The Occasionalists Podcast
Examining the human condition. Sometimes. Mostly jawing about pop culture and other nerdy pursuits.
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Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
We love talking about rebooting and reinterpreting certain pieces of entertainment here at The Occasionalists so we decided to dedicate a big two part episode to just that!
We're not just talking reboots either! No sir, we expand this grand pop culture thought experiment to reinterpret all sorts of media. From things we would like to see remade, to swapping famous bodies, inserting our choices for major roles and much more.
This is a fun one, join us!
Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
Burning Cleveland sports questions? Check!
A conversation about the GOAT? Check!
A deep discussion into the collision of the sports world with the civil rights protests roiling the sensibilities of of previously unconcerned Americans? Check!
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
It's been awhile since we've had a sports discussion as the global pandemic has at one point in time halted every major sport worldwide. As America begins to pick up the pieces of a lost season, Chemma and I are absolutely foaming at the mouth to discuss the goings on in all of our major sports.
How eager were we to talk about the challenges facing each sport and what things will look like going forward? We talked for over 4 HOURS. This is what happens when sports nerds finally get to unload all of their thoughts for the first time in a long time.
Needless to say, this is a two-part episode and the second half will be up tomorrow!
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
Wednesday Jun 03, 2020
The last movie of our annual Movie May spectacular finds us back in some familiar territory: talking about Adam Sandler! And before you give us some shit, this totally counts as Movie May because that's when we recorded it! Boom!
This time we are talking good Sandler as Howard Ratner, a gambling addicted jewelry dealer in the Safdie Brothers 2019 crime thriller 'Uncut Gems.'
Sandler was good but what and who else stood out? Is it a stressful movie or are have we become accustomed to movies with no stress level?
Kevin Garnett and a mystic Ethiopian opal? Kevin Garnett and a mystic Ethiopian opal!
All that and more on this week's episode.
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!