The Occasionalists Podcast
Examining the human condition. Sometimes. Mostly jawing about pop culture and other nerdy pursuits.
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Friday May 29, 2020
Friday May 29, 2020
It wouldn't be Movie May without talking about the Soundtrack songs that kept us jamming long after we leave the theater. But where have all the good Soundtracks gone? Did the 2000's derail the Soundtrack train? Those are the questions Adam hopes to answer on the latest episode of The Third Spin.
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Movie May continues with an ass kicking, neck breaking, hammer smashing, blood soaked edition of Cinema Dissection. We took a deep dive into the 2011 and 2014 Indonesian martial arts crime epics The Raid and The Raid 2, directed by Gareth Evans, starring Iko Uwais and a horde of stuntmen who might actually be dead.
Is either movie a "perfect" movie? We crunched the numbers, dodged the bullets, threw a few elbows and avoided serious injury on this deadly, wild, movie journey to find out.
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Movie May is in full swing here as we hit our next film with the 1985 comedy classic Clue! Will an all-star cast of comedy legends and character actors be able to bring a board game to life? Spoiler alert: ABSOLUTELY!
Tuesday May 05, 2020
Tuesday May 05, 2020
Welcome all of my quarantined friends to The Occasionalists' annual trip through Hollywood as we begin Movie May 2020.
We're starting off this month with a Bad Movie Review and maybe for the first time ever in the history of the BMRs, it's a bad movie we actually like!
Join us and TEST YOUR MIGHT!
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Part two of the cover songs discussion leads us into a few top five lists, a question about who could make a great cover song and whether or not there are "untouchable" songs.
Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
This week on the program we are talking cover songs!
We cover songs you didn't know were covers, what we're looking for in a good cover, where the cover band and tribute band fall in the music world.
We also discuss remixes, samples and give a big shout out to Triple J's "Like a Version" cover song radio segment.
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
The second part of our big time travel episode is full of fun stuff!
We're talking...
Paradoxes
Warp drives
Heisenberg
Theoretical physics
Ethics
Dinosaurs
War
Time dilation
Conversations with ourselves
Hitler!
Join us for a good old time!
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Where we're going, we don't need roads...
Because this is a podcast about time travel and all you need is something to stream us on and an open mind. This is a dense episode with a lot of theoretical scientific principles put into layman's terms. Or at least we tried to anyway.
The desire for time travel, its use in stories, theories of time and the immutable laws of physics and the structure of our universe are all in play in the first half of this incredible episode.
Excellent!