#484 - Chuck's SmodCo Experience, Documentary Quality, and Letting Go Of Old Art

Just Chuck and I this week, but we have plenty of Smod Content for all the Ants who now love us (maybe?)! We talk about Song Exploder and the trailers for WandaVision and Console Wars (with a slight tangent to the Cola Wars of the 80's). We get psyched for the Scott Pilgrim game re-release and express concerns and joy about the Adam Sandler film "Hubie Halloween." Chuck tells me about the documentary "Class Action Park" and its quality. We then discuss Pretending I'm A Superman, a documentary about the history of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater games, as well as Happy Happy Joy Joy, a documentary about Ren and Stimpy.
We discuss the re-release of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 and 2 for current gen systems and briefly mention the Super Mario 3D All-Stars collection. Chuck tells me about Being John Malkovich, which somehow gets us to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal.
Chuck then regales me with the tale of his recent trip to Jersey. Filming for Jay and Silent Bob Get Old, eating at Mooby's, hanging at Smodcastle - fun stuff across the board! Following that, we talk about art from our past that we created that we are now ashamed of and question what to do with it.
- Brad
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#474 - Clone High, Chuck Goes To New Jersey, Brad Goes To Indiana

We start this week by working through a ton of news. We talk about the release date of Halloween Kills, the song Jurassic Park by Stand Atlantic, and news about a new game in the Metal Slug series. We talk about Conan O'Brien moving his show to the Largo, then get excited for the continuation of the animated show Clone High. The Tony Hawk Pro Skater documentary has a release date in August, Seth Rogen has a movie releasing soon and is in talks to be involved with the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie! We talk about the lawsuit against Netflix for having an "emotional" Sherlock Holmes, a new podcast about The Office, then close our news section with a quick talk about the Battletoads reboot. We then compare weeks - Chuck went to New Jersey to film for Tell 'Em Steve-Dave, I went to Indiana to hang out with my family and eat a surprising (or not-that-surprising) amount of pizza.
- Brad
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#457 - MTV VJs, Birds of Prey, the Tony Hawk doc, and What Is Our Podcast?

We begin as so many podcasts should - dissecting Chuck's hatred of former MTV News Anchor Kurt. Even thinking about it now, I'm a little confused as to how we got there. After spending a fair amount of time discussing MTV and its culture, we talk about an exciting ska/punk tour coming to the area this summer. We talk about the photos of the new Batmobile, then Chuck offers me his (spoiler-free) review of Birds of Prey. We learn about a new documentary about Tony Hawk's Pro Skater as well as the new "Celebrity Escape Room" show. We discuss the Candyman trailer and I talk about my fear of the original film. We bask in the reflected glory of the Impractical Jokers movie succeeding at the box office, then discuss the new Morgan Spurlock documentary Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken. Speaking of which, we tried some new fast food items and talk about that (and get hilariously off-topic) before closing with a semi-serious discussion: what is our podcast?
- Brad