Podside Picnic
602 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 17 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 72 ratingsKarlo, Kurt, Chris and Pete explore the literature of the fantastic, movies and everything between. Join us! Check us out on Patreon.com/PodsidePicnic for premium content.
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Chronicles Of Riddick: Dark Fury Preview
July 04, 2024 10:00 - 5 minutes - 7.41 MBToday we discuss Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury to see if it answers the question: does it serve as a bridge between Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick? And the answer's a resounding, "sure, why not?"
Pitch Black Preview
June 27, 2024 16:59 - 7 minutes - 9.76 MBEver wanted to know all about a cool dude who got a shine job on his eyes in prison? Well, do we have the movie for you - 2000's Pitch Black, introducing us to galactic criminal, Richard B. Riddick
Berenstein Beers
June 25, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBBeer run time is here again. Cheers, everyone!
Can Haz Cheezburger Plz Preview
June 20, 2024 15:59 - 7 minutes - 9.86 MBToday we start talking about Naomi Kritzer's multi-award winner, Cat Pictures, Please and since it references Bruce Sterling's Maneki Neko we talk about that story, too! Check both stories out: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_01_15/ https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/maneki-neko/
Crap Books: Weasel Words
June 18, 2024 15:16 - 1 hour - 92.6 MBWe return with a crap book from the past (you might recognize the cover art from a previous crap book episode!) where sometimes being a bit of a fuckup makes for fun reading
The World Is Your Oyster Preview
June 14, 2024 01:50 - 6 minutes - 9.54 MBPodside Radio returns, this time to learn about the proto-metal, proto-prog, semi-jam band. . . and their extensive lore. Tune in!
Episode 270: Da Burbs
June 12, 2024 02:40 - 1 hour - 89.6 MBTime for another Dante! This time, it's The Burbs (1989) - a comedy about the horrors of living in suburbia with Tom Hanks
Watership Down Pt 3 Preview
June 06, 2024 18:43 - 6 minutes - 9.47 MBSpring has indeed sprung. What better time to talk about bunnies? Who are on an epic quest to find a new home?
Episode 269: Peeping Tom (Ft. Tai Black)
June 04, 2024 21:07 - 1 hour - 107 MBTai returns for Peeping Tom (1960), a whimsical movie about a harmless shutterbug
Peeping Tom (Ft. Tai Black)
June 04, 2024 21:07 - 1 hour - 107 MBTai returns for Peeping Tom (1960), a whimsical movie about a harmless shutterbug
The Last Of The Mohicans Preview
May 30, 2024 15:15 - 6 minutes - 8.48 MBWe talk about Michael Mann's historical epic, The Last of the Mohicans. Whatever may occur, Podside will find you!
Unfrosted Takes: Great Y/N?
May 28, 2024 12:54 - 1 hour - 105 MBWe get together to wonder why Seinfeld's Netflix movie exists in the world, and talk a bit about Jenny Nicholson's video on the Galactic Cruiser experience
Shogun Pt 2 (Eps 6 - 10) Preview
May 23, 2024 11:00 - 5 minutes - 7.86 MBGet ready to study the blade with us as we talk Shogun (2024)
Crap Books: A Crapestry Of Magics
May 21, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBTHE RETURN OF CRAP BOOKS! We are back with another Crap Books episode - this time it's Brian Daley's A Tapestry of Magics. Imagine Zelazny's Amber, but written for a Rifts adventure and you'll not be disappointed
Princess Mononoke Preview
May 16, 2024 12:43 - 6 minutes - 8.96 MBIt's standing room only here at Podside as we talk about Studio Ghibli's 1997 hit, Princess Mononoke
Episode 268: Salvador
May 14, 2024 15:08 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MBPete returns for another Lucius Shepard short, Salvador
Episode 267: Silent Running
May 07, 2024 13:27 - 1 hour - 87.4 MBToday we talk about Douglas Trumbull's other film, Silent Running (1972). All about a guy named Lowell and his robot friends in their National Park in . . . SPACE
Shogun 1 - 5 Preview
May 02, 2024 15:02 - 5 minutes - 7.23 MBGet ready to study the blade with us as we talk Shogun (2024)
Episode 266: Havana Few Beers
May 01, 2024 19:34 - 59 minutes - 81.5 MBPete comes back for a bit of a rambling discussion. Salud!
Infocom Challenge: Zork I Preview
April 25, 2024 20:27 - 4 minutes - 6 MBEver wanted to know what it was like to play a text adventure back in the day? Join us as we poke around the edges of the Great Underground Empire and promptly get lost, stumped, and even die a few times.
Episode 265: Small Soldiers
April 23, 2024 10:25 - 1 hour - 94.2 MBTen-HUT! Listen up, maggots: That pinko Joe Dante FINALLY made a movie about the REAL American heroes - Small Soldiers! You WILL listen to the new Podside episode, and you WILL like it! That's an ORDER
Hollow Man Preview
April 18, 2024 13:03 - 6 minutes - 9.01 MBGet ready to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon as we discuss the movie that ended Paul Verhoeven's streak of US-made movies, Hollow Man (2000)
Episode 264: The Marching Morons
April 16, 2024 12:59 - 58 minutes - 80.7 MBEugenics - am I right? We talk today about C.M. Kornbluth's The Marching Morons, a right doozy of a tale, where you do NOT have to hand it to Hitler
Get Lamp Preview
April 11, 2024 12:22 - 7 minutes - 10.3 MBWe talk about Get Lamp (2010), along with its bonus materials, a documentary about the history of "IF" or Interactive Fiction which has its charms, but is ultimately a little unfocused Visit the Get Lamp site: http://www.getlamp.com/ Also, the full documentary (and bonus/additional material) is on YouTube. Main Documentary: https://youtu.be/TmBSYho5Gbk?si=8jhdN91bGqA6PKLN Cut Scenes: https://youtu.be/zEJXZ2wnO3w?si=DfVJVmTTyiofBveN Infocom Documentary: https://youtu.be/OXNLWy7rwH4?si=afu...
Episode 263: The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule
April 10, 2024 21:22 - 56 minutes - 77.6 MBToday, we talk about The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard, and follow the life of artist, and possible con-man, Meric Cattanay, in his quest to have his name as remembered as the dragon he's proposed to slay
GATTACA (Ft. Aaron Thorpe) Preview
April 04, 2024 12:34 - 7 minutes - 9.84 MBAaron Thorpe returns to talk about GATTACA (1997) with us, a film that asks: what would society look like if it believed in genetic determinism?
Watership Down Pt 1
April 03, 2024 01:17 - 1 hour - 124 MBSpring has indeed sprung. What better time to talk about bunnies? Who are on an epic quest to find a new home?
Episode 262: Watership Down Pt 1
April 03, 2024 01:17 - 1 hour - 124 MBSpring has indeed sprung. What better time to talk about bunnies? Who are on an epic quest to find a new home?
Dead Heat Preview
March 28, 2024 18:42 - 6 minutes - 8.38 MBYou can't keep a good cop dead, they say. Not even if your name is Roger Mortis, and you have mere hours to solve the mystery of your own murder
Episode 261: The Dauphine's Metaphysics
March 26, 2024 13:26 - 59 minutes - 81.1 MBToday we discuss Eric Schwitzgebel's The Dauphin's Metaphysics, first printed in Unlikely Story's The Journal of Unlikely Academia, a story about a limited and quite disturbing form of immortality Read the story:http://www.unlikely-story.com/stories/the-dauphins-metaphysics-by-eric-schwitzgebel/ Art by Diane Dellicarpini
Bonus Episode: Mozart In Mirrorshades
March 21, 2024 12:42 - 56 minutes - 77.5 MBThis time, we talk about Bruce Sterling's Mozart in Mirrorshades (collected in the much-hyped cyberpunk anthology, Mirrorshades) - a story about corporate extraction with extra steps (mainly, time travel) Oh, Galactus wished he had it this good
Episode 260: Exists
March 19, 2024 16:24 - 56 minutes - 78 MBThis time around, we end up in the hinterlands of southeast Texas, where the local sasquatch is making the most of Stand Your Ground laws
Brainstorm Preview
March 14, 2024 20:20 - 6 minutes - 9.36 MBToday, we talk about the proto-cyberpunk film, Brainstorm. Directed by a SFF cinema luminary, Douglas Trumbull, and with Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood in lead roles, this is a movie that asks what if Online was your feelings made fact?
Episode 259: Oh Beer, It's Another Run
March 12, 2024 18:34 - 54 minutes - 75.2 MBIt's time again to crack a few cold ones and shoot the shit about - among other things - a Japanese adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Salud!
The Dad Zone Preview
March 07, 2024 16:58 - 6 minutes - 8.58 MBThis time, we discuss Cronenberg's 1983 The Dead Zone, which asks the question: if you had the power to change the future in your clammy hands, would you?
Podside Radio: Chaindevil Jamboree
March 05, 2024 21:02 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBJeff Martin returns to rock out to the Chaindevils playlist, a real grimphony in the key of chainsaw! Check out Jeff's comics: https://hell.rentathugcomics.com/ And his games (Space Jerks, BURGERPunk, more): https://rentathug.itch.io/
Episode 258: The Fury
March 02, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 88.2 MBWe talk about another De Palma, this time it's The Fury (1978). Two teenagers with psychic powers pitted against one another. . . it's a real enemies-to-enemies trope
Strange Bits Preview
February 29, 2024 13:28 - 5 minutes - 7.53 MBMattie joins us again to close out our read-alongs of Susanna Clarke's works with the charming and funny story of John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner (collected in The Ladies of Grace Adieu)
Computer Chess Preview
February 22, 2024 14:38 - 4 minutes - 5.99 MBWe talk about Andrew Bujalski's 2013 film Computer Chess, where none of the people in the movie actually play chess. Check and mate, nerds
Episode 257: Bears Discover Fire
February 20, 2024 20:19 - 56 minutes - 77.3 MBToday we talk family, bears, and discovering fire as we talk about Terry Bisson's Bears Discover Fire Original story: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/bears-discover-fire/ Short film adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu594ennuxI
Gremlins 2 Preview
February 15, 2024 14:37 - 6 minutes - 8.59 MBGremlins! In the Big City! Any kind of gremlin you can imagine! What else could you ask for?
Episode 256: Legends & Lattes
February 13, 2024 13:18 - 1 hour - 89.3 MBToday we check out that cozy little coffeeshop run by an orc. Who wants more cinnamon buns?
Strange & Norrell Parts 61 - 69 Preview
February 08, 2024 23:22 - 7 minutes - 10.7 MBAs the year turns, so does our taste in reading. Join us in our read-along of Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and remember: This land is all too shallow/It is painted on the sky/And trembles like wind-shook rain/When the Raven King goes by
Episode 255: Chaindevils (Ft. Jeff Martin)
February 06, 2024 13:58 - 1 hour - 113 MBJeff Martin returns to help Podside pull the starter cord and cut through Matthew Mitchell's Chaindevils, part WH40K homage, part splatterpunk "there and back again" narrative, all gnarl Check out Jeff's work: https://rentathugcomics.com/
The Ugly Chickens Preview
February 01, 2024 17:00 - 6 minutes - 8.42 MBToday we talk about one of the recently-deceased Howard Waldrop's better-known stories, The Ugly Chickens. Part shaggy-dog (chicken?) story, part alternate history, and all good eatin!
Episode 254: The King Of Kong
January 30, 2024 13:53 - 1 hour - 133 MBWe talk about The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) this time. You'd better have your quarter lined up on the cabinet bezel so you can witness a rivalry for the ages - it's nerd vs. nerd action, like you've never seen it before!
Something Something Beer Run Preview
January 25, 2024 12:00 - 6 minutes - 9.3 MBThe gang's all back and chaos reigns! Next round's on you!
Episode 253: Elysium
January 23, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBThis time we talk about Neil Blomkamp's Elysium (2013), a story where a gringo finally makes himself useful!
Strange & Norrell Parts 53 - 60 Preview
January 18, 2024 19:04 - 6 minutes - 9.22 MBAs the year turns, so does our taste in reading. Join us in our read-along of Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, and remember: This land is all too shallow/It is painted on the sky/And trembles like wind-shook rain/When the Raven King goes by
Episode 252: Pop Squad (Ft. Stephen Mazur)
January 16, 2024 17:26 - 1 hour - 140 MBEver wanted to find out what a world run by r/Childfree would be like? Look no further than Paolo Bacigalupi's short story, Pop Squad. Stephen Mazur returns to talk about the future the Left wants