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Thunder Grunt

315 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 33 ratings

Thunder Grunt is a multi-show podcast about movies and friendship. It’s Art.

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WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 088 | BARBARIAN (2022)

November 20, 2022 17:51 - 2 hours - 119 MB

***BIG NEWS*** Writers/Blockbusters has become it's own show! The new dedicated podcast feed is already live and you can search and follow it on your favorite podcast app! Make sure to do that before it leaves Thunder Grunt for good! Thank you! ***BIG NEWS*** Jamie, Jimmy and Bob sit in their respective basements and discuss the script to Zach Cregger's horror head-scratcher...Barbarian! Make sure to follow Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast on where ever you listen to podcasts, LI...

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 087 | E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (1982)

November 12, 2022 09:58 - 1 hour - 99.9 MB

***BIG NEWS*** Writers/Blockbusters has become it's own show! The new dedicated podcast feed is already live and you can search and follow it on your favorite podcast app! Make sure to do that before it leaves Thunder Grunt for good! Thank you! ***BIG NEWS*** Jamie, Jimmy and Bob will be right here...breaking down the script for the 40th Anniversary of the beloved Steven Spielberg classic E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Make sure to follow Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast on where ev...

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 086 | HELLRAISER (2022)

October 24, 2022 03:59 - 1 hour - 105 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob each fail to solve the Lament Configuration but decide to have the ultimate experience in pleasure and pain anyway...breaking down the script to Hellraiser (2022), now streaming on HULU!

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 085 | HELLRAISER (1987)

October 07, 2022 13:14 - 1 hour - 110 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob have no sights to show you, it's an audio podcast, but they do breakdown Clive Barker's beloved script to 1987's HELLRAISER. 

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 084 | EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022)

September 21, 2022 04:47 - 2 hours - 136 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob, with their normal human fingers, discuss the wholly original script to Everything Everywhere All At Once written by DANIELS. 

SHRIMP NIGHT! 023 | ROS FRASER & MICHAEL RIDGAWAY!

September 15, 2022 18:52 - 1 hour - 91.9 MB

Bob has a delightful chat with the two indelible hosts of Baltimore's longest running cult movie screening event, Mondo Baltimore! Ros and Michael have been the "faces" of Mondo for around four years now, including the online-version during the covid years. Even though Bob has been a member for over a decade, he asks them to point out all that is great about Mondo and why you should go (if you get the chance.) Also, everyone makes a list of their "Top 5 Movies Where Someone Gets Frozen." Wa...

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 083 | THE BLACK PHONE (2021)

September 12, 2022 03:52 - 1 hour - 98.7 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob answer the call by breaking down the script to Scott Derrickson's The Black Phone.

SHRIMP NIGHT! 022 | JOHANNES GRENZFURTHNER!

September 05, 2022 22:18 - 1 hour - 111 MB

Bob is joined once again by the great, wonderful, talented mad scientist Johannes Grenzfurthner! They discuss local history, religious truth and the making of Johannes's newest film RAZZENNEST, which was has been accepted to Fantastic Fest 2022!  Watch this episode with FULL VIDEO on YouTube! Read up on Johannes via Wikipedia! Check out the trailer to RAZZENNEST! MONOCHROM his official production company website! Fantastic Fest's official RAZZENNEST announcement!  

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 082 | NOPE (2022)

August 29, 2022 17:09 - 1 hour - 95.4 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob say a collective YUP to Jordan Peele's newest script. 

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 081 | THE NORTHMAN (2022)

June 20, 2022 22:57 - 1 hour - 95.4 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob tempt fate as they discuss the script to Robert Eggers newest film The Northman.

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 080 | JURASSIC PARK (1993)

June 08, 2022 04:49 - 2 hours - 131 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob never stop to think if they "should" as they breakdown the script for the 1993 original Steven Spielberg masterpiece, Jurassic Park.

WHOSE ROLL IS IT ANYWAY? 017 | SQUATTER’S RITES

May 31, 2022 03:41 - 1 hour - 103 MB

WHOSE ROLL IS IT ANYWAY? is a troupe of Baltimore performers that play Dungeons & Dragons where the characters and even the Dungeon Master are at the mercy of a live audience. Monsters, spells, magical items, and more are submitted by crowd members during the game! In a last-ditch effort to make their squat-house legit, our antiheroes out-smoke their undead roommates, carve out a remodeling montage, and brawl so hard they found a new holiday.  Watch this episode with FULL VIDEO COVERAGE on...

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 079 | DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS

May 23, 2022 07:24 - 1 hour - 93.5 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob ask each other if they are happy as they breakdown the newest Marvel script to Sam Raimi's Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness.  

WHOSE ROLL IS IT ANYWAY? 016 | WELCOME TO BLUNTSBERG (WOO-OO!)

May 01, 2022 21:46 - 2 hours - 118 MB

WHOSE ROLL IS IT ANYWAY? is a troupe of Baltimore performers that play Dungeons & Dragons where the characters and even the Dungeon Master are at the mercy of a live audience. Monsters, spells, magical items, and more are submitted by crowd members during the game! This week tired of life on the road, our dysfunctional family squats in the double-haunted ruins outside of Bluntsberg and adopt a slime boy name Goognocchio. Watch this episode with FULL VIDEO COVERAGE on YOUTUBE!

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 078 | ALIEN (1979)

April 22, 2022 21:37 - 1 hour - 101 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob don't reveal if they are secretly robots while discussing the Dan O'Bannon penned script for Ridley Scott's ALIEN. 

SHRIMP NIGHT! 021 | CHET PROGRAM AND THE BACKROW BASTARDS

April 17, 2022 22:27 - 3 hours - 178 MB

 Bob once again uses Shrimp Night! to expose his forgotten internet-radio failures, this time focusing on two "podcasts that never were" with two of his best friends, Huey Hesson and Mike Stettes! Backrow Bastards was a DVD commentary podcast hosted by Bob and Mike, around five unreleased episodes existed (they think.) The Chet Program Program with Wet and Chet was Bob and Huey's attempt to try and make a whole show off a very weird name, it lasted one episode, which was released to the publ...

SHRIMP NIGHT! 021 | CHET PROGRAM AND THE BACKROW BASTARDS!

April 17, 2022 22:27 - 3 hours - 178 MB

 Bob once again uses Shrimp Night! to expose his forgotten internet-radio failures, this time focusing on two "podcasts that never were" with two of his best friends, Huey Hesson and Mike Stettes! Backrow Bastards was a DVD commentary podcast hosted by Bob and Mike, around five unreleased episodes existed (they think.) The Chet Program Program with Wet and Chet was Bob and Huey's attempt to try and make a whole show off a very weird name, it lasted one episode, which was released to the publ...

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 077 | SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME

April 10, 2022 19:30 - 1 hour - 103 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob aren't careful what they wish for as they dig through the script to the global box office juggernaut that is Marvel's Spider-Man: No Way Home.

WHOSE ROLL IS IT ANYWAY? 015 | REVERSE PRISON BREAK

April 04, 2022 02:45 - 1 hour - 71.4 MB

WHOSE ROLL IS IT ANYWAY? is a troupe of Baltimore performers that play Dungeons & Dragons where the characters and even the Dungeon Master are at the mercy of a live audience. Monsters, spells, magical items, and more are submitted by crowd members during the game! This week after eleven hard months in magical interdimensional prison, a gaggle of newly freed bean-smuggling convicts start a ruckus crime spree hoping to rescue their Cleric from life without parole! Watch this episode on YouT...

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 076 | STAR WARS (1977) with Eduardo Sánchez!

March 27, 2022 14:29 - 1 hour - 99.6 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob don't have a bad feeling about this episode because joining in on the script talk is Star Wars super fan, filmmaker Eduardo Sánchez, director on such projects as The Blair Witch Project, Lovely Molly, V/H/S/2, From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, Lucifer, Supernatural, Yellow Jackets and the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds! Check out Ed on the official Star Wars YouTube channel HERE!

SHRIMP NIGHT! 020 | BRANDON HARDESTY!

March 20, 2022 23:53 - 2 hours - 145 MB

Bob has a grand old time laughing it up with his good buddy Brandon Hardesty! Brandon is a super talented writer and actor who snowballed to fame in the early days of YouTube. His videos led to appearances on Jimmy Kimmel and David Letterman, acting in movies with the likes of William H. Macy, Nick Swardson and The Scorpion King and portraying the live-action version of Eric Cartman on South Park! Somehow years later he ended up in one of Bob's short films, and thus their friendship was forg...

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 075 | THE BATMAN (2022)

March 14, 2022 08:32 - 1 hour - 99 MB

The Jamie, The Jimmy and The Bob become vengeance (not really) when discussing the script for The Batman. 

SHRIMP NIGHT! 019 | NOW SLAYING!

March 07, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 109 MB

Once again Bob wields the nebulous format of SHRIMP NIGHT! to placate his "podcasting midlife crisis."  Years ago Sarah Gorman, Becky Hackerman, Mike Walls and Bob were the co-hosts of a horror movie podcast that only lasted a handful of episodes. The podcast was called NOW SLAYING, it ended pretty quick. Becky and Sarah join Bob to discuss memories, why it stopped so abruptly and to relive the old glory days by reviewing the water-logged, found-footage horror film THE DEEP HOUSE! Check out...

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 074 | WAYNE’S WORLD

February 27, 2022 08:03 - 2 hours - 115 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob take a break from listening to their Shitty Beatles albums so they can discuss the script to the 1992 classic Wayne's World for the film's 30th anniversary.

SHRIMP NIGHT! 018 | JEFF FRUMESS!

February 20, 2022 20:31 - 3 hours - 221 MB

Bob yaks it up with his friend, filmmaker, YouTuber, live-streamer, Misfits historian...Jeff Frumess! Since Jeff has so kindly had Bob on his YouTube channel several times, Bob returns the favor to Jeff with the longest Shrimp Night episode ever! The boys talk about balding, the technical aspects of podcast streaming and run down their top 10 favorite comedy directors of all time! Watch this episode on YouTube with video HERE! Subscribe to the FRUMESS YouTube channel HERE! All of Bob's appe...

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 073 | PIG

February 14, 2022 12:15 - 1 hour - 98.1 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob cook up their gleeful breakdown of the grief-stricken script to the Nic Cage tour de force that is PIG. 

SHRIMP NIGHT! 017 | CHRIS SEAVER!

February 09, 2022 08:42 - 2 hours - 124 MB

Bob has the honor of catching up with an old buddy, a filmmaker whose been pounding out Low Budget Pictures for more than 30 years, the director of such films as SEXSQUATCH, THE WEIRDSIES and MULVA: ZOMBIE ASS KICKER!...Chris Seaver! The guys do a deep dive on their favorite films of the 2000's, Chris absolutely nails the assignment and Bob gets overly excited that they both adore the masterpiece known as HOT ROD! Watch this episode with video on YouTube! Check out Seaver's YouTube Channel ...

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 072 | SCREAM (1996)

January 31, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 84.2 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob find out there are certain rules that one must abide by in order to successfully survive a podcast. They follow most of those rules as they stab through the Kevin Williamson script to Wes Craven's classic SCREAM.

SHRIMP NIGHT! 016 | A MOUND OF THUNDER!

January 26, 2022 07:42 - 2 hours - 126 MB

Bob decides to use the amorphous premise of SHRIMP NIGHT! to begin to revisit what the hell happened to his long defunct podcasts. First on the list: The gents from A MOUND OF THUNDER! Bob, Huey, Rex and John gather for some closure on the 15 episode run of their rage filled show that started because of a mistake and ended because of several mistakes! The guys also find time to give one last comic book movie review by complaining about Marvel's THE ETERNALS! All episodes of A MOUND OF THUN...

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 071 | THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS

January 18, 2022 09:35 - 1 hour - 108 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob deconstruct the self-aware deconstructions of the meta script to The Matrix Resurrections.

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 070 | SPIDER-MAN 2

December 27, 2021 15:43 - 1 hour - 80.5 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob look each other in the eyes and say "Go get 'em Tiger" as they discuss script lessons learned from the Sam Raimi classic Spider-Man 2.

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 069 | GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE

December 13, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 95.7 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob munch on Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan's script for Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

SHRIMP NIGHT! 015 | JIM MCDONOUGH!

October 27, 2021 03:35 - 2 hours - 122 MB

Bob has a long overdue chat with Jim McDonough, the super talented filmmaker responsible for incredible short films such as Manicorn, Tiny Clones, Darling Pet Monkey and many more! Jim gives a verbal sneak peak at turning Manicorn into a feature film, but first the guys walk each other through the ups and downs of early filmmaking life, how they let go of giving power to "view counts" and Jim is kind enough to read a list of negative reviews posted under his movies by all the well-adjusted p...

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 068 | GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)

October 18, 2021 10:10 - 1 hour - 103 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob never mention how "slime" is a portmanteau of "sludge" and "grime" as they walk through their breakdown of the script to the original 1984 classic...Ghostbusters.

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 067 | CANDYMAN (2021)

October 06, 2021 04:42 - 1 hour - 91.6 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob say his name several times but thankfully no where near a mirror as they discuss the script to Nia DaCosta's Candyman.

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 066 | CANDYMAN (1992)

September 20, 2021 05:52 - 1 hour - 89.1 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob look directly into a ZOOM window and say "Candyman" way more than five times while discussing the script to the 1992 horror classic. 

SHRIMP NIGHT! 014 | NICK CLEMENT!

September 15, 2021 08:20 - 1 hour - 63.7 MB

Bob has a chat with a writer he considers one of the most enthusiastic and positive forces in modern film criticism, Nick Clement! A contributor to both Variety and We Are Cult, his writing can also be found on the limited edition Arrow Films releases of both True Romance and Legend. Prior to this recording Bob asked Nick if he would like to discuss 1990s action films, listen up for Bob's actual shock as Nick details the fact that he actually worked under the likes of Jerry Bruckheimer, Tony...

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 065 | THE SUICIDE SQUAD

September 06, 2021 05:43 - 1 hour - 88.1 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob know the stakes are high as they discuss Jame Gunn's newest script for The Suicide Squad.

SHRIMP NIGHT! 013 | JOHN WALKER!

August 18, 2021 08:57 - 2 hours - 159 MB

Bob has a long overdue chat with his good friend John Walker! John is one of the creative powerhouses behind the Movie Schmovie Podcast, a talented musician and an analytical mastermind of media! Outside of using this time to just catch up between friends as the world continues to burn, the guys decide to talk about the one subject no one cares to discuss ever again: STAR WARS!  Movie Schmovie Podcast! FYIz Podcast! Follow John on Twitter! Listen to John's music on Bandcamp!

SHRIMP NIGHT! 012 | JOHANNES GRENZFURTHNER!

August 04, 2021 11:27 - 2 hours - 130 MB

Bob has a long overdue chat with Johannes Grenzfurthner, an Austrian artist, filmmaker, writer, actor, curator, theatre director, performer and lecturer...which it states clearly on his wikipedia page! They cover a wide range of topics from Sub-cultures to Starship Troopers to his newest film Masking Threshold! Read (or edit!) the Johannes Wikipedia page! Follow Johannes on Twitter! Visit the official Monochrom website! Rent Traceroute on Vimeo!

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 064 | BLACK WIDOW

July 26, 2021 06:45 - 1 hour - 95.2 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob become the task masters of their own show as they discuss Marvel's newest film, Black Widow.

SHRIMP NIGHT! 011 | SOPHIA CACCIOLA!

July 15, 2021 04:22 - 2 hours - 147 MB

Bob has a blast chatting with his super talented friend, cinematographer, musician, filmmaker, singer and dog mom...Sophia Cacciola! They discuss a plethora of film ideas, Sophia checks IMDB to conform the facts and Bob gets overly giddy when Blanche the dog or Face/Off is mentioned!  Watch this episode with video on YouTube! Launch Over Official Website! Launch Over YouTube Channel! Check out Fat Fleshy Fingers! Blanche The Dog's Instagram!

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 063 | LEGALLY BLONDE

July 12, 2021 08:07 - 1 hour - 87.5 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob bend and snap their way through the classic comedy script for Legally Blonde to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

SHRIMP NIGHT! 010 | MICHAEL J. EPSTEIN!

July 07, 2021 11:56 - 2 hours - 163 MB

Bob has a chat with his good friend, talented filmmaker, musician, writer and PHANTASM super-fan Michael J. Epstein! They talk about the horrors of making people watch something you made, lamenting the film tastes of others and Michael's myriad of upcoming projects!   Launch Over - Michael J. Epstein and Sophia Cacciola's Official Website! The Launch Over YouTube Channel! Check out Fat Fleshy Fingers!

SHRIMP NIGHT! 009 | AUSTIN ALLAN JAMES!

June 30, 2021 08:38 - 1 hour - 64.4 MB

Bob has a chat with filmmaker Austin Allan James, director of the feature film Who's With Me?, a movie about isolation made BEFORE 2020! The two talk about influences, single location movies and their mutual love for the one and only David Wain! Watch Who's With Me? for free on YouTube here! Follow the film's instagram page!

SHRIMP NIGHT! 008 | JOE BADON!

June 23, 2021 06:26 - 1 hour - 65.6 MB

Bob has a blast chatting with an independent filmmaker he very much admires, Joe Badon, director of the features The God Inside My Ear and Sister Tempest. They talk about what exactly counts as a "weird movie" while also outpouring their love for Tim and Eric, Ken Russell and the music of Ray Lynch. They also talk about Joe's two upcoming short films The Blood of the Dinosaurs and The Wheel of Heaven (WHICH HE IS CURRENTLY FUNDING THROUGH KICKSTARTER! BOB DONATED YOU SHOULD TOO.) The Wheel ...

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 062 | THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT

June 21, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 95.6 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob are cursed with too many questions while breaking down the script to The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. 

SHRIMP NIGHT! 007 | STEPHEN STULL!

June 10, 2021 09:51 - 3 hours - 205 MB

Bob sits down with his good buddy, Floridian filmmaker, creator of the Sick 'n' Wrong Film Festival, the one and only Stephen Stull. The two of them spend hours catching up on the important subjects like small penis humiliation, Michael Bay, videos of bloody fecal matter, why they both look like edgelords, and MENSA. They also talk about how he's producing a delightfully gross movie and DONATING TO THE FAT FLESHY FINGERS KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN IS A GREAT IDEA! BOB DID...THREE TIMES! Donate to...

SHRIMP NIGHT! 006 | MAX COLLINS FROM EVE6!

June 02, 2021 06:48 - 1 hour - 74.6 MB

Bob Rose and his buddy, musician Mike Walls, are honored to have a chat with the new Anti-Capitalist Master of Twitter himself, the lead vocalist, songwriter and bassist for Eve6, Max Collins! The guys run through the gamut of today's most important subjects such as shitting in grocery stores, the filmography of David Lynch and a mutual respect for the band Rancid. Yes, they discuss why the 1998 hit "the heart in a blender song" isn't officially called "The Heart In The Blender Song."  Eve6...

WRITERS/BLOCKBUSTERS 061 | THE MITCHELLS VS THE MACHINES

May 20, 2021 23:44 - 1 hour - 84.5 MB

Jamie, Jimmy and Bob get their thoughts connected about the script for Netflix's newest animated feature The Mitchells vs the Machines.

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