Latest Gobbledygeek Podcast Episodes
515 - That Was Then: The Incredibles (feat. Eric Sipple)
Gobbledygeek - July 04, 2024 18:56 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsIn an age where Deadpool & Wolverine is set to smash box office records, it can be hard to remember what things were like in the first wave of superhero blockbusters. Costumes were primarily made of black leather, nu-metal montages were all the rage, and yet–there was a willingness and desire to...
514 - Ren Faire
Gobbledygeek - June 25, 2024 18:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsHail and well met! This week, Paul and Arlo raise their overpriced goblets to Lance Oppenheim’s HBO docuseries Ren Faire. The three-episode series concerns the nation’s largest Renaissance faire, the Texas Renaissance Festival, and the power-hungry Oompa Loompas looking to take over the chocolat...
513 - The Tortured Parents Department
Gobbledygeek - June 18, 2024 02:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsThe stork just made a special delivery, and it’s a new episode of Gobbledygeek! Bat-Turkey also welcomes a new addition to the family: Alexandra Jade Wiley, who came into this world on April 28, 2024. Arlo’s second daughter has arrived at a pivotal time, a time in which Paul has become consumed ...
512 - Ancient Bodies & Modern Art
Gobbledygeek - April 16, 2024 17:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsFor the first time this season, Paul and Arlo have lost the plot. That’s right, the beloved Gobbledygeek freestyle episode has returned, new and improved for 2024, including such scintillating subjects as: Back pain! Stomach bugs! Car crashes! Country mouse Arlo took a trip to New York City, tak...
511 - That Was Then: Gunga Din (feat. Michael Holland)
Gobbledygeek - April 07, 2024 21:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsYou’re a better podcaster than us, Michael Holland. That’s right, the City of Angels’ very own boy wonder is back to take Paul and Arlo to film school. The That Was Then classic gracing our screens this time is George Stevens’ 1939 adventure film Gunga Din, starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, ...
510 - FCF: Uzumaki (feat. Eric Sipple)
Gobbledygeek - March 24, 2024 21:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsAround and around we go, where we’ll stop–only Arlo knows! For this month’s Four-Color Flashback, Gobbledygeek’s enfant terrible has chosen Junji Ito’s 1998-99 horror manga Uzumaki. Will Paul ever forgive him? On hand to find out is The Deli Counter of Justice co-conspirator Eric Sipple, who wil...
509 - FCF: Weavers (feat. Eric Sipple)
Gobbledygeek - February 27, 2024 22:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsOh, what a tangled web we Weavers! For this month’s Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo trap Eric Sipple in their web once more, this time to discuss Simon Spurrier & Dylan Burnett’s Lovecraftian mob story Weavers. Despite being big fans of Spurrier’s (author of past FCF favorites Six-Gun Gorill...
508 - That Was Then: Sideways
Gobbledygeek - February 09, 2024 03:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsAs they say, don’t drink and podcast, but here Paul and Arlo are talking about 2004’s Sideways for another round of That Was Then. Alexander Payne’s acclaimed dramedy follows alcoholic wine connoisseur Miles as he takes his bonehead best buddy Jack on a road trip through Santa Barbara the week b...
507 - That Was Then: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Gobbledygeek - February 02, 2024 16:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWe’re speeding away at breakneck speed with another installment of our That Was Then series. This time Paul and Arlo are witnesses to The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, a 1974 subway heist thriller that is exactly what it says on the tin. Not that there’s anything wrong with that! But our boys ...
506 - That Was Then: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (feat. Michael Holland)
Gobbledygeek - January 29, 2024 20:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsFor the next installment in our That Was Then series, Paul and Arlo cast their minds back to 1964–a year that predates both of them, though the era’s Beatlemania might as well be Arlo’s spiritual birthplace. This time, they’re popping paisley parasols for Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbour...
505 - That Was Then: Ghostbusters
Gobbledygeek - January 24, 2024 02:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWho ya gonna call? Gobbledygeek! For the first installment of our That Was Then series, taking a look back at movies celebrating anniversaries in 2024, Paul and Arlo take residence at Spook Central for 1984’s Ghostbusters. Turning a frightful 40 this year, Ivan Reitman’s classic comedy began as ...
504 - FCF: Superman for All Seasons (feat. Eric Sipple)
Gobbledygeek - January 17, 2024 16:26 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsLook, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the Gobbledygeek season 15 premiere! Breaking from vaguely defined tradition, Paul and Arlo are kicking off the season with a Four-Color Flashback, and their pal Eric Sipple is on hand to help turn the pages. Arlo has chosen to subject Paul an...
503 - Twisted Christmas: Black Christmas vs. A Christmas Story
Gobbledygeek - December 22, 2023 04:36 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsYou’ll slash your eye out, Kidder! To close out our truncated season, it’s a Twisted Christmas double feature, as Paul and Arlo explore both of Canadian auteur Bob Clark’s yuletide classics: 1974’s proto-slasher Black Christmas and the 1983 staple A Christmas Story. The boys separately find each...
502 - Blue Eye Samurai
Gobbledygeek - December 16, 2023 17:27 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWhat is there for a young, mixed-race woman to do in feudal Japan? Reject all traces of her femininity, assume the masculine identity of a ronin, and seek revenge on any of the four white men in the whole country who could potentially be her father. Is Mizu a demonic half-breed, an enlightened w...
501 - Scavengers Reign
Gobbledygeek - December 12, 2023 19:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWe’re crash-landing back into regular podcasting with the Max original animated series Scavengers Reign. Created by Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner, the seeds of Scavengers Reign were planted in an Adult Swim short before blossoming into a brilliant sci-fi series teeming with surrealist deto...
500 - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (feat. Eric Sipple)
Gobbledygeek - November 26, 2023 20:07 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 26 ratings500 episodes! Can you believe it? What incredibly special way will we choose to commemorate this event??? By, well, just having a regular episode discussing Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse with our good friend Eric Sipple. At one point this past summer, we weren’t sure another episode was ev...
499 - Geek Challenge: Xanadu vs. Mulholland Drive
Gobbledygeek - June 28, 2023 01:40 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsYou have to believe Gobbledygeek is magic. Or at the very least, that Paul and Arlo will revel in cinematic magic on the latest Geek Challenge. Robert Greenwald's infamous 1980 flop Xanadu is paired with David Lynch's acclaimed 2001 masterpiece Mulholland Drive for a fantastical discussion of fi...
498 - FCF: Far Sector
Gobbledygeek - June 06, 2023 19:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsIn brightest day, in blackest night, no listener shall escape the Four-Color Flashback’s might! In an unusual turn of events, Paul has selected a DC book–but, of course, it’s an unusual one. Published under DC’s Young Animal imprint, curated by My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, Far Sector is a G...
497 - Geek Challenge: Stick Season vs. Blood on the Tracks
Gobbledygeek - May 10, 2023 18:53 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsAre you feeling “Homesick”? Are you all “Tangled Up in Blue”? Dogged by a “Simple Twist of Fate” or, perhaps, sippin’ on gin and “Orange Juice”? Then boy, do we have the Geek Challenge for you! Dipping their toes in musical waters for the first time in a while, our boys are listening to one of e...
496 - FCF: Boxers & Saints
Gobbledygeek - April 13, 2023 01:44 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsFor this month’s Four-Color Flashback, Paul and Arlo tackle a blindspot from one of their favorite writers. Gene Luen Yang, author of Gobbledyfaves like American Born Chinese and Avatar: The Last Airbender, tells the brutal story of the Boxer Rebellion in Boxers & Saints. The graphic novel duolo...
495 - HBO’s The Last of Us, Season One (feat. Dale & Ensley Guffey)
Gobbledygeek - April 04, 2023 05:09 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsLove can spread like a fungus throughout the soul, eradicating any shred of self-control. For a thorough depiction of that sentiment, we turn to HBO’s The Last of Us, a TV adaptation of the blockbuster video game series. Joining Paul and Arlo to talk everything mushroom are authors and pop cultu...
494 - Geek Challenge: Alice vs. Labyrinth
Gobbledygeek - March 15, 2023 00:08 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsYou remind me of the pod…the pod with the geeks. Paul and Arlo fall down the rabbit hole of another Geek Challenge, this time pitting Jim Henson’s 1986 cult classic Labyrinth against Jan Švankmajer’s 1988 headtrip Alice. Henson’s film finds Jennifer Connelly dancing with David Bowie and a variet...
493 - RRR
Gobbledygeek - February 17, 2023 04:07 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsTime to rise, roar, and revolt as Paul and Arlo engage in some extreme piggybacking with S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR. This alt-history epic is the rare Indian film to make a splash in the Western world, and our boys approach it as only two ignorant white guys can: with almost no knowledge of Indian cul...
492 - FCF: We Only Find Them When They’re Dead
Gobbledygeek - February 05, 2023 22:56 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsGot a hankerin’ for god meat? Well, pull out your giant lightsaber knife and feast on a new Four-Color Flashback! For the first FCF of 2023, Paul and Arlo set out at warp speed to seek enlightenment with Al Ewing and Simone Di Meo’s We Only Find Them When They’re Dead. The BOOM! Studios series, ...
491 - In Like a Lion
Gobbledygeek - February 01, 2023 01:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsWe’re back, baby! After a longer than expected hiatus, Gobbledygeek has returned for season 14. That’s right, we’re up to 14 seasons of Paul and Arlo babbling on about any manner of nonsense–which they continue to do in this freestyle season premiere. 2023 has come in like a lion and is likely t...
490 - Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Gobbledygeek - December 27, 2022 23:49 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsIs that a tree branch on your face, or are you just lying to me? An extra-long Gobbledygeek season finale takes root with a discussion of Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson’s new stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio. Paul and Arlo discuss the numerous ways del Toro has made Carlo Collodi’s imm...
489 - Geek Challenge: White Christmas vs. Eyes Wide Shut
Gobbledygeek - December 13, 2022 19:39 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsHang your stockings by the chimney, roast some chestnuts on that open fire, and prepare yourself for a very special Twisted Christmas installment. Our annual yuletide derangement has morphed into a Geek Challenge, featuring two obviously similar films: Paul has challenged Arlo to Michael Curtiz’...
488 - Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (feat. Kenn Edwards)
Gobbledygeek - December 08, 2022 02:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsNow that rock star biopics have peaked with Elvis, what else can the genre do but get Weird? Dare to be stupid with Paul, Arlo, and Alex Jonestown Massacre guitarist Kenn Edwards as they discuss Weird: The Al Yankovic story. Everyone’s favorite accordionist parodies Oscar bait bologna to tell a ...
487 - Reservation Dogs: Season 2
Gobbledygeek - November 25, 2022 23:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsAho, podcast listeners! To celebrate Native American Heritage Month, Paul and Arlo check in on the latest season of Reservation Dogs, possibly the best show on TV. It would be hard to top Rez Dog’s freshman year, a revelatory season filled with joy, pain, and a whole bunch of shitasses. Yet that...
486 - Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Gobbledygeek - November 06, 2022 05:07 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsListen to Gobbledygeek and live forever. This week, in a stealth continuation of this year’s Gobbledyween, Paul and Arlo head on down to New Orleans for Neil Jordan’s 1994 adaptation of Anne Rice’s classic Interview with the Vampire. Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Antonio Banderas are the most beaut...
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