series airing on NBC. So both podcasters find themselves watching each episode of the new series and extensively making notes on what can be done to put right what is going on and hoping that Scott Bakula will also le...
152 | Bond Novels: You Only Live Twice
January 09, 2023 06:00 - 8 minutes - 3.78 MBMichael continues his solo exploration of Fleming's Bond novels with the next-to-last in the series, You Only Live Twice. Following the tragic events of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, M sends Bond to Japan on an impossible diplomatic mission that becomes something much more bizarre and personal.
151 | From Russia with Love (1963)
January 02, 2023 06:00 - 2 hours - 65.9 MBMichael and Rob and Karen Flieger board the Orient Express to speed up the frequency of their Bond movie discussions this year, starting with Sean Connery's second appearance as Bond in From Russia with Love. The trio talks about the characters, music, quips, clothing, gadgets, and everything else that makes this one of their favorites.
150 | After Dinner Lounge – The Wig Budget
December 30, 2022 06:00 - 2 hours - 76.6 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax talk about what they've been watching: TV series like Midnight Club, Andor, Stargirl, Wednesday, Mythic Quest, Willow, Perry Mason, Mare of Easttown, and A-Team “Christmas” episodes. Then there are movies like A Christmas Story Christmas, the Cannonball Run sequel Speed Zone, the Underworld series, The Shop Around the Corner, Ernest Saves Christmas, and a White Christmas live production. Finally, the loungers are thinking about Christmas movies. Specifically: what ma...
149 | After Christmas Lounge – Bring on the Whamageddon
December 26, 2022 20:03 - 1 hour - 52.2 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax talk about annoying Christmas Songs, Christmas mysteries and ghost stories, Lindsey Stirling music, book forewords and introductions, Mount Westmore, X-Men: Inferno, Batman: Three Jokers, and other things they've been listening to and reading.
148 | A Christmas Carol (1910) and Scrooge (1935)
December 23, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 40.1 MBMichael and Rob welcome Mike Westfall from the Advent Calendar House podcast to discuss a pair of the oldest adaptations of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. From 1910, it's the silent version from Thomas Edison's production company. And then we talk about the 1935 film starring Seymour Hicks. And be sure to check out Mike, Rob, and Michael's Advent Calendar House discussion from earlier this season about the 1971 cartoon that brought back Alastair Sim as the voice of Scrooge.
147 | Christmas Movie Menus
December 21, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 35.8 MBIn a completely original idea - Nerd Lunch definitely did not do this exact same topic on Episode 320 of their show - Michael and Rob welcome Evan Hanson, Paxton Holley, and Michael DiGiovanni to help a few restaurants create special menus inspired by Christmas movies.
146 | Die Hard (1988)
December 19, 2022 06:00 - 51 minutes - 23.6 MBThis is the final rerun of Tangential Christmas Movie discussions from the old Sleigh Bell Cinema podcast and it seems appropriate to close with the poster child for these kind of movies. People love to argue about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie, so we wouldn’t dream of spoiling where Jeeg and Michael fall on that topic.
145 | The Ref (1994)
December 16, 2022 15:15 - 56 minutes - 25.7 MBToday we’re wrapping up Week 2 rerunning discussions of Tangential Christmas movies from the Sleigh Bell Cinema podcast. We’re actually not quite done yet, because there’s one more on Monday and it’s a doozy. But first, Jeeg and Michael talk about the Denis Leary vehicle, The Ref, from 1994. And if you want to hear even more on The Ref on this very feed, check the old Nerd Lunch Extra Helping episode from December 2012 where Jeeg talks about it with Carlin Trammel.
144 | It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
December 15, 2022 05:29 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBLong before there was ever such a movie as Die Hard, the idea of Tangential Christmas movies was introduced by It’s a Wonderful Life. It gets played at Christmastime and has an important Christmas scene, but is it a Christmas movie? In this rerun from Michael's old Sleigh Bell Cinema podcast, he and Carlin Trammel talk about that very question.
143 | Holiday Inn (1942)
December 14, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 33.1 MBWe’re still doing reruns about Tangential Christmas movies from the old Sleigh Bell Cinema podcast and on this episode Michael talks with Lizzie Twachtman about a Bing Crosby classic. With Fred Astaire and Marjorie Reynolds, it’s 1942’s Holiday Inn.
142 | Remember the Night (1940)
December 13, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBContinuing our reruns about Tangential Christmas movies from Michael's old Sleigh Bell Cinema podcast, this episode welcomes back Siskoid to talk about a movie that he mentioned in our discussion of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. From 1940 and starring the legendary team of Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, it’s Remember the Night.
141 | The Thin Man (1934)
December 12, 2022 06:00 - 45 minutes - 20.7 MBKicking off our second week of reruns about Tangential Christmas movies from the old Sleigh Bell Cinema podcast with a discussion Michael had with our friend Kay about the 1934 classic whodunnit, The Thin Man starring William Powell and Myrna Loy.
140 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
December 09, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MBWrapping up this first week of reruns about Tangential Christmas movies from the old Sleigh Bell Cinema podcast, Siskoid introduces Michael to an excellent French film, Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo. If you’ve never seen it, we highly recommend it, but you don’t need to have seen it to enjoy the discussion.
139 | Better Off Dead... (1985)
December 08, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 29.9 MBIn our next Sleigh Bell Cinema rerun, Michael talks to Shawn Robare about Savage Steve Holland's Better Off Dead... (starring John Cusack, Diane Franklin, and Curtis Armstrong) and how much it actually has to do with Christmas.
138 | Gremlins (1984)
December 07, 2022 06:00 - 53 minutes - 24.5 MBIn another rerun from the former Sleigh Bell Cinema podcast, Michael talks with Nerd Lunch's Jeeg about the Joe Dante almost-Christmas classic, Gremlins.
137 | Shazam! (2019)
December 06, 2022 06:00 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MBThis Christmas season is all about Tangential Christmas Movies on After Lunch. After our discussion of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang last episode, we're going to spend the next couple of weeks re-running discussions of other Tangential Christmas Movies from Michael's old Sleigh Bell Cinema podcast. Starting with this one about Shazam! with Michael's son, David May.
136 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
December 05, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 37.7 MBOfficially kicking off the Christmas season on After Lunch, Michael and Rob welcome back Jacob Bean-Watson (The Movie Connection podcast) to discuss the tangential Christmas movie, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Directed by Shane Black and starring Robert Downey Jr, Val Kilmer, and Michelle Monaghan.
135 | After Dinner Lounge – Where'd Everybody Go?
December 02, 2022 06:00 - 2 hours - 76.9 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax finish this month's lounge discussion with what they've been watching and thinking about, including She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Mike Flanagan movies, Black Adam, The Sound of 007, Clerks 3 and the View Askewniverse, elderly action heroes, Jack Ryan, the recent Halloween trilogy, in-universe canons, and Twitter.
134 | After Dinner Lounge – ValuKast
November 28, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 40.9 MBMichael, Rob, and Pax gather in the After Lunch After Dinner Lounge to talk about what they've been listening to and reading this month, including Agatha Christie, early Marvel comics, and James Tynion IV.
133 | Doctor Sleep
November 21, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 50.8 MBChristmas is a time for ghost stories. And though it may not be Christmas season for everyone yet, it's never too early for a haunted tale. Michael and Rob kick off what they hope is a new After Lunch tradition of November ghost stories by talking about Doctor Sleep, in which one of their favorite film directors adapts a book by one of their favorite authors.
132 | Literary Villains Sour 16
November 14, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 48.6 MBMichael and Rob welcome back Chris Bailey (aka Charlton Hero) to the show to match up the greatest literary villains of all time in an ultimate showdown to determine the absolute best. Also featuring picks from Evan Hanson, who sadly couldn't join us for the recording.
131 | Disneyland
November 11, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MBMichael debriefs Rob about his recent trip to Disneyland in (extremely) sunny California. Rob talks about what he liked and what he didn't, Michael adds some thoughts from his own trip there a few years ago, and they both compare it with Florida's Walt Disney World, which they're much more familiar with.
130 | The Avengers of Horror
October 31, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 30.5 MBHappy Halloween! To celebrate, Michael and Rob welcome Bloody Popcorn's Joanna back to the show along with everyone's old buddy, old pal Jeeg to create the ultimate team-up of horror characters. Each panelist nominates two members of the team as well as a bunch of honorable mentions to flesh out the cast and come up with a story worthy of them all. And possibly even tie in with the Avengers of Science Fiction, you never know.
129 | After Dinner Lounge – Don't Let Your Kids Go to Old Man Graham's House
October 24, 2022 05:00 - 2 hours - 55.6 MBMichael, Rob, Evan, and Pax gather in the lounge to talk about what they've been watching and thinking about, including mummy movies, zombie movies, what monsters they'd want to fight and what curses they'd prefer to have, and the scariest topic of all: cash.
128 | After Dinner Lounge – You Made Me Cry in a Burger King, You Son of a B
October 21, 2022 05:00 - 2 hours - 61.3 MBMichael, Rob, Evan, and Pax gather in the lounge to talk about what they've been listening to and reading, including Elvis, harpsichord music, Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
127 | Midnight Mass
October 17, 2022 05:00 - 3 hours - 272 MBMichael, Rob, and Evan confront vampires and theology in writer-director Mike Flanagan's 2021 mini-series, Midnight Mass. They talk about how the show handles vampire lore, its Stephen King influences, and the characters it creates, but mostly how it discusses big themes like faith, knowledge, addiction, sacrifice, and forgiveness.